Back to Reality

So, I was at school and all i could think about was..I wish I was at home scrapping the day away while on summer break. That's bad, eh?! But it's the truth.

The first day back was not too bad. It was easy. We had class tours with the new children. They come with their parents to check the classroom, meet the teachers. They're usually only there for about 15minutes. So it wasn't that bad. We shall see tomorrow, and how many criers we have!!

My long weekend was good. Jared and I went to a wedding on Saturday up in Kamloops which is about a 4 and a half car ride. It wasn't too bad!! At least it wasn't scorching hot. The wedding was at three, Jared's cousin got married. It was quick. We drove back home too the same day. It was a long day but good. I got tons of pictures and they are all going to be scrapped very soon, still have to get them developed.

This is all of us in the car; Jared and I and Jared's brother Josh and his girlfriend Tanya.


We stopped for lunch..and check out Jared and his sunglasses..totally a 70's cop!! Isn't Officer Magoo a hottie!!



And some pics at the wedding ceremony and reception!!



I love this pic...Me, Jared, Josh, Tanya, Jocelyn and Gabe!! Can you see the resemblance of Jared and his brother and sister...

Jared's sister is engaged too..this is her and her fiance...

Showing off her ring...


Sunday, we slept in a bit and relaxed. For dinner we had Chinese food and rented some movies. We saw Catch and Release..it was good, I love Jennifer Garner. After I went and read HP7..almost done and Jared watched his violent boy movie.

Monday Jared went to work and I stayed home and cleaned the house and worked on my Stampin'Up stuff,,still trying to figure out classes and making some samples.

And now here I am, Tuesday night and I think I am going to try do a bit of scrapping..it's still early!! Hope everyone had a good long weekend!! ANd all my teacher friends a good first day back..how many days till the weekend..almost it's hump day tomorrow!! Later!!

Taking It All In...

So, it's basically my last week of summer holidays..kind of. I do have to go into the class tomorrow and Wednesday but, that's probably it. Just to move things around and organize things. Ugh. I don't want to go back. I know I've already complained but it's the truth so, bear with me. I am excited to see the children again and meet the new ones starting and maybe kind of excited to see my co-workers but there's other things that are not too great. Let's just hope there is no drama this year, 'cause I don't know if I will be able to deal with it. Let's just say it might be time for a change soon. Oh, and getting a paycheck is always good!!

The weekend was good. Friday got together with Connie and we scrapped the day away. It was fun. A good last summer scrap session before going back to school. We watched some movies while we scrapped away..The Devil Wears Prada...LOVE that movie and LOVE Anne Hathaway and watched The Three Amigos..it was my fave movie when I was small, my sisters and I used to rent it all the time, like every weekend. It's so funny. Love it!! Got to play with some of my new Stampin'Up scrap stuff..fun..will post more of those pages later when I am done.

Saturday was my Mom's birthday. She finally turned 26years old...after being 25 for the past what 10years or something ;) It was good, my sisters and I cooked dinner for her. It was yummy!! My Dad got her a digital camera so, she was pretty excited!!

Love this pic of my parents!!

Sunday I basically scrapped most of the day away!! Trying to get lots in!!Here they are..these are with the July kit at SOMO


And some more...




And this page. I love it. I made my parents for Mother's and Father's day some mini albums filled with quotes and pics and I came across this quote and loved it, 'cause it's so true. Had to do a page with it!! The quote says "The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother." ~Theodore Hesburg

One thing I missed was that Jared worked most of the weekend!! So, we didn't really spend too much time together..hopefully tonite!!

Got some pics of my sister and her new ring!! Very pretty!!

And the rock...

And this pic makes me happy... the sunflower decided to bloom finally!!

Hope everyone has a good week!! A bientot!!

What's Going On...

Sorry I have been such a bad blogger. Life has been busy and I have been trying to enjoy the last bit of summer vacation I have left. I go back to school next week. Need to arrange furniture, files and organize tons of things. Fun!! Kind of have mixed feelings about going back...might be time to find something else but, one thing I am looking forward to is a paycheck again. That is awesome!!

So, my Stampin'Up open house went really well. Jared cooked some amazing food and I have lots of samples to look at, some make and takes, a draw and I sold a-lot. Which is awesome!! Got lots of free goodies and made some $$$!! YAY!! Definetly gave me a boost of confidence, that I can do this and that I am good at it. Very good!! Already have some ideas for classes that I am going to offer and I have two booked workshops so far!! YAY!!

Will be making an appointment with the dentist. My teeth are sore. So I am worried they probably just need a good cleaning. But because of my Dad and what he went through with the war and his teeth I am always so conscious of my teeth. That and they are very important. But the dentist is always so expensive but, I guess it is worth it!!

