How cute are they. Sisters and so cute together for this shot. I had fun photography these two. They were so full of life and always ready to pose for my camera.

Look at this cutiepie. I had the opportunity to photograph her daughters for some christmas cards. This is Cierra. Took this picture outside her house on an overcast day.

lensbaby

This is a picture of my Hybiscus flowers I planted on the south side of the house. Got my new lensbaby lens for my canon 30D and decided it was time to play with it a little. I loved the effect it gives this flower. I am going to try some pics of zach later today and post them. This is a very fun lens.

It was simply a beautiful day for pictures..took my son and met my cousin michelle and her family and we practiced using our cameras. I set mine in manual mode, used my new expodisc to set my Custom white balance, set f/stop and worked at getting correctly exposed pictures. What do you all think? How am I doing. The one of my son is one of my favorites. I was just tickled that I could actually get my 18 year old out for some mommy time....LOL

The foot picture was taken in Knights Ferry, thought DS and I would take this popular scrapbook pose. The other picture is of the sunset outside my house. Used the custom function 12 mirror image on my camera for this one with a tripod.

album

ok I was so inspired from CE that I thought I would make this cute little ablum, kind of like our travel album we made. This one has an autumn theme, going to pumpkin patch and I am going to put b/w pics in it....can't wait....enjoy...thanks for looking

Look who we managed to snag for a photo opportunity with us, none other than the crazy, funny Margie from Making Memories... and a wonderful shot somebody took of me napping...did not feel good...LOL

Hey everybody...look who cruized by our table and stopped and chatted and had a "Skank" drink with me.....none other than the famous Donna Downey. She is a hoot...I absolutely had a blast at CE...it was wonderful meeting all my yahoo buddies, taking the awesome classes and meeting all the wonderful staff and teachers who made this event possible...I look forward to being able to attend this event next year...hopefully they will do another Bazzill warehouse tour cause we are driving next year and would love the opportunity to go. 

Aloha everyone....nope we are not in Hawaii....I WISH....but we are at my Aunt Janet's surprise 60th b-day party....we went with the Hawaiian theme...lots of time and prep went into this party...her daughter Michelle (my CE buddy) pulled off this awesome party with a little help from some family.....everyone was asked to dress accordingly and they looked great....the party was a huge success....after the older crowd left, the younger.....yes I said younger crowd stayed and got our groove on....in fact we even had the police called on us....uh oh...they were totally nice about it.....

Woohoo, check out this Victoria Secret rejects..this is me on the right and my friend Anna all dressed up and ready to go to Trailer trash Casino nite at the Dunes...what a great time we had that nite...you have to dress trashy in order to get into the casino to do some gamblin.....what fun. 

scraproom update

Woohoo...check it out...been working hard today...Michelles DH came over yesterday and put in baseboards so I got busy today doing some touch ups. My best friend Kelly and I headed to Lowes and bought the countertops and found these cute basket things to go underneath. 4 drawers in each one, bought 3...that 12 xtra storage drawers. Displaying a couple of my mini albums on side of cabinet. Got the magazine rack at Costco. I am lovin it. cant wait to get all my s-crap in it.

pismo

I posted some more pics from my "Summer Fun" album. This is a picture of my friend Kelly on my seadoo doing a trick..LOL.
This is me and Kelly on the left and our chef Ceasar with Danl in background goofing off.
This is my cover for the album. I also custom made the album this size out of foamboard and just covered it. It is 11 inches long by 6 inches wide.
Little girl on left is Meme, short for Malana. Other pic is Kelly and her dad with my goofy hat on.



Thats my mom on the right of the tube and DS girlfriend on the left.

