Couple digis...

Had a few minutes so I threw these together of Kaylin...
Kits are So Cute by Chriscrap's Designs and Owl Luv u Forever by Emily Powers.

Goodness

Not much scrappy news to report here these days. My days are filled with feeding, sleeping and pooping...and I'm loving every minute of it! I am definitely snapping a ton of pictures, and one of these days I'll find time to scrap some! For now...I'm just taking one day at a time and enjoying my baby girl!

It's a GIRL!

She's finally here! Kaylin Lee was born 1/28/09 at 2:25am. Weighing 7lbs 6 1/4 ounces and measuring 20 3/4 inches. She's doing well...now we're all just trying to get a routine in order and get some sleep where we can.

Just some graphic playing...

So lately my paper scrapping stuff is piled under baby stuff and I haven't had the motivation to digi scrap, either. But I have put together a few cute little graphics here and there. Here are my faves lately.

Getting closer

So tomorrow I'll be at 34 weeks...6 weeks to go. I can't believe it! I've been feeling healthier, with almost no nausea (KNOCK ON WOOD!!) which is great! I was sick with bronchitis for about 2 weeks and that was miserable as my lungs are already getting smushed by a baby and then they were full of crap to boot. I'm about over it now and starting to look forward to Christmas at least a little bit. We went Christmas shopping with my hubby's parents today and they kept trying to get me to pick stuff, but I just really have a hard time wanting anything for myself right now. I did pick up 2 huge paper stacks from DCVW at Joann's...I love the variety in them and they've always got something good for a themed page/album.
My sister and her husband are coming the day after Christmas and staying through the weekend. We've been busy trying to get the guest room/nursery cleaned up and presentable for their visit...but the bed is still covered COVERED in baby stuff. We'll get there, I'm sure...it is frustrating, though.
I also just found out my friends who are traveling nurses will finally be putting down "roots" for the next 2 1/2 years. Joe will be going back to school for nurse anesthethist (yeah, I can't spell that, forget it) in Philly so they'll be parking their hineys there for awhile. I'm super excited to have them back in the state again for a good while. And Philly will be cool because it's so rich in history, I can't wait to visit. AND it's close to NYC. Woohoo! I see many fun trips in the next few years...hopefully baby likes to travel.

Still hanging in there...

This picture was last week...28 weeks 4 days... I had a few good days of not being too sick feeling, but it doesn't seem it's going to last...darn! Then I had my 1 hour glucose screen and failed! But, today was the 3 hour test and I got a call already that I passed! Thank goodness my husband's aunt works at the office so she called, otherwise I probably wouldn't have heard anything until my appt on Monday.
Saturday is my baby shower. I'm really looking forward to it. Should be fun, I just hope I feel good unlike my first shower.
I've been attempting to scrap a few generic pages for the baby to use as a Christmas present for the grandmas next year. I'm thinking that I'm probably not going to have much scrapping time once this kid gets here, and trying to prepare...hehe.
Other than that, life just moves on...sometimes fast and sometimes slow. I can't believe it's Thanksgiving next week! And today we got some snow! Oh my!

Checking back in...

Well alot of time has gone by, but not much has changed too drastically. The belly keeps getting bigger, even though I keep losing weight... I had my last day of work the end of August...hooray! Our county fair started the same day. I entered some of my pictures from California, and my surfer picture actually won 1st prize in the landscapes/seascapes division. I was quite surprised and happy. I had a horrible bladder infection the middle of September. And then we headed out to Indiana for a visit and a baby shower. Luckily, the morning sickness seems to be tapering off. I've had some very nauseous moments lately, but mostly due to pain from the bladder infection and now I think I have a rib out of place that I really need to make an appointment to have looked at, but keep forgetting. Over all I'm feeling more decent and restless. I want to do things, but don't know what those things are yet...and I don't quite have the energy/stamina to do much of anything, but my brain sure goes a mile a minute. I'm hoping to work on scrapbooking some once my husband goes back to work on Monday...but for this weekend we're going to try to get the old junk room cleaned out to be transformed into a baby's haven. Should be fun!

