Framed Scrapbook page and Shots!

Here is the framed scrapbook page that I made on Saturday for my nephews 1st birthday. (Chatterbox, of course) I also bought him a really cute riding pooh and tigger airplane. He loves the airplane and his parents love the frame, so everyone was happy. We took baby Mark to the doctor for him 2 month check up yesterday. He is up to 10 pounds 6 ounces, so he's doing good. Brittany was reading Peter Rabbit to him while we waited for the doctor.

Here he is after she got him dressed, waiting for the nurse to give him his shots. He looks nervous to me.

One oral and 3 shots later...OUCH! Lots of screaming and one unhappy baby and mamma. She said Brek can take him to his 4 month check up.

My local scrapbook store called me yesterday to tell me that the Chatterbox Christmas paper came in and they pulled 2 of each sheet for me. They still don't even have it out on display yet, but I have it! Oh happy day! Problem is I still haven't gotten the sheets I ordered from Chatterbox for my cards. I emailed them about it and they sent me a shipping confirmation, so it will be here tomorrow. :o) Since I had the paper in hand and I could see it's true colors I was able to buy the matching bazzill cardstock. I came home and worked on my card design...sadly I hated everything I came up with, so I was very frustrated thinking there is no way I can sit here and make 240 cards and hate them. Finally about 10:00 last night I came up with a design I liked and could live with. Now I just need to beg some of my boys to quickutz me out 240 poinsettia flowers and 480 leaves. We will see if I get any takers...maybe if I with hold dinners..hee..hee...that is evil!

P.S. The Vemma website is up and runing now.

Today is election day, so be sure to vote...but it also means that these childish campain commercials are coming to an end...thank heavens!

2nd edition of the photo shoot

Here are a few more pictures form the photo shoot. I'm really looking forward to taking more of them. Thank you all for the sweet compliments...that is very sweet! I am planning on doing our Christmas card photos next Sunday. Should be fun..or at least, entertaining. By the way...I still don't have my Chatterbox paper so I can't even start making the cards...sigh...

Okay...gotta get in the shower and take the baby to his 2 month check up.

Photo shoot

Today I took some pictures of the new little family. I took 75 in fact. There was a lot of shots I didn't get to take because we lost the golden hour way too fast. I wanted to upload 12 of them, but blogger said no ma'am...you can only have 8....Well dang-it! Perhaps I will upload more tomorrow. I think I got some good ones. You have to take a bunch in hopes of a few good one. I just wish I had photoshop so I could fix them a bit....and more than that I wish I had the knowledge to use it. That's going on my Christmas wish list. :o)

I'm off to bed...I've had a very full 2 day weekend. It certainly wasn't restful.

Saturday

breakfast with Mark (every Saturday)

uploaded pictures of my nephew

bought a birthday present for that nephew

bought treats for Coles game

made a cute framed scrapbook page as a gift

went to Cole's game...he won

went to a birthday party

prepared my primary lesson

Sunday

went to church and taught primary

had lunch

took a very short nap

home teachers came over

took pictures of the cuties

baked 200 cookies

bagged and boxed up enough cookies for Chad's unit

wrote him a letter

uploaded pictures

updated my blog

It's 11:37 and I'm so done for the day.

Blogger troubles

I apologize on behalf of blogger. I was so upset that it wouldn't let anyone post comments all day long, but it appears to be working now because there are a couple of new ones, so please come back and comment because I want to read what you tried to say the first time...please! :o)
Also...another apology...I forgot that the Vemma website is down for the weekend. They are doing upgrades and will be up and running on Monday noon...so sorry! Don't give up...it's great stuff...honest!

Shopping and happiness!

Seriously...I have no self control. Without my knowledge my truck just steered my right into the parking lot of the scrapbook store. You know that feeling when you've been driving and you can't remember whole big sections of the ride or how you got there? However I did get out of my tuck and entered the scrapbook store of my own free will. I thought I could behave a just get a page stamped, but NOOOO! All that fun new stuff that was just released is hitting the stores as we speak. Everywhere I looked there were more beautiful things. How much will power can one obsessed scrapbooker be expected to have anyways??? The paper is the new Bazzill bling...and boy does it sparkle! Basic Grey game out with these amazing ornaments. I can't wait to make them. Making Memories has the very fun shimmer glitters. They are stinkers with the way they package things, because I like certain colors in each pack. The punch is the coolest thing! It's bigger than you'd think. I love it. Plus I need some new journaling pens. A son of mine likes to BORROW my pens, but is not so good at the returning part of the borrowing agreement.Ribbon...oh for the love of ribbon! Seriously, I can't get enough. I had one jar left over in my collection and this beautiful ribbon filled it nicely!
Made you smile didn't he??? I actually captured a few smiles on the camera today. How can you not be happy when you look at him.

You can't help yourself can you? Just SMILE!
I so love his teeny hands!
This is just the sweetest baby and I'm so blessed to be his Grammy!

