Monday, July 6, 2009

sooo much to say...so little time


My parents anniversary card and some flowers....and we fixed an awesome dinner for them!!!!



The crowd to watch the fire works.
Kev and Daren getting ready to ligt fire works.



Jamie and Easton letting of fire works.









Easton and Lincon in the 4th of July golf cart parade.























I have not been posting regularly....I have been sleeping, nauseated, gassy and a little grumpy. Yes, I am pregnant, but I'm really early 8 weeks starting today. I am a little gun shy to talk about it b/c of loosing the first 2. I am trying, to have faith that this pregnancy will really come true for me, but I have doubts from the problems before. On the flip side we (my family and our friends) had another AWESOME time at the boat club this 4th of July. Kevin and his friends had a firework show that lasted 3 hours. Yes, my husband does waist a ton of money, however, so do I on stamps so it's sorta even. My brother in law's birthday is on the 4th so Happy B-day Nathan. My mother in law's b-day is also coming up...plus Kevin's dad is coming from AZ. next week so I'll have to get the house in shape before next week!!! Kevin has games Tues., Thurs, Friday, Sat., and Sun, and practices on the day in between so I won't see much of him this week, which was another great reason we got to spend the weekend at the boat club, it helps us reconnect. Although I notice that I get a little more tired when he is around to take care of me and do all of the things like, loading and unloading, that I have to do when he's not around :P. I deserve to be babied every once in a while, right??? Yesterday I think the weekend caught up with time b/c I fell asleep 3 times during the day and slept for several hours....I have pics of course....I'll post them tonight when I get home from work. O yea, and I went to Teegan's play performance where she was a pirate and yes I did make her a card, above!!!

Sunday, June 21, 2009

Happy Father's day.....





































Hello all who read my blog....I have been running around doing all kinds of things, just this weekend we went to Relay for Life, the Boat club, swimming and had a father's day feast!!!! Speaking of Father's day, I'm setting here watching "The Grand Torino" with 3 of my 6 favorite men. My dad, my husband, and my son, I love them sooo much, now I'm just missing my brothers :P My father's day cards are simple yet I totally love this color combo. My Dad is truly the BEST FATHER EVER!!!! My husband is learning from him and I am so blessed to have them in my life!!! I made this frame out of an old screen that my husband wanted to trash, telling me " you'll never do anything with it..." I just stamped it with stazon and used a stampin up alphabet stamp set and a unity bg stamp, printed off some of my favorite pics from this year and stapled them to the screen. I topped it off with some cute stickers and it is now mounted on my living room wall. I'm very proud of it!!!!!

Sunday, June 14, 2009

It's our anniversay!!!!!!











Today is the actual day of our 6 year anniversary, and it really seems like yesterday I was going out with the girls and swearing off relationships when I hit on my husband.....and then we got married!!!!! I don't know where to start about my wonderful husband, don't get me wrong, we aren't always the "perfect couple," but we get through the tough stuff and keep on truckin'. To me marriage is like coloring a picture, you are bound to mess up at some point but you just fix it and make the picture look better than when you started. My husband is helping my dad coach American legion baseball, as he has for the past 5 summers, he has grown as a dad, a coach, a role model, and as a man. I am proud that he is with me, even if I don't always tell him this. Why is it that we don't tell the people closest to us how much we need them.....I think I don't b/c Kev acts like I'm just trying to be Corny....but I don't know where I would be today without him. Aside from everything he is, we also have made the most hansome little boy, who has also changed the world we lived in. Thank you Kevin, I love you soooooooooooooooo much!!!!
The card is an extra large image that I printed off from the Greeting Farm, I even included a mole for the finishing touches. I tried once again for the challenge, because I would love to win 3 stamp sets!!!! The challenge is to only use one layer and some embellishments....so I decide that the image it's self could be the card.... I hope you have a great Sunday, we have 2 birthdays : one at the Zoo and one at the pool, possibly 2 ball games that I may only get to one, and I would like to fix something for my husband to celebrate.... We went out to eat Friday thanks to my brother Adam and my sister in law Marcee, who had a slumber party with Easton and then on Saturday we went to 3 ball games starting at 8am and ending at 8pm, plus Easton and I played at 2 parks, he took a nap, I finished father's day cards and cleaned the house and after the last game my mom and dad took us out to eat...just in case you were wondering why I have been posting.....Later.

Monday, June 8, 2009

some random pics....




