I'm off...

to see the world!

Ok, so I'm not going on a grand trip around the globe, but I am leaving the United States for 9 days today!

That's right... As you're reading this, I'm off for Canada to go see my one and only favorite Wench! I'm leaving out of Little Rock, Arkansas at 11:30 a.m., flying into Charlotte, North Carolina at 2:19 p.m. (That's gonna be 1:19 my time... I'm gonna be so off... Stupid time zones!!!)

At Charlotte, I sit around until 4:30 p.m., when my flight leaves for Buffalo, New York. I get in there at 6:17 p.m. There I shall meet up with Kris (YAY!!!), get food, see Niagara Falls, then it's off to Canada!

As if my next few days aren't going to be super exciting enough, today's also my birthday! I turn the big 2-9 today... (Only 1 year away from 30... *sob*!)

How about this... you get a present, on my birthday! Lucky you! Celebrate my big day, and my freedom from the male species for 9 days with me, won't ya? :)

Get your present HERE!

I don't know how much blogging I'll get done in the next few days, but we'll see... You never know!!! I'll be back for sure on August 14th, and until then I promise *NOT* to behave!!! :P

Let the late night blogging begin!!!

It's Friday!!!! (Ok, so never mind the fact I'm blogging at 11:20 p.m., and it's about to be Saturday...)

We recently signed up for Netflix - I'm pretty impressed with them so far - The boys chose Spiderman 3 for their first movie, Josh got 300, and I got The Wedding Date. The guys got and watched their first movies, I'm still waiting on mine! At least they managed to pick decent ones - Spidey was good, and 300 (what I saw of it before I passed out...) was pretty interesting. Hopefully mine will come in tomorrow - After all these guy movies - I need a good dose of romantic comedy!

You can also watch movies online... They've got some decent titles on there. Josh is going to get us a converter so we can play it, and it shows up on the TV. It's much easier than trying to fit 4 people around a computer screen!

Another movie I saw here recently - in fact I bought it - was Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem. Now, keep in mind, I'm a *HUGE* Aliens fan... Love those movies!!!! Predator isn't too bad either... But, this one wasn't that great. I don't really want to get into why, but I actually had to get up and leave the room for a couple of scenes in this one. Ugh... I'm hard to gross out too, so you know it was bad!

How about we go onto some LO's now? Get my mind onto something more pleasant!!!

Here we have Miss A.J. in her Easter dress... This kit was perfect for these photos!

Kit used:

April Showers by Joy Kuoha

Template by Carjazi

Font: Samantha

I guess I'm missing the ocean... I had to scrap it! Photos taken in 2007 on my cruise to Cozumel.

Items used:

Template: Traci Reed's CT Blog (The Hawt Mamas)

Paper from Kim Broedelet's "Birthday Bash" (DSO's 1st Birthday Freebie)

Bracket (recolored) from Kim Broedelet's "An Ordinary Day" kit

Fonts used: Emily and Samantha

My A.J. again - I just love this photo of her!!! She's so adorable! She's sitting up now (and crawling... I haven't seen her do that yet!) and is loving every minute of it!

Items used:

Paper from "Naturally Paper Pack #1" by HoleyCow Designs

Vine branch and Tape from Kim Broedelet's "An Ordinary Day" kit

Journaling block from Kim Broedelet's "Just Linda" blog freebie.

Font: Lori Ann

Redecorating

Excuse the mess - I got sick of the way my blog looked, so it's time to redo it!

I've had a crazy day so far today.

Hunter had a dentist appointment this morning. He got 2 teeth pulled, and 3 cavities filled, and he's still not done! We go back on May 7th for the last filling. He's super hard to understand right now... If I didn't feel so bad for what just happened to him, I'd be laughing at him, I'm sure!

Matthew beat Guitar Hero on Easy... Oh yeah, he's all that now... He got to the first song on Medium thinking he was all that... about 3 tries later, he was asking me to beat it for him. I had pity - but that's the only one I'm doing for him, darn it!!!