New digi page

Threw this together while I'm waiting on hubby to get home. We're heading to my mom's for dinner tonight. The pictures were taken in the woods behind our house...quite literally our backyard.

I'm still sick. I decided the stress at the bank was getting too much and put in my 2 weeks notice. My last day is Aug. 30. I am going to be looking for another job...out of necessity not desire. Being so sick does not make one interested in money making whatsoever. I'm hoping for a job at a grocery store or something easy like that....just worried how my legs will hold out as they don't seem to like me standing or walking too much right now.

We're headed to Indiana the end of September for a visit. That will be nice. Probably the last time I'll see my family there until after the baby is born.

Quick update

Just playing with some pictures from the beach there... Not really my update.

So, I'm almost 15 weeks pregnant now...still have morning sickness...and have been working like crazy which is why no updates I guess.
Then this past week I got another stomach flu on top of everything and ended up getting I.V. fluids at the doctor's office. I missed the entire week of work (I'm sure they're thrilled with me...oh well!). And then yesterday I threw my back out just taking the dogs off of their leashes. Now I can barely move or take care of myself, and they can't really give me any drugs other than Tylenol so I have to suffer through and hope it works itself out by Monday so I can get back to work...rah. I did get a note from the doctor saying I can only work a max of 25 hours now, so hopefully that might help a bit...we'll see.

Moment captured

So I tried to get my creative juices flowing again...I don't think that worked out too well here...but it's acceptable. I love this picture I took while out visiting my friends in California. It's a picture of Joe taking a picture of Loretta. I just think it's so fun...especially when I remember back to how I slid back off of the log I was sitting on and was basically laying down to take this shot. Really good memories.
They'll be home in July. I can't wait! They're planning on coming down for a visit. Hopefully I'll be able to squeeze them into my busy friggin work schedule! It's been nuts! I work part-time people! How many part-timers do you know who get overtime? It's ridiculous. And to top that off, I got the stomach flu on top of morning sickness and landed myself in the ER with dehydration! I had to call off of work 3 days for that. I wish I could have been healthy and enjoyed that time off!
There's so much I would like to get done before the baby comes...and you can say, sure...you still have 7 months to go...no big deal, plenty of time. But when you feel crappy and exhausted and work half of your life away...it doesn't leave much time for doing the fun things. Hopefully things will slow down soon...but there's no sight of that for awhile...
On a plus side, I didn't get to go to the Memory Works retreat, but one of the nice ladies who did had a drawing for some goodies for us poor schmucks! Well, I won! Yippee! I can't wait to get my goodies! Thanks, Betsy!

No updates, oy!

Well, I've been a slacker lately, but with good reason. On June 2nd we found out at long last we are pregnant! Hooray, hoorah! But boy, my body knows it too! It seems like all I do is work and sleep so there's no time for scrapping or anything else at this point. I do seem to be waking up a bit more lately...not as sleepy...but pretty nauseated. Hopefully soon I'll feel better and ready to do my normal things again! We've already had blood tests to confirm and an ultrasound at my fertility doctor. My first OB appointment is on July 3rd. I can hardly wait!

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Nothing much to say. Been busy busy with the merger at work and life in general...I found time at some point to throw these together and since I'm archiving everything on here for my future reference...here they be.

Family Photos

I finally made another paper scrap! These photos were taken at Wal-mart when I was out in Indiana at the beginning of April. I just love them. I'm so happy we had them done as I'm sure they'll be something we'll treasure through the years. It's the first time I think any of us have been in a professional picture with my dad. So that was great.
Here's the details. Paper is We R Memory Keepers Hoopla collection. Ink is Colorbox Rose Petals. Random rub-ons and random acrylic stamp (together).
On other news...this weekend is conversion weekend for the bank I work at. Very stressful time, but kind of exciting too as we get to learn new things and offer new products. Should be interesting. It's also Memorial Day weekend! We're having a BBQ in a few hours here, so I really should get ready for that...

For a challenge...

