back east

well i am now back home on the east side peeps! amazing trip...
much needed for sure!

it was sooo great to hold my babes again let me tell ya! they were tired
and have had naps....course ky is still crashed hard on the couch...lettin
him sleep to catch up on lost sleep im sure lol...

so it's back to the regular routine again and hope to get back to some
scrap junk!! it's been way too long! got tons of pics i NEED to scrap!

i got some cute pics of emma and i tho while he has been sleeping..she is
such a little peach i tell ya! her voice is seriously that of an angel. ok to my
ears it is lol...here we are ...my little princess...
~Laurie

random thoughts

.....hmmmm
.....today is my last day here.... wahhhaa
.....so miss the kids tho...
.....can't wait to hold them
.....got sooo much junk to do when i get home
....and im off again...
later peeps!
laurie

IT DOESN'T SUCK!!

hey peeps!! i finally got some pics resized today for my blog!
here are some pics from last week in BC...loved it!

these next ones were taken on top of a mountain at 7700 feet...incredible!! we had dinner in the red roofed resturant..amazing!

this is the mountain peek we hiked along......in my flops cause i'm a dork like that




the bear sign....yes
the grizzly bear named BOO did ecaped just days before we were there...awww....

check out this lake!! this is called EMERALD LAKE ....hense the green water...we canoed across it ...was wicked! lol...course it was a RENTED canoe! GASP! like really?!!? who rents canoes lol...back home you either have one or know someone who does that you canoe...but to pay money??? k sure. lol

its been an amazing journey here i tell ya. lots and lots of great memories for sure!
so now to scrap all these great landscape pics!!! lol yikes on me! lol

the great west!

WOW!!! AND MORE WOW! seriously can't even describe
what it is like here!! we just got back from BC and it is AMAZING!
this small town called Golden...wow! nestled in the rockies!
i'll post more when i'm not so beat but holy wow the rockies kick
ass!! and i was even canoing on GREEN water!!!! green i tell ya!!
(from the glaciers)....totally wicked...got some pics...even did a little
hike in my flops on top of some mountain! crazy! lol

i am all safe and sound peeps! no worries! so meant to post on here
sooner but ah ya know.... lol...sorry!
~laurie

~~TGIF~~

kldjfaldksjfkdsjaj WELL WELL WELL!! today IS the day!
one heck of a busy day! well not bad bad but im in panic
mode now to finish packing and junk!! lol...leaving later
today-yeah! em is pickin up the kids here in hour and half!
gulp won't see them for while but i'm sure they will have
so much fun too and be so busy that there is no time to
miss mom lol....

oh the list! oh the postits! oh the brain swirls! dang wish
i had an ipod! that would be wicked for the plane ride!
i am gonna bring my crayons and such to doodle and play!
some oprah mags and my book and im set! soon i'll be there
chillin and ahhhhhhhhhh!!!!!

so my girl stacy showed me the pub call ticker we can have
from scrapsubmit...cool...so i did the proper thing and put
that up for yas all chickas! maybe once i get back and get
on the big wagon again ill start subin again!

ok this chick has GOT to start packin them up now! later
peeps! ill be postin when i can! ;-)
~laurie

day after tomorrow

morning peeps! yeah! i can finally say that now! i leave
the day after tomorrow for calgary! woohoo! oh i am
pumped! will be nice to see joe and chill out on his balcony
and have some nice long heart to hearts! he sounds so happy
man! i'm so happy things are really lookin up for him now!
his dream job and the works now! good stuff joe! ;-)

hope to get some wicked pics too out there! i'm sure i will!
how could i not with the mountains and junk...lots of sites
i'm sure that i can capture! ldfjaslfldkj sooo excited!

ok i got so much to do today! i gotta pack the kids up for a
week of camp! yikes! i have to pack myself! some business
to tend too before i go. hmm....what else? oh scrap a card
for a friend! would love to get the grass mowed too!

aahhh i'm sure i'll come back refreshed and a new leash on
life and really be inspired to scrap! lots of new freash pics too!!
*clappin hands* HERCULES! HERCULES! ...why yes! yes indeed
i dorked out! lol

well guess i better get on it eh...later peeps! ;-)
~laurie

happy HUMP day!!

ahhhhh it's wednesday! hump day!
i have a bunch of junk i have to do today!
(thank god for post-its - shut up am and stac!)

