Momma's got some crazy curls!

I don't know how many of you watch the show "Lost," but Tyler and I are addicted (thank you Jessica Hollis!) We've flown through seasons 1 & 2 on the DVD and then downloaded the episodes of season 3 we missed on Itunes. We are all caught up and loving it!

There is an actress on there (Evangeline Lilly) who has the best curls. I thought I'd give it a try. So...I was going for something like this:


But for some reason, I kept ending up like Hurley!!



So...obviously I started to give up on the idea of embracing my natural curl. I went to Kim on Thursday for a haircut and she just laughed at me and my "Lost" description of hair. She cut a lot of the weight out of my hair and added some more layers. She challenged me to put the straightener away for a week & try to get used to my curls again. I'm happy to say...I don't look like Hurley anymore. I'm still adjusting to them, but it sure makes getting ready a whole lot easier in the morning. My hair is fixed in less than 5 minutes!

Here's a pic of Millie and I at the park on Saturday wearing matching curls! (and Tyler wans to make sure that everyone knows he's the photographer behind the camera! LOL!)



So...you're all caught up on Kellie's hair drama! Don't you feel more enlightened now?

Ok...I need to tell you guys about the fun kit I used to make that layout. If you spend $10 or more at www.funkyplaygrounddesigns.com this week, you'll get it for FREE! It is packed full of tons of goodies!! I had tons of fun scrapping with it!

Here's the full kit:


I've been such a bad blogger that I don't know if I ever told you guys I'm a guest on Christina Renee's dream team. My favorite scrappers are on her CT and I feel so lucky to be scrapping along side of them. Also...the amazing Traci Murphy has asked me to be a guest for her this month, too!! She also sells at www.funkyplaygrounddesigns.com Seriously...somebody pinch me! I just started scrapping a year ago...and can't believe how far I've come and who I've been able to work with this year. It has been such a fun ride!!

So...go shopping & scrap! (and let me see the pages you make!)

The ABC's of Mason & Millie

I've been working my tail-end off on a book for Mason & Millie for Easter! :) I started it on March 22nd and finished it up last night (the 27th)! So...that was a lot of scrapping in a short amount of time! I sent it to the printer last night to be put in a hardcover/bound book! I used some amazing templates by Janet Phillips on these (you can pick them up at www.scrapbookgraphics.com ! Her templates rock!!)

So, without futher ado...the ABC's of Mason & Millie!





















































Credits for these pages can be found in my DST gallery!

Thanks for enduring all of these pages with me! :)

What was I thinking???

First off...I didn't realize it had been a MONTH since I last updated!! So sorry!!!!

Second...what was I thinking?!?!? Look at what I did today...

Mason Before:



Mason after I took him to get his haircut:


I miss his curls!!! I know he'll be much happier with short hair for the spring and summer...but you better believe it's going long again in the fall!! I can't decide if his haircut makes him look older or younger, but he sure looks different!

Let's see...what's been happening over the last month...(don't worry, you'll just get the highlights)

I had my first mammogram...not as terrible as I thought it was going to be. I admit I had a small panic attack on the way there...but it was not painful at all. I think a lot of my nerves were just out of fears of finding something since my mom was so young when she had breast cancer. But...everything checked out just fine! :) March 5th was 13 years since mom passed away. It is so weird to think that I've almost lived as long without her as I did with her. I sure miss her!

Millie is getting so big (seriously...24 pounds!) She is officially off of the charts for her weight and in the 50th percentile for her height. She says "da-da" and is learning to wave. She has such a deep, husky voice that just cracks me up! She is really starting to play a lot and scoots everywhere.

Mason is loving the warmer weather. He screams like crazy when he has to come inside, though! :) He loves playing with all of his outdoor toys and loves to run! He can count to thirteen & loves to entertain! He definitely makes me laugh a lot!

In digital scrapping news:
I'm a guest creative team member for Joana Carvalho (www.joanacarvalho.com) and Karah Fredricks (www.blueflombingo.com)this month! Also...I was picked to serve as a creative team member for Lauren Reid!!!! (www.oscraps.com , www.catscrap.com , www.funkyplaygrounddesigns.com) I was seriously giddy & jumping up and down when I heard the news!!

