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Dec. Daily Day 1+2

Hello December. I can't believe how fast Thanksgiving came and went, and we are already heading into the third day of Dec. I meant to get these up in separate posts on day 1 and 2...but I fell sick with a sinus infection + a fever of a 101 since last Sunday...I knew I was feeling pretty crummy but I had no idea that I had a fever that high until I went into the doctor on Tues. On top of that, on our way home from the Oregon game on Saturday, the suburban went alittle haywire. We had just gotten back onto dry pavement off of Williamette Pass, and switched over to auto from 4x4 when all of the sudden the car started idling really fast and rough, the engine light came on and the stability feature turned off. We couldn't go faster than 35 miles per hour. Made some calls, and apparently the car's computer went into "limp home mode" (say what?!). Which means that it was ok to drive to where we needed to go but to get serviced ASAP. Luckily we were only about 20 miles away to the car dealership's repair shop...but it took FOREVER to get there. 35 miles per hour aaaaallll the way there. We were tired and now stressed and just wanted to get home. Even though, I tried to look at the positive side of it, and said it was a blessing that it freaked out where it did and not on the cold snowy pass (hardly any cell phone service) and we had our friends following us. Plus the fact that the car shut itself down to a point where it wouldn't cause any more or possible damage. Dropped the car off and was given a free loaner car (a 4 door Hyundai Santa Fe) until it was fixed. This loaner car pretty much broke the tension between Scott and I...and gave our friends a good laugh and had a great time making fun of us :) Well, it DID look like a bright white bathtub that Scott (he's 6'4 tall) was driving. They came up besides us in the other lane, taking pictures and laughing so hard, I swear I thought we were gonna wreck. It was hilarious! Couple of days later, my beloved Sub was fixed and ready to be picked up. All it needed was a update on the computer system (say what?). All covered by the factory warranty. Whew.

Alright, without further ado...here is my Dec. Daily Day 1 + 2. I won't be listing any products descriptions. Getting the photos and writing the info is a tedious job so if you have a question about what was used, please ask me in the comment section and I will be happy to let you know there :)

Remember to click on the image to view larger.

This is the cover. I added a snowflake tag to the top ring.

 
pg 2. intro

pg 3 intro. 

pg 4 intro to day 1. 
 

back of pg 4 + intro photo w/ the candy cane heart (taken by me! I placed them together and put them on top of a turquoise antique table I have by our dining room window. I LOVE the color combination of the red, white and turqiouse blue together) . This is by far my fav so far :)
 

a close up. "Hello December- how I love you so." Christmas is my favorite holiday. I love all of the sparkle, lights, scents, the tree,traditions and the magic of xmas.
 
 

back of pg 4 (loooove the fabric that is adhered) + Day 1. Photos of my breakfast and tea with a dose of my antibiotics 2x a day. The fireplace that I was grateful to have to stay warm while fighting my fever. The wreath that I finally got to hang up on the inside of the front door (another wreath is on the outside- photo will be another day!) 
 

pg 5 (on the back of the day 1 journal pg). Pg 6 is the Starbucks pastry bag that I had stitched but left open at the top in case I wanted to use it to house a letter or journal more. Haven't gotten that far yet....
 

on the back side of the sbx bag + pg 7 intro to day 2. This is a number lace adhered to a heavy transparency page with the painted #2 to make it stand out more. Edged with some red sparkle ribbon :)
 

back side of pg 7 + day 2. I had been wanting to photograph apples for awhile now, and I love the red and green color combo so I figured this was a good time as any. The felt snowflake is actually hole punched and is placed there to take up the empty space I have below the photo. I haven't decided if I am going to place anything there, or leave it as is.
 

flipped the snowflake over to reveal the journaling.
 

pg 8 on the back of day 2 (cont.). I had to leave the house to take the dog to get her stitches out from her knee surgery she had 2 weeks ago and run some errands. After 3 days of staying inside and in my pj's (FYI, I did shower you know. Just sayin'), I was ready to get out, but unfortunately my body was not. By the time I got home, I was feeling really crummy again and super frustrated since all I wanted to do was get better. ANyways, I stopped by Starbucks to pick up a peppermint mocha latte, in hopes of clearing my sinuses, and warming up my throat. Well, I could barely taste it. Thanks alot tastebuds. I took a photo of the sign withthe holiday flavors while I was in the drive thru. SO happy that I did. I also took off the order sticker, used a border punch and stuck it right on the photo. It has the size + the time I got it. Love how it turned out. Holed punch one of the many coffee cup sleeves I have been collecting lately (plan on using these for a mini someday lol)...but isn't the wording so cool? Hmm, I wonder if they have been seeing us scrapbookers talking about and making layouts about their yummy coffee?
 

