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I'm organizing my computer today, and making back up copies of my pictures. a;ljdflksdfhjoadfhksdfj is the best way to describe it, yes abjlabhofghudoisldk says it pretty well. :)

Well I finished all my ideas stuff and non personal picture related items pretty quick, I have been pretty good about reorganizing every six months or so and our family pictures previous to this January when I got my new camera are excellently organized.(If I may say so myself) But I seriously from January to now have taken over 2000 pictures. The big problem is that I don't need them all, some are mess ups and than others I have taken in Raw so I have to throw them through a proccesing program to get them to J peg, than there's the one's I've edited and now have duplicates and just the sheer amount of them has made my brain explode. As you can tell I'm being really proactive about it too, I'm blogging :) Any ideas or suggestions on how you do it, I'd love to hear.

If you'd like to see exactly how my brain has exploded. :)

For the Beauty of the Earth

Sometimes I've wondered what was the point in having a talent that is more to the artistic side of things. Actually more than wondered, struggled with it. I could look at the other talents people possed and how they actually seemed to help build the kingdom of heaven. For instance my mother in law- amazing with genealogy, Sister in law- amazing mom and home schools 5 kids, The people that can just talk to anybody about anything including the gospel, The musicians who create such beautiful music for church, Than even the people who can cook, they of course are amazing with giving meals to people. I've felt confused because it seems like they almost sometimes discourage artistic stuff, like oh you don't need a display for your lessons and getting rid of doing craft things for enrichment ect. ect. So I've "buried" my talent a little bit and tried to get other talents that maybe will be more proactive in building the kingdom up. But the other day driving home the sunset was making everything so rich in color and just showing every amazing detail of the earth, I was wishing so badly I could just stop and sit and take pictures, it was than that it hit me. Obviously Heavenly Father loves beauty, and art and creating things, if those things were pointless why would he take the time to make them and make them beautiful not just functional. I feel so comforted and happy when I have beautiful things that I've created surround me. It makes it feel more like home and peaceful and even brings the spirit in sometimes. So I may not be able to give my kids huge lists of genealogy or cook them amazing meals, but maybe I'll be able to show them how to create things and see the beauty that heavenly father has given us, maybe it will give them comfort, happiness, love, and remind them a little bit of their real home.

I have a little to much fun designing

So ya, I've been doing some spring cleaning (I know it's summer but we didn't have spring this year) and I always like to de-junk, so I make a pile to sell on the school BB. And of course you gotta make that stuff look good right? Anyways I had a lot of fun just designing and arranging my junk to sell. Had to share the final product. :)

Payter Rooskies birthday

Well once again we have hit the birthday time, I'm wondering when Payton is gonna tell me he's sick of having BBQ's for his birthday, cuz' every year that seems to be what we do. O-well it's easiest for me to do, but ya I just finished his announcement tonight, I've been delaying taking pictures cuz' his allergies are so bad right now, but we did it anyways tonight because it's already gonna be kinda short notice for some people, plus his birthday is always so close to the fourth of July and everyone seems to be busy and have plans then. We'll see what happens, hopefully some people show up because he isn't gonna get many presents from us and he just loves being around people, he's such a social bug (we don't know where that came from, because me and Dave really aren't too sociable of people)

Anyways if anyone knows any fun ideas for a BBQ, tell me bout them, the last few years I've carved a watermelon so it was a star basket, Did very festive fourth of July cupcakes, made popcorn balls, and ya I'm running out of creative ideas so if you have any I'd really appreciate it.

I Like, I Like!

