Emily Jones

Pumpkin Patch Fun!

Every year we take the kiddos to the same pumpkin patch and get our pumpkins and take pictures, this year I decided to have the kids wear their costumes!

This is Picha's Pumpkin Patch, and even though it was raining the whole time we were there, I still ended up getting some really cute pics of the kids!

Here are my crazy babes...

Joey as Harry Potter: He was soooooo into it!

This is his SERIOUS Harry Potter face, lol!

This is Joey casting a spell on his pumpkin! LOL

Here is Jake as a Rhino, this pic cracks me up!  He was not havin' the picture taking thing!

This is what the top of his costume looks like, such a cute little Rhino!

This is Jake's impression of a scary Rhino face!  HA!

And Jakey finding his "perfect pumpkin"

 

Here is my little Cinderella!  She was so cute!  She is the perfect little princess!

She kept shivering so bad, so we ended up putting on her raincoat, isn't this a cute coat?  Goodwill find for $7!

 

And here is my lovely family, Jake was still not into getting his pic taken, he was kinda pissed, lol...
 

Jake ended up wandering out of the frame, so here is a smiley one of Joey and Lily with Daddy.

We are carving our pumpkins tonight!

We can't wait to trick or treat tomorrow!

And maybe, just maybe I will be in costume too!

Happy Friday!

Em

Busy, Busy!

Things have been so crazy the last couple weeks!

On the moving front, we are officially out of the old house and into the new!  We have about 60% of the boxes unpacked, but because of the schedule this last week and this week, it may take us until july to get all the way unpacked!

The birthday party for the boys on Sunday was so fun!  Unfortunately it wasn't hot enough to go swimming in the lake, but the kids all ran crazy on the playground!  There were about twelve kids total and their parents, we had a big cook out with burgers and dogs, and played pin the tail on the donkey and did a pinata.  Overall it was a big ole fun BBQ!
The boys made out like bandits in the gift department for sure!  Remote control cars, hot wheels galore, books, cute summer outfits, movies, a scooter for Joey and a talking construction hat for Jake, super soakers, and the biggest gift of all, the wii!  I think part of the lack of unpacking may be due in part to the wii!  LOL!  We've been playing like crazy!  The boys got a Ben1o game and a Bolt game, and of course it comes with the 5 sports games, so they've had plenty to play with! 
Joey picked up on how to use the controllers within minutes and is already on level three of Ben10 which is a 10+ game!  Jake LOVES the bolt game and likes to play with mommy.  I will hold the controller and he holds the nunchuck so we work as a  team!
After the kids go to bed J and I have been battling it out with the Wii sports!  I rock at bowling and boxing, he's better at golf and baseball...we're pretty evenly matched at tennis though...so funny...after playing for hours one night I woke up the next morning and my shoulder was sooooo sore!  It's the tennis game!  You slam the controller like a tennis racket, and J says my shoulder hurts because my "technique is lacking" HA!  I beat him a lot on tennis, so my technique can't be THAT lacking!  LOL!  We have now coined my sore shoulder as my "Wiinjury" hahaha!

Yesterday I hopped down to Ikea to pick up another expedit because the one I currently have for my scrap stuff won't fit up the stairs!  We are too afraid to take it apart because of how hard it was (and totally drilled incorrectly IKEA!) to get to fit together, so we just bought a new one to put together upstairs in the loft which is where my new scrap space is going to be.  That's on the to-do list for this weekend!

Oh, and tonight is election night at James' local!  He is nonminated for Vice-President!  Wish him luck and cross everything!  We will find out tonight at the meeting if he was elected!  I'm heading down there at about five tonight and will update tomorrow with the news!

This weekend we are going to our friend Michelle and Jorge's house for their kids bday parties...Isaac is turninig 9 and Bella is turning 5!  Hopefully Michelle and I can get in some scrapping time this weekend because we both have MLS projects to work on!

Okay, I'm off to get Lily dressed!  She is being such a stinker lately!  She is definitely a toddler these days, randomly undressing and running around in her diaper, tantrums galore when I won't let her have a drink of my diet coke or coffe (I know, I'm such a MEAN mommy! LOL!) and talking up a storm!  She has so many words these days!   Some new ones include:

Up!
Banana (not just nana, she now says bananananananana!)
Pew!!! (said while smelling her toes! LOL!
Mommy, Daddy (not just mama and dada, she now said Mommmmyyy and Daddddyy!)
Bo-Bo (her nickname for Joey, he loves it)
Kuh (what she calls Jake, I think she's making the K osund at the end of his name)
Car
Vroom!
All Done!
Mine! (this one we're not too excited about! ha!)
Puppy
Baby (this girl loves her some babies!)
Yum Yum!

