Living the Life

January ~ Week 2

First of all let me say that I am loving Project Life!! It feels so good to have the first 2 weeks of this year documented. I have not taken a photo everyday, but feel that I have captured the highlights each week. The one thing that I am noticing is that I am finding more joy in the everyday and I think that is a good thing.

I have never been very good at journaling in my scrapbooks other than the who, what, when and where so this is a chance to include some thoughts from just normal days and weeks. I even included the recipe for Potato Soup on the photo of the soup. How awesome is that? I would not have thought to do that before.

I even added some extra details and embellishments to my pages this week.

There you have it my Project Life Week 2.

I hope you have a great week!!

 

Week in the Life-Day 1

I am participating in Week in the Life project this week. Ali Edwards always has such awesome ideas, but I just never seem to follow thru. I am determined to see it thru this week.

My Monday was a day off work and I spent it with my mom. Mom has been a member of the Nimble Thimble Quilters Club for almost 40 years! Every 2 years they put on a quilt show and this was the year for the show.

Mom and I tied 2 quilts to demonstrate how to do a blind tie and then there was also a group of women hand quilting a quilt. It was such a wonderful day.

Here are a few of the photos that I took during the day:

Observations for the day:

I just love the passion for quilting that my mom and her friends share and build their relationships on.

Gratitude for the day:

The wonderful memories that I have from the time I spent with Mom sharing in her passion for her hobby!

Favorite Moment of the day:

Sharing my homemade sack lunch with Mom and just enjoying each others company.

Now it is time to be on to Day 2!!

Scrapbooking

I love to scrapbook, it is such a good way for me to relax. I love smell of the paper, the feel of all of the embelllishments and the testosterone side of me loves the tools.

I had some time this weekend to go into my scraproom and create a few layouts. My friend,Lesli, introduced me to a great sketch site called, Sketchy Thursdays. I actually used their sketch this week and created this:

The background cardstock was actually something that was used to keep a mister from getting all over everything. I was going to just throw it away, but I liked the way the spatter looked so I decided that it was perfect for this layout. The other papers and stickers are from Bo Bunny, tickets are Tim Holtz. I am very happy with the way that it turned out, so I am going to enter it into Sketchy Thursdays weekly contest.

I also did a couple of other layouts:

and last but not least,

I hope you are all having a very happy Monday!!

 

[[[[hugs]]]]

Chris

It's a beautiful day in the neighborhood...

It has been a very trying week for me, lots of pain and not much relief from it. On Thursday, I did get to go to see the neurologist and other than that appointment being a painfull experience, it went very well. Dr. Cahill is the first Dr. that has really listened to me since March whe all of this started. Even tho I hurt extremely bad when I left his office I felt good. Now if that is not an oxy-moron I don't know what is. LOL

Yesterday, Friday, I had an MRI of my neck. I had taken some pain pills before I went and I was so tired when we finished. Tony and I went to have some lunch and then I slept the rest of the afternoon. I guess I shut my phone off or it got bumped and shut off and I missed the phone call from Dr. Cahill. He did call to say that there was something that showed up on the MRI and that he would talk to me on Monday.

I guess I could look at this two ways.

1. Is it something so bad that they contacted him right away?  OR
2. Was he sympathetic to the pain I am in and he checked it himself to see wat it showed? 

Glass half empty or glass half full? Well if you know me I am the glass half empty kind of girl. SURPRISE...I am going to go with choice #2!! I can't believe that I am saying this!! I am just glad that on Monday I will have an answer to what is causing the pain and what the plan is to alleviate it.

After sleeping the afternoon away, Tony and I went to see the movie "Abduction". It was a great action movie and we both enjoyed it.

Today, The Briere's are coming to town and we will get to see them. YAY!! It is so hard to believe that Morgan is a month old already. I just can't wait to see her and hold her, Hayleigh too!! Tonight we have a family dinner tonight to celebrate the September birthdays so that should be fun!!

Have a wonderful day and enjoy the wonderful Autumn day, I know I will!!

{{{{HUGS}}}}

Chris

Tomorrow it starts...

can you believe that tomorrow is December 1? How crazy is that? Where did the year go?

I have been working on getting an album put together to participate in December Daily. I have wanted to do this for the last few years and have never taken time to get it done. My album is all ready to go (I just have not taken any photos of it yet) I am excited to get it started.  I will try to take some photos of it tonight.

We had lots of snow over the weekend, had to shovel the walks 4 times on Sunday. I took a photo of Tony shoveling the walks and it ended up on our local TV stations 10 PM newscast. Just had to share with you too!

