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Long Day Yesterday

Posted by Heather Manning On June - 10 - 2009

We drove up to Council Bluffs yesterday for my great aunt’s funeral. And of course, Christiano hated his car seat. I ended up in the backseat all contorted while I attempted to nurse him buckled in his seat while I was buckled in also. I swear a semi driver got a peak. I did try to cover up with a blanket. LOL That was the ride there and back. 2 hours each way. My back was killing me when we finally got home.

Snapped a few pics on the way up with my phone. I wasn’t sure how appropriate it was to bring my camera to a funeral.

Miss Alyce forgot her binky. She settled for the thumb because it was “yummy”.

I don’t know what is up with this child’s goofy faces when I take a picture. Katiana.

Yes, he’s a blurry baby, but he’s a full content baby. After nursing him. I couldn’t see the pictures very well in the car because of the sun to know it was blurry and I needed to snap another one.

Mr Jordan. I panicked when I realized my child had a mohawk for a funera. So, we brushed it down and went with it.

Where are my eyes you say? I don’t know. That’s what happens when I smile. LOL This picture is ala Katiana. She wanted to keep snapping more, but I figured one picture of me is enough for the world. LOL

That’s the back of my sister’s head while driving my car. Didn’t get a picture of her. She was nervous enough driving it without sticking my camera around the backseat into her face.

Hey look! My nails are long. LOL That only happens when I take prenatal vitamins. When I stop nursing Christiano, they’ll go back to breaking and be thin and gross. Can you take prenatal vitamins forever? They are never painted though. Every time I try to paint them the baby needs me. We both ended up covered in nail polish and it’s just not a pretty site.

We left here at 7:30. Got to the funeral by 9:50. Left there at 12:30 and were back home at about 3. Long long day in the car.

I tried to start out driving each time and on the way back we gave up going to rest areas and gas stations. I pulled off to the side of the ramp, yelled Chinese fire drill and we all switched seats. Then we did it again to put me in the driver’s seat. Then 10 minutes later Christiano woke up screaming and we did it all over again. I sat in the backseat the rest of the time and just enjoyed the ride.

We got home. At 5 I was so tired I couldn’t think straight so I laid down with the 2 youngest and bribed Jordan and Katiana with the Wii if they promised to not fight, not open the door for anyone, etc etc etc. We slept until 8. Then got up. I still was dragging, but after a full night’s sleep I feel much much better this morning.

Kids are still sleeping and it’s almost 11. Well, Christiano is attached to me, but sleeping. The other 3 are in bed still. They must have been just as tired as I was.

Ok, off to finish this kit and get my contribution for the NDISB mega for next month done.

Have a great day!

P.S. I forgot to mention here though I mentioned it on Facebook. There were 3 itty bitty babies there. I thought they were newborns. Nope, just a few days younger than Christiano. No one could believe he was their age. He’s a giant baby. Close to 17 lbs. I asked one of my cousins down the line, she’s my mother’s cousin’s daughter, how much her daughter weighed. She said 9 lbs. I said, Christiano weighed that at birth. That little one was tiny. But the other 2 weren’t much bigger than her. The only way you could tell that they were the same age is that Christiano still has those spastic newborn movements where he jerks those hands and legs around. Here my guy is wearing a 6-12 month outfit (Old Navy sizes) and I don’t see him wearing it a lot longer, and they were all in these itty bitty cute clothes. Kinda makes me sad that he’s getting so big so fast. He’s my last one, he’s supposed to stay itty bitty forever.

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Isn’t it pretty here now?

Posted by Heather Manning On June - 7 - 2009

Can I say that Megs (Flergs) rocks? She all prettified my blog for me. Thank you Megs!

And I’m all proud of myself because I got a few emails this morning that my comments were giving fatal errors so I got out the old Google. I figured out that it was because I hadn’t upgraded my wordpress installation. My blog kept telling me that I needed to upgrade, but I was scared to death to touch it. In order for my pretty new blog to work though, I had to upgrade. So I downloaded the new upgrade – well, it’s really not that new anymore, but new to me, looked at the handy dandy installation guide. Backed up my old blog. Held my breath as I deleted the 2 folders it told me to delete. Dragged the new stuff to my FTP and walked away for a minute. My nerves were going man. Watch me delete my whole blog somehow.

