Happy Birthday Benson!

We spent this afternoon over at my parents house for a family dinner between Conference sessions. It is always fun for me, especially when Randy and Megan, Kelly and Bethany, and Trace made it down. I had forgotten that today was my sweet nephew Benson's birthday (for some reason I always think it is on the 10!), so we all got to join in the celebration. Jill had brought a wonderful chocolate cake for everyone as well as a gluten free pumpkin one for Benson (allergic you know) so that sweet boy was able to blow out candles on two cakes, quite fitting since he is turning two! I just have to post some pictures because he is such a cutie and I hope that Jill doesn't mind!


Don't Benson and Asher look just dapper in their new glasses?!

And now, just because I can, I am posting my latest layout.


I hope everyone has a great week!

Leaves are falling all around....

....on the rooftops on the ground. This is the primary song that Abby has been singing ever since we came home from church on Sunday. It has very much put me in the mood to head up the canyon, so this afternoon we did. Shamae's kids were sick today, and Jerianne is in Florida(yes, I am very jealous!), since they were the one's who wanted to join me I had to go it alone. It is very hard to get a picture of all three girls together when you don't have someone to make them all look up at the same time. So this is the only one that I captured that was semi decent!!


As for the individual shots I think we came out with quite a few good ones. So here are some of them for you:


American Fork Canyon was soooo beautiful today, just took my breath away. It was about 55 degrees though, with a little breeze, so poor Liv, after about 30 minutes had enough and was ready to go. Abby really wanted to see Tibble Fork Reservoir, so after a little persuasion with Liv, we went up and spent a while walking around and throwing rocks in the lake.


It was a very nice afternoon and since our day pass is good for three days, and it is suppose to be good weather tomorrow before another storm comes in, I think we will go back up and have a picnic lunch.

I hope you all had a great day as well!!!!

October already?

I can hardly believe that September is over and October has begun. I know that most of you enjoy fall, I for one am not a big fan. It only means that winter is on the way and I hate the snow and cold and gloom that comes into town and stays through March!! The only good thing about it all is that the holiday season has started and I love holidays!! Today is a little chilly but pleasant outside so after nap time the girls and I are going to decorate for Halloween, thus I have started the festivities on the bog with my new topper!! My Dad is always so wonderful to bundle up his corn stalks and bring them over every year to help me liven up the entrance to my home. He also had a bunch of pumpkins from the garden, we definitely love that. Thanks again Dad!!!

One of these days I will get up the canyon to take the girls fall portraits, with all the rain and snow this weekend I was unable to go and now I am scared that all the wind and rain and snow has ruined the scenery! When I do manage to take some, I will share them with everyone, they are always my favorite ones of the year.

Sweet Amber came over with a fellow student this afternoon to take some pictures of my girls for a class project (she is in her senior year of Elementary Ed at BYU. Julie, I am sure you can relate). It is always good to see her, Abby and Liv were ecstatic when we walked home from preschool only to find their best friend waiting for them (I didn't tell them so it would be a surprise!) Amber, I hope the photo's turned out well and the project turns out even better!! It was great to see you.

Here is my latest layout, as I have said before, my mind has just not been into it lately, but I did this one last night and I really like it, mostly because I love this picture! I think my creative juices are flowing again.


Hope you all have a great fall day!

this week is over!

Man, this week is finally over!! It has felt like forever with all the sickness, Paul working nights, and Eva cutting in four top teeth at the same time (blisters all over her upper gum line, but I believe I am seeing teeth now!) So that is basically my week. I haven't even been in the mood for much scrapbooking either which is really crazy for me. I was all caught up so I let the pictures pile up for a couple of weeks and I think that I will start on them this afternoon. Mostly I haven't been scrappin because I am soooo glad that our shows have started up again. You all know what a television junky I am!! So my evenings have been devoted to all the premiers this week and it couldn't have made me happier!!

On the other hand I said that I would share my latest contest entry (not a winner again!) I think that I just don't scrap the style of these designers (it couldn't possibly be that someone else made a better layout :) Just kidding). So here it is. Scrap five things of beauty to you, all square photos, all converted to black and white. This one really made me stretch, I didn't want to do the same topic that everyone else would naturally think off, and I decided to make my fifth square photo the entire 12X12 layout. I love it, not to mention taking the photos from different angles was really fun, especially because Liv was laying on the floor with me while taking the picture of all my things!!!! Fun stuff.


