Scrap Pages Using Shabby Miss Jenn products

I just joined Shabby Miss Jenn's creative team last month and I've had a blast scrapping with her fabulous kits.  I'm a bit behind on posting them to the blog though.  Here are three pages I've created in the last few weeks.

This page is of my precious cat, Ki Ki.  I used the kit Here Kitty Kitty.

This next page, I used Estate Sale.  This picture is of my kids on their first day of school.

This last page, I used a few pictures from Hunter's end of season baseball parade.  He looks so happy in the single picture of him.  He was riding in the float and I happend to get a picture of him throwing candy and laughing.  I used the kit Batter Up from Shabby Miss Jenn.

To see the full credits and other scrap pages, you can visit my scrap gallery here.

Have a nice Monday!! I'm getting ready to head out and go to the kids Halloween parties at school.  Trick or Treat is tonight, so I'll be posting several Halloween posts this week.  Stay tuned...

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Soccer

Middle School Soccer is wrapping up and we are about to start basketball.  My kids definitely keep us shuffling.  Here are a few pictures of Joseph playing soccer.

Joseph is number 15.

I LOVE watching him play soccer, especially when it is a close game.

I get tense and bite my nails, but I'm trying to break my habit of nail biting, so now I just chip my polish off.

I could never play soccer.  I don't think I am coordinated enough.

Or in good enough shape.  Look at the muscles in his legs.

He has been playing soccer since he was three, almost four.  It hasn't got old yet.  I still love it as much as I did when he was little, but more.  He loves it also.

He wants to go pro.  I'm not sure he is good enough to go pro, but I try to encourage him to practice more so his dreams can come true.  He has a backup plan if they don't.

He is my awesome soccer player and I love him so much. 

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Oogly Boogley

Update: Both Hunter and Hailey won for best dressed in their class during mismatch day.  It is unheard of for a boy to win but Hunter went all out and it paid off!  He was so happy.

Designers Kaye Winiecki and Kate Hadfield collaborated together and came up with Oobly Boogly.  I had the pleasure of working with it.  It is such a FAB kit to work with.  I created this page, called "Boo".  The pictures in this scrap page is of Hailey and Hunter last year during Trick or Treat.

If you have Halloween pictures that need scrapped, this is the kit to use!

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Mismatch Day

I need to get in the habit of using my good camera on a daily basis.  The camera on my phone is just too handy.  The quality isn't great, but it is always on me. 

Today is Mismatch Day at school.  The kids and I had the best time putting their outfits together last night.  As we were getting in the car this morning, I forgot I didn't take a picture of them, so I grabbed my phone. When I dropped them off at school, I could tell Hunter was a little nervous to walk down the sidewalk looking like this.

I was always embarrassed to dress up at school.  I'm so glad these two are brave enough to have some fun!  I'm so excited to hear if they won for craziest outfit.  I thought they did a great job.  Hailey's hair was one bun, one ponytail and a braid in the back.  Hopefully they didn't have a problem in gym class.

This past weekend, we went to a birthday party and two haunted trails.  I didn't take the youngest two with us.  Joseph did fine and was brave enough to go through them.  He was hand in hand with a girl to "protect" her.  Then Sunday night he and a bunch of his friends went to see Paranormal Activity 3.  Joseph said it was really scary.  He kept covering his eyes and a few of his friends screamed.  RJ went upstairs after Joseph had gone to sleep and found his phone was facing his bathroom and recording his room.  He says he isn't scared, but I can tell he is. 

RJ and I are going to see it this coming weekend.  I'm excited.

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Fall Festival

A couple of weeks ago, the kid's school had their Fall Festival.  I took the kids and let them each spend $10.00 on whatever they wanted.  They bought their tickets and ran around playing games.  Hailey's favorite was the Cake Walk.  Have you all heard of this?  The parents volunteer to bake cakes or buy cakes.  There had to have been about 50 cakes on the table.  Anyway... Your put carpet tile down in a circle with numbers on them.  I think we had 16 carpet tiles.  You could use anything really as long as they had numbers on them and were in a circle.  You give two tickets (50 cents) to play.  You walk in a circle on the tiles and when the music stops, you stop.  A person draws a number and the person standing on the number called wins a cake. 

Hailey was addicted.  She probably spent $5.00 playing in there.  Hunter goes in and plays one time and wins.  Hailey never won.  She wasn't upset either, she was just excited that we got to bring home a cake.  I love that!

Hailey stood in line for 30 minutes to get her face painted.  She chose a cheetah.  The clown lady did a fabulous job!  Don't you think?

Once she saw how cute she looked, she then requested to be a mean cheetah and wantd blood added.

Not so cute anymore. :(  But, she was happy and that is all that matters.

Hunter didn't want to spend his time waiting in line for face paint, so he ran around with his friends and got his hair spray painted.  By the end of the day, the red hair spray was dripping down his face from the sweat.

The school raised a lot of money to go towards their playground and the kids had a blast.  Successful day!

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Cool Halloween Snacks

I pinned some really cute Halloween Snacks that I might try with the kids.  I know they will enjoy eating them.  Check these out!

