Coming Up

We have a lot on the schedule for the next week. Lots to do. We are going to Splashtown tomorrow with some friends. Then, tomorrow night, I am meeting a group of fellow Twilight junkies to go to the release party of Breaking Dawn. OMG, I'm so excited. I've got to finish the books again before tomorrow so I am fully ready and pumped. We are going out to some late dinner and then heading over to the party so we can be there at midnight when the book is released. Saturday, I believe my parents are coming over to celebrate my dad's b-day and to spend some time together. Sunday I am going to church. I was supposed to go last Sunday, but I was sick. I don't know what is wrong with me. Monday is shopping day for our camping trip starting Wednesday. Adam has to get a tooth pulled Tuesday, so I am praying that he won't be too bad off and we will still be able to go. So, I am making the plans like nothing is going to go wrong and we can still go. On Wednesday morning, we are getting up bright and early and heading out to Garner State Park. It is supposed to be the best state park in Texas, so we will see. Going to be doing some hiking, fishing and floating down the river!!! Lots of fun, can't wait. Well, I gotta get off and get the rest of the laundry washed so we are ready for the trip. Until next time.......

P.S. Mugglemom, have you seen this?????? We can split it and keep it at your house for a month and then mine a month!!!!! ;)

New Blog

I started a new blog, for me, about me and something I struggle with. If you would like to read it, just let me know. It will be private, but if you read my blog, I don't mind if you want to subscribe to the new one. I just don't want anyone and everyone out in cyber space to read it. Just e-mail me or leave me a comment with your email addy and I'll add you. Thanks!

Wal-Mart

I always find myself there, regardless of what other errands I had to run. I always end up spending some time there. It's almost like an addiction, one that I feed by walking around, trying to find a good deal. The thing about Wal-Mart, they want it to be one stop shopping. Why go anywhere else, when everything you need is there. I will find myself at other stores, comparing Wal-Mart prices to theirs. I hate it, I wish I could just buy the product and support someone other then Wal-Mart. They paid our bills for a while, then just put us out on the curb. It is a love hate relationship I have with them. When we get a few more bills paid off and down, I have a goal to start shopping elsewhere. Regardless if it is a few more cents or even a dollar or two, I want to be able to say that I hardly shop at Wal-Mart. But I know that will be a long time coming. I am always on the hunt for good deals, like the one I found today. I couldn't pass it up, I couldn't justify not getting them. And I didn't even need to go to Wal-Mart. I was supposed to be going to the bank and meeting my Brother-in-Law. No where in my agenda today was Wal-Mart. But, there I was, in the toy section, looking around with Kameron. We walked by the Leapster section, I was checking out the games ( I have to replace a game that got broken that Kameron is so upset about). Looking down, what do I see, 2 different games clearanced. Not for 15 or even 10.....5 BUCKS!!! They were 25 dollar games marked down to 5 bucks each. How do you walk away from that?? You don't I guess, you get them and add them to the Christmas stash in the bedroom. But see, when you find something like that, you can't help but stop next time you are close, hoping for another awesome deal like that......Addiction, what a horrible thing!! :)

This Past Weekend

Wow, what a weekend. Friday was Lisa's Birthday and Saturday was Adam's Birthday. On Friday, me and the kiddos baked Adam a cake and took it up to his station along with some balloons! We had dinner with him and all the guys and then headed back to my mother's house to spend the night. Saturday went good, with Adam coming over in the afternoon to hang out for a while before he had to go back to work to help out another guy. Lisa, Marc and the baby came over to celebrate birthdays. We cooked a huge dinner and played some games. Saturday night, I started feeling bad and it just seemed to get worse. I was pucking and miserable and laying out on the couch. Luckily I was at mom's and she was able to help with the kiddos. Sunday found me feeling better and I was excited about it because it was finally Amber's baby shower!! We were getting ready and got a phone call. One of my friends from high school, his wife died. They don't even know what happened yet. They are running reports and will know more details in a few days. So, that was hard. I went to the shower and got to spend some time with Amber, I was so excited to give her the gifts that I made for her. I think she really liked them. I don't think I got a picture of the blanket, but I took some photos of the scrapbook pages I made for her.

It was great and she got a ton of stuff, she should be pretty close to set!! Then, I headed over to my friend's mom's house to try to be of some comfort, but how do you comfort someone who just lost their wife??? I hate seeing a man cry and it just tore at my heart strings :( We ended up leaving really late so I just spent the night again at my mom's. Today, nothing much is going on. Adam was up all night, so he is still snoozing and Kaydence is napping too. Kameron is tired, so I turned him on some cartoons in our room so he could relax and probably fall asleep. This week we are going to go to the beach and going to do a few other things as a family since Adam has the full week off, so excited!!!

