What makes you laugh?

I love watching my children. Especially when they don't realize i'm watching them. My little guy (Joshua) cracks me up all the time. He is a character. At 5 he says and does the most amazing things. He loves to read and do math. He can add numbers in his head already. Everyday when he wakes up he say "mom give me a math question." So I always have to have one ready for him. There not just those "what's 2 + 2" questions. This morning his question was.

If mommy had 8 cookies and gave 2 to Joshua 1 to Isaiah, 2 to Noah and 1/2 of 1 to Miranda how many would mommy have left. He laughed right away and says mom come on that is so easy it's 2 1/2!!!

So tomorrow morning I am gonna make it harder on him. lol

So back to the question at hand.... what makes you laugh????

In thinking of that question all week. I came across a picture earlier this week that I just had to use for the Arctic Frog Deal of No Deal challenge.

The Challenge this week is to use a comic book one word expression on your layout.

So when I seen this certain picture I knew exactly what I wanted to do after my husband pointed out that infact the word I wanted to use is in a comic book which they turned into a movie. I didn't realize it was a comic book before. Thank goodness my hubby knows his comic books! LOL

I hope this layout makes yall laugh as much as it has made us laugh.

So really it's the simple things in life that make us laugh the most. Seriously think about it. We always get a great laugh when we watch our children, pets, spouses etc and we get even bigger laughs when they don't realize we are watching them. Simple!!! It feels great to laugh and well it puts a smile on your face. So make sure you reflect on the simple things in your life and get a great laugh out of it.

I LOVE MUSIC

Music..... I love music. I am always singing. I drove hubby nuts this morning with a song and now he can't get it out of his head! LOL The funny thing is I have no idea how I know this song or who sings it. "Puff the magic dragon" LOL Yeah that must of been something that my mother listened to!!!LOL

So Music is my thing!

I love the freedom of music. That artist can write what they are feeling, put it in a song and let the world hear it. AWESOME!

So those that know me know I love Billie Joe from Green Day.. MMM MMM MMM Next to hubby that is! LOL

So I decided to start a Rocker Challenge on www.ScrappinTrends.com The challenge is that you have to do a layout with your favorite rocker, group etc. Use there Album cover as your sketch for the layout..

So I did Billie Joe aka Green Day....

I totally LOVE how it turned out!!!! I did the layout on a piece of glass to get the effect I wanted.

The cover of the album is kind of cool. It has a clear hard cover that slips over the case. So when you slip it off the case it is clear with all the photos, titles etc. on it. Totally cool! That's why I used glass for the layout! LOL

Wow it's been awhile

What can I say... I have been totally busy this summer. I can't believe the summer has come and gone with school starting next week.. Wow where does the time go? So we went on vacation this summer. We took a month long trip back home to Illinois. It had been awhile since I seen my parents, little brother and family. I so missed them and Loved every min. of my visit. Just being around family really made me miss them more. I know it sounds totally weird but when you haven't been home for 5 years. You just keep on missing everyone. I really think I miss my dad the most. I am a daddy's girl and I swear I can't go a few days without calling him to see how he is and what he has been up to. I swear he must think i'm crazy, but I love to check up on him. My mom is always on the go so I feel like I have to. LOL

Well today was kind of a bummer day!!!

Scenic Route DT calls went out today and well I didn't get a call. Something I was hoping for, but with over 500 submissons and only 9 spots. They sure can't pick everyone!!!

However

Chelsea from Stemma really liked my Altered Treasure Chest that I just did and wants to display it at Memory Trends. I am soooooo super excited about this. So this totally made my day!!! To have something that I made for myself to be on display at a big show like Memory trends is totally HUGE for me!!!! I did submit to the design team call at Stemma. I will keep keeping my fingers crossed for that one!! It would be such an honor to design for a company like Stemma. They were the company that totally blew me away at CHA. They were so fun and friendly and always asked how you were doing. Awesome awesome Team!

Our Hero's We will never forget you!!!

