Happy Birthday to my Hubby!

So today my fabulous husband, Clayne turns 45. Other than his hair turning white - I would never think he could be that age since he has such a baby face and of course since I am no where near his age lol. He is 6 years older than me but if I believe he is 45 this year - it means I will be turning 39 this year and I just can't get a handle on that idea.

There are many things that I love and admire about him. I am just going to pick two things about him that I wish were traits of mine. First: He can fall to sleep within just minutes of his head hitting the pillow. I think this is so unfair since it takes me forever to turn off my brain and fall asleep. Maybe that is what keeps him looking so young... he never misses his Zzzz's. Second: He is not a fighter. When we first married this used to make me so mad. I came from a family that said what was on our mind and we often had a good little "fight" in my growing up home, but Clayne would never fight with me. He would calmly sit there and hear me out while I let all my frustration out and then would quietly ask if I was finished. Grrrr it would make me so angry. Now I know that is one of the things I love about him and it is what I can expect and it is wonderful that I can just get what is in my head out. Often that is all it takes - just saying it out loud. Now after all these years, I only wish that I had this trait and could be more mellow. Guess that is what makes us work together as a couple though. He is easy going and I am high strung. I am just glad that he loves me and that he chose to be my companion in this crazy life. Happy Birthday Honey - I love you!

(elements used in the blip above are from Ziggle Designs, "and you smell like one, too!")

Morgan turned 10

Like I said, I have been a bit of a slacker on my posting. Morgan had his 10th birthday on April 30. I asked him to make a list of 10 of his favorite things. I was surprised that I was not on the list lol.

1. Football

2. Baseball

3. Under Armor

4. Basketball

5. Nike Shoes

6. DC Shoes

7. Chicken Pot Pie (finally I kind of made it onto the list since I make this for him)

8. Burritos

9. Cookie Dough Ice Cream

10. Holister Shirts

Happy Birthday to my sports loving, social butterfly, brown eyed boy.

One Year Older - and it's Okay!

Hey... bear with me and read to the end... if you really want a great deal on scrap supplies it will be worth it lol.

Hey all I thought I'd do a quick post about.... ME lol. It was my 38th birthday this last Friday, the 12th and so this is gonna be about yours truely. The journaling on this layout reads:

I must admit that I was less than thrilled with the idea of turning another year older this year. I am now closer to 40 than 30 and starting to feel old. But I must admit that my birthday ended up being pretty sweet. I had a luncheon with girlfriends on Friday and received many nice gifts. One thoughtful friend even remembered my favorite treat, mini eggs. That night I went with Clayne to see the Emma Smith movie which was very good. Saturday, April 12, I spent the day being lazy, surfing the net& went to lunch with my sister, Chelsea. Clayne got us pizza for dinner so I didn’t have to cook & even remembered that I wanted a banana cream pie from Babe’s Bakery. I finally decided to spend my birthday money on some photo actions for my new digi-scrap hobby. 38 isn’t bad!

(credits: Cupcake Kit by Carina Gardner, Stitching by Carina Gardner, Font - CK Ali's Writing)

And rather than coming up with 38 random facts about me I decided to use the number 12 for the 12th of April.

1. I hated chocolate until I went to college... should have stayed that way lol.

2. I was sent to the principal's office in kindergarten for kicking the kids under the table.

3. I was on the drill team in High School and our lovely school colors were orange and black.

4. I got married when I was 19 and so have been married for almost 2 decades - my that sounds old lol.

5. I hate onions and peppers.

6. I am double jointed.

7. I love to sing karaoke style.

8. I don't go much for bling - wear a $12 Avon ring instead of my wedding ring.

9. I wear contacts - but wish I could have eye surgery and not wear them anymore.

10. The thick frosting is the best part of a cake.

11. I have almost filled 320 gigs of hard drive space with digi scrap downloads and my layouts since November!

12. My favorite season is Spring... so let's have it already!!

I had thought about this post for a few days and now when I went to type out my facts I couldn't remember most of them but oh well... there are twelve just the same. Hope you learned something new about me.

About that movie I saw with Clayne for my birthday. You can click here to go and see a trailer for it. I had been wanting to see it ever since I saw the trailer.

