A student I am again!

Well tomorrow morning it's off to school for me. It seems like the summer has gone by sooooo fast! On the one hand I'm eager to get back and get this last year of nursing school finished and on the other hand I sure have enjoyed my summer with no school! June 13, 2009 I graduate! For right now I just have to get through the next 11 weeks. I have learned to take this one quarter at a time. I have reading to finish tonight for my first day tomorrow. I have to go a bit early to buy Alex's books. He's starting school tomorrow too! He's carrying 9 units and of course still flipping burgers at BK. He seems eager to go and I have hope that being on a college campus will motivate him. We went last Thursday to get our books ( I had to buy 2 more this year ), but his weren't in. I have to remind myself that he's an adult now (legally) and I'm not going to ride him about school work. I'm paying for this quarter and if he passes and wants to continue I'll pay for next quarter, but I told him if he doesn't pass I'm not going to keep shelling out the money.
Last Friday was homecoming for Lucy. I went and watched the parade. It was fun. Small town so they closed main streat down for the parade and ralley!. This is a page I did with a picture of Lucy and her friend Kyle. I used several kits by Julia Makotinsky: Happy, Cute as a Bug, All about photo's and Funky Frames. Unfortunately out football team lost the game Friday night, but everyone had fun anyway. Lucy went to the dance Saturday even though she hadn't felt well most of the day, something about a dance made her feel better later :) I'll post pictures of that later.


Here's a page I did with pictures from the previous game. I used Kim B's CU grab bag and made everything match Lucy's school colors. I'll let you know how my first day goes :)

Canning

Today I spent most of the day canning tomatoes! I'll be doing more tomorrow too :) It's feeling so fall like now I had to get my decorations out and do some fall/halloween scrapping. I just got this kit called Spooky Town by Julia Makotinsky of Little Dreamers and pulled up these pictures of Lucy last Halloween when she was working as a" scarey clown" at the Haunted House. This was her first job. Unfortunately I don't think we're having a haunted house this year, they tore down the building they used and are just putting the finishing touches on a Walgreens. The leaves are from Julia's "One Fine Day" kit. You can get both kits and check all Julia's other kits at Little Dreamers here.
This is another page I did with Julia's kit. That's my little Wynter Rose in 2005 when we first moved here. I took her to the pumpking patch at Shady Oaks. I wish I could get her here again this fall and take her again.

Julia was nice enough to let me make a quick page with her kit. If you like you can download here.

Weekend Events

I use to think that when my kids were teenagers I won't be as busy with them. WRONG! but it's good :) Lucy had an all day volleyball tournament on Saturday. At least this time it was here in CG at her high school. She had to be there at 8am and didn't get done until 6pm! I was back and forth between the house and school. I'd go watch her play, then back to the house to play with them dogs and make sure they weren't destroying the house! The Lady Lions did good in the their tournament. Lucy's had a cold and lost her voice. Poor thing was sound asleep on the sofa before 9! Not how she would have said she wanted to spend her Saturday night, but with 2 games a week, tournaments almost every Saturday, school work and of course Friday night football games, I was surprised she made it past 8:30 at all. This coming week is Homecoming, that means lot's of school events, parades, football and of course the DANCE! Hopefully I'll get lot's of pictures.
Today I spent the day canning pears and picking tomatoes. I'm thinking of trying to can them myself tomorrow since I have to have my car at the dealer after I drop Lucy off and they'll have it most the day. Sounds like a good day for touching up my roots :), canning and cleaning. Look, I got her to smile for this picture!

She played in every game, only sat out 1 play of one game and slide for several plays. Thank goodness for knee pads.

Lucy has lot's of school spirit and painted her face with school colors for last Fridays game. All the animals had to check her out when she got home.

I did manage to scrap a bit. This is my grandfather, grandmother(that I saw in Seattle in Aug), my dad and aunts and uncles as kids. I wanted to scrap this picture in a vintage, fall theme. I like the way it turned out. I used parts of my Oregon Fall kit and made a few new things using Kim B's CU grab bag. It's a great grab bag and so full of stuff I will be playing with it all for months to come. You can find it on her page here. I made a quick page out of this page. You can download it here.


I also uploaded the 2nd QP I made with Jenni's End of Summer kit. You can download the page here. You can also find the whole kit at Digital Candy.

