Scrapblog

I didn't get any actual scrapbooking done Saturday night. I sat down and went through pictures (the first step in my scrapbooking process). Right now I'm working on editing and developing pictures from NOVEMBER 2007! That's so sad, but I have a process and it works for me. Once I get on a roll, I do good. But I've been so busy with everything else lately that I haven't had the time to work on my hobby.

So, because I felt guilty about not having anything to share with you, I decided to upload some pictures I had taken a while back of the first several pages in Brett's scrapbook. A few months ago I took all the pages out of his scrapbooks because I was moving them into new books. I had this grand idea that I would take a picture of every single layout. After several photos I decided it was too time consuming and just put them into the new scrapbooks. What I went ahead and uploaded for you to see is what I did actually take pictures of.

Below is a link to where I uploaded them. It's a site specifically designed for scrapbook page sharing. The quality isn't as great as I'd like, but it was fast so it'll work for now. It's called Scrapblog. Enjoy!

http://www.scrapblog.com/viewer/viewer.aspx?sbid=726461

What I should be doing right now

Right now Lance and Brett are sleeping. Lance is working overnight night tonight and Brett is taking a late nap (better late than never!). I was taking a nap too but got woken up by my sister - thanks Ann!

So I'm sitting at my computer, not wanting to go downstairs because I know Brett is going to wake up anytime now. I'm sitting here thinking about all the stuff I should be doing but just don't feel like doing! I want to redesign my website, I need to add pictures to my website and to my facebook account. I have several work related things I need to do. And then there's my scrapbooking.

My goal is to get "caught up" in Brett's scrapbook before the baby arrives. That was a good goal. One I don't think is going to happen. I think I've only scrapbooked once in the past few months - mainly because I've been so busy with work and the free time I do have is spent with my boys or catching up on sleep! Plus, I have to get motivated to scrapbook. I tried to sit down the other night and do some digital scrapbooking but I just wasn't feeling it. I'm an orderly type person and I need to know what pictures I've already printed and what layouts I have waiting to go before I can just start something new. So, I didn't scrapbook the other night - although I was in the mood.

Right now I'm thinking I should get my stuff out and start sorting through it since I have an evening all to myself. But instead, I'm sitting here typing this blog. Maybe I'll get out of Lance's comfy computer chair (I stole it from him the other night and haven't given it back!) and get to work. Or maybe I'll just continue to surf the web and look at things I can't afford on eBay. If I do get any pages done tonight, I promise I'll post them!

Happy Birthday Mom!

Today is my mom's birthday! HAPPY BIRTHDAY MOM! Also known as Grammy to one little guy in our house.

Funny story for Mom's birthday. Brett now knows how to potty standing up. Can you believe it? Apparently he learned how to do this at pre-school (just the first of many things he'll learn I'm sure). He's so cute standing at the potty, barely tall enough to reach. But, he gets the job done. And to be honest, it's a lot easier for me. I don't have to worry about carrying the potty seat everywhere we go now.

My Life Right Now

Ok, so I love being 33 and a mom. I love my husband and that I'm still in love with him after 11.5 years of marriage! I love where I live and my group of friends. I love scrapbooking and being able to stay at home. It's a good life.

Now don't get me wrong - there are things I don't like. But, all in all I'm happy.

I have to admit that I'm still in shock that I'm having a girl. I was looking at the sonogram pictures today thinking "How can they tell it's a girl? Maybe they just missed the little wee wee." It's a good thing I have another sonogram scheduled in late October - just to make me feel better about it. It's totally weird calling the baby "her" and thinking about the girl things I'll get to buy and do.

We're still trying to decide on a name for the baby as well. We had a girl name picked out for Brett but we're not sure if that's the right name or not. I have four names I really like. I keep asking Lance if he's thought of names and he keeps saying no. We have less than 19 weeks left! That's not a lot of time to come up with a name! :)

And don't ask what the name is once we've decided. I like for there to be some surprise when we call and tell people that she's here!

Facebook

Ok, so I've done it. I've joined Facebook. I really only did so because my friend Adrienne joined and Iwanted to view her pictures. It's interesting and strange to see/connect with people you haven't seen/heard from in YEARS. We'll see how it goes I guess.

Naming Rights

So, we currently do not know what the baby's name is going to be. I thought we had a name that we were going to use, but Lance wants to keep looking. We joke all the time about "naming rights" - giving the other person sole authority over the baby's name. He loves Ashley and Nicole for names. I don't like Ashley and my good friend's daughter is named Nicole. So, obviously those two names are out - but I know if he had "naming rights" he would pick one of them (probably Nicole).

We were watching football today and he was commenting about how all the analysts have picked the Jets to win over the Patriots today just because Tom Brady is out. I told him that I'd pick the Jets too. He of course thinks I'm crazy so I asked if he wanted to bet. He said "sure" and when I asked what we were betting on he said "naming rights". I told him there's no way I'm letting the name of my little girl be decided on the outcome of a football game. It did make me laugh though.

I'm still going through with the bet, we just have to decide on stakes.

Our good news!