Thursday December 17th

We had a busy day today, even though Becca was not feeling well, She has a little cold and I do hope it get better soon! we have a weekend packed with activities! reminder to e charge the camera battery! another do not forget to put the bucket of white wine sangria in the freezer.

This past few weeks have gone by way to fast! I miss not having the time to scrapbok! and hopefully January will be my time to do so! not ready t think about new years, but I am very excited to spend time with my family at x-mas! We get together every other year and tis year should be lots of fun! The girls are very excited to spend time with my family as well, specially playing with their cousins! We do have a holiday party tomorrow night, I do hope it turns out to be a fun night for us, because there is always that "element" that I am not looking forward to deal with, hopefully our "mutual friends" will be friends but you just never know!

Today was a good day!

First of all the week feels like it just flew by! I went to see a movie with a friend, feels good to see and hang out with friends, ladies that you know you will have a good time with, were you can enjoy a good movie and just laugh and talk did I mention it was a good movie? the title is "The Blind Side" great movie did I mention it was great! it made me laugh and cry that is a good movie to me! Today was also a tough day with the kiddos, I had them clean up and give up some of their toys, the llama drama with the negotiations was something else! the deal was for every one you choose to keep another has to be chosen to be given up. It worked for one of the kids but not the other, after some crying and explanations we finally and successfully went through all the cute and cuddly toys and kept half of the original amount while the other half is to be given away! They did a good deed today! Tomorrow they get to go on a train ride with Santa!

A beautiful day!

OK to tired to blog but here it goes!
We had a nice day spent cleaning and getting ready to welcome the x-mas tree, the girls are so excited but they have to wait until Sunday for the tree. (is the only time daddy can help!)
Becca had a fun play date with her friend Kaiolena, and this gave me a little free time to catch up on some much needed cleaning ( I also worked a bit on organizing scrapbook area!) at night we went to downtown Oceanside for the nighttime farmers market and the Christmas tree lighting ceremony ( this is a fun event for the family, they had the marine band playing some great holiday music, arts & crafts, cookies and milk for the kids and Santa arrived on a firetruck to the delight and squeal of all the children! then he turn on the Christmas lights!) we took some pictures and wonder about the various vendors! found some yummy food to eat! the corn on the stick my favorite! the girls had so much fun dancing and very tired by the time we got home!

Happy happy Thanksgiving!

To all my friends have a happy thanksgiving and enjoy your turkey day!

Tuesday Update

Today Grandma Lorri, Aunti Janna and I took the girls to the Discovery Museum in Marin County, It was a beautiful day and perfect to be outside. The museum is located in some old army barracks and is set up indoors and out, their gardens are so pretty and set up in a way that is so child friendly and whimsical.You also get an incredible view of the golden gate bridge! will post picture when I have a chance! The traffic coming back was a bit heavy but once we got home we had a nice dinner! Lamb chops and some of the best I had from Costco & Yaya's Marinade!

Monday News!

We are here! were in beautiful Sonoma! the girls are having a great time with their grandparents and aunti Janna., I am too! I do love how green it is here and driving by all the beatiful vinyards, and the color of the leaves or I should say the way the leaves are changing colors! will try to post some pictures later! time to go eat yummy!

Veteran's Day

I had a fun day scrapbooking with my girlfriend Connie, I only finished a few pages but it was still a fun day! my little one had a fun playdate and so did I! The rest of the month of October flew by me! we did have some fun times!

October 8, 2009

It has been almost a month since my last post!
A lot has happen, like the weather finally changing to fall! there is an actual chill in the air! I still want to make it to the beach and take some more late fall sunset pictures! will try this weekend!
I am looking forward to "Survivor Crop" It is the 8th annual survivor crop for the cure a 24 hour scrapbook marathon. All proceeds benefit Susan G. Komen for the cure here is the website if you would like to lear more about it. http://www.scrapbooks.info/ and here is my personal website to accept donations towards Susan G. Komen for the cure http://sandiego.info.komen.org/goto/egjkaufman any donation would be appriciated! and this is one of the funnest events for us scrapbookers! it is full of fun and scrapbooking! need to go and prepare if thre is such a thing! I just enjoy to scrapbook!

We will never forget!

Sometimes time does fly by!

I can not believe today is September 10th! note to self call sister and say happy birthday! Today is also our first wedding anniversary! I am lucky to have 2! since our civil wedding and our wedding were on two separate days! It was such an intimate affair and had so much fun at the civil ceremony 8 years ago today! and also on our wedding day on September 15! will try to post some video! maybe later!

Also Madeline started school and she just loves it. Becca is home with me and sometimes feels a bit bored doing house chores. I do try to have some playdates for her but I guess not enough of them! Note to self try to work on more playdates for Becca!