Not alot of "stories" so far...just tidbits of my day. I'm home alone most of the day so not much going on other than what I usually do. Its the weekends where we see alot more action since that's when we get our Wader bug at our house. This weekend is full of basketball games- Wade and my sister's (who is a Senior this year and captain of her varsity team) on Friday and Sunday. Saturday is the big rival game and last game of the season....CIVIL WAR! Oregon vs Oregon State. GO DUCKS! This game will determine whether we go to the Rose Bowl or National Championship. I'm not going to say anything more. We are a superstitious bunch and will not say anything to jinx anything. LOL! I will say however, undefeated at this point...11-0 and Pac 10 Conference Champions!  

Check back next week for days 3 and 4...at least. I have a busy week coming up to get caught up on the restaruant business bookkeeping and have deadlines for the Senior and a family shoot(s) I had the last couple of months. Being sick, travelling and the car situation has really put me behind. Not to mention getting the tree up and getting our XMas cards out! Wow, only 21 days before Christmas!  Is it time to panic yet?! ;0)

Have a great weekend!

Hello Jenny Craig.

I just made it through my first week on Jenny Craig. I have lost 4 lbs so far. I can't believe it was so easy! What I like about it is, that all I have to do is open up my freezer, pop the meal into the microwave, add my fruit or/and veggies, and I'm done. No counting calories, figuring out the fat or the carbs, (blah blah), or trying to figure out what I am going to make for my meals. Easy peasey. Not to mention, I get to have dessert every night! Oh yeah, you heard me! Dessert such as brownies with walnuts, lemon cake, and i've added cookies and cream cheesecake and double chocolate cake to try this week. The food is so friggin good! I had things like mac n cheese, chicken alfredo, cheesy enchilada, fish and chips, cashew chicken to name a few. I can have milk with my meals or snacks (although, I am pretty sure that 2 tbl of choc syrup isn't allowed but HELLO!)...I can eat up to 6x a day...its insane. I lost 4 lbs! just by what I am putting into my mouth, and moving just alittle. Makes you think right?

I have been on a million different diets, including a 1200 cal "diet" that my trainer put me on. I'm on the 1500 plan right now (they will move me into 1200 once I reach a certain weight- which is after I lose about 50 lbs). In fact, i lost more weight on JC, in 1 week than I did with my trainer, in the first week. Yes, you read that right. I worked my butt off with him, and with JC, all I did was eat smaller portions, with dessert, had my 1 can of pepsi ( you will never get me off that! lol) a day, (i'll admit, I cheated and had a couple of dove dark chocolates and/ or chocolate truffles every night, but you will never take the chocolate away from this girl! ;0) Maybe I could have lost a couple more pounds, which would have been great, but I don't do well with deprivation...and JC teaches you that you can splurge (well its every once awhile lol). For me, I am realizing that I can do the 80/20 thing. 80 % good and 20% not so good, and I'll be ok...as long as I am moving everyday. As long as I control myself and do things in moderation....Could I have done better? Sure, but its a learning curve, and I hope to get even better at this. :)

 I was active by walking my dogs for 15-20 min for 3 or 4 days this week, did one day of power walking video, and running around at work at the restaurant for 2 days. In just 1 week! WOW. Oh, i'm sure I'll run into problems and have plateaus, but I get the point. Its the choices I make,how much I am eating (which is more not less like I usually do- if that makes any sense to you lol), how active I am...it really works.

I won't be on JC forever. Eventually, when I reach my halfway point, they start working with you to start eating your own food. Great, but I may be just like Valerie Bertinelli (have you SEEN her in the new JC commercials? Holy bikini batman!), and just incorporate the JC foods here and there (b/c its convenient and yummy). Her blog was what convinced me to try this program. Who knows what I will do? I mean i'm only heading into my 2nd week..and I am this excited! Not that I'm excited that I will fit into a bikini one day (that is NOT even going to enter my brain!), but just that I will hopefully finally lose this weight battle, that I have been fighting with for the past 12 years. Just feeling confident, pretty, and like who I am in my own skin. And, definitely being healthy and active. A huge thing for me will be that I am able to face my physical fears and saying yes, I can do this or that. That will be the day I will break away from the chains that my weight has pinned me down and kept me from living my best life. That will be the day I will be free. I can't wait for that day. 

So, I'm aiming for 2-3 lbs lost, more active days this week. I've been wearing a pedometer. Its pretty cool to see how many steps I actually take in a day. The past few days, I've been in the 3,000+ each day, and it seems that each day, I do more steps than the day before. My goal this week is to reach at least 4,000-4,500 steps a day. Eventually, I should be able to reach 10,000 a day (which is what pros, experts, say you should try to reach).  Wish me luck!

Procrastinating so I might as well update :)

HI there!