Oh!!! Before I forget - we went to Josh's cousin's wedding this weekend in Oklahoma. Matthew was the ring bearer (or ring barrier as he called it)... and I've got photos of him and the other two to show off!!!

My little man all spiffed up in his suit!!! Isn't Bat-Boo a doll? :)

While Matt was all dressed up and couldn't get dirty - Hunter had no problems picking up the slack! He had fun running all over playing with his new friends while we were waiting for the wedding to start.

Last but not least - Austin looking as adorable as ever. I found that shirt he has on at Wal-Mart, and thought it was totally fitting for him to wear to the wedding!

Let's see here... What else am I forgetting....

Oh yeah... The goodie!!!!!

Mojo used my Neopolitan kit (available at DSO) to make this adorable QP for you! Click HERE to snag it! Don't forget to tell Mojo "Thanks"!

Is there anything else.... Can't think of it at this point, so I guess not, huh? :) Back to my ever so scatter-brained day!

Bruce Willis anyone???

Yeah, now that's what I'm talking about... Every blog post should start out with his totally *HAWT* self!!!

Kris and I were chatting last night, and somehow it ended up on good looking men, and we both agree about Bruce... The older and balder he gets the better!!!

Let's see here... What's going on in my life since last time I blogged...

Hunter is taking the Benchmark Test this week. This is one of those tests that he either passes or fails 3rd Grade... I'm a little worried about it, because he doesn't test well... He has a hard time sitting there paying attention for hours on end like they want them to on these tests...

Matthew is becoming a Guitar Hero. He finally beat his first song, "Slow Ride". He's thinks he's all that, let me tell you! He's informed me that he was now better than I am at the game... I'll just let him think that!

Austin's been his usual goofy baby self... He's started saying "Cheese, dude!" thanks to his Daddy and older brothers... So, at dinner now, if we're having anything with cheese, that's all you hear is "Cheese, dude!!!!" He's also been refusing to call Josh Daddy lately. Josh is now "Dude"...

I know, my child is strange. :)

Let's see here - in other news, Neopolitan is on sale for one last day! And as an added bonus, I have a utterly cute freebie QP for you - made with Neopolitan by the fabulous Kris!

Click Here to Download

That's it for me for now... Time for me to go attempt to clean up the living room!!!

-- Nikki

Wacky Wednesday...

Am I really blogging two days in a row??? What is wrong with me? :)

So... My day started off in it's typically insane fashion... Woke up at 8:50... I'm guessing Josh didn't reset the alarm, because it wasn't going off... Come to find out, Hunter had been up since 7:30, just didn't wake me up because he thought if he didn't, he'd get to skip school.... Yeah, right, kiddo...

So, after putting my "mom" foot down and making him get ready for school, I got him up there and dropped off, with my apologies to his teacher for the evil mood he was in... I hope it improves some before he gets home... Sheesh... Moody 8 year old boy is not anything I'm in the mood to deal with today!!!!

Got home from dropping him off, and hugged my car... Yup, that's right, I hugged my Sebring. I missed my sexy car something fierce... It was so nice to have it back!

I'm supposed to go to the gym this morning and do my workout... I don't feel like it, so I'm not going to do it... Get this... According to my trainer, I need to lose weight... Yup, that's right... I said lose weight... 3 lbs, to be exact... Ha, right? (Don't beat me, I didn't say it, the trainer did!!!)

So, to celebrate my being lazy today, you get a freebie... :) An Oopsie Daisy QP created by Shannon, to be exact!!! Click the image to get it...

That's it for now... I guess I need to get on designing or something useful, eh? :)

Oh, don't forget about DSO's Scrap 'N Chat Monday, April 14th at 8:00 pm Central!! This is your awesome bonus for doing it!!!

Oh yeah, one more thing... I turned on Word Verification and Comment Moderation for a while... I'm getting blog comment spam... Nip that in the bud real quick!

Isn't that just the cutest sig tag ever??? Ok, maybe if you're warped like I am, but it's just too cool!!! Thanks tons, Kris!

-- Nikki