Marcee (sil) and son Kanon




Kanon and my older brother Adam










my mom and dad







My boy at practice
I am a little slow at editing my pics and I haven't really made any great cards...well actually I do have some I just need to take a picture and post them... I keep falling out of time, or at least I have don't have time to post and make as many cards. We've been swimming, almost everyday....and now I watch my brother's daughter so that makes it 3 kids, 2 dogs, and a Bunny....house work....you know the rest. So here are a few pics of my thousands that I have taken of my parents party and Easton's Tee ball practice...tons more to come if I ever get time off...not likely anytime soon. Plus my helpful Husband helps coach with my dad during the summer and is hardly ever home in the summer, I really miss him, however I don't have to eat a whole meal and can do whatever I want, including talk on the phone. But I haven't gotten home before 9 in the last 2 weeks...so.... not too much had gotten done in the way of card making. We are having fun other ways!!! Catch ya later!!!!

Wednesday, May 20, 2009

Happy B-day Janelle


I made this for my dear friend, Janelle. She is a nurse with me in oncology. I used the curious card challenge over at the greeting farm. I loved and had even printed it out prior to them choosing it...I'll have to try it again!!!! We had a fun filled weekend and a jam packed week. I just do the weekend b/c I have to leave soon....We went out for my friend Erika's surprise b-day party and then decided to walk home (approx. 27 blocks), it was nice for husband and I just to have some alone time. We went to the boat club painted the shed, and had Kev's cousins out, and then gave the girls a hair cut and went swimming on Sunday. I took some pics that I'll have to share tomorrow seeing as it is time for me to head to work.....

Coach Krol, my dad


Hello Peeps, I am just setting down to eat a bite for lunch at 2:30....we have been at the boat club all weekend celebrating my mom and dad's birthdays. Plus my youngest brother Mace is leaving Tuesday to play ball in Mo. He is going to Jucco now and lives with us...I'm really going to miss him!!!! Now on to my dad, AKA. Coach Krol. He is not only a very strong man, christian, coach, father, teacher, he also is one of the softes, kind, loving and supporting man I have and will everyone know. I know that you are thinking yeah right, her parents can't be that great, but they are AMAZING!!!!! I love that my dad can't whistle, but when he makes that weird sound a ball games that is more like gleeking everyone that has ever played for my dad turns their head. I love that my dad has been Santa for every and it is the only Santa that is real, in my books. I love that my dad would play catch with me even after teaching all day, having practice, and then finally getting home at 6. My dad gave us our baths, tucked us in and said prayers with us. I love that my dad is an awesome dad despite the fact that his father died at a very young age and my dad had to live a very hard life without him. I love that my dad beat up a kid in grade school b/c they were picking on an handicap boy, my dad got suspended and the little boys parents came to thank my dad for sticking up for him!!!! My dad is a hero to more men than I could every guess. He commands everyone and is respected by those that have any brains!!! I love that my dad had a dream to build a baseball field, and now there is one. I love to watch my dad take care of my son and my husband, in hopes that they will both become the father my dad is!!! I love that my dad would let me go last in line for spankings :P As you can tell, I love my dad and just to finish this...I would like to add some Texas Mow-Mow, but this special language is only for my family and my dad's players....whom are our extended family, Thanks dad I love you and happy birthday.

