First Day of School for Nicholas!!!!!

Today was Nicholas' first day of third grade!! I just cannot believe how big he is getting and that it was his first day!! It is sooo hard to believe he will be nine in April!! He was up late Sunday night, I think it was nerves, but he did well for having to get up early. I however, was not ready for the early morning!! I was really cranky this afternoon!! LOL!! He has a friend sleeping over tonight, and they are all excited for their second day!! We usually don't allow sleepovers on a school night, but this is a little different.. Don't want to go into details on a public blog, you know?? But anyways, Here are some pics of the first day, I will finally have some new projects posted this week as well, as well as better pics of my room...

Hope everyone is having a wonderful night!!!!

Thanking God.....

My husband and I own a small construction company, and today we are beyond grateful that one of our employees, is alive, and safe. He has diabetes, and on the way home tonight he had an accident in one of our trucks. We are sure he let his blood sugar get to low, and in doing so, he lost control, rolled several times, and had to be be cut out of the truck.. We are beyond grateful to God, for having his hand upon our friend. We are soo grateful he was wearing his seatbelt, it saved his life!!!! Had he been thrown from the truck, it could have been sooo much worse.. He has a few fractures, some cuts, lots of bruises, but he is alive!!!!! I am glad he will get to have another day with his family, and that hopefully, prayerfully, he will manage his diabetes a little better... He hadn't had too much to eat today, and we believe that is what caused him to pass out, the hospital said his sugar was extremely low... We are sooo happy that he is okay.. If you could have seen the truck, you would understand... I have to take pictures of it tommorrow, and I will post it. It was absolutely frightening to see it, to know he had been in it!!!!! I am just sitting here praising God for his absolute power.. He held our friend in the palm of his hand, and allowed him to walk out of that twisted metal alive...
Hug your family and friends real tight, and as much as you can!! You just never know when life can change...

Update

I am trying to get good pics of my scraproom, and they are not turning out!! LOL!!
I hope tommorrow will be better and will get those posted. I started a card, and hope to get that finished, I keep getting sidetracked, and my house keeps calling my name to clean it!!!!!
Tommorrow my little dog Biscuit has to go to the vet. She is getting spayed.. She had a litter of pups back in March, and I just realized it was that time again... She has had boy dogs camping out on our porch.. It really has been weird!! So hopefully they will go away after tommorrow!!!! I will feel much better knowing, I will not have to deal with the birth of ten puppies again, it was a great time for the boys, but a little stressful for me. Seven lived, and we found good homes for them all, and close enough we still get to see them...
I will post pics of Biscuit soon, she is pure black, and her puppy pappi, is a golden color... LOL!! It was funny!! One of her other pups has several shades, of a red-gold, silver, and gold!! She is gorgeous... I wish I had pics of her..
Well, I am off to try and get some sleep, haven't been sleeping too much lately.

Going to get creative!!!

I have been spending alot of time organizing my house and my scraproom, the past couple of days, so I am really hoping that maybe I will get to get creative this weekend!! Especially since it is supposed to rain all weekend. So maybe I will get to play with my new stamps, and crafters companion. The video it came with is awesome, you really can do sooo much with this little box!!! It has super easy instructions for nice looking pop0up cards!! I really want to try some of those... I also need to get my cousins album done, I have let too much in my life get in the way of finishing it, so I really need to get focused. Hopefully I will not get sidetracked on organizing something else. Will be posting pics of my scraproom too this weekend.. I think I finally have it the way I want it...
Here's to getting some creative time!!!!!!
:)

A Card I Made Today...

I made this card for my sister, today is her birthday. I also made one in blue for one of our employees who had a birthday on Saturday.. I played with Copics for the first time, and I think I did okay.. I still need lots of practice, but I think this turned out okay...

Check out the slideshow of pappi, he was holding my magazine hostage the other night... LOL!!!
Thanks for looking!!!!!!!!

Pics From CHA Posted Below!!!!

Here are pics, of all the goodies I brought home from CHA.. It was soo much fun, seeing all the neat things that were there, and actually seeing some celebrities. Donna Dewberry threw me a jar of some cool glitter, and of course I embaressed myself and dropped it, lol!!! She was really nice, I wish I had thought to snap a pic with her... I also met the designers at papertrey ink, they were the ones passing the free goodies out.. I happen to really like Nicole Heady, and bought quite a bit of the sets she designed, and got to meet her... Again, I should have taken my phone out and snapped a pic... I was just a little overwhelmed at just the amount of stuff at this place, so I was not thinking about pictures... lol.. I really hope that they do this again, it was alot of fun, and sooo worth going!!! Thanks for being patient, and waiting sooo long for the pics, I get sooo sidetracked.

CHA Was Wonderful!!!!!!!!!!!

Sorry I did not get on here sooner, I was busy this week at home, since I haven't been home much the past couple of weeks... I attended both days at CHA and it was wonderful!!! The freebies were awesome, and all the deals!!!! I have to say that Joann's freebies were the best. They gave out a Bowdabra, and a bead spinner. Both of these in a bag with more goodies!!! It was sooo nice!! I also was able to check out the papertrey ink booth, and it was worth waiting in line for almost two hours!!! LOL!!!! They have a really great product, and the stamps are sooo cute!!!
My other favorite was the Crafter's Companion booth. I totally loved the guy who was showing us the product, and he gave my mom and I great deals on their product!! The accent was sooo dreamy!! lol!!!! (sorry, couldn't help it... ;) I am really looking forward to using the crafter's companion, it has sooo much potential, and it seems like a better investment than the scor-pal I was going to get. Although I may very well end up getting that as well. Will have to see. I have been checking out the website for ideas, and it looks sooooo versatile!!! Soo worth the money!!!
My sister bought the I-Top, and I hope to borrow that. I will probably end up with one of my own eventually... lol!! Brads are a favorite embellishment, and being able to make them is sooo cool!!!! I have lots of pics to download and post, and I will hopefully get to that tonight..
Hope everyone has had a great week!!!
Happy Friday!!!
:)