It feels good to be back!

Ok, sure, i'm not scrapping as much as I used to, but i'm definitely getting back into the groove, and it feels great! I had so much fun creating this the other night. I love it when I have time to pull out the mists, the punches and do some handcutting - my favorite things :-)

Lots going on this week as we get ready for Halloween. We have school parades and parties for Noah and Chloe on Friday, Halloween party on Saturday, and trick or treating on Sunday... can't wait! What do you guys have planned?

You can pick your jaw up off the floor...

since I know you all are shocked that I blogged two times this week so far! LOL! I've actually been a creating fool, and it feels goooood. Here is another JBS layout I did last night - i've been in a Jenni Bowlin groove. I'm hoping to get in more scrap time tomorrow night and break in the goodies the AMM DT gets to play with.

And here is a Fancy Pants layout I did last week. I'm sad to say that after two awesome years, I am no longer Fancy. :-( My design team term just ended, and FP just announced a brand new design team. While i'm going to miss designing for this company that I truly love, i'm excited for my friends who made the team, and I can't wait to see their inspiration.
Lastly, Michelle at AMM is having an amazing sale! Unfortunately, it ends tonight, so you all don't have very long to act on it. You can check it out here.

Ok, this blogging fool ;-) is tiiiiiiiiired from one super adorable baby who keeps me up all.night.long. Fortunately for him, I love him so much that there isn't anything he could do to make me mad at him, hehe.

Happy hump day, friends!

Better late than never...

So, sweet Doris sent me more awesome JBS goodies about 7 weeks ago (she is way too good to me!). I know exactly when it was because I remember coming home from the hospital to the big box of goodies. :-) So, since i've only made a few layouts since the little man has been born, I hadn't had a chance to dig in yet. Until this weekend. And oh, did I have fun! Sigh. I seriously love me some JBS.

So, I don't want to jinx myself or anything, but I think i'm hopefully getting back into my scrap groove. I do believe i've had enough talks with Lucas that he understands he needs to go down for bed easily at night, and he needs to give me a long first stretch so I can get to creating ;-) Let's see how well baby number 3 listens hehe.

I got another awesome box this weekend, this time from AMM. Both Cosmo Cricket and Jillibean Soup are sponsoring our team this month, and I got some yummy products to play with... can't wait!

Things here are still going well... we've been keeping busy. We went to Dutch Wonderland (basically a family amusement park target toward the under 10 crowd) yesterday and had a blast!! Last week, I got to have lunch with Cheryl which was way overdue and so much fun - love getting in some quality girl time. Anyway, hope you all are doing well, and thanks for bearing with me and still visiting little 'ole me in my very minimalistic blogging pattern these days!

Catching up with some pics...

So, it's been a couple of weeks since I had a photo session with my little man, so today seemed like the perfect day to squeeze in another one ;-) Here are some of my favs...






He's such a joy. Totally adoring and loving that little guy!

This little girl is such a ham. She wore her dress-up veil to my bro and SIL's recently along with her princess gown. The gown came off, but the veil stayed on all day...
And this little man will be SIX tomorrow!! Ahhhh, I can't believe it. Seems like just yesterday that HE was the little baby I was holding in my arms! We have a fun birthday weekend planned, including his birthday party at the Lego store on Sunday... can't wait to help him celebrate!
Hope you all are doing well! Thanks for bearing with me while I continue to be a blog slacker. I'm slowly but surely getting out of my I-have-a-newborn-haze. I even hung out with the neighbors tonight... whoo! :-)

My first Lucas layout (and some more Fancy Pants :-)

Ever since Lucas was born 3 short weeks ago, i've been so excited to dive in and scrap my newest addition. Of course I used Fancy Pants' Road Show line since that is one of my all time favorite FP lines, and it seems to be my go-to collection for any occasion! I covered the naked FP chip letters with Tim Holtz crackle paint and some clear glitter. I finally used the gorgeous flocked transparency, too, that i've been saving (hording?) for just the perfect occasion.

Journaling reads: Before you came along, I didn't even realize what I was missing. But the moment I held you for the first time, I knew. You complete our family. You complete me as a mommy. And I am eternally grateful. I love you, our little Lucas Blake!
This one uses a combination of Road Show and some Kraft Kuts papers. I also played around with my new EK Success punch that I love :-)

And lastly, another layout using Road Show and some Kraft Kuts papers - I told you Road Show is my go-to collection lol. I love these photos of Noah and Chloe! Things here are going well. We are adjusting to life as a family of 5 and trying to establish new routines. Noah is getting used to Kindy, and Chloe started pre-school this week. Lucas is working on staying awake more than 30 minutes a day ;-) I am recovering from surgery pretty well and even just started driving short distances - ahhh, it feels good to get some freedom back lol. I'm definitely sleep deprived, but I know it's temporary (sort of, lol). And he is worth it. Completely and totally :-)

Catching up...

Wow. I go and have a baby, and now I have SO much to catch up on! ;-) I want to catch up with you all, so hopefully visiting friends' blogs will occur soon, I have to catch up on posting layouts (and creating them! can't wait to scrap our newest member :-), I have to catch up on posting photos, and of course, i'm constantly trying to catch up on spending time with everyone in my family while still getting lots of rest and recovering from my c/s.

Let's start with the layouts, shall we ;-) So these are from the August AMM kit. Yikes! I told you I was behind. The September kit is gooorgeous, too, so you can check that out here.

Journaling for Friends with Bellies: It has been such a fun and special experience to go through this pregnancy with two of my closest friends. It will be even more fun to see our babies grow up together!
Journaling for Growing Up: My heart skips a beat when I look at this photo of you and see how old you look. You talk and act like such a big girl these days! There's no doubt about the fact that you are growing up.
This one was a highlight of all the fun stuff we did this summer :-)
When I was your age... stickers were used on paper ;-)
And now... catching up on some recent photos, starting with my big boy's first day of Kindergarten last Monday!!
Some at-home photo shoots of little Lucas:



And with his awesome big bro and sis:

After his first "real" bath tonight:
I can't thank you all enough for the sweet comments congratulating us on Lucas. I truly feel blessed more than words can say for my family, and for the love of my friends - in real life and in blog land ;-) I'm so sorry I have been slacking on blog visiting, but I hope to catch up with you all really soon!!

He's here!!!!!

Well, my blogging friends, i'm so sorry to have been MIA for so long, but hopefully you'll see that I had a good reason why ;-) Last Monday, our new little guy came into this world three weeks early and two weeks before my scheduled c-section date. While I was cooking dinner around 6pm last Monday, my water broke! Lucas Blake was born at 11:57 pm, keeping a birthday of August 23rd by just three minutes. He weighed in at 6 lbs, 15 oz and was 19.5 inches long, which is still shocking to us, as historically, we have made huge babies! Even three weeks early, we expected him to be about a pound bigger. He is a dream baby so far, and we are all totally in love with this little guy. Thankfully, Noah and Chloe are doing great, wanting to hug and kiss on him all day long lol. I'm still wondering if we'll see some negative effects with my little "mama's girl", but so far, so good! And the boys of the house have already formed an alliance since they outnumber us girls. They like to chant, "boys rule, girls drool" (thanks to daddy! lol). I have been teaching Chloe to tell them that two girls are more powerful than three girls ;-) Anyway, sorry to be redundant for those who are friends with me on FB, but here are some photos of our new family of 5 :-)

I hope you all are doing well, and I hope to catch up with you guys soon!!