Diana, my Mother



Happy Birthday mom!!!!!! I love my mom soooooooooooooooooooooooo much!!!!!!!!!!!!!! My mom is our family bra. Yes, I did just compare my mom to a bra, she is strong, holds us together, I can't live with out her, she helps me to be a better woman, she is very honest (maybe the most honest person I know), loves without reservations, I am very blessed to have been born with such an amazing mother!!!! She has not only shaped our family but continues everyday shaping our kids future!!!! There is no other person I would ever trust to tell me the honest truth besides my mother, my mom and I are very alike in some ways and in other we are exact opposites. I love that she will be honest enough to tell me that she loves my brother's boughten cards more than she loves my home made heartfelt cards....because that is who she is!!!! I love that when we (Adam, Mace and I) got a B on a test in school we got the disappointing look and if Noah got a B he got praises!!! ( Now I realize that Noah totally knew what he was doing, lowering mom's expectations of him, that darn sneaky kid!!!!!) I love that after a ball game, that my mom never missed unless she was with another kid at another game and would be there as soon as she could, my mom would be sure to point out our mistakes if we started in on how well we did. My mom is so amazing that she would pack us cooked hot dogs in a thermos so that she could save enough money to help us through college w/o taking out any loans (Mace is the only one left in college)....out of 4. My mom had us write book reports all summer long, but more importantly she took us to the library!!!! My mom helped us with all of our 4-H projects from age 6-till 17. She made us breakfast every morning, packed us lunches everyday, had homemade diner for us after practice (I mean everything from scratch) bread from flour, chili from canned tomato sauce, and fresh baked Cinnamon rolls!!!!! My mom was there after school everyday, she knew where we were, who we were with and what time we would be home, even when we were in high school, mom would wait up with dad until we got home and then we would talk for hours about the evening!!!! My mom never would make us do homework until we played for awhile, then we had to practice the piano for 20 min. everyday, do the dishes, and then homework. I love that AC didn't make it into our house until I was in High school, cable came my Jr. year. My mom totally focuses on what is important, so we did without in some areas so that we could make it in others. If that meant shopping at Goodwill or going to where ever the deals were best for groceries. My mom has ran the concession stand for I don't know 20 years. She made enough money to make the Field have lights, pay for umpires, build a concession stand with bathrooms.....all by sacking up seeds, making her relish, buying the drinks, cooking the food, and well stocking everything!!!!!! Besides working behind in there all spring and summer!!!!!! My mom is the BEST!!!!!!! We (our family) would not be where we are today without my MOM!!!!!!! There is nothing I could ever do that could measure up to be better than her, I can only strive to be like her!!! Thank you mom and Happy B-day, I hope you like this card!!!!!

Bull riding..........





Yes it is true, that is me riding the mechanical bull!!! Hello every one, it's my day off and it has already started out wonderful and it's only 7am!!! I fed the bunny, made coffee, took the dog out, switched the laundry, made 2 cards, made 5 pages in my thank you scrapbook, spent sometime with my husband before he left for work, laid with Easton when he woke up at 6 for a few minuets, (I told him he could go back to bed b/c it was my day off and he said, "I love your days off, tell me what fun things we're going to do today", as his eye lids slid shut....) I love those moments!!!! I am trying to get the next few posts made b/c 1. it's my parents b-day's this week, 2. I've already made the cards, 3. the week never gets slower after Wednesday, 4. we are going to the boat club Fri.-Sun. so that only gives me Thursday to post.....anyways, I made these scrapbook pages for Kev's parents that live in Arizona, whom we stayed with, as my way of saying thank you. I am going to try and get this all done in the next couple of weeks...hopefully!!!! I don't know what we have planned for the day, maybe the library, the zoo, and a picnic in the park, followed by a nap, putting in the garden and ending with a church carnival!!!! I think that sounds jam packed so I better get the laundry ut away before Kanon gets here and Easton wakes up!!!! LATER!!!!!

Monday, May 18, 2009

Life....











Isn't life funny...I am ready for another VACATION!!!! We do have a Monday of, so that will have to do. There are 2 girls that are having a baby soon, so time off is going to be very hard to come by. Soni and I hung out with Kev's cousin's kids...We did some stamping, movies, popcorn...a regular AWESOME Friday night, minus the hail, mushroom clouds, and possible tornado weather!!! Saturday we went shopping for my remodel kitchen. I decided not to move and to take out a loan and add the things to my house that I really, "really" want. So I'm adding a double door from the dinning room, gutting out the kitchen, new wood floors, new windows, a covered patio, a garage, and possible a hot tub!!!!! Just a few things. Why you ask don't I just move, well I like where we are located, I love my hardwood floors...privacy fence, developed yard and flower gardens (which we have worked and worked to make them beautiful), my laundry shoot, and my unique loft bedroom just to name a few things I love, oh yes and my 80 year old and 91 year old neighbors who totally ROCK....so we're staying put!!! Here are some pics of Friday Mushroom clouds, bubbles with Bobbie (Soni's son), pics of the girlly party, and a card for my Sister in law... Happy B-day girl!!!!!





Friday, May 15, 2009

Thank you cards and AZ pics





Me ridding the mechanical horse, yes, I rocked it and didn't fall off!!!


A pic of the Rockies (FROM THE AIRPLANE!!!!!)

Kev, Easton, and Kev's dad Robert enjoying an outdoor western show

I am trying to get some order in my life but Life just happens!!!! Yesterday was another packed day off. Kanon, Easton, and I hung out till 9am and the headed with the 2 girls (dogs) to mom's to watch her day care kids. We ( all nine of us) played outside most of the day. I took Easton, Teegan, and Kanon to the park after we got to town, planted some flower my mom gave me starts to, packed to go to my sister-in-laws, went to a going away party for a friend, played tee-ball and jumped on the trampoline, set in the hot tub, and finally took showers and headed home, I forgot to start with making a few thank you, putting away laundry, doing the dishes, and picking up the house before we left at nine.....This morning I already fed the bunny, exercised, and posted.....now if I can do this every morning before work....we'll see!!!! Hope you have a great weekend!!!!!

