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Thursday, February 28, 2008
Da Breakin' Bokavich Boys
First, I just have to say I LOVE JibJab! They have the funniest stuff on there. But, the best part is that you can add your own heads to some of their videos and be the star! I experimented on one at Christmastime, and it was hilarious. I just noticed tonight that they had a new free one, so I personalized it with a few familiar faces and have posted it here for your viewing pleasure...Before you start the video, scroll down to the bottom of the page to my music playlist and press the pause button. Otherwise it will interfere with the sound on the video. Oh, and get ready to laugh your ass off!
Tuesday, February 26, 2008
Basketball Album
Well, basketball season is over. I really enjoyed the season. Raegan did too. She had great coaches that taught her so much about the game, and they did it with much patience. While many of the other coaches from other teams jumped up and down, screaming at their players, or just paced nervously up and down the court, Raegan's coaches sat calmly and quietly on the bench, occasionally making positive comments or helpful hints to the players. To show my appreciation, and because I am such a craft geek, I made them both a scrapbook. The slide show below shows the result. They were a HUGE hit with the coaches and the parents. I have to give big kudos to Casey for taking all of these great pictures of each girl on the team. I had all the girls sign the last page too on the final albums. Anyway, thought I'd share it with you...
I also just wanted to say how much I love my new discoveries! These slide shows are so cool! You can make them for FREE at Slide.com
I'm also loving the music I can now have playing on this blog. It was also FREE at Playlist.com.
I also just wanted to say how much I love my new discoveries! These slide shows are so cool! You can make them for FREE at Slide.com
I'm also loving the music I can now have playing on this blog. It was also FREE at Playlist.com.
Sunday, February 24, 2008
Yea, A New Post!
Sorry I haven't posted in awhile, but I keep having trouble signing in on Blogger for some reason. I keep having to reset my password. Anyway, I was finally able to get into my account, so here I am!
I've been a busy scrapper lately. I'm having so much fun with my discovery of these templates that I started making my own. I even started a blog to offer free templates for others to enjoy as well. Go take a look at Free Digital Templates by Lori. There are links to tutorials that explain how to use the templates if you are interested in giving it a shot.
Here are some of my latest layouts. I think I used templates for all of them. The templates I used either came from Miss Kim or from Simply Yin.
I've also added a slide show to the blog. It's at the bottom of the page, so you have to scroll down all the way to the bottom to see it. It doestn't fit all the way in the sidebar area, so until I figure out how to make it fit, it will stay at the bottom. It has a bunch of my most recent layouts on it. I'll keep adding to it as I do more layouts.
I've been a busy scrapper lately. I'm having so much fun with my discovery of these templates that I started making my own. I even started a blog to offer free templates for others to enjoy as well. Go take a look at Free Digital Templates by Lori. There are links to tutorials that explain how to use the templates if you are interested in giving it a shot.
Here are some of my latest layouts. I think I used templates for all of them. The templates I used either came from Miss Kim or from Simply Yin.
I've also added a slide show to the blog. It's at the bottom of the page, so you have to scroll down all the way to the bottom to see it. It doestn't fit all the way in the sidebar area, so until I figure out how to make it fit, it will stay at the bottom. It has a bunch of my most recent layouts on it. I'll keep adding to it as I do more layouts.
Sunday, February 10, 2008
Gorgeous Day!
We went up to Mount Shasta yesterday. Our original plans were to take the kids skiing, but we got to the ski park a little late to sign them up for lessons, so we decided to try that another day. Instead, we went sledding and just drove around enjoying the gorgeous day. It was so warm that we didn't even need our coats! Riley had an absolute blast sledding. He didn't want to leave. Raegan went down a few times, but the sled run was a bit icey and bumpy, and it was hurting her butt too much. Riley must be light enough that it didn't seem to bother him. Here's some pictures from our day...
Tuesday, February 5, 2008
I'm Back!
Sorry I haven't posted in so long. I am hardly on the computer very much lately, plus I was having some problems getting into my blog to add new posts. But I got it fixed, so I'm back!
I haven't been doing much scrapbooking lately, but I did stumble across this great new kit at Digital Design Essentials. It's called "Lovey Dovey". They had it on sale for only $2.99 for one day, so I had to get it. I don't usually buy too many kits, but I couldn't pass this one up. Here's the layout I did with it. I saw a sample of this same layout on the website and loved it so much I had to duplicate it.
I also wanted to share the month of February from the calendar that I made for myself.
So, not too much happening around here. We have had some crazy weather here the past couple of weeks. It has snowed about 5-6 times in the past two weeks! It didn't always stick, but still, that's the most it's ever snowed here in one winter. The last snowfall was on Saturday, and we got about 2-3 inches. Some of it is still in patches around here, but it has warmed up into the 50's the past couple of days, so it's been melting pretty steadily since then. :( We've been enjoying all the snow and wish it would stick around longer.
Well, it's Tuesday, which means American Idol is on tonight! Yea!
I haven't been doing much scrapbooking lately, but I did stumble across this great new kit at Digital Design Essentials. It's called "Lovey Dovey". They had it on sale for only $2.99 for one day, so I had to get it. I don't usually buy too many kits, but I couldn't pass this one up. Here's the layout I did with it. I saw a sample of this same layout on the website and loved it so much I had to duplicate it.
I also wanted to share the month of February from the calendar that I made for myself.
So, not too much happening around here. We have had some crazy weather here the past couple of weeks. It has snowed about 5-6 times in the past two weeks! It didn't always stick, but still, that's the most it's ever snowed here in one winter. The last snowfall was on Saturday, and we got about 2-3 inches. Some of it is still in patches around here, but it has warmed up into the 50's the past couple of days, so it's been melting pretty steadily since then. :( We've been enjoying all the snow and wish it would stick around longer.
