Scrap Friendzy Birthday Blog Hop Day #3

Welcome to our Birthday Blog Hop & challenge #3!!!

I am so glad that you have joined us to help celebrate our 2nd birthday here at SCRAP-FRIENDZY!!!

Here is the scoop on our Birthday Bash:

-Our Hop will last for 10 Days!! {October 1st-10th}

-Each evening, you will check in on our SF BLOG. You will find a link to 'hop' to that day's blog!

-All you have to do is leave a comment on each blog that you hop to! Every time you leave a comment you will be put in a drawing to win a scrappy prize!

-Also... each blog you hop to will offer a challenge to you. Each challenge will have a Friendz Pointz value. Complete the challenge, upload your project into the SF gallery and link it in the appropriate thread in the forum to earn your FPZ! (The girlfriend that earns the most FPZ in October will win a prize package AND be featured as our Girlfriend Of The Month!!)

Just starting out? No problem! You have until Oct. 31st to get the challenges in for FPZ.

If you have any questions concerning our Blog Hop, feel free email me here!

Every party needs a banner so why not create one to perfectly match your color scheme & decor?

I chose to create a super fun hot pink, black, and zebra print "PARTY" banner. I started with a Maya Road chipboard banner book and added lots of fun papers, glitter letters, flowers, and bling. I tied them all together with tulle and added a little zebra print ribbon.

I challenge you to create your own party banner (could also be a holiday banner if you'd prefer). Any colors, any theme, any supplies! There are a few teeny, tiny rules though. You must have at least 5 pieces (They may be any shape you want.) and they must be strung together. Don't have a Maya Road banner book lying around? LOL! Don't worry--cut your pieces from scraps of cardboard, poster board, even an old cereal box.

Once you create your banner, load it in the SF gallery for 50 Pointz! I can't wait to see what you create!

Be sure to leave a comment here to get your name in the drawing!

Have a great time creating & don't forget to go to the SF blog again tomorrow to see what blog you need to hop to!

B

Just another insane day around here!

I can certainly never call my life "dull"! LOL!

7:30 am--Addyson wakes up. I run to the bathroom and Jason gets her out of her cradle. I come out of the bathroom to see Jason scrambling around for something on my side of the bed while Addyson is screaming her head off! He had "tried" to change her diaper without putting anything under her and she peed EVERYWHERE! On MY side of the bed! So at the crack of dawn I was stripping the sheets off of the bed and trying to figure out how to clean the memory foam pad we have on there! Fun was to start the morning huh?

8:00 am--Jason wakes up Drew because we were going to the library this morning. He tries to give her cereal and she has a meltdown. Apparently she is used to eating dry cereal out of a bag in the car on the way to the library (because we are always running late!) and thought that she wasn't getting to go since he was trying to feed her! LOL!

8:30 am--My blow dryer will not come on at all! It does NOTHING! I freak out (because my hair was wet & there was no way I was going to town looking like that but who was going to break that news to Drew? LOL!)

8:30-9:00 am--Jason performs surgery on my blow dryer. Drew runs in to tell me that "daddy fissed it!" He comes in and says "It works but I have to hold it for you". I assumed that there was a short in the cord and he had to hold it to keep it on. WRONG! He had CUT OFF the plug part and was standing there holding 2 wires in the outlet! OMG! I freaked out and told him that he was going to electrocute himself to which he told me to "Shut up and blow your hair dry! You know nothing about electricity!" I may not but I'm fairly certain you are not supposed to hold 2 wires in an outlet! LOL!

10:00 am-- By some miracle of God we made it to town (20 minutes away) for story time with a few minutes to spare even!

11:30 am-- Go into Wal-Mart to buy wipes and a new blow dryer.

12:15 pm-- Come out of Wal-Mart with $150 worth of stuff in 3 small bags and a SCREAMING baby. It was the mad baby goat sound again! LOL! And Drew was limping around hollering, "I can't walk fast! I have a broke weg!" There is nothing at all wrong with her leg! Nothing! LOL!

12:20-12:40 pm-- Sit in Whataburger drive-thru listening to one kid scream and the other singing "Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star" at the top of her lungs in an attempt to quiet the screaming one.

12:50 pm-- Halfway home & I realized that I did not buy a dang blow dryer!

1:00 pm-- Wake up girls to get them out of the car. Both took offense to that! LOL!

1:00-2:00 pm-- Feed Addyson & fight with Drew about eating her burger who kept telling me to "wait a little minute!"

2:00 pm-- Finally got to eat a very cold cheeseburger!

LOL!

B

Happy 4th of July!

