happy weekend

hello all. Had a busy weekend...soccer....went back to where i grew up....tried to go to a baby shower but soon realized that I had no clue where it was =) Eventually caught up with baby and mom after the shower. Saw my sis and family, mom and dad. Went to churchy things today and started my never ending summer project...mowing the yard. Ahhh....the fun has begun. Also started this little mini album. This is all I accomplished, but hopefully I will complete it. Will share that when it is done. That is all for now, have a lovely day.

Easter layout

Hello all...not too much today, just a layout for your viewing pleasure. Me and some family members...taken over easter. hope you all have a great day!

the weekend in review

hello all. Here are some photos and a layout for your viewing pleasure. This is my little sister Cecil, otherwise known as Melissa.

Emma had to get all dressed up for soccer practice the other night...she likes to play too. She's pretty cute out there. She kept asking me to go into the game on Saturday =). We won unofficially again on Sat...it was pretty fun.

Bella outside on Saturday enjoying the 80 degree temp.

Emma picking some flowers for me on Sat.

the just picked flowers...

and finally just a few pics of some wildflowers from my yard.

wed. blogging

Snapped this pic of Emma yesterday as she was very busy picking flowers for me. she brought me quite a few handfuls of the lovely weed flowers.

The last of my vacation layouts. Think I covered everything. Now i can finally move on to something else. Glad about that. Have had about enough of them =)

In my unofficial "shall I go to Cambodia" poll, the yeses are far outweighing the nos. Thanks for all the encouragement. have a lovely day.

two days in a row!

hard to belive oh blogger fans, but I am posting two days in a row. Amazing, is it not? And even more amazing, another layout. One more and i should be done with vacation layouts and moving onto something else. here it is.....

On another note. I am thinking about going away this summer for a week. Cambodia to be exact. Why cambodia? Well....take a peek here... Joyce Meyer Ministries . Would be practicing medicine for a week. scary, but cool....any thoughts? an occasional person is excited, some are pretending to be excited, and some have said don't go. I have been approved to go the week of July 22 so at this point I am...but I guess i still am a little frightened. Anyway, just thought I'd share. You are all welcome to leave your opinions too =). Have a good day.

Happy Monday in Advance

I went to heaven today....grocery store heaven that is. There is a new specialty/organic grocery store on the other side of town. I went today and it was completely awesome...lots of cool stuff that I can't find elsewhere. It made me happy =). I'm kind of nerdy, huh?

Here is a layout that I made over the weekend. I am almost done with my vacation layouts. Here is another from the art museum. Have another one in the works. Hope you have a lovely day =)

No pictures today

Updates on my life:
1. I suck at blogging.
2. We completely kicked butt in soccer tonight....even though we don't keep score, i'm putting a notch in the winners column...my first career soccer win!
3. My body fat % is up 2% from late last summer so as of monday i am back on my diet and plan to get back down to that shortly.
4. My house is a disaster area, it makes me sad.
5. my life is boring, I don't have much else to say. Will try to do some scrapbooking this weekend to share next week.

A few easter photos

Hello everyone. Here are a few easter photos. We dyed a ton of eggs on Thursday...here is Bella showing off one of her eggs.


Emma enjoying the whole process


Went to my grandma's today where I ate entirely too much food. Here is a photo of my lovely mom and sis along of course with me.


And another photo of me and my little sis. It's been a long time since we have had a picture taken together. Not sure why. Anyway don't really know anything else exciting. Have a great day!

Happy Thursday

Here is a quick layout. Looks pretty ugly here, but in person I actually kind of like it =). We made some easter eggs tonight and I took some pictures of course...will post those for your viewing pleasure some other day. Hope you all have a great day!

