SCRAPBOOK SUNDAY: KITTY TALES!

Welcome to Scrapbook Sunday! This week I am showing a "Kitty Tales" Scrapbook that my oldest son created for pics of our cats!! He is a cat lover and this "project" was something to occupy him while mommy worked on her scrapbooks!! LOL He actually enjoyed working on his little album that my mom had bought for him;
don't you love the fuzzy cat tail that is on the side of it??

I "cropped" the photos for him so they would fit on the pages in his album, which is a 4x6. He added all the stickers on his own and did his own writing too. I think he made this 2-3 years ago so he needed a lot of help spelling too.

This one is my favorite! I love that he added the little pacifier sticker to baby Maxie's mouth!!

Bath time and our cats look like drowned rats! haha

He wrote "I love cats" and drew his own cat- awww!

Above is a rocket he created out of paper and added a little pic of Maxie to it! My Gavin is pretty darn creative, eh??

Yes, Miss Maddie does act like a queen on a throne when she lays on CLEAN LAUNDRY!!

This page is so funny! Gavin wrote "Pee You" on this one because Maddie is sitting there with her mouth open! LOL Do your cats do this? When they smell something they don't like, our cats will sit there with their mouths wide open!!

So cute and sweet, little Gavin cuddling Maxie when she was a kitten!!

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SO FAR TODAY...

Holly from Girls at Heart has posted on her blog!
She is featuring a page on SNAKES- yikes!!

~Have a wonderful day~
Noelle ♥

Green and White Swap Goodies!

HI GIRLS! HERE IS A SLIDESHOW OF THE THINGS THAT HEIDI SENT ME FOR THE GREEN AND WHITE SWAP I JOINED!!

Not sure what the boys and I are doing today... I hope to get some scrapbooking done when Gage naps today! Its rainy and yucky here again today, so looks like we are stuck inside:(
HOPE YOU HAVE A GREAT DAY:)

NOELLE ♥

My Favorites on Friday

What a week! I got the results from my Insulin test back today and everything is normal in that area. I am still wondering what could be going on then?

So onto a happier note... Here are my favorite things from this week...

American Idol... Kris and Adam in the finals- YAHOO! I ♥ them both!!

V-8 Fusion in Blueberry Pomegranate- YUMM!! And sooo good for you too; a serving of fruit and veggies in each cup! Our peds dr. recommended this for Gage since he has such crappy eating habits and HE LOVES IT too!!

Biggest Loser TV Show... I am SO inspired by this show!! I recently started watching it and can't wait for the new season to start!

Pretty things like picnics in the summer; don't ya love this picnic basket? I found a picnic basket at GW last winter for $4.00; I don't think I have posted a pic of it yet!! LOL

Thinking of 4th of July; cookouts, decorating in red, white and blue, fireworks... FUN!
I ♥ Summer!!

AND... My SWAP from Heidi!! Heidi was the host for the Crisp & Clean, White & Green swap and my partner! I got my package from her today and LOOOOOVE it! I will post about it tomorrow though; too much to do today!!

What are your favorite things this week??

Noelle ♥

Needed: Some ideas...

So... I got an Apothecary Jar a couple months back and had it filled with little pastel eggs for Easter time and now it sits empty on my counter:(

I need some fun and creative ideas from you girls on what I can add to my lonely jar!! I'm thinking Spring and Summer ideas... HELP!!

P.S. I listed several items on Ebay the past 2 weeks and have made around $65.00!! Yahoo $$ So, I suppose I could spend a few bucks of that filling the inside of my jar with something CUTE!

My mom suggested Salt Water Taffy, which is CUTE but too tempting to eat!!

So, tell me... what do I put inside my jar?

Noelle~

Update: Doctor!

Ahhhhh... a sigh of relief is what I have now that I visited my new gyno dr. today. I sat and talked with her explaining all of my troubles such as the weight gain, being unable to have a period on my own, etc. She looked at me and said "Sounds to me like you may have Poly Cystic Ovarian Syndrome. And... I wonder if you aren't pre-diabetic"!!!! Helloooooo... this is everything that I was telling my OLD dr. and she never said anything about this!!

