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!

Back in the saddle!

Almost 14 days without even opening CS.  Moving took it all out of me.  Hubby got my puter all set up, the internet man came and hooked me up.  I didn't even want to open it.  I had no desire.  My camera sat looking at me mockingly.  Then came the Tangie machine! That woman, seriously I wish I could bottle her up.  She can motivate me like no one else.
The Art Journal Caravan had this coolest Adventure Quest this month, a scavenger hunt.  It had me rolling and laughing, sorting through my stash and wanting to play.  Now you can laugh if you want to, because I laughed making  it, here is my first page back from the abyss of non creating:

I also want to tell you that Tangie (in her spare time) figured out WordPress and made the most beautiful new website. Please pop over and re-sign up for RSS feed or just go everyday and enjoy!

a long long long drive home

We left May 27th right after lunch.  All packed and ready!

 This is my view leaving nor-cal! I had to take a pic! Then a close up of my view from California to New Mexico!

 

Saturday we made it to Arizona! Can you see the sign?

The boys were so funny in the van.  The truck was too loud for games, and too bouncy, so the boys talked the girls into swapping and they got an extra day in the van.

The first night we were in Bakersfield and this car parks right behind us! I was just perplexed at why they did it? We learned that we have to plan better to get out in the morning.  Tony was awesome and backed up and pulled out and then had to back out of the whole parking lot.  Crazy, but we were all cheering for him!

 

Whoops we goofed, this was our long day, and we stopped at the Comfort Inn, and not the Comfort Suites we had planned on, that was a mile further.  It wasn't the nicest hotel, but the pool was fun and we were closer to home!

 

Ha ha, notice no Penske in front of me?? I couldn't handle it anymore, and well I wanted to be first in New Mexico!  The girls agreed and we giggled as we whooshed by Dad and the boys!!

We were almost home, but the dust storm 3 hours out just wore us out, so we stopped in Willcox, Arizona.  It is a little town, with the most comfy beds and a nice hot breakfast with the sweetest lady.  Home was closer!

Passing the Continental Divide was just cool beyond.  I don't know why I am impressed with this, but I am!

We are home, and the view of my honey in the PENSKE:

 

Next Stop-HOME

We are closing down my computer in a few minutes.  It is Thursday, the house is clean and packed. We pick up the truck in the morning.  We will load the truck, have lunch and drive 5 hours to Bakersfield, California. 
Saturday we hope to make it as far into Arizona as possible, probably a few hours short of Phoenix. This is our longest day. 
Sunday we go to Wilcox and regroup, have the kids swim and sleep really good.  A late breakfast for Monday, and arrive in Alamogordo hopefully about lunch time. 
We are excited that there is a revival in progress in our church, and I invite you to join us at 7PM for services on the corner of 16th and Florida @ the Potter's House!
We don't move to our new home til the 1st of June, and our internet will not be hooked up until the 3rd at the soonest.  I hope to update you all on the adventures on the ride home then!

Friendship

 

" I am thankful that in God's design he planned it so your path crossed mine."

My friend Peggy and her hubby came down from Oroville last night and we had Japanese fast food, and then to the house to laugh and reminisce over the last few years and rejoice that we are friends.

Peggy is a giver, I mean she loves to give and what she finds is always perfect, I mean she spends time finding the exact right thing.  I was almost speechless with this beautiful necklace.  It is an infinity necklace. 

I love it.

The first quote is on the necklace and then in the box is these additional words:

Finding one true friend in life is good fortune, 

but keeping them is a true blessing.

I am very fortunate and blessed to count Peggy Jamison as my friend.

I will miss her most of all I believe, she and her hubby have labored and prayed for No. California, and I feel a bit bummed not to stick it out as they have. They are made of some strong stuff and God is just beginning to pour out major revival in Oroville. Please my friends throughout, mention their town and them by name to God for blessings and revival!

Good bye for now Peggy, but I know conferences are not far in between!

Lady Fluffypants finds a Home

Yesterday we had the garage sale of all garage sales! We got rid of EVERYTHING! I am so amazed and happy about that. One of the items that left made me cry, our cat Lady Fluffypants went home with a new owner.  Geez, I have a bit of a lump just typing this, but this is the end of the saga of the cat that came to our home.
We moved here to California, March 2008.  The second day we were here, this fluffy black and white cat walked up to me, did a handstand and flipped on her back so I could rub her belly.  I tried to pick her up, but she didn't want anything to do with that.

One of our neighbors, told us she had been abandoned by neighbors and her name was Lady.  She was spayed and that if we wanted her........oh no, we could not have pets.

Northern California, especially inland where we are in the agricultural center gets wicked hot.  We would look outside and our big sprinkler would be doing it's arc across the yard, and Lady would be drinking water out of it, oblivious that cats are not supposed to like water.

My hubby looked out and saw that and said, okay, you can feed her, but I don't want her in the house. 
OKAY!!

 

So, I fed her, and she slept in the van! She was hilarious! Then the rains came, and I let her in, but she wouldn't leave the front foyer of the house.  I added to her name, she was now Lady Fluffypants, because of her fluffy pantaloon fur on her legs.

But, Tony was liking her, because she was invisible really, and didn't make a fuss.  I loved her so much, cause she made me smile. She would actually run over to me to get a pet, and loved to be picked up and held.  She would just purr and purr. 

 

Before we knew it, she was on our Christmas card as part of the family, and sleeping by my legs on the bed at night.  Well, she kept sleeping on the bed after we got up:

She then made her place on my computer desk, and would beg for Kitty Treats:

Yeah she was spoiled, and loved to drink out of anything that wasn't a cat bowl, I had been watering the little plants by my desk, and left the water on the desk.

Her head is all the way in there! Goober.  Yesterday a young boy, that went to school with my kids years ago, wrapped Lady in a towel, and took her away.  I broke down and cried and cried. 

 She came in our lives and brought much laughter and amusement.

 

Now she goes, and I will always remember her fluffy pantaloons!

 

I missed you a ton this morning Lady Fluffypants! Victor, take care of her!

On a bit of a Sabatical!

Hey all! My family and I are moving from California to New Mexico, so my scrap blog is gonna be a bit slow until we get in and back on grid the first week of June! I leave with a layout I did with Tangie Baxter's newest kit; A Door Just Opened.  It is a remarkable kit:

I have to admit, I opened the kit, and looked through the elements and cried. There is a quote in there, by Helen Keller, that I used on my layout, that I had been given by a sweet young woman who is also a Pastor's wife, and the quote touched me so much in her letter, and then to see it in the kit a few days later was pure providence.
My family is going through this open door and having to close others, so here we are mere silhouettes on the page, but we are together in it and that is the most important part.  I hope you enjoy this layout, I was honored to be selected on the GSO FingerPointing thread with it also:

Be back in June with lots of pictures to scrap and memories to hold on too!