The Return of Flashback Friday

Hi everyone!  Just gettin' a FF out this very early morning!  I haven't been able to do one in 3 weeks, busy and well I've missed blogging in this time. 
I have a huge weekend ahead.  I am going to 80's Fest in Frankenmuth tomorrow evening, but before that happens I will be running my first 5K in the a.m.  Wish me luck! 

I'm really looking forward to the summer, not necessarily looking forward to a yearly canoe trip.  The "non-husband" loves it, and has a bad habit of asking do I want to join them.  I like this page, I did an entire 8x8 album on this canoe trip.  Well hope your day is sunny and feels summerlike.  I know it won't be here!  :O( 

Have a great weekend, and be sure to share your Flashback Friday Layout!

AuniLeigh's Top 5: Vacation Spots

I did a top 5 post once before on scrapbooking items, thought it would be fun to do once a month on other things and doings. There are many more places that I love to go to, but this is a top 5.  Just want to give a shout out to Nashville because it didn't make top 5 but its a great place and hope to go again, it's been way to long, gotta love those country boys!

What's your favorite spots to travel too? 

Into the 8th Day

Well here we are on the 8th day of the new year. I haven't been around much, taking care of family stuff and trying not to pull my hair out, so far I haven't.

I'm wide awake and its just after midnight, I typically am in bed around 830 or 9 at night. Tonight though I thought I would blog a bit. Its been since October since my last post. I want to get back to blogging again. I really enjoy it and shouldn't let the things that I like slip by the way side. I'm a dork I know but its fun. I've done that too many times in the past 8 1/2 years. Your probably like wow, you can really determine when things started to change. Well sure, it's simple I fell in love!

So tonight I've changed my layout and created a new banner so its new and fresh.

Mostly I wanted to share some things that I did in 2010. I've got photo's too :O) because you know my camera stays in my purse; you never know what might happen or c'mon my son turned 6 and he still experiences the first time he ever_______.
So my pictures may have been posted before but who cares right, if they're reposted it must of been pretty special or just a fav.

I started blogging in January 2010 to give some inspiration to other scrapbookers, but found that I was GETTING lots of inspiration from my fellow crafters. I even make cards now.
This post might be long, but I don't have anything else going on at the moment. Like I said, I'm wide awake the boy is sleeping and the "non-husband" isn't home, he's out with some friends. Speak of the devil he just walked in the door.
This past year delivered some good & bad and it gave me some answers.

I hadn't had a car pmt since 2008, unfortunetely I was also going on being w/out a car for 2 years. Dumb! Why? It broke down and the rest is too long to explain. I did not enjoy being driven by Bill's mother each morning and sometimes driven home too. It wasn't cool at all, helpful and thankful however. Not that I'm concerned w/ being cool, but that was just very uncool. I did finally get a car in October, I'm sportin' a '06 Ford Fusion.
Life has been so much better since having a car again. Having that freedom to drive off on my own is wonderful, oh I forgot to mention that Bill has a stick shift and I couldn't drive it, and he wouldn't teach me, not cool again.

