True Love Waits

I opened this kit; Love in the Park by eNKay Designs and just pondered.  Nathalie is a new to me designer and I love the crispness and bright feel to her designs. 
There were a few elements I knew without a doubt I was going to use, the clouds and the remarkable word art in the ink splots.  I love the backwards LOVE and the feel to it.  I doodled and played and really planned on putting a photo in her gorgeous red frame, but I needed something...and the phrase true love waits popped in my head.  This is a commitment of purity til marriage,  that I believe will bless marriages and others.  The media and others tell us to go for it.  I know different.  I have seen the ravaged emotional lives of those that didn't wait.  I know this is just a page on a scrapbook blog, but it is a truth that I hope others will grab.

~never lose your joy!

Zero Rules in Art Journaling! and blantant beg to Holliewood Studios!

First the announcement!!!

 Paula Kesselring asked me to be on her team!! I have spent most of my allowance on her designs and now I get them for FREE! I said YES, oh YES, then made a page immediately! hahah
You know I was wanting it to be like a butt kicker of a page, the first impressions and all! oh I saw
Paula's  wicked cool Summer Beach,
 and it has all the fun things you would expect in a beach kit, but it has the best Beach Babe! I feel in love with her, as we have the same girlish figure, so here she is in all her glory:

Doesn't that make you just giggle?
Then the DigiDare Devilish Diva's threw down this gauntlet for the Dare this week!  I saw some fun things in Paula's store over at Catscrap! Just go through the store and grab!!I also used some of my stash from the wickedly talented Holliewood Studios, whom I pay for kits, unless she finds it in her heart to have me as a CT one day! hint hint!! See, lookie, I even linked to you HOllie, you need me!!

So go laugh, create and get out of the box!

Dog, , dog, dog, wow!

Okay, we talked about a dog on returning to Alamo, and figured after a few months we would settle in and find the right dog.  So, about a week here, I found a FREE little dog, named Boo. 

 

Under all that fur is a yorkie, poodle.  She is a fluff ball, and I know she has eyes.  We took her last week to get groomed, and we had to go way short to get all the mats out, but she is so tiny:

Oh I could just roll laughing at the difference! 

Then yesterday, another dog shows up for adoption. This time it was a miniature schnauzer. I talked with the owner for a long time, and we set up a foster for the day.  We picked up Tessie (all 13 pounds of her chubby self) from McDonalds this morning and brought her home.  She is doing great. 

Boo is tolerating her at this moment.  But they are enjoying life. Tessa has one ear that stays down and the other is straight up, it makes me laugh so hard:

Boo and Tessie are doing fine.  Tessie pees about 12 times outside and Boo runs behind and pees in same spot. They should be friends soon, or dehydrate in the process? haha

Bha ha, look at Tessie's ear? Hilarious! The foster time is now ended and Tessie has found a forever home.

Back to School! Pencils, paper and LOCKS???

Oh boy, school supplies! I finally have enough glue and crayons from deals over the past few years of hoarding, and now my kids are in Mid and High School, and don't need them! They need LOCKS? ha ha, I don't know why this makes me laugh, but it does, and since my shopping cart is filled with notebooks and folders I need to laugh. So when The Digi Chicks showed their new collab for August; A is for Apple, 
I knew how I could get this memory down for our 2011 book:

I set to playing with all the goodies, and had a down right blast doing so! Here is the beginning of our back to school memories for 2011/12 School Year!

kids growing up with a sense of humor! and we got RAIN!!!

in my email today from my daughter Abby:
DEAR MADRE,
DID YOU SLEEP GOOD...I SAW YOU TWITCH YOUR HEAD.LOL.OH...YOU WERE ALSO SNORING.
LOVE YA,
ABBY
I told her I was gonna twitch, my spanking hand on her bootie!!! bhahahaha

The conversations my kids have with me totally rock my boat in hilarity. I was wondering as I hung my underwear up on the clothes line. (it is in the back yard), if they were embarrassed to hang their underwear?
Eric: well I think it is insane and I only do it cause you said we have to
Gabe: what was the question
Anna: well, when Vanessa stayed she refused and used the dryer
Abby: I don't know, but probably think it is strange.

Eric rechiming in: EVERYbody can see them!!!!!!
MOM: but they are clean, why worry???

I am very conscientious of  my kids underwear and socks. I have this thing about making sure they are new/clean and without holes. 
On to the rain!!

