Getting Ready for Baby

Getting ready to have a baby at the house again is a lot of work. Since we didn't think that we would be able to have another baby we are pretty much starting from scratch. I have been looking for a red crib for months and have had no luck. Finally on Saturday as I was driving by a garage sell I saw an immaculate white crib for $30, so I thought it would be very easy to paint a crib red. The baby's room was already blue from Kamrin, so it wouldn't need to be painted. I found a pottery barn crib set that is red, white, and different shades of blue for about $40 dollars on ebay. Hopefully it will come together nicely. The hard part now is moving the girls upstairs into the playroom. Then, I can begin the work on the baby's room. Good thing I have six more weeks to finish!!!

Digital Scrapbook Pages

Here are my latest creations. The more you do this the easier that it gets!!

Layout

It finally worked! This is the first layout that I have made that I think I actually like! I would like it better if I could make the picture sepia. If anyone knows how to do that in photoshop, I'd love to know the secret!

Finished!!!

I finally finished the 7th Harry Potter book!! This one took me the longest to read. It came out at the wrong time for me. We had dance camp on Saturday after I bought it. On Sunday I was so tired from being at camp all week that I took a very long nap. This week has been a blur, Josh has been so busy that we have spent time getting building permits and other stuff done for him. Needless to say, I had to squeeze some time in here and there to complete the book. I am very pleased with the final book. J.K. Rowling is truly a gifted author. She tied in the whole series and ended the book rather well. I think that most anyone will pleased with the outcome. Now, the only thing to look forward to is the other two movies!

I'm hooked now!!

Okay, this whole digital scrapbooking thing just might get me in trouble. I have a whole scrapbooking room full of paper, ribbon, etc..... Now it is so much easier just to keep them on the computer. And it seems quite a bit cheaper, actually. I do have to take it slow I have decided and just play with it for now. It really would be a waste to stop using all of the other things that I have collected over the years. However,Josh is talking the scouts down the Main Salmon next week for eight days and as soon as I get the baby's room done, I know what I will be doing!! It will be my own little vacation, just me and photoshop!! So here is my next layout. A little better than the last, but I do have a long way to go! Okay. Never mind with the page, blogger hates uploading my pictures and the blogger employee is very slow to answer with help. I will post it when I can!

Lagoon

I took the girls to Lagoon with my mom and sisters. We decided to make it an overnighter and stay at the campground. When we arrived the newspaper at the local gas station's headline read, "Sizzlin in Zion." Record breaking temperature hit the Wasatch Valley. I couldn't help but think that maybe I was making a huge mistake by coming here 8 months pregnant. It was too late though, the girls were already way excited. So, we arrived at the campground and decided to set up the tent and get everything ready so that when we got tired we would have a place to go. Well setting up a tent in the 100 degree + weather can be a chore. We did get it done eventually and were ready to go. We decided that we should swim first in order to cool ourselves off. It felt so good. It was freezing!! After cooling off we started off toward the rides. The girls rode lots of rides and had tons of fun!! After we finished we drove to get milkshakes and dinner, by then we decided it was time to put the girls to bed. Well, I decided that camping is not that much fun when you're pregnant, even if you have an air mattress and that lots of trains and airplanes make lots of noise all night when you camp in the campground by Lagoon. Anyway, I was more than ready to wake up and get off of the ground. We showered and ate breakfast . As I was eating breakfast I realized that there was a flat tire on Mom's van. Great, I thought. We decided to change into the spare and drive to the nearest tire store to have the tire repaired. When the tire was off we saw a huge nail stuck in it. As Jessica put the spare on we realized that it was also flat. We were not having very good luck so far! We decided then to call a tire shop to make a service call. They came and fixed everything and we were finally on our way! What a trip!

Summer Rain

Don't you just love it when it rains in the summer? The smell, the cooler temperature, the dark sky and thunder .... The past few evenings about four o'clock the sky has turned dark and it has rained a little. We could definatly use more rain, but it has been nice to have some relief from this heat. The girls wanted to run in the rain with their umbrellas (sounds like an accident just waiting to happen doesn't it!) and I decided to get out the camera. By the time that we got all ready and outside the rain had temporarily stopped for the most part, but we still took some pictures. I remembered seeing a digital kit with an umbrella and raindrops on a website somewhere. So, I logged onto the computer to find it. NO Internet connection. After 24 hours of no Internet connection I called tech support. They we worthless. That was last night at 10 pm. So, this morning I took the whole computer, router and modem apart and set it up all over again. Amazingly, after doing that it worked fine again. So, now I could begin looking for that cute digital kit. The best part was it was a freebie! I decided to go ahead and make that page. However, I am not good at digital scrapbooking. I don't feel comfortable with it and must not be patient enough to learn. No one else that I know around here has even tried to digital scrapbook, so I am pretty much on my own. I have found some stuff on the Internet, but not much. Anyway, this is what I came up with and I'm sure that I will keep messing with it for at least a week or so more. Oh, well I do believe that it is good to keep learning new things.