CT - Creamsicle Mudslide

Look at this beautiful kit created by Michaele Burkhart called Creamsicle Mudslide. You can purchase it here.


This is the first layout I made using the above kit.


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Exercise? - What's that?

What do you do for exercise?? And if you don't exercise, why don't you? And if you do, what is your motivation to keep going???

I know I really should start exercising but I really just don't have the time. My form of exercising is chasing the kids around the house. Lifting them up for their diaper changes and down the stairs. They are now about 30 pounds each. By the end of the day my back is really killing me. I use Bengay almost every other week or so just to relieve the muscle pains so I can sleep at night if I sleep at all. I brought the kids to Sesame Place last month and for the first time in a long time I used the triplet stroller. Pushing over 90 pounds in child weight and then add the weight of the stroller to that as well you could imagine by the end of the night my legs and back were in so much pain. Well, off to start my day, as I really need to get dressed and ready for the day. We are going to the annual triplet picnic.

Doing the Happy Dance

A lot is going on here. First, as I already mentioned in a previous post my MIL gave me her piano. Last night I did my first lesson. I think I'm really going to like this. I found some free lessons on the web that I'm following and I also requested some books from the library. My goal is to practice at least 15 minutes a day. I think it's really going to be easy since I have used my hands a lot. If you don't know me you probably didn't know that when I graduated from high school I went to school to become a court reporter. I studied for 5 years practicing every day doing exercises with my hands on a keyboard using every finger at a fast rate speed. I graduated doing 250 words per minute. Unfortunately, I did not like the field and quite but I do still use my hands on a regular typewriter daily browsing the web or typing up something. I'm sure I'm at about 80 words per minute on a regular typewriter.

Other news! Finally, something good has come in the mail! My DH got a jury duty notice a couple weeks ago. He filled it out trying to get excused because he is the sole provider of our family and if he doesn't work then we don't get paid! He was denied. The stress of him having to go to jury duty really put a toll on me. I decided to try again and send them a notice for excuse. I wrote a long letter explaining that we are in a bit of a financal crisis and that we have triplets and if my husband doesn't work we won't be able to feed and diaper our children. My husband faxed the letter in last Monday. So the week long wait! Finally, yesterday we received the postcard. He's excused. Thank you God!

More Good News: I applied for another CT (creative team) for a digital designer. I was accepted. I will be designing layouts for Michaele Burkhart. You can find her digital kits here. Not only will I be designing 2 layouts each month but I will be making one quick page from her kits as well for her to sell or give away free. I'm very excited about this as I really like to make quick pages and others will be able to use my designs. August will be a busy month.

BvanEsch has a New Kit

Bonnie has this awesome new kit out. You can find it here.


Here is this awesome layout I did using her kit above for my son's album. I did do a little bit of recoloring to match my photos. Check out the extraction work I did on the top photo. Really love how the water looks like it's popping off the page.

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Digital Freebies

While searching for digital freebies I came across a blog named Janniscrap Designs. She has such cute stuff. I first downloaded her newest kit "You are my sunshine" (See preview to the left). Then I continued to read her blog scrolling down and down seeing tons of cute stuff. I even went through her previous entries all the way back to January 2007. Yes, I've been downloading almost all night now. I got some father kits, sleeping kits, moving kits, picnic ones and some toddler kits. She also has some flower kits and baby kits but I have way too much flowers and my children's baby photos have already been scrapped so really no need for baby kits. I told myself I wouldn't download anything since I just cleaned up my hard drive but hey, these kits are really so cute how could I not download them. Her links from Jan to now are still working. If you want to get some cute kits go here but be warned you will be downloading for a long long time.

Piano

My mother-in-law gave me her piano today. The kids loved it. They sat and played on it the minute they saw it. Then at bed time they sat and played again. Justin was really cute. He'd sit and play while Victoria danced around the dining room. I searched on line for piano lessons and found a sight that offers free lessons. I just finished lesson 1. I now know where all the keys are. One of the sights says that you need to practice 15 minutes a day. So I plan on trying to do this once the kids go to bed. Tomorrow I'll try to do lesson 2.

Movie that Made Me Laugh

What was the last movie that made you really laugh? Or do you have one you've seen over and over and still makes you laugh?

