Where do they come up with these questions?

Children say the funniest things sometimes and today was no exception. My son and I go to BSF (Bible Study Fellowship) together. He goes to a class for his age group and I have my own discussion group. This year we are studying the Life of Moses. Today our classes discussed Moses as a baby. When we got home from class he was asking all kinds of questions about babies, most of which I thought I could answer pretty none descriptively. He knows that babies are carried in the tummies of mommies. But his question to me was "How do babies get out of the mommies tummies?" I have to admit that kind of threw me for a loop. He is a very smart kid so I asked him what he meant and he said "How do they get out?" I tried to shield him as best I could from his curiosity and told him "babies come out a special entry or sometimes (and here is where I should have dropped it, but no) the doctors have to open the mommies tummies to get the babies out." This made him very sad and he almost started to cry. I then told him how he came out that way and that God healed my tummy from the cut. I didn't show him my scar but I tried to help him understand that sometimes there are things we have to do as mommies to help our babies.

Maybe I went a little far in my explanation of how babies get out but what else was I to say to him? Knowing my son as well as I do he would just keep questioning me until he was satisfied with the answer, which doesn't come easy.

On another note, I finally finished scrapping through June of this year and looking forward to scrapping July, August and September to try and get caught up. This is the closest I have ever been to being caught up. Woo-hoo, it feels good.

Anyway, that's all I have right now but I will try to do better about jotting down the little things going on in our lives. Have a terrific day!

Stephany

Oh, If you want to see my LO's they are all in the slide show at the top labeled Layout's From 2008 Slide Show. And in the future I will post more on my blog before they make it to the slide show.

Stung by a yellow jacket!

Yesterday we were grilling some steak and potatoes in the back yard and didn't have a clue there was a HUGE nest of yellow jackets in a bush by our patio door. I remember walking back to the patio door to go inside with my DH Eric when I turned around I saw lots of them flying around. As I was turning back toward the door to get inside I caught a glimpse of our ds Andrew coming our direction. I didn't realize he was going to try coming in too. I thought to myself I sure hope he doesn't get stung. Sure enough about 5 seconds after that thought a blood curdling scream was heard and then crying. We rushed to the door and I grabbed him inside trying to think of what to do and figure out if he was stung. I got a piece of ice and put that on the sting spot and then I remember my best friend telling me what she did one time when she was stung by a wasp. She said she put a penny on the spot and a few minutes later the swelling was gone and by the next day you could not tell she had been stung. I look at Andrew today and don't see any traces of the sting only the memory.

As I was taking care of ds my dh went out to kill the nest and any yellow jackets flying around, all the while trying to keep an eye on the steak and potatoes.

My wonderful dh told me the penny was really a placebo for me and Andrew than it having any homeopathic healing. Well, all I know is my ds was stung and a day later we only have a memory of it as opposed to seeing some swollen sore.

I did feel bad that he got stung instead of me or dh but I know it is only one in a list of many things that might and probably will happen to him.

Have a great night and we'll talk again soon.

Stephany

ps. the steaks were really good as well as the potatoes. Yum, it is making my mouth water just thinking about it

I'm a Genius!!!

At least according to my son. The other day we went to pick up a friend's daughter from school. At the school there are paintings on the cement. One of the paintings is of the United States of America. Andrew went right to the state we live in and then I pointed out the state where the rest of our family lives. Then Andrew stepped on the state of Florida and asked what state it was. When I told him it was Florida I also added that Mickey Mouse lives there to which he declared quite loudly to me "You're a genius". I will probably never hear those words again but for one small second my son thought I was a genius.

Well, I just need to apologize for not keeping up my blog. I can't believe I let it go since July 2. We had some changes take place for us that were very personal in nature but now things are doing much better. We've got Andrew started in school, We purchased memberships to 24Hour Fitness to work out more regularly and I have been scrapping like crazy. I have not been designing because I am trying to get my personal scrapping caught up to where I can relax again. I have scrapped at least 40 LO's in the past 2 months and I continue.
I do have a freebie for those who want them. In Texas it is a tradition to take pictures in the bluebonnets every spring. I was inspired by all the photos with word art attached to them. Here are the LO's I did and the freebies will follow.

Credits: Kit by Kristin Aagard called Just A Boy (I really love this kit)

They are PNG files. You should be able to right click on them and do the save as picture. Please leave some love if you take them and give credit where credit is due. If you have any requests for word art frames let me know and I will make them for you.

Have a great day and I hope to keep up my blog a lot better from now on since I have a little more free time with Andrew in preschool 2 days a week (yea - break for both of us).

Stephany

ScrapDebris is having a "Half Price Buy Them All" Sale...

We're having an "after Independence Day" one day sale at Scrapdebris!

We hope you stop on by and pick up our kits at a FANTASTIC price!

A few notes about the sale, the ad says it, but we want to make sure everyone understands:

*Half price is for buy them all only. Individual kits are still just 1$
*Each designer is an individual, and has complete control over their kits, etc. So you will need to go to each designers page that you want and click on that designers "buy them all" button.
*We send our links out via email.  Since this could very likely be a "high volume sales" day, please have a little bit of patience in getting your links.  We like it this way here, it gives our business a very personal touch!  We do have lives outside of the digiscrap world, and we'll need to eventually feed the kids, etc! LOL

IF ORDERING INDIVIDUAL KITS:
*If you only see a few things you like from a designer, we would appreciate an email from you before ordering.  This saves us on paypal fees, and keeps our prices low.  While the individual kits are still just 1$, we can send you ONE paypal invoice for all the kits you would like from our stores.  This will save you checkout time as well.

