RIP Belle

Sammie's fish, Belle, passed away last night. She was a good fish and lived a long, almost 2 year life, which is pretty good for a fish. Belle was cute, she would swim to the front of her tank and sort of hover when she saw us. We enjoyed having her as a pet even though "she" was really a "he" but Sammie didn't care. She chose "him/her" because she loved his colors and wanted to name it Belle so our boy fish was always referred to as a girl. Anyway.. she took it very well but she is bummed. We will have to get a new fish soon. It is nice to have a little friend in our kitchen.

Lots of Birthdays!

February is a busy birthday month for us.. My nephew, my brother, Sammie, my twin sister-in- laws, my Nana, my friend Christine's son Adam, and then Brad's birthday sneaks up the beginning of March. We have been super busy celebrating, especially this weekend.

My Nana turned 96 so we had a big surprise dinner for her at Maggiano's. It was really yummy and she was thrilled to have all the family together. ( well most of us) She has 6 grand children and 14 great grands. Amazing. Some live far away and weren't able to come but most of us were able to celeberate with her.

Family has always been such a priority for Nana. She likes to keep close to everyone. I am very fortunate to have such a close relationship with her.

We celebrated Brad's birthday at disneyland. We had a lot of fun riding on our favorite rides and visiting the characters..

We also celebrated Dr. Suess's birthday too. Here is green eggs and Sam!

In Kindergarten the kids wore PJ's to school, ate green eggs and ham, and read Dr. Suess books.

A fun RAK

Here is a quickie post for now.. i have a lot to share and will be right back but I wanted to tell you about a fun adorable RAK. Check out their blog and you can win a prize. Here is the link... stop by and say hello. hurry it is ending soon!!

Happy Birthday Sammie

It is so hard to believe that my little Sam is now 6 years old!! Donna sent me this picture of Sammie eating cake on her first birthday. Here is Sammie 5 years later on her 6th birthday.

Six things about Sam....

1. She loves horses!

2. She loves princesses, dress-up, sparkly things and all things girly.

3. She is loving and happy.

4. She loves to draw.

5. She loves to play with her My Little Pony and Barbie toys.

6. She loves Kindergarten and playing with friends

( oh and a bonus that she told me yesterday, " Mommy, I love going shopping" )

We had a busy weekend. We decorated her door on her birthday so when she woke up she would see it. ( Thank you Layle Koncar for that great idea!)

We went to the Bibbidi Bobbidi Boutique to turn Sammie into a Disney Princess. It was a lot of fun. (See the finished princess above)

She said, "mommy, I love being fancy". She sure loved that bling ring. After her princess transformation we met my parents for dinner at the rainforest cafe. It was a lot of fun, then we went back to Disneyland to ride some rides. ( my parents went to my house instead)

The next morning, Sammie had a horseback riding lesson and then we went to my Nana's house for lunch. My Nana is going to turn 96 years old on Feb 26th. She is amazing and is 90 years older than Sammie. We are having a surprise party for her in a couple of weeks.

On Valentine's day we had Sammie's birthday party at Chuck E Cheese. It was great. She loved it and was dressed up in her Disney princess dress again. ( i figured it would be good to get as much wear out of it!) LOL! Valentine's day 2004 was the day we 1st brought Sammie home from the hospital when she was born. Gosh, time really flies!

What a busy weekend we had celebrating with family and friends. Here are some other fun pics.

Here is the birthday cake we made at home. She had a pretty Ariel cake at her party but she helped make and decorate this one so it is special.

My dog is so sweet and simple she will pose and let me take pictures.

In scrappy news, we have a new challenge up at scrapitforward. Stop by, play along and help the hungry. There is a sparkly prize this month. You can also see the layout I made with Sammie's princess picture. I haven't had much time to scrap lately and I am really missing it. February is always a super busy month. We have a lot of birthdays to celebrate.

Anyway.... thanks for stopping by, now go check out scrap it forward and also go to Red Oak lines. Sarah is trying to get to 50,000 visitors and she is giving away a prize too.. Please tell her that I sent you. :+)

Random stuff

Keeping true to my blog title, here are a few pictures of random things i wanted to share. This is my new friend Julie who I met at CHA but have known her online. She is a very cool chick! We had a lot of fun hanging out at her booth and laughing. I feel like I have known her forever! She has a great challenge blog, stop by and check it out! She is having a fun giveaway on her blog here. Stop by and say hello to Julie and tell her I sent you over! Also, check out our challenge blog at scrap it forward. This month's challenge is to benefit Haiti earthquake victims. I also met another friend who i know online too. Her name is Sarah and she is fabulous as well.. She has a great website and etsy shop. Check out her stuff and talents too! :)

It was great to see Teresa at her booth. She has some new great lines coming out.

Here are a few peeks at some of my favorites from the show. I love Doodlebug and of course the barnyard line will be perfect for someone's horsey pictures.

My Little Shoebox is one of my favorite companies of all time.. Look how cute their new stuff is.. oooohhh... I can't wait to get my hands on this stuff!!

Now here we have some of Sammie's finest... This is a horse wedding. She arranged the horses on the sides to watch the wedding. Yep, now you have seen everything!

A fun photo from my birthday at Disneyland. This is us getting ready to ride the Toy Story Mania ride. I love this ride. It is amazingly brilliant!!!

A pic of Sammie with her reindeer food she made in kindergarten.

And a drawing that was too cute not to share. Sammie drew this on my whiteboard in my classroom. A reindeer pulling Santa's sleigh. I told you this post was random. I just was going through some pics and wanted to include these in my blog posts. I do enjoy going back and looking to see what we did so now i have it on record. :)

Crazy weather we are having. Lots of rain. Bummer.

Sammie is going to be 6 years old on Friday. I can't believe it. Time goes way too fast!! She is very excited to be 6 and has been counting down the days since January. We had to change the calendar 8 days early so she could have it be February, and that way "we wouldn't have to change the calendar again" for a while! LOL!

Fun at CHA

Wow... the CHA show is great. Making Memories is coming out with some fantastic new products. I can't wait. Had a blast in their booth riding on this fancy scooter. They are very generous and are giving away Slice machines in their booth, on the show floor and on their blog as well.

Thank you for the chances to win, Making Memories, you are awesome!

Hello 2010 ..... Hello iMac

Well, Happy New Year! I am making my first blog post of the the year on my brand new computer!!! We bought two, one desktop and one laptop, both of which I am trying to figure out. Apple is amazing though, and has excellent customer service so I am taking classes to learn. We don't even have our desktop up and running yet so I have been playing with the laptop which is challenging for me since it is my first one and the mouse and keys are different. I am very excited though. I had my first training today and an iphoto class and I can't wait to learn more! The photo program is incredible and perfect for scrapbookers!

This is going to be a short post since I just learned how to import photos ( which is a whole different process than on the PC) so next time I will share some holiday pics, etc.

Hope you had a great holiday and wish all of my faithful bloggy friends a happy healthy new year! Oh, by the way, please email me with your email addresses because I don't have my address book transferred from my old computer.