mourning our girl

Sometimes life throws something unexpectantly at you and it feels so awful. Its been 3 days now and yesterday (Monday)I came home from work (I'm the first one home) and sat in the garage and cried. It was so hard to walk into an empty house without my Chloe greeting me.

Everyone in my life has been so good to me and Ozan. Our family, friends, and co-workers are so supportive and understanding. It was hard being at home this weekend. Going to work and keeping busy really helped out.

After my garage crying episode, my neighbor called me to tell me that flowers were delivered for us. I picked them up and it was from our vet...I just sobbed. That was the sweetest thing ever. Its amazing how hard life can be and those acts of kindness like that help shadow the bad. I'm so amazed. Ozan went to our vet today and talked to him. He told Ozan that his staff really loved Chloe and they are all so saddened by her passing. She really affected them. She actually loved going to the vet! That's all Chloe, all love.

A Sad Day

My poor dog, Chloe, sadly passed away today. I am beyond grieve strickened...and I don't know how I'm going to get through this. She was 10 years old. She was our family member and it is hard to image life without her.

We found her Thursday evening lying on the floor, not moving. She was breathing and we lifted her outside to go to the bathroom. The next morning Ozan took her to our vet and later after she was stabilized, we transferred to a vet hospital. They determined that she probably had metastatic cancer in her belly. We had no idea. She never acted sick. She was actually doing better last night around 10. Then we got the middle of the night phone call at 2:30 AM that she was declining. Ozan went to go see her for a while. She was sleeping well and steady. We called again at 8:30 and they said that she wasn't doing well and we need to make a decision. So we did. We took the family there and they brought Chloe down to us in a room. She came down sitting up and she seemed OK. The vet told us that labs do that for their families that she was being strong for us. Soon she put her head down. She even gave Ozan a kiss but she was too weak to even put her tongue back in her mouth. We brought her bed from home so she would be comfortable. The staff helped us watch our energetic children. We sat with her for 40 minutes. The vet was so patient and sympathetic with us. I held her in her arms as she took her last breath. I will never forget that moment...ever. The feeling of loosing her is unbearable and I'm hardly cooping right now. I want this pain to end. She deserved to live longer then this...we love you Chloe!

{new card for sketch this cards}

I made this card for Sketch This Cards:



Its a three week contest based on sketches. And there are prizes involved. Wish me luck:)
Bling Flower, Transperancy Flower, Fabric Tape: Making Memories.
Transperancy Paper (for butterfly), and green pp: Creative Imaginations.
Pink Paper: SEI.
Blue Paper: Scenic Route
Chipboard Button: Love, Elsie
Stamp and Cardstock: Stampin Up
And my trusty Tsukineko Brillancy Stamp Pad
The butterfly was cut from a template on Marthastewart.com
I'll keep you all updated on Chloe.

{new card, parade layout}

Today we went to a parade and there was a elephant walking down the street...needless to say, my kids were a bit psyched! While Aydan was napping, I made my scrap page. Can you tell I love turquoise??Hope you all have had a nice holiday:)

Here is a card I made for Melissa's challenge. The card was themed "Happy Birthday", incorporate red, star(s), bling, and food. I used transparency on the sides, added some fun text and stars. The cake is stamped, blinged with glue glitter (stickles), and some stickles around the outside. I had fun with this!! The stars and text are Making Memories, the CS is DCWV and Stampin Up, Ink, Ribbon, and blue and white CS are Stampin Up, stamp is Michaels, ribbon is Stampin Up, also used some Hero Arts prism powder on the swirls.

{July 3rd}

Here is my card for sketch #19 on Sketch This Cards.

I love anything with stars. So much fun.

Hope to post some July 4th pics tomorrow.

I also wanted to wish my friend, Cindy, a happy b-day, which was July 1st.

{Sketch This Cards #18}

Here is my take on sketch # 18 from Sketch This Cards...

Used Stampin Up CS, Scenic Route PP, MM tags & transperancy, AL Chipboard, Stickles Glue, Stampendous stickers, KI brads, DB frills, & my Uniball Pen. This was fun!!!

Gonna make some more cards today, if I get time...

{Not Much To Do Weekend}

This was my kind of weekend...staying home with the kiddies and scrapping my tail off. I was so busy at the hospital this week, so a little R&R helped me. I completed my card for Melissa's challenge and now I've found a new love of circle cards so I made this bird one today and I finally did another page of Aydan. If Kendall would just hold still for me to take a picture, I'd could do more pages of her. But Aydan's the baby so he gets more for now. The blue and flower papers are from the new "Love, Elsie" line. I have a link to her blog at the right. She is way too cool. Have a good week!:)

Friendship Card

This is a Cherry card I made today for a challenge on Melissa's blog. I love her cards and I had a blast making this while Aydan was napping and Kendall was at the movies with Dad. Its actually quiet around here. And with the rain, its an excuse to stay in and scrap.

