Selling a house is not fun!

I apologize for not posting in what seems like forever! The past couple of weeks have been just crazy busy, and a little stressful at that. We've had a couple of realtors come over to let us know what we need to do to get our house ready to sell(too much), painters to give estimates, and flooring guys to measure. Everything seems to be going at warp speed so we can have this house on the market by the end of the month. The house looks fantastic on the outside, after the power washing and painting that was done today. The inside, well that's another story, lots of painting and decluttering to be done. We're having a POD delivered on Monday so we can move out some of the furniture, off-season clothes, and about half the toy inventory we own so we can stage, and painters will be here on Thursday to paint the inside. After that it'll be flooring then a maid--yep, told the hubby I needed someone to come in and clean this place while it's on the market! The worst part of getting the house ready to sell? It's going to look so nice--for the next owners!

Since this week my kids were on Easter break I did take them down to the beach for a couple of days, told the hubs I needed a break. Here they are on the pier at Oceanic, my favorite restaurant on Wrightsville Beach.




And here's the girls ready to get out on the beach:
I am really going to miss being able to go to the beach on a whim once we move. Guess I'll have to see what Lake of the Ozarks has to offer!

Off to get some scrapping done tonight before I have to pack a lot of my scrap goodies next week, wah! Hopefully I'll have something to post in the next couple of days that's scrap related. Have a great night!

It's St. Patty's Day...

and the kids were going crazy the minute they woke up looking for something green to wear so they wouldn't get pinched. They've also built leprechaun traps to catch the little dude when he tries to steal their money! I myself am just looking for some green beer!

It has been way too long since my last post. Shortly after I last posted the hubs told me he got a new job (yay) and that we have to relocate to Kansas City by September 1 (what???) I was so bummed at first because I felt all kinds of guilt having to move the kids--I moved a lot when I was younger and it's so hard. We waited a month to tell the kids and finally I couldn't stand it anymore. When we told them and they were beside themselves excited! I think it helps out because their cousins live up there. That was a couple of weeks ago, and they are still excited, but I think now that it's starting to sink in they are getting a little sad about moving away from their friends. I told them we'll be back for visits though, after all Mommy has friends here too!

I haven't done a lot of scrapping lately (I've been trying to get rid of junk, I mean old toys that have collected up) but here are a few LO's. I'm a sketch junkie and these are from sketches from a great sketch site called Sketch Inspiration. It's run by Trisha who comes up with great sketches, they come out every Saturday and there's even a prize. So check them out!

This is Catherine on her first day of preschool from last year, I can't believe how young she is! Anyway, used some great MME papers that had colors that matched her bright colored shirt.

These are pictures of the girls from the beach last year--I'm so ready to go to the beach right now! I used some yummy Fancy Pants papers in this simple layout.

This last one also using a Sketch Inspiration sketch was for last month's "Leap" challenge over at Scrap Our Stash blog. The pics are of Catherine playing Leap Frog in the kitchen, in this one I used some Echo Park papers.

Now I'm off to head out to some furniture stores, I told the hubs that since he's moving me halfway across the country, everyone is getting new bedroom furniture--it's all for staging when we put the house on the market, right? Have a fun and safe St. Patrick's day!

More LOAD layouts

Been a few weeks since I posted but I swear, it has been one illness after another around here, kind of frustrating but I guess it is cold and flu season. It has been a good time to get some scrapping done around here though. = )

My niece sent a flat version of herself to Raleigh, NC for a visit. Flat Maggie is based on the children's series of Flat Stanley books. Anyway, we had to send Flat Maggie back home last week but not before making a scrapbook documenting her visit. I pulled the pages out of the scrapbook because the page protectors were causing a glare. So here are 20 pages for the Let's Scrap LOAD challenge.


We loved having Flat Maggie here and sure do miss her, and now my daughter has decided she wants to make a Flat version of herself!

Now I'm off to watch the 49ers-Giants game. I'm really hoping that the 49ers win because the Giants beat my son's favorite team last weekend, the Packers. Hopefully next year my Panthers will be in the playoffs!

