Saturday, June 23, 2007

My Baby Graduated From Kindergarten


My baby graduated from Kindergarten yesterday. It was amazing watching the graduation ceremony. I was so proud of her and had so much fun. It was a little bit sad for me though. My baby is growing up - too fast!! It really hit me that now she really is a little girl. Both my girls will now be in school full-time. I was excited for her, and proud of her, but still sad at the same time. Hopefully this sad feeling will pass soon.

My Favorite Things Saturday - 23/06/07

One of my favorite things is watching my girls play. Watching them happy and relaxed and just being kids. It's amazing!!

Sunday, June 17, 2007

Beautiful Sunday - 06/17/07


2 Peas Sunday Blogger Challenge

Join us today/Sunday if you blog. Challenge: What other creative talents do you possess, besides papercrafting? Share your passions. Blog about it.. what else are you good at?

I have a couple of crafting passions besides scrapbooking. It is funny though that they come in spurts. I'll get on a kick to complete 1 project, then I'll move onto something different. Scrapbooking is the only passion I constantly stick with. I also do counted cross stitch and knit. Right now I am making this 4 season wreath. I tend to do other crafts for relaxation, to de-stress or unwind.




Saturday, June 16, 2007

2 Peas Saturday Blogger Challenge - What makes me smile

Join us today/Saturday if you blog.

Challenge:

Blog about something that makes you smile.. anything...
blog about it.

The thing that makes me smile the absolute most is my beautiful girls. Every time I look at them I smile, I am happy and I feel more love inside me than I ever thought could be possible to have for someone. These girls are absolutely adorable! So beautiful, so funny and so smart. I am the luckiest woman in the world! And that makes me smile!!


Favourite Things Saturday 06/16/07

One of my favourite things is hanging out with Cory.

What Flower Are You?

You Are A Lily

You are a nurturer and all around natural therapist.
People see you as their rock. And they are able to depend on you.
You are a soothing influence. You can make people feel better with a few words.
Your caring has more of an impact than even you realize.

Friday, June 15, 2007

What Color Crayon Are You?














You are most like:


You are Blue



You are cool and soothing, with a hidden spontanious side. You are deeper than most people percieve, and you care a lot for those whom you surround yourself with.


 

Take this quiz: Which Crayola Box of 8 Color Are You?

What Color Heart Do You Have?

Your Heart Is Red

You're a passionate lover - you always have a huge fire in your heart.
Too bad it's hard for you to be passionate about just one person!

Your flirting style: Outgoing and sexy

Your lucky first date: Drinks and dancing

Your dream lover: Is both stable and intense

What you bring to relationships: Honesty

Monday, June 11, 2007

Letter to my Youngerself - Layout

What Temperment Are You?

You Have a Phlegmatic Temperament

Mild mannered and laid back, you take life at a slow pace.
You are very consistent - both in emotions and actions.
You tend to absorb set backs easily. You are cool and collected.

It is difficult to offend you. You can remain composed and unemotional.
You are a great friend and lover. You don't demand much of others.
While you are quiet, you have a subtle wit that your friends know well.

At your worst, you are lazy and unwilling to work at anything.
You often get stuck in a rut, without aspirations or dreams.
You can get too dependent on others, setting yourself up for abandonment.
Join us today/ Monday if you blog.

Challenge:

If you could write a letter to your younger self, knowing what you've learned in life already, what would that letter say?

Blog about it.

Here is the letter I would write to my younger self:

Dear Sandy,

As I have grown there is so much I would have liked to know when I was younger - things that have made a huge impact on my life that I would like to share with you.Firstly, know how strong and powerful you are. Everything you have to succeed and achieve what you want for your life is already inside of you - reach down inside and grab hold of that. It is there and the power is yours!! Secondly, don't focus on what others think of you. You are an amazing woman! What truly matters is what you think of yourself and of your actions - always BE YOURSELF!! And lastly, know how important your family and friends are to you - embrace that instead of pushing those you love away. They will be there to support you if you let them.

