Time for some BPM uploads

Dang, I can't believe how fast the time seems to be going!! It's time to upload our monthly creations. I just LOVED this SEI! I believe I pretty much used almost every piece except for one...lol
Make sure to check out the gallery for all the other eye candy!!










Off to finish up some more stuff. Have a GREAT day!

Shhhhh...

It's a surprise party in the making! I'm trying my hardest to pull this off, but it's going to take a lot of cooperation on some other people to help me. Especially the "getting him out of the house" part...lol


Let's hope I can pull this off

HOLY COW!!!

After four Kenny Chesney concerts we finally did it!!!! My SIL Rose got us "meet & greet" passes by talking to a local radio station fellow she has met a few times now at the Diamond Back Saloon when my brother and her kick up their boots for a night. I couldn't believe it!!! Next thing I heard her calling me, the DJ yelled for me, and then I ran over. I waved the banner from his radio station and next thing I know we were handed passes and on an elevator down to stand in line to meet KENNY!!

Now mind you it's not like you're sitting down for a lunch date, but HEY we'll take what we can get :D We stood in line to get our picture taken and have him sign something for us. I only had my 106.7 Party Pass, so I had him sign that. Thank goodness I had my camera around my neck and that the battery lasted to get two more pictures. Of course my battery light had to come on and indicate it was low at a time like this. We were like giddy teenagers!! Here's a bunch of pictures from our day of fun!

I must interject here and point out an observation I made...Kenny looks like he is a cardboard poster, but seriously it was the REAL him! He looked darn tired like they woke him up for this, but he was super nice and even gave me an extra pat on my back...lol Rosie gave him a big ole' hug and he said "thank you" which she then responded with "no, thank you!"


Rose is Kenny's BIGGEST FAN! Can you see the excitement in her face as she's calling everyone to tell them what just happened to us!


A picture of the group right before we boarded the Detroit Princess.



CUTE HUH??!!??


A view of the city from the Detroit Princess


Rose, Traci, and Pam talking to Chuck Edwards from 99.5 WYCD (one of the local country radio stations). He promised that if I emailed him, he would send us out some t-shirts as they were all out. Let's see if he holds to his promise...lol


Ford Field on the outside


and jam packed with fans on the inside!


And this is always my favorite part of the show...when Uncle Kracker (a talent from our area who lives just blocks away from my brother...you possibly know him from being Kid Rock's musical buddy) comes out and sings "When the Sun Goes Down" with Kenny! I just love it!


AHHH! What a night..what a night!

August 1st already!!

Gosh, I feel like summer is FLYING by and once again I haven't done the things I wanted to with the kiddos. Still a few weeks to do a couple more things. We did go to Turtle Cove last week which is a BLAST!! Collin took it upon himself to disappear only to find him about ten minutes later in which he informed me he went down the blue slide....what!! My little bubs is getting braver and braver. He is a bit skiddish at times, but for the most part he does what he wants when he wants....since birth!!







On the scrappy front, the first means we get to put up our early layouts debuting the kits. Here's mine using the solo kit. Did I mention I love the SEI Poppy paper. Giving that Silhouette of mine lots of use lately -- finally!


Here is a layout I did for my challenge this month which is to scrap a layout using a "collage photo format". I've been seeing tons of inspiration on this lately, so I thought I'd give it a go. It was fun and I love the fact that you can fit all these photos into one layout and only print once. You can find templates for photo collages at Scrapbooks Etc.



Off to chill out for the evening. I've had quite a day between work and shopping after for an outfit for tomorrow's concert -- our annual event -- KENNY CHESNEY!! Us girls are going to have so much fun!! We got pre-party passes to ride the Detroit Princess...so excited!!

I have been behind

in the "thank you" department lately. I did thank this wonderfully most generous lady over the phone, but I also wanted to come give her a shout out on my blog.
Love ya, Kim!!


She graciously made it possible for me to come visit all my favorite Okie girls this August. I will be meeting them in Tulsa and then driving up to a scrap retreat that they frequent called The Scrapping Pad. I can't wait!! Thank you so much, Kim, for making it possible. I will never be able to thank you enough or be able to comprehend the generosity and kindness you have shown me...gonna cry hee hee

I also want to thank my bestest gal pal, Cheri and the sweetest gal evah Carolyn -- can't wait to see you, too!! Actually, I want to thank the whole crew while I'm at it for making it possible to come and stay to play with them! See ya in few weeks!!


Oh, remember this Kim...I'm your scrapping slave for the weekend so bring some extra photos and paper

BPM's August Sneak Peek!!

You're gonna love it!! I know I do!! Paula never ceases to amaze us with the gorgeous goodies she assembles Make sure to hop on over to BPM to grab one or possibly think of joining the monthly kit club. I promise you that you won't be disappointed!

SEI goodness is featured in the Solo for August...so pretty and I get the pleasure of working with this...YAY!


The Medley is featuring MM Passport, October Afternoon Detours, and Kimberly Polson Cabana...sure to delight you!