Another question/answer session

This came from my med school friend Cathy =) It seems like I've maybe filled this quiz out before or maybe just a similar one? Sorry if it is old news =)
1. What time did you get up this morning? 7:40 (stunningly early for me)
2. Diamonds or pearls? diamonds
3. What was the last film you saw at the cinema? Have absolutely no idea
4. What is your favorite TV show? Grey's anatomy....although I'm not quite as excited about it as I used to be
5. What did you have for breakfast? chocolate brownie Clif bar
6. What is your middle name? Lynne
7. What is your favorite cuisine? all of them?
8. What foods do you dislike? cucumbers
9. What are your favorite chips? Miss vickie's jalopeno chips
10. What is your favorite CD at the moment? not sure I have one....just listening to a bunch of stuff at the moment
11. What kind of car do you drive? Nissan Murano
12. Favorite sandwich? I have lots of favorites
13. What are characteristics you can't stand? lack of common sense, "meanies" as emma would say
14. What are your favorite clothes? Jeans and a t-shirt
15. If you could go anywhere on vacation, where would
it be? somewhere warm with a beach.
16. Favorite brand of clothing? I'm not picky...whatever looks good
17. Where would you want to retire? Somewhere warm =)
18. Favorite time of day? late night.
19. Where were you born? Iowa City, Iowa
20. Where have you lived? Des Moines; Nampa,Idaho; Iowa City; Canton, Ohio; Frytown, not a real town, Iowa.
21. What is your favorite sport to watch? basketball
22. Who do you think will not send this back?
23. Person you expect to send it back first?
24. Coke or Pepsi? diet mt. dew
25. Cougars or Utes? huh? do I care? Go hawks.
26. Are you a morning person or a night owl? night owl
27. Pedicure or manicure? neither
28. Any new and exciting news you'd like to share with
everyone? I live a very boring life.
29. What did you want to be when you were little? a doctor
30. What is your best childhood memory? I seem to have blocked out most of my childhood for some unknown reason...maybe aquiring my blue teddy bear from Reif's after throwing a hissy fit (sorry mom, I still feel bad about that)
31. Piercings? ears only
32. Ever been to Africa ? no
33. Ever been toilet papering? yes a long time ago
34. Been in a car accident? just when I hit the clown's car backing out of my driveway in IC.
35. Favorite day of the week? saturday
36. Favorite restaurant? z'maricks
37. Favorite flower? I like them all
38. Favorite ice cream? mint chocolate chip
39. Favorite fast food restaurant? subway
40. How many times did you fail your driver's test? none
41. From whom did you get your last e-mail? hmmm...let me go check...hotwire it is....real people don't send me emails =) The last real human would have been cathy
42. Which store would you choose to max out your
credit card? target, ann taylor loft would be the most likely culprits
43. Bedtime? midnight to 1 usually
44. Who are you most curious about their responses to
this??? everyone
45. Last person you went to dinner with? Jared
46. What are you listening to right now? nothing
47. What is your favorite color? green
48. How many tattoos do you have? none
49. How many are you sending this Email to? nobody...all my fellow bloggers should fill it out
50. Favorite magazine? Cooking light, fine Cooking, Women's Health, O (did I just admit that?)
51. What nick names have you had? none that I can remember
52. Who is your favorite author? don't have 1 favorite
53. What are your hobbies? scrapbooking, reading, working out
54. If you had 2 hours of spare time, how would you
spend it? see #53
55. If you could buy anything, what would it be? a maid

Another weekend gone

Weekends seem to just fly by these days. Way too fast for my liking =). Anyway, it is late and I am actually tired so I'm just going to post this layout...another one from my trip. Hope you all had a good weekend.

Guess I did okay.....

Or at least Bella thought so =)

On a side note, I guess tomorrow is Doctor's day (whatever that means?) and the clinic administration gave me a 3 lb 4 oz bag of m&m's....just what I needed...thanks.

And so it starts again...

soccer that is. And lucky me, in a weak moment I agreed to coach. Hmmmm...I'm franctically reading my "how to coach soccer" book tonight. Hopefully it will go okay. Made this layout last night. Still working on my vacation photos. Hope everyone is having a lovely day.