Love Me at 30.

Today's Creation

Beautiful Sunday 06/10/07


Beautiful Sunday 06/10/07
Originally uploaded by dynamo_momof2

Favorite Things Saturday 06/09/07

I love taking photos of details - the best!

Wednesday, June 06, 2007

What Kind of Coffee Are You?

You are a Black Coffee

At your best, you are: low maintenance, friendly, and adaptable

At your worst, you are: cheap and angsty

You drink coffee when: you can get your hands on it

Your caffeine addiction level: high




This suits me so perfectly !!! My favorite coffee is a cup of strong black coffee!!

More Digi Layouts to Share




I received this in my inbox today and found it so very inspiring.

Tuesday, May 29, 2007

Another day at work. I am so glad I have at least figured out a way around the firewall at work so that I can at least post to my blog now. I can't get to my blog to see my posts, but at least I can post my thoughts now. This morning I am feeling sick and tired of feeling sick. This past month (or so,) I have been dealing with a medical issue which is driving me insane. I have been diagnosed as having a very high heart rate. The last time I was at the doctors my heart rate was double what it was supposed to be. This has been causing shaking and dizziness and passing out - so not fun. I have felt like crap most days since. I am now on heart medication where one of the side effects is that it lowers your blood pressure. I already have low blood pressure so I run the risk of more dizziness. Oh well, hopefully it'll all get figured out soon so that I can start feeling normal again - and maybe start not missing so much time off at work.

Monday, May 28, 2007

Big Change

Well, today is a big change for me at work. On Thursday afternoon I was asked if I would be interested in changing contracts at work. I was working the roadrunner internet contract and was asked to change to the Cingular cell phone contract. Not being one to like being bored, or stuck in something where I may not be able to advance I said yes. So, here I am sitting in my new training class for the new contract. I am not sure what I've done exactly, but hopefully I end up loving it as much as the last contract. Hopefully it'll be something I can excel at.

Now, that all said, I am desperately missing my scrapbook time at home. I enjoyed my weekend so much relaxing, surfing digital goodies, being involved in online chats, and creating awesome pages. I was so happy with the pages I created this past weekend. 7 pages in all. I think since I have started digital scrapping this past couple of months I have done more pages than I had created all year last year.

Saturday, May 26, 2007

Digital Crop Day

Between last night and so far today I have attended 10 online crops. I have had a blast. Gotten to know some wonderful women, gotten lots of goodies and scrapped my little heart out. Here are the pages I have made so far.

Hello, my name is Sandy...

and I am addicted to digital scrapbooking and digital scrapbooking freebie. Lately I seem to spend all my freetime on the computer at home. I spend hours making pages, looking at pages for inspirations and surfing the net for digital freebies. I am so addicted it's not even funny. I have a list of sites I check every single day. The other thing I do is spend hours organizing my digital files. Soon I am going to need either more memory or a second hard drive .... man I do love this addiction!!!

Sisters - Digital Layout Share


Supplies used:

paperclip by Amanda Behrman
background paper by Jessica Bolton
polaroid frame by dote
flowers by paper moons
quote by Suzanne Walker

Tulip Festival 2007

My Little Show-offs


My Little Show-offs
Originally uploaded by dynamo_momof2
man it gets me every time how these girls can turn it on for the camera!!

Friday, May 25, 2007

Quiz : What movie is your love life like?




Your Love Life is Like Titanic



"Promise me you'll survive. That you won't give up, no matter what happens, no matter how hopeless."



You think that you only really have one true love in your life. And that you better to anything and everything to be with that person.

You tend to be very nostalgic about past loves that didn't work out. There are many secret feelings that you keep to yourself.



Your love style: Deep and emotional



Your Hollywood Ending Will Be: Bittersweet

QUIZ: Do you follow your head or heart?




You Follow Your Heart



You're romantic, sentimental, and emotional.

You tend to fall in (and out of) love very quickly.