Today is Memorial day. So today is one of those days that we just can't forget what all our service men and woman do for us.


The USS Cole

A navy ship which was harbored in the Yemeni port of Adem on Oct 12, 2000 was attacked suddenly by two suicide bombers said to have been sent by Osama Bin Laden. 17 crew members passed away that day...leaving 37 critically injured. May they rest in peace.

September 11th

Then just over a year later America was attacked again by the same man (Osama Bin Laden). Only this time with much more force. The Twin towers, which housed thousands of civilian workers, our airports and planes and our Pentagon.

At 9:43 a.m., a hijacked Boeing 757 slammed into part of the 29-acre complex used by uniformed and civilian employees of the U.S. military. The crash killed about 200 people, including all 64 on the plane. Tens of thousands more were evacuated.

May we never forget!!

USS Abraham Lincoln: The “Gray Angel”

Almost immediately after the tsunami struck, the USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72) Carrier Strike Group began making its way from Hong Kong to the west coast of Sumatra, Indonesia, where the ships, in coordination with the Indonesian government, would focus on relief efforts with Indonesian forces, other countries’ forces, and international agencies in the Banda Aceh region. The Ship took position off the island of Sumatra with their helicopters that became critical to the relief effort. The carrier group also housed and transported international relief workers.

Upon arriving off the coast of Sumatra on 1 January 2005, sailors from the USS Abraham Lincoln Carrier Strike Group began working around the clock to deliver relief supplies ashore to the tsunami victims. The strike group’s Commander, U.S. Navy Rear Adm. William Douglas Crowder, said the volunteer spirit aboard the ship was hard to deny. Earlier he told reporters, “I’ve got about 6,500 sailors in the strike group, and as I was walking around the ship, they were tugging at my sleeves and saying, ‘Admiral, I want to volunteer to help.’”

The USS Abraham Lincoln is very dear to my heart and is forever a name that will be in our stories for many years to come. My husband is Stationed aboard the USS Abrahamn Lincoln and I am proud to say he was part of the Tsunami relief mission. We hate to see our sailors go but to know that they are out there protecting us and many many others. Makes me proud to say My husband is a USS Abrahamn Lincoln Sailor.

It's all about the TAE KWON DO!!

Being a military family with a hubby that is active duty can cause some problems. We are waiting on new orders and well we have a general idea on where we will be moving. So I start looking into Tae kwon do dojang's well the closest one is 1 hour away and I haven't called to find out if it's WTF (world tae kwon do federation) Tae Kwon Do yet or not! There is about 4 or 5 different forms of tae kwon do that is taught and well my oldest is a black belt and will have his 2nd degree black belt before we move and the younger one is getting his green belt this Saturday at the belt ceremony and will have his senior brown by time we move. I don't mind driving an hour away but the odd's are this dojang isn't even WTF! So how do I break it to my kids that there tae kwon do journey will have to be put on hold for 4 YEARS??? I just don't have the heart to let them down. So I tell hubby we seriously can't move there! LOL He wasn't impressed! So what is a mom to do?? You can bet this subject isn't over with in this house! LOL Below are some pics of my oldest doing Tae Kwon DO!

Another layout using CherryArte once again.

I just couldn't help using these pictures from crazy hair day with the CherryArte Boys Boys paper line. I also had to use some new chipboard shapes I got my hands on by a new company!!! They totally rocked...
Doesn't he look cute with his blue mohawk?? LOL He is so silly and can't wait for another Crazy hair day at school!

Ok and how cool is this

I am Loving Cherry Arte!!!

So who would of thought I would post on my blog twice in one day?? lol

Ok so I am scrapbooking today!!! Working on a DT Project and a few layouts of the kids.

I took some pictures of the kids the other day and loved how they turned out so I just had to scrap!!!

Here is the first layout I did! I titled it "The Grunge Look" Some elements on this layout are personal designs of my own that I turned into rub-ons.

Here is a close up so you can see what it says around her.

