Life on the edge

Sleepy-eyed after staying up all night Saturday taking care of my poor sick husband, I dragged my tired, long-faced butt outside to get the Sunday paper. I eagerly opened it hoping for some good sales but the front page of the Daily Oklahoman greeted me with this headline, "WE ARE ALL GOING TO DIE!" Yikes. I sighed. Put the paper down and walked back to bed.
The most important news is Ben is feeling better! Saturday was our 5th anniversary so I would like to share some of our wedding pics with y'all...

I think I have shared this one before but it has to be my favorite.

My parents at our wedding. They were so cute!!

Me. I wasn't really a blushing bride but a sweaty bride! It was so hot in the little chapel and I was so nervous that when I got to the altar I swayed a little because I felt faint!

Ben and I with our minister behind us--pronouncing us man and wife. We look relieved!

Ben's parents and my parents.
So many wonderful memories of our wedding day. :)

Harrison has been in a really good mood. He met his summer reading goal at the library (read 200 books with mom and dad). He got his blue ribbon and tickets to the RedHawks baseball game. He was jumping for joy!!!!
We also went to Chuck E Cheese last Wednesday with A.T. for a playdate!

Yum! Cheese pizza rocks.

H likes it!

Diet Coke for momma (with lemon slices!)

Hey Chuck E.

Last piece! Time to fight over it!

Chuck E needs a pedi!

:]
I did some organizing over the weekend.

And we did some painting!

H asked me to paint bugs.

Here is his "kung fu painting."
I started a scrapbook page.

Of course, every time I sit at my scrap desk I get interrupted by the phone, doorbell, "Mama!", etc.
We watched this movie yesterday...

Hehe! Who ya gonna call??
And I did some etsy shopping for myself:

I cannot wait for these Elsie embroidery patterns arrive!!

Leaving you with this:

I saw this on snopes.com and I thought it was fake. Um, not! See the wikipedia article HERE!
So what have you been up to??

Hello lovah...

Okay remember the clip from the new SATC movie where Sarah Jessica says that to a pair of Manolo's?? (I prefer Christain Louboutin's...) But being the scrappy wannabe goddess that I am I say "Hello lovah" to these:

I have been hoarding scrapbooking safe (water based) Sharpies like crazy lately. I love how they write smooth like buttah on any surface, and they don't have that nausea inducing smell!
I have always had a love affair with office supplies even before I became a scrapbooker. Before that I was the teacher who hoarded and guarded her top desk drawer full of pens. And before that I was the middle school kid who picked up pens and pencils off the school floor (not kidding). And even previous to that I was the little girl who started a pen collection--collecting odd shaped pens like the pacifier pen everyone thought was a condom pen or the pen that had a rock collection inside it. Nerdy, but true.
Now I can hide the stockpiling by saying I need it all for scrapbooking. Do they have an Office Supply Hoarders Anonymous or something?!?! Sign me up!!!

Photo of the Day

Monday, June 30
Harrison so loves these guys...(Little Einsteins)

Playing nurse

Sorry this is so short--I planned to do a large post today but Ben has been sick since Saturday afternoon. :( So I am playing nurse and I'll have to update Monday or Tuesday instead. Hope your weekend was good! :)

Hey baby

Happy 5th Anniversary to my darling sweetheart Ben!!! I cannot believe we have been married five years now. It seems like our wedding really was just yesterday. I love you! xoxo

I also wanna say Happy Birthday to my online scrappy friend ScrappyCatz/Lisa! June 28th rocks! :)

I am taking Saturday off but will have a super long post on Sunday, including pics from my wedding and some recent pics of what we did over the week. :) TTYL

Photo of the Day

Yesterday's close-up was...

and
the final reveal for the week..

a pumpkin!!!

Photo of the Day

Wednesday's photo revealed...

it was Fourth of July fireworks!!!

close-up of Thursday, June 27 pic...

Try to guess under the comments section and I will reveal it tomorrow! :) TGIF!

Time to get your scrap on!!!

