disney friends

this is the first page i've done from our trip to disney in october.....

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I'm not totally happy with it, but I'm tired of working on it. :) Oh, this is another 2 pager.

arax & janelle

So Keith's little brother Arax (we call him Eric) got married on Friday. I used pics from his wedding to do the last page for the scrapbook class I was taking. I can't believe it's been four weeks already. Anyway, I've learned a lot and hopefully this will keep me scrapping more regularly. I'm already planning on signing up for her next course in a couple months. If you're interested in finding out more, her website is right here. Right now she offers classes for beginners, intermediates, and advanceds. I would totally recommend her classes to anyone.

Anyway, without further ado, here's the page. Hope you like it!

And if you're wondering why it's so wide, it's because this is two pages. I'm showing them to you together so you can see what they'll look like next to each other printed out, but I'll have them printed separately. You can kind of see where the division will be - it's a little to the right of Arax's name.

another funny video

so Kusi put this video up on her blog, and I LOVE it! So funny! And I'm wondering when Kusi and Eric will be bringing one of those to our family gatherings.... (hint hint)

Here's my scrapbook page for this week. Hope you like it!

charlie bit me

Here's a youtube video I saw on someone else's blog. Keith and I have been laughing about it all weekend. Keith will try to imitate the little boy's accent (not very well, I might add) and we'll just start cracking up again. What a cute little boy!

image survey

So I saw this on someone else's blog and thought it would be cool to do.

Here is what you do:
FIRST - read the question
SECOND - type in the first answer that comes to mind in Google Image search
THIRD - post the first picture that comes up and write what you typed in

And I'm tagging anyone who reads my blog to do this yourself. And link me up when you do!!

1. Age I will be on my next birthday - 28

2. Favorite Food - mexican food

3. Favorite Color - purple

4. A place I would like to visit - Italy


5. Where I live - Utah County



6. Name of past or present pet - Panda

7. One of my favorite places - Florida

8. Favorite Holiday - my birthday

9. A bad habit - biting my lips
10. Favorite animal - horse


11. Favorite cartoon from childhood - smurfs

12. My name (or nickname) - Kathleen

13. Sport I play (or my favorite) - volleyball

14. Favorite extravagance - pedicures

15. A phrase I overuse - dang it!

There are a couple where I used the second picture that came up, but only because the girl before me had the same answer and had already used the first picture, or because the first picture wasn't exactly something I'd want on my blog (if you know what I mean). And I have no idea what that soldier guy has to do with biting my lips, but it was the first that came up, so there it is. And I LOVE what came up for "dang it". So funny. This was pretty fun! You guys should try it!!!

pigtails

man, I am on a roll. Here's my third layout in a week. 2nd in a day. pretty amazing if I do say so myself. This one is for that class I'm taking. I am having a lot of fun with it, and learning a lot of stuff that I think will help me be a better digi-scrapper.



p.s. these pictures were taken the very same day as the cocoa puff ones. i had to photoshop some chocolate off her face in the large picture. but that's about all i did to these pictures. aren't her eyes beautiful? that's what you get when you have an awesome lens and a lot of natural light. not to mention a gorgeous subject. :)

snow day

While I was helping my neighbor become addicted to this digital scrapping thing (hi Amy!!), I started another page of my own and finished it tonight.

cuckoo for cocoa puffs

look at me! look at me! (pointing upwards) I have a new blog header. I figured it was about time to update it. ;P Let me know if it looks funny to you so I can make any adjustments it might need.

And here's a page I just finished about Maricela's first time eating cereal by herself. Enjoy!

For credits, click here

In case you can't read the journaling, it says: "This was Maricela's very first time eating her own cereal, in her own bowl, with her own spoon. She was super excited to be feeding herself. It was so funny to watch her hold the spoon with one hand and guide it into her mouth with her other hand. She totally knew I was taking pictures of her and was hamming it up for the camera. And now she won't let us feed her any more - she HAS to do it herself. I am so proud of my little baby, who's not so little any more."

Thanks for looking!

no walls

so I've mentioned a few times that there aren't any walls in our upstairs. Some of you may have doubted me. I wouldn't blame you - it sounds quite strange to not have walls in the whole upstairs portion of your house. While previously I could only have said half of the upstairs, as of today I can now say the whole upstairs. You heard that right - look at what I came home to today.

There are two bedrooms up there and a big landing halfway up the stairs. Before, just one room and the landing were missing their walls, but now the other room has succumbed to the same fate. It is FREEZING up there (not to mention in my portable at school cause the heater's broken) and really messy. All I can say is this better not take him two more years. If it did, I don't know that he would live to see it's completion, as I would most likely kill him from frustration before eh was able to finish. ;P What am I gonna do with him?

Araceli

I have really been slacking off on the scrapbooking thing lately (not to mention the blogging). So to get myself going, I paid to take a scrapbooking class over the computer. I figured this would help me in two ways - one, you better believe I'm going to scrap if I paid to take a class and two, now I can learn some new things and improve my techniques. So this is the layout I did for the first lesson. I really had a hard time finding a picture for it. We learned how to change a photo to a sepia color and then have make part of the photo be in color. I finally settled on this one, and I think it turned out pretty good. Let me know what you think.

found another good movie

Keith and I went to see The Great Debaters last night. It was really good. A movie that makes you think. I've been staring at the screen for the last 4 minutes trying to think of what to say to describe this movie, but I can't think of anything that wouldn't sound, for lack of a better word, silly. It's a movie that deals with racism and prejudices and, for a few minutes, helps you see what it was like back then. And makes you glad you live now. Anyway, a very good movie. Keith was afraid it was going to be dumb, but he liked it as well. I would totally recommend this movie to anyone, but I probably wouldn't take Amya to it. While there were hardly any swear words and one brief sex scene (brief as in like 5 seconds and they don't show anything) it's a movie that deals with racism and extreme hatred. There is a lynching scene that is hard to watch. I wouldn't want to expose her to that kind of hatred. Not that I don't ever want her to know about things like that, I just don't want her to see that now. My mom teases me about letting her watch X-Men and Spiderman, but that's pretend. This is real. And sad. (But still a good movie.) So anyway, don't take your kids, but go see this movie.

january desktop

I'm a few days late, but oh well. Here's my desktop for January.

beautiful face

so I totally wasn't planning on doing a scrapbook page. I came up here and was organizing my scrapbook supplies and came across a few tutorials. I started messing around with them, trying to figure them out and try them out so I could remember how to do it, and then after I had spent so much time on that, I decided to turn it into a page. So on this page, I learned how to make it look like the ribbon was threaded through the letters, and a better way to brighten eyes than the one I had been using. And then Amya came up here and was giving me suggestions on what to do on the page - "I want a little more blue....Can you add some purple? It's my favorite color....I don't want that glittery thing to be touching me (it was over her hair)" and so on. So I guess we both made it. :)