The Trees

We'll get to the trees in a minute. First even though I have my usual over abundance of school work to do, I decided to relax Saturday night and search for freebies. I found a couple of kits I really liked a lot and then scrapped a couple of pages with them. This is little Lucy's volleyball picture from last season. She is playing club volleyball out of Springfield right now and she has her first tournament next weekend. She has practice Tuesday and Thursday evening. Lot's of driving, but I take school work with me and do it while she's practicing. The sports complex in Springfield is amazing. While volleyball practice is going on there's basketball teams, special Olympics teams practicing, adult dodge ball, roller derby! It's a very cool place. I used a kit called enchanted forest for this page. You can find it here http://jennie-moosya.blogspot.com/

For this page I used another freebie I found called Black Night by Muriel1326.

Now on to the trees! My backyard is not large or deep and it had several pine trees that were too large for the yard and blocked most of the sunlight. My neighbor had a friend that removed his trees and mine and now I have sunlight! I'm going to plant at least one apple tree and I'll be able to have a bigger garden. This summer when I'm through with school I should be able to do some landscaping :) Here are some pictures. I had to get a few of my little Alex working.
Doesn't he look thrilled!
Here is one of the trees going down.


You can see why my sunlight was blocked.

Winter Formal

Last Saturday was Winter Formal. Lucy went with her friend Kyle. She and Brandon are broken up (for good this time I think:). I think going and hanging out with friends was a good thing for her. I being the good mom stayed up to 11 so I could pick them up and drive them to the bowling ally for the after dance party, then I drove back at midnight and brought them home. Midnight is later then I normally stay up and I'm afraid to push my luck and turn into a pumpkin! Here are a few pictures I took of them. They are goofy!



Of course I scrapped a page too :) I used a kit from Jenni "Chaos Lounge"
I am also half way through winter quarter. I'm getting so excited to actually be able to see the light at the end of the tunnel. 4 months and I'm done with school! I can actually get a job and work as a nurse! Spring quarter is our preceptorship where we spend most of our time working one on one with a nurse. I'm hoping to do mine right here in Cottage Grove. I should know in a couple weeks.

The coast

After all the snow and cold weather right before Christmas, it now hasn't rained in over a week :) It's been cold and foggy in the mornings though and then the sun comes out in the afternoon. Still cold, but pretty. Last weekend Jeff took me to Yachats for the weekend. We had a great time. I find it so relaxing to sit and watch the waves break and roll in. I think I could just sit for hours and watch. The tide was out and the sun was setting when we went for a walk and got some great pictures.

I love the color of the sunset in these two pictures!

Look! Here I am on the beach :)
Here is a scrap page I did from out trip. The kit I uses is from ChaosLounge
This is a page I did of Lucy a couple months ago that I don't think I put up here. I was trying to make her look so angelic and then I realized I surrounded her with phallic symbols! Today we went shopping for her dress for Winter Formal. Luckily she understands our budget right now and found a cute dress at Ross. I think I've got her convinced she can recycle a pair of shoes too.

Blogging Again :)

Well I looked at my blog the other day and saw that I hadn't blogged since November?? All I can say is that I was so burned out after finals and then getting ready for Christmas, I've been busier then a one armed paper hanger! School starts again on Jan 5th! I think I'm rested up enough to get going again. Christmas was really nice. My sister Robyn and her family came despite weather challenges and Zak and Kat managed to get here too. It's normally a 2.5 hour drive from PDX to here but with all the snow and ice it took Zak and Kat about 7 hours. Robyn and Mark left Cor A'delene at 8am and about 8pm they were stopping for the night in Oregon City! It was just totally crazy weather wise here before Christmas. I've decided I will never complain about rain again as long as we don't have snow and ice. Here are a few pictures of Christmas.


Zak, Kat and Rachel. It was really nice to have all 4 of my kids together for Christmas :)

Zak and Kat are a very cute couple!
This was a few days before Christmas. It was beautiful down at the river with the snow in all the trees and on the bank.

The cats seemed to like the snow almost as much as the dogs.
Ok, no one liked the snow as much as Haley and Maddie! We played in it alot for a couple days!
This was a lot of snow for us and it stuck around for days!

Whimsical Winter QP

Jenni aka Chaos Lounge gave me permission to make a quick page with her latest kit Whimsical Winter. I used the basic page that I posted last night, but you can do a quick page with the mirror effect I had used, ( I least I don't know how ), so I put a frame in. I can't wait for winter so I can get some new winter pictures to use with this kit. You can see lot's of other LO's with this kit on Jenni's page and get the kit too. You can download the quick page here.

Week 7

Well tomorrow starts week 7 and I'm still kicking! Today I spent most of the day trying to get started on my paper on schizophrenia. I had to do some reading and research first. Then it stopped raining and the dogs insisted I take them for a walk. Then I had to do laundry and Lucy's boyfriend came over ( that's a whole ball of wax I won't go into ), but I don't leave them alone much. Anyway, 4 more weeks and I get a few weeks off and it will be only 2 quarters until I'm done with school!! Oh, I also had my 2nd test Friday and managed to pull off a B. No more tests until finals, just numerous papers to write! Friday was Rachel's birthday. We went to lunch and shopping after class. Then Saturday night she came into CG and we all went to pizza for dinner. It is so hard for me to believe I have a daughter 25 and Zak will be 27 in January. Where does the time go.
I have scrapped a bit. I did this page with a picture of Haley playing in the snow last year. I had to get this kit when I saw it. It's from Chaos Lounge and you can find it along with a freebie on her blog here. I just learned to do that mirror technique :)

I did this page with the free get from digitalcandy.ca That's little Audrey at the pumpkin patch!
Here are some pictures I took of the animals a couple weeks ago when we were having warm fall weather. Lately we're having not really cold, but wet fall weather. This is little mister Bubbles after he'd been running around on the hill with the dogs.
Here he is getting ready to jump out of the ways as the dogs come running at him. He's so funny. He jumps out of the bushes at the dogs and try's to get the ball before them, but has to jump out of the way as they will run him over if he's in their way.
Here is Haley and Maddie playing on the hill. Haley tries to get the ball and Maddie tries to stop Haley from getting the ball. It works for them. They've become great friends. Maddie got fixed last Thursday but is feeling much better now.

Week 6

Ok, it's week 6 of my last year of Nursing School and I'm still alive :) A little stressed ... but still kicking! I think my mistake was that I thought this year was going to be easier because no more patho or pharm. Little did I know that they would fill up Chronic Nursing with LOT's of reading and writing and adding care plans to clinical. It takes me about 3 hours to do my prep for clinical the night before.
Besides school things are good. Lucy finished volleyball and signed up for basketball. Practice starts the 10th of this month. Little Alex is doing good in school. The funny thing is he likes his algebra class better then his introduction to gaming class. He's looking at taking a drawing class this next quarter.
I have done a wee bit of scraping :) This is Wynnie and Audrey at the pumpkin patch and Wynter turned 7 last week! The kit is by the Digital Candy Sweet tart team @ digitalcandy.ca


Little Lucy dressed up a a guy for Halloween. Well at least for school she did. Halloween night she dressed up as an 80's girl. She went out with some friends and then they came over here and watched *The Strangers* Why anyone would want to watch that movie is beyond me! They were out there with the surround sound going and then I'd hear them all screaming! I used Julia Makotinsky's Spooky Town for this page.
Little Alex got dressed up as a pirate and went to a party! I think he wishes he lived in pirate times!