Crazy week and it's only Wednesday!

It's been a crazy week and it's not over yet! Daniel has had a hard time this week every morning and evening too. Needless to say I'm glad my work week is over! My students were not on their best behavior and some other craziness happened at work. Glad I'm done! I have a long to do list for the next few days. My number one thing to do is finish my lo for my February Guest Designer spot at this site, http://scrapourstash.blogspot.com/ be sure to check it out in February! It's my first time doing anything like this so I am thrilled!
Have a great rest of the week!

A new lo to share

Just a quick post with a lo to share. I created this for the Scrap Our Stash blog. The January challenge was to use a Christmas gift from any year on your lo. I used my Slice that I got last year on the orange title backing. Click on my link to join in!

Happy New Year!!!

Wow can you believe it's 2010!!! I can't! It doesn't seem possible that another year has gone by. We had a low key New Year's Eve. We decided to go to the movies and leave Daniel with my parents. We went to BJ's for dinner and used a gift card. Then we headed to the movies and saw It's Complicated with some movie tickets my mom put in my stocking! :) So it was a cheap date night! We made it home by about 9 and I took down the tree ornaments while waiting for the ball to drop.

I have a few things to share. I made some ornaments for Christmas and attached them to our familys' gifts. They all loved them. Here is the first one I made for myself. I used some old CD's my dad was throwing away, I dug them out of his trash!

I really like how it stood out on the tree!

I recently submitted this lo for a use your Scrap our stash blog, http://scrapourstash.blogspot.com/ and it was choosen!! I will be a guest designer for February there. I love using scraps and things in my stash so it's perfect for me!! I was so surprised, this is my first time winning this sort of thing! lol

This lo was created for an album that I made my brother and his new wife as a wedding gift. I included pictures from when they were dating and made sure to include one from each Christmas since they have been together. I used a lot of my old stash on this page. The the red and white patterned paper and trees were made from pieces of Christmas paper I had left over from a page I made 2 Christmas' ago. The green paper and the brown trunks are also made from small scraps. The ribbon was something I saved off of a gift bag someone gave me. And the letter stickers are from a pack I got when I first started scrapping about 5 years ago! The brads and sticker are also from my stash! I really don't think it turned out too bad considering I used a lot of old stuff up!

Once again Happy New Year! I hope you all have a wonderful 2010!!!

Hello again!

I'm finally back! I can't believe I haven't posted anything since October.

Well I have been scrapbooking a lot but not for me lately. I can't share what I have been working on yet. BUT Friday night I did go to a crop night with my two sister-in-laws so I can share that. They are both fairly new to scrapping and when they asked me to scrapbook with them I was thrilled to go! They had a lot of fun scrapping at a store for the first time and are ready to go again! I love having more friends to scrap with. So I worked on three lo's and finished up Daniel's 1st birthday album. I didn't take any pictures of his album yet but here are the three pages I completely. They are all from our trip to Disneyland last year before Christmas. I have been wanting to scrap them for a year! haha




Since I am so fair behind on posting anything I will not go backwards. Today we went to pick out our tree. We couldn't decide if we should get a smaller tree since Daniel is into everything but we said what the heck let's get a big one!! So hopefully he doesn't pull it down. We did put it in the dining room, it's fairly large, and it's next to the living room so we can still see it from the couch. We thought since we have gates it might be better in there. So anyway here are a few pictures.



After I finished decorating I remembered that I have a smaller fake tree that I brought home from my classroom. I thought the living room looked a little empty without the tree so I put this up! It's actually pretty cute! I had brought it home to get rid of but I'm glad I kept it!

Ok I hope I can remember to post a little sooner than later! Enjoy your holiday season!

White Chocolate Cinnamon Toast Crunch Cookies

I just made these tonight and they are so good! You must try them!


White Chocolate Cinnamon Toast Crunch Cookies…

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Finally posting something!