Well since my last posts were kinda serious I thought I'd just post some totally random things that I like, Heck ya to being Random! :)
1-Love this calendar and so wanna make one like it.
2-Angel is my call sign on Halo "Angel sniped soandso" mwhhaha you gotta love Halo
3-I really like the Joy sign on the wall
4-Colorful stairs, who wouldn't smile going up those
5-Craftsman trim, clean, simple, easy to clean. Love it!
6-Really wanna make one of these, just need an old window :)
7-Craftsman styled house, love it and the columns
8-Dave bought a bigger T.V. and ruined my dreams of an armoire so this is an acceptable replacement- (take note Dave)
9-Love the texture on these rugs, so comfy on the feetsies
10-So love this idea, don't know when I'd use it but still love it

11-Cooking would be so much more fun if I could look cute while doing it :)
12-Love, Love this hat, next baby is definitely going to have one.
13-Who doesn't like graphics like these
14-More craftsman's trim- did I mention I really like it?
15-Wanna do a chair like this one, and I really like the pillows on the other couch
16-Cute, Cute Frames and arrangement
17-Oh Edward!
18-Really like the columns and am so going to find a way for our next house
19-Cute, cute shelves, really wanna make some like them
20-I really liked this logo.
21-and last and maybe least :) A really fun graphic design

Okay this was fun and I so want others to have fun, so I want Kara, Christina, Camille and whomever else wants to, to list at least 10 random things they like.

***Note: None of these pictures are mine and the rights belong to whomever they belong to :) Hope I don't get in trouble.

Just to clarify

Well just to clarify a little bit so people don't think I'm vain, I'm pretty sure the money problems quote threw everyone off, and the fact that I'm a pretty vauge person and hard to understand sometimes. Yes money worries, we all have them and it sucks, my ration of gas for two weeks is I get to have $25 which equals 6 gallons of gas, ya I'm really getting nowhere with that, but that's not all of my stress. Alot of it comes from Dave and school, It's at the point where he is looking for a job for after graduation which means a lot of changes in our lives, 1st off is finding a job, 2nd we would like to stay close, but there's not that many computer jobs in this area, so if we are moving we'd have to sell our house and the market is down right now, plus getting it all ready to sell, but I'm not sure if we are selling so I don't know exactly what to do there, and I've never lived outside of this valley, kinda scary for me to move. And then there is his classes, they are hard and stressful and he has to do alot of work and there is nothing I can do about him passing them whatsoever, so I just pray and pray and pray that he'll get a good grades (did I mention yet I'm a control freak and this is really hard not having any control over the outcome) Another thing is Payton's preschool, I don't know where to put him, I hate calling people (it's torturous to me to call a stranger) So I have to figure all that out and if we're moving he won't even go half the year. The other big stresses is just life, I am responsible for every aspect of our life except for Dave's schooling and work, that means I have to take care of the house, the foods, the bills, the lawn, the clothes, get the garbage out and every other responsibility and worry that comes with adulthood, plus I get to compare my kids to other kids and hope that they are doing okay and that I'm being a good enough mom and carry that guilt along with me when I don't think I'm measuring up. But this is life and I am sure there are many other people with the same problems or worse. So in short My life is good, I am blessed, most of my problems are fixable and not life detrimental, they just cause stress in my life. And like all your comments we're in this life together, Heavenly Father is here to help us, most definitely with our money problems if we pay our tithes +fast offerings (this is a fact, as I've witnessed this many times in my own life) and we will make it through . Thanks for all your love and encouragement 2, just wanted you to know that all I care about isn't just the money, though that is a big factor in life and ya it's nice and okay in my opinion to vent sometimes. :)

STREEEESSSSS!

I hate stress, in fact I have so much of it lately I have to distract myself from thinking about it for my health. If I sit and think about stuff I seriously can start to feel my heartbeat quicken, I start to feel sick to my stomach and I get shooting migraine pains across my forehead. Worry, fear, doubt- all the little tools the devil uses come flooding in if I sit and think, that is why I have been so wanting to be busy as of lately- pretty much to distract myself and to keep me having Faith. I have to keep reminding myself that Life is good, I know that Heavenly Father knows me and loves me and will help us, not always in the easiest way but the best way, and to just keep working my hardest, doing what I can and most importantly being truly happy. My new favorite saying as of lately is "If the only problems you have deal with money, you don't have problems." So I am very glad that I have beautiful healthy children, an amazing husband, the gospel in my life, great family close by, and all the other amazing blessings that I can't seem to figure out how I've been so lucky to receive. So I just need to keep telling myself "just keep swimming, just keep swimming, swimming, swimming, just keep swimming. " And to fend off that mighty thick dark stress with the light.

