Scrap in a Zap

So as mentioned before I am in the process of starting an online business. It will sell scrapbook page kits. People will be able to buy them preassembled or unassembled, so they can put them together any way they want. The preassembled ones are going like hotcakes around here, since I have found more people that want their pages done for them. Any way here are some of the pages I have done so far. All the paper embellishments are cut with my cricut. I have had so much fun. And I am getting my own books done these days...

These pumpkins and leaves were cut with my cricut too, and will be sold on the site, along with Christmas trees, and snowmen, along with house, YES 3-D houses!!! I am working on my Halloween set now....

I think that this bride and groom are so cute. One option that I am going to have is for people to specify what color hair, tux, bouquet, skin, eyes ect. Cause its always nicer to have something that looks like you on the page right!!

I am also going to sell just the embellishments. Here are some of the animals I have made.

This is one of my favorites ones so far. I love the web, with the little spider, which were both cut, then I took a craft brush, and tinted the inside of the web with black ink to make it look cooler.

And the witch, her cat and broom SO CUTE!!

I really loved the way the colors turned out in this one. You can't see the background page well, which is something that I will need all your help with. If you know a good way to take pictures of things like this and cut out all the back ground while making the colors vibrant and clear. I would love to learn. If I need to buy a program or something I can do that too.

Well this is what I have come up with so far. I have lots of ideas, for fathers day, I love mama, bathtime, baby's first, everyday stuff as well as holiday ones. I have a Snow Day one, and a 4th of July of that are cut and not assebled yet, so I will get those together and show you, maybe by a link. I am thinking that I am going to sell on ebay first get that up and going then start another website. I am not sure though. But I do need your help with lots. I need to know what you guys think is a good price, ways to take pictures, helpful business tips, and even ideas that you might have for themes.

Morale Boost and other Randomness

As stated before I miss John ALOT!! After one of the hardest weeks of my life Sunday being my complete break down after someone suggested I just keep Noah in primary with me as I conducted. I just started to cry, and then well couldn't stop. Anyway after our wonderful ward surrounded me with love and support, dinner, and an ear and a shoulder to cry on. After settling down for the night on Sunday just wanting to close my eyes, I laid on the couch to watch a movie, and fall asleep, and my phone rang (it was 10pm) and I thought OH NO what is wrong, no one calls that late unless something is wrong!! I answered the phone with a Hello? And on the other side of the line was something I never expected, a familiar Hello. Although John told me that I would not hear from him the entire time he was gone, some of the guys broke the rules, and took their cells phones. After his hello, I was just a bubblering idiot, which is I am sure is what he DIDN'T want to hear. But I was the best moral boost I could have possibly had. Some of the things that I have happened this last week, where things that I wish I could of discussed with him, like the fact that they are testing Isaac for Autism this week, and Noah has an evaluation for is physcial delays, his DR is concern about the way he stands. The fact that I had to choose a preschool all by myself (I hate making those kinda decisions by myself.) But of coarse John knew exactly what to say, he knew exactly how to make me feel better, and by the time our 10 minute conversation was over, I was rejuvenated, ready to start again, ready for a new week of all the same stuff. So did it make me less crazy when Isaac pooped in his bathroom sink, NO!! But I didn't feel like crying my eyes out!! YAY!! It did help that Isaac started preschool this week. Also a YAY!! Or maybe a Double YAY!! Well anyway after taking some pictures of Isaac headed to preschool I realized there are TONS of pictures I have not shared with you all. So here they are...

Isaac singing with joy at the table, eating his breakfast, the first day of preschool

Noah wondering why we are all up this early. Noah normally wakes up at 9, but with preschool starting at 8:15. Everyone is up by 7:30am. Which Noah wants to take a nap by 10!! YAY!!!

Scrappy rides with us to the preschool, and then crawls in Isaac's carseat after he gets out. I think he missses his friend

Also as you notice there are no pictures of Isaac actually going to preschool, thats because Isaac ran too fast to get one. He was so excited, he never once looked back!!

Bunco Party

Isaac loves to put on John's top and hat and walk around saluting, it is so cute!!

Playing at the Elder's Quorum BBQ

Noah wants to play with Isaac outside so bad, but with nothing but rocks its not a good idea...

This was the day we got our new table, we feed the missionaries, and it was just too picture perfect not to take a picture...

The chairs when we got them, they look 1000 times better now

This is how Isaac acts most days when he sees John, so cute

After doing the dishes one day, I could hear Noah screaming, so I went to check it out, and Isaac had blocked the exit to the toy corner, so Noah was stuck in there to play with him

Isaac helping himself to the food in the cupboard, boys will eat you out of house and home, even at 3, well Isaac will eat all the Frosted Mini Wheats in the house...

Another bunco picture

John's new grill on the car. It looks really good. The magnum is now even more of a "guy" car. I need a mom SUV!!!

Missing...

MY HUBBY

I am having a weak moment in my brief time away from John. And I better get used to it since in a few months, I get to do it all over again, but for EVEN longer!! This time John is gone for 3 weeks, next time he will be gone for 7 MONTHS!!! It has been a rough few days (since it has only been 5 days) Isaac is at the age where he realizes that John has left and every time he gets in trouble he cries "I want my daddy!!" Which breaks my heart. We have had 4am mornings and 9pm nights, which is all trying. But as John always saying "We are blessed because we get to be away from each other." Many of you may say WHAT?!?! But the time apart is aways a blessing. Most people never get to spend this much time part, a chance to appreciate each other. So I decided to share with the online world all the things that I appreciate about the best part of my life...

It is often the simplest things that we forget to recognize like;

• ALL things trash
• taking the kids when he can
• filling up the tank, (I am almost on E AHH!! I haven't gotten gas, since John was deployed to AFRICA)
• letting me have "girl time"
• putting the food away
• giving me a reason to cook
• putting the toys away

Some of my favorite things

• ability to make me laugh no matter what
• the amazing way he smells
• his quirkiness
• amazing father
• wonderful husband
• the way he supports everything I want to do, even if its not the choice he would make

I love him so much. I miss him so much. But we are half way to retirement and this too shall pass. I will count my blessings that he will be done before the teenage years. And that soon he will be home again. Until then I am keeping myself busy with my new business idea

proto types, and websites have kept my nights are quite busy. And it is getting all my scrapbook pages done in the process. Stay tune for pictures of what I have been working on.

Day for Kids

So John was at work on Saturday so I decided to take the kids to "A Day for Kids" by the boys and girls club. I then decided that I didn't really want to take the kids all by myself, so I invited my friend Lori from church, and she brought her granddaughter, who is a few years older than Isaac, but they had fun and played well together. So they had bouncehouses, velcro walls, bungee thing, and lots of crafts, along with a small petting zoo, some snake people, and a bird lady. Isaac loved touching and feeling all the animals and the bounce slide was probably his favorite!! And the best thing about it was it was all FREE!!!! Of course as true to form, without John around, I forgot the camera, but my new phone didn't take bad pictures if you asked me... The little petting zoo, had 2 month old baby pigs and Isaac loved them take a look...(be patient the first part Isaac is hard to find cause him and pig ran so fast...)

Yes, Isaac wanted to pet the snake, and no he didn't get that from me, it took all the courage that I had to zoom in close enough to take the picture.

Isaac was to small to jump on the velcro, mainly cause of the suit was 100 times to big for him, so the lady was nice enough to hoist him up there

The slide was probably the kids' favorite, we had to pull them off of there!!

Isaac was more interested in where the bungee came from, than where he could go being attached to it, we did finally convence him to run forward...

Isaac has balloons on his face, and Carli has a cat on hers.