So, stop by for some really great kits at really great prices.

Stephany

We had a blast!

This past weekend went really well for our family. Saturday was totally a day about Andrew and spending time together as a family. We went to Six Flags because Cirque Dreams was back. Last year when we took Andrew for the first time to see this he absolutely loved it. This year was no different. We could see subtle changes from last year but overall it had the same story line. Cirque Dreams Coobrilla is kind of like Cirque du Soleil. I have a LO done of our trip last year in the slide show to the right. We met some really nice people there that made our trip even more enjoyable.

Hi Shelly and Brandon, I hope your move is going smoothly. You have such a nice family and it was a pleasure to meet you and to find out you love to scrapbook as well.

On to other news, I FINALLY finished scrapping our 2007 pictures and wouldn't you know I am only 6 months behind for 2008. I need to get a photobook made here shortly through shutterfly because they sent me a coupon for a free 8x8 photobook. I am so excited. Little by little I will get all my LO's printed.

This week I have been helping at my church's Camp MAD (music and drama). I have been running snack time (sort of) my friend Lisa is helping me and she ROCKS at this stuff. She is teaching me some very good things to remember in the kitchen. We got all the food prepped and ready to go for each day of the week on Monday. Tomorrow and Friday we will be making cookies for the reception that follows the performances.

Andrew is participating in this year's Camp MAD and he just loves singing all the songs.

OH, that reminds me to share something really neat: Andrew accepted Jesus into his heart at the end of May. I just bought him a little read and share Bible that is age appropriate. We have been reading from it each day and he is always asking for me to read more to him. I love his thirst for truth and knowledge.

Well, I really should be getting to bed but I think I will work on my photobook instead because I am a little jittery tonight. I can't get to sleep.

One day I will get back to designing but right now I am going to try and learn to be a better blogger. Do keep an eye out though because there will be some cool deals at ScrapDebris soon.

Have a great night and God bless you and yours,

Stephany

Back from Sea World and Finally a Freebie!!!

Sorry I haven't been posting much lately. I am really starting to rethink my priorities and I want to become a better wife and mom.

We got back from San Antonio yesterday from our first real family vacation. It did not really go quite how I thought it should go but we did have a blast and Eric my dh and I really learned some key lessons about our ds: 1 - load him up with sugar and you will have a good time while the sugar is in his system but watch out for the let down. He was a bear. 2 - don't forget to bring a stroller (or rent  one) to carry all your stuff. Andrew enjoyed the visit to sea world more when we didn't make him walk everywhere (he is only 4 years old). 3 - Don't set your expectations too high because they will just get wiped out and everyone will be disappointed. Seriously though, I don't understand why children now days are constantly asking for you to buy them things like popcorn, cotton candy, this thing or that thing. They become like a broken record. One time I even told Andrew not to bother asking as I saw a cart with popcorn  and pickles go by. Knowing that he would ask for popcorn he said to me, "I wasn't going to ask but I sure would like a pickle." A Pickle. The one thing he had not been bothering us to buy him and BOOM he has to have a pickle. Well, thankfully we distracted him from that and kept moving right along.

I just love the shows at Sea World. My favorites were Believe with Shamu and the other Orcas (obviously) and Viva with the Beluga Whales and Dolphins. They both just brought tears to my eyes and goose bumps to my body. LOVE THEM!

But enough about out trip, I have put together a freebie sampler from the collab kit I just finished with my friend Lisa at OScrapMomO's Place. The kit is called All Better and fits great with all those bumps, scraps and boo-boo's our children so often get. The sampler includes 2 papers, one frame and one ribbon. My part of the full kit has a total of 24 papers, 10 rounded square frames, 1 round frame with matte, 6 ribbons, 1 hammer and 1 tongue depressor. You can purchase it all for just $1 at Scrap Debris as of Wednesday. If you happen to see more than one of my kits that you like send me an email with which kits you would like to buy and I will send you an invoice to purchase however many of them together. That will save you time instead of purchasing them separately.

Here is a preview of the All Better Kit:

And here is a preview of the freebie sampler for you.

Download All Better Sampler

Don't forget to get your freebie from Lisa too and check out Scrap Debris as of Wednesday for the main part of this fantastic kit. I pray you all have a great day!

Stephany

Been a long time...

I feel like it has been forever since I last posted to my blog. Things have just been a little crazy here for me. I had to plan a party for my son's 4th birthday, celebrate Mother's Day, celebrate my dh's birthday and plan for our vacation to San Antonio to see Shamu. We leave tomorrow for that, yay! On top of that we just switched internet services to save some money and service has been sketchy for about a month with that.

But with all that has gone on I did manage to get a little freebie made for you. I will be back on Monday to share that with you. Right now I am trying to get it all loaded to 4shared.

Well, I have now realized that having my son's birthday party the weekend of Mother's day was a mistake (not to be repeated). His actual birthday fell on a Wednesday so we could go either way to celebrate on the weekend. Then my husband's birthday was yesterday which is only 6 days after our son's. Need I say more on the craziness here??? We did like having family and others here to celebrate with us though.

I have one more load of laundry before I start to pack today. I think I am looking more forward to this vacation than anything else right now. DH and I went once before ds was born to Sea World and fell in love with Shamu. Now we can't wait to introduce our ds to him. He has seen pictures and seems to be as excited as we are. When we get back I will share the goodie with you.

Have a great day,

Stephany