Living My Dream

Soccer Camp and Other Random Ramblings...

The girls finished up a week of soccer camp today. IT WAS SO EXCITING! My girls have never been interested in playing sports. This season, they finally decided they wanted to play soccer. I was a little worried that they would be way behind all the other girls who have played for years, so I enrolled them in a soccer camp by Coerver. They learned so much! This camp was awesome and I highly recommend it to anyone that wants to improve their soccer skills (they have a summer and a winter schedule throughout the US). The coaches (Tristan and Jeff) were AWESOME with my girls. They had all these aggressive, experienced boys and then two little girls that knew... Read more →

A Visit to the Hanky Panky Aquarium...

We went to the Long Beach Aquarium today for the first time ever (why I ask myself???). We met one of my favorite people there, Lisa Vanderveen and her cute little daughter Sophie, who I have been dying to meet. There was definitely something in the air today...not sure what, but I hope I didn't catch it. The seals had it BAD: The Lorikeets had it (and if you were brave enough to hold them while they bit your fingers, you got a nice foot bath in the process...): At this point, I was starting to wonder if this was an aquarium for adult's only... Even the star fish seemed to be in the mood for lovin'... This was Mr.... Read more →

Awesome Lens Give Away on the CK Blog!!!

Creating Keepsakes is giving away a Tamron lens on their blog. You just have to leave a comment by August 27th to be eligible to win. The lens is valued at $629, so this is a great give away! Here is a link to the blog post: Creating Keepsakes Blog Give Away. Have a great weekend! We are off to the beach to go for a swim ... Suzy Read more →

Take Me Home PLEASE???

Cutest puppy ever at Fashion Island. Do not HOLD puppies if you are not looking to BUY a puppy. Not good for the heart. Not good for little girl's hearts. Not good for the puppy's heart... Lucky she had a very messy buttox area or I might have forgotten how much work a puppy can be once you take them home. Tempting - oh so tempting though... Suzy Read more →

More Layouts???

I know, I know ... I shouldn't have time for scrapping when I have four little girls in my house. But I made these two FAST after I drew them all some cartoon people to color... This is my sweet boy Thane when he was a little tyke. And I am happy to report that he has the most beautiful teeth that totally fit his manly size!!! (((I think he might even agree with me now!))). Oh how I love these little monsters. Glad I finally found a way to use them! This one is some older pictures of Chloe eating an ice cream cone. She always looks like this once she is done. Thus the journaling. Enough blue for... Read more →

More Summer Pages

Two more pages JUST FOR FUN! I'm on a roll...should be posting more all week if I get my way - hee hee! Happy Tuesday! Suzy Read more →

Hey, somebody likes my blog!!!

I have a FAN! Someone nominated my blog! Someone READS my blog!!! I AM FAMOUS!!! Unbeknownst to me, there is a blog that nominates blogs as Orange County's best. I apparently received a nomination in the category of creative blogs. So if you agree, please vote for me. Not sure why I want votes, but I guess having more blog readers is a GOOD thing. And to think I have always been satisfied with just one... Here is the link to vote if you like this place (((no pressure))), (((I'm not a pressure kind of girl))), (((don't feel obligated))): PS - No pressure. Only if you like me. PSS - Voting ends on Thursday. Thank you. Read more →

Hooray, Hooray, Hooray!!!

My computer is back up! I have a MAC again! I LOVE MY MAC!!! (((I missed my MAC))) This weekend my sister came down and we did a little scrapbooking. I rarely get a chance to just scrap for fun, so FUN this was! Here are four pages I made for just little ol' me - very simple and quick, but very therapeutic for my creative side (that has been shut down for most of the summer)! This is a page from the Fourth of July this year - my sister and her first grandson, Jude: Here is a page of sweet Chloe from Easter: And this one is another Chloe one from a summer day spent at Irvine Regional... Read more →

A Not So Good Day...

It happened to ME. The dreadful thing we all think will never happen to US. My hard drive crashed. I had a fairly new MAC and I was not backing up anything until...two weeks ago! My husband bought me a terabyte drive and backed up all my photos and documents. So nothing was lost (good timing after a year and a half of gambling!). The bad news is, I lost all my email history! All of it. I have no email addresses and no inbox filled with emails I have been meaning to answer. I no longer have my archived files of emails like people that are interested in my classes. All of it - gone. So if I owe... Read more →