And those are just a few!  She's quite the chatterbox!

Anyway, I'm gonna go get her dressed, go grab some coffe and maybe unpack a little before Joey heads off to school!  I'm gonna try to find my usb cord for my camera so I can take pics of the house and upload soon!

Hugs!
E

My Little Shoebox May Projects!

Hey there!

Thought I'd share my MLS projects for May....this month we were lucky enough to partner with Hambly Studios and use some of their products in conjunction with our MLS product!  I LOVE Hambly, so this was extra fun for me!

Also, this month at My Little Shoebox, we are focusing on showing different techniques with our transparencies and chipboard, so I have added those techniques in my descriptions.  You can find the rest of the MLS DT's techniques and projects here starting May 1st!

Playing Ponies

Journaling:

This was the best $2.99 I ever spent!  I found this My Little Pony house at the goodwill and you fell in love!  You now have4 ponies and love to bounce them around their house!

Technique: I used a nail file on the chipboard letters to create a cross-hatched pattern.

Love Birds

Journaling:

We are totally snuggly lovebirds!  Even after all these years, you still make me weak in the knees!  I am so lucky to have  found you and made a life with you.  I love our beautiful family and I love you! April 2009

Happy Lily

Journaling:

You are always smiling!

Technique: One of my favorite things to do with chipboard titles is to layer the letter for extra depth.  I also ran out of the letter "P" and used letter "a" turned upside down with the tails cut off!

Another technique here is creating personalized embellishments with the transparencies.  I used the "Who's There" flowers and stickled them so they popped right off the page! 

Beach Baby (MLS and Hambly)

J0urnaling:

Lily, I think your fave part of our beach vacation was sitting on the beach in your baby bikini!  Although I don't think you liked the sand too much after you figured out what it tasted like!

Expecting You (MLS and Hambly)

I used my square punch to punch out the MLS patterned paper and the Hambly Overlays!  I didn't know if you could punch through an overlay, but surprise! You can!  I then stitched the squares with my sewing machine and embellished!

Budding Artist (MLS and Hambly)

Journaling:

Lily you loved painting at the Children's Museum!  You were very excited to try it by yourself, and even though you got it EVERYWHERE it was great fun!  You painted such a pretty picture!

I created this paintbrush my free hand drawing the base and stem and used a die cut heart turned upside down for the brush!  I then flicked pink paint on the top and bottom of the overlay for added texture.

Congrats Card (MLS and Hambly)

So there they are!

Also, if you get a chance stop on over to Bella Blvd, where I am featured!

And oh yeah.....It's my birthday! ;-) Happy 25 to me!

-Em

Update

Hey!  I've fallen off the face of the earth!  Sorry!

My laptop is once again (DON'T EVEN GET ME STARTED ON THAT AGAIN) is in the shop.  Possibly from me throwing it off a 14 story building.  Okay, so maybe only in my fantasies. hehee...I hate that thing!
I am writing from J's computer, which is hard to get onto between him and the boys fighting over it! 

Not much to share today, lots of stuff going on at Joey's school, a couple projects and oh yea!  Joey's teacher finally got him tested for the gifted program and surprised us all by placing out of Kindergarten and into Second Grade!  How cool is that?!  He is such a smart cookie and we are so proud of him.  He is going to get some special work in the classroom and more one on one time with his teacher until the end of the school year and then next year will be a part of the gifted program that starts in first grade.  We made a decision a couple years back when we realized that he was very smart that we wouldn't want him to skip a grade.  I have known and heard people say that it did more damage than good to their child emotionally and socially to have them skip.  Do you have any experience in this?

What else have we been up to?  Hmmmm....well Sunday we went to the zoo with our friends John, Jana and baby Burton and had a great time!  Then Monday I babysat little Burton for John while he worked.  It was so fun (and exhausting!) to have another little baby in the house!  It was like a glimpse of what life would be like if Lily had been a twin!  Burton was great though, and ended up really clicking with Jake!  It was so cute, he kept climbing on Jake's back and hugging him.  At one point they snuggled up together under Jake's blankey and Burton almost fell asleep!  So cute!

Oh!  I also forgot to share that I got two layouts picked up for Scrapbook Trends!  One is for the September Issue and the other is for their Holiday Idea Book!  I'm so psyched! 