2 more sleeps and i'm off to moncton for the night
and then saturday i leave for calgary! yeah!! sooo
excited! will be nice to chill and unwind and just
plain get away and have some me time!

not much new on the home front i don't think!
emma is now potty trained! yeah! took her bout 5 days
i'd say and now she goes all the time in the potty!
even panties at night! no more pull ups for the kids!
yeah!! she's doing soooo good! and shes wakin up dry
even! the kids have been havin fun playin in the pools
and riding bikes etc....ballon fights and hose fights are
always fun too!

while i am away they are going to camp for the week with
nana and are pretty pumped about that! good for them!
wish i could have gone to camp every summer when i was
a kid! i went ONCE! lol..it was fun too!

well i better go start my day and get on this post-it! lol..
later peeps!
~laurie

happy tuesday!!

what a lovely start for a tuesday!!!! yeah!
got some things to do today and what nots!
quickie post for now...yas gotta check out
the clip at the bottom peeps!!! you scrappers
will get a good charge outta this one!!! lol...
more later chickas! oh and please ignore my header
lol....i still have to fix that too!
~laurie

random photos

ahhh another monday!! why is it i like mondays? like really...
i think it's that fresh start of a new week feeling or something.
or i'm just wacked take your pick!

so i checked maras blog this morning and she made me wanna
just go shoot some junk so being that it's rainy out i had to make
do with around the house...i love the clock one tho! its blurred and
full of motion but looks wicked to me! and it's m scrap clock as well!

all the doors in the house are all old wooden stained doors with the old door knobs on ithem and skelton key style. the house definitly has character to it. it's our home.

adjusting

great word isn't it?
yup! thats me! ADJUSTING! thought i would make an entery in
my journal (thanks to mara may!).....its where i am right now.

used pastel oils and some paint.
the journaling reads:

That is what I am doing right
now. It's ok to be alone Laurie.
Sometimes I get scared, but I
have to pick myself up again
and dust myself off. Some days
I'm in a zone. I feel numb somedays.
Sometimes I don't even know how to
"start" my day. This will all pass that
I know. For now this is where I am in life.
I am adjusting to being alone. Really alone.
It's ok. I am ok. I accept that. June 25/06
~laurie

happy weekend!

ahh back to another weekend....this is the last one before i leave for
vaca!!! woohoo!! i'm off to calgary next weekend! visiting some
peeps out there and soooooo can't wait!!! i'm sure it will be a blast!!
AL;DFJSADFSADKJFSDKFJDSKFADSLKFJAJDLKFAJDKFDSKFJDSJ
yah so those that don't really know my dorky ass that was me freakin
out all excited!! lol...

well its saturday...what shall i do today? hmmm....well the
flower bed didnt get weeded like planned. ok so i didn't get any
paint scraping done either...hmmm...ok i suck! see what
happenes when i don't put these on a post it! yah that sounds
like a good enough excuse! its rather over cast today.....hmmm....
not sure if it will rain...

oh my princess emma!!! she's doing soooo very well with her
potty training!!! yeah!! yesturday she hadn't had ANY accidents
at all!! i think she is finally really liking goin to just do it on the
flush really. less mess and junk and she knows it. shes been
wakin up dry now for over a week now every morning..YEAH!!!
my good little girl! ky too is doing pretty good at night
...he did pee last night tho. but no more pullups for either of them!

im in the mood to slip into something more comfortable and get
down and dirtaaaay!!!! i so need to get some pics printed!! argh!
course i need a cd first to tho lol...maybe tonight ill get a little
something something goin on.....think the kids are goin to
nanas for the night. get some laurie time!

well hopin everyones havin a great weekend!
~laurie

got a little funk on!

so today i felt inspired to scrap for once! i did this first page
of my bud joe...no PP only paint and pastel oil crayons with
lots of doodles and stamping. it was fun to do - love the bold
funk to it.


















then i did this one of emma...yes shes naked and so carefully
censored with her pail lol...this was last summer at the beach...

fun on the splash pad

ah what a great day! we went to the park with nana again today!
the kids had a blast! here are some pics i got.... i really like
this first one...