We tied a record set in 1959 for the snowiest November on record. Isn't it beautiful?

Well time to head back to work. I hope you have a wonderful day!!

Happy Hump day...

Wednesday already this week, where does time go?

On Sunday evening, Kayla came over with the girls and we went out and colored on the sidewalk in front of our house with chalk. I took a few photos of the girls playing outside.

isn't she adorable?? I love that smiling face...

 

even though this photo is blurry, I love it. Isys is getting to be so much fun.

I have more photos but they have not been resized yet so I can't put them up just yet.

Have a wonderful rest of the week.

Back from Vacation

We had a short vacation this year, but it was enjoyable anyway. We went to Washington to visit our kids, Stuart and Erin and our grandson, Sean. We had a good time visiting and watching Sean play. Just thought that I would share a few photos from our trip.

  

 

 

 

It was so much fun to see Sean and the little boy he is becoming. They just grow up way to fast and before you know it they are adults themselves.

Time for this old girl to get to bed...

Ten on Tuesday 8-17-10

My list today is 10 things that I have learned from my Grandkids.

1. Find joy in the little things. It is so much fun to watch how much the little ones enjoy the simplest things. My goal is to find that kind of joy in everyday life. 
   
   
2. Coloring is good for the soul. My grand daughter, Kaya, loves to color and every time that she comes over she gets her box of crayons, colored pencils and markers out and draws and colors. She always wants me to color with her. I love to do just that. It is relaxing and calming so therefore good for the soul.
   
3. Helping is a good thing to do and is fun. What else can I say, it is just that simple.
4. Rocks are objects of beauty. When we go for walks or just outside, we have to look for rocks and you would be surprised at how many pretty ones you can find.
5. Stop and smell the flowers. We have all heard this one before, but just watch the joy on a childs face when they see flowers and stop to smell them. Just really reinforces it.
6. m&m's will always make you feel better.
7. It is good to share. The other day my grand daughter wanted to drink my pop and I told her no that it was mine. She said, "Gramma it is good to share". How do you argue with that?
   
8. The best 4 words that you will ever hear are "Gramma, I luf you".
9. Being a grandparent is the best part of getting old!!
   
10. Singing always makes a person feel better. Kaya always wants me to rock her and sing to her. She used to crawl up in my lap and say "Gramma, hmm, ha, hmm" but now she says "Gramma, sing Sunshine". Then she sings with me and tells me "I better now".

There you have it my ten today!

Chris

Fun at the Fair

it is Fair time here in Billings. I don't really like going to the fair, but last night we went and it was alot of fun. I mean how could it not be enjoyable? All the smells, sights and sounds of the fair. Those are my favorite parts of the fair. 

Del, Renae and Hayleigh came up from Gillette for the weekend and we went to the fair. Hayleigh loved the sensory garden that they have growing on the fairgrounds. She had so much fun walking around the path and looking at all of the things growing in there. She also loved throwing the wood chips that covered the pathway.

We looked at the animals, watched the dog show and ate some fair food. Corn dogs, hamburgers, fries, nachos, funnel cakes, lemonade, fudge, carmels and (the only thing that I ate was) corn on the cob. I love corn on the cob and Hayleigh had not had the experience of eating it yet, so Grandma had to show her how it was done. Of course I had to share with her...

She loved it and cried when she had finished it and we took it away.

Hayleigh played the duck game that almost all little kids play at the fair. She had a blast picking up the ducks, i think that she really wanted to just keep one of the ducks.

We enjoyed our time together and had fun walking around visiting, laughing and reminiscing and hated for it to end. But all good things must come to an end, so I leave you with my favorite photo from the evening...

Have a great week!!

Chris

Week 8 of POTD

I have been doing this photo of the day since the first day of January and I have been faithful about taking a photo everyday until this week. I have had the flu and there have been 3 days that I just did not feel like taking a photo. I am not going to stop with this project. I will continue on. It is just proof positive that sometimes life just takes over and you have no control of it. I am still posting 7 photos this week, 3 of them were actually taken last weekend. I am ok with that so on we go.

Feb 21 ~ In my rear view

Feb 22 ~ first signs of spring (daffodils and tulips)

Feb 23 ~ there is grass under that snow

Feb 24 ~ hand in the snow

 
Feb 25 ~ Birthday girl, Kaya

Feb 26 ~ Wyoming oil wells

Jan 27 ~ Mountain sunset

There you have it week 8 and the end of another month in 2010.