More Maxine....

Thought a laugh was in order ;)

{ HAPPY HALLOWEEN! }

HOPE YOU ALL HAVE A SAFE AND HAPPY HALLOWEEN!

This is what LORI said....

We have a roundabout just like that one here and it is marked just like yours.

The officer is such a dork.... I knew that they could not be painted incorrectly. AHHHH!!

Driver's ED students and roundabouts... should these two ever be combined?

This has turned out to be the week from HELL!! Besides my insane PTO schedule and not being at all prepared for club on Saturday, last night I was in an accident. I was in the roundabout... in the left hand lane... and a driver's ed student was in the right hand lane. Well, my arrow clearly allows me to exit the roundabout or continue through it. The other arrow clearly says that the right lane can only exit the roundabout. Long story short... the girl that crossed into my lane and hit me was not sited for this accident. They claimed that they were allowed to continue around the roundabout from the far right lane. Maybe the paint on the road is wrong? I doubt it, personally. The police officer, whose name is Alan Jackson (not joking), said that it was my fault because he thought the arrows were incorrectly painted on the road and I should have yielded for her. Why would I yield to someone driving along side me going the same direction in a two lane road? Can you believe this? Either way, I followed the posted signage and she did NOT!! We are absolutely taking this further. Leif is going to the police station with photos in the morning. There is nothing in our current driver's ed manual about roundabouts. The teacher in the car said that there was... HE IS A LIAR. I am still a little angry about the whole thing. I feel that all that girl learned was to be dishonest. Did I mention that an eye witness said that I stayed in my lane and that the other car crossed the line and side swiped me? Oh, and the driver's ed teacher picked the debris up thus disabling the officer from see the exact location on the road where impact occurred. Okay, I will stop ranting now. What do you think?

I've been playin'

Here are just two of the fun little dies I bought to go with my cuttlebug. They actually go with the little kid version, but they are so dang cute that I am using them with my machine. I am having a lot of fun playing with this thingy:)

{ My new toy!! }

I finally broke down and bought myself a cuttlebug. I've been scoping these out for some time now... well... yesterday at Robert's they were 50% off! I had to buy it ;) I played with it a little bit last night at Patty and Paul's house, but didn't make anything. I am going to try and post a pic later after I have some time to create!

Oh! Thanks for the bread Patty! It is soooo good. Especially with the huckleberry jam you gave me last weekend :) Boy Clayton, you really missed out on bread!

Ryan Shupe and the Rubber Band

Last weekend I went and saw this band for the 3rd time!! This time it was 100% FREE!! They played in a park in Idaho Falls. I don't have much time so I will just say... If you've never heard this band, check out their website and go to the jukebox tab to take a listen. www.shupe.net. They are AMAZING! Super fun in person too. I will let you go so that you can go and listen to them :)

SPOOKY

Here is a pic or two of some wood letters that I made today. I can't really take credit for the design.... a lady at the scrap store created kits for this. I had fun making though. I changed it up a bit to be my own... not much though.

Time to scap.... FINALLY

Friday night I had Stephanie, Patty, Danielle, Sarah, and Clayton over. Us girls spent the night scrapbooking while Leif and Clayton played video games and watched 1408. I haven't done any scrapbooking in a VERY long time It was so much fun. You should have seen the junk food we had :) I made enchiladas and spinach dip, Patty made tons of cookies and some chocolate bread, and Sarah and Steph brought candy. YUMMY! Here are a few pics of some pages that I got done. The pics are of my now 7 yr old son... he was the cutest baby ever!

Back from Boise

Well, I am back and I survived... kind of!

I got to meet my new nephew, Roman. I also got to go to Archivers and the Paper Cottage... both of which are awesome places to buy scrappin arsenal. The most eventful thing was when McKinley puked the whole way home... all over the van and everything in it. That was quite fun :) oh, and, We took McKinley and Teagan to build a bear and Kinley loved it. She made a dinosaur named Princess. Teagan didn't want to make anything... he just wanted to boss Kinley around. He was certain he knew what it was she wanted to make. Big brother syndrome is what I call that. He loves her...

Other than that, we pretty much just sat around at his sisters house. It really is hard to do a whole lot with 4 little ones in tow. We had fun though.

Here are some pics of McKinley and Teagan feeding fish in Great Grandpa Thompson's pond and a pic of Roman and I. A few of McKinley with Princess at build a bear. By the way, if you've never been there... go... it is worth the small fortune you pay for a new little friend :)