And...drum roll please...I'm the featured scrapper this month over at www.digishoptalk.com ( http://www.digishoptalk.com/boards/showthread.php?t=41886 ) I was so shocked and honored!! There's over 4000 members there, so I was thrilled to be chosen! I'll be featured in their newsletter next month, too!

Wanna see some new layouts of the kids? (It's the reason you keep checking the blog, even when it's been a month, right?)

Credits to all of my layouts can be seen here!

Just some ramblings from me! :)

Hello to all of my neglected blog readers!! Life has been busy around the Penn house!

Let's see...On Friday, Feb 9th we went to Libby's birthday party at Chuck E.Cheese's. Wow, crazy place to be on a Friday night! Mason loved getting to play, climb, and ride the little kiddie rides! The next day, he got to go to Bass Pro Shops with Daddy, Grandpa, Uncle Corey, and Libby...while the rest of us went shopping at The Grapevine and then back to Stephani's so I could teach her how to digitally scrapbook! Watch out world...I'm out to convert each of you over to digital scrapbooking! hahaha!

We had a Valentine's banquet at our church on that Saturday night. Liz and Joy did an amazing job of decorating it and the food was so yummy! A couple of teens from church babysat our kids, so it was nice being able to eat hot food! (usually by time I'm able to eat, my food is a bit lukewarm!)

On Tuesday, we had a BLIZZARD! Between Tuesday and Wednesday we had over a foot of snow. The area schools actually cancelled...and Decatur never cancels! We took Mason outside so Tyler could pull him around in his sled. He fell over on the first corner face first into the snow and wanted nothing more to do with the sled. It was too deep for him to walk in and he kept falling over and then he just kept crying and crying. So, our snow adventure ended quickly!

On Thursday, we loaded up the van and took Kristina and her friend to Senior Days at the Bible college. We stayed with Sean and Jill and had so much fun just relaxing and hanging out (and I got to eat my yummy Dalt's buffalo chicken sandwich!) On Friday, we met up with Melissa Lewis and Camden at Bellevue mall so the kids could play together. There were a zillion kids there, but Mason had a ball! That Camden is such a cutie...he has the world's most adorable little voice! And...it's always fun to talk to someone who is as addicted to digital scrapbooking as I am! :)

We heard that snow was heading towards Nashville early Saturday morning, and Tyler had to be back on Saturday for a funeral, so we decided to head out after the basketball game on Friday night. Not our wisest move. As soon as we crossed the Illinois state line we started hitting snow...and it just kept getting worse and worse! We rolled in our driveway at 4:30 am...safe and sound. I don't know when I've ever been so tense travelling!

Tyler's basketball team won their game Monday night. The guy still has some "mad skills!" I enjoyed sitting and talking with the other wives!

Millie is now sitting up and starting to scoot around. She's such a big girl! Yesterday, Mason counted to thirteen! Seriously...thirteen! How does he know how to do that? My baby is quickly growing up! His new thing is when you go to grab his hand or to make him do something that he doesn't want to do, he screams "ow!" Gee...thanks a lot kid. Make me look like parent of the year when we're out in public! haha! He really has been so sweet and loves to sit and read books. THe other morning he leaned over and kissed my cheek and my heart just melted! I have the world's best kids!

Want to see what I've been up to? I have more, but I don't want to overwhelm you with them! :) Click on my gallery at DST if you want to see the credits!

Who's that girl??

I saw this on Katie's blog & thought it was funny!

Your real name:

Kellie

2. Your Gangsta Name: (first 4 letters of real name plus izzle:}

Kelizzle

3. Your Detective Name: (fav color and fav animal)

pink monkey (I think I would make a terrible detective with that name!)

4. Your Soap Opera Name: (middle name, and childhood street)

Marie Prairie


5. Your Star Wars Name: (the last 3 letters of your last name, first 2 letters of your first name, first 3 letters of mom's maiden name)

Penkemiz


6. Your Super Hero Name: (2nd favorite color, favorite drink)

blue peppermint mocha(ok...this one is probably only funny if you drank alcohol!)


