pinkcherrymama

thankful...

to start off this morning, i have to say that i am so thankful that i have a loving, and healthy family. as i was browsing blogs this morning, i came upon this tragic story. it just made me so sad inside, reading this families blog posts and then, suddenly, tragedy. it really made me think and remember that old saying to remember to say "i love you" and tell the people you care about how you feel about them. anyway, please check out the nie,nie blog in the link above, and help if you can or just send some prayers their way.

speaking of telling those you care about how you feel....

i love you guys!

last night we had our "family" over for dinner...my mama (in the red) was a nanny for years. the kids and their mom are still like part of our family. the little one even calls my parents grama and grampa. hugh is going to boarding school and andrea is off to boulder to go to college! katie is already back at USC and we get to keep abigail for a few more years! we will miss them alot. it really makes my heart happy to have this "extended" family. every time we get together, which is fairly often, i can be assured that it will be a time of laughs, jokes and funny stories.

andrea and elijah...

crazy frog makes elijah laugh hysterically..

spidey and his sidekick, big jim...

ok, not the best picture of me, but i have to admit, it IS pretty funny how we just happened to get antlers perfectly placed on top of our heads...

so, did anyone try the challenge? if you did, don't forget to post a comment with a link so i can see it!

jes, i hope you are feeling better!

~r 

elijah and a new banner...

so how do ya' like my new banner? i really like it, except for that you can't see the ampersand between tidbits and nibbles~oh well...

elijah had fun helping me put some new chipboard letters away...

and a little surprise for mama...

when i spelled his name and asked him what it said...

yep, he said "it says elijah!"

he is so smart...he is going to be a rocket scientist, i just know it! that, or a baseball player, if daddy has his way...

now, i have a creative challenge for you guys........

tidbit challenge #1

make a scrapbook page using only non-scrapbook related items. i'm talkin' no cardstock, no stickers, no patterned paper...anything else is legal!

send me a link to what you come up with by friday, august 29th...better get your booties in gear!

see ya!

~r

1st day of high school!!!!!!!!!!

yes, that's right folks...my oldest baby has officially become a high-schooler! she is in 10th grade, but in our area they go to the middle school through 9th. i also have a 9th grader...they have decided that this year, instead of taking a lunch to school, they will take a "snack", and eat when they get home. i have reluctantly agreed so as to avoid the, oh-so-annoying, rotten sandwhich under the bed!

aren't they sweet?!

yesterday, we played at the baseball field and watched a friend play in the play-offs for our area, then, my friend diane had to go feed a friends goats and chickens, so we tagged along...elijah's first time in a chicken coop!

i am working on a layout for tommorrow and will have some more etsy goodies soon!

where does time go......

  isn't it funny how life just sneaks up on us? today,  4 of my friends from high school and their families came to our home for a bbq. it is so incredible to see how we have all become "grown-ups". my girls are 14 and 15~older than we all were when we first met! i don't feel that old, but i guess i am! between us, we have 13 kids and 4 hubbys. do you know how hard it is to get a picture of all of us?!

chaos...

aren't our kids adorable?

this is one of the kindest, most wonderful, beautiful ladies i have ever met...she is my good friends mama and she is absolutely a blessing to have in our lives. just so happens she was my english teacher in high school as well. she is holding her newest grandson, (5 weeks old). hopefully she is not reading this, i would definitely not get a good grade on my grammer and punctuation!

these two are trouble, the one on the left is mine, the other is my friends...and they are a handful! we found them in grama and grampas room spraying each other with febreze, GASP, and then they got naked and went in the pool...got lots of great blackmail photos for later though!

so that was my saturday...no creative stuff today, but lots of catching up with old friends and good times...can't wait for the next get together...

let's be better about keeping in touch girls!

#5 and amelie...

and the lucky number is #5! yeah christina...

Hey! First time to this site- found you through Jes's blog. I guess I'm probably too late to enter the giveaway, and I'm only #5, but I still think you should have it! :) I'm doing a giveaway on my site too (you should enter! ;) and know its frustrating to get people to leave comments to actually have a substantial drawing pool! Good luck with the Etsy shop- I'll check you out!