LOAD Challenge

While I'm debating whether to go see The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo tonight, I figured I should go ahead and post my LOAD Challenge layouts from yesterday and today, yay! This first one I did yesterday, it's a couple of pictures of Catherine I took last summer when we were visiting family in Kansas City. She decided she would get Grandma Pam's strainer and play with it, then she said "Look Grandma, I can make mountains." It was just the cutest thing to say I had to scrapbook it.

(Products used: Patterned Paper--Bo Bunny; Chipboard and cardstock stickers--Fancy Pants; Letters--American Crafts and October Afternoon; sketch from Allison Davis)

This second layout I threw together today when my sweet husband took the kids to the park so I could have a couple of hours to myself. I can't even begin to tell you how much that helped my sanity, lol! Anyway, these pictures are of Matthew and my hubby enjoying the 1 1/2 inches of snow we got over Thanksgiving in 2009 when we were visiting family in St. Louis. Unfortunately you can't see my journaling because all of my white pens have dried up (oops!) Hmmm, that means I may just have to make a visit to Archivers tomorrow for a little shopping. I apologize for that darn flash!

(Products used: Patterned Paper and Cardstock stickers--Bo Bunny; Snowman rubon--Moxxie; Journaling circle--Cloud 9 Design; misc. snowflakes and gemstones)

Well now it's time to get the kiddos in bed. They are (finally) going back to school tomorrow after 2+ weeks of Christmas break. I have a feeling there's going to be some slow moving peeps in this household tomorrow--me included! Hey, I may just make my movie this evening!

Happy New Year!

Happy New Year! I am not usually one who makes resolutions, but I have made a couple this year that I hope to keep. My biggest one is to try to get better at blogging. And to help me with that I'm participating in the LOAD (Layout a Day) Challenge at Let's Scrap. I'm going to post my layouts here so that should help me to actually blog (I know my family would like me to so they can see pics of the kids!) I've already finished a layout but will wait until tomorrow to post it because it's pretty late here so there's no natural light. So wish me luck, and don't forget to check out Let's Scrap . It's a great source of inspiration!

Time for the Holidays

Well since I seem to post about every two months, it appears it's that time again, lol! Yesterday I finally figured out how to download photos onto my computer (instead of the hubby's) so I'm hoping that will motivate me to blog a little more, since I like to include pictures.

So much has happened since my last posting. I ran my second half marathon. The course had more hills than last year which made it very challenging, and my foot started hurting around mile 10, but I finished and got a cool medal to show for it!
Don't I look great after running 13.1 miles? Somebody get that woman a hot shower! I've been resting the foot since the race, haven't done any long runs, but I do hope to start again soon so I can train for the Tobacco Road Half Marathon in March. I've heard it's not as hilly as City of Oaks!

Here is my latest layout for the Scrap Your Stash blog. The November challenge is a recipe challenge, and you had two choices, actually scrap about a recipe, or follow the following scrap recipe:
5 embelishments (flowers, buttons, etc)
4 words or letters in your title
3 pictures
2 pattern papers
1 solid paper
I opted for the scrap recipe, and was very happy with the results:
Sorry about that flash, it was an overcast day!

Another site I like to go to for inspiration is Sketch Inspiration, last week they had the cutest sketch (which I'll have to figure out how to post here), but here is the page I made:
Sketch Inspiration has great sketches every week along with a prize drawing, so go check them out!

One last picture I have to share, it's my three kiddies in their Halloween costumes. I sewed the girls costumes and it was a lot of fun. I love this sewing thing, now I'm debating whether I need a serger or not!


Have a blessed day!

Are You Ready for Some Football

Flag football that is! Today my wonderful son played his first game of flag football ever! It was a scrimmage, and he had a lot of fun. Here's a pic of him coming up the middle:



He decided a couple of years ago that he is going to be a professional football player (for the Green Bay Packers, not sure where they came from but we can work on that later, ha!) He said he's going to play a couple of seasons of flag football, then he'll move up to tackle. Whoa there son, let's not stress Mom out too much! Anyway, I'm so very proud of him, can't wait for next Saturday's game.