Well it's been a super long time since I posted, things are always busy around here! I did go back to work but only part tome and I love it! I fell like we are busier than before!
So real quick we went to Disney's California Adventure to go trick-or-treating on Thursday with my friend Michelle and her daughter. We had fun and got some candy too!


Tonight Daniel and I went to Michelle's for a Halloween party. I had to dress up too she said, this was a costume I used a few years back.


Tomorrow we are off to the Pumpkin Patch, I am really excited. I think Daniel is really going to enjoy it this year! Be back soon!

What happened to summer?

Gosh it seems like school just ended and I was packing up my classroom. I am still unemployed so it seems weird to not be setting up my room. For the last 8 years I have had a classroom and now nothing! :( It's bittersweet for sure! I love the beginning of the year, the first day excitement and meeting all those cute new faces! I am still keeping my fingers crossed that I will be called back but it may be after the school year has begun.

So onto other things...we have been super busy the last few weeks. It seems like just about everyday we had a lunch date or somewhere to go. About a week and a half ago my aunt's arrived from Hungary. It's there first visit to the US. They are enjoying every minute! We haven't had a lot of time to see them though. My parents took them to the Grand Canyon and Las Vegas last week. This week they are staying with my other aunt so hopefully next week we can finally do something with them.
This was taken the night they arrived. From left, my aunt Elizabeth, my mom, Daniel and I, Teri, and Vera.


I have also been busy making invitations for my future sister in law's bridal shower. they are finally ready to be mailed out this week! I will share them after I send them out. Don't want her to see them yet!

I do have some favorites from the baby album I made in July for my cousin Veronica. Her baby was born on the night I finished the album! Perfect timing!! I made an 8x8 album and I think I made somewhere around 20 pages. I wanted to keep the pages next to each other the same paper but I love to make it colorful, fun and different for each month. SO only one set turned out the same.










This is a quick card I made for my friend Holly. While visiting from Kansas we met up for lunch one day and she surprised me with a large gift bag of scrapbook paper and embellishments! I used the flower paper that she gave me for this card! this is a lift from a Danielle Flanders card I saw a long time ago.


happy Monday!

New pages to share!

It's been a little while since I have posted and I have a lot of new pages to share. First, about two weeks ago I went with my close friend Michelle L. for a much needed crop night! It was on a Saturday from 4-midnight! I made it till about 11:30 and got 5 pages done!! I was pretty happy with that, considering my first page took like 2 hours! We had a great time and had a lot of laughs!






Then last Friday we wanted to go to another crop but we were the only two so it didn't happen at the store. SO I went to Michelle's for our own crop! It was fun, Michelle's got her own store there. haha She was kind enough to share a little with me! I was able to try out her sillouette, well she did most of the work!!! We made the pumpkin and the turkey using it! I really liked that machine! Anyway here are the three pages I got done there. I also started a card and finished it Saturday but mailed it without taking a photo.




So I think I am done with my fall pictures finally! I also finished a gift last week that i can't sure yet but it turned out cute! Will post those soon! I will be back soon! Thanks for stopping by!

I scrapbooked!!

I have been wanting too but Joe put all my stuff away before Daniel's birthday party. It was hard to get to so I just didn't do it. But last night I pulled it all back out and put it in the dining room. I had also gone to Big Lots yesterday and found some Thickers and buttons, so that's kinda what inspired me to do a page or two. I did an 8x8 that I can't share yet, it's for a gift. Here is the page I did last night for Daniel's book.

I hope to do some more tonight! Bye for now!

