I want to share this slide show. We had so much fun in Kauai last summer. Robb and Jodi were nice enough to invite us on their honeymoon! I was trying to figure out how to post it as a page element so it would always be running on the side, but I haven't figured it out :( I get very annoyed and start to obsess over making things work right and today is much too nice to sit in here working on it for too long. I have studied this morning and Jeff is here so we're going to go out in the beautiful weather and play! Or prune the tree. I pruned most of it already but there is a bit on top to be done :) I passed my tests this week but not with great grades. A lot of people complained to the nursing coordinator so it looks like we're going to get some points back. I next quarter is going to be harder for me. I seem to be getting a horrible case of spring fever already! This week in clinical was great too. I got to do wound care! It was so cool! Next week we're learning SQ shots! School is getting really good!

Papers and Studying

I am just about done with both papers :) I just have to do my citation page for one and finish my family knowledge map for the other. Today I will spend a lot of time studying. See, I am a good nursing student when push comes to shove! Last night I did my first lesson for my PSP digi scrapping. The first lessons are pretty easy for me, but I am learning things I didn't know. I have the next lesson already so I'm thinking I may concentrate better if I just get it done so it's not starring at me. The main reason I took this class is to get through the first group of about 40 lessons on page design so I can take the next 50 or so lessons on designing my own papers and elements. Then in my spare time I'll be able to make my own stuff and maybe eventually be a designer at Weeds and Wildflowers! Anyway, here's a couple pages. This first one I did Friday night so I wouldn't be distracted from studying yesterday.





This one I did last week after Rachel gave me a great card for Valentines day :) She knows she was the teenager from hell and sometimes I use to wonder if we both were going to live through it. Now I'm just glad she's my daughter.

Family Portraits

Last month I had all my kids together and Wynter too! We went and had family portraits taken. Who knows when we'll get them done again?

Me with all my kids and Winnie too!

Zak and Wynter Rose

Rachel and Lucy. I have beautiful daughters!

Zak and Alex. I have handsome sons!

I have a Pathophysiology and a Pharmacology test on Monday. I also have two papers due by noon on Monday, so this weekend I may not get to scrap :( I did just sign up for an on line PSP class on digital scrapbooking. The first part of the class will teach me layout techniques and then I will get to learn to make my own papers and elements. Three more weeks and then this quarter will be over. Before you know it this school year will be over and I will be half way through nursing school :)

Alex is 18 !

I can not believe that my youngest son is 18 today! It seems like just yesterday that he was running around in his diaper eating gravel. Now he is over 6 feet tall and doesn't eat gravel in public! I really can't get over how fast time goes by. He stayed home and had cake with Lucy and I, but now he's out with his friend. I'm afraid he's going to come home with a tatoo!

Another sunny day :)

It was another spring like day here :) I was a good nursing student this morning and completed one of my papers that is due in a week. I meant to start on the other but I had to get out in the sun for a while so I took Haley for a walk and then one thing lead to another and I never seemed to get back to school work. I am learning that it's best for me to do as much school work as I can in the morning, before I get distracted by housework,kids. and sunshine. Tomorrow I will get a good start on the paper and do my reading for class Tuesday. I'm very excited. We're learning wound care in the nursing lab! I did scrap a page today too. This is Grandma Pat. There was no date on the picture but I'm thinking it's probably around the time she married Grandpa Allen?



I did this page last week. It's my mom as a baby and as a baby with my Grandma Lola.

Some pages

You know you love your dog when you're scraping
her :)

I love my little Hug Muffin too!


I love scraping old family photos. Dad, you and
Aunt Pat were cute kids! And Grandpa Allen was
a very handsome man.

Little Lucy and the spring like day :)

Look at my little miss Lucy! Last week she decided to see if she could* climb* the hall wall and put her foot through it. Luckily for her Jeff (my boyfriend) is very handy and nice enough to cut out the broken wallboard and put new wall board in. Notice Lucy doesn't look too upset about what she did! I think we will let her paint the whole hall after we get the new board textured.













Today we did a little exploring of the area just outside of town. The weather has been fabulous! I love living here. This is Dorena lake. It's about 7 or 8 miles from my house. I'm going to have to force myself to concentrate on school the rest of the weekend. I have a Patho test and a Pharmacology test coming up a week from Monday and two papers due that same day! I really like nursing school, but sometimes I am a bad student and have a hard time making myself study. I did a couple days on the Mother/Baby floor at the hospital this week. There was a time when I would have thought that is where I want to work after I get my RN. I'm sure that I don't want to work there now though. I like babys but all I could think of when I was there was that I wanted to be down on the surgical floor or back on Neuro where the real action is! I think I may want to give surgical nursing a try too, but so far the Neurology floor has been the most interesting to me.

Winter Homecoming

I did these pages of my daughter Lucy, her boyfriend Brandon and her friends Celeste and Lexi when they went to Winter Homecoming a couple weeks ago. Lucy thinks I scrap her too much! She's the youngest of my 4 kids so she does seem to get scrapped more then the others but I think one day she'll be happy I have books and books for her. Her whole high school experience will be in scrap books for her. I print almost all my pages. I have been scanning and scraping old family photos also so the other kids won't be left out.

The layouts for my pages are my own. Very talented others made the papers and elements. This kit is Cherry Crushed Demin by Veronica Spriggs http://eye-on-design.com/blog/

First Post

I'm supposed to be studying for a test tomorrow but I want to start this blog first. I've tried myspace. I just can't get into it. I want a place to post my digiscrap pages and the site I'm using now people vote on them. I don't want to be voted on! I want a place where I can share them with friends and family :) It's going to take me a while to get this all set up, but I'll be working on it as I can.