Elena is hosting a great chat and challenge session over at the Memory Works forum. She gave us an ad and we were to construct a layout based on it. Here's the ad in case anyone wants to play along...haha.



Also, Megan's mom recently posted this on her blog...if anyone can help, we definitely appreciate it!

If we could ask a favor, those of you who are so inclined, could you look me up on Facebook (Vicki Nurnberger nurnberv@gmail.com) and look for the add on called "Fund my Phone". This is the phone that Megan has for emergencies and for texting her friends. We pay by the minute on there, and we have been using quite a few of mom and dad's minutes this month already. If you go there, they will ask you to view a couple ads. For every 4 ads watched, Megan earns a minute on her phone. It would be great, and she'll be able to use it for talking with her friends too.

Another chihuahua scrap...

My sister asked me to do another chihuahua page for her of her other new mama. How could I resist when she sent me such a cute photo? Kit is Cotton Candy by Mandy Mystiques.

On a sadder front, my niece, Megan, was diagnosed with leukemia on Friday (May 9th). She's being strong so far. She had a lumbar puncture done yesterday for her first round of chemo. I'm still in shock, as is the whole family. She lives in Minnesota, so I can't get to visit her quickly. We're hoping for July... Please keep her in your prayers...

California trip

So I just got back from California late Monday night. I had a great time with great friends and have over 1000 pictures to go through and thin out and then get to scrapping. But right now I'm just plain TIRED! I had to work Tuesday and Wednesday and today was my day off. I had hoped to sleep the day away, but my mom called at 9:30 and ruined that plan. We went shopping to get my husband something for his birthday...and I'm going to aerobics tonight so I'll be ready for bed when I'm done with that. So...here's a few of my favorite photos for now, I'm sure I'll be back to scrapping in no time...

More Pups

Just scrapping another picture of my sister's puppies. Nothing too exciting.
I have friends coming over this afternoon to scrapbook the day away. Can't wait!

Puppies, Puppies, Puppies!

My sister's a chihuahua breeder...she had 3 pregnant chihuahuas...now she has 3 mommas! Glory had one pup, Daisy had 6!! (sadly 1 died), and Mulan had 3. This is my first page of many I'm surely going to make for her. If you'd like to see pictures of the puppies individually, you can view my sisters website here.

April Calendar Page

I finally got to my April calendar page. I really really like this one. I got a great shot of my one flowering bush outside...and it just inspired me. It's such a beautiful day out right now considering it's supposed to be raining. I think that part is coming, unfortunately. The papers are from Piggy Tales, Gretel collection. And, I just noticed I have my dates a day off...sigh...I'll have to fix that soemhow.
My sister called a bit ago to tell me one of her chihuahuas is in labor. Unfortunately, it's not poor Daisy who looks like she's ready to pop...but Glory. I'm sure I'll be scrapping some puppy pages for her in the not too distant future.
I also did this layout today...boy I've been busy! This one is for a challenge on the Memory Works boards. It's always great when challenges get me motivated to actually do some paper scrapping! The challenge was to use yellow, hopefully I lived up to it...haha.

Megan & Grace

My darling nieces, Megan and Grace. They live in Minnesota, so I don't get to see them too often. I took these pictures while I was home in Indiana at the beginning of the month. God was smiling on our trips, and they just happened to coincide with each other. Always exciting when something unplanned works out so well. Hopefully we'll be able to plan a trip to meet up again like that soon.
In other news...in just over a week (April 29th) I'll be heading to California for a visit with my friends. They're traveling nurses. They just started doing that last fall. First they were in Texas, and I unfortunately didn't get to visit them there. This time they're in California, and I can't miss an opportunity like this. It worked out so well because her mom is going out to see them, but didn't really want to fly alone. I can't wait. VACATION!
Scrapping got cancelled this afternoon...but I went ahead and scrapped a bit anyways. I did this for a journaling challenge at Memory Works. They wanted us to focus on journaling in the layout. So I found this great picture of my grandma reading to us kids like she did pretty much every day and it all stemmed from there.

The paper is by Fancy Pants, rubon is Basic Grey and photo corners are American Crafts.