I watch a ton of movies. We rent them from netflix. I hardly ever go to the movies but did last month for MOMS night out. We saw "Knocked Up". Yes, it did make me laugh. Of course, my husband didn't laugh at the things that I did. I guess it was more geared toward a woman since we are the ones that go through pregnancy and child birth. Men just do not have the foggiest idea of what that is like so they just can't relate to the jokes in the movie. Anyway, I did enjoy the movie.

Thurs - Feeling Crappy

Make up a great excuse why you can't work today.

Since my job is a MOM and Housewife I can say that if I could call out sick it would be a miracle. Having a day off never happens and when it does I'm running errands to get things done that I can't possibly do while I have the children with me. I so need a vacation!

Okay, back to the topic. Let's see! My back is hurting big time from lifting up the kids who now are about 30 pounds each. My mouth hurts because I bit it the other day and now I have this sore that just won't go away. I've been knumbing it with ambasol frequently. My dishes are piled high in the sink. My living room looks like a cyclone came with toys, pillows, blankets everywhere. My laundry is piled high in every room dirty. We are running out of clothes to wear. It's not like I'm not doing the laundry. My baskets are full of clean clothes. I just can't keep up.

We can't go outside because there are big bee like bugs flying around in our yard plus the humidity is a big damper on the summer. The girls rooms are a total mess since they are now free from their cribs and in toddler beds. They have been attacking the wall paper on the wall again. Paper everywhere. Toys everywhere. Mom, when are you coming back? I'm drowning and need help.

My Dead Sunflowers

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Cardboard Graph

Bonnie has a new kit called Cardboard Graph. You can purchase it here. 8 graph papers are colorful and fun and have added cardboard to them too, giving them a recycled feel! The elements consist of 5 real torn cardboard pieces, 2 already made cardboard clusters and 2 cardboard cluster frames. Also a really cool rusted staple! Enjoy!

I Would Die For That

Another triplet mom sent me this video. I'm warning you, tears will fall.

http://www.youtube. com/watch? v=JqfGqOx2iDQ

Christmas 2002

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Race - Challenge 2

Gail and I had to work on Challenge 2 together. Check out our Deco-MOMSx3 blog. Link should be to the right. Waiting till Monday for next challenge.

Beautiful Flowers at Mom's House

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Another Kit I Made

My son has been into trains lately and SNL28 this month is all about boys so I came up with this train kit. To learn more about SNL go here.

Life

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Office Space

This layout was made by Tracy. I found it from her website. She made it for her husband because it was based on his favorite movie "Office Space". Some of the jokes are really funny. You have to see the movie to get some of them. Just wanted to share. Enjoy.

Scavenger Hunt

To play in the scavenger hunt go here.

Dreading the Mail

Lately, I have been dreading every day that the mail comes. I never get anything exciting. Our mail consists of mostly bills and lots of junk mail. For the past couple of days we have been expecting a paycheck and all we have gotten were unexpected bills, jury duty notices and tax bills. How do they expect you to pay your bills when you are serving on jury duty. It really is stressing me out. I look forward to Sundays when we don't get any mail at all.

DECO-MOMSx3

We are working on our blogger. Check later today for a beautiful blog. Here is our address

http://deco-momsx3.blogspot.com/

Amazing Digital Race

The big news in my life is that I'm going to be participating in the Amazing Digital Race with a friend I met from deco-pages.com (Gail). To find out more details about the Amazing Digital Race go here. Our team name will be DECO-MOMSx3. Why that name? Well, Deco is where we met. MOMS well that's sort of obvious. x 3 is that we both have 3 children. Oh, this is going to be so much fun. Wish us luck. Stay tuned for the blogger address once we have it set up I'll post the link here. The prizes are awesome and no judging. At first I wasn't going to do it because I'm more of an intermediate scrapper but since they are not judging it's going to be a random winner for the grand prize I said why not?

Our Town on the 4th.

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Wild and Free

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Completed over 300 pages

Just an update. I completed 312 scrapbook pages for the year. My goal is 400 for the year. I think I will have no problem reaching my goal and then some.

Freebie MEGA Kit

Go here to find out how to get this free mega kit.

Geek That's Me

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Club Deco - July 07 Travel

To join go here. If you join please put me down as your referral in the comments section of your check out. (mom2triplets04). Thanks.

Our 1/2 Bathroom

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Updating my Pocketbook Finally

I made this for my pocketbook. It's about time I updated it. I was carrying around March photos. Most of this page was from the Club Deco June 07 kit. Scroll down to see more about Club Deco.



