My little cutie :)

Just wanted to share these pictures of Katie. :) She is such a sweetie!! :) And this is a new page that I made from the pictures last week. It looks very crooked here, sorry! I love these new KI Memories letter stamps! Def. some of my new favorites. :)
*So* happy to have the day off today! It's been good, rested some, took some new pages up to

Brandi's store for our design team display and have pretty much done no cleaning like I said I would! :) But the day's not over yet, right? :) Have a great day!
Charin

5 things that are making me smile :)

1. Sunshine :) I love that the days are getting warm and sunny! Love this time of year so much :)
2. I have the day off tomorrow! I am hoping to clean my scrap desk off so I can actually fit a whole 12x12 page on there! ha ha! :)
3. Elsie is coming out with a new book!!! :) I am really excited about that, I read her first one *all* the time. Love her work so much! She's so inspiring.
4. Buttons :) I am pretty much falling in love with using them on my scrapbook pages and cards all over again....never really stopped loving them but lately I have been using them a *ton*! :)
5. My husband because he loves me :)
Just wanted to share that, I think it's good to sit and thing about what you're happy about every once in awhile, ya know? :) Have a great day!

Fun :)

Look at these cutie babies together! :) My baby Katie is on the right, and her cousin Zoe is on the left. :) I can't believe they're only 3 weeks apart! Zoe just now weighs 8 lbs, and she seems so little to me. :) She is precious.
Me and My niece Summer being crazy :)
My niece Keonna giving Katie some sugar :)
Katie saying Mama! Get this other baby off of me! (This one just cracks me up! Zoe was just chilling, and Katie kept kicking and kicking until we got Zoe off of her :) )

And this one is my brother Joel with Katie. :) I am so glad that they all came up from Louisiana for a few days! I love them so much, and really miss them. This was their first time meeting Katie and my first time meeting Zoe. :) We all had fun, slept too little and wished the time went by a little slower. :)
Charin

This proves...

That I *seriously* need some sleep!! Lol! :) I mean, it's totally not normal to get a glass of OJ and put it in the cabinet with the glasses instead of the fridge. Sheesh. :) At least I realized I had done it right away before the juice went bad. :)
Just wanted to share that silly moment I just had. :)
I will be posting some fun pictures that I'm taking of my family from Louisiana sometime this week...we're getting lots of fun ones. :)

Some new pages :)

I had some fun scrapping last night. :)
I am falling in love with using buttons all over again! :) Not that I ever really quit loving them. :)
I hope everyone had a Happy Easter! Ours was good, we had a little cookout at my in-laws :)
And I am *super* excited, because tomorrow my brother Joel and his wife Brandi are coming up from Louisiana!! :) They have a little girl Zoe that is just 3 weeks younger than Katie that I haven't met yet. :) And I get to see how much their cutie son Gabriel has grown since Thanksgiving. :)
And they're bringing my nieces Keonna and Summer with them! It'll be fun. :) I miss them all soooo much!
Have a great day :)

Happy mail day :)

I was so excited today, I got my order in from Elsie's Etsy shop. :) I love love love this little bird print that found a happy home on my cluttered refrigerator and this flower pin. :)

Her work inspires me so much because it's so *pure* and happy. :) It reminds me of days spent swinging in a hammock and drinking lemonade. :) Happy stuff :)

So when I got this in today I had to try my hand at painting. :) I used her house painting as my inspiration....and I am so not good at it like she is!!! :) Hope she doesn't mind that I pretty much copied the whole idea. :) But trust me, no one would buy mine! Ha! :) It was lots of fun though.

Have a happy day!
Charin

Papas are the best :)

Kevin and I had a little scheduling nightmare Friday (we both had to work during the day and didn't have anyone to watch Katie) and my sweet Dad offered to come over and watch her since he was off work for Spring Break. :) (He's a teacher)

It was the first time that we've had anyone else watch her, so I was a little nervous....and he could tell!! ha ha He kept telling me, it's ok we'll be fine. :)
So when I came home on lunch I walked in and he was singing to her and had a burp rag over his shoulder. Aww! :) He did such a good job with her. It's so cute to see him with his grandbabies, you can tell that he really loves them. :)

Have a great Wednesday! :)

Smile sweetie!

I'm a little afraid that Katie is getting tired of mama's camera already!! :) I had to share these super serious pics of her, they're so funny!! :)

Oh baby :)

I am just now getting around to scrapping the pictures of me when I was pregnant with Katie :) Just wanted to share this page that I made today :) Sorry that the bottom of the journaling's cut off!
Have a great day!

shopping is fun :)

I love weekends :) Kevin and I went shopping for groceries...and then I went into Maurices and found these super cute shoes and earrings! :) Couldn't help myself. If the 80's came back I would be a happy girl! :) Love this look.
We took some silly self portraits, we're so cheesy huh? :) It was a happy mellow day. What did you do this weekend? :)

Some creations from tonight :)

I started this little mini book for Katie....I'm just hoping I'll actually finish it! :) I'm so bad to start mini books and then get distracted with another project. :)
And this little card is for my brother. :)
Have a great day!

This was funny....

