Letter to Santa

December already

WOW time flies I cant believe it has been almost 4 months since my last post..LOL I left to Colorado to take Bianca there & get settled in before she started at college. I have been so busy with her, the rest of the kids, remodel on the house, the monkey situation that is still going on after 2 years that I have neglected my blog yet once again. I am a terrible BLOGGER! I have been helping Bianca with her blog so all the post you see I have put them up for her. She emails me the pictures & what she wants to say & I post it...LOL You would think she would of learned how to blog by now.
Well I am going to try & keep this up to date..as there is a new year starting & I am sure there will be a lot of things to share with you.

Going Away Dinner

This was Bianca's going away dinner, of coarse being the procrastinator that I am it wasn't planned until the last minute. Just a few close friends & family getting together to say goodbye. It was a couple of nights before heading off to Colorado.
Bianca didn't tell me that she was inviting a few of her friends so imagine my surprise when I saw the bill at the end of the night...LOL
We had conversation, good food, a great time & most importantly we got to spend some time with Bianca before she left.

Scrapbook Room

OK, OK everyone has been asking me to post pictures of my scrapbook room so i finally got around to taking some the other day.

The room is not completely finished but it is presentable. The room will always be a work in progress..LOL For those that know me I have changed my scrapbook room so many times I cant even count. Every time I find new furniture I like I change it. My sister get all my hand me downs so she is always encouraging the change..LOL

The embellishments are in jars that I purchased at target, wal-mart & prima. I have all my ribbon, flowers, embellishments, gems, & inks sorted by color that took me forever to do. I still have baggies with items to sort they are in my MISC. bin...LOL

The furniture is all from IKEA. I LOVED the dark brown/blk look some call it espresso. I got everything to match piece by piece.

The bins are from target, Ek, & IKEA I added tags & ribbons on them to help me find my items more efficiently. As you can see there are still tags to be made.

My computer & electronic devices are along the back wall all lines up on the Ek cubes that are no longer being sold..thank god i found furniture to match :0)

My working table is big enough for 2 but i prefer to use the whole table myself..LOL When my daughter scraps she gets the fold out table and outs it catty-corner to me so that we can talk & share, boy am I going to miss her when she leaves to college next month. As you can see under the table are more bins...LOL

I made some XL canvas to hang on the wall it spells out FAMILY they are pictures of my children from the last 3 years.

I keep all my paper & embellishments in the bins. The paper are kept in plastic 12x12 paper holders each one labeled & in alphabetical order as you can see I have a ton of girl paper...LOL The stickers & themed embellishments are in the bins separated by plastic file tabs from cropper hopper.

I tried to take pictures of whatever i could to give you the idea of how i keep my scrapbook room oh & lets not forget the matching doggy bed..LOL

Here are some pictures of the room. I hope it inspires you!

Busch Gardens 2008

Busch Gardens was GREAT! except for the scorching 98 degrees with no breeze that we had going on. I tell you it was so hot that we couldn't even see straight, it mad the breeze from the roller coasters feel fantastic..lol Lets not mention the water rides thank god they had 4 of them..lol We went up to Busch Garden because we gave Bianca a graduation gift that entailed her being in their zoo career for a week working alongside the zookeepers, handlers & veterinarians at Busch Gardens. So we drove up on Friday and dropped her off Sat morning & continued on to the park for ourselves. We ran into her one time while Jr was getting a tattoo...lol She was getting to know the park inside & out. She has only one phone call a day & it is a night as she has a really rough schedule. Bianca gets up @ 5:00am every morning gets ready has breakfast & then works in her zoo area from 7 -12 then has lunch and goes back to her zoo area from 1-3. At 3 they go & do other activities that entail learning all there is to know about working with zoo animals. She then gets dinner around 6 then showers, free time & phone calls. There are a few field trips she will go on one is to the Busch Gardens Animal Outpost where the zoo animals are held before entering or leaving to go to another zoo, the other field trip is at Discovery Cove where she will swim with dolphins and learn about marine animals. She also gets a few photo ops with some animals and lots of hands on training. I think this is an experience she will never forget. I hope the gift we gave her measures up to her expectations. I will keep you posted on her week as it draws to a close. She has made a few friends one of them is also going to Colorado for college so i hope they stay friends for a very long time.

Sea World Trip

We Went on a trip to Sea World & their new water park Aquatica. It was so much fun! We were a group of 11 yep you read correctly 11 so it was a bit hectic but all in all worth every moment. The kids had so much fun it had been a few years since we had been to Sea World the weather was great it wasn't too crowded it was just right. We woke up at 6:00 am to get to Aquatica by 7 the park opened @ 9 but we were allowed in an hour early some special we received when we bought our tickets online...lol Anyhow the new park is so popular that the gates close by 10 because they have met capacity, is that insane or what? Cant wait we are going to be going to Busch Gardens next weekend this summer is going to be jam packed with fun things for us to do all together before my baby girl goes away to college...