Nothing Fun...

Have nothing to post that is fun but wanted to post SOMETHING! Although, I did make some Fall cards and they came out so devine! I gave each of my closet friend a card. =) I even made Alex one I'll post pictures later.

Weekend Wrap-Up

Yesterday we went and bought a new TV and DVD player. We purchased a Phillips 27" for $250.00 at Walmart. What a Good Deal, right! So we put the new TV in the living room and placed the old one in the bedroom. We defintely put the TV and DVD player to use last nite and watched some DVD's.

Today we just relaxed and ran some errands. I took my car in and went to Michaels and Scrapbook Dreams to get a few things for some cards I will be making.

Tonight I am meeting with my scrapbook friends to watch the season premier of Desperate Housewives!

Can't Wait!!!!

Much Needed Break

Well today was a much needed REST day. I've been s tired lately since I've been back at school and work is busy. So when I was waking up this morning I was so tired and exhausted I decided to not go into work and take the time to sleep. I know that it's not the smartest thing to do, but in order for me to succeed at everything I do I needed this time to rest. I literally slept all day and it was so nice to get caught up.

Part of the reason I'm so tired is I'm just non-stop at everything. I realized that I was burning myself out by trying to go to school, work, spend time with friends and family and there was no balance. So I've decided to take some time out and not make so many plans with people. I'm going to need to use my weekend to do homework and rest. I know that I have to see my friends and family and I will but I'm going to balalance it all out. I also thought being busy was fun in a way, not sure which way, but I realize it's not. I need my sanity and energy to do well. Especially that I'll be starting my new position soon at work I want to do %100 so I need my rest.

Well enough about that..on another note I'm so excited that this weekend me and Alex are FINALLY getting a TV for the bedroom! Which means we are going to be spending alot of time in the bedroom watching DVD's on the weekends! YAY! See little things like this make me happy!

Well now it's time to get ready for work and school. Until next time............

What A Happy Turn-Out

Today was my parent's 5-year wedding anniversary! I decided to get the family together for a brunch and celebrate their love. I went to Whole Foods and got some fruit, champagne and OJ for some mimosas. Then I headed to Panera Bread and got some yummy bagels.

My family loved Panera Bread and loved the entire brunch. As for gifts my parents loved the scrapbook and it just brought everyone to tears. They also loved the pictures of the kids as well.

In the end my parents thanked me and they all said I am the best daughter for giving them a brunch and celebrating their special day with the family.

I am just so blessed to have a loving and warm family. Aside from all the family drama we really know how to come together to celebrate and have a fun-filled day.

First Night Back

Tonite I got to play Bunko again with some friends. I so missed them and it was such a pleasure to see all of them again. I'm just glad that I can play again since I don't have any classes on Thursday nites. YAY!

GO BUNKO!

Coming to an End

Well since Alex is out bowling with some friends...he joined a league. So I had some "free" time to wrap up my parents' wedding scrapbook and I just have 2 more pages and I am done! YAY! It was alot of work and MONEY, but I've learned new techniques so when I start to work on another book. Not sure which one since I have three pending albums. I have a "friends", "family" and Chapter 2 of me and Alex. I guess I can work on all 3 at the same time as events or special moments occur.

Well gottta go now to do some homework! BOO HOO!!!!!!!

Scrapbook Fest 2006-Part 1

This past Saturday was my scrapbook party and it turned out good! I was pretty much Martha Stewart, but not as perfect as her! I made cupcakes that stood on a cupcake stand, buffalo wings, and other snacks. I also went to Michael's and made each guest a cute goody bag. It contained Halloween stickers for a card or scrapbook page, stamp and a hold puncher. They really enjoyed and appreciated it all!

I was able to work on my parents book and it's coming out so cute! Luckily my friends had a few ideas and products I was able to use to make the page stand out more. I'm so going to have to take another trip to Michael's to grab more crafty supplies!

In the end we had fun and I enjoyed myself very much!

What a day!

Today was such a crazy day! I started school this week so I can to take care a few things and still be at work at the same time. So I'm tired, but for some reason still up and online!

Gotta love myspace and Blogger!

Although I am looking forward to this Saturday since it's my scrapbook party and I have a few things going on with that. I'm baking and making lil gifts for my guests. I tend to go overboard, but hey that is just me! =)

Well good nite!

Carmel was so nice!

Well we headed up to Carmel yesterday and had such a good time. We went to two wineries and did some wine tasting. Man after the 3rd glass I was so feeling it, but being me I ended up drinking more. We went to Heller Estates which was really cute and cozy. The staff was really nice to us. Then we went to Bernandus...now that was nice but straight up posh! If you drove a Mercedes and looked like a million dollars they were extra nice, therefore me and Alex are either so we got fair treatment. Afterwards we headed to Carmel Beach on Ocean Avenue and went to the lil shops. Had some lunch at this ice Italian resturant and then to my suprise we headed to Tiffany's and Alex bought me this cross! We just went it to "look" and I saw that necklace and I though well I'll save for it, but Alex was like we'll take it. AWW SO SWEET,RIGHT? Then, we headed to the beach and just snuggled up and watch the other beach goer's and all the cute kids. Since the sun had gone away we weren't able to see the sunset so we just headed home.

It was such a good day to spend with Alex since we don't spend too much time alone. Can't wait for the next "date".

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.