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Pumpkin Patch

Credits: Snap It 1 Template and Its Your Birthday both by Edeline Marta.

The pictures are from last years trip to the Pumpkin Patch. It was just a few weeks after we started the crazy trip we have been on with trying to get a diagnosis for Cody. We adopted Cody when he was a year and a half knowing that he had not had an ideal beginning to life. For the first few years I chalked everything up to that but it had come to the point that I needed some help dealing with his behavior. We went to see a child therapist and she was the first to suggest Autism. His current diagnosis is Autism spectrum along with Oppositional Defiance Disorder. Every day is a new challenge but we keep moving forward. The day at the pumpkin patch was a reward for having two days in a row with good behavior at daycare.

MLAS Activities

Here is a layout of my mini-schnauzer. She is spoiled rotten but such a great dog. She is getting her hair cut today and I am a little sad. She will go from being my shaggy dog to a fancy little princess.

I created this layout for the Mystery Lift Challenge at My Life and Scrap. Only 4 more layouts need to be posted for this contest and Linda, one of the owners and a real sweetheart, will be posting a video of herself on Youtube. This is a great time to check out MLAS as there are all kinds of things going on this week-end (speed scraps, bingo and great giveaways).

Saturday:

Speed Scrap at 10:00am CST (I'll miss out because of Stormy's hair cut)

Bingo at 2pm (I'll be there)

Speed Scrap at 8:00pm CST (Gonna try to be there - prime time for the computer at my house)

Sunday:

Speed Scrap at 3:00pm CST (I'm missing this one due to my son's soccer - I got to get a laptop)

All Week-end - Stack the Deck - who can put the most MLAS products in one layout

Week-end plans

There will be lots of fun activities going on at My Life and Scrap this week-end. Send the kids to Grandma's, put on your fuzzy slippers, grab the chocolate and join in on the fun. I am hearing there will be some RAK's going on in addition to some great prizes. Don't forget Friday is the last day of the 50% off sale.

My Life and Scrap - just keeps getting bigger and better.

The next couple of days are the perfect time to check out all of the new designers over at My Life and Scrap. Now through Friday the entire store is 50% off. There are a ton of fun challenges and party plans for the week-end. Check them out.

Here is yet another one of my layouts featuring my niece. I created it for the Mystery Scraplift challenge at MLAS. If 30 people post there layouts for this challenge one of the owners, Linda will post of video of herself walking the streets as a human billboard advertising MLAS.

Credits:

Frame from Boys Retreat by Catherine's Designs

Everything else from Forever I am Changed kit by Mama Mia at MLAS

Fall-lious Sale

Fall in Love with MLAS this Week

MLAS is back up and ready to party

Yeah! It is time to party! My Life and Scrap is back. Keep a close eye on them as there is sure to be some celebrating going on and that is always a good thing for us scrap-addicts. I will keep you posted but I am off to get my MLAS fix.

MLAS Update

Things have slowly been improving for My Life and Scrap. The upload is currently running and hopefully things will be back to normal (but even better) within the next day or two. I will let you know as soon as the site is up and running again.

Meanwhile Veronica Spriggs is preparing for her move to a new store. All of us on her CT team have been working on a really cool brag book that she will be giving away as a freebie in the next week or two. It was my first QP and I learned a few new tricks. I hadn't zipped a file before or put anything on an on-line file sharing site before. Luckily everyone on the team is super helpful and I am learning my way around digi-world.

A Slice of Summer is from the trip the boys and I took to my brother's last month.

Credits: I created the word art but everything else is from Be With You by EMD

It has been great fun being on Edeline's guest CT for the month. Just look at that background paper. Love it!

Don't you just love that dress? When I saw it I knew she had to have it for her 1st birthday. When I saw Veronica Sprigg's Kit Happy To Be, I knew it was the perfect kit for my little diva.