Picture overload

Alright so be ready for picture overload, we went and got our family pictures taken this weekend. I must say I'm a little bit of a control freak, It is so hard not being behind the camera, and the quick 2 min. photog lesson I gave wasn't the greatest so we had quite a few that didn't turn out. But nevertheless I am very thankful for our friends and my mom to take our pictures.(yes we went out 2 separate days)Anyways It was fun, I got a lot of the bright fun pictures I wanted for our family, so I'm not as jealous of our friends pictures we did :) These one's are my favorites, so tell me what you think.

P.S. Dave says I do this little collage with my pictures thing a ton! So I'll quickly explain why I do. #1- I like it, #2- The pictures are smaller so it's not as good as quality which in turn makes so people can't steal them as easily,(also the reason for the water logo all over them) #3- umm I like it.

My week.

Soooo, no posts in a week, instead we're doing a quick recap with fun pictures :) At the first of the week temporary insanity took over and I decided I really wanted to sew. I'm really not that much of a sewing fan, mostly because I don't really know what I'm doing and just kinda make it up as I go and I never use patterns. I might like it more if I'd use patterns. (duh) So I had scrap fabric and I decided I wanted to make Brynley a dress for free 99 and we have many baby boys being born in the family so I made some little wipe and diaper holder things. I read two books this week cuz' I like to read, Cursed the lawn as I changed the water many many times a day wishing so badly that I had a sprinkler system, found my tape measure that I thought I surely was dying without, I love that thing and seriously use it at least twice a day. Took a day off from the kids and went to the Parade of Homes with my mom and Kathy, left at noon and didn't come back till ten, Still not a fan of huge homes, they really just bug me because of the waste of it all, And lastly during the week I noticed my garden was growing, this surprised me because the kids have attempted to dig it up many times, my watering habits are not to good and I have a very healthy black thumb. Well that was my week, I have no pictures of the weekend so I can't talk about it.(aww were all so sad huh) Anyways hope everyone has a great week this week!

Family Pictures

So on Saturday night, I went with our friends and took some pictures, just for fun, of their family. I've decided family pictures are so much harder because it seems like someone is always looking away or has their eyes closed or ect. ect. ect. and I am not talented enough to see all that, But we did end up with a few good ones, at least I think. These are some of my favorites. Now I just need someone to take pictures of our family. :)

New Nightstands

Remember the nightstands I got from DI a little while back, well I finished them. It takes me a while always it seems to decide on exactly how how I want them to look. They ended up being real wood so I could've sanded them down but I'm not the biggest fan of sanding, plus we already have a stained headboard so the woods would be different and ya I eventually decided to go with the more modern chocolate brown look. I like them, Dave likes them, our bedroom is happy to have nightstands :) Tell me what you think.

Cd cover for DAD.

So my brother in law asked me to make a CD cover for their gift to my father in law on father's day. They are giving him a gift certificate to go and record some of his music, it's the old time country guitar like music, I don't know what it's called but it is fun to listen to. I'm not sure if they'll like this one because it is a bit grungy, but I didn't have many options to work with since the only picture I had of Dad was at Christmas time and they're were a million people I had to edit out of it..Pain. So I might just be posting another one that'll I do, who knows. :)

Whoops, went a little delete crazy.