Hey there

Hope you all had a great 4th of July! We did! We celebrated on Friday and Saturday. Friday we had a bbq,our parents, Joe's brother and his family, and my friend Michelle and her daughter all came. We ate and walked to the park for fireworks and a funnel cake!!! We almost missed the darn firworks because the line was so stinking long.
On the 4th we had a neighborhood bike parade early in the morning. This was the second year we had it and sooo many more people turned out! It was fun. We got a little bike trailer to pull Daniel in. He loved it! In the early afternoon we headed to Joe's brother's house. They were also having a neighborhood bike parade, but much larger than ours. There were people from one side of the street to the other with bikes. It was almost hard to ride your bikes. It was fun though. We had a bbq when we got back and fireworks in the evening. It was a long day for sure! We were all super tired today. Daniel napped for 3 1/2 hours. I took an hour nap too. But we did manage to take a bike ride back to the park before dinner. We need to start exercising for my brother's wedding so we are going to ride our bikes everyday. We will see if we do! :)
I was really bad with taking pictures yesterday, it was too hard to carry the camera around and watch Daniel. Here is one with his cute cousin Hanna.

And one that is not very good waiting to go on a bike ride after dinner last night.


Ok one more thing to share. While in Oregon at my cousin's house we had coleslaw, her 17 yr old son actually made it. It was really yummy! It's supposed to be the same as KFC coleslaw and I think it's pretty close. I made it on Friday and Saturday and it was a hit! I doubled the recipe. It can be a little runny, so the second time I made it I used half the amount of milk. A few family members asked for the recipe so I thought I'd just share it here.

Finely chop cabbage.(I used the bag of coleslaw mix and just chopped it a little more) Mix in large bowl the following:
1/3 cup sugar
1/2 tsp. salt
1/8 tsp. pepper
1/4 cup milk
1/2 cup mayo
1/4 cup buttermilk
1 1/2 tbsp. vinegar
2 1/2 tbsp. lemon juice
2 tbsp minced onion

Mix all ingredients thoroughly, add coleslaw, mix and refrigerate

Enjoy!

final Oregon post

Day 7: Saturday - my grandma's ("Nagymama" in HUngarian) memorial
Saturday morning we woke up and left my cousin Chris' house and drove about 2 hours toward Salem, OR. We didn't go into Salem but right before we got there we turned at the Saintam SP? River. This was my grandpa's favorite fishing spot, at least one of his favorites. It was a little rainy on the drive over but it was just cloudy when we got there. We had lunch when we first got there and the guys went fishing of course. After we visited and such we decided to do what we came to do, spread both my grandparents ashes. It was very emotional for me, if you know me I'm a cry baby!! haha But seeing a bag with both their ashes was not pretty! My dad and uncle each did one grandparent. We said a prayer and talked about my grandparents and what great people they were. Also we would not be here if it wasn't for them escaping Hungary more than 50 years ago, really a neat story. So here are some pictures of the day.





This is all of us walking back to our cars, but just about here we saw a man fishing. When he first walked by he wasn't having any luck he said but this time he was pulling in a huge fish! We all thought my grandpa gave him good luck!

It was a great day and a great way to remember them both. They both loved Oregon and their wishes were always to have their ashes spread here. Some didn't agree with it but that's what they wanted.
Most of my family headed home but my Uncle Joe stayed with my family and the guys went fishing. They wanted to try their luck. But nothing! So we headed back towards my aunts' house. We made one stop, can't remember the name. It was really green and beautiful! The guys hiked to a spot to fish. Daniel, my mom and I stayed behind. Here are a few pictures.


The guys came back just in time, it starting to rain, so we headed home. We got back late and started packing for the drive the next day.

Day 8: Sunday
On the road again!!! We left my aunt's house at 5:30am. My brother's also left at this time but on a flight! We only stopped for gas and food. We made it home at 8:30 that night! We were beat! The next day we slept in and even took naps! We were sad to leave Oregon but happy to be in our own beds! Joe really loved Oregon, and we really want to go back again soon.

More trip blogging

Day 4:Wednesday

This morning we checked out of our cabin and headed back to Lava Lake. Daniel woke up real early so on the short drive there he fell asleep. That was fine with me since it was early and cold out. The guys went out in the boat so I parked the truck and played on Joe's laptop for over an hour, enjoying the beautiful view too! Joe fished there for a few hours and headed back in. We decided to start to head towards my aunts' house in Bend. We took a different road and found snow!! It really wasn't all that cold but it's still there! They had more snow this year than years past so I guess that's why it's still there. We stopped and played for a little while.