Tuesday already?

Had a busy weekend. Went to a church retreat thingy. It was good. I caused a bit of a stir during a question and answer session when the topic of murder/killing came up...my pacifistic (is that a word?) views aren't always the most popular =). Feeling a bit under the weather. Have been sick for about 3 weeks and don't seem to be getting better. Oh well...maybe someday. Might have to visit the sample closet soon...one of the perks of the job. Anyway, here is a layout of the lovely dr. marvasti. Have a lovely day!

Thursday blogging

Well it is Thursday and I only have three comments (2 of which were from family members that I already knew what their response will be)...I find that a bit sad =). Anyway, I think I will end my request for answers to my question as 1. see above 2. I found Shannon's answer brilliant...was actually thinking of doing that myself...and so I have decided that she deserves the RAK. Can you send me your address.

Speaking of Shannon...this is from her blog relating to high school...here are my answers


1.Who was your best friend? Amy I. Yoder who just had a lovely beautiful baby boy

2. What kind of car did you drive? a 1982 Toyota Celica...it was cool

3. It’s Friday night, where were you? who knows, if there was an athletic event probably there, otherwise probably with high shcool boyfriend Noah.

4. Were you a party animal? no

5. Were you considered a flirt?don't know, don't think so.

6. Ever skip school? only when sick

7. Were you a nerd? see last question

8. Did you get suspended/expelled? no...see above question

9. Can you sing the fight song? we didn't have a fight song.

10. Who was your Favorite teacher? Will Bill maybe?

11. Favorite class? don't remember

12. School mascot? no mascot, no fight song...just I.M.S.

13. Did you go to Prom? No prom either =). We had a banquet where we dressed up in prom garb and had a sit down dinner,etc...just no dancing

14. If you could go back and do it over, would you? Maybe, only if I could keep my current state of intellect.

15. What do you remember most about graduation? being glad to be done

16. Who was your high school sweetheart? Noah T. Larson

17. Where were you on senior skip day? I think we went to the Lake and hung out?

18. Did you have a job your Senior year? No...too involved in sports to have a regular job

19. Where did you go most often for lunch? the cafeteria.

20. Have you gained weight since then? yes, but have lost most of it. About 5-10 lbs above that weight depending on the day...which as Shannon said too isn't a bad thing I was a bit puny in high school

21. What did you do after graduation? worked that summer and started college in the fall.

22. When did you graduate? Do I really have to share that info?

23. Who was your Senior prom date? banquet--Noah

24. Are you going to your 10yr class reunion? Already went(many years ago =)...it was thrilling

25. Who was your home room teacher?? no home room teacher.

Have a lovely day!

Another layout

It seems that when I come on here to post I develop bloggers block and can't think of the least interesting thing to say. I'm sure you have noticed. Here is another layout from my CA trip.

So here is something to comment on. How do all you scrapbookers arrange your albums? I keep going back and forth and rearranging them...then I don't like them and rearrange again. Currently I have them in the "big picture" format more by topics. But I'm just looking through them now and they aren't as fun to look at...so I'm thinking about switching them back to chronological. I can't really do separate books for the girls cause I don't have enough energy anymore to scrap 2 layouts for each occasion. So what do all of you do? Maybe to encourage participation...I'll send something nice to a randomly drawn name of those that comment. In other words, it would be nice if you commented =)...you have until Thursday.

hello again...

it's been awhile huh? Been busy I guess, not feeling like I have too much to share, blogging gets old sometimes...all leads to less frequent posts I guess. In my defense, I should say that I have been less socially retarded than usual this week and that would be another reason I'm a slacker. I attempted to create a couple of layouts this weekend. Actually printed some photos from my California trip. Here are the results of my very weak efforts....


Have another one in process that is scattered all over the floor in my green room as my desks seem to have clutter all over them. Imagine that. Well that is all for now. Hope you all have a good day. I'll try to be a better blogger this week.