These 2 cuties would like to wish everyone a safe & happy holiday weekend!

There is a reason...

why I don't leave the house on my own with the 2 tiny ones! Today's events illustrate that point perfectly!

Grab a snack! It's gonna be a long one! LOL!

Let's see....Addyson puked twice before we even got into the car. That made her extra happy & she was sure to let us, and everyone in the surrounding counties, know.

We got to CVS where I wrestled with Drew, who was wearing a monkey back pack with a tail for me to hold onto. She wanted to "charge" around and pull me! She was happy when I swatted her! LOL! Back by the pharmacy an old lady proceeded to chastise me for allowing my child to have a pacifier, giving me an ear full of why it was terrible of me! I had to walk away before I accidentally told her what I thought of her advice! (Apparently me & Danielle are attracting the "crazies" these days! LOL!) We finally got to the register where the ever-so-smart cashier rang us up not once, not twice, but 3 times! I have NO clue what the heck she did each time but I had to pack & unpack my basket each time! The entire time she was doing that Addyson was screaming. Not a small whimpering cry, but the sound a baby goat makes when it gets stepped on--you know? That hysterical tiny baby cry? It was great! And to make it even better there was a line of, I kid you not, at least 10 people behind us because why would a store around here actually use the multiple registers they have?!? And all of those 10 people wanted to offer suggestions of what might be wrong with her (while looking at me like I had done something to cause the hold up!) and I heard more than once, "She's not happy!" No shit Sherlock! You think? LOL! I was finally able to pay and get out of there!

We proceed the mile down the road to Wal-Mart (had we not been seriously out of food I would have said "forget it" and come home at that point!) with Drew hollering from the back seat "Her's sad! Her has tears!" UGH!!!! At 6 pm we walked into Wal-Mart. (That fact will be important later!) I had a list & I had my coupons. I planned to follow my list and get out of there quickly--Ha! Ha! Ha! My "monkey girl" was once again pulling me along with her tail or darting in front of the basket and stopping. I don't know how many times I ran over her cause you know my short self can certainly not see over the car seat perched on the buggy! I think we managed to get eggs & milk in the basket before Addyson once again decided that she was angry with the world. I gave her a juice bottle & she quickly fell asleep. I spent the next 2.5 hours (Yes! It was 8:30 before we got in a check out line!) chasing Drew, yanking Drew's tail, running over Drew with the basket while the tiny one screamed (because it was really just a tiny cat nap and what stupid mama would leave the house with only one bottle which was now empty?) Nearly every person we passed commented on how cute Drew was with her monkey tail and how beautiful her smile was, and of course told me "She's not happy!" in reference to Addyson! And again my response is "No shit Sherlock!"

So in conclusion, if anyone wants to know why I don't run the roads everyday, just read this! Or better yet, come get Drew & Addyson and take them to Wal-Mart!

6 Week Check-up

Addyson's 1 month check-up was rescheduled due to her doctor being hospitalized. At 6 weeks she now weighs 8 pounds, 8 ounces and was 22 inches long! She has grown 1.5 inches! I guess she's going to be tall and skinny! They also confirmed that she has a small hernia. It's right above her belly button and only appears when she's throwing a fit. It's not a problem right now and unless it fixes itself, she'll have surgery when she's 2 or 3. So for right now she'll have 2 belly buttons! LOL! See her little hernia?
They decided to keep her on the soy formula and give her some medicine to help her go to the bathroom easier--hate hearing her scream! And we are also adding a bit of rice cereal to each bottle to thicken it up. That's helping a great deal with the spitting up plus it's making her feel full which makes her happier. Maybe it'll put a little meat on her skinny bones so she can wear something besides Preemie clothes soon!

I've finally gotten my scrappy mojo back! Yay! Here are 2 pages I did this weekend.

Check these out!

I don't have time to scrap these days so I've given Dena & Leslie pics to work on! Check out these awesome pages they've done of Miss Addyson!

Here's Leslie's post on her blog.

http://leslieashe.blogspot.com/2009/05/time-to-blog-hop.html

And here's Dena's.

http://onmydesksomewhere.blogspot.com/2009/05/pssst-while-im-waiting.html

I'm so lucky to have such wonderful scrappy friends!

B

More Photos

We're getting into a routine now--sort of! LOL! Miss Addyson screams from about 10 pm to somewhere around 1 am! LOL! That's the only constant we have right now.

Here are some more photos of my sweet girl.

I finally got to scrapbook a little bit too! Haven't done that in well over a month! Nevermind the fact that this super simple page took me all day to complete! LOL! But it has the 2 cutest girls I've ever seen on it!