Georgia Is Doing Well

Well, the surgery went well yesterday. It was a stressful time for Momma but Georgia did fine.

Here are a couple of photos I took before the surgery. One of her sitting with me in the waiting room and one in pre-op waiting to be wheeled into surgery.

We are lucky that they only had to set it and insert the pins from the tip of her finger. Not tendon trauma to fix.

Unfortunately they put a terrible splint on her hand this time and it has already come off completely once. I almost rushed her back to the hospital but I got it re-wrapped it and she seems okay so I will wait until tomorrow and call the doctor. She has an appointment on Tuesday to get a cast put on it so maybe they can just do it tomorrow instead.

She is doing great (other than the terrible splint) and hasn't slowed down at all (unfortunately! ha). I am sure she will heal quickly and will not even remember any of this happened.

Now for me it was a totally different story! I was totally stressed out and ended up with a migraine that never ended yesterday. But today I am fine after a good nights sleep and 3 advil! lol

Okay, I have a ton of stuff to do today. I still plan to leave for Oklahoma on Tuesday if possible so I need to get those DT projects done and posted and pack!

Thanks for the emotional support!!! I truly appreciate every comment.

Broken Finger Update

Broken finger update....

I took Georgia to the surgeon today and he said she definitely has to have surgery to have it set and pins put in it. He has her scheduled for tomorrow (Saturday) morning at 9am. He originally had it scheduled for 2:45pm and I was really worried about how I was going to keep her from eating or drinking that long. I guess when I said something about it to the nurse she must have said something to him because I got a call a couple of hours later saying the time had been changed to 9am. I'm so much happier about that!

We have to be there at 7am. I am going to take her and my hubby will stay home with the other kids. She is doing really well. She is a tough little girl. They had to take off her old splint and put on a fancy new one. It is much nicer and she wanted me to take photos. I hope you laugh at the last photo because I sure did.

I wanted to thank everyone for all the sweet comments that were left yesterday. I really do appreciate them.

Hugs!!

Two Pink Peas Has Candy!

Look at the awesome candy up for grabs at Two Pink Peas!! Hurry and go check it out!

ER Visit

Well, I've had an exciting afternoon. I just got home from the Emergency Room where I had to take my 3 year old. Her brother shut her finger in a closet door and broke it. It snapped it in two and the top part of the bone slid off the bottom part. They tried to fix it buy pulling it back into place but that didn't work very well so it looks like she might have to have surgery to have a pin put in it. Probably tomorrow. We go to the surgeon in the morning at 7:30am.

My husband is out of town and I had to take all 5 kids with me. I almost forgot about my 5 year old who was in school! (yes, I'm working on that mother of the year award) Luckily for me my older daughter reminded me and I called his school and barely got him before he was put on the bus. We swung by to get him on the way to the hospital. 5 hours later we finally got to come home.

I was so awful listening to her cry all the way to the hospital and say over and over, "I hurt momma, I hurt momma". Ripped my heart out. She has it in a splint and has been given pain medication so she is doing okay now. Phew, rough day!

I uploaded these two card photos yesterday so it would be easy for me to do the post today. So I guess I will tell you a little about them.

The first card is a little thank you card I made for my card challenge at Sketches4all. You have to use a Pagemaps sketch. I wanted to make it monochromatic. And I embossed the sentiment and star.

The second card I made at The Color Connection Tour. I actually made the whole card there at the crop but hated the flower I put on it. Well, it has sit to the side now for a little while because I couldn't think of how to fix it. I finally decided to pull off the lime green flower and add this bling to the top. I think it looks much better now. It is glimmer misted and inked within an inch of it's life! lol It was messy to make but super fun too.

Okay, I need to get offline and get the kids ready for bed. Hope you had a less eventful day!!

Something Blue for Scrap Our Stash

Wow, I can't believe it it is already Wednesday! This week is rushing by. It has started to turn into summer here in Las Vegas and we have temperatures in the 100's all week. I took the kids out for lunch and shopping today. Every time we got back in the car it was like getting into an hot oven. Really miserable. But we still had a fun day.