Some photos

Don't know too much. Going to try to print some pictures off soon so I can do some scrapbooking. We'll see how that goes. Until then here are some pictures taken today. It was gorgeous outside...mid to upper 70s I think. Emma actually cooperated a bit and was posing...kind of obnoxiously...but posing none the less, which she has never done. Didn't realize how dirty she was until I was looking at these pictures. Ahhh...the joys of daycare in warm weather.

Bella of course is a professional poser and as always took some good pictures.

And just to prove that I have not killed Betty the crazy Idaho cat, here she is...photo taken this evening (honest).

Have a lovely day everyone =)

Betty the crazy Idaho cat

Bella brought this home from Sunday School today in her prayer journal. Completely cracked me up. Maybe I should be more careful about how I talk about Betty?

A brief recap

So to all of you waiting for a recap of my trip...here it is. Left a recently past through blizzard very early (for me) Saturday A.M. and arrived in Sunny southern CA...absolutely gorgeous weather there. After receiving my P.T. Cruiser (which we renamed Piece of Trash (P.T.) Cruiser...sorry to those to own one...didn't like it) I wandered to Laguna Beach. Very pretty as you can see in the pictures below. Basically just walked around, climbed some rocks, ate some frozen yogurt...that is about it.

Another view of the beach

A flower along the beach.

I then spent the rest of the afternoon driving up the coast, went to Newport Beach...stole some seashells for the girls. Went back to the hotel and had a nap. Was a bit tired due to the two hours of sleep the prior night (was having some concerns about flying =). Spent the evening with my lovely friend Jeannette.

Day #2. Can I first just say, that I actually ran 3 days that I was there in L.A. Went for a run outside this morning with my shorts and tshirt on and decided that it was almost too hot to run outside. What a problem to have =). Went to the The Getty Museum . Loved this place. Had beautiful gardens, a great view of Los Angeles, and of course great Art. It was so incredibly cool to look at real live famous paintings from people like Van Gogh, Degas, Monet, Cezanne, etc. It was pretty exciting (yes, I am a nerd). This was one of my favorites. There was something that was very stunning about it in real life. Don't know if you can appreciate that here.

This was a sculpture that was outside and it made me giggle. Reminded me of how I feel sometimes. Small on the top and large on the bottom =).

Went to supper that evening with my former partner Richard and Jeannette. Had mahi mahi tacos.....tasty.
Day #3
More A.M. running (miracle!). Went to the mall across the street to buy a tank top as I didn't bring enough warm weather clothes. Went to disneyland with J and her daughter. Had a lovely time. Thought this picture was pretty cute....us posing with the great Woody.

And the highlight of my disney trip....getting my picture taken with a fake captain Jack sparrow. Kind of sad when a 34 year old mom gets excited about a picture with a fake johnny depp =).

Day #4
Made the trip North to Santa Monica. Beautiful beach.

Had some awesome chicken tacos there.....best I've had, ever maybe. Rented a bicycle after lunch and rode around for an hour. Awesome bike path along the coast.

Went a couple miles south to Venice Beach. Interesting place. Seems to be a place where you could probably do about anything you desired, especially illegitimate types of things. Here is a mural that was on the wall of one of the buildings. While I was there I was bear hugged by some drunk/high/insane man. He wished me a merry christmas and happy birthday. I told him thank-you and that I had to be on my way. He was disappointed and told me to come back soon. I wasn't scared as there were about a thousand people around...more interesting than anything.

I then walked to the downtown area where they had a HUGE pedestrian mall with tons of cool shops. Could have stayed there for a long time. Finally decided to go home and experienced L.A. traffic. fun...took me over 2 hours to get back to the hotel. Could have run faster at times. Makes me appreciate my 5 minute commute =). Went to a play that night where J and her daughter were very excited to find some semi-famous dude in. I of course did not recognize him at all.
Day #5
Spent the majority of it on an airplane. That's it. My trip in brief. Have a lovely day.