Here's what i've been up to:

Icky yucky packing. UGH! I'll be GLAD when this is all over and we are in our permanent home of our very own! Soon...i hope. I can't wait to see what we actually get. After all, this is the BEST time if any to buy a house. SO SO excited! I also can't wait to see my Husband...last time I saw him I think it was like June 29th! Way too long. Had some struggles during this time but I think we're going to get back together stronger than ever. See you in 2 weeks babe!

OK, so 1st of all, I came home from going to my local scrap store (more on this in a sec), checked my mail and I had some happy mail from Lain Ehmann! I saw thisand said, "no way! Then I said, calm down, it may not be that, just open it 1st". LOL Sure enough it was! Click hereto be directed to the website that will tell you more about it. I actually was looking at this awhile back, after seeing a advertisement, and for some reason I didn't get it-which is really unusual for me LOL Anyways, so Thank You Lain! You ROCK! Here are a couple of pics.

 

ok, a  couple of blog readers- HI ROBYN & CARA- had ask me these questions awhile back , and have been waiting patiently for me to answer (so sorry!!). Their questions:

**from Robyn: Did you have to take any pictures specifically for the album or did you use ones you had already taken?I did have some of the pics already as I am a believer in documenting the everyday life and things. The others that I did photograph, Ialready had them in my mind, but never got around to taking the specific ones just yet, so this was perfect. It really doesn't take alot of time to set that up. You don't really have to "set" it up actually. Just photograph it as it is and as it happens. It just so happens that it was the perfectionist photographer in me, that some of these pics were "staged". The mess however, was not! ;0)

**from Cara: Did you find you were constantly buying new product to fulfill this mini album. All the stuff you used is gorgeous and the way it is all laid out, I don't think I could ever come up with something like this, as much as I would love to do a similar project. How structured was the class? did you take PP1 by Lisa, I am considering PP2 so would love to know what you did in PP1? Lacey - sorry for the "twenty questions", love to hear from you if you get the chance. First of all, please don't ever think that you couldn't ever come up with something like the mini I did- because you can! You just need alittle inspiration and put anything that you have in your head that you want to create, to reality. Just let go and PLAY. The only thing I had to buy for this class was the mini book itself. Alot of the things that I used was the stuff I already had. If I did use anything new, it was just b/c I am ALWAYS buying new things! LOL Big picture really encourages you to use what you have on hand, but sometimes, there are classes that direct you to scrapbook.comfor a list of supplies, in case you do need something that they are using in class, but its not really required. In my case, its usually just a excuse for me to go shopping LOL ;0)  The class was pretty well organized-as far as "structured". Classes come with hand outs and advice but in no way does it tell you have to do it this way or that way. What I like about BPS, is that I can download handouts and audios to work on later when I am able to- and at my own pace.  lastly, I did not take Lisa's first Product Playgroundclass. I am, however signed up to take her 2nd one and PP2:the albumsfollowing PP2. 12 weeks of glorious scrapping layouts and then mini books- I can't wait! I hope to get thru most of my stash and pics that I have been hording and actually get some work done. If you are interested in taking these classes, there is still time!! Go here and here to sign up!

Thanks ladies for the questions! If you have any more for me, or if I missed anything (or anyone!), please let me know and I will be happy to answer them! :)

Other news...

I wanted to mention that I have joined a new kit club. It happens to be my local scrap store. Scrapper's Edge has released their very 1st Kit of the month! Don't worry, its a non commitment type kit club.  Very cool and CONGRATS Scrapper's Edge! Click hereto check it out and help support them! These ladies have been very good to me, helpful and willing to listen to my jabber and I will miss them when I move :( I will post a pic of the ladies and I as soon as I get them taken :)

Remember when I was talking about my family restaurant? Click here to see it, if you missed that post. Well...after the vote, we got a interview for the state paper called The Oregonian. Click here to read the article. Below are the pics that was included with the article- that you can't see online.

a customer drinking the famous Marion Berry shake, and the front of our building (click here for more info on our Oregon berries). Our fresh Strawberry shake is pretty awesome too :)

These are our cooks - and there's my dad in his "spot" in the very FAR end (with the mustache,hat and glasses- hey dad!) 

