Autumn Is Definitely Here!

Have I mentioned how much I love autumn?? I do, I do, I reeeeeeeeeally do! Yesterday it was a bit chilly for my taste though. It was in the 70's here in the Mojave desert. I baked 2 loaves of yeast bread and 2 loaves of pear bread. Mmmm The house smelled wonderful. I worked on making some Thanksgiving cards. I haven't crafted for ages and can't wait to get back into it full swing.



Here are some pictures of my harvest time decorations. This new home is a bit bigger than our former and I have found it necessary to take advantage of the sale prices at Joann's fabric store in order to fill some spaces. I know, I know, it was really a drag to have to go shopping for on sale havest decorations! LOL I loved every minute of it!!!

Autumn

I can hardly believe how the time has flown by. Autumn is my absolutely favorite season. I love the color, the smells, the weather, the decorations.....all of it!! Tomorrow we are headed to apple country. A visit to Oak Glen is a must during the fall season. We will sample cider, eat apples and soak in the autumn scenes. It's nice to be home schooling again so that we can take the time to do these little side trips. Even though my girls are all teenagers now, they still love to go to Oak Glen. I will post pictures of our trip soon. Hope you enjoy the autumn mix of music I put together. Nothing like a little bit of Louis Armstrong to get ya in the autumn mood!

Wow!

I can't believe I haven't posted anything since April! Life has been so chaotic that I just haven't had the time.

My daughter graduated from high school at the end of May. Then we had two major events at our church that we were all involved in. One was a children's outreach where we put on a circus themed show and then had free food, games and bounce houses etc. We also gave every child a free backpack full of school supplies. This was a very successful event.

Then we had a youth conference. Awesome is about the only word that I know that will describe this event. It was called Transformation and the theme was "I will not be a statistic." Very powerful stuff. Many teenagers lives were changed through this conference.

Both of those events were in July. August was when we made the final decision to move from the city where we've lived for 15 years, to a new town just a few miles away. This move was crazy. My husband had been out of work since April and ended up getting a job the week before we moved. Great that he got the job, just made the move a bit harder with him at work all day. I also spent 3 days at a women's retreat the week before we moved. Needless to say, we were throwing stuff in boxes at the same time as we were loading the moving truck. I hate to move like that but just didn't have much of a choice. We are finally settling in. I still have a lot to unpack but I can see the end is in sight.

I also made the decision to drop all of my college classes for now. I was getting really overwhelmed with all I had to do. I also had made a choice to attend a discipleship class at our church along with attending the women's Bible study. These two classes have already proven to be time consuming with the amount of homework that needs to be done for each one.

I have made the choice to homeschool my 15 year old as well. She had such a difficult transition from one high school to the other. The two schools have completely different requirements and neither would accomodate the other. We decided that homeschooling for at least this year would have to be necessary in order to make sure she is able to complete the correct classes and not be behind.

So you can see why my blogging has been non-existant for these last 5 months. I hope to post some pictures soon, but it's so late right now and my hubby is wanting me to turn the lights out. hee ;o) I'll be posting again soon.

Happy Pink Saturday!!

Hi all. Sorry this is late. Here are my pictures for today. These first two are cards I made this week. and the last one is a bucket of spring sugar cookies. Mmm. I hope everyone had a blessed Easter. This week for me was relaxing. I'm on spring break and the kids are in school. Woohoo. I didn't get a lot done but that's ok, I needed a break. Next week I will be back to school and it will be time for mid-term tests, blah!! Hey if you want to be a part of Pink Saturday click the button on the right and it will take you to Bev's site with direction on how you can join next week. Take care!!

Happy Pink Saturday!!

Well, I haven't been around much, but I'm back for now! If you want to join Pink Saturday, just click the link to the left and it will take you over to Bev's blog "How Sweet the Sound" . There she will explain how you can join in all the fun!

Today for my pink Saturday pictures I have some lovely Gerber daisies that I photographed while visiting Wal-mart not to long ago. Alas, I did not purchase any because for some reason, I am unable to keep them alive. :( They are my favorite flower so it is extra sad for me. So right now the multi-colored picture of Gerber daisies is currently my wallpaper on my laptop.




This picture is my first attempt at iris folding. I have always wanted to try it and I think this one turned out pretty good for my first try. I used pink paper of course because what other color is there?? LOL I hope you all have a wonderful Pink Saturday and a very Blessed Easter!!

Well, I'm back sort of...

I have probably lost most of those who were following my blog regularly. I feel bad about that. I have been so busy with school and kids. I have also been busy making cards. I have really gotten into it lately. I will start posting some of my favorites and links to some of the sites where I got the ideas. I have been watching so many how-to videos on youtube. Wow, all the great ideas I've gotten!!!

I just added a new button to the right column. The Girlfriends club is a newer site hosted by some wonderful ladies who are becoming quite popular in the scrapbook world. Both Donna and Leah are working with Prima and have been making videos for quite sometime. I'm not sure if Johanna works for Prima or not, but she is very talented and I love her ideas. This site has some wonderful videos with great ideas. If you have time, click on the button and take a look.

Computer Troubles!

Well, my computer decided to die again! I lost my whole hard drive back in October so I've been pretty good about backing stuff up since then. I lost about 3 years of picutures with that break down. Every now and then I remember another event that was on that hard drive and now gone forever. For instance my youngest daughter's field trip to the Ocean Institute in Dana Point California. We had such a great time and got to see dolphins. The kids actually got to disect a fish and they learned so much. We really had a great time, but I have no pictures of the event to scrapbook. :( This time my hard drive didn't go out but something got into my computer and I had to reinstall Windows thus, losing everything once again. Now I have to borrow my oldest daughter's computer to get on here, so I'll be on very little once she gets home from school. So I'll keep this blog updated as much as I can with limited internet access.

Take care all,

Syndee Ü