I have to fast for 12 hours starting tonite at 8 pm and go in tomorrow for an Insulin test. She told me that she would call me when she got the results and we'd go from there. The more and more that I read about the PCOS, it has me wondering about the pre-diabetes! It would explain the rapid weight gain, difficulty that I have losing the weight among other numerous things too.

Its scary to think that I might have this and have to COMPLETELY change my lifestyle and eating but KNOWING that I will have ANSWERS to my problems and be on the right track to losing weight and feeling better, both mentally and physically makes me want to JUMP for JOY!

I am so grateful that I was referred to a good and understanding doctor FINALLY! I pray that things get better from here on:)

Chat later, I'm off to exercise for the 3rd day in a row- YIIIPPPEEE for me!!

Hugs,
Noelle ♥

2 days worth of posts TODAY!

Hi girls! I'm back and I owe lots of posts!! Here is my layout for Scrapbook Sunday; the theme for this week was anything MOMS! This layout is about my grandma; I did this one not long after she passed. My oldest son Gavin was extremely close to her and took her death very hard- he was only 4 years old at the time. I added this layout to his book so he could always look back and see all the wonderful memories of her that we had in pictures. The ONE thing I regret most is not taking more pics of him with her when he was little. I didn't start scrapbooking till he was 2 1/2 so many of the photos that I would have taken "now" weren't taken back then!! Which I could SO kick myself for it now:(

My grandma, Etta, that we called "Nanny" was such an amazing woman! She was so patient and kind with her grandchildren and a wonderful giving mother to her own children; she is missed SO much!!

Here she is on her 81st Surprise birthday party in June 2005! We were told at that point that she had about 9 more months with us:( She only made it to August 15 of that summer. The cancer hit her so hard and fast; it was awful to see such a loving and delicate person suffer so much. But knowing that she would be in a better place when she passed away was the only way I could bring myself to cope with it; I loved her too much to let her go but I knew that she didn't need to be here suffering. I LOVE YOU AND MISS YOU, NANNY ♥

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Here is my mom, Lori of Pink Faded Roses, with my 2 boys on this Mother's Day! They were enjoying some of Nana's cookies! My mom and I had a rocky relationship for awhile years ago; but after my grandma passed away... we knew we had to be there to lean on one another. Now we are the best of friends ♥

Here I am with my babies:) Aren't they silly??

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Here is what the boys and I made for my mom and my future mother in law for Mother's Day. Each boy painted a pot for one of the grandma's and then I used ovals and circles form scrapbook paper and added their pics in the middle to make them into little flowers! The little flower in the front said, "Happy Mother's Day from your lil' sprouts!"

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Funny cause my mom made me something very similar! She put the boys faces on little faux cupcakes she made using pom-poms and cupcake liners!! She put on the jar "Mom's Lil Cupcakes"! LOL

Great minds think alike!

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Brian and the boys spoiled me too! I got a new Yankee Candle in one of my favorite scents- Mandarin Cranberry:) I've been complaining about how these 3 guys make our house "stink"; if ya know what I mean!! LOL So now I can just light my candle to ward of the "guy gas"!!
Can anyone else relate??

I also got a $30 Bath and Body Works gift card to get me some new shower gels and lotions ♥

And.... I got my teacup flower pot!! Isn't it cute? Brian actually called me on his cell from Walmart on Saturday because he had NO idea what I was talking about, even though I showed him the pic in the sale ad last week:) Oh, the lengths he will go to, to make me happy sometimes!

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We spent the rest of yesterday just lounging around like Gage is doing here!!

What a HAM!!

Last night, we went to dinner at Olive Garden-YUM! I went to bed at 9:45 last night because I was so exhausted!! I started the 30 Day Shred video yesterday and it about killed me; I was so sore and tired last night! Now I am off to clean, Gavin is at school and Gage is with grandma till 12:30... time to SPRING clean!! Yippee (not really, sigh!)

Have a great one!
Oh, how was your Mother's Day?? Hope it was as wonderful as you ♥

~Noelle~

MOTHER'S DAY and Scrapbook Sunday UPDATE

Wishing you all a very Happy Mother's day! I am taking the "day off" tomorrow so we will reschedule Scrapbook Sunday for MONDAY... and theme it with Moms on Monday!! That way you can show off some Mother's Day pics, or scrapbook pages of your mom, grandma, etc.
Anything MOMMY related!

Have a great day tomorrow and enjoy some of these fun graphics...