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CAC June 07 Challenge

See below for details on this challenge. It's a lot of fun but ends June 30 so go fast if you want to participate.

CAC June 07 Submission

It's not to late to participate in the Class Act Challenge June 07 where you can receive this free plus many others. Check the challenge out here. Plus receive a free kit to play with. There is also a tutorial on how to make quick clicks. It's very addicting as you can tell from all the ones I have made in the past few days.

Challenge

Here's three more quick pages I made for the June challenge.
You can earn these free by participating in the challenge but hurry it ends June 30.

Learning to Drive

Did you learn to drive when you were a teenager? Who taught you? If at school, what kind of driver's ed was it? If a friend or parent, where did you go to learn? What was the worse part about learning to drive?

I learned to drive when I was 17 years old. I went to a catholic school for drivers ed and a nun taught me. The worst part about learning to drive was that we had to get into the car on the passenger side and scoot over to the drivers side of the car. To this day I have no idea why she told us to do this as it makes no sense at all. One thing I did hate about driving was parallel parking. I still can't really do it luckily I don't need to do it that often.

Challenge

Here's a quick click I made for a challenge. You receive a free kit to use. You make a brag book size quick click and when done upload it to the website and you will receive all the layouts that are contributed for the challenge. Find out more details here. Hope to can come and play.

Layouts for the new CT Team

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Club Deco

At the website where I am now on the Creative Team they have a monthly Club Deco Kit. It is $15 for a trial (3 months) membership. That's only $5 a month. If you decide to join please tell them in the comments that I referred you (mom2triplets04). The kit is huge MB's worth, plus extra freebies during the month and 10% off purchases in the store for being a club member!! June the kit theme is called Sun Kissed. There are 12 designers who each make a kit for the Club Deco. There are even ploppers from almost every designer. It's amazing and well worth the $5.

Here is a sample of 3 of the 14 kits in June.





You can join Club Deco here
Please don't forget to put me down that I referred you so I get credit (mom2triplets04). Thanks.

Oh if you want June - HURRY as you can only download until June 30.

CT Call

The Creative Team I am on is looking for more participants. Please go to Bonnie's website for more information.

Creative Team

I have been selected to be on the Creative Team at Deco-Pages. I am so excited. Stay tuned for some creative layouts in the upcoming months.

Fashion

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Another Digital Kit I Made

Here is another kit I designed for Saturday Night Live (SNL27). The theme this month is independence and fiesta. To find out more about SNL go here and find out how you can get this kit for free along with many other kits for free for participating.

Rocky

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Diamonds

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Good Sale

Look what I just purchased. This mega kit is on sale this week for 3.99 at www.digibydesign.com

New Kit - Handmade Cheer by Bonnie

Check out the new kit that Bonnie has out for sale. You can purchase it here

Here are 3 layouts that I made using her new kit

A Dream

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Expensive Shopping Trip

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5 Annoying Things

Blog Prompt: List the 5 things that annoy you the most. If you are like me, this can change from day to day, but tell me the recent annoyances that have just gotten on your nerves.

1. The toys being scattered all over the house but mainly in the kitchen. I pick up and then 5 minutes later new toys are scattered across my kitchen floor. It annoys me to death. Why can't they keep their toys in one room.

2. When you invite people to a party and they don't RSVP at all or show up without responding to the invite.

3. When I am out in public and I get stopped to be asked silly questions about the triplets. I would just like to be able to go to a store without being stopped with questions. The main goal is to go in and out without having them have a tantrum and the longer I get stopped the less time I have to get things done without a meltdown.

4. Commericals. I so do not like to watch live tv unless it's on tivo so I can fast forward the commercials.

5. Lately the most annoying thing is my internet. It has been so slow lately. Some days I have to keep hitting refresh before it gets fast. I so hate when the internet is slow because I like to check my e-mails quickly so I have more time to do other things like digital scrapbook, blog, or searching.

No-Period- Pill

I just was listening to the news and the FDA is going to approve a new birth control that elminates periods. YIPPEEE!!!!! You can read more about this here.

This is very new and hasn't been tested long but I tell you I definately will request this the next time I go for my doctors visit. Could this be too good to be true? After reading the article I have my doubts since it said something like 18% had spotting which was unscheduled. Who wants that? Anyway, I did think it was a great idea and much cheaper then surgery.