That's right. July 25-27 www.thescrapcity.com is going to be having a free online crop to celebrate the grand opening of their store!! There will be fun, prizes, and games!!! B.Y.O.S.--Bring your own scissors! And tell your friends! :)
Here is a sneaky peek at something I completed related to a crop challenge...

Giveaway Winner Is...

Random.Org picked and...it is....



Lucky #7!!! How cool is that?!? Suzie you won! Email me your addy at harrisonsmommy1@gmail.com

Thank you to everyone for playing. I will have another giveaway on July 20th! :) Congrats Suzie!

Countdown begins!

I don't know if it possible to get a freezer burn on your lips from a popsicle but I just did. :( Wahwah.
So 2 hours until random number generator picks a giveaway winner. Oh my, I love giveaways!
I just found out another craft blog will be doing 20!! A new winner each day at 9am starting June 30th (next Monday).
Here is the link (click on image)...

Um, I cannot believe the 4th of July is next Friday!! We are having a cook-out and I have not done anything to get ready yet!! Grrr...so much to do!
Okay so the reveal for yesterday's photo of the day...
it was... {scroll down}






a gorilla arm!

Here is today's photo of the day (up close). Try to guess what the object is and I reveal it tomorrow along with a new close up.
:) I love reading these guesses by the way!
-Photo of the Day-Wednesday, June 25

Photo of the Day...and other things!

Remember this week on photo of the day I am showing a close up and you guess what the object is. Then the next day I will reveal the object along with a new close up!
Monday's Reveal...

it was my Winter hat!
Tuesday, June 24
your close up to guess on...

Nope it isn't my leg in the Winter!!!
Have fun guessing!
Also~tomorrow I pick a winner for my giveaway (see Friday, June 20 post for info and to enter). Yep, tomorrow at 4pm CST. Good luck!
Today I did nothing blogworthy. Just laid about reading a novel and eating popsicles. We went outside a little. Cleaned a little. Meh.
Oh, here is a scrapbook page I did last night~

The lion is actually a cub! It kept trying to play with Harrison through the glass (or eat him)...
The journaling reads, "Pretty little lion friend if we were in the wild you would eat me..."
And here is another page of a pic from my mom's house:

I did for a tutorial on how to use paint in scrapbooking at www.scrapcity.blogspot.com
:) Happy Tuesday! What have you been up to??

Photo of the Day

for Monday, June 23

Okay, I thought for photo of the day this week I wanted to do something fun and different. Mix it up a l'il! Remember those Tana Hoban books from childhood? CLICK HERE
The ones with the black and white photos where you saw something close up, had to guess what it was and then turned the page to see the full shot? We will be playing the guessing game this week! I will post the close-up, then reveal the object and post a new close-up the following day!

Monday's pic:




Start guessing! :) Will reveal sometime Tuesday and post a new pic then. Also, don't forget to enter my {small} giveaway in the post below!

Giveaway Time!!!

Here is my fun giveaway for the month. Just post a comment saying anything at all ("hi," "I like pancakes," etc). And a winner will be randomnly drawn by random generator.com!
Good luck!

Prize: Scented lotion, flavored lipgloss, photo frame block, cute lipstick shaped daily planner, and Jelly Belly candy!
Winner will be drawn on Wednesday, June 25 at 4pm CST. :)
P.S. Milette's post reminded me to add: Anyone can play! Last time I had someone win from Canada. So anyone from any country is invited to play! :)

Coffee anyone??

Hey all! Drinking my morning joe while watching Morning Joe!
I stayed up all night--have not done that in awhile but I am so not tired. Spent most of my time working on this darn blog template.
So I made this birdhouse Wednesday night for the Altered Challenge at www.thescrapcity.com

Even if you are not into scrapbooking/paper you should check out the gallery/forum there!
The sky was so pretty yesterday~

And here is the first official pic of Froggy:

The trees at the library were damaged in the ice storm we had a few months ago and no one has removed them yet. Just thought it would make an interesting photo.

the fallen trees...

And another sky pic...