I have been trying to get things organized for our drive to Oklahoma in a few days. I will be taking my 3 older kids, my dogs and my bird in my RV. There is a lot to get organized! It makes me tired just thinking about it! LOL

I have also been trying to get all of my DT posts ready to go before I leave for Oklahoma because shortly after arriving in Oklahoma my hubby and I are going on vacation together. We are leaving the kids with the grandparents and taking an adults only vacation. I can't wait! But it does mean I have a ton of stuff to get ready.

I will get it done soon enough. No worries.

I want to share a layout I started at The Color Connection Tour in CA and finished up here at home. I love this new resist paper from Pink Paislee. They were kind enough to let us use paper that hasn't come out yet!! It was a cream color to start and I used some distress ink to color it that blue color. I felt like with this monochromatic layout a black and white photo would really work best. It is a photo of my grandparents. (I sure miss them) They also gave us a ton of gorgeous embellies to use. I loved the ribbon and bling the most!! Isn't it yummy?

What do you think of my layout?? Like it? I made it for the June Challenge at Scrap Our Stash which is "Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed, Something Blue". You can use any or all of the prompts. (I went with "something blue" obviously. ha) You should go join in on this challenge.

Tonight I have spent the evening painting. I recently received two new stamp sets from the Sheena Douglas Paint Fusion collection. The two sets I received are the Sunflower Stamp set and the Tulip Stamp set and both are so bright and beautiful! They will be debuting in a couple of days on June 30th at Crafter's Companion Store. I have been painting sunflowers on everything that isn't moving! LOL So be prepared to seem them in the future. I must admit that I am not a painter but I do have fun trying to get it right! lol

Okay, got to go and watch So You Think You Can Dance with the kids.

More tomorrow....

Sweet Summertime

Hi everyone,

Here is a layout I made for the Crafter's Companion Blog. They are getting ready to come out with this adorable stamp line called Humphrey's Corner Collection. They are all about Humphrey the Elephant. And that Humphrey is a cutie pie! This collection will debut on June 23rd. And you can get them at the Crafter's Companion Store. (you will want to at least go look at them because they are so sweet!)

I had this great photo of my kids together on my son, Jesse's 11th birthday. It was taken right before he opened his presents. We had been gone all day having fun at the MGM Grand Hotel and then we came home. I made tacos for dinner. We were just waiting for my husband to come home with my 3 year old daughter. She had spent the week at her grandmothers house in California. Their plane was delayed and the kids were all getting anxious. (especially the birthday boy who wanted to open his presents!! lol)

Finally my husband got home and everyone was so happy to see him and Georgia. You can just see the happiness on their faces. Soooooooooo....I decided to scrap this photo with some great summery paper I bought from Little Yellow Bicycle in their Sweet Summertime collection. I think the page is called Fireflies Glitter.

Humphrey just seemed to fit perfectly on the layout . I colored him with my Copics and then used a Spellbinders Nestabilities die to cut him out.

I like how it turned out. I hope you do too.

My guests all left yesterday and it seems so quiet around here today. (I know....crazy....quiet with 5 kids?! lol) I think we are all just missing everyone.

It sure was a fun weekend.

I have a couple of random questions. What time of day to you get to scrap? And how often do you get to scrap. Share!

3rd Giveaway Posted and Fun Weekend!

I just wanted to let everyone know that I have now posted my 3rd Blogiversary Candy!! I have added the I-Bond Cordless Hot Glue Gun and 3 different kinds of mini glue sticks (Clear, Colored and Glitter).

If you want to enter to try to win this or one of my other two giveaways go here to enter. DO NOT ENTER ON THIS POST.

We have had the best weekend!! We have had some friends come into town and stay with us. They stayed two nights at the MGM Grand Hotel and then they moved to our house for the next two nights. We have had a wonderful house full of happy children and fun adults! TOTAL BLAST!

My son, Jesse, had his 11th birthday on Friday and we spent the day at the MGM in their Lazy River pool with our friends and then we hit the arcade afterwards. We had a family party at home in the evening. The next day when all the friends came to our house we had a pool party for him and celebrated with more cake and ice cream and presents. He has really had a great birthday.

I hope you have had as good a weekend as we have! Don't forget to go join in on my Blogiversary Giveaways!!