Charin
&
Kevin

86% Compatible

♥ Charin and Kevin have been romantically-together for a long time. That alone demonstrates a degree of compatibility. Similar personality descriptions are a plus. Their shared faith will help form a bond between them. They both abstain from drinking, so that helps compatibility. Kevin may complain that Charin is too sloppy. Furthermore, their astrological signs are not in harmony. Their common love of animals is good thing. And their views on children are similar. Overall, Charin and Kevin are highly compatible. They are capable of having a beautiful relationship together. ♥

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Bummer

I was all excited this weekend because I was going to be off four days in a row. :) I planned to get some scrapbooking done, some cleaning, go out to lunch with my sister.
And today I just happened to look at my work schedule, and I'm off Monday and Tuesday of *next* week!!! Ha ha!! Man, I was disappointed. I'm just glad I looked at it in time! :)
So now I have to go try to find some work clothes to wear, since laundry was also on my list of things to do today. :)

Some favorite pictures :)

I did a fun little photo shoot with Katie today :) :) Doesn't she look sweet? :)
I have sooo many pictures to print out!
Have a great Tuesday! :)
Charin

So I'm a *little* bit behind on laundry :)

Tomorrow I am off work and I have a major goal.....fold or hang up all of these clean clothes! I am so messy sometimes, I've just been dumping load after load on my kitchen table and putting Katie's clothes in her crib (which she doesn't sleep in yet, by the way! She's still in her bassinette :) ) So I figured if I put these pictures out there it would help me be inspired to clean it up! :) Ya think it'll work? Here's hoping. :)
And I wanted to share this card that I made last night, I love these Bam Pop goodies! :) So cute and fun to work with.

Have a great Monday! And if any of you have some good cleaning tips for this busy mama please share!! :) :)
Charin

She's a happy girl :)

i just wanted to share these pictures of my little Katie Shae! :) She is in a really smiley happy mood today, I love it! :) (And I've been able to get some cleaning done before I have to go to work, which is a really good thing!)
I need to go print some of these pictures soon! :)
Have a great Tuesday!
Charin

Happy Sunday :)

I made it through my first week back at work! :) Thank you for all of your sweet comments. It was pretty rough the first day back, I cried....and Katie cried real tears. :(
But we all three adjusted, and it hasn't been nearly as bad as I was thinking it would be.
I wanted to share our pictures that we just got back today! :) We did these for Katie's one month pics. I thought they turned out pretty cute...even though she slept the whole time! Ha ha. I'm ready to scrap these!
I can't believe that she's two months old today! Man. So hard to believe!
I was thinking today about how much our lives have changed. And definitely all for the better! :)
Have a great day!

I'm a little sad :(

I am a little sad today....I will be going back to work tomorrow! It's so hard to believe that my maternity leave is over, that it's been over 6 weeks since Katie was born! Man, time flies.
I totally have mixed feelings about it, because I *love* my job, but I don't want to leave her. :(
Thankfully, I am just going back part-time, and when I am at work Kevin will be able to watch her. :) I'm a little nervous about how it's all going to work out, Kevin will be missing about 4 hours sleep a day (he works 3rd shift) and with me adjusting to being gone from her....oh well! It's all good, right? :)

Scrapjacked

If you haven't already seen it you have to check out this site :)
Love it!! Such a cool, fun idea.

This is my scrapjack of Amber Skolnick's page, so much fun!
I've been wanting to scrap this picture of my crazy brother and his wife and son. :)
They were on their way to their pastors house to TP it! It was so funny...he's the youth pastor there and he had a key to the pastors house while they were on vacation. It turned out to be an all out war for about 2 weeks! Kevin and I were down in Louisiana for vacation and got in on the fun. :)

Random stuff :)

Just wanted to share some random stuff from my day :)
See that really messy desk??? I am attacking it today while Katie's napping! I have been scrapping on my kitchen table instead, and that's really not cool because now they are both beginning to look like that! Ha ha! It's so funny because I have started clearing it off and have found all kinds of supplies that I forgot I even had! My mom always told me when I was little "See, if you clean your room you never know what you'll find!" :) She was right! (Oh, and incase anyone notices it, that glass bottle is *not* a beer! Lol! It's a cream soda bottle :) )

And I wanted to share these cutie pictures of Katie! She's getting so big. :) I'm taking a picture of her with the poodle every month for her 1st year, just so I will have something to remember how little she was and how much she's changing. :) The other picture of her is with the teddy bear that her daddy got us for Valentine's Day! He's so sweet :)
And the page is of my cutie nephew Gabriel's 1st birthday! He turned 1 on Jan 10th. :)
Love him so much. :)
OK, gotta go clean some more!

This makes me happy...

Look at my little girls smile!!! :)
She has just started smiling at us this past week, and I was really happy to catch it on camera today. :)
It was the best feeling ever the first time she smiled at me. :)

Happy colors :)

I seriously can not wait for Spring this year!!! :) I have found myself reaching for bright, happy colors a lot more lately...you can tell from my gallery here

I just love color sooo much! Makes me happy, it's good for the soul. :)

She's one month old! :)

I can't believe my little Katie Shae's one month old today!! Man, time has gone by *so* fast!!
I wanted to take some cutie pictures of her in her little dress, but she didn't like it too much :) she was either sleeping or crying. She's still beautiful in these pictures though, if you ask me :)
I love her so much! :)