No Money Needed?

Blog Prompt: Tell about something you do for entertainment that doesn't cost any money.

I could digital scrapbook for no money if I could just stick with the freebies and there are millions of freebies on line. Stay away from dsp (Digitalscrapbookplace.com). I just love their kits and challenges so I tend to buy there at least weekly. I do need to slow down a bit because of our financial situation so now I'm going to look and just make up wishlists and when our finances get better I'll purchase more.

Man, everything costs money. We do watch movies a lot that we rent from netflix but that's a monthly fee. We do take movies out from the library for free but they are mainly kiddie movies for the kids because the library doesn't have newly released movies unless you are on a waiting list and you could get the movie months from now.

Least Important

Blog Prompt: Which is least important to you--money, power, fame--and why?

I would say FAME is least important to me. I guess because I am a triplet mom and I so hate the attention I receive when I am out. It's always like I'm a circus when I am out with my children and I so do not like the attention. It would be nice to go out and not have any questions asked, "Are they real?", "Are they Triplets", "Did you go through fertility?" the list goes on and on! Try going to a store for a brief moment with the kids without getting comments or stopped for questions. It never happens. I'm hoping as they get older the questions will stop and I can go on with my life unnoticed. I would hate to be a celebrity I don't know how they deal with all those photographers following them around.

Selling Stampin Up and Digital Kits

Sorry I've been missing in action. We are struggling financially and I have decided to sell my retired stampin up sets so I can purchase new ones when the new catalog comes out in July. Also it's come to the point where I have to go back to work but first I wanted to see if I could sell some of my digital kits and yes, I sold 2 of them on ebay. If you would like to see my stamp sets and digital kits go to ebay and look up diamondsquilts as the seller but hurry as they are ending today and tomorrow. Happy shopping.

Another Digital Kit I Made

Here's another kit I stayed up late to make. It is for SNL. The theme for May is Graduation/Mother's Day. If you would like to know more about SNL go here.

Passed 200 pages for 2007

I am at a total of 204 pages done for the year 2007. Goal is 400 for the year. Want to beat last years total. I'm half way there.

Dreams!

Blog Prompt: Where would you prefer to be right now--mountains, desert, beach--and why?

Well, at this very moment I am sitting on my bed still in my pjs and blogging, so where would I like to be? All those places mentioned don't have outlets for my laptop to plug into unless you mean a hotel in those type areas. I'd like to be at a beach like resort with no children. Just a day to myself relaxing in the sun but hey, it has to be a nice spring day. Not too hot. Not like we have been having. The humidity is awful. I can't sit outside for 5 minutes without sweeting my butt off. That's not comforting at all. So no humidity. 70's would be nice but really I'd rather be at a resort that had a pool. I'm really not a beach person as I hate the sand. Hate to walk on it. Hate to get it wedged inside my bathing suit. YUCK! I'd much rather just relax at a pool that is clean, of course. Well, off to take a shower and really start my day.

I Almost Lost My Victoria

Today it was nice outside. I decided to let them play in the driveway. We were doing great. First we just used chalk and drew on the drive way. Then they wanted to take their bikes out. The coup type car where you use your feet to get around sort of like the flintstones. I had only one car but this past weekend I was able to get a firetruck where one kid sits on the back and the other uses his feet to move around. All was great they were having a blast. Now, mind you my drive way is very big and slops and I have a pretty busy street.

In a split second Victoria was in the coup car and she started to move fast down the driveway. Here I am screaming and running after her only I was not fast enough. She too got scared and she was screaming too as I was screaming on the top of my lungs THE STREET THE STREET STOP STOP STOP VICTORIA VICTORIA. By the time I reached her she had already went into the street and crossed it hitting the other side of the curb. I'm still shaking from this. No there were no cars coming but just the thought. We could have both been killed. I was not fast enough to catch her. I must have pulled something in my leg too because now my legs are hurting.

When I reached her car and pulled her out of it she was hystically crying and I was so shaken that I couldn't stop hugging her and kissing her and telling her to never scare mommy like that again. I'm still upset. We are never going in the driveway again. It was so scarey.

Me - Mom

This page was done for a contest at Treasurestoscrap.com. I made this page for my children's album.

Scrapbook Challenge
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Ghosts and Safety

Blog Prompt: What do you think about ghosts?