I hope you like this Melissa! It actually says, "I Cherr-ish Our Friendship".

I'm happy how the card came out but the pic isn't that great.

{Crazy, fun weekend}

I had a three day weekend. Friday, Ozan and I went to see Gwen Stefani. I didn't know that cameras were allowed or I would've brought mine. I missed the best photo op when she ran into the audience and was standing on top of a platform 3 rows in front of me. Ozan said I was screaming like a teenager. I was taking pics like crazy from my cell, but they aren't good at all.

{my in-laws}

On Sunday, my niece, Nina, graduated from high school...gosh she was 3 when I started dating Ozan!! They grow up so fast. She is going to upstate NY for college. We are so proud!!! And, BTW, the school does not wear caps ad gowns, the girls wear white dresses and the guys wear black suits. Times have changed.

I got some scrapping done worked on this page. Kendall uses a baby talk phrase when she wants me to pick her up, so I based this page on that. The scans are so funky. This paper background is really white, but the scan looks so dreary

{finally posing for pics}

{love this pose}

Today I left work early to go to a reception hall/theatre for my employee recognition ceremony. Every 5 years my employer celebrates our anniversary the year after. I had my 15 year anniversary (at the same employer) last September...its crazy. I'll ask my manager for some pics, maybe I can post them soon. Then after work I headed to the backyard with they kiddies and got some cute pics. I always seem to bring my camera outside!

Slide

{Isn't he a beauty?}

After a dreary, cold day(cold enough to need a jacket), the weather let up in the evening and the kids headed outside. Kendall went down the slide and Aydan followed her on his own. He has never done this before (maybe at daycare?) and was a pro. He climbed up the slide and had a blast sliding down.

Kendall is such a goof...every time I take her pic, she wants to see it on my screen. This is her picture asking me to see it.

PIcs of Scraproom

Another scrapbooker (Jen)asked some of us how we organize our scraproom. I love to organize. Here are some pics! Her blog is http://jlizzie.blogspot.com/


Cute Jars to hold ribbon, foam stamps, and buttons...

This box holds chipboard sheets...


These are stickers organizers from Cropper Hopper...I organize them by my favorite manufactuer and then by type (rub on, sticker, letter, etc)




Above and Below: Embellishment organizers (from J's)














This is from Crate and Barrell to hold my loose wooden stamps (idea from Keisha Campbell).

And that was just some of it!

Water Fun

Yesterday we hooked up our waterball/sprinkler thingy for the kids. Kendall went right into the water. Aydan was hesitant. Got some great pics though.

Happy Birthday Chrissy! {2nd blog today!}

Happy Birthday to my baby sister!!! Well, I'm one day late. Hope to give this to you in person soon!! Love You!

Wish I could take credit for the design of this card. I "lifted it" off of another cardmaker who's stuff is awesome! I love transperancy cards, so cute and it was fun to make!

Happy Memorial Day

{Aydan, the flag does not go in the mouth!}

We have a 4 day weekend...yeah!! Right now my man is cooking us up a feast, Aydan is napping, and its quiet around here. We went to a nearby town to see a parade. Ozan grew up here so it was nice. I like the Memorial Day parade better, its all the marching bands from the local schools, girl/boy scouts, fire trucks. No political stuff!!! Well, not much. Aydan and Kendall had fun and Aydan was even waving his flag!

{Ozan's high school's band}

{New Page, Finally}

I've been too busy to scrap and with the weather getting nicer, there isn't much time to do much scrapping. This is a two page layout, which I haven't done in a long time, I did of Aydan and how he is becoming a little boy. The second layout is a little dark-bad scan. Sorry.

Hope everyone had a nice Mother's Day. I know I did :)

Check out this cool blog for Lime Tart. They have gorgeous scrap products in monthly kits. Beautiful!

{Beautiful Boy}

One of two reasons why

I love Mother's Day

more than ever!

Happy Mother's Day

I'm a couple of days early but I wanted to shout out Happy Mother's Day to my mom and mother-in-law, my sister, friends, grandma, all of you. Besides my children's b-days, this is my favorite day of the year.

What do I want to do this Mother's Day? Nothing. Rest and spend time with the kiddies.

These are the cards I sent out...