the reason I scrap

on friday night, i started going thru my older scrapbooks (the old creative memories ones)to determine how many page protectors i needed before you can not buy them anymore.and started with My daughters baby album and i went thru most of them.Let me tell you the first ones were but ugly okay well the ones until my daughters album (3 years ago)are plain and yucky. but I laughed and cried at my pages, my journaling, my pictures and my memories.my daughter would sit with me then get up ask questions and get up.I read my journaling over and over again in my wedding album (which my bf nikki actually made for me) friday was my anniversay 10 years - that says alot I am only 30. and my scrapbooks started with my husband. So i kinda relived the last 10 years and realized I have had a goodtime at it. some bad stuff, made new friends lost old ones said good bye to some loved ones and laughed alot.It kinda reminded me why I scrap. -- so i just wanted everyone to know that I scrap for a reason and that no matter what I say or how much i complain.. i love my crazy imperfect life.

August 7 2009

This is me and Lee. Today is our 10 year anniversary. So many people did not think we
would make it. Yet, here we are today. We did get married very young. I was 20 and he was 21. I can not even begin to tell you about our life together, because honestly in the last 10 years (14 if you count the time before marriage) there is not alot we have not been thru. He is my best friend and I would not want it any other way. I am truly blessed to have this man in my life. I know that he would do anything to get me to smile, when I just do not feel like it (he succeeds 99% of the time). I know without a doubt that when things are going bad, that I would rather be going thru it with him than to be any where else. I love knowing that when I roll over in the middle of the night that I can reach out with one hand and touch him. I wish I was a better wife, and that I could always give him the best of me. Sometimes he gets a little short changed because I give so much of myself in taking care of other people. If you know Lee you like him, he is funny (freakin hysterical), he is a little off the wall, he would do anything for anybody, and he is an awesome father. I really hope the next 10 years are just as wonderful. I know it sounds really corny but sometimes I can feel myself fall deeper in love with him. Those moments really do give me butterflies and take my breath away. I hope I have made him as happy as he has made me. I can not wait to see what the future holds for us.

CarLee's 1st WeEk at School

Just a quick update on school Monday was an okay day, Tuesday she did awesome, Wednesday was her worst day, and Thursday was awesome. Today is Friday so we will see how she does. I picture to go with such a small post.

This is my Beautiful Girl

LoOK wHaT WE madE for CarLee

Okay do you know what that is? We made a tent or canopy for CarLee's bed.

CarLee love tents, loves to make them and I know this will not stop that but hey I still thinks it's pretty cool and we totally made it ourselves. PVC Pipe, curtains, material and well honestly some mistakes and some cussing. We thought it would take a few minutes and it took a couple of hours. I had to break out the sewing machine.. I so want a new one bought from jo-anne's so I can get the classes that go along with using the dang thing. So she will have a surprise when she gets home from "Skool" as she called it this morning. Plus, I am baking her a cake. Back to the thing on her bed, both me and lee got in there and its pretty neat-o.....Its purple, pink & cam-o. I really hope she as excited about it as we were about finishing it. We sure did laugh hard at ourselves. Oh, I also made a curtain out of the leftovers.

1st DaY of PrE-ScHooL

Today is CarLee's first day of Pre-School. It was hard for me. I am not sure if it was hard for her. She knew last night she was going to school and this morning when she woke up she knew she was going to school. Then all of a sudden she wanted to go to school. She asked about her lunch box and kept saying she wanted to go. She also wanted to take her toothbrush but I talked her out of taking that with her. She was very excited to be there, until she realized that mommy and daddy were not staying. Her teacher then asked if she wanted to play then she forgot about us and went to play with the castle.

I left saying, she does not like to share, she is stubborn, she is hard headed and has potty issues.

Ms. Lisa looked at me like I have done this before...

We will see how the day went. I will post more on that after we pick her up.

a sad day.

Yesterday was CarLee's last day with her Ms. "B". She will start school on Monday

Aug 3, 2009. It was hard she has been with Ms. Debbie since she was 8 weeks old.

I could never have wanted anyone else to take care of her. Ms. Debbie has loved

CarLee like she was hers and CarLee loves her "B". Yesterday was so hard, and

I am very scared how CarLee will adjust to her new school/environment. I know its

going to be very hard on Ms. B and CarLee and well this is not so easy for me. I knew

and know this Ms. Debbie would take awesome care of CarLee. She has for the last

3 and a half years. Putting CarLee in school is about me wanting her to have a head

start for school. I could be wrong about this. I hope that I am not. I am so grateful

for Ms Debbie, she has been there for CarLee and been there for me. Being a mom

has been easier because Ms. Debbie has been apart of our lives. I could never put

into words what she has meant to us. I know CarLee is going to miss seeing her

everyday, and so will I.

It's been a week......

I know its been a week, but I went on a scrapbooking retreat this pass weekend. I had such a great time. But let me tell you I am just now catching up on not being so tired. We stay up late and barley sleep, the object of this is to get as much scrappin done. so here is what i got done.

I actually got more than this done, but you get the gist of it. I had fun, now I have to be a grown up and play catch up!