Friends and followers (you're probably my friends or we will be) -- I hope you love the new design!! I was recently chosen to be part of the Catch the Moments Kits Design Team for 2010-2011, and I am so proud and honored!! I decided to change things up a bit and add a bit of sophistication to my sloppy, messy blog that was (gag) and now is (sigh) lovely, modern and matches my personality to a T (well almost, as custom as $5 goes)!
Haha, well I am so pleased to tell everyone about this super opportunity for me!! I will be sharing lovely layouts and projects each month that I've designed with the lovely kits a la Devon from Catch the Moments Kits!! Visit the Etsy site here... Plus she is starting a website soon with message boards and other insanity! I can't wait to be a part of all the action!
She's a swell gal, and I can't wait to show off all the wonderful creations I'll be making and of course give you the insiders info on all upcoming kits, products and dare-I-say SALES to come!!! You just never know on this blog ladies!
Anyhow it's late, and I have a parenting workshop in the morning (ah! who cares?) I am going to scrap a bit and start on the "About Me" challenge on Devon's sister blog Scrap the Moments Challenges! Now who doesn't like a challenge now and then?
Let me know what you think of the design, and feel free to give me tips on my bog because you know I need them!! I want to be a big star, and I need your help, support, love and encouragement to get me on my way :) just kidding, but really I do!
Love and nighty-nighty!
Gabi from Savannah, TX
So happy!
I am just ecstatic that the weekend is finally here!!
Today I am not taking a lunch and leaving work early to take my daughter to the doctor for her well baby :)
I'm going to have them look at her ears to because she grabs them at nights, but she hasn't seemed sick, so I haven't worried about it.
Tonight I need to do my quiz for Marriage and Family. Tomorrow I have a Parenting Workshop in the morning (it's for my parenting scholarship at school). No I am not a bad parent; it is just part of my requirements to keeping up with my scholarship, gpa and taking full time hours. Just part of the package deal. Tomorrow they are doing to discuss couponing, which is kind of funny because I'm a HUGE coupon-er! I mean I get the BEST deals, like FREE (or close to free) stuff all the time! So maybe I could teach my classmate a little bit about saving money, who knows?
After my session tomorrow I am taking my hubby and sweet little girl the aquarium!! That is my hubster's birthday presetn, he requested that we go as a family to the aquarium or the zoo. Too cold for the zoo, so the aquarium it is!!! I can't wait. Look forward to some awesome pictures ya'll!!
This weekend I will read for all of my classes, and I am going to study for an exam that I have on Monday, and get caught up with all of my reading :)
And of course... play with my sweet Harper, read stories and share sweet moments!!
Happy Weekend Ya'll!!!
-Gabi from Savannah, TX
Today I am not taking a lunch and leaving work early to take my daughter to the doctor for her well baby :)
I'm going to have them look at her ears to because she grabs them at nights, but she hasn't seemed sick, so I haven't worried about it.
Tonight I need to do my quiz for Marriage and Family. Tomorrow I have a Parenting Workshop in the morning (it's for my parenting scholarship at school). No I am not a bad parent; it is just part of my requirements to keeping up with my scholarship, gpa and taking full time hours. Just part of the package deal. Tomorrow they are doing to discuss couponing, which is kind of funny because I'm a HUGE coupon-er! I mean I get the BEST deals, like FREE (or close to free) stuff all the time! So maybe I could teach my classmate a little bit about saving money, who knows?
After my session tomorrow I am taking my hubby and sweet little girl the aquarium!! That is my hubster's birthday presetn, he requested that we go as a family to the aquarium or the zoo. Too cold for the zoo, so the aquarium it is!!! I can't wait. Look forward to some awesome pictures ya'll!!
This weekend I will read for all of my classes, and I am going to study for an exam that I have on Monday, and get caught up with all of my reading :)
And of course... play with my sweet Harper, read stories and share sweet moments!!
Happy Weekend Ya'll!!!
-Gabi from Savannah, TX
Pumpkin Patch, Halloween and Other Stuff
This is my family at the Pumpkin Patch in Flower Mound last weekend! Enjoy the pic!
-Gabi from Savannah, TX
1 day till the Weekend
It's busy this time of year at work, and on top of that my mind is busy, busy, busy!!
