E's new ride...

One word....nerve-racking.

Fourth of July

Elijah and I spent most of the day around the house being lazy. It rained most of the morning, so it was the perfect day to not do a thing. I had a fleeting thought about going to Corning to partake in the annual fourth of july festivities...that was short lived. I worked on getting some yard sale stuff together and Elijah watched Teen Titans. Mainly, I read my book and tried to enjoy a day without any pressing obligations.


This afternoon we went with Mom to help pick out paint for her living room and kitchen. My step brother and sister recently moved out of mom's house. She decided she wanted to paint before fixing the two spare rooms back up. We began on what will now be Elijah and Kiley's playroom. I really like how it turned out.

We shot off a few fireworks before we headed in town to watch the FreedomFest fireworks at the fairgrounds. When we got back home, we spent another hour outside watching the rest of the fireworks Papa bought. Elijah has been obsessed with smoke bombs this year. I couldn't be happier, since that is one of the more non-threatening fireworks.

(Mom, Elijah, and Ronnie)

Scrapblog

So, while I was checking out another blog I frequent, Nitty.Gritty., I found this awesome website. I designed my blog banner there in about 10 minutes! It is so fun and there is a wide variety of digital scrapbooking stuff to have fun with, best of all...it's free. Check it out!

I'm a winner!

The past few months I have been frequenting various scrapbook blogs. While I have yet to pull all my scrapping stuff out, it has been fun getting ideas and seeing all the new products. One blog I check daily is Altogether Too Happy. Yesterday, Stacy asked for people to tell her one reason why we loved America. In doing so, you entered a chance to win an awesome Liberty kit. She has these giveaways quite often, but I never comment. Yesterday was slow, so I decided what the heck. So I left this comment... I love that I can be who I am and not have to live in fear of expressing myself.

I had forgot all about the drawing until I was checking updated blogs (thanks to Kara for letting me in on that nifty tool) and saw that I had won! This could possibly be the motivation I need to start scrappin'! I can't wait to get my free goodies.