Good news!! My sister is engaged!! YAY!! I am so happy for her and her fiance..it's about time!! Looking forward to another wedding!! Sorry this is an old picture from Christmas will get one soon..still need to see the rock!!

Not much happening..have been doing some scrapping now that the Open House is done, which is good...have missed it a bit!! Did some pages with the July kit from
Story of my Own the papers are very pretty!!



And some other ones...


Since Jared is at work tonight my plan is to do some more scrapping!! I hope everyone is doing well..another update sooner rather later again..I promise!! Ciao!!

A break and a bit of a freak out

Thought I would take a break from all the stamping and preparing for my open house on Sunday, which as it is closer now I am feeling even more nervous and a bit freaked out. Just want to do well... I have been busy making a ton of samples to show and I still have to finish the make 'n takes and the cards for the draw. That shouldn't take me too long.

In between as a kind of break I have been scrapping, have my scrapping mojo totally there and I just need to create. It's hard 'cause I don't really have that much Stampin'Up scrap stuff so, I can't show my creations on Sunday. Which is okay, it also gives me a reason to buy some stuff to scrap with for SU, which is good. It will be a challenge so, we'll see!!

But here is my latest and greatest.....




And these two pages are made from the June kit at
Story of my Own Loved all the Love, Elsie in that kit and I love the colors!!



Thankyou to everyone for the nice comments and concerns with the scare at Jared's work. Everything has calmed down, thankfully!! And we're doing good!! Better go and do more stamping and preparing, promise to post tons of pics, Jared's making food for the open house..YUMMY!! Have a good weekend!!

A bit of everything...

I had every intention of posting earlier but, it has been a busy and interesting week. Good and bad. But that's okay

We had a bit of a scare on Tuesday night. At the restaurant that Jared works in a man with a gun came in. Scary. Jared said that he was all masked and completely covered, you could not see his face. Luckily no one got hurt, just a big scare. They had to shut down the restaurant and Jared ended up dealing with a-lot of things. Luckily the police came right away and they caught the guy. Apparently it was gang related. Scary.

Had car problems on Wednesday night. I was on my way to my first team meeting with
Stampin'Up and the car started to smoke as I was driving and stuck in rush hour traffic. I had to pull over basically right after I got off the bridge. The coolant was completely empty so, I had to wait for the car to cool down before I could put more in. A nice guy cam over and helped me and talked to me. He was harmless, older...talked about his Porsche, lucky him and here I am with my little VW Golf!! That's okay!! I went straight to my parent's house, my Daddy knows everything about cars. SO, the car went to the mechanic yesterday nad he's back and it didn't cost too much $$$. But I didn't make it to the meeting. Next time.

Talking about Stampin 'Up, I have my Open House next Sunday. SO excited and nervous too. Lots of stuff to organize and put together. I want to do well. Have been making tons of samples and Jared was telling me last night what he's going to prepare to eat!! He's my caterer ;) It's going to be yummy!! SO, if your in the Vancouver BC area let me know so, you can come by!! Will post pics of the Open House for sure!!

With all the stuff I've been doing for Stampin'Up I haven't had a chance to scrap going to try tonight. Going to the scrap store later, they are having adhesive at 40% so, I am going to stock up!! Jared will be scrapping with me this weekend too, we got the supplies for our page!! So excited about that!!

I am still reading Harry Potter 7 too. Taking my time and completely enjoying it. Luckily I haven't come across any spoilers on the web.

For those that know, know that I am totally not an exercise kind of girl. But for my birthday I asked for a yoga mat, specifically in pink, and I got it!! So, I have been doing yoga pretty much everyday and I love it!! I only do it from home right now with a book and DVD but it feels amazing so far. Once school starts and we have some steady $$ coming in again, I think I might start going to classes.

So I did get together with Alice last Saturday we had so much fun!! Check out her blog she posted some pics!! Her puppy Gizmo is SO cute, makes me want a puppy even more..I have to keep working on Jared either that or just come home with one. But, we watched Love Actually..love it, had sushi,stamped, and played Wii!! SO fun!! I would like one now, I told Jared..he said maybe for Christmas so, we'll see!!

So, off the top of my head that is all I could remember that I was going to post about!! I hope everyone has a fab weekend!! Enjoy the sun!! Later!!

I am a Scrapping Machine...

That I am!! Have been doing tons of scrapping, just feeling inspired and creative which is totally awesome!! My friend Connie and I had a nine hour scrapping session yesterday!! And we actually got lots done than we usually do!! We watched three movies; The Princess Diaries, Funny Face and Clueless..tons of fun!! We did break for lunch and dinner. And at the end of our scrapping session we grabbed a coffee at Starbucks!! Good times!! Looking forward to doing it again soon!! Here are my latest!!

