October 7th

Day 7.

Last night I thought my head was going to explode because of the sinus pressure! Today it's feeling a little better but I am going to get allergy medicine after work today to end the torture. LOL Enough about that. 

Since this challenge was given to us at our favorite scrappy home Scrapbook Doodle, I thought a little scrappy challenge would be nice for us to do.  It's a sketch from Page Maps and you can either do a layout or a card whatever you prefer. 

Once you finish put a comment back here that you have done it and post a picture of it to the Blogging thread at Scrapbook Doodle.  For those of you that decide to do the challenge, I will put your names in hat and drawer a winner and you will receive a RAK from me!  I hope you all get scrappy!

October 6th

Day 6.

Thanks for all the comments on my post last night.  I am going to answer the few questions you ladies asked in the comments.

1. I live in Surprise.

2. I went to Ira Murphy. 

Last night we stopped by my brother-in-law's house to see our nephew Hudson.  He is 1 1/2 years and he is a hoot.  He showed us just about every toy in his room.  We played with his Hot Wheels and the Hot Wheels track that Brian bought him.  He would say Aunt Risha watch this... and then press the button to make the little car launch down the track.  He thought is was so funny every time he did it.  It was so much fun.  Brian and Heath are two the biggest Chicago Bears fans I have ever met.  Of course they are teaching Hudson to love the Bears as much as they do.  He kept telling us "Go go Bears...Urlacher!"  It is so stinkin cute.  I will try and record it so I can it with you all sometime.

I think we should do that more often because even though they live two streets away from us we hardly ever see our little nephew mostly because we are all just so busy.  Here's a picture I took of him a while back while he was at our house.

October 5th

Day 5.


Another rainy day here in AZ and I am loving it!  My side of town didn't get any hail or the winds like some the valley did but it has been so cool in the evenings.

Since I am doing this little challenge with a lot of new friends over at Scrapbook Doodle I thought I would tell you 10 random things about me in no particular order.

1.   I love watching old movies.
2.  My favorite color is blue at the moment.  It changes a lot but blue makes me happy.
3.  I played the clarinet from 4th grade until 8th grade.
4.  I have 4 nephews who I absolutely adore with all my heart.
5.  My dream car is a Trans Am lexactly like the one in the movie Smokey and the Bandit, it has been since I was very young, like 3 or 4.
6.  I hope and pray everyday that someday I will be a parent.
7.  I have 1 brother and 1 sister
8.  I was born on Thanksgiving day
9.  My dream vacation would be going to France.
10.  I got to meet Judd Nelson at a local bar.  It was awesome to see someone that I have watched a millon times in those classic 80's movies like St. Elmo's Fire and Breakfast Club etc.

That's it from me for today!

October 4th

Day Four.

It was a really nice afternoon, we had clouds, thunder, lighting and rain.  It has been a while since it rained here in the valley.  I love it because the air feels so cool, a sure sign that fall/winter is heading our way.  It was was fast moving storm but it was still nice.  I got a a picture at the end of the storm and a little rainbow is in the shot in between the neighbors trees, hopefully you can see it.

Don't forget ladies, there was a nice challenge issued to do a layout so go here to see what the challenge is and participate.  I know I am surely going to because I need to get in gear so my sister's book is finished by Christmas.

October 3rd

So day three of the challenge and I'm a litle late getting my post up but today was Brian's day off and we did some chores around the house and then we watched a little football.  We also took a nap today too. I love a lazy Sunday.  I also did some reading today. I have started reading the Sue Grafton novels.  I finished A is for Alibi.  I really liked, it was a fast read. I started on the next book in the series, B is for Burglar.  So far so good, I am only on chapter 3.  According to Brian all I read is vampire books but that is not true, I love a good mystery novel as well as some horror books too but only when I am in the mood for a scare.

Now a question for all you ladies doing our little challenge.  Brian and I were discussing house chores today, usually I wait until the weekend to do all my house work how do you handle all your chores? Do you do something everyday so that your weekend is not filled with so much cleaning or are you like me do you do it all on the weekend?  Every week I keep saying I am going to do a little bit each day so that I can have more free time during the weekend but I just end up doing it like I always do. 

I will leave you with a few pictures that I took in May. Brian and I took a spur of the moment trip to the Lake Pleasant and had a picnic.  We took our chocolate Lab Cletus with us. It was such a fun afternoon.

 

Day 2

So it is day two of our 31 days of blogging.  I am proud of myself for starting off on a good note by blogging on day 1 and 2! 

My Mom's birthday was on 9/27 and a while back she said that she wanted to frame some of the finger paintings that Johnathan did.  So I framed one for her and gave it to her for her birthday.  I think it turned out cute.  Tell me what you think.

That's it for today! I will be blogging tomorrow!!

31 days of October Blog Challenge

Over at one of my favorite scrappy homes Scrapbook Doodle we were issued a personal challenge by Karen to see if we could blog each day of the month of October.  For Karen it is to celebrate a special month leading up a favorite holiday of hers and her family, yup you guessed it Halloween. 

I thought since I am trying to blog on a more consistent basis this is the PERFECT challenge for me.  It has turned out that several of the Doodle girls are also participating this month.  I am going to share the list so you can enjoy the ramblings of all of us ladies for this entire month. 

Karen

Sherri

Christina

Jodi

Jill

Janice

Alecia

To make it easy I am going make a special place on my blog to all of their blogs so you can zip on over to each one whenever you feel like to see what they are up to this month.