7. Your Iraqi Name: (2nd letter of your first name, 3rd letter of your last name, any letter of your middle name, 2nd letter of your mom's maiden name, 3rd letter of your dad's middle name, 1st letter of a sibling's first name, last letter of your mom's middle name)

Enrieam


8. Your Witness Protection Program Name: (grandmother/grandfather's first name and Jones)

Viola Jones


9. Your Goth name: (black, and the name of one your pets).

Black Reagan


Play along at home!

Under Construction...

I know it doesn't look much different right now, but I'm in the process of trying to update my blog (I'm hopefully going to make a new header for my blog soon.) Blogger was giving me fits this afternoon...so this is just going to be a work in progress!! Links & blinkies & other goodies will come later! :)

Some Monday Morning humor for you! :)

There's a site you have to go look at called Jowlers. Look at the crazy faces that can be made when you shake your head back and forth really fast for the camera!

Well...my family thought we would give it a try!

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Doesn't my dad look nuts? You'd think my family would remember that I scrapbook everything! :) I was cracking up laughing while I made this LO!

Enjoy your Monday!

I've had my caffeine...now I can tackle this blog!

What a week this has been! Mason is sick (again!) He crawled into our bed a 3 am on Thursday with a 102 fever and has been bouncing back and forth between 104 & 98 degrees. Poor kid! His nose is runny & he's starting to cough (which means bronchitis may be around the corner.) He finds his way to our bed in the middle of the night each night and we have been getting ZERO sleep. I look like a zombie! That kid wallers you to death! We've been watching lots of Elmo (Elmo's Potty Time--there's nothing quite like singing songs about pee & poo! Yuck!) and just taking it easy.

I was supposed to get to go to Bethel General Baptist this weekend for their 50th Anniversary. Dad is preaching & I was looking forward to seeing my old friends. Plus, it's always fun to show off the kids! But, since he's sick, we had to stay home. I've been pretty bummed...I was so excited to get to do something for me. I realized last night that he was sick on Super Bowl Sunday last year. I'm so ready for spring!

Millie is doing well...just getting bigger & bigger! She's so sweet and her little personality is really starting to show through. I have a feeling she's going to be a fiesty one!

I'm going to have a busy month with scrapbooking...and I'm loving it! I'm on 3 regular creative teams, and I'm a guest on 3 creative teams! I'm a guest for Gina Miller, Trish Jones, and Misty Mareda this month! I've decided February is never allowed to be over! :) I feel like such a lucky girl to be working with my favorite designers! Gina sells at www.ginamillerdesigns.com Trish sells at www.trishjonesdesigns.com and Misty sells at www.twistedlollipop.com You should check out their amazing stuff! :)

A layout of mine won a contest at www.sweetshoppedesigns.com You can see it here! Pretty cool, huh? I won a $15 gift certificate to their store...and everything is 50% off right now, so I was really able to stock up!

Want to see some new layouts?
The first three layouts use the new Celebrate You Collaboration kit at www.ginamillerdesigns.com

Click here for credits! Thank you Jessica for these cute photos!

These pictures were taken on Mason & Miles' birthday at Miles' grave. Mason really made the day quite fun and not so sad. It was such a sweet time for our family.

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Some more pictures by Jessica! Cute, huh? Click here for credits!

This layout uses some more new goodies from Gina Miller! Mason enjoyed his Elmo cake!

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This layout uses the Invigorate kit from Trish Jones' Senses Collection. I love how this turned out! :)

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This layout uses Misty Mareda's Curiosity kit. These photos are from Mason's Birthday Party at the Children's museum!

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Hope you all have a wonderful Sunday! Tyler says--Go Bears!!

Folks...we've been lied to!

Models look nothing like they do in the ads. I know we all hear that...but here's the proof! :)
Click here!

This lady has an amazing talent when it comes to photoshop! I need her to photoshop me! :) I was just shocked how she is doing these pictures for a makeup company...makes me quickly realize that it takes more than makeup to look that beautiful...it takes someone with amazing talent in photoshop! Look at how she elongated legs, took cellulite out of legs, removed crows feet, totally changed eye & ear shape, removed facial hair, you name it!

I showed this to Tyler and he said "Whoa! This need to be an article in Newsweek!" I want to know what you think!