Some may call you fickle, but you can't help where your emotions take you.

You've definitely broken a few hearts, but you're not a heartbreaker by nature.

Your intentions are always good, even if they change with the wind

Saturday, May 05, 2007

2 Peas Saturday Blogger Challenge - NATIONAL SCRAPBOOKING DAY


Today is National Scrapbooking Day!
Yahooooo!!!!
I love National Scrapbooking Day - it is kinda exciting that there
is an actual day dedicated to my absoluter favorite hobby. For the past few years I have booked off work for NSD, but unfortunately this year I have to work. I have been off sick pretty much all week, so I can't afford to take another day off. Instead I'll be lurking online all day finding NSD digital scrapbooking freebies. My favorite thing to do lately is to find digital freebies and organize them. I hate cleaning, and organizing my house, but ... I LOVE organizing free digital supplies. I think I have a new addiction - digital scrapbooking!!

Saturday, April 28, 2007

2 Peas Saturday Blogger Challenge



Challenge: Blog about character traits in people that totally annoy you.
I do have a couple of character traits that typically annoy me. These are:
- people who spit
- people who obsess only about themselves
- people who are rude

Friday, April 27, 2007

Craving Fuzzy Peaches



Ok, I gotta tell you. I think I am driving Cory absolutely nuts. For at least a week now I have been waking up in the middle of the night absolutely craving Fuzzy Peaches. Not quite sure what the craving is all about but it is ever single night, usually a couple times a night. I wake up saying "I want Fuzzy Peaches." I am sure Cory is dreading hearing what I say now when I wake up in the middle of the night now. He is a doll though, and went out last night around midnight to buy me some - I think it was just so I'd shut up. HEHE

Thursday, April 26, 2007

2 Peas Thursday Blogger Challenge

Join us today/THURS if you blog.

Challenge: Have you ever had a miracle? Witnessed a miracle? Blog about it...

I guess I could say I have had three miracles in my life. The first two being the births of my beautiful girls. At one point, right before I got pregnant with my first I was told there was a chance I would never get pregnant. And I did, and they are the most amazing thing in my whole life. My other miracle would be getting free from drug use...an amazing accomplishment that I could have never done alone.

Personality Test


Your Personality Is

Idealist (NF)


You are a passionate, caring, and unique person.
You are good at expressing yourself and sharing your ideals.

You are the most compassionate of all types and connect with others easily.
Your heart tends to rule you. You can't make decisions without considering feelings.

You seek out other empathetic people to befriend.
Truth and authenticity matters in your friendships.

In love, you give everything you have to relationships. You fall in love easily.

At work, you crave personal expression and meaning in your career.

With others, you communicate well. You can spend all night talking with someone.

As far as your looks go, you've likely taken the time to develop your own personal style.

On weekends, you like to be with others. Charity work is also a favorite pastime of yours.

Wednesday, April 25, 2007

Join us today/Wed if you blog.

Challenge:

What are ur absolute fave song lyrics? Which song?
Blog about it.

This is the song that seems to have been speaking to me most recently. It is called Moments by Emerson Drive. There is just something about this song that catches my heart - that makes me stop and think about all the moments in my life that I am proud of, it makes me think about all the moments in my life that I am not so proud of and it makes me think about how strong I was to change all those bad moments into good ones.

Moments - Emerson Drive

I was coming to the end of a long long walk
When a man crawled out of a cardboard box
Under the E. Street Bridge
Followed me on to it
I went out halfway across
With that homeless shadow tagging along
So I dug for some change
Wouldn't need it anyway
He took it lookin' just a bit ashamed
He said, You know, I haven't always been this way

I've had my moments, days in the sun
Moments I was second to none
Moments when I knew I did what I thought I couldn't do
Like that plane ride coming home from the war
That summer my son was born
And memories like a coat so warm
A cold wind can't get through
Lookin' at me now you might not know it
But I've had my moments

