Summer is coming to an End!

Since summer is coming to an end, I have to say I have had a wonderful summer. I spent much needed time with Alex, my family, and friends. Lots of memories to remember and scrapbook.

A good thing has happened to me at work...I got an opportunity to work more in the Daily Val group and hopefully become a consultant. This has been such an exciting process, but I'm nervous as well. So to say I think my goals here are coming true.
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So this weekend me and Alex are headed to Carmel for the day to finalize the summer. We're going to bring our pinic basket filled with cheese, crackers, and some wine. We plan on having lunch at this cute Italian restaurant, do some window shopping, and end the evening watching the sunset. So romantic right!

The Latest

Since I haven't been bloggin it's because I have been to busy with scrapbooking! I'm just about done with the "Friends" book, athough it's a never ending project. But so far it has come out really cute!

I'm now going to start working on my parent's wedding album. Since it's their 5 year next month and I know my mom wished that she had a better photo album, I'm going to scrapbook all her wedding photos, take a few pictures of me and the kids...maybe professionally, and I asked a few of our family members to write a nice note or words of wisdom and then placed all that in the book. I think she will really appreciate the scrapbook. =) I'm so excited as well.

Also I just discovered this new scrapbook store, well actually a friend introduce me to it! It's called Scrapbook Island and OMG I love it!!! I think that is going to be my "main store" for scrapbooking and of couse Michael's.

I know how to focus on my parent's album, my scrapbook party that I'm having on the 9th and just finish helping my mom with Raymond's baptism. And then school starts for me in 2 weeks!! ARGH!

As you can tell I am busy! But it's definetely been fun.

Gurl's Nite

No we are not going clubbing! HAHAHA

Me and a co-worker, Rachel are going to scrapbook tomorrow nite (Friday) and I'm so excited for two reason.

1. Um...we are SCRAPBOOKING! I'm going to finish a page or two of a camping trip I took with some friends this past October and work on the final "Summer Days" of my good friend Iliana. Can't wait to show you sweetie!!

2. She gets to see my santuary...my home. Now I know some of you have seen my place, but I get all excited when I have new company. Even though I live in an apt. and its sort of small I think its cute and homey. There are just pictures of family and friends everywhere and I always have fresh flowers. Now I usually go way out, but since we are meeting afterwork and tonite was date nite I didn';t get to do too much. So I just placed a craft table up for all our scrapbook supplies.

Oh and I'm getting the Sizzix on Saturday! Another hot item to add to my "tool box." Thanks Grandma

Movie Nite

Well last nite me and the "Scrapbook Crew" saw Step Up. I though it was so cute and yes the main guy, Tyler, is freaking HOTT even Nora, one of the dancers. All in all it was a good movie.

It's Monday.....

Nothing new and exciting to post. Except that I went to my first class of BOOTCAMP at the gym this morning and oh my goodness it was tough! First I though oh yeah piece of cake, I know my stuff at the gym...um not so much. I was haulin butt and couldn't keep up at all.

First I was frustrated cause I love working out and I'm very good at it so I couldn't see why I was so slow. But then I realized I'm not used to this. Give me a couple more weeks and I'll feel better about it.

I haven't been to the gym in like 3 days and already I was feeling fat so I was so glad that I was able to get back in the groove of things this morning.

Back to Boot Camp on Monday!!!!

Being Sick Really.....

SUCKS!

It all started Friday AM..I had a running nose, sneezing, and a slight ear ache. At first I though it was allergies, but I don't have allergie, but I kept pysching myself out that I had. Well it turned out to be a head cold. I've been in bed since Friday, 4:00pm til this morning at 9:00am. It really sucked cause I had fun things to do on Saturday and I couldn't make it to both. I had a craft party to attend and then afterwards I had a Farewell Pool Party that I was suppose to attend along with a fruit salad and matte sign framed. Luckily my friend's mom had a matted frame already so that the idea was still in place. I'm just really bummed that I was sick and couldn't do nothing all weekend.

Although today I feel much better...I woke up feeling much better, but I still have the sniffles, but I'm able to do some around the house chores and got to use my Kitched Aid Mixer; its a white one. OMG this is the best thing ever! Since I'm more of a baker and not a cooker I love it. So I whipped up a batch of cupcakes for Alex since he was so kind and sweet to me this weekend. Now I get to bake more and the cool thing is my mixer came with a dessert cookbook! YAY for me!

First Card

Here is a picture of my first card that I've made all on my own! YAY for me!

Its sort of blurry, but it says "Wishing you a day full of joy".

I made it for a couple friend who is about to celebrate their one year wedding anniversary.

Money, Money, Money

So now that I'm back to the grind, I had some bills to pay and go over our budget and let me tell you that WHOA we've spent way too much money over the last few weeks. I know that it was our vacation and all, but I just wish that I would have been more careful about spending money.

Alex and I are not big spenders and we are huge about saving money. We're not in CC debt, but we also don't have a HUGE savings account...but who does these days and we have our 401(k) so right now being on a strict budget is good for us.

So when I told him that "honey we need to budget a lil more in the next few weeks" he was lil bummed as I was too cause that means no more eating out for lunches/dinners, no more Starbucks, well no I take that back just have to limit the coffee breaks, and no more buying SCRAPBOOK SUPPLIES! I have enough for now.

Its just going to have to go back the way things were which is fine, but after a 1.5 off of just "Whatever" you kinda get used to it. At least for us we did.

