A crafty post

I thought I would do just one crafty post to share the things I've made this fall. Some are digital layouts and others are hybrid projects which I used kits from the wonderful Valorie Wibbens.

I love scrapbooking. Thanks for stopping by!

Brace yourself

I'm back and hope to begin blogging regularly again. With the relocation and getting everything in order, the blog took backseat. I haven't blogged for most of the last three months. So from here, smaller more frequent posts may be better to help "catch up" with you all. What have we been up to? Well, earlier this month, darling daughter got braces. Here's a before and after pic at the office.

And I am still scrapbooking. This was may lastest layout created and I was told yesterday it will be published in the January edition of the DST Insider. Pretty cool, huh?

I love Oklahoma. The weather here overall suits me much better. Of course, this summer when its 150 degrees out, I'll whine and tell you differently. But for now, I can get up and do my hair everyday without consideration of it being ruined in the rain from my front door to my car. (Remember I moved from Washington state where I was born and raised.) I have even learned how to put those big loose curls in my hair. Love!

We made it to Oklahoma!

The very evening we drove (yes we drove the 2,000 miles) into Oklahoma, this was the beautiful sunset that greeted us. Darling daughter and I were in awe of its beauty and she couldn't resist snapping a picture from the moving vehicle.

Once we got here, we stayed with my husbands family while we house hunted. They all showed us such hospitality and we are so very grateful. A week later we were moving into our home, getting the kiddos back in school, and doing all those crazy we've relocated type of things. It all really went pretty smoothly until a week or so after we were settling into the new place. Then one of our two fur babies became ill.

It was terrible and awful. She became ill on Friday, Saturday we tried getting her into a vet, however, because we were new to the area and weren't established with one yet no one would see her until Monday. The nearest pet hospital was just short of two hours away. Sunday she had really taken a turn for the worse so we decided not to wait until Monday and made the drive to OKC. Lucy didn't make it there though. She had a seizure and passed just before we arrived. To say we are deeply saddened is an understatement. We miss her and her spunky personality very much.

So we moved into this house three weeks ago today. It's been a whirlwind. Oklahoma is beautiful, the weather has been fabulous, and we really love the house we found, The kids are doing well in school, teachers only have nice things to say, and they are now on fall break. They have the rest of the week off from school. Darling daughter is spending her break taking traffic safety school. She is stoked to go get her permit next week. I'll leave you with a picture of darling daughter and some of her new friends who went to Homecoming dance together the first weekend we were here. McKena towards the front in the silver dress.

Yum!

Darling daughter makes the most delish pumpkin spice cake. This time of the year we love to enjoy it.

That layout was created with the BYOC for September by Valorie and available at The Lily Pad. We got some wonderful news last week that we are finally in the clear to make the move to Oklahoma. We are thrilled and have begun packing once again. Last week we also took a camping trip for a few days while still here in Washington. It was a lot of fun!

We had smores, campfires, and played lots of monopoly. We also went down and played on the nearby beach. I'll post those pictures in the next post as they are still on my phone. Happy Labor day!

You're a hoot

Here's some photos of the family being silly on our camping trip to Mt. Hood over spring break. Val's new kit was just a perfect theme for these. New layout with Woodly Lane kit and felties by Valorie Wibbens. Linky in the sidebar.

Also I added my latest tutorial to the blog - Smash Box. I posted about it last month here. If its something you're interested in trying, there's a step by step posted now.

Have a great weekend!

Just Because

Darling daughter was being silly when we went back to school shopping last month. TFL!

Just Because papers and elements by Valorie Wibbens and available 50% off today at The Lily Pad for Wibbet Wednesday.

Happy hump day!

Randomness

I was forced the other day to transfer photos from my phone to my computer because I had used up every bit of space that was available on my 16gig sd card. In my defence, my phone has a great camera with 8mp so they do take up a little space. While watching them upload I had to giggle at some of the recent moments captured.

Here's darling daughter and I at HP in 3D-



Here's my sweet little pup, Wilma Sue,looking all angelic.



And here they both are wanting you to think that they've got a rough life.



At the county fair the girls decided to get feather extentions in their hair-







And here's darling daughter just being silly with a hat we found in Forever 21 whilst back to school shopping.



And on to some layouts. Everything by Val and available at the Lily Pad. Linky in the sidebar. :)





Thanks for looking back over the last few weeks with me.