These are from the June kit for SOMO It all Love, Elsie love that stuff!!



And some more...







So happy with how they turned out!! I posted them at my profile on SiStv, the link is on the side bar if you want to leave some love!!

Plans for the weekend!! Have to do some work on my Stampin'Up stuff and will probably do some more scrapping as well have some more ideas and projects swirling in my head!! Spend some time with hubby..gotta go to the scrap store for our anniversary page!!

Might see Alice which will be good and spend some time out in the sunshine!! Have a creative weekend everyone!!

Our One Year Wedding Anniversary

I know I'm a little late, I should've posted earlier but life has been a bit busy!! Which is always good. But Jared and I celebrated our one year wedding anniversary last Sunday, the 15th but we waited until last Monday to do anything because of our trip.

Jared was an absolute sweetheart, I absolutely loved his gift!! I got flowers, a very pretty arrangement which according to him will only get bigger as the years go by!! YAY!! And a card. Now the one year is paper so, Jared got me a gift certificate to the scrapbook store YAY!! But there's a catch..we have to go together because we're going to make a scrap page of our anniversary how sweet!! I am so touched, at least he but some thought into it, It means so much!!


We went out for dinner, very good dinner. At a restaurant called Charlie Don't Surf, it's out in White Rock, which is maybe a half an hour drive from our place. All the restaurants are along a boardwalk that look out onto the water. Very pretty!! Had some drinks and good food!!

We haven't gone to the scrap store yet, he worked and was in a soccer tournament all weekend!! So it's our date night tonite. We're going for sushi and then we are going to go and see Jared's sister and her new fiance!! Should be fun!! Promise to post some scrappy pages soo, have been a bit of a scrap machine!! Hope you all had a good weekend!!

The Wedding and Houseboating

Jared and I both had such a good time up in Salmon Arm!! We totally needed it just being away and hanging out the two of us!! And the wedding so fun, very low key , we enjoyed ourselves.

The drive up on Friday was awful!! So long and so hot!! The air conditioner in the car was not working and if you opened the windows you got warm air!! It was a long five hour drive!! When we arrived in Salmon Arm, we still had to wait for everybody else that was on our boat so, we did some grocery shopping and got some refreshments at the liquor store. The weather was also acting so weird once we met up with some of the people on our houseboat. We had some light rain, which felt really good after all the heat and then some really strong warm winds..really weird!! We even saw a wind tunnel in the water, very cool!! We finally got the boat and got on and rode along the water to find a beach to "park" the boat. The breeze felt so cool and nice!! For those of you that don't know a houseboat is basically a house that floats. It has everything in it that a house has. A kitchen, living room, a bathroom, tons of bedrooms, an upper deck with a hot tub, a slide to slide into the lake, a bar, and one more uppper deck with a place to sit and look out!! Very cool!!

Friday night we went to bed early, somewhat 'cause the wedding was at 11am on Saturday!! Jared and I did not sleep at all, it was so HOT and we were just sweating, it was like a sauna!! Very gross!!

Saturday morning woke up and walked down to the beach for the wedding!! Jen looked so pretty in her white summer dress and Mike in his shory pants and nice shirt!! It was a quick and short ceremony!!


The aisle along rhe beach was lined up with shells and then at the top it had Mike and Jen's initials and a heart, it looked so nice!!

And a pic of jared and I..I tried to take as many of us together as I could, we barely have any pics of us together this past year!!

For the rest of the afternoon, we had free. The "reception" wasn't really until later!! So Jared and I and a couple of other guys went tubing!! Tons of fun!! We first tried the two of us, but it didn't really work!!


So, we had to go each on our own, and I was a little nervous...especially with all boys on the boat and driving the boat too!! But I was reassured, and it was tons of fun!! I may be hard to see, 'cause Jared forgot to zoom in, but that's me!!


For Jared's turn they really went wild with him, but he hung on!!


And a cute picture of Jared and I on the boat!!

Tons of fun!! I wish we could've gone again before we left..next time I guess!!

Later that night we had the reception, very casual!! We basically hung out, sitting and drinking and chatting away!! we had tiki torches lined up along the beach, it was good!! And Jared and I celebrated a mini one anyway our 1year wedding anniversary..just lots of kissing and hugs :) Good times!!

We left Sunday!! But we were basically on the road the whole time and when we got home Jared and I went for dinner with his parents. They bought us dinner for our anniversary, it was good!! I got to hear a whole bunch of stories of Jared when he was little and playing soccer and all the politics that go along with it!! I never knew but, I will post another post of our anniversary!! Right now I need to go and organize my desk so I can hopefully do some scrapping!! An anniversary post to come..he loved the album by the way!!Later!!