When I went to my dashboard, it told me to upgrade, so I pushed the handy dandy button. Then pushed the continue button and did a huge dork dance when my blog showed up. Pressed a comments link. Got the dork dance groove on even more when comments showed up. Woohoo!

I can write HTML code. Taught myself that years ago. But all this new fangled coding that you do for blogs, stores, etc it just confuses me and I try not to touch it. (new fangled coding ROFL How old am I?)

It’s not boring here anymore. Yippie!

Megs, I think I love you.

I was scanning in some old pictures for Facebook the other day of my family and friends that are on there. I came across some doozies of myself. Want to see? Of course you do. Come laugh with me. Now I didn’t do any editing other than resizing so they aren’t that great in color and quality yet. We’ll deal and giggle anyway.

Yep, that’s me at 15 months old. My mom did the whole mohawk thing so that people would believe I actually had hair. See Jordan, you’re not the only one with that do. Do I look like any of my kids? Even back then had the phone connected to me at all times.

That’s me in the white dress in the front and my Aunt Jackie is holding my brother Steve. I have to be like 4 here. That’s my family in Alabama. I miss them.

That pictures kind of a mess, but I’m 17 here (in the middle).

Yeah, what’s up? I think I’m 19 here.

And let’s end the flashback with my biggest hair don’t. Well, my second biggest. ROFL Ready?

I’m a barbie girl, in a barbie world. Life in plastic, it’s fantastic. Jordan was 3 here. I look so funny. I’ve given up on the tanning so I had to have the biopsy to check for skin cancer, but boy, I used to tan every day religiously. If I missed one day I thought I was white all over again.

Now a couple of layouts.

I did this one for the challenge on Darcy Baldwin’s blog.

Credits –
Flergs – helter Skelter
Scarlet Heels Media – Imperfect Alpha
Font – Darcy Baldwin – DJB VICKID

And this one is the one I did the other day that I told you I had to wait until Miki released her new kit to show you.

Credits –

Miki Ferkul – Heartland
Fonts – Darcy Baldwin – DJB SISSY

Love that kit! I think I could get some more layouts out of it since I’m always looking for something to scrap my guys with.

Yesterday was our last soccer games. YAY! I’ve never seen those teams play so hard. Especially Jordan’s team. They were fighting for it. They lost still, but they were really going after it. Jordan’s coach took me aside after the game and said he’d really like to see Jordan get into some specialized goalie clinics because that’s where he excels at. (We knew this.) He is going to really push him as goalie next season. I got both of them registered for soccer next season when came home.

After soccer we went to the Chinese buffet. I took pics of my kids trying to use chopsticks, but this post is already loaded with pictures and the baby is sleeping on one of my arms, so I’ll hold those for another day.

Then we went to Old Navy because I have absolutely nothing to wear to my Great Aunt Wanda’s funeral on Tuesday. She was my Uncle Marvin’s wife, he passed away last year.

Then we came home and I worked on my new kit that I just keep adding to. I may have to separate the darn thing into a main kit and an add on. I can’t help it. I just keep getting more ideas. It’s turning into a mish mash now though. LOL I think I may have to rename it. It started out as a soft spring kit and now it’s bright and happy. Maybe I’ll call it Happy Happy Joy Joy.

Alright. I’m going to sign off, lay this baby down, and get to work.

Again, thanks Megs! You rock rock rock!

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Never been a fan of the Jonas Brothers but …..

Posted by Heather Manning On June - 3 - 2009

Couldn’t even tell you one name of a song of theirs. I know I’ve heard them, just don’t know much about them. I now have a new profound respect for Joe Jonas though after coming across this video -

I mean, how can you not have respect for a man who goes through with whatever the promise was of a catsuit, heels, Beyonce, and some funky dancing. ROFL

Joe, you’re eye brows still bug me. Can I tweeze them please? Not like a lot. Just a little.