Veronica Spriggs - store sale

Veronica Spriggs will be leaving Digiscrap Boutique. She is closing up shop and moving to a new location which will be announced very soon. During the transition many of her products will not be available for a while and some not at all after the move. So nows your opportunity to take advantage of this one time offer to get her entire store for just $29. Available now at Digiscrap Boutique and Pickleberry Pop. I love playing with her kits so I highly suggest you take advantage of this great deal while you can.

I am grumpy today...............

I hate allergy medicine. I have been going through my day in a cloud. Don't believe what they say about being non-drowsy. I actually took a nap today - I am not a nap kinda girl and now I am mad that I wasted a couple hours of my precious week-end. I have laundry to do, the dishwasher needs to be unloaded and the sink is full of dishes for another load, the kid's bathroom is on my deep cleaning to do list, some how toys that I have picked up 3 times today are again all over my family room floor and why is it that everything collects on the dining room table. Ah, you see allergies make me grumpy- sorry to take it out on you. I have some how found the energy to scrap today so all is not lost but please don't stop by my house unexpectedly today- I would be so embarrassed. Any other time you are all welcomed.

I am very excited to be on Edeline Marta Design September guest Creative Team. These are the first two layouts I have done as part of her team. I used Its Your Birthday for both of these layouts. I have talked about my love of great papers and EMD definitely gives me the great papers I crave.

The pictures are of my baby's 6th birthday. He a had a mini cake for breakfast - I love his wild bed head hair. And then in the evening we just had a small family party with a Monster Truck cake.

Update on MLAS- things are taking a little longer than hoped to move over to the new server. It is looking like it may be a couple more days. Even with knowing that I keep checking just in case (oh, I hope I am not causing some of the difficulties). I will be sure to let you know as soon as they are back up and running. Once they are up please stop by and give Linda and Carolyn (the owners) some love. They are both feeling really bad that all of this happened unexpectedly. Its not their fault that we are lovin' all the changes they have made and overloaded the old server.

Still Waiting on MLAS Server Upgrade

I will be giving away a free mega collab from MLAS. All you need to do to have a chance to win the kit is to tell me on thing you love about MLAS. I planned to give the kit away today but with the MLAS website being down due to things being moved to a new server it is kinda hard for you to check out their site to see what you love about it. So I am delaying the give away until the server is back up. Once the server is back up I will give you one more day to pick one thing you love. Anyone who comments on my blog with what they love about MLAS will be put in a drawing for a free Pure Passion Collab kit. Keep checking, we hope the site will be back up soon.

MLAS Server Down

Last night I spent a lot time working on my blog. I finally figured out how to change my background -yeah! But now you may have noticed many of my graphics are missing. This is due to the MLAS server going down and that is the home for many of the things I try to keep all of you updated about. As I have told you, they keep getting better. Well lots of people figured that out and MLAS has outgrown their server. Unfortunately, this great growth happened more quickly than anticipated and they were not able to schedule the server upgrade. They are expecting about 48 hours to make all the necessary updates. I am not sure what I going to do for the next 2 days.

Eric makes me so proud

Just a little over 2 months ago my son, Eric had a turning point (actually there has been a few over the last few months). We were getting ready to go out for some shopping and Eric couldn't find anything to wear (everything was too small). He said he wanted a trainer as he had been trying to workout on his own but was having a hard time staying on task. I took him seriously and after a week or so of hunting for the perfect person to work with him, he started with a trainer four times a week. Since starting with the trainer he has cut his hair that he had been growing out for a year (that alone was worth the price of the trainer), he changed his style of dressing (less black and more sports), he has cut his computer gaming time to less than a few hours a day, and amazingly after a week of being heavily recruited by his school's football coaches he has decided to play football. This is amazing because Eric hasn't played sports for 4 years after a hockey injury kept him on the sidelines for over a year.

Yesterday he went for his school physical so he could play football. He found out that he has lost 40 pounds since he started with his trainer. He was so excited and proud of himself. He still has a way to go but he has made some lifestyle changes in both his activity level and eating habits that will benefit him for the rest of his life. He makes me so proud of him! I am a lucky mom.