We got buckets full! I mean it unleashed this week! I am so happy, my yard is happier! 

The funny part of rain in our town, is it can be soaking and almost flooding on your street and 5 blocks away, nothing.  So when I got a text from our kids (out and about on bikes) if they could go to the bike park.  Sure I said, but it is pouring be careful.  I was thinking, they just miss the rain, but it was a very heavy rain, and it was cold, and well, lightning.  I got a text back, no rain here? 
hmmm...
Lightning.
Text back, hey guys, how about no on the bike park, are you sure it isn't raining?

Their text: MOM it is freezing rain, we are at the library.
I tell hubby, he will pick up in his truck.
Text back, Dad is enroute, unlock bikes and be ready.

The hustled!  It was so cold by now, I was snapping pics and trying not to freeze and get soaked.  The rain was coming sideways.

My wonderful hubby and rescuer of soaking wet stranded children!

I love to watch my kids work together as a team.  It does something inside me, all warm and proud!

Awww...life has a way of leveling off..

Insane changes and rearrangings in my real life and digi commitments, but they are all leveling out, and I wanted to do a bit of show off on some of the pages I have been making:
I loved this photo of Gman at the Bodega Bay  part of UofC, when Tangie and her Momma Rebecca came out with Steampunk Maritime...oh my, I got my cluster skills out!

I got to playing with this kit and I have a saying, that my Pastor told me long ago, Never Lose Your Joy, this is a bit of switch on the saying, I was feeling a bit like shark bait, when I made this, and laughing is always a good cure for me!

We as a family are re-entering the adoption process, and the is a huge step.  One of the things you do, is to make a life book for the children to look at before they meet us.  I am on a creative team for the ViVa's and you have to realize, they are not just designers, this team is tight, and it is full of emotions and support!  I saw the kit Sweet Song come out, and knew this is the kit I will be using for my book...now I have to get them to do more!

These next ones, are from the way back machine....the designs fit the photo, and I wanted to complete the memory and it worked! Now Tangie has this kit called As If By Magic and there is so much in the kit, I used just a few items, but it was perfect for this memory of our first Christmas tree ( a live one, we cut down in the forest):

Whew, almost up to date!! I am on the site team for The Digi Chicks, so the abundance of designers each week to choose from is beyond wow!  I had really been so out of it, and Nicole and the ladies were so patient with me, while the settling in process from the move worked its way out.  Then these three ladies with the biggest names in digital history did a collab called Sew Cute by Sugarplum Paperie, Danielle Engebretson Designs and Mari Koegelenberg Creations.  (geez, I think I used all the alphabet). I have been sewing lately, but just curtains, so I started going through old pics, and oh, my little Anna, how tiny she is in these photos:

The font on this is by Domesticated Lady, and called Little Dude! Don't cha love it??? It's over at the DigiChick too!
There all caught up on blogger.....but, I did two layouts today! Pop over on Friday to see them! 

Scrapping for the pure fun of it!

I am on a site Creative Team for The Digi Chicks and Mscraps, and I enjoy different designers to choose from to make my pages.
First up, from The Digi Chick, Quirky  Twerps newest addition to the "The Chick Fix" Adventurous kit help me put together a page of my oldest out exploring in California!

Then I move on to Mscraps, and I for some reason went nuts in their new releases, which I kick myself for come upload time, but I did get them all uploaded and linked! ha ha
The first one is just pure fun, I was playing with these wicked cool new templates called Free Way by Cintia Tavares and HeatherT's summer fun kit, Sandy Toes  

There is a collab by the designer formally known as Polly and Rufus but is now SophieLovesDesign along with Joyce Paul called Tijuana Sunrise: I just played and played while looking at these photos of my goofy girls:

My friend and a woman whose pages and designs are just wowza, Heather T had a few really cool frame bits and I was able to use them and a kit I had one a few months back, that I have no idea what the name of the kit means...lol Petite Bergere.  
I love this picture, because I am so safe with Tony, I know he loves me and covers me with his prayers, love and support, and he always laughs at my jokes!

Last is a page about Tony, I love this picture, you can see how strong he is and just how much I really love him!  I used QoH's template called I am getting paper and the June collab from Mscraps.

That is all I have for now, I am pretty buzzed, my house is almost all unpacked! My hubby bought me a new desk today, and I feel rather smart and business like!