Edible Eyeballs

{source and recipe: Picture Me Cooking}

Mummy Dogs

{source and recipe: Rhodes Bake N Serve}

Pizza Mummies

{source and recipe: Parents}

Apple Smiles

{source and recipe: Disney Family}

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October 1

I just realized that I never shared what we did for RJ's birthday.  On October 1st, we celebrated RJ's 36th birthday.  We woke up and had breakfast and then we set off to go to a Mountaineer Game.  It was cold and it rained the entire time, but we made the best of it.  The boys had ponchos and RJ and I sat there in our clothes and got drenched.  Worst part of it was we had to drive 3 hours back home soak and wet.  Not fun, but we didn't complain and actually had a great time.  I didn't take many pictures because it did rain so much, but here are a few I took with my iphone.

This was before the game started, Hunter and me.

The ball players huddled up.

Stretching

The band

The band coming out of the circle

My favorite part, the form of West Virginia

 RJ and Joseph

WVU vs Bowling Green

Notice the crowd.  It had rained so much and we were ahead by a good amount, that most people left.  Not us, we were staying until the end when they played "Country Roads".

 The Score 55-10

Have you been to any college football games lately.  They are my favorite to go to!  We had a great time despite all the rain and cold weather.

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Yard Work and Thoughts

This past weekend, we worked in the yard and pressure washed the back deck. 

We cut down these bushes.  Now, when looking at these pictures, the before looks better than the after, but in the spring, the smaller bushes will look much much better.

We had a bonfire burning the limbs we cut down and ate chinese while watching the fire.

Look at the gunk on our deck!  This side of our house doesn't see the sun much and this is what happens when it rains and the sun isn't there to dry it.  Its been about 5 years since we my husband built this deck and we have never washed it until now.

This is what it looks like now.  Much better. Now I need to pressure wash the side of the house and the front porch.

Here is a side by side comparison.  The left side looks like a stain, but its actually dirt.  The only thing I don't like about the end result of a pressure washer is the roughness of the wood.

While working in the yard, we found this little guy or gal.

 He's walking away.

He was so entertaining to watch.  I guess you can tell that I have no life if I can find a praying mantis entertaining.

Miss thing had to have her picture taken.

We are looking at a house tomorrow.  Possibly my dream home.  I'm scared.  I've been looking at it all summer.  Without even seeing the inside of the house, I already want it - bad! I am attached to my current house though. I'll post more on this next week.  I'll take pictures during our house tour tomorrow and I'll share more thoughts and fears along with it.

Happy Friday! Have a good weekend. :)  I'm going to dinner and a movie with a friend to see Footloose!  Will you head out this weekend to watch it?

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Zombies - Halloween Makeup

There are two things that I forgot to mention on yesterday's post.

1. The brown and black heels I bought yesterday are super comfy!!!  They also have a pretty cool heel.

2. I can mark off #12 on my 101 in 1001 post, which was go on a shopping spree for myself.

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My kids want to be scary for Halloween this year.  For some reason, Hailey wants to be a zombie.  She normally dresses very girlie and it boggles my mind to see her scary looking.

I found this tutorial on Youtube and thought we'd try it.  I didn't have face paint, latex or staging blood, so I compromised and used non toxic glue, blue eyeshadow and red lipstick.  I think it turned out pretty good.  What do you think?  These were taken with my phone, so please ignore the bad quality.

I used some of the same techniques on Hunter without the glue and tissue paper.

 

My little Zombies.  I'm working on their costumes now.

I can't wait for Halloween!!

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Long Weekend

I had a great birthday weekend.  I took Friday off from work, which was a last minute decision, I just couldn't decide what to do.  I felt guilty for taking the day off while my kids were at school and I felt a little lonely as well.  But, after I got myself going, I ended up having a great time!  I went to TJMaxx and to the mall.  I had the best luck at TJ Maxx.  This is what I came home with.

 Five pair of shoes.  One pair from TJ Maxx (top right hand corner) and four pair from Payless.

 A Jacket and belt from TJ Maxx.

 Four sweaters from TJ Maxx

 Six tops.  The two bottom tops and green top are from The Loft and the others are from TJ Maxx.  I just realized I bought a lot of blue.

Five pair of pants.  The two on the bottom left are from THE Loft and the others are from TJ Maxx.

Two candles 50% off from Bath & Body Works.

As soon as Hailey got off of the bus, she wanted to go to her friend's house.  She dropped her backpack on the porch, changed clothes and went home with Chelsie.  Joseph had his homecoming dance after school and Hunter had baseball practice at 5pm.  I dropped Hunter off at practice, picked Joseph up after his dance and then come back to watch Hunter. 

After Hunter's baseball practice, we went to pick Hailey up but she was on a boat ride with Chelsie and her mother.  So, I waited a few minutes until they got back.  Once the girls hopped off the boat, they bombarded me asking if Hailey could spend the night.  I gave her the choice of going to dinner with us for my birthday or spending the night with Chelsie.  She chose Chelsie, typical 7 year old. ;)

I took the boys home to shower and get ready and we waited for my cousin, Gary, and his girlfriend to arrive so we could go eat.  I chose Buffalo Wild Wings.  We came home and played Dance Dance Revolution afterwards.

Saturday and Sunday, we spent working in the yard.  Monday, Hailey and I tried out a few things we found on Youtube.  More on my birthday weekend tomorrow.

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