What is a birthday with out a gift? I decided that this year a few gifts were in order for myself. Those who know me will attest to the fact that I have a huge stock pile of paper scrapbook supplies. This fact weighs me down big time in the clutter department and so I am giving myself the gift of letting go. I will be spending the next month organizing these supplies so that I will be ready to host a HUGE open house on the 17th of May where thrifty paper crafters will be able to save big time. Put it on your calendars now and tell everyone you know who would be interested. Now I am putting this on my blog so that I will be committed to carry through because this will be a lot of work for me and I know that I really won't enjoy getting it all together but I do know that once the 17th of May has come and gone I will be so HAPPY.

Another gift I am going to give myself is to get my handwriting made into a font. And I am gonna have Allie Hoopes do it. She has got lots of great fonts that I love including my friend, Wendy Sue. (If you haven't been there go pick up some cute free fonts.) I have been wanting to get my own font for a while and now that I have posted it - yep... I feel committed. I am gonna do it this week. The cost is very minimal and I think it will be fun to include my own writing on some of my digi layouts.

Well thanks for hanging in there on this post and let me ramble on about myself. It was kind of fun - but I won't make it a habit.

A catch up post

I have been wanting to share some of my latest layouts and what we have been up to. If you are here for the grocery post just scroll down.

I mentioned that we spent our spring break in St. George last week. We had such a fun time. I was sad that there wasn't time to stop and visit friends along the way or to shop the new IKEA store. The only stop we made for visiting was at Clayne's brother, Jedd's house. We just had to meet our newest cousin/niece, Ellen. She is such a beautiful baby. They blessed her this last Sunday and we knew we wouldn't make it down again and so we just had to stop. While there we had a little egg hunt with Jenny, their other daughter who is 3. It was fun to see them and their "new" home.

While in St. George we took the kids to church - much to their dismay since we were on "vacation." We thought we were in the right ward because there were lots of kids there, but it turned out that they were all visitors too and the ward we went to was a "retired" ward and they didn't have a primary for the kids so after Sacrament meeting we left and went over to the St. George temple visitors center. They had a wonderful display of statues showing Christ's ministry and then at the end we were able to view the Christ statue which is a smaller replica of the one in Salt Lake. Apparently they have one in our visitor center in Idaho Falls too, but we haven't been over there to see it yet. I loved this picture I got of Cheyenne looking at Christ. I will take the lazy route and ask that you click on my gallery link to the right to see more of my layouts and to view the listing of credits for these scrapbook layout shares. Thanks for looking.

The kids lived at the pool while we were at the condo and why not when the temperature was in mid to high 70's the whole time. It was beautiful. We did manage to drag them away just one day to go to Snow Canyon and hike a bit. The whole time we were there they just kept asking when we were going back to the condo so they could swim lol. We hope that sometime when we are down that way we can go to Zion's or Bryce Canyon but until they can hike for more than 10 minutes without so much complaining we figure why bother lol.

I previously posted about the girls having their birthdays. Cheyenne's was celebrated while in St. George, but we were home for Savannah's. I had fun using a baby picture of Cheyenne to show how she has changed over the years. And the one I made of Savannah for her birthday has become my new favorite and I just had to share it.

Last of all... For those who like to be in the digital scrapbook "know" Kami of Ziggle Designs that I am a member of the creative team for is in a new store - Scrap Orchard. They are having a grand opening this week with lots of fun events. So be sure to stop by and join in on the freebies and sales.

Birthday Girls

Six Years Ago Today

It was six years ago today at 3:33 pm that I delivered my last baby, our Savannah. How can it be that my baby is 6 today?

Thirteen Years Ago This Week

It was thirteen years ago on the 24th that Cheyenne was born. Yep, we officially have a teen in our home now. I certainly can not be old enough to have a teenager lol.

Aren't I lucky to have these two beautiful daughters? Happy Birthday to my two favorite girls.

Happy Birthday Clayne

He's the double 4 now. He's the calm to my crazy and the relax to my stress. He makes me a better person just by having him in my life. I'm so lucky that he's mine. He is a wonderful father to our children and a very hard worker. No he doesn't write poetry or sing but he lets me know he loves me every day by his actions and words.