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so yeah! i got ky all registered for school in the fall! gasp!
he will love it i'm sure! emma is rather heart broken she
won't be going tho. yikes!

well off to go play in the pool...ok watch them play lol..
~laurie

morning peeps!! well last night totally didnt go as i planned....
i did my page... no title or bellies yet but boy does it ever
look like ass! yack!! i don't know where my mojo is but boy
let me tell you!!! grrrrr...so not cool! i think my girl S is right...
just chill and it will click again. it's so hard i want to so bad..
maybe i do need to just take a break and let the guilt go of
wasting time and not getting things done. *deep breath laur*
....ahhhhhh ok...that's what i will do....let it go.. ahhhh....

so this morning ky goes to get registered for school!!!
GASP OH GASP!!! my boy is going to school????? when
did he grow so fast??that will be an adjustment for us.
he is pumped tho and has wanted to go to school the
last 2 years! 8:30 to 2pm... yikes! so it will be my toots
and myself...she thinks she is going to school too-eek!

well yesturday was a slack day...today i will do
something constructive! lol...
off i go to start my day ~~~~
~laurie

monday night kick off!

ok peeps!! lets get a funk on tonight!! thought i would post
a challenge here ...EVERYONE is welcome to jump in and
give er!

YOUR CHALLENGE IS:
-colored pics you keep puttin off
-lots of stamping
- min of 4 pp that are scraps (new or old) but no cutting new paper!
-doodles etc -espically if you dont have many stamps.