Posted by: christina | August 20, 2008 at 08:05 PM

so send me your deets and i will send off a little package of scrapbooking goodies!

and here is my inspired by amelie challenge layout...

have a great night!

~r

giveaway details

EDIT: 3 MORE COMMENTS TO GO ON THE LAST POsT AND I WILL DO MY GIVEAWAY! THANK YOU KADYHOPE!

forgot to tell y'all, firstly, that i will be giving away a close to my heart scrapbooking kit; paper, cardstock, stickers...and i will do the giveaway tomorrow, wednesday-if i get 10 comments on my last post!

~r

i had such a nice weekend....

saturday, jimmie worked on the yard most of the day~he made the sweetest flower bed in the front of our house! since we have alot of land, there are a ton of spaces that need to be worked on but just not enough time in the day...anyway, that was pretty cool...jimmie and i got to spend some quality time with kalie and britt went with phoebe and diane to the hot springs...

saturday 9:30ish pm~ i got a phone call from britt, she was in hysterics...yet another tiff between the bff's! so off i went to pick up the brittster, argh!

sunday~church...britt and phoebe make up and britt decided to stay at church for the high school service with phoebe while the rest of us went to tahoe for a day at the beach...

after a, way-longer-than-it-should-have-taken, trip to wally world, we got to the beach....

 

lovely day...UNTIL....thunder, rain, sun, thunder, rain, sun, thunder, down pour, HAIL!!! oh my! we made a mad dash to the truck just in time... it was a very nice day despite the weather and the clouds made for some beautimous pix!

so, over the weekend, i also decided to do some purging...i used to be a consultant for close to my heart and i collected tons of paper and STUFF that is just cluttering up my "studio".

i know i will never use it, so...i am listing it on etsy. AND if i get enough comments on this post, i will also do a giveaway...so, lets see...if i can get 10  people to comment on this post, i will do a giveaway tommorrow...random number type of thing...if you have any friends who like scrapbooking, let them know!

have a great monday!

~r

testing...1...2...3...

blah blah, my site is not working!

EDIT: it is working again!  note to self: don't try to mess with DNS records if you don't know what yuo are doing!

ok, so since i spent ALL day trying to fix my website, i didn't get around to finishing my new layout...but i do have that "old fave" i was talking about yesterday...

i was fortunate enough to have gone to russia when i was 16 years old. i started working on this album years ago, as you can see from the style...my style has changed MUCHO since then, but i still like the idea. i am planning on using the same legal folders for another project soon.

the large hammer and sickle, and the title "russia" were all had cut from paper. i drew the hammer and sickle myself and printed "russia". i remember cutting it out with an exacto knife, took me about 2 hours to get all the letters done! i sanded the entire surface of the folder and painted it with walnut ink.

the little booklet with the bow, opens up into a mini accordion album

and now, in other berta news...

my daddy found a praying mantis and just HAD to bringi t in the house...

see britt's little friend/\

and lastly, my hubby loves me...he brought me my favorite chips and salsa last night for dinner...i made nachos with them...mmmmm, yummy!

just had to add that in there!

HAPPY DREAMS~r

i do not sew.......

so why the heck did i decide to start now?! i mean, i have been sewing easy stuff like our christmas stockings and cloth books and, of course, on my scrapbook pages, but,OMG! i have been sewing for a week and i finally finshed my cute signs... since i got the bright idea for these signs, i became super seamstress for the week!

so go check them out at my etsy shop. i got some much needed love from my friend jes on her blog kadyhope, she's super RAD!

i did't get around to my new layout yet today, but i am starting on it tonight when elijah goes to bed...so for now, here are some pretty summer pix i took today...

this is big daddy, our koi fish...

have a great evening and i'll see ya in the a.m. with a new layout and an old fave.

~r 

this popped into my head today....

i was thinking about how my older daughters have grown sooooo quickly today. my friend diane and i had been talking about this show, orby, last night at dinner and it seriously made me weepy remembering kalie and britt watching it on the couch in our old house in tahoe, kalie with her thumb in her mouth and tugging on her ear, and britt just sitting next to her big sis. so enjoy and i will post pix and a new layout tomorrow!