Friday Ramblings

I love Friday's!!! Especially this time of the year because I get to spend the whole weekend outdoors enjoying the fresh spring air. Ohhh can't you just smell the lilacs all around my yard!! I have been busy planting the flower gardens and new grass seed in areas of the lawn.

This weekend is Mike's first race at Southwest Speedway in Dickinson. Care to guess where I will be on Saturday night? Sitting in the stands watching!!!

Not much else going on around here this weekend, the kids only have a week left of school so they are ready to have the summer off. They are all so busy running between sports and work.

I am actually home alone most of the time, can't say it is this great thing I tought it would be when they were little kiddo's and fighting with each other and I was dreaming of the time I would be alone and they would be grown. Wish they were back to the fighting days.

Yeah!!!

My college classes are almost done. I have one final to finish up today and than to take a final test by Friday and I will be done for the semester.

I am spending my summer months doing a practicum this summer, but that is actually exciting and I am enjoying it.

Megan is busy finishing up her Tennis for the Dawson Co. High School. It has been an awesome year for her. She is a sophmore, but is ranked number 3 in singles for the varsity team. She has been playing her heart out and doing awesome. Last weekend she had 5 matches and actually won them all. She has a couple matches this weekend and than next week it is off to divisionals in Miles City. I am really excited for her. Part of me is really hoping she makes it to State this year, but than part of me is hoping for the rest of our sake she doesn't make it. State tennis is in Polson this year and it will be a 2 day drive for them to get there. I would really want to go watch her at State, but that would mean missing Jerad's award ceremony at the middle school on the last day of school. I will have to update next week after divisionals and we know what is going to happen.

My journal

My journal. I finally created a journal where I write all my scrapbooking plans and sketches in. This journal is so great because it is an area where I can write down layouts or albums I would like to do. I can check them off when they are done and date the completion date to keep track. I never realized how many thoughts of layouts I had before that never became realized because I wasn't documenting them. Now they are all put down on paper right away!

Spring

I finally feel like spring is here. I am smelling the fresh air and loving the sunshine. Even enjoying the daylight that is still left in the evenings when I go out for a walk to enjoy the grass turning green and the trees budding out!! Thank god it is springtime. I love winter and the snow, but each winter seems to last longer than the next.

Spent the evening cleaning and organizing in my scrapbook room. I am really working on becoming more organized. I have created a journal where I am going to write and sketch my scrapping ideas to help me get more organized on things I want to create. I really need to clean and organize though. Guess that is why they call it spring cleaning!!

Only a couple more weeks left of my college classes and than I will have lots of free time. I am working on my practicum this summer and trying to just enjoy the free time this summer.

Creative Escape

I am in!!! I have registered for this great weekend in Arizona in September. I am so excited and can't wait till it is here, even though that means summer will be over. I am so excited because four of us from here signed up to go and we will be flying down on Thursday morning and coming home on Sunday. I have never been to Phoenix, although there isn't much time for site seeing it will still be exciting for me!!!!!

CKU Chicago Albums

I LOVED my track at CKU this past weekend. I created a beautiful scrapbook album there using some awesome techniques. This was the most amazing weekend. Some things I loved about my weekend.

Shopping and spending the day with Ann on Wednesday. My room mates Ann and Mary B were awesome, I totally enjoyed the time we got to spend together.

My dorm "Aged and Distressed" were awesome. I loved spending so much time with each of the girls and getting to know them all. Thanks for the great time Patience, Robin, Sara, Brandy, Ann and Mary B.

I loved almost all my classes and the albums I made. Tim Holtz classes were awesome. I learned so much, and ended up buying most all his inks and pearls to play.

Those Junkitz girls rocked!! What more can I say there was nothing better than singing, dancing and running through the halls of CKU. I look at my album and it inspires me to be creative. While it is a piece of me, it is also a challenge that really boosted my creative spirit. I learned so many things. Simple things, I had never thought to incorporate in my style of scrpbooking.

Instead of just inking the edges, doodle on them for a creative flair. Use pen stitchig around things to give it a finished look, ink dots, lines anything to draw the eye.

AHHHHHH

I am so not ready for CKU. I spent most of last night scanning and digging for pictures to use. I have none printed, but that is because I don't have time to order them. So I will have to stop along the way and print them off. I am going to buy a nice photo printer though when I am on my trip so I can print off my own pictues when I need them. Now to decide what kind to get. I am not sure how much I would use a larger format one that does the 12 x12 prints although man that would be sweet.

Tonight I will be finishing my homework for my albums class by scanning and burning a disk with my pictures on it. Yea I have finished the dorm center piece or most of it anyway.

3 days and counting.

In just three short days I will be on my way to Wisconsin to see my dad!! I haven't been out to see him since I was there in August 2004. I am leaving Friday night after work. I get to stop off and have a little fun along the way. I am finally getting to met my friend Shevy IRL. I have known her for a couple years now online. I can't wait to meet her. Than I am hanging with my neice Tina and her boyfriend that afternoon before heading over to hang with my dad for three days.

Than I will be off on my adventure to Chicago. I get to go to CKU-Chicago which is an albums. I can't wait. I am meeting up with another online friend, Beth while I am there. Than going to pick up Ann, a friend I met last year at CKU in Minniapolis. We are roaming together at CKU this year. It will be so great to see everyone. I am in the junkits album track and will post pictures of my albums when I get back.

My new laptop.

My new toy!! I got a new laptop on Friday and I love sitting on the couch hooked up to the wireless just yacking it up with friends and surfing the net!! This thing is amazingly fast.

One thing great is it will let me sit in a motel and watch dvd's or the kids can when they are on the road!

Becoming a girly woman

Well I have officially done it!! I had my nails done for the first time. I have never been much of a foo foo girl, no primping and pampering for me. I finally decided I needed to take better care of myself and so my daughter and I went and got acrylic nails yesterday. I am kind of enjoying them but working to get use to them. I even got them green this time in preparation for st pats day celebrations next week.

Today is the day. I am going to spend the rest of the day doing homework and preparing for my albums class at CKU-chicago that I do the end of the month. I have waited till the last minute!!!