I have to say, though, while the article was pretty good, and we were very excited about this...there was a disappointing part. I was left out completely and to no fault was it to my dad or our manager. He gave them our Picture from when we 1st took over and then one that we took just before I left for CA, spelled my name and told them why I wasn't there. I just felt that the reporter left out a part of the story.  I just felt like I worked very hard for 9 years to help make what the Sno Cap is today. I realize that they probably had a word limit or whatever, but I strongly believe that the whole story wasn't told. Other than that, I am very proud of what our little place has become. I don't know how many times Dad and I have said, WOW, we have created a monster! The day the article came out, we had alot of people that had not ever been in before, come by.  Guess what the majority of the shake flavor was? YEP. The Marion berries.  Dad called at the end of early afternoon, to tell me that they had used at least 7 gallons of the berries!!! Usually we go thru just 2! He also said that someone came in with a large family, and they come thru every year for their family vacation in Sunriver I believe it was- have never been in before-and said that they will be making the stop as a part of their tradition! Cool right?  So, thanks to this article and everyone's vote- we had the best weekend EVER in the history of the Sno Cap. Well, at least for us. lol So, thank you for anyone who has stopped in and tried us out- we appreciate the business! If you haven't been by, you should!  ;0)  

Ok, I have procrastinated enough for today- off to start packing again :) Leave Thursday to fly to Tulsa for my 1st ever CKC(Creating Keepsakes Convention)...and to see this girl (and her family)...My very BFF in the whole wide world! 

Can't wait to see you Angie!! Blog and pics of CKC coming soon!

PS- did you see the last post about my little brother's football highlights video? If you didn't, click here to see the post.

Best in Central Oregon!

 I just got a call from my dad that our little tiny restaurant has been voted #1 in Central Oregon (in a SMALL town called Sisters) according to a online voting contest set up by a local community magazine called The Source. We weren't even aware of this!  How cool is that!?  We have been voted #1 and #2 before, but every time..it's just so awesome! This has been in our family for over 30 years. My grandparents owned it for 18 years, before my dad retired from Les Schwab after 25 yrs, and decided to buy it April 1997. I, however, "retired" from the business, after 9 1/2 yrs last year, when I moved to CA to support my husband with his job promotion. I am however still doing the books, and consulting. It is year 2 of the very busy summer season, and its still very weird that i'm not there.  Don't get me wrong, I do enjoy my "lady of leisure" life now! ;0) hahaha But, I still miss some of the locals(hi ya Hank and Bear!!), my dad, my manager (we are very good friends) and the rest of my family. So happy to be closer to them in a few weeks. Anyways, the mag will come out in Aug. I believe. I will be sure to post when I get my copy. Here is one of the articles featured in our local newspaper about us a few years ago.(from Bend, OR-yes, the hometown of the world's 1st pregnant "man"...so cool to hear Oprah mention our town! lol)  ...click here to view it.  (By the way, this was before I did a remodel--see pics below to see the change.)

So, here's a alittle collage I did about 2 years back. It shows the front of the drive-in (oh btw, the sign had not been repainted yet, but I hear it has been before the winter hit last year, or was it this spring?- I haven't seen it yet! lol) Anyways...there's a couple pics of our famous home made ice cream (this was blueberry cheesecake--we don't make that flavor anymore- got too expensive with the cheesecake pieces) and bacon burgers..yum, now i'm hungry! LOL I haven't had a Sno Cap burger since last year! Can you guess what the 1st thing I'm going to do when I move back? Oh yeah!  

Here's me about 4+ years ago:

Before I left for CA, I did a remodel (while dad was in Mexico! haha Don't worry, he knew about it! Got you didn't I?). Even though it's not my dream remodel, but it looks 100% better, fresh and "new" and I love how it turned out for the most part. Can you guess what my favorite part was?   

The FLOORS! I looooove them! Oh, see the window back there? That was redone a couple days later. Replaced with one large piece of glass- soo much better and it just totally opened up the space, if you can believe that lol. How do people order you ask? Right there at the counter. Right now, since its summer, just imagine all the booths filled, both sides of the counter has a line out the door, and all of our outside seating in the back is filled up. Yeah, its totally CRAZY in the summer.

this is the tiny tiny kitchen...let me tell you, this is where alot of the action is! LOL This is old fashioned cooking people- made to order burgers, hand written tickets, hand dipped ice cream and machine mixed milkshakes.

The Mushroom Swiss Burger

Bacon Burger and Fries (also available with cheese)

Our very famous "Power Pac" Burger. This thing is a whopping half pound burger on a 6 in. bun and all the fixings.

some more yummy ice cream on a waffle cone :)

the soft ice cream in "half and half"

Here are samples of the t-shirts we sell...if anyone wants one, let me know, and i'll send you a email with my address if you want to send a check (or pay by Paypal) and I'll make sure you get one. Colors and sizes vary- and I'll call and find out what is available.  

I hope you have enjoyed the "tour" :) Don't you wish you could sample some of this yumminess? Me too! Excuse me while I go have my Lean Cuisine dinner now... (UGH!!) 

Ps- Happy Birthday to my Dad! Love you!

Starbucks & friends

POTD-Here is Angie and I acting like a couple of dorky kids when she was here.Cracks me up every time I see this. lol Had so much FUN! And, so she went home and left with me a addiction...Starbucks Mocha Light Frapp with extra ice...and a brain freeze on the side.