Today at work I am going to finish all of my tracking, and I am going to finish the newsletter for Dr. Beck's allied health students.
At lunch today I will be speaking to a class of my peers about juggling parenthood, my studies, my job and my personal life outside of school. My good friend and coworker is a Teaching Fellow. She teaches a Child Development course every semester, and she has ask ME to speak to her class. Wow! This will be the first time I talk to a group of folks (especially my own age). I hope that I don't mess up or say a curse word or something out of character! :)
This weekend I am going to do my About Me LO for the challenge blog Scrap The Moments. I found a LO onlne, and I am going to scraplift her idea. Here is the LO that I plan to scraplift .... Thirty-Two Favorites at 32 by Shannon Bowman.
I will post my LO when I am done. I think you guys will like it. Mine won't be exactly like hers, but it will be very close :) I can't wait!!
Also tonight after lab, I need to do my power point for my Personal Development class, and I need to read for all of my other classes!! I have an exam next week, so I need to print off my quizzes to study! Yipe!!
I'm out for now. Moving my computer around at work today. This is should be fun!
-Gabi from Savannah, TX
Today at work I am going to finish all of my tracking, and I am going to finish the newsletter for Dr. Beck's allied health students.
At lunch today I will be speaking to a class of my peers about juggling parenthood, my studies, my job and my personal life outside of school. My good friend and coworker is a Teaching Fellow. She teaches a Child Development course every semester, and she has ask ME to speak to her class. Wow! This will be the first time I talk to a group of folks (especially my own age). I hope that I don't mess up or say a curse word or something out of character! :)
This weekend I am going to do my About Me LO for the challenge blog Scrap The Moments. I found a LO onlne, and I am going to scraplift her idea. Here is the LO that I plan to scraplift .... Thirty-Two Favorites at 32 by Shannon Bowman.
I will post my LO when I am done. I think you guys will like it. Mine won't be exactly like hers, but it will be very close :) I can't wait!!
Also tonight after lab, I need to do my power point for my Personal Development class, and I need to read for all of my other classes!! I have an exam next week, so I need to print off my quizzes to study! Yipe!!
I'm out for now. Moving my computer around at work today. This is should be fun!
-Gabi from Savannah, TX
Personal Quote & Wednesday Rumblings
"I don't eat anything that lives in a shell"
-Gabi Watson
Okay so that is my personal quote for today. Last night I could not bring myself to work on any homework. I had to make a copy of my test, so that I could fill in the right answers, and I finished with the essay and fill in the blank part yesterday at lunch, but after we laid Harper down (took us a while), I was just kaput! I really needed to catch up on some Zzzz's since the night before I was up late (til 1 AM) finishing my paper for my anatomy class.
I'm usually in bed no later than 10 or 11 (on nights when I have tons of homework). Today is hump day, thank goodness!! I've been ready for the weekend since Monday. My agenda this week:
--Finish my test corrections
--Finish reading about Neural Tissue
--Read about the Central Nervous System and Peripheral Nervous System
--Read and do power point for Personal Development course
--Read Chapter 3 for Intro and Read Topics 10 & 11
--Read Chapter 9 & 10 in Marriage class and take quiz over Chapter 10
That is it for this week. Not so bad, just a TON of reading and getting caught up.
This Saturday I have a mandatory class for my scholarship. It will be over Couponing and Bargain Hunting for families with children. Then Gavin will get off of work right after that, and we will drive to the Dallas World Aquarium with Harper in tow to celebrate Daddy's 27th birthday!! I can't believe that Gavin and I have been together for 5 years already! It is quite amazing. We got married when he was 22, and I was 20. It is just really bizarre! Doesn't really seem like it's been that long.
Next weekend is my SLOP CROP, and I REALLY can't wait for this!! I need the mental beak from all of my school anguish, and my stress over what this lump in my breast could be!! I'm trying to put on a happy face really, but I am getting myself psyched out. I don't get it checked out till January because the oncologist is REALLY booked! I'm just scared, and I am most scared for my family. I could care less what I have really, but I am just scared that there is a day when I may not be able to take care of my family, and it just brings me to tears. Lately I've cried at least a little every morning, usually in the shower, when I am feeling the lump to make sure that it hasn't grown or developed any spicules. Yikes!