We got into town and got a quick bit to eat. WHile sitting there I started to remember that my grandma used to live right around the corner. It has been over 10years since she lived at that house but I found it!! It was like she was still there. I have so many memories of both my grandparents from when we used to visit it was neat remembering them as we went to some of the places we went with them. Ok back to what I was saying. We found her old house and drove to my aunt and uncle's. We settled in and my aunt, Daniel and I went shopping! I found a few things. Shoes, a top and some things we needed. The great thing in Oregon is there in NO sales tax! So we headed back to the house for dinner and just relaxed. My parents flew in that night but we were too tired to wait up for them.

Day 5: Thursday
I didn't take any pictures today! :( Bummer! Both of my brother flew in today. My dad first picked up Eric. We then all went to downtown Bend to a candy shop where my cousin Andy works. It's really cool. I wanted my camera so badly but I left it at home. We left there and went back to the airport, not good planning if you ask me, to get my younger brother Jimmy. We all met back at the house and the guys decided to all go kayaking. I stayed behind with my mom, aunt and Daniel. After Daniel's nap we went shopping. We went to the Old Mill District. They have some really good stores. I found a ton of great sales. I got some cute stuff at GAP! Love that store, when I paid she asked if I was using my GAP card and I was, so I got an extra 25% off! I ran back for another pair of shorts! ANd nO sales tax!

Day 6: Friday
Today we drove North to my cousin Chrissie's house. Her and her husband live in a log cabin. It is the most beautiful house ever! I loved it! I could live in a log cabin like that! Their property is very nice and has a great view of the mountains, well except for the little house in the way. Someone moved in and built a 3 story house kind of blocking some of the view, but still a nice view! :) After chatting a little and getting a tour we decided to go fishing of course. We went not to far to Prineville Reservior. It was a little rainy out but cleared up for us. The clouds were awesome.


The girls headed back a little before dinner to get ready. The rest of the family was coming to her place for dinner. The guys came back and we had a BBQ. This is my favorite picture of Daniel from our trip!! Such a boy!

Did you notice he wore his shoes out while we where away?
Chris' husband is a cop and has a K-9 dog named Rocky. He is really a friendly dog. He did a little demonstration using their son Tylor. Tylor put on a sleeve and Brad had the dog attack him! Crazy!


Daniel getting into trouble!! Not sure what is all over his mouth!


A few more days to write about later! Good night!!

More of our trip

Day 2: Monday
Monday morning we left our motel at about 6:30 and headed into Oregon. It didn't take long to get into Oregon.

We took a super nice scenic route to get to our next stop, South Twin Lake. We were meeting my Uncle Joe there. We drove along the Rogue River, which is totally beautiful! We talked that we could live somewhere near it because it's amazing. I didn't really get any good pictures though.


Mt. Theilson
We got to the lake and meet my Uncle sometime after noon. We rented a cabin there for two nights. He was waiting for Joe to go fishing. We hadn't gotten his fishing license yet so we all went back into twon to get one. They went fishing in Uncle Joe's boat for a few hours before dinner. We went to bed pretty early again, we were all exhausted!
Day 3: Tuesday
We decided to all go fishing today. It was hard for me to stay behind yesterday because where we stayed was not baby friendly. So we headed to Lava Lake and found a spot for me and Daniel to hang out. Joe caught a fish shortly after we got there.



Daniel and I made a friend, a friendly squirrel! We fed him Daniel's snacks.
Once we got hungry we left and went back to the cabin to meet my cousin Steve. We then headed to East Lake. it was a little cooler here. Steve was catching fish left and right, most were too small to keep. All three guys brought one home from here though.


We headed back to the cabin about dinner time and called it a night early again!! We are getting old, or maybe it's just that we have a baby!!
be back with more later!