Someone tell me why my son knows the Jonas Brothers’ names? I thought he liked David Cook. LOL

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Some new pictures and another layout

Posted by Heather Manning On June - 3 - 2009

Got 2 more layouts done last night. One I have to wait until Miki releases the kit to show off but I love how it came out. On this one here, I may have gone overboard. LOL I started out with a picture of Jordan holding Christiano at the park. Christiano wasn’t in the mood for a photo session so I snapped a quick pic and took him back. Then I got into this kit by NewLifeDreams and went crazy. I think I like how it came out though.

Credits here. I’m feeling lazy and am not uploading these to Fotki, just straight from Windows Live Writer and I’m not sure why it insists on putting a drop shadow on my pictures (the reason I upload them usually). Anyone know how to turn that option off?

Katiana at our playground at our apartments the other day. Why they can keep the apartments all picked up and repaired and not take care of the playground is beyond me. I rarely take the kids to this one. It’s just ugly. But they love it anyway.

Kat warming up at her soccer game on Saturday.

Christian enjoying the soccer game. All 16 lbs of him. He recently learned how to stick his tongue out. LOL His new favorite game while drooling all over whoever is holding him.

Alyce found me with a camera

Jordan looking intense at his game. The games were at the same time and luckily at the same place so Pato and I took turns at each game.

This would have been the coolest shot of Jordan after saving a goal from happening if I would have had him centered, would have had him focused, and maybe waited a second longer to shoot. I just went too fast. You know how quickly these games move.

After the game we went to the Olive Garden, then garage saleing, then home, then off to our favorite park. The girls swinging.

Making sand angels

And Kat’s sand angel

Now a couple of fun pictures I snapped last night on my cell phone. Did you notice my message to Pato on Facebook last night:

Pato if you didn’t want him to have a purple mohawk you shouldn’t have left me with clippers, kool aid, access to the internet for instructions and nothing else to do. dishes you say, so not as much fun.

I cut Jordan’s hair. Since he was little he hates having his hair cut, would freak out, doesn’t want the clippers near his head, gives the stylest a hard time, etc. It’s just easier for me to deal with it here. Well, last night we had a little fun.

Yep, Jordan has a mohawk.

Does he look surprised that I let him do it? LOL

Then we looked up instructions on kool-aid hair dye.

for short hair – 3 packets of kook aid, a couple of drips of water, and a couple of drops of conditioner. Mix the paste up so there are no lumps. Spread over head. Cover with saran wrap and tape into place. I couldn’t find the tape so we used a yellow headband. ROFL Sleep on that for 10 hours and shower in the morning.

This really only works on blonde hair because the only part of Jordan that was purple this morning was his scalp.

At least we had fun.

And Pato, it will grow back. I promise.

June Blog Train post is here.

Have a wonderful day!

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A new layout

Posted by Heather Manning On June - 2 - 2009

I’ve got tons of pictures from this weekend to edit, but I felt like scrapping. I just finished this one up and thought I’d share.

I used Miki’s new kit Liliana. Isn’t it gorgeous? You should see the next one she has coming out too! It’s so beautiful!

I’ll edit some pictures and post those tomorrow!

Have a great evening!

P.S. June Blog Train is right below this post!

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Welcome to the June Blog Train

Posted by Heather Manning On June - 1 - 2009

I decided to hop on board this month!

Here’s my part for you to grab, then I’m sure you’ll want to head on over to the next stop!

Download HERE

Here’s a coupon for those of you traveling through to my store here at digiscrapping.net.

40% off any purchase

Coupon Code – junebt40

1X use per customer

Expires July 15, 2009

~~And for those of you who are quick – here is a coupon code for $3.00 in my store for the first 10 people to use it. No purchase required.~~

~~Please only use it once. It wouldn’t be nice to others if you didn’t.~~

~~Coupon Code – 3foryoujunebt~~

~~$3.00~~

~~1X use per customer~~

(as of 10:30 PM June 1, there are still 4 uses left for the coupon. I don’t think people are reading this far down, so that’s good for you that have! I’ll update this when I see that they have all been used.)