I am happy for the stress from school because if it weren't for that taking my mind off things and my LOVELY scrapbooking hobby and sweet family keeping my spirits up I would be all MUSH all the time!
I just have such a wonderful life. I'm not going to let this little thing get me down.
On another note... I registered for my Spring classes, and I am currently enrolled for:
-- Anatomy & Physiology II (2 nights/wk)
-- Elementary Statistics (T/R lunch)
-- Child Development (online)
-- Quantitative Data Collection (M/W/F lunch)
You may be wondering when I am going to eat since I have class during my lunch everyday... well I will get over that hurdle when I get there. I guess I just have to bring a lunch to work and just eat before I leave or after I get out of class; we'll see ;) It's not like I need any food anyway.
-Gabi Watson
Okay so that is my personal quote for today. Last night I could not bring myself to work on any homework. I had to make a copy of my test, so that I could fill in the right answers, and I finished with the essay and fill in the blank part yesterday at lunch, but after we laid Harper down (took us a while), I was just kaput! I really needed to catch up on some Zzzz's since the night before I was up late (til 1 AM) finishing my paper for my anatomy class.
I'm usually in bed no later than 10 or 11 (on nights when I have tons of homework). Today is hump day, thank goodness!! I've been ready for the weekend since Monday. My agenda this week:
--Finish my test corrections
--Finish reading about Neural Tissue
--Read about the Central Nervous System and Peripheral Nervous System
--Read and do power point for Personal Development course
--Read Chapter 3 for Intro and Read Topics 10 & 11
--Read Chapter 9 & 10 in Marriage class and take quiz over Chapter 10
That is it for this week. Not so bad, just a TON of reading and getting caught up.
This Saturday I have a mandatory class for my scholarship. It will be over Couponing and Bargain Hunting for families with children. Then Gavin will get off of work right after that, and we will drive to the Dallas World Aquarium with Harper in tow to celebrate Daddy's 27th birthday!! I can't believe that Gavin and I have been together for 5 years already! It is quite amazing. We got married when he was 22, and I was 20. It is just really bizarre! Doesn't really seem like it's been that long.
Next weekend is my SLOP CROP, and I REALLY can't wait for this!! I need the mental beak from all of my school anguish, and my stress over what this lump in my breast could be!! I'm trying to put on a happy face really, but I am getting myself psyched out. I don't get it checked out till January because the oncologist is REALLY booked! I'm just scared, and I am most scared for my family. I could care less what I have really, but I am just scared that there is a day when I may not be able to take care of my family, and it just brings me to tears. Lately I've cried at least a little every morning, usually in the shower, when I am feeling the lump to make sure that it hasn't grown or developed any spicules. Yikes!
I am happy for the stress from school because if it weren't for that taking my mind off things and my LOVELY scrapbooking hobby and sweet family keeping my spirits up I would be all MUSH all the time!
I just have such a wonderful life. I'm not going to let this little thing get me down.
On another note... I registered for my Spring classes, and I am currently enrolled for:
-- Anatomy & Physiology II (2 nights/wk)
-- Elementary Statistics (T/R lunch)
-- Child Development (online)
-- Quantitative Data Collection (M/W/F lunch)
You may be wondering when I am going to eat since I have class during my lunch everyday... well I will get over that hurdle when I get there. I guess I just have to bring a lunch to work and just eat before I leave or after I get out of class; we'll see ;) It's not like I need any food anyway.
I really LOVE my family...
Here are some pictures that I took time to edit this morning of our Fall Festival at our church. We go to Frisco First United Methodist Church, and we love it there!
Getting ready...
At my house right now we are getting ready for tricks and treats! Harper is dressed up as Madeline, and I am dressing up at Miss Clavel. I finally took pictures of my most recent scrapbook pages, and I am posting those online tonight before I FINALLY start writing my paper that is due tomorrow! OMG.. I am going to cry; this is going to be a long night after our little trick or treater goes nigh-nigh :)
I love my weekends (even if they are too short). I love my family. Everyday I am thankful.
-Gabi from Savannah, TX
I love my weekends (even if they are too short). I love my family. Everyday I am thankful.
-Gabi from Savannah, TX