Heads up

So...creating a book on blurb.com is a little more time consuming than I thought! I spent half the day (off and on) trying to get BookSmart to 'slurp' my blog! :) ("Slurp" is the term that blurb uses to refer to them going and copying your blog to BookSmart. )

ANYHOW...so...here's a little heads up to any of you that decide to use blurb to create a book out of your blog entires: Make sure that all of your setting on blogger are set to allow anyone to see your blog. If all your settings are not set to make your blog as public as possible, including the setting that enables search engines to find your blog...then blurb wont be able to access your blog and you will ending up wondering what on earth is wrong and spent tons of time trying to figure it out! When you are done 'slurping' your blog to BookSmart you can just go back and change your settings again.

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I'm finally gonna do it....I have been saying I will the whole year....

...Last night I went to blurb.com and downloaded "BookSmart" so that I can make a book from all my 2008 blog entries! It's FREE (BookSmart is...the book costs) and it looks like it's going to be FUN!

I love making books! :)

...stay tuned for Kindergarten Graduation pictures!

FYI

Just wanted to share the new Childrens Place 15%OFF Promo Code. It's works on clearance items too & expires on 6/7/09. : X29MK6JA59

Then, head on over to Malt-o-Meal to enter to win a years worth of cereal.

Plus, if you have pictures you need to order or a photo book you'd like to create...go to snapfish.com then use the promo code: SAVETODAY to get $10 off your order of $30 or more. It's good until 5/31/09 I like to order prints from snapfish if they are just going into the photo album...but if they are going on the wall...I use someplace with better quality like shutterfly or Mpix....you can typically find a promo code if you go to naughtycodes.com (thanks Heidi for telling me about that site all those years ago!)

Anyhow...just wanted to share that info with all you other savvy mommas!

Lotsa pictures

Unfortunately, I don't have the patience to figure out why blogger wont let me move my pictures...and I didn't upload them in the correct order....so...oh well....

...These pictures are from off of my old Kodak point and shoot. Kaitlyn likes to use it...and I use it sometimes too.

ANYHOW...here are a few pictures...some are from today....and one is from way back in December!
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I was able to go with Kaitlyn and her class on their field trip today. We rode the bus to the Taylor fire department. The kids toured an ambulance and a fire truck....then they had fun playing in this BIG red tub! They also got hosed off by the fire truck...but Kaitlyn was too cold to want to take part in that! We went across the street to Freemen park and ate lunch+played for a little bit. Kaitlyn had SO much fun! I did too! I am glad that I have been able to volunteer in her class this year!

This picture was taken at the Mother's Day Luau that the kindergartners put on every year!

This is a shot from Kaitlyn. I just had to include it because we were shopping at Home Depot together...that's me, totally lost...not knowing what sprinkler part Brandon needed out of the bazillion available!...Thank goodness for cell phones+the Internet. He was able to just go online to the Home Depot website and explain what he needed to me over the phone!

This is another shot Kaitlyn took. We were heading north on Main St. I love letting her use my camera (the little one) and being able to see things from her perspective!

This is an older picture! I was packing to go to Texas and Addie wanted to come too!

Me and my sweet kindergarten girl @ the luau! I can't believe she's going to be in 1st grade!

My parents+my Grandpa Newbold came up to visit the weekend after my B-day. We love having them over!

The kindergartners put on the CUTEST Christmas program last year. I couldn't remember if I had posted any pictures of it...so since this one was on the camera still...I decided to throw it on the blog too!

Only 3 more days off school! This last week of school is BUSY...and I only have one child in school! This week Kaitlyn has a field trip (that was today), a "parent enrichment day" tomorrow(not sure what goes on there besides parents being in charge of different booths or something like that), then Thursday is track and field day (we're gonna have to go see how she does in that!), then Friday morning is Kindergarten graduation and Friday night Jayze and Louis graduate from High School. My parents are coming up for the weekend...so we have LOTS of things to look forward to! A bunch of Brandon's siblings are coming up to brand calves...so things are gonna be busy...but fun (I hope)!

I better go see if the girls are asleep! I am BEAT! It feels like it should be at least Thursday already!

Good night you all!

PS~CS2

Yesterday, Brandon installed photoshop! I have been having fun with it.....gotten frustrated with it.....and have a bazillion questions like: how to you burn the edges? vignette? sponge? add color to a black and white? add text?????? I think I need to enroll in a class. I DO have an instructional DVD that someone loaned me...who knows where I put it though! Anyhow! It's getting late, and I have already blogged more in the last few days than I usually do in a week....but I am going to share some pictures anyways! These are just a few from mine and Kaitlyn's date Thursday night. We got dinner (Mc'D Happy Meal for her...El Cupidos burrito for me)...then went and bought her cotton candy because she's been DYING for some lately (and I always tell her "no") then we went to the play ground at her school so that she could show me all her "tricks" on the monkey bars! I love that she wanted to go there. Remember how I took pictures of her there at the beginning of the school year...and now it's the end! SO anyhow...I'll be quiet and just show you the pictures...not that they are anything to shout about....but they are my first photoshoped images!

This first one used to be pretty shadowy...

It was sunny...so I tried to get some sunflare shots....need to work on that...but I love the star the sun made in this B&W one.

I should have shown "before" and "after"s...oh well....

...going to bed...good night!

Guess what!?

I'm pregnant!


(NOT!!!!)

...But my sister in law Kim is! Hooray!!!! I can't believe my little brother is going to be a daddy! Their baby is due on January 11th 2009!

Congratulations Kim and Eric! Love ya!

Geez...I have been blogging a lot lately!

So! I just finished taking my nephew's senior pics+ordering announcements. He graduates this Friday! Louis is a great kid! It was so fun to hang out with him today! Thanks Louis! :)

This is the photo that we ended up using on his announcement.

OH!...and some of you know my little story about painting my front door red....well guess what!? I finished it today! It only took me 18 months! :) LOL!...okay....I guess I will tell you the short version of my "painting the front door red" story. We got a new front door before Weston was born. When he was 5 weeks old, I decided to paint it red....long story short...Addie got into the paint and painted herself, the front porch, house and van! I gave up and didn't get the guts to try again until today! I am SO happy to have it finished!