I REALLY Love the way it turned out!!!! I am loving working with Cherry Arte papers. I really didn't want to cut them up. I so could wall paper my studio in these papers, but I just went for it!!! This layout is for the June Showcase at Scrappin Trends. Cherry Arte is the June Sponsor for the DT. Ok so on to the next rocking layout! I have pictures from Crazy Hair day and lets just say there is a mohawk involved! LOL

thanks for looking.

Totally Cracking UP

I love to sew and have been sewing since I was 10 I think. Well I have been making these little owls since high school and they just crack me up.


I am sewing them for the local craft festival. I use to do the craft festivals years ago but having kido's it's been hard to do that, but this year. I started early and I'm on a roll. hehe

I also found this and thought it was way funny so I had to share.

What color is your hair!

These are the words my mom said to my daughter when she told her we colored her hair PINK! LOL

I did manage to get some more pics of her hair when she was outside this morning!
See it's not as vivid as the last picture. I think it looks cute on her and I can't wait to put in the black streaks!LOL

I Love your Smile

Ok so like Joe at Scrappin Trends said if you can't think of something to blog about blog about things you love/like! So I thought why not update my blog with something I love. Well ok I am one of those mom's I guess you can say that let there children do a lot more then some mom's. There is always a fine line there somewhere though. I love being involved in my childrens lives but I don't choose there likes and dislikes. I encourage them to voice there opinions and to be who they are. I don't tell them how to dress but I do buy there clothes so if something is a bit over the top my pocket book is shut so to speak. I would have to say for the most part I have pretty good kids. Yeah they fight and have there moments. Ok so getting back to the topic and getting to the point. Miranda (the only girl other then myself in the house) is always ready for a debate etc. Miranda is only 11 1/2 as she reminds me. She gets Awesome grades and reads and comprehends at a college level. Her favorite book is Little woman and she is always looking up stuff. So when she comes to me asking if I will dye her hair I told her that's not a problem, but she has to wait till after spring pictures. Well the other day she reminds me that spring pictures have come and gone. So we go into Sally's. I had decided to do streaks in hair but she wanted a lot of streaks so I get a frosting cap as I didn't have anymore at home. So I tell her to pick out a color that she wants. Ok so when most kids want there hair streaked you think blond right?? Well not my daughter. She wants to be well lets just use BOLD, DIFFERENT & BRIGHT. Well ok it's just dye right. Well I then tell her in order to get hair this color we have to bleach it first so it's gonna take longer then just dying it. She obviously didn't care! So I get the bleaching stuff, the color and the frosting cap!

$15.00 for Supplies
2 1/2 hours later
1 Priceless Smile

Well as you can see we did A LOT of streaks. I told her this weekend we would put on the frosting cap an do ever other row and color those back to her natural color. She says she is thinking black! I swear I have created a monster. Her hair isn't this bright in real life I swear. It was really dark in the room and I haven't had a chance to get another picture yet!LOL

I just love her smile. She spent 2 hours clapping jumping up and down screaming I LOVE IT when I was done!

I can't wait to scrap the pictures. Yes we got pictures from start to finish! LOL

Tulip Festival

Well yesterday we went to the Tulip Festival. It's about 20 min from the house. Other then the traffic being way crazy the day was awesome... I have never seen so many tulips in my life. LOL Noah & I took some fun pictures. Most of these posted here are ones Noah took. I took the first one and the last tw0. I think he has a real nich for photography. I hope you enjoy the pictures as much as we do and I just couldn't help but put a few of my little guy on here. Click on the pictures to enlarge them for a better view.

Pictures from Hubby

Well Hubby sent some pictures so yall will be the first to see them!

I have to say I have been excited to get the pictures of the Star Stars.

I hope yall enjoy them as much as the kids and I have!

Statue of Bruce Lee

I had to make sure I put this picture in! It is part of the star walk and I haven't found out what the cars on the side of this piture are yet, but when I find out you will be the first to know! LOL