Let's see I went to Key West with my sisters, mom and aunt in April and it was awesome to say the very least.
Good times were had of course, lots of laughs, gettin' on each other nerves, many cold, cold beers and plenty of food, and layin' by the pool. I started an album of that trip that I've gotten probably 85% of it done.
When I thought I was done I realized I didn't have some pictures and was totally bummed because I thought I was going to get to complete an entire album on a scrap weekend trip. That was another trip I took w/ my sister and our friend Corrina. That trip is always a must at least once a year. It's in northern Michigan its at a place called Harold's Resort in Traverse City off of Spider Lake.
We have a blast each time, just scrapping away. Kathy is the lady that runs the resort and does these weekenders in the off season and she is just wonderful and I would consider a friend now. I think that I've done the trip at least 5 times. She feeds us well too, its amazing the food she has, especially the stuft french toast. Oh man I start looking forward to that weeks before its time to go. Its that good!
Another small trip we took was in May to the Tulip Festival in Holland, Mi.
I've always wanted to go and finally I made it there. It was unfortunetely cold and the tulips weren't doing so well. Bill wasn't impressed, Lucas was mildly impressed. He was all about the hotel and pool.
His first time at a hotel.....see the first are always there. On our way home we stopped in Marshall, Mi for a visit to Turkeyville USA. We had heard about this place like 7 yrs ago and we finally made it. We came home a different route so that we could hit it up. It was really good, Bill was satisfied with this.
When he describes it to people he always says, " you know in Forrest Gump when they are talking about all the different shrimp? Shrimp scampi, shrimp kabobs, shrimp salad etc, well thats how it is at Turkeyville.....turkey dinner, turkey corndogs, turkey hamburgers!" Its so funny.
I made many and plenty of trips to Kentucky another long story, only thing tellin' about that is that I've done that trip (5 hrs down & 5 hrs back up) there and back in one day at least 3 times. That doesn't count the times I stayed for a weekend. Or my other family members did the trip there and back. Yikes! I'll just say it involved my neice Shelby and she is very loved by us. lol
I almost forgot about the dreaded annual canoe trip. It is and will always be hell for me.
Photo above bad canoe trip, photo below good canoe trip (its for the day only :O)


Lucas started 1st grade and at a new school.
Its been rough, but things are looking up. He has been labeled ADHD. I have accepted that and want to do what I can to make him wanted and accepted by family, friends and just everyday people that come into contact with him. He's adorable, smart and just fun. He deserves good things and things are looking up. His dad wasn't for medication but sometimes dammit you need to try something new to see if it will help. It has and his dad is thankful now on the route that we've chosen. My boy's therapist is wonderful, she really helps him learn new ways to focus, and helps us understand what he's going through. Yea, and my son has a crush on her too. Amazing!
We are still learning and making way to a better life for him, but there are still some bridges we need to cross. We'll get there, I've learned about patience the past 6 months.

OOh, my mom turned 60, haha! That's bogus isn't it not her age, but me laughing about it. We through her a party and it was Detroit Tigers themed.
She loves them and it was fun to dress in that gear and all guest did too.

This is all so random and scattered....we met up with some wonderful neighbors from the old neighborhood where I grew up.
Mom still lives there. Lots of reuniting on this past year with old neighbors/friends. I even got to join a "book club" haha the Black Dagger Brotherhood, and again haha.
Even though I've only made it through book 2. I <3 Rhage! I have a crazy feeling that I just might love Zsadist!!!! What book is he again?




Damn, I've hit that post button twice. Guess I should add the pics and stop talking about 2010 and move on cuz 2011 is here and I've got another 357 days to go. Have a wonderful year and keep blogging and following, I look forward to seeing what you've created. I love comments!

Blog at'cha later!

P.S. The pic below could have, wait did make the top 3 best things of 2010! The return of Roka Blue!!!!

Key West Part II/Weekender

We've arrived finally to our scrapbook weekender at Harolds Resort in Traverse City, Michigan. My sister Lisa (next to Jeep) and our friend Corrina, unpacking our stuff.

Here are the layouts that I was able to get done this weekend. Love all the time that is available to crop. No kids running around, just cropping, good music, cocktails.....and excellent food!

Gotta add the pics to page still.

Had to have a photo of these curtains to show my mom. We had these in our kitchen growing up.

Cabin #3 is the one that we stayed at this time.

View from our cabin, that is Spider Lake.

This is my favorite page that I did this weekend.

I made this sunset my hand, I have to say I was quite impressed w/ myself.....lol

Workin' till the last minute.

I may have some more pics to post still, have to go through the photos later. I'm whipped and need to get stuff ready for the boy to get to school in the morn and I should have taken a day off work, to re-coop!