Well I was deleting some of my old drafts that I had and I on accident deleted my last post. So I guess I'll just post the image again? Stinks cuz' I lost my comments. :(

So I was a little stressed tonight, and the thing that relaxes me the most is designing stuff, so that's what I'm doing so late tonight/early this morning. I went and raided my Brother and Sister In laws pictures so I can make some more examples for my web page/business. Which we've started working on again, Dave's so busy with school and he's coding it in php and all I know is html and xhtml so I am no help to him, so it's been a very slow process, and not to mention I've been a little scared to do it. (people will laugh at me):) So anyways here's the baby announcement I've worked on tonight.

So today we went to a friends baby blessing so we didn't have to go to church until the afternoon, being ready early I shamelessly took Camille's idea of taking pictures before church, what can I say that girls smart and has great ideas. :)
So anyhow these are some of my favorites. Brynley's show her personality so well, the somber picture is so her "look". I was glad to get some of Dave and me too, cuz we have seriously have next to none of us, just the kiddo's.

K, I have to ask.

Alright what is with the private thing. It seems like more and more, and more people are going private. So if someone would be so kind as to explain this to me, Why? Obviously I know not to share too much personal information, sometimes it helps to know how people use this information against you though too, which I can't see how exactly the would use some of it against you too. ya so if you know, please share.

I hate it when I finish something and I just don't know if I like it or not. Sometimes I'm a little picky, ok I admit it, most the time I'm a lot picky. It's just if I don't love something or it perform a very useful function it usually is gotten rid of. Dave is not always thrilled with this side of me, but this is how I keep organized. If there is too much stuff I seriously start feeling stressed/anxious, and after I go through stuff it's like a huge load is taken off of me and I can breath again. I blame this trait on my parents (of course:})them being the opposite and feeling great anxiety at getting rid of stuff. But to each his own right. Anyways I don't know if I love this page or not, It may just hit the reject pile. I'll give it a few days though to see if I warm up to it or not.

Nother Night, Nother Page

So I'm trying to get into the habit of doing a scrapbook page a night, that way maybe I'll get caught up. I probably shouldn't post them all, but after you finish them it's hard not to show someone. :) Anyhow today we hit the D.I. and I found some great nightstands to refinish- I'm excited cuz' we've needed some FOREVER. Fun, fun, having projects to do always makes me giddy!

Happy Birthday Mom!

Today is my mother-in laws birthday. I think I really lucked out with the amazing Mother in law that I got. She is one of the hardest working, kind, helpful and loving Moms there is. My kids just adore her and ask everyday to go and see grandma. I know If anything goes wrong I can count on her to be there to help me in whatever way she can. She is one of the most Christ like people I know and I feel the unconditional love that the Savior gives through her example of it. I hope when I am a grandma and have a million grandchildren that I can be somewhat like her, loved and surrounded by all my family. Happy Birthday Today, Mom.

Just keep swiming, Just keep swimming.

So I'm trying to do our scrap books, I must admit I get distracted and un- motivated with them. But tonight I did another page, After doing a few of these pages I've noticed that I'm not a frilly bows and buttons scrap booker- I have those that I could use but I just never like them on the page, I'm more into a flat graphic look, but ya just an observation, maybe when I get to Brynley's more I'll want those, who knows. Anyhow just thought I'd share.

ABC- Sing with me.

Obviously we watch PBS kids in this household, and truthfully that's the only thing we watch, It's pretty sad too that I can tell the time by what cartoon is on at that time. Anyways Payton has been working on the alphabet, and he knows most the letters and the sounds all the letters make. Like I can ask him what does G say and he'll say guh. yada yada but when we try to get the letters in the right order and say the alphabet he gets all confused. So I went looking for a poster that was cheap but had just the alphabet spelled out, But the only one's I could find all had pictures on them like A for apple and ect. So I decided I'd make him one and just print it off at Wally world (they're pretty cheap). Hopefully this works and if it does maybe we'll make one for numbers too- cuz' heaven knows we're confused there. Anyhow I thought it turned out kinda cute, tell me what you think.