FIRST one to send me their page (i'll load here as well) then i will
send you a RAK! come on chickas show me what ya got! ;-)
~laurie

~~~AND WE HAVE A WINNER PEEPS!!~~~
CHRISSY!!! here is your take on my challenge! thanks girlie!!
ill get that out in the mail asap for ya k!

Chrissy says:

Here it is - what a FUN challenge - I stamped using the MM flower stamps - onto a PP - then cut them out... used a PP as stems... and two others on bottom part... lots of stitch stamping and doodles in white here and there.
thanks girl - had fun with this! :)
I'll send a better pic in the a.m.

monday it is!

hey peeps! yikes i never did post over the hot weekend!
had a quiet one but nice...had some down time with just
myself and it was nice. didn't do any weeding over the
weekend so i wanna start that asap...it was too dang hot!
this week i also wanna do some paint scraping too for new
paint! yeah! need some cool breezy days so i don't die in the heat!
so if yas don't see me by wednesday call 911 and send them
here please!! ;-)

at some point today id like to do a page and nike it! dudes!!
it's gotta come back!! where the hell IS my mojo??!? like
it's trapped up in my bean and it's still killin me!
like really! enough already! just let it out laur! let it out!
*deep breath in and out* i WILL get this out of my head man!
i will! i can! i see it! i feel it! i want it! oh do i ever want it!
~laurie

TGIF

YEAH! friday again! *rolling eyes* nah actually i'm rather
excited! got a lot of yard work done yesturday!! did lots of weeding!
still have lots more to do in the big bed. mowed the lawn..fixed the
lawn mower so you can actually push it! grrr...i was being mcguyver
peeps! lol...

so today...its blue skies and gonna be hot as hell i think! kids are ready to
help me weed again. ...thinking i should go buy them a little cheapy
pool to cool off in later...
later dudes...martha is calling!
~laurie

fun bath time!

oh the fun the kids had last night in the bath!
got some cute pics of them...now mind you
its normally deeper water but man it causes
such big waves in this old tub lol...ummm yah
so note to self! ;-)
check them out!

big hair!

awww got some neat shots of emma with the fan blowin her hair....
check her out!
~laurie

everday

awww my sweet little emma! never fails she will always get a
dirty face everday! wanted to always remember that...cute
dirty face she has!
~laurie

obsessed!

oh chris darlin you are something else!!! you have one hell of
a voice to start with...when you open your mouth i fall! like really
could you be any better? you made american idol!! there are
girls out there that THINK you are theirs but we all know well
that your mine! so whateve...they will get over it and move on!
it felt so nice to finally get my hands on some paper tonight!
yeah! how could i not be inspired by this pic....i have wanted
to do this kind of page for long time and now im free too do as i may! *wink*

heres to my obsession chris daughtry!! MEOWWWWWW!!!!
~laurie

oh what a woman alone will do!

so ive got things pretty much put away...ok cept a few things.
well one was the fact that the washer and dryer were still sittin in
my entry way...well i was at 2 loads of laundry and being day 4
of potty training....wet panties and junk..umm yah!! i was startin
to get ANNOYED with smellin it walkin by...so i do the only thing
a single woman can do...DO IT HERSELF! lol...yes thats right
i moved the washer AND dryer down to the basement MYSELF!!
i know! crazy! it was a little struggle but i got it cause i good like that!
*sarcastic*...so then i had something pop off the corner end of
washer...well crud...then to find that the double head dohicky things
where down behind the panel in the shuffle...and on other side of the
opening...soo i had to reach with my short ass arm to pop them back
in the holes...so now i hook it all up and now i have a leak...crud...
checked things all over good...get my only pliers...apparently i need
bigger pliers too....i did do a load tho and dealt with a little drippin...
its cement flooring and a drain right there. so no big deal. but now i
need to tighten and fix that leakin thing up!
note: no one was hurt and i had the phone with me "just in case" lol

tried to scrap again...crud...like really what is wrong with me? i can do
this without pepsi and smokes can't i? i mean come on! this is nuts! i so need
pics...only thing that really inspired me is a pick of my man chris...
you would think he of all ppl would get me a good funk on! but nooo mamas
gotta go scrap farting! grrrr...

so we went for ice cream with nana after supper....ky ended up goin to her house
for the night after....got emma to bed late tonight but ah well...
thats it for now peeps!
~laurie

sunday muckin

got some down time today to muck a little in the shop! it was relaxing..
i think the elements were from shabby princess.
a pic of me i took couple days ago being a tard...had fun playin with
the pic tho! lol..

now if i can do something with paper eh!
~laurie

mornin peeps! ahhhh saturday...and what will this day bring me?
hmmm...thinking i really need to scrap something...where is everyone
these days? like really ...i said i was coming back! lol...

its suppose to rain -yack! wanted to get some pics along the cove! argh..
soon...

oh my dollie...here she is in the bath - could she BE any cuter??!!? lol


this one is ky at nanas bday party...it was taken
during the presents....hes so handsome eh!
~laurie

TGIF

like really does it matter what day of the week it is for me?
no! lol...guess ill just be excited its friday anyway ;-)

so the house is slowing gettin put away and we are getting
more settled each day.

tried to scrap last night...YACK!i was in the mood and somewhere
something got lost...ah well...maybe next time!

who reads this junk anyway? lol
~laurie

lots done today!

ahhh....well things are finally starting to look good!
i get power hooked up tomorrow...i have phone now
and my net will be up tomorrow! yeah! i also have
everything moved in except my scrap junk and
electronics! yeah! tomorrow ill start unpacking
and settin up home! yeah! IM SOOOO BLOODY TIRED !!!!
need a good night sleep and it will be my last sleep on the
couch!! yeah!! back to my bed!! oh i cant wait lol....
night peeps!
~laurie

ahh...new week starting in the AM....ahhh...got lots more
calls to make in the morning! i have found a home for me
and the kids now! yeah! its so sweet too! love it! so excited
to get moved in! ill be busy over the next few days movin
in and all that junk...once im back up and running again
in my own office ill be gettin back on track with scrapping
and bloggin peeps! sooo can't wait to see all your pages chickas!
i'm so behind!

i also want to thank you all that have been nothing but
encouraging and supporting me at this time in my life!
your true friendships have really helped me and i thank
you all for that! ya know its funny how you meet peeps
online and end up makin the best of friends.
*group hug* you guys know who yas are!

i'm ready.
i'm gonna.
i can.
i will.
i'm strong.
i know.
~laurie

TGIF

hey peeps! well its another FRIDAY!!
whats everyones plans this weekend?
i hope to be moving in this weekend!!
was out to the market today...some older
guy was hittin on me! yack! come to find out
mom knows him and he is a womanizer lol..yack!
he had a booth at this market and does paintings and
builds old rustic looking hutches etc..course things
im right into right....well he was tellin me i could come
to his shop and paint and help make a hutch thing with him
yada yada..im like..ok whateve...he is from newfoundland..and
all long his name did sound familar..he played as if he
wasnt here for long long time...he was yuck...told me
to call him he would even pick me up to go to his shop...
lol..i know im ready to puke too! some ppl dont get it!

like really do i look desparate lol....give me some credit! lol

anyha...waitin on that house call! woohoo!
~laurie