Flashback Friday

Hey all, how are you this fine morning? Good here, been stressin' out these past few days. Today I feel at ease and glad because being stressed isn't fun. Here's another LO from my Vegas trip w/ my sisters! We had a quite a bit of poolside shots and we started to notice that I wasn't in any of the photos. Um, yeah because I am always making sure there are photo's of every moment. Nobody else thinks of it like I do. Anyways we chuckled at the pic to right, my toes made it in that shot, so you could say I made it in 1 of the poolside shots! :O)

Flashback Friday

Welcome Friday, I've been waiting patiently all week for your arrival. I don't have much planned for this weekend. Yay! I only have yoga on Saturday, a new found love for wanting to get in shape and adding yoga has been great. WW is going good down 8.4 lbs. Woo Hoo! Also dinner at Outback to celebrate my neices 17th birthday. That's it, I'm hoping nothing comes up just want to spend time at home w/ my fam. Lame I'm sure, but thats just what I want to do. :O)

My LO for FF is from 2008 a trip to Vegas w/ the sisters. It was a great trip and this particular LO has no journaling but thats ok. We were at Caesars Palace just shopping and drinking and gambling and people watching. We had a nice relaxing day. I love the flower brads and the groovey background paper. Well hope everyone has an awesome weekend, I'm off to work now.







I LOVE MY SISTERS!

Sisters Trip Album: Key West Part 1

Good morning all, I'm sitting here watching QVC this super peaceful morn. My son was lucky enough to spend the night at my mom's house last night. My other half will be sleeping in no doubt. I tried but knew that I wouldn't succeed. I got up and thought well lets check out fb and then blog a bit. I've been busy, busy this weekend scrapbooking. I started working on my Sisters Trip album. Our first trip in 2008 was to Vegas, and now I am able to add our Key West trip from this past April in it. Here are a few of my pages:

This was on our first day and it was so hot, we already had lunch and went for some reason to go check on our rental car. We stopped for ice cream, and debated should we jump on this pedi-bike or hike it back to our other 2 sisters. We jumped on and when we found our sisters they were in this bar and I yelled out, "Hey what up girls!" You should have seen them laughing their booties off. That's them through that groovey window, but you can't see it. It was funny.
Here was the first southernmost spot, everyone knows this spot, I'm sure you've all seen it before. Strange to know that Cuba is only 90 miles away from that spot. Never realized it was so close.
This was the view from our 2nd floor room. My mom and aunt have this beautiful place that we got to stay at. How could you not fall in love w/ Key West. That's some serious viewing right there. We were thankful they invited us to stay with them. That condo really is nice and something to think about myself in the future.
Absolutely beautiful, and they were taken at the condo.
More condo flowers, that just took my breath away. The beauty of the flowers in Key West had to be one of my favorite things about that place.

Well I hope everyone has a wonderful Labor Day. My son starts school tomorrow and its a big day a new school, all new friends and I'll be off until Wednesday and have to return to the dreaded Renaissance Center on Thursday to get some work done. Ugh! At least I only have a 2 day work week, can't complain there. I'm off here to get my boy and go have breakfast w/ him and my mom. I'll be scrapping some more this afternoon and will probably try to finish Key West.

Cricut Challenge Blog

I had posted this layout last night, but would you believe I was dreaming about scrapbooking last night and thought of a picture to add. Very simple fix and a neccessary one at that. I just found a blog the other day and it has Cricut challenges. Check out Fantabulous Cricut, they require that you use something done on your page using the Cricut and they do give a theme. Well I originally had the interstate sign w/ a word in it. I remembered in my dream that I took a picture of Jeep in front (my man's) of us. We drove both cars and our son thought it would be cool to take a photo of dad ahead of us. So I put that pic in the interstate sign to really make sure I was meeting challenge theme, which is a road trip.


So now that I feel I've met the challenge completely I can re-post and get my day started. I used the Summer Vacation cartridge. Wal-mart had it available for like $15 or $20 at the beginning of summer. I've wondered if it was a Wal-mart exclusive, not sure. Do you know?

Well I must get off here and get ready for super busy day. It is a paid day off for me so I'm going to get busy and get home and maybe scrap some more. Be crafty, hugs for all!

And a sidenote August's LoveLeigh Poll is up and the question was "What type of Scrapper are you?" Well the results showed 66% stick with traditional scrapbooking.

Check out the new LoveLeigh Poll for September!