Wednesday, May 13, 2009

I am a Alive

Yes Girls, I'm still alive, but my weeks have been jam packed with to dos!!!!! We got back from AZ. on the May 1st, at about 11:45. We had a great trip, pic need to get on my computer....still pending!!! Sat. we had 4 ball games starting at 9am and ending around 7pm and then we went to my brother's for a BBQ till 12 am Sunday....at 8:30 am the Sunday I helped with a surprise 80th b-day for my dear neighbor till 1pm and then the party lasted until 6pm, (May 3rd is Easton's b-day) so we celebrated with cake that night and hung out with him and unpacked our baggage. I had off till Thursday, though I don't remember what was all jammed in that week...and then the next weekend we went to boat club and had Easton's b-day on Sat. My mom's house flooded on Friday night so we helped her until 12 am Sat, the party lasted until well I went in the camper around 2 am and then we were up before 8am for mother's day.... we stayed out there until 6pm on Sunday and then came home only to unpack again... Now it's Wed. and I have to work for a friend that has a Dr. appointment and then tomorrow I have a day off!!!! I have made some thank yous for my neighbor and use some old thank yous for Easton's party, just to get that off my list!!! Now you know where I've been........I have also been trying to work out at night or in the morning which cuts into my stamping time, but I need, I really need to feel better about wearing a swimsuit...so priorities!!!! Catch you later, maybe!!!! :P It's easy not to post when you get out of routine....and I need find out how to squeeze it all in!!!!

Tuesday, April 28, 2009

A quick post....



While I'm out I have pre-made this card and will post it on Wed....so I'm already half way done with my vacation, darn!!!!!! I made this using some stamped images that my friend Heather let me stamp. I used my new stamp from stampin up, it's a background stamp called gratitude. Have a great week!!!!

Wednesday, April 22, 2009

MIA......






Teegan, Kanon, and Easton
Hello Peeps.....I am getting ready to head downstairs and thought I'd do a quick post telling you I'll be MIA for at least a week, maybe two or more....We went to the circus on Saturday and had blast!!!! It was going to hail so we took my brothers old min-van, which sometimes will open on the side door. We loaded through the drivers side and we all cheered when we arrived and the side door opened, then when we left it was pooring as we made a mad dash to the car and got to celebrate again as the "white lighting" opened!!!! I just had to tell that story, so I'll never forget!!! Anyways, we didn't get home till 12 am, so Sunday we hung out home and did some house work...blah, blah, blah. I colored the circus anya, but she lays on my table w/o a card to back her :(!!!!! I wanted to try the sketch, but I haven't won yet, so, no skin off my back. Today I watched 6 kids and 3 dogs at my mom's house, b/c my grandpa's cancer is back and he had to have a small tumor removed. It was a LONG day, and I don't have anything to show for it, well I did get Easton's b-day card done and addressed. They are simple, b/c I had to make them in one day and get them mailed.....but their done!!!!! Now for the VACATION, we are headed to AZ on Friday morning so I'll be gone for a week. The day we get back it will be 11pm and on Sat. we've been invited to go to the KSU game and carnival, which I don't want to pass up, then my neighbor who turns 80 on Easton's b-day, Sunday May 5th, we are having a surprise party!!! Then back to work, I think....I've planned earlier to have the 6 and 7th of, so I may keep them to get things done around the house!!!! And finally Easton's b-day party is Saturday May 9th.....and that's it for the beginning of May......Well, I have to finish packing and put stuff away, have great one!!!!!!

My younger brother Noah and Easont

My younger brother Noah and Easont

Driving Lessons

Driving Lessons

Say Cheese!!

Say Cheese!!

My Sympathy Card

My Sympathy Card

Another unclear pic....

Another unclear pic....

My Thankyou Card

My Thankyou Card

Jewerly

Jewerly

Easton and his friend at the Zoo

Easton and his friend at the Zoo

LOVE

LOVE
Easton and a friend

Noah and My Dad

Noah and My Dad

Easton's big catch

Easton's big catch

get well card

get well card

boho background card

boho background card

birthday card

birthday card