There were some of you that asked me where to buy vemma. Click on my website, then click join vemma now (it's free). It will direct you from there. You can also click on the order and info button to learn more about the product. I like the 30 little V2 bottles...easy to use! They have a 100% money-back, risk-free, empty-bottle guarantee. I've been on it for 4 days now and I can honestly say I feel more alert today than I normally do....so I'm excited to see what happens.

Heading out to a high school football game!

Have a great weekend everyone!

Vemma

Do you remember me saying in a previous post that I needed to exercise due to being overweight? Well my problem is I'm in daily pain and have no energy to exercise. Being 38 really isn't that old, but my body feels SO much older than that. It's really kind of scary to me. I wake up everyday in pain after a restless night sleeping because of pain, and it continues throughout my day. I get severe headaches a few times a week...some of which turn into full blown migraines. I've been in search of something...anything that would help me. In my newly re-organized bathroom closet, one of those baskets is full of different vitamins that I won't take because I can't choke them down. They seriously make me gag. I'm a terrible pill taker...plus in reality pills can only really break down and give you 15%-20% of their value. My dad was introduced to this product and he shared it with me. It's a liquid supplement called Vemma...which stands for Vitamins, Essential Minerals, Mangosteen, and Aloe. Like the little sponge picture shows, a liquid supplement delivers to your body faster and more effectively...85%-95% infact. HELLO! To me it's a no brainer! Plus mangosteen is a natural anti-oxidant. The problem with me is that I am by far the pickiest eater I know. I was afraid to try it because of the taste. I just don't try new things...ever! I have taken my little shot bottle for the past 2 mornings. (and isn't it the cutest little bottle you've ever seen?!) I did chase it this morning with M&M's, but it wasn't necessary. (we just have all this halloween candy laying around) This product is also listed and approved in the physicians desk reference book for non prescriptions drugs and dietary supplements. Obviously I've only been taking it for 2 days and haven't seen a result yet, but I KNOW that I will and I will let you know when I do see results. If you want to read real peoples testimonials you can click HERE. It has things listed for:

Arthritis

Blood pressure

Cholesterol

Digestion

Energy-Vitality

Fibromyalgia

Food allergies

Hair and nails

Migraine headaches

Mitral valve regurtation

Multiple sclerosis

Prostate challenges

Psoriasis

Sjorgenes Syndrome

Sleeping disorders

Tennis elbow

Urinary tract infection

I was reading some of them and it was very powerful to see the difference this little bottle of minerals has made in the lives of so many. We all chat online, but we really don't know the challenges that each other are faced with, so I thought it was important to share this information with all of you. It's up to you whether you want to know more about it. I'm not a pressure kind of girl, as you all know. You just never know if there is someone reading this that this could help, and if it only touched one person and made their life better than it was worth it to me to post about. You can learn more about it HERE, you can ask me a question in the comments or email me craftygirlinaz@hotmail.com.

Tomorrow...or today (Thursday), depending on when you're reading this, two very well know doctors, Mehmet OZ M.D. and Michael Roizen M.D. will be on Oprah promoting there new book, YOU on a diet. Last year their book, YOU the owners manual was on the best sellers list second only to Harry Potter. These doctors love and stand behind this product and are working on a project with this company in the next few months. They have been on Oprah a few times and will not be talking about this product, because they are there to promote the new book, but Oprah loves them, so I plan to watch.

If you're still reading this, I really hope that you didn't take this post in a manner that was not intended. Hugs and love to all of you and Happy November...it's going to be a great month!

Halloween fun

Trick or treat...smell my feet...just kidding...that's gross!

Halloween is officially over in the George house. It's 10:23 and everyone is sleeping. We had a carnival put on by the youth of our ward. I made a big pot of chili and 2 dozen cornbread muffins to share. There were so many adorable kids dressed up in costumes. It was fun to see. After that party I let the younger boys go trick or treating on the 5 streets that are right here by us, while I stayed home to pass out candy. I think they only did 4 of the streets. They came back exhausted, showered and went to bed.Kyle's age group was in charge of the haunted alley. I didn't go in it, but I heard some screaming so I guess they did their job.

Mark and I were a biker and a biker chick (of course) I had stuff for that. I even wore my leather chaps..ha! I actually like this picture of us, so it will go in the keep pile. :o)
Brek, Brittany and baby Mark got there after dark. All the pictures of them turned out blurry, so I'm going to re-do them and pretend it was on halloween. He was a cute little sweet pea.
Cody was a "chick magnet" who is only holding up his shirt to cover his chest that he happened to glue a bloody bullet hole to...and no I don't know why he did that. Cole got to wear his costume in his class party at school. His teacher loved it so much she sent him up to the principal office to show it to her. Pretty funny!

I hope you all had a fun halloween. I am so darn tired and it took blogger a good 2 dozen times to decide to load any pictures at all. I guess I can't complain...it's free! :o)

Heidi Swapp and Cole's costume

He she is...the adorable Miss Heidi Swapp!