So, Monday is my birthday, the big 25!  LOL!  We are planning on celebrating on Friday at weekly poker night with my friend Jana, who's birthday is the day before mine, so we'll have a double celebration....then Sunday we're heading over to my parents house for my bday dinner.  I feel old this year.  LOL....I always feel older than my birthday though.  I feel like this year should be 35 not 25!  I think it's just because a lot has happened in the last 7 years! 

So that's what's up with me!  I am knee deep in my May projects for My Little Shoebox, and they are turning out CUTE!  I can't wait to share them! 

Oh!  And I hope you are voting for my boyfriend on American Idol!  He's gonna win!! I just know it!

Have a great day!
-Em

Thank You.

For the support.  For the kind words of encouragement, the comments here and the emails with your unfortunately similar stories.  I really appreciate you all.  But it's time to move on to happier things. 

I went to post a goodbye to my friends still left on that message board I spoke of, and found that I have been muted by whomever moderates the board.  Funny they felt the need to mute me when I never mentioned them by name, but I guess that's what happens when people start to become afraid of the truth.  But I digress.

So.

Here I am, looking forward.  Excited by the future and it's possibilities.

Really looking forward to taking off for the weekend with the hubs.  We are heading out tomorrow morning and will be back Sunday afternoon.  The perfect mini vacay.  Just what I need.

Check in Monday for some pics and layouts...

Love and thanks to you!

-E

The New Digs!

Soooo, we signed the papers!!!

We get the keys either tomorrow or Wednesday, and then we can start movin' on in!  I am soooo excited!  I just love this house and neighborhood SO much.  The house itself is a tad smaller then what we have now, but I am willing to sacrifice the extra space for the amazing community and school. 

So, without further ado, I will show you the new place!!!

(excuse the HORRIBLE photos, I remembered just as we were leaving, and RAN around the house all insane like getting the pics really fast!)

So here's the front gate, it's a gated community, which I'm pretty excited about..it's so nice to feel safe.

Here is the Outside!  Isn't it cute?  It's a light yellow, and the trim is white, and the shutters are burgundy.  It's a two car garage, and off to the right you can see the gate to the backyard!

Which bring me to my FAVORITE part EVAH!  The Backyard!  I added a little video for y'all to see so you could fully appreciate the awesomeness!

SOOOO cool, huh?!

So here is the inside:

The Kitchen..it look a lot smaller in this pic, but it's actually pretty good sized, the counter to the left holds the double basin sink, and tons of cabinet space below.  The cabinets are cherry wood and the counters are granite, YUMM!!  Our fridge will go right in that space to the right next to the orange wall...

The orange wall belongs to the dining room, which will become my scrap area.  I'm going to put this up against the orange wall, which will look purdy!  The dining table will become my scrap desk, which is actually something I have decided I'm okay with, it will enable me to scrap more during the day, and also to hang out with James at night while he lounges on the couch.

This is the fireplace! It has a mantle!  WOO HOO!  I've never had a mantle before, silly I know, but I am sooo stoked to be able to do Christmas stockings and whatnot!

So here is the master bedroom and bathroom, the room itself is HUGE, as is the closet!  The closet is seriously big.  There are shoe racks and even a storage space!  It's shaped like a big "L" so it's hard to show exactly what it's like in a picture.

The bathroom is sooo pretty!  It has a really deep tub, (I cannot wait to take a bubble bath in there!)  and a shower to the right.

 

This is the boys room, it's already painted green, which is pretty awesome, since it will match their stuff!  it has double doors which is nice because they will have lot of room when they open the doors to play.  Their closet is also a walk in, it's a good size for them.

This is the guest bathroom, which will also be the boys' bathroom, I am sooo looking forward to not sharing a bathroom with boys!  Well, at least 2 less boys!

This is the laundry room and hallway, it will be really nice to have a laundry room again!  I didn't have one in our current house, they washer and dryer were in a designated washer area off the kitchen, but I hated them being out in the open.

So, I didn't get a pic of the third room, I totally forgot!  But it will be Lily's room, it's a bit smaller than the boys room, still has a walk in closet though, and is not painted...

So that's the house!  We are officially in love!  I am going to post more pics as we get in and moved, but I wanted to keep my promise and share the ones I had! 

Oh!  One more thing!  You should totally stop by Making Memories blog tomorrow, June 24th!  Someone you know might just be featured there tomorrow!!!