I certainly don't believe in ghosts but there are times when I thought I put something somewhere and I come back in the room and it's in another place. It could be just mommy brain though as I have been forgetting a lot of things lately. I don't like to watch horror movies because it gives me nightmares.


Blog Prompt: What makes you feel safe?

There are lots of times that I get afraid especially out in public with the triplets. I am always looking around me and making sure there are no strange people following us around. When we get in the car I get the kids in and shut the door behind me I guess I'm paranoid that someone is going to grab one of the kids or me. It's a scarey world we live in. Better to be safe then sorry.

Pg 1 Digital Circle Journal

Here's my page 1 to the digital circle journal. My theme was recipes.

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Cartoon Characters

Blog Prompt: Who are your 5 Favorite Comic/Cartoon characters?

Well, I don't read any comic books so I will go with cartoon characters.

1. My all time favorite cartoon character would be SNOOPY. The main reason is because when I was dating my husband I knicknamed him Snoopy because one day he had these pants on that were so droopy and I just started to call him Snoopy. Man, it's been years since I have called him that. Thanks for bringing up a nice memory.

2. My 2nd favorite would be Garfield. I guess because he is a cat. I just love cats. He's quite funny too.

3. Ziggy. I always loved that little fellow. I used to collect stickers and stationary when I was younger. He has the greatest quotes. Here's one which I just found on google. Really makes you want to stop and smell the roses.

4. Man it's been years since I have read the comics in the newspaper but I do remember reading "Family Circus" often when I was younger. Okay, I'm now racking my brain here. What else did I like?

5. Marmaduke. That's another one which I used to read in the newspaper when I had time to read them. Now, who has time to read the newspaper or read anything for that matter?

Digital Circle Journal - Recipe Rules

I joined a Digital Circle Journal. The theme I chose for my album was family recipes. This is page 1 of my album.
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Top 5 Occupations

Blog Prompt: You have been appointed the head of the Department of Labor and plan to set salaries according to how important an occupation is. What do you think are the top 5 most important occupations?

1. Garbage Man - I really feel sorry for the garbage man. He has to work no matter what the weather is and he picks up some disgusting things day after day. Luckily he has the weekends off. The new thing in our area is that we don't have to sort our recycleables. So the junk mail, bottles, cans all get dumped into one container. Imagine having that job to sort all that stuff. The homeowner used to sort it for them but now some unlucky person has to do it. And not to mention all the disgusting things that go into our trash cans such as diapers, rotten foods, paper towels, etc. etc. I would hate to have that job.

2. Police Officer - They have a dangerous job. They have to protect us from all the criminals in the world. Of course, they are also there to uphold the law such as speeding, going through red lights and other motor vehicle misconducts. They have to go through some rough training to protect us too.

3. Fireman - Another dangerous job. Imagine having to go into a burning building or house. It's scarey thing to think about but it happens. They are heros to risk their lives to protect others. What's really strange is that in the state of NJ firemen do not get paid. They are volunteers. In my opinion they should be paid to protect us.

4. Teacher - I think they are so under paid and unappreciated for what they have to do. They have to teach our children. The children have to learn so they grow into respectible adults who will take over when we are gone.

5. Doctor - they are very intelligent people who help us when we are feeling ill. They are miracles from God. God put them here to help us get better. Maybe I should say they are angels.

Travel Lotto

Blog Prompt: You won the travel lotto! You will get an all expense paid trip for you and your family to 5 places anywhere in the world. List the 5 "Must See" places in the world you would go see.


This would be very hard to do with 2 1/2 year old triplets. I'd have to pick places that they too would enjoy. Let's see.

1. Florida - disney world but it has to have the disney cruise along with disney world and the other theme parks. I think the kids would really enjoy it at their age now.

2. California - I'd love to go to the San Diego Zoo, maybe even go to disney land and hollywood.

3. Paradise Island, Bahamas - Atlantis. I have heard that they have such really nice water rides in some of the hotels and that it is a beautiful island.

4. Hawaii - Love to the see this, however, don't think it would be really kid friendly. Can we leave them home for this trip? We need a romantic vacation.

5. Cruise to anywhere. I just love cruises and to have one given to us for free would be the ultimate trip. It would probably be a carnival cruise though as they are more geared towards the younger crowds with kids. They also have baby sitting and I so would take advantage of that. Now, I'm going off to bed dreaming of a vacation on a cruise.