I now need to leave and go pick Abby up from preschool, she had her first field trip to a dentist office today, I can't wait to hear how it went!!!!
love to all!!

Head in a fog

The last couple of days I have been suffering with a nasty head cold. Not my favorite thing. It started with Eva, runny nose and I suspect a sore throat because she would just scream and cry all night all weekend!! She seems to be pulling out of it just in time for Abby and Liv to start up. I myself had been suffering not only from the cold, but lack of sleep due to my children, until last night when I realized, I'm not nursing anymore, I CAN take some decongestants!!! Leave it to me to suffer for two days before I realize that! I just get into routine thinking sometimes. So thankfully last night I finally slept and Paul got up with Eva this morning (well he brought her into bed with us and got her back to sleep), this allowed me to get a little more rest. Not that it helped me much today, I am just dragging and not feeling well, so we haven't done much, just laid around and read stories and stuff. Not to mention that I have a very sexy deep raspy voice! It is really quite funny, as the girls keep telling me!

I was able to finish this layout of Abby. I finally got the pictures of her in the corn from my mother and used a couple of templates to knock it out in no time.


I have been working on my next contest entry and I am pretty pleased with it so far. I will post on Friday when the results are out (I know you all just can't wait!!)

Little side note, Abby did her part in the Primary Program on Sunday. She was so brave to get up and say her line as well as stand on the front row and sing her little heart out! I wish I had taken a picture of her all dressed up for the day(hair done in curlers and all), but alas we run late every Sunday morning and there just wasn't time. I know that I am just the proud mother, but I have to say she was the cutest one up there!!!

So I am off to take some more meds and see what I can come up with for dinner, this should be funny since I haven't even thought about it until now. Creativity don't fail me now!!

It's Friday!

I checked my contest this morning over at The Digi Dare, and sadly enough I didn't get picked :( It is really o.k. though, just fun to participate and do the challenge. They had 46 entries and only award two prizes. But don't think this is going to stop me, next weeks dare sound fun and I think I will do it also!! I thought I would share the layout that I entered. The challenge was: scrap a lesson you know now that you wished you had known when you were twenty. Extra points for a photo of yourself at 20, at least three circles in the layout, and some kind of border. All that in consideration and this is what I came up with:


I will get working on next weeks and share it when I am done, It involves five photo's of beauty, converted to black and white. I know you all can't wait to see it and I had better get picture taking!!

Everyone have a great Friday and wonderful weekend!

Remembering the days!!!

My great friend Tina came over for a visit this afternoon. We have been friends since high school, done a lot and seen a lot together!!! She is a great person that I don't see as much or as often as I wish. Not that she lives far away, she is only a few streets over since the move, but with children, and life in general, time slips away and before you know it, six months have gone by!!! So we were laughing and talking about old times, our families, what everyone is up to and it was great. It just so happens that I am doing a layout to enter a contest this week that required a picture of yourself when you were 20. As a result I broke out my very first scrapbook that I had ever made, you know the one - markers, random stickers and a note under each picture that you sliced up to pieces!!!! Well it was very fun for me to find all the pictures of my friends and I in high school. I really did have some great ones and I just have to share a couple of pictures, mostly to embarrass Tina to death!!!

This is all us girls together for a Christmas sleepover party - can you find me with the short hair!!Tina, Me, Kerrie, Sunny, Syd, Rachel(in front)

This is Tina, Sunny, and I on a random day that we decided to crimp our hair for school.
Ahh, graduation! Tina and I thought we were such hot chicks as we wore boxers and I flashed my superman shirt to the camera as I walked by for all the audience to see!
Talk about hot chicks man!! We definitely spent toooo much time in the sun back then!!! If only I had realized how many freckles it was going to give me!!
I just find this one extremely hysterical! Me, with a gun, trying to shoot clay pigeons. Can you say back hills Utah!! And no, the guys would not take me out shooting again until I had completed a hunters safety class, which never happened, so my one and only shooting experience.
Tina and I in my apartment my first year up at Utah State, good times!!

Does anyone else remember my beloved car? How I miss the TAXI!! Well not really!!

And finally Jerianne, this one is for you and Heather (if she is checking the blog still!!) I told you that Steve Ruf and I grew up our whole lives together, and that he took me to a dance when we were both 16. Here is the proof, notice the stunning and stylish dress that I had picked out for the occasion (shoulder pads and all)!!

Thanks for humoring me, I really had a great time looking at my old pictures!!