My Daddy Wears Combat Boots

You have probably heard the saying or said it yourself as a kid...
"Your daddy wears combat boots and your momma dresses you funny."
or is it...
"MY daddy wears combat boots and your momma dresses you funny."

Either way I think it is meant as insult. But in our family it is just the TRUTH. The boys daddy DOES wear combat boots and yes their momma sometimes DOES dress them funny.

I was playing with my flash to my camera. I got it awhile back one of those big high grade professional looking dojobbies. Well I am no professional so I was just playing with it and taking pictures of little E. After I put the pictures on the computer I noticed what he was wearing {in my defense, it was clean and it was laundry day}. And it made me think of that saying which was the inspiration for this layout (yes I actually did a layout of my youngest son).



Enjoy! Now back to keeping busy, I think I am going to clean my scrapping area and ughh I just realized that I need to pay the bills too. YUCK!

Keep everything crossed...

I mean everything, fingers, toes, legs, ankles, elbows, hair, your eyes if you can do it. I sent in my layouts for the DT contest. Now we just sit and wait and that is the hardest part.

So I am going to go scrap and try to keep myself busy for the next 11 days! ARGH!

I am the reason they have express lanes and overnight shipping. I hate waiting!

OK going to go play.

But if you don't mind, say a quick prayer for me...Thanks :)

How to make a Jennifer {remember it will probably be fruity!}

From my friend Lacey's blog...

What personality elements make up your Personality cocktail?

How to make a Jennifer
Ingredients:
3 parts success
3 parts self-sufficiency
1 part joy
Method:
Combine in a tall glass half filled with crushed ice. Add a little sadness if desired!

Lots of Fun Nonsensical Stuff

Is that a word or did I just make up another one -- Webster should hire me cause I make them up all the time!

Well I found this on Carolyn's blog and thought it was cool...

You Are Likely an Only Child

At your darkest moments, you feel frustrated.At work and school, you do best when you're organizing.When you love someone, you tend to worry about them. In friendship, you are emotional and sympathetic.Your ideal careers are: radio announcer, finance, teaching, ministry, and management.You will leave your mark on the world with organizational leadership, maybe as the author of self-help books.

The Birth Order Predictor

As a child I wished I was an only child but actually I am the oldest of 2, I have a sister who is 4 years younger than me.

I got tagged by Lacey at this life of mine, so here it goes!

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The tagged victim lists 8 different points of their perfect partner & give the gender.

In order to avoid the meme curse I must tag 8 victims (they would be listed at the bottom of this post) to join this game & leave a comment on a post letting them know they've been tagged.

My partner: Male (we shall call him Dhubby)

8 qualities of my perfect partner (in no particular order of importance) :
1. tall (I am going to go with tall too because I have never dated anyone under 6'3" so that must be important -- truthfully I think I just like the feeling of protection, even though I know I could take him)
2. loves me exactly as I am (man Lacey maybe I just want your man or maybe we have twins or something -- I think we have talked about this, we are long lost twins who are married to long lost twins)
3. can handle being teased (there I will change it a little -- I am kind of a smart ass so they better be able to handle some ribbing)
4. a good father (I won't go awesome dad because I know it is hard when he is gone all day but I just want to see him interact with the kids and stuff like that -- you know it takes two to tango and I am not the virgin Mary)
5. legs of a god (I am a leg girl -- I love runners legs or swimmers legs all long and lean and muscly -- going to take cold shower now)
6. intelligent (or at least as smart as me -- I don't think I could be in a relationship with someone like say Joey Tribiani from Friends -- I would do better with Chandler or Ross)
7. clean cut (again going to agree with Lacey and I am going to add looks great in a uniform -- I am a sucker for a man in uniform and would like to petition the US Army to get a uniform that looks as awesome as the US Marine Corps -- eech wa wa)
8. picks up after himself and enjoys doing dishes (well you said he was perfect *wink wink*)

Now I have to tag 8 people ...... here goes ....
(these may overlap so consider yourself loved)
Carolyn
Kim
Bonni
Julie
Laura
Kristi
Jill
and Heidi Swapp if you ever read my blog (HA HA, right) consider yourself tagged! :)

Baby Album

I made this little album for my little sister who is expecting her first child in April. I hope she will like it.

It started off like this...


And then I altered it to look like this...

The ribbon is to help keep it closed. :)

Then the front inside...


The pages...

They each have a matching opposite page to hold a picture.

Here are the cool non-picture pages close up...


















The back inside cover is also the last page...


Thanks for looking. :)

Proud Mommy Moment

{knocking on wood}
I haven't said anything to anyone besides my mom but I. has been accident free now and wearing underwear except to bed for 2 whole weeks. I am so proud of the little guy. It just happened overnight, we went from feeling like he was never going to pee in the potty to doing it all on his own.

{knock on wood again just to make sure I don't jinx it}

Need Advice {BADLY}

So I have been thinking about submitting some of my pages and trying to get on this design team for a message board that I belong to. I can't decide if I should because I know a lot of people have just recently joined all because they are applying and they have been posting like wildfire on the gallery and their stuff is awesome.

I know if I don't try I will never know but what if I get rejected. I don't know how to deal with rejection. It would be like someone saying your not good enough.

Please help me as my Dhubby is no help when it comes to these things because he is perfect and I can't afford a therapist.

Another Valentine ** updated**

since i was in a pink mood i made another... TFL



i call it conversation hearts. ** I changed it a little bit, I added a greeting to the front because I just kept looking at it and thinking it was bland. I don't know why I am worried about it, it is for my hubby and like he really cares -- you know what he wants for Valentines Day, yes that is right uninterrupted time in his wood shop -- that isn't what you thought I was going to say was it. Sickos get your minds out of the gutter! :)



and this is my sewing one.

I know...

my blog is PINK! Well lets just say I should have never taken that stupid scrapbooking quiz and put it in my blog. I screwed everything up. So heads up -- take the quiz and just post in my comments what you are if you want to because I don't want everyone else to have to go with the Happy Valentines Pink background because it screwed everything up and then you forget to copy all your links so you have go back and edit it all by hand again. That will be later. Plus since my photos are so large all my information is WAY down at the bottom -- I don't like that because then I have to scroll through everything to get to the links that I want to use.

What Scrapbooking Supply Are You?

You are a pair of SCISSORS!
You're cutting edge, baby! You cut through life
with ease, always keeping others on the edge.
You have the power to simplify things by just
cutting them out. But scissors beware - you
may cut some of the important things out of
your life without realizing it, in your need
to keep trim!

What scrapbooking item are you?