And these stamps!!! Need I say more


Off to play with my DT goodies! Have a scrappy happy day

A couple things I finished up

last night. I have quite a few "thank you" cards to make to I'm now just putting a dent in my list. I also dug into the gorgeous SR Grafton. Man, that stuff is just GORGEOUS!






Off to the water park today. We had a new one open up this season about 30 miles away, so we're off to try it out. Of course, I'll be taking more pictures..lol Have a great day!!

Few more scrappy things

Here is a layout created using Creative Scrapper's sketch #8 and a specialty kit I purchased from Remember the Moments. Love patriotic papers and Scenic Route Liberty didn't let me down :D


I did this card a while back, but forgot to take a picture of it until I used it for my niece's birthday. I used scraps from K&Co. Urban Rhapsody.

Happy 39th Birthday

to me!!! Yep, it's after 1 am on so it's officially my day. I'm holding on to 39 FOREVAH!! ..hee hee I can remember thinking this age was old. I can remember being 22 and my mom and dad being 39...where did time go?? It's just a number I keep telling myself. Yep, that's what I'll go off to bed soon repeating over and over...lol

I did have a lucky week so far. My sister won Kenny Chesney tickets on the radio along with the boat pre-party passes --- WOO HOO!!! We already have tickets, but we needed the boat passes. So she'll sell the tickets off. Then I hand my cell to Travis to be the 25th caller on a local radio station to win Jessie McCartney and Jordan Sparks tickets. The phone rings, rings, rings and I tell him to hand it back just in case we are the winner. I hear...25. I say, "Am I the 25th caller???" Yep, I sure was!! Woo HOO!! Why couldn't it be money, though???LOL I gave the two tickets to Travis for him and a friend to go...nice stepmom that I am :D He was THRILLED to say the least!

Sunday evening my mom and sister took me out to dinner at one of my favorite restaurants -- Slows BBQ...yummo!! I'll have to post pictures as soon as I can get them downloaded. Darn computer is not recognizing the old camera. That's a whole other story...my computer! I decided to run a cleaner on it to solve ONE ISSUE and let's just say I have MANY ISSUES now...jeez! But back to the dinner...it was AWESOME!! My sister is the BEST!! I just love her to pieces I swear!! She sure knows how to make a birthday special :D

I best be off to get some good sleep. Wrinkles start creeping in at this age...lol
Have a wonderful day!!!

Horrible picture... **better picture now

but here is my layout I managed to pull together at the last minute for Triple the Sketch's CHA special sketch. I loved using the Chatterbox papers from BPM's July solo kit -- yummy stuff!! I'll take a better picture and repost it tomorrow. You don't want to even know how long it took me to get this one between one camera not being recognized on our lovely computer, smashing a lamp onto the Pergo floor leaving a gouge and broken glass everywhere, then having the battery in the Rebel die right after getting a better shot...ugh!
***I took a better shot this morning and I do think it shows the colors of the papers WAY better :D

Award

Thank you so very much for giving me this award, Brenda!! I am completely honored!!!

Now here are the rules for receiving this award:
1) Put the logo on your blog
2) Add a link to the person who awarded you
3) Nominate at least 7 other blogs
4) Add links to those blogs on yours
5) Leave a message for your nominees on their blogs

Sounds easy enough! So here are some very inspiring, incredibly talented ladies whose blogs I love to drool over :D
1. Michelle Lanning
2. Shawna
3. Shanna
4. Leslie Ashe
5. Kimberly Crawford
6. Sheree
7. Zarah

Have a great Sunday and try to squeeze in some scrappy time :D
Tami

Bringing you...

July's DT reveal...lol Sounds kind of odd, huh? Anywho, on to the layouts using the yummy BPM July Medley kit :D









This little bloom bucket I made for my niece Gabby's birthday. Her mom told me to make her something as she just LOVES Aunt Tami's homemade gifts...sweet kid!! I got a picture of her opening it.


Make sure to go check out the rest of the DT Gal's TERRIFIC creations!
BPM July DT Gallery

Yesterday..

was my bub's 6th birthday!!! We had a birthday party for him on the 5th, so yesterday was low key. I did reserve a birthday present for him -- the one he really wanted -- WWE Smackdown VS Raw 2008. You should have seen the look on his face -- pure DELIGHT!! Unfortunately I didn't take any pictures yesterday, but I did take plenty on the 5th. I can't believe my baby is not a little baby anymore...ugh!! Bittersweet feelings for sure!

Here is my semi-homemade cake...lol I bought a Sam's Club cake and then decorated the top with the rice paper WWE emblems, sprinkles, and minature WWE characters. Can you tell that Collin loves WWE??!!







Other than that, I've been cleaning cleaning and more cleaning around here. In my spare time, I have scrapped a bit that I will be able to show tomorrow. Until then :D

It's the first

so that means our DT early layouts will be posted at Back Porch Memories
I love seeing what everyone does with the kits! Here's mine using CBX Happy Day -- terrific color combo on this paper!



Here's a layout I did for the heck of it. I just wanted to use some of the FP papers and this picture of Collin was perfect.