Mark had called me to meet him for breakfast and all I had time to do is dry my hair and start my make up. After breakfast is when I went to scrapbooks etc. In my mind I was thinking...it's Saturday...I won't run into anyone I know..."Yah right!" (this was what my Grandma always said) Heidi was there finishing up a clock class she was teaching. What I lack in mascara and flat hair, Heidi made up for in her cute fake pink lashes. :o) Emily took the picture of us. I even got to play with sweet little Capri. She was smiling so much. I just love babies! She is a month older than baby Mark. Then sweet Tena Sprenger comes up and gives me a big hug and said hello while I was talking to Teresa, the Saturday manager. Then Eva Flake comes in to start setting up for her class. Eva has lost a lot of weight and looks great. It was fun to see all these fun and talented ladies.

Here is Cole in his costume. Yep! He's a tube of toothpaste! I had him try it on so that I could see if it fit. The only thing I'll have to do is cut and sew a slit in the back so he can take bigger steps. I made it from a flat sheet and a garbage can that I found at Ikea, then penciled on the words and painted it. I made Brek this costume when he was 3 years old out of a pillowcase. That was 17 years ago. He had more laughs that year. It was fun. Cole asked me to make a bigger one for him, so I did. I think he looks so CUTE!

I'm glad you're all liking the recipe's. I do cook a lot of fattening foods. I don't weigh 300 pounds, BUT I do weigh 75 pounds heavier now than when I got married...sigh...I need to exercise...and still eat yummy food! :o) Life is too short to not enjoy food!

I see that Yuma girl has a name! Hi NOEL! :o)

Church Adult BBQ

Tonight we had our wards annual BBQ. They smoked up so much meat. We had ribs, brisket, pulled pork and sausages. The ward members all signed up to bring different things...assorted salads, potato dishes, rolls, homemade ice-cream and dutch oven cobbler, etc. Yummm...It was delicious! I brought a huge crock pot of homemade creamed corn. It's always a hit and goes fast. We had the best time laughing and visiting with our friends and neighbors. I love activities like this. The weather was perfect which only made the evening more enjoyable.

Here's the creamed corn recipe

(a smaller batch than I made tonight)

1 - 32 ounce bag of frozen kernel corn

1 quart of heavy whipping cream

1 cup of milk

3 Tbsp. sugar

1 tsp. salt

2-4 Tbsp. Melted butter

2-4 Tbsp. flour

Combine all ingredients except for the last 2. Bring to a boil. Mix together the melted butter and the flour into a paste and add to cream corn. Mix in well and allow it to thicken. Remove from heat and serve. Serve in a bowl with a spoon so you can enjoy every creamy drop.

I went up to the scrapbook store this morning and ran into not 1...not 2...but 3 famous scrappers! I had my picture taken with one of them. :o) I didn't look so good, but that's another story. Plus I finished Cole's costume today as well...CUTE! You'll have to wait till my next post to see...hee...hee...How about you guess which scrappers they were and I'll tell you who's right. :o)

It's been a great day!

Today I went and met a group of friends at Sweetcakes for lunch on Main street in downtown Mesa. Six of us showed up. It was fun to eat and visit with them. While I was there I just happened to visit Mystic Paper and RJ Peddler antique store. Both are such fun stores!
I got this very cool trunk for Brek's belated birthday present. He has been wanting an old trunk for a long time. This one dates back to 1918-1920. He LOVES it! I'm so glad!
Isn't this the cutest little scrapbook store. It has so much warmth and charm. They were on the morning news the other day. It was fun to see them on TV. The girls that run it are very sweet women. If you haven't been there, you need to go. Tell them I sent you. Can you see the old pictures way up high on the wall? They are pictures from their families that they had enlarged and put up there. They were also lacquered to protect them. I absolutely love that they included family history as part of the decor...not to mention the fact that I love their old creaky wood floors....just beautiful!

Guess what??? Today is a happy day!!! Chatterbox holiday paper is finally available on their website today. These are the two pattern papers I chose to make this years Christmas cards with. They are gingerbread flowers and gingerbread stripes. Love love love these papers! The base of the cards will be made with Bazzill cardstock in clover green. I will also be using Bazzill Applesauce cardstock. So now I need to clean my scraproom AGAIN so I have room to work on them when the paper comes in. In the mean time I need to make Cole's Halloween costume. Brace yourself...I'm going to sew....on...FABRIC! Besides paper, costumes are the only thing I really sew. I also have some painting to do on it...another reason for needing the clean room.

Mark has been home sick today...apparently Cole gave it to him. He never gets sick, so he's not having the good day that I've had. I was driving down my street today and I had a huge smile on my face as I drove past all the houses that have their winter grass up...seriously...green grass makes me beyond happy. Most of my neighbors planted at least a week before we did, so ours is not up yet. I can hardly wait to see it sprout. I'm so easily amused!

I hope you all have a fabulous weekend!