Well, it's Tuesday, which means American Idol is on tonight! Yea!
Saturday, January 19, 2008
Up Early on a Saturday Morning
I really wish I could sleep in sometimes. It never fails. I'm tired all week and can't wait until I can sleep in on a Saturday morning, and when it's finally here, I'm up at 5:30am! It sucks!
Well, I'm just about over my bad cold I had this past week and a half. So glad about that. So far, nobody else in the family has gotten it.
Raegan has been playing basketball in a city league. She's on a team with 5th and 6th grade girls. I can't believe how tall some of these girls are! They are as tall as me and they're only like 11 years old! Raegan is actually one of the shortest ones on the team. That being the case, she is playing point guard because she's too short to rebound under the basket. She's been doing really well.
She played a couple of years ago at the YMCA, but it was coed, and there was only one other girl on her team, and the boys were all really good, so I don't think she learned all that much. She also just recently played on the school team, but because the team is technically a sixth grade team (they just let some fifth graders play because they needed more players), she didn't get to play much at all. So far, this experience on the team she's playing on now has been great. She has really good coaches and she gets to play at least half the game. She has improved so much in just a month. They had their second game last night, and although it was a close one (final score: 7 - 11), they won! Yes, the score was only 7 to 11. Not high scoring games like in the NBA. It's fun to watch though, and I hope she sticks with this sport as well as soccer.
When we got our new computer, we also got Photoshop CS3 with it. It's awesome, but so overwhelming. Casey and I have been playing with it somewhat, but still don't know too much yet. One thing I am learning how to do is do some of my digital scrapbooking with it. Alot of scrapbooking sites offer these templates. Basically all you have to do is plug in the paper and photos and any extra elements you want, and, voila, instant layout! Here are some I've done so far:
Well, it looks like it just about time to take Drake for his morning walk. His alarm went off in his head and he knows it's time (how does he do that?). Maybe I will be able to sleep in tomorrow morning! (Yea, right.)
Well, I'm just about over my bad cold I had this past week and a half. So glad about that. So far, nobody else in the family has gotten it.
Raegan has been playing basketball in a city league. She's on a team with 5th and 6th grade girls. I can't believe how tall some of these girls are! They are as tall as me and they're only like 11 years old! Raegan is actually one of the shortest ones on the team. That being the case, she is playing point guard because she's too short to rebound under the basket. She's been doing really well.
She played a couple of years ago at the YMCA, but it was coed, and there was only one other girl on her team, and the boys were all really good, so I don't think she learned all that much. She also just recently played on the school team, but because the team is technically a sixth grade team (they just let some fifth graders play because they needed more players), she didn't get to play much at all. So far, this experience on the team she's playing on now has been great. She has really good coaches and she gets to play at least half the game. She has improved so much in just a month. They had their second game last night, and although it was a close one (final score: 7 - 11), they won! Yes, the score was only 7 to 11. Not high scoring games like in the NBA. It's fun to watch though, and I hope she sticks with this sport as well as soccer.
When we got our new computer, we also got Photoshop CS3 with it. It's awesome, but so overwhelming. Casey and I have been playing with it somewhat, but still don't know too much yet. One thing I am learning how to do is do some of my digital scrapbooking with it. Alot of scrapbooking sites offer these templates. Basically all you have to do is plug in the paper and photos and any extra elements you want, and, voila, instant layout! Here are some I've done so far:
Well, it looks like it just about time to take Drake for his morning walk. His alarm went off in his head and he knows it's time (how does he do that?). Maybe I will be able to sleep in tomorrow morning! (Yea, right.)
Thursday, January 10, 2008
Feeling Extra Blah Today
Yuck, I'm sick today. I felt like I was getting a cold yesterday, so I started taking Zicam (awesome stuff!) every four hours, but by last night I was feeling pretty yucky, and I didn't sleep well at all last night. So, I decided to stay home today from work (I'm sure Harrison's mom will be thankful). I was feeling a little better, so I decided to play on the computer for a little bit.
Not too much to report today though. Yesterday was our first day back at school since our snow day on Tuesday. Things went fine.
So, every year I make calendars and give one to my parents, one to Casey's parents, and keep one for us. With the crashing of our old computer with all my scrapbooking stuff and pictures on it, I didn't get a chance to make one on time. For our dads' birthdays, instead, I made them each a desk calendar. The January sample is over on the right side of the page. Then I was looking at one of my favorite digital scrapbooking sites, The Shabby Shoppe, and noticed she had a cute calendar template for sale. I really wanted to still make a calendar, so I bought the template and made one for us. It turned out cute, and all I had to do was put in the photos, and place the month/day template over the background, and, voila! I put each page on a piece of black cardstock and then took it to Office Depot and had it bound. Love it!
Here's the January sample:
Well, I'm feeling like I need to go lay down again. Until next time...
Not too much to report today though. Yesterday was our first day back at school since our snow day on Tuesday. Things went fine.
So, every year I make calendars and give one to my parents, one to Casey's parents, and keep one for us. With the crashing of our old computer with all my scrapbooking stuff and pictures on it, I didn't get a chance to make one on time. For our dads' birthdays, instead, I made them each a desk calendar. The January sample is over on the right side of the page. Then I was looking at one of my favorite digital scrapbooking sites, The Shabby Shoppe, and noticed she had a cute calendar template for sale. I really wanted to still make a calendar, so I bought the template and made one for us. It turned out cute, and all I had to do was put in the photos, and place the month/day template over the background, and, voila! I put each page on a piece of black cardstock and then took it to Office Depot and had it bound. Love it!
Here's the January sample:
Well, I'm feeling like I need to go lay down again. Until next time...
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