Taking this all into consideration it was way worth it so I can get back to the budgeting and spending our money more wisely.

Last Day of Vacation

Today is my last day of vacation and summer in a sense. Kinda bummed but happy at the same time. We ended our last day with a delicous breakfast at Denny's, came home and napped, watched a few tv shows and then this evening heading over to my grandmas and mom's. Although tonight I'm going to need to put myself back to work frame. I have a meeting tomorrow so I will need to get mentally ready for that.

All is all I had a wonderful vacation, did some soul searching, spend tons of much needed time with Alex and the family, and also got to hang out with some friends. Accomplsihed a few crafty and "around the house" projects. Now ready to get back to work, start school in a few weeks and start savng some money;we've spent WAY too much money this summer and was totally off budget, but hey it was worth it and now time to get serious.

Now to the next chapter in my life.......the real world! =)

Crafty I am!

So I'm now on my way to fnishing up my "Friends Scrapbook". I'm so exicted cause its coming out so cute. I still have a few more memorable moments to scrapbook and then I'm all done. Last night the scrapbook crew came over and we scrapbooked for a few hours and got to know each other more. Had so fun and intersting conversations. I wish my friends the very best!

Although after realizing that I just have way to much supplies such as paper and stickers I'm no longer allowed to buy more of that. Lori recommned a scrapbook store so I'm going to have to go there and get some more stuff! But all in all I created a inventory list of what I have now. So going forward I'm always going to look at the list of supplies and see what I have before I go buy anything. I still need to get some cute boxes to store all my stuff in to be more organzied. One day when we buy our home I'm just going to have to have a scrapbook room.

On that note, I've accomplish alot of scrapbook to do stuff last nite.

Crafty I am!

So I'm now on my way to fnishing up my "Friends Scrapbook". I'm so exicted cause its coming out so cute. I still have a few more memorable moments to scrapbook and then I'm all done. Last night the scrapbook crew came over and we scrapbooked for a few hours and got to know each other more. Had so fun and intersting conversations. I wish my friends the very best!

Although after realizing that I just have way to much supplies such as paper and stickers I'm no longer allowed to buy more of that. Lori recommned a scrapbook store so I'm going to have to go there and get some more stuff! But all in all I created a inventory list of what I have now. So going forward I'm always going to look at the list of supplies and see what I have before I go buy anything. I still need to get some cute boxes to store all my stuff in to be more organzied. One day when we buy our home I'm just going to have to have a scrapbook room.

On that note, I've accomplish alot of scrapbook to do stuff last nite.

What A Man!

I just would like to say I have the best husband ever! Babe I love you!

Even though today is consider one of our vacation days, I got to spend some time with my friend Jen. She is getting married in January and we had to get some wedding stuff done and she was taking me out for my b-day. I felt really bad cause we had said that we were going to take the next few days left together meaning no friends and family, but since he knew how important this was to Jen he was totally cool with it. NO QUESTIONS ABOUT IT! Of course he could have threw a huge fit but he didn't. That is what I say "WHAT A MAN!"

It was a good day spent with Jen since we don't have alot of time to spend together except at the gym. And by the way we kicked ass today at the gym! We are going to look good for the wedding. She is going to be a hott bride and yes I am going to be a hott bridesmaid. HEHEHE
We picked out the bridesmaid dresses, well I got to and its just a simple black dress with a v-neck and back. So simple but elegant. Then we got to trying on some bridal dresses and OMG she is going to look so gorgeous! I love it! I can't really say what it looks like just yet, but I'll keep ya'll posted.

All in all it was a good day and I came home early to spend some time with Alex, even though he playing his PS2 right now.

Until next time.....................

Boy, What A Day!

Well today started off a lil shaky..I kinda woke up in a bad mood and was driving Alex NUTS! But luckily after my morning coffee I was good to go. =)

First started I had to get my depo shot. Now tell me this....what is with the receptionist talking in Portguese about going out today while I was standing there waiting for me to let her know I had an appointment and new insurance infomation to give her? I only knew what she was talking about cause Alex understood that language. Ummmm shouldn't all PERSONAL CALLS be taking during LUNCH TIME! YEAH! She was soooo rude!!! After that we headed to Hometown Buffet for lunch and that was way yummy. Of course if you know Alex, he had about 3 plates of food. Yeah my boy can eat! Then, we headed to TJ Maxx where I finally found a sign that says "Always Kiss Me Goodnight". Too cute, right! Once our shopping trip was over we saw the movie Click. Um its defintely a blcokbuster rental...luckily we had free movie tickets so I didn't feel bad abut wasting some moola on a bad film. Then we headed to Mervyn's and Bed, bath and Beyond for more shopping. Got a whole new bathroom design and bedroom desing. (Will post pictures later).

At last we are home to enjoy some time out on the couch, cuddling and and watching our Thursday nite shows: Making the Band 3 and Run's House!

Good Nite!

I'm New!

Well I just find out that two people that I know are currentky using this webiste to blog. Though I give it a try to see....

So here I am at home~blogging. I'm currently on vacation and loving it! It has been very mind relaxing but nerve racking at the same time. For a minute I was going nuts cause I had so much free time to myself. So instead I got in the kitchen and made some lunch, and jello for Alex and then I plopped on the couch to catch up on my rading and then headed out to a scarpbook party. Did some damage but so needed new supplies.

You know I can get used to this....until next time........