This week...Happy Birthday Jesse!!!

I worked a lot of overtime this week, and I switched to swing shift, which was grueling!!! This is what I wore Monday, complete with mermaid makeup (my fave fave fave fave fave colors!!!) and sassy urban cowboy boots, and I was so uncomfortable!!! I learned my lesson and I wore comfortable clothes the rest of the week. I am not a night person, so I definitely need to be comfortable if I am working at night!!!

This absolutely adorable cuteness would be my darling bubby getting crafty with me last night at 1am! We cut some circles with my cuttlebug, he utilized the craft glue stick, and glue dots to glue on rickrack hair and facial hair!!!! It was sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo CUTE!!!!!!!!

His very first scrappy creation!!!!! He wants to put it on his ID badge at work.

Then he got fascinated with the punches, which was also extremely adorable!!!!!!!

Jesse turned 31 on Tuesday, August 19! HAPPY BIRTHDAY SWEETIE! I LOVE YOU SO MUCH AND THANK YOU FOR STANDING BY MY SIDE THROUGH ALL THE UPS AND DOWNS, TWISTS AND TURNS, HIGHS AND LOWS OF OUR CRAZY LIFE!!!!!

Layout

Jesse is coming to work in my department, and we will both be working a swing shift with mondays off together, so we can synchronize our lives and hopefully work on some things we really need to improve on. It does seem like all things are working together for the good, even the bad things and the mistakes that we've made. Thank God that he sticks with us no matter what we do.

Life and a Layout

Here we are, still alive after the stress storm, at my grandma's birthday party on sunday.

And a layout, I actually started and finished it in one night!!!

And finally a layout!!!

I've been trying to focus on some Bible verses lately to get through this stressful time. This passage of scripture is definitely one of my favorites in the whole Bible. Zephaniah 3:14-17.

News

This is a card I made awhile ago. I've been working on a layout since before we moved but I'm still not done with it, I will post it when we're done. We are all moved, and mostly moved in, I still have to excavate some stuff that is in a storage room at our new apartments, but it's little stuff like my swimsuit, my fall sweaters, etc. Our new place is tiny, but very cute. We got rid of a ton of stuff, but it was truly all junk. The stuff we kept is all our nicest stuff, so I think our new place has class! We also live 1.41 miles (according to mapquest) from our work so we might go down to one car and then we will be saving so much money!!! In gas alone, especially!

This is the main room, it is a dining room/living room/scraproom all in one.

This is my micro-kitchen, but it actually has just about as much cupboard/pantry space as our old place, and storage is definitely our biggest need, since I seem to love to accumulate STUFF!!!

This is our cute lil mini-yard!

I did laundry the other day in the laundry room with quarters and gigantic IKEA bags to carry stuff, it was pretty painless since we live in a really small complex I can just walk over there. And we've dipped in the mini-pool a few times, very nice on a hot summer day. And I've had plenty of relaxing baths since we've been here, which may be my favorite thing of all!

Here's my new scrapspace, directly behind the couch and TV, which was very sweet of Jesse to agree to.

I can sit and watch movies now with Jesse, scrapping at the same time!!!

And something really cool is that I won this free kit from gypsyrosepaperie.com

They are fun and nostalgic, I love the stuff and I can't wait to use it!!!!

I'm still reading everyone's blogs, I will try to comment too. I'm working about 50-60 hours per week so I'm super busy, but I will still try and catch up soon!