Simplicity

Simplicity...a good word to ponder. So many things can be complicated or they can be simple. I can't decide what I thrive on better. Some things I do if they are complicated, but others I won't. I like simple, but then wonder if I'm not doing it right or it doesn't look good. I've been making pages lately that have been simple. Not too elaborate, just simple pages that share memories. Our memories. I put those pages into the album I bought and so very much love it. I have memories, I didn't work for hours on 1 page, I have several that I did in a hour. I'm loving it, I really am. As I look back through my pages, I see stages that I went through, fades even. I started off really basic, not really knowing what I was doing, but wanting to scrapbook. Then, I learned and improved. My pages became elaborate and time-consuming. I didn't finish as many, they took me longer and so I was only finishing one here and there. I organized my pictures and that sure made a difference. Anytime I feel like scrapbooking, I can grab a box and go at it. Now, I feel like I've resorted back to my earlier days of scrapbooking. I'm not trying to impress anybody, I'm doing this for my family. My kids aren't going to hate the album because I didn't use 3 different techniques and have 4 different embellishments on a page. They are going to love that they can look through the album and have their memories there for them. They will see the pictures, read the words and love it. I have a bad habit of comparing my work to others, why? So other people have different pages, does that make theirs any better? No, our pages, in essence, are accomplishing the same thing, the getting there is just a little different. I've been thinking about this a lot lately because I haven't felt too inspired to just whip out pages. But, I decided that having pages was better then sitting there trying to feel creative. Where is the fun in that? I'm loving my time scrapbooking, and I'm loving the refound simplicity of it!

Snapfish.com

So, a fellow blogger, April, posted a coupon code for Snapfish. I decided to check it out since I need some more pictures. Since I just joined, I got 20 free prints. I also had found a coupon for 25 free prints. (I think it came in a movie around Christmas time, Shrek 3rd if I'm not mistaken) So, I spent the afternoon alternating between cleaning and uploading pictures. I could only upload 20 at a time so it took a while. By the end of it, I had ordered 121 pictures!! I'm so excited to get them. But the awesome part was, for 121 pictures, I spent 8.33 and they are going to ship em to my house. Thanks April, for posting about the great deal you got. The code is: JUL4PENNY08 and expires on the 12th. So not much time left if you wanna get in on it. Can't wait for the pictures, I'm excited, I feel inspired to scrap now. It made me feel good to go through all my pictures!! I am loving that I have them all organized on my computer. It's great!!

3 Posts Deep

I did it again, I posted several entries, so check em all out. Exciting times in the life of the Marley Family lol :)

Training Wheels....

WHO NEEDS EM??? Not Kameron, not anymore. He told Adam that he wanted em off, and Adam told him that if he took them off, that he wouldn't put them back on. Kameron still insisted that he didn't want them on anymore. So, low and behold, after two attempts, here he is, riding his bike without training wheels!!! Go Kameron Go!!!!! He is getting to be such a big boy. Time is sure flying around here.

Kaydence!!!!

Kaydence, what a mess you made. Oh my goodness. I didn't realize one little kiddo could get so messy. But, I guess that is what 1st birthday cakes are all about!! I hope you had a great birthday. I can't believe that you are already 1. What am I going to do with you? Your mommy and daddy love you so much. Kameron is so proud of you, he can't wait til you start walking!! Happy Birthday baby girl!!!

Stampin UP

Since I started selling Stampin up, I have fallen in love with making cards. I really enjoy it and love using my new stamp sets to create a card. For June, we made a card to celebrate the 4th of July. I thought they turned out so cute. I mailed my card to my cousin before I took a picture, so I made another one so I could post it. Whatcha think???

Freedom

Freedom is something that I take for granted. I drive my car whenever I want, go where I want and have to ability to say what I want without worry. I might offend someone, but I won't be arrested or shot. I can worship how I choose, I can listen to what I want and not be questioned. I can vote in elections to change the things that I feel are wrong. I can vote for the leader of this country. I can pray for them and for leaders of this state and this city. Freedom is a pretty amazing thing with you think about it. I am so thankful to be living in America. I know that they country is so torn up and divided right now, with the election looming around the corner, but, there isn't anywhere else I'd rather be. I'm blessed with a beautiful family, a loving husband, two wonderful children, parents who would do anything for me, sisters who I would do anything for, brothers who I've always wanted, two beautiful nieces who help compete my life, a wonderful home that isn't always cleaned and maintained right, land to let my kids play on, neighbors who actually care, friends who I couldn't live without, the soldiers who are fighting to help keep me free. I take for granted all the precious things that so many others have to live without. I am so blessed. There is no other land better then America, even with all of her faults. I want this next year to be better spent being more thankful for the freedom we have and for the lives that are put on the line to protect it. I want to show my patriotism more and be prouder to be an American. I want to teach my children the importance of our flag, what it stands for and how it will always be a symbol of freedom. I want them to respect it and know the Pledge of Allegiance. Not just be able to recite it, but to understand what it is telling them. We are putting up a flag in our yard to symbolise our freedom and to show our appreciation for our troops, our president and our founding fathers. I am proud to be an American, I wouldn't want it any other way. Celebrate this day and remember what it is about...Freedom!!!!!

Happy Birthday

Today is Kaydence's first birthday. She is now out of the months and into years. I can't believe that it has already been a year since we were blessed with her. We are having a birthday party on Saturday for her. It is going to be a water theme. We are having water balloons, a sprinkler, games and hot dogs and hopefully some watermelon. I wish strawberries were on sale again, I wanted to make a cake with them, but I'll see when I head to the store. Happy Birthday, my beautiful baby girl!!!!