I stood there tryin' to find my nerve
Wondering if a single soul on Earth
Would care at all
Miss me when I'm gone
That old man just kept hanging around
Lookin' at me, lookin' down
I think he recognized
That look in my eyes
Standing with him there I felt ashamed
I said, You know, I haven't always been this way

I've had my moments, days in the sun
Moments I was second to none
Moments when I knew I did what I thought I couldn't do
Like the day I walked away from the wine
For a woman who became my wife
And a love that, when it was right,
Could always see me through
Lookin' at me now you might not know it
But I've had my moments

I know somewhere 'round a trash can fire tonight
That old man tells his story one more time
He says

I've had my moments, days in the sun
Moments I was second to none
Moments when I knew I did what I thought I couldn't do
Like that cool night on the E. Street Bridge
When a young man almost ended it
I was right there, wasn't scared a bit
And I helped to pull him through
Lookin' at me now you might not know it
Oh, lookin' at me now you might not know it
But I've had my moments x4

Wednesday, April 18, 2007

Digital Layout Shares




I have soooo been loving this new digital scrapbooking thing. It's funny that I work with computers all day, yet my relaxation at home is creating on my own computer. I LOVE IT!!


Saturday, April 14, 2007

Once again it has seemed like forever since I have had a chance to update my blog. Things have been so busy - fun but busy. This past week Cory and I went to Toronto for the night and had an amazing adventure - just the two of us - with no stress involved. It was great! I think we both benefited from the stress-free trip. It allowed us both to relax and not have so much stress. Things with Cory are going really well. We are now living together and it has worked so well so far. It seems so natural, like he has always been there. I will add more later... I am between calls at work and am going on break.

Sunday, April 01, 2007

It seems like it has been forever since I have been able to update my blog. I have missed being able to blog so very much. I had not realized how much blogging had come to mean as part of my daily life. In the past few weeks I have found that I have hardly even had time to breathe let alone update my crazy thoughts here. I have started my new job and I am really enjoying the new challenges. It has left me tired with little time though. Now that I am adjusting to my new schedule and the new demands of driving into the city for work I am so hoping that it will allow me to be able to figure out my time better so that I have time to myself, time to blog, time to breathe.

Tuesday, March 20, 2007

Why? Does anyone else ever ask why about everything? I was driving into work this morning and heard the radio anouncer talking about the question why? My kids ask it all the time. As I have grown in my Christian faith I have learned to not question why. God guides us to where we need to be. We do not always know why we end up where He guides us, but we almost always end up learning the mesages that He has set out for us to learn. With the faith I have in God and in the plan that He has for me I have stopped trying to guess the why in all that happends in my life.

Sunday, March 18, 2007

Overnight in Kingston


My mom and I took the girls to Kingston for the night on Friday night. We stayed at the Ambassador Hotel. It was so much fun because I had so many memories of being there as a kid myself on March Break. The kids were so excited because the hotel had a splash pad, water slide and pool. They had so much fun running through the splash pad. They also had a blast sliding down the slide. The were so brave going down the slide by themselves. I waited at the bottom and caught them. I was so proud of them. Before coming home we went to Chuckee Cheese and had lunch. the kids had a lot of fun playing games. The whole overnight trip was so much fun - an awesome memory.

Beautiful Sunday 03/08/07


Beautiful Sunday 03/08/07
Originally uploaded by dynamo_momof2.

My Favorite Things Saturday 03/07/07 - Taking My Girls Swimming

One of my favorite things is taking my girls swimming. they love the water and it is so fun to watch how excited they get.

2 Peas Friday Blogger Challenge - Weekend Plans

Join us today Friday if you blog. Challenge: What are your weekend plans? Blog about your upcoming weekend.. what are you going to be doing??? I am so excited about this weekend. It is the final weekend of March Break. My mom and I are taking the girls to the Ambassador Hotel in Kingston. I can't wait. When I was a little girl my parents used to take us to the Ambassador every single March Break. It is a memory that has stuck with me since then and I am excited to share the same experience with my girls.
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