Today is Sunday-the day to rest...hehe...I have been on vacation all summer...1 more week and then it's back to work...To answer your question Lisa...yes the writing on the left of that layout is a stamp. I believe it was from Creative Warehouse...not for sure...

lake

this is a pic of my friend Kelly on left, my mom center and me on the right. We spent a week at the lake camping. I thought I should post a picture of something that I actually scrapped. This is a mini album that I did. The whole theme is "Summer Fun". Used "We R Memory Keepers" the sunshine line....ribbon, paper, goodie box, chipboard letters and so on. We are having a drink and enjoying the weather. We jet-skiied and boated all week long. I was exhausted when we got home.

This is DS and his DGF-thats darling girlfriend BTW. They spent the day at the lake jet-skiing. She's definately a keeper in my book. I have her trained already. I gave her a digi camera and told her that whenever they go out she is to take pics of them doing things. She does a great job, she knows I am a scrapbooker. On their prom she took photos that I would of never gotten...from the dance and dinner, inside the limo ride, plus she brought me home memorabilla from restaurant. What more could a girl ask for....for her scrapbook stuff.

WOOOHOOOO....hows that wall for a bright pink...dried a bit darker than I expected...but i love it. If you scroll down the picture you can see the floor as well. My room will be done in pink and black with a white trim. Eyepopping I know. Dennis (he is cousins DH) sprayed a texture on it during this week and he needed it primered and painted before the weekend...so I having my summer off, got busy...put on the primer, then the shocking pink....then this morning I went ahead and cleaned up the floors and got it ready to put down. Darling son helped for a while. I just used the peel and stick squares of tile looking stuff. Man was that a sticky messy job. Anyways, I wanted to get my part done so when Den man comes over this weekend he just has to put in A/C and hook up all electrical, then I get to move in. I am so excited I can hardly stand it......

so how cute are these dogs with their goggles on. They were loaded in the front of a quad, which belonged to a volunteer ranger, couldn't resist taking a picture. The picture on the left is of me, Kassie, and my mother in law. We went on a trail ride to the Bohemian mines in Cottage Grove Oregon...what a fun dusty ride that was...the day ended not so good though, one of the riders that went with us....his bike went off the cliff down a 150 ft ravine to a small creek. Luckily he was able to bail off the bike before it went down. His injuries were minimal. The bike was recovered 3 hours later with my sons winch from his Rhino. The only salvagable part on the bike was the motor, rest was thrashed. Bummer for him.

oregon dunes jump

now here is sonny boy at the Oregon Dunes sporting his finished Rhino. Of course he is the daredevil of the family and he is jumping his over this jump out on the dunes. woohoo.

Ok so here is my finished Yamaho Rhino. My son and I took our Rhinos to Oregon with us to visit his grandparents. They manage a mobile home park in Eugene and have a big 4 b/r house so we had a place to stay for free. I bought new tire and rims for it. I had to take a pic cause I think it looks so awesome now. .we had a blast.

This is my son Zachary and myself on the hells canyon jet boat ride on the Rogue River in Oregon. What a great day we had doing this. Friends and family joined us. It was about a 4 hour trip with a stop halfway for a sit down catered lunch. They go all out for this lunch. The ride back was awesome. Our drivers name was Johnny and he did 360's in the boat. Needless to say we did get a little wet. Which was very refreshing because in the afternoon it did warm up a wee bit. My hat I have on BTW is a custom hat by Toby Keith himself. They had them for sale in the little shop, had pink ones but they were sold out. Darn it anyways. But I like this brown one too.

duece the new family pet

Everyone this is Duece. He is my sons pet ferret. I capture this photo of him playing in our front yard.
He is so darn cute. We sat and watched him play outside for about an hour. He is a busy little guy. He loves to dig in my flowers. He was having a blast.

outside of my room

Wow I am so excited, this is the outside of my scrap room. My cousin Michelle has loaned out her DH to me so he could build my room. It actually looks like a room now. He spent half of today putting up all the sheetrock. I went and picked out the flooring at Lowes. WOOHOO. Pretty soon I will actually be able to organize my scrap stuff.

inside of my scrap room

I am so excited this is my scrapbook room being built.