Well I started getting ready for school today. I printed off the syllabus for the up coming quarter. I hope I'm not speaking too soon, but it seems like a totally doable quarter! Last year for the last 2 quarters we had 3 classes plus 2 days of clinicals in the hospital. I will just have 1 class this quarter: Monday and Friday from 10am - 12pm and clinical on Tuesday and Wednesday from 7am - 1:30. There will be lot's of reading and studying of course. Clinical seems like it will be more intense, no more holding our hands through procedures, but I'm feeling pretty good about it. ( Notice I say this now, hopefully I won't be whining in a couple weeks) The worst part will be having to be at the hospital by 7am. That means I'll be up at 5am and on the road a few minutes after 6am. I was spoiled this summer getting to do my co-op at the hospital here in CG. It took me less then 10 minutes to get there.

This weekend is going to be busy. Lucy has a tournament tomorrow and my mom should be back from vacation ( her and my stepdad took a cruise to Alaska). We have TONS! of tomatoes to can! I did make a quick page today though :) Jenni (Chaoslounge) said I could give the layouts I did with her Summers End kit away as quick pages. You can find the whole kit at Digital Candy or visit her blog Chaoslounge. You can download my quick page here.

Oregon Fall PT 2

I have a couple pages that I did with my little fall kit I made :) I did this kit just in time, the weather is turning here. Today it was only about 70 degrees. I love fall! I need to get my butt in gear though and get ready for school to start for me. I think this year will be very manageable. I should still have time to scrap now and again, walk the dogs, run Lucy around and even clean the house! This first page is a picture of Wynter and Audrey from their trip to California. Aren't they just the cutest! Most of this page is in part 2.

This is a page Meg did with part 1 of my kit. I think Meg is so talented and should do more pages.

I did this page with a picture of Alex chopping wood last fall, before I got the electric log splitter. Fall seems so outdoorsy to me.

Here is the preview for part 2. You can download it here. Enjoy!

Shopping

School is back in full swing and Homecoming is the 27th of this month. This of course means that I had to take Lucy shopping for a homecoming dress and shoes. She was worried that maybe I had things around the house to do, so she did volunteered to just go with some friends if I gave her my credit card. Personally I think there was a better chance I'd pull my finger nails out with pliers! We went Sunday and had a good mom and Lucy outing. I'm not one who enjoys spending the whole day shopping. I got lucky and Lucy found her dress and shoe's at the same store. Notice the shoes! I can't remember the last time I walked around in heels like that! Lucy is hoping she won't fall and break her ankle at the dance. It would totally put an end to her volleyball season!

It is beginning to feel like fall here even though it's been really hot. Too hot! I'm getting eager for cool crisp morning and cooler evenings. It was pointed out to me that I didn't give Jeff credit for stacking the Oak in my previous post :). Anyone who knows me knows I didn't stack the Oak. It is stacked way to perfectly!I think it would stay up in a huricaine! You have to be a pro to stack like that! I did stack the other wood all by my little ole self! It is stack pretty darn good, but not like the oak. I did have time to scrap after stacking mine though :):) Speaking of scraping. Here is a page I did with a picture of my dad at his marina. The kit is by Trish Heffner.

I know I said I wasn't going to do much designing recently, but let's face it, it's a little addicting and apparently I'm not ready to give up yet. Soooooo.... I have started a little scrap kit for fall. It will come in a couple parts. You can get part 1 here. I'm calling it Oregon Fall, mostly because I live in Oregon and the name Fall Surprise was already taken, a couple of times!! Part 2 will be posted in a day or two. ( I do have to make myself stop playing with my PSP and wacom tablet and do more housework ).

Just a quickie

Just a quick post to say I am completely done with my co-op now! I think working at the hospital here in town was a great experience. I'm thinking that I will probably try to work at both the big hospital in Eugene and here in Cottage Grove when I'm done with school. Now just to get through one more year!!! School will start for me on the 29th. In away I'm excited but I've also enjoyed my leisurely summer :) It will be great to finish school and be able to work as a nurse! Lucy had a volleyball tournament all day in Junction City (about 45 minutes from here) and I spent the morning there. Tomorrow we're going to the mall to look for homecoming dresses. I think someone needs to open up a dress swap shop for these girls. They have to have new dresses for these things, so they end up with all these dresses only worn once! Anyway I'm off to get some shut eye for the big shopping day tomorrow. Here are some frames I made the other day. There is a fall paper included too. You can get them here.

I have wood! and alittle freebie

Look at all my wood! All that wood you see in the first picture I split with my wood splitter and stacked myself. Ok, one day I made Alex help me for a bit, but he's not into splitting wood like I am so I didn't make him help me the next day! That stack you see is 3 deep! It's all wood I got free too. I am in wood heaven! Hopefully I'll be able to use the wood stove for most of my heating and keep my gas bill down this winter.


This is my electric wood splitter ^. Last winter I had to stop burning because my arm hurt so badly from splitting by hand.


The wood in this picture is oak that I bought and came split already. Oak burns hotter and slower then soft wood, but both burn and heat.



This is a page I did with a picture of little Mr. Bubbles laying on the dogs new bed. It's a HUGE, soft, fluffy bed that the dogs love, but when Bubbles lays on it to sleep they lay on the floor next to him. The swirls are from Scrappy Blue Stone. The rest is from Lily Design Studio at http://liliapetkova.blogspot.com/ She has a couple of really beautiful kits there.

This is a page I did of my little Lucy and her friend Lexi with a little kit I made myself. I really don't know how much designing I'm going to do. It's very time consuming and I find myself reading how to make things and not scraping my pictures as much. There are a lot of really great designers out there who's kits I just love. I did make some frames today though that I'm going to post tomorrow :) Digital Scrapping is very addictive I've discovered. If you would like this little kit you can find it here.

Volleyball

The Lions(Lucy's high schools sports team name) had their first home volleyball game this evening! You can tell she's feeling much better :) Lucy loves playing volleyball and luckily gets a lot of play time. It was so hot in the gym today though! I think we need AC or at least to open those doors!




Lucy has a great serve and is often rotated so she serves a lot!

This is my first try at uploading some video. If it goes good I'll upload more :) Here she is serving!

Doing Better

Lucy is feeling much better and was able to start school on the first day (Sept 4). She also was able to return to the volleyball team. They've played 2 games so far. Unfortunately I haven't been to either. The only thing I don't care for with the school teams is that they travel so far for games sometimes. Both games have been about 2 hours away! I had to have her at the school yesterday morning by 5am so she could participate in a tournament all day yesterday. She got home a little after 6 last night and was asleep by 9 and just got up! I will get pictures Tuesday when their game is here at our school. I have been getting somethings done around here. I've been splitting and stacking wood! I will be ready for winter. I love my electric log splitter too. I need to get ready for school starting for me the 29th. I'm so excited to be starting my final year! Just think.. next year at this time I will be working and making money :):) I scrapped a couple pages. Both these pages are done with a kit called Summers End by ChaosLounge. I can't believe Sam is taller then Robyn now!





This is another picture from our coast trip! I love going to the coast. I still hope to get the dogs there to play!

I doodled a freebie!

Yesterday afternoon Lucy wasn't feeling good. She didn't have a fever but she was clammy and pale and slept most of the day. Today she is feeling much better. We even went to Eugene and did a little back to school shopping. I've felt so bad for her that she been ill (and that I didn't realize how ill she was) that I bought her a pair of converse that wasn't on sale! Shows you what *mother guilt* does. I never buy things that aren't on sale. I did spend time playing with my Wacom tablet while Lucy was sleeping on the sofa :) I need to take art classes now. I love doodle scrap kits, so I ended up making one! It's very simplistic but I learned a lot doing it! Mostly I learned that I have a lot to learn about making digital scrapbooking kits. I have found some great tutorials on line and I figure I'll learn more as I have time ( school will be starting for me soon). The layout above I did with MY first kit! I actually made EVERYTHING in it. The cute little girls are my friend Sok's twin daughters who will be 2 the end of October. Below is a preview of what's in my first doodle kit. I called it Playing in the Garden! It can be downloaded here. If you use it I would love to see what you did.


I also downloaded a couple of kits from Chaos Lounge, Renae and Digital Candy that I'm dying to scrap with, so tomorrow after I split a bunch of wood (about 1/2 a cord) I'm hoping to scrap some layout's with some of those kits.