Back in sunny Oceanside!

We drove all night! left Sonoma at 9pm and we were home by 5am I drove the first 350 miles! now just trying to catch up and do some laundry! does it ever end? It was a good family weekend!, sad but good!

Friday Night

I must admit I am not very good at blogging! But I am trying!
Tonight I got to scrapbook some more with my friends and we had a fun night!
I finished an album I wanted to get done before the weekend!
We are traveling up north to say farewell to my husbands brother Benjamin, he was a funny guy who was love very much by his family, friends and my girls!

Oceanside Nice!

I am a bit tired today, did not get much sleep last night from scrapbooking! and had so much fun, I really enjoyed the beauty of Oceanside today, the weather, the trees and being able to see the ocean. I will probably be up tonight scrapbooking also! and catch up on my sleep tomorrow! did some great pages! and had fun with my friends Marylinn and Grace, also Marylinn daughter Hanna join in the fun! and Madeline created a couple of fun scrapbooks herself! it is so fun to see kids do art with little to no boundaries! (except I was jut not ready to share my plethora of scrapbooking supplies! note to self buy her, her own scrapbook supplies!) my favorite store in Vista, Everafter is having a huge garage sale this month I will take her to that to pick up some items for her!

I wanted to share some pages I have done....

I was very excited about being able to create this album for my mother in law about her son's wedding. The commitment ceremony of Benjamin Kaufman & Joyce Calderon it was a fun day for all, the weather was great, the ceremony was beautiful, the cake was yummy and we had a good time with family and friends. and here are some of the pages! tada! can't have a blog titled scrap with no scrapbooking involved!

This month has just gone by way to fast!

I was checking google reader and realized I have not blogged in almost 3 weeks!
Yikes! were has all that time gone! I can tell you that Oceanside has finally reached the summer temperature we like. That my girls like! we have had some fun weeks in summer camps, and swimming lessons, and now that my hair is dry we need a break and will pick up those lessons back in August. I need to start buying school uniforms again!
Something sad happened this week, my girls told me to get rid of their Dora underwear! no more Dora! they are just to old for it I guess! I wonder if the toys will be gone next? that makes me sad! I am thinking they are just to young to be done with Dora, or maybe I am just not ready for them to grow up! I am having a fun summer with them! I love them and thanks to Daddy I can do that! Thanks honey you are the best! love me!

Happy 4th of July 2009!

It is late and I am getting ready to go to sleep! looking forward to tomorrow when I will get to do some scrapbooking yeah!

We had a fun 4th, we baked cupcakes, we went to the Murphy's house for a fun family BBQ, My dad and Yolanda were there as well as my brother and his family, my cousins and ant, the kids had a great time, the food was yummy (We did miss my husband who sadly was not there!)

We left the Murphy's house in Encinitas by 8 pm to meet our neighbours in vista to see the fireworks, and just as the fireworks started my hubby showed up the girls were so happy to see their father, as well as I was. This was the first

time in 4 years were we have all been together and actually got to watch the fireworks! and guess what happened! MY CAMERA BATTERY DIED! SO SAD! I TOOK ONE PICTURE OF THE FIREWORKS THAT IS IT! AND NOW I AM THINKING IT WAS BLURRY! but it was a wonderful time had by all! and the only family picture I will have this year of this holiday was taken by a blackberry!

Fun weekend at CKC Pasadena

Today I just had to post on the fun weekend I had with my girlfriends at CKC Pasadena.
Considering the title of my blog has the word "Scrap" which means I love to scrapbook and I would like to eventually add some pictures of some of my work, but have not had time! and I need more time! with that said I hope to be able to scrap soon!

We had some much fun at CKC Pasadena, took some classes learn new techniques, some which I will not even attempt to try again, but the goody bag had enough product to make a whole album! so I want to get started with making some! I also like to create albums for family and friends, I have way to many unfinished projects that I need to do soon!

It is summer and the kids can play outside while I can bring my things down to the garage and try to get some of my creative thoughts out on paper!

This weekend is fathers day and with that I would like to say happy fathers day to my dad! love you and see you next week! and to my hubby you are a fun dad! and the kids just love you!

Elena

Happy Monday!

It is now monday night and the girls are sleep, and my hubby is still working!

This was a tough weekend for me and also a fun weekend! My girlfriends baby shower was this weekend in Simi Valley we were up at 5:30 am or I was, the rest of the family was in the car by 7 am. The baby shower was held at her local country club, Her friend Barbara did an amazing job and I was her helper and it turn out great. Will try to post pictures this weekend, my kids had a fun time with their dad.
After the shower we drove to Paso Robles for my husbands brothers wedding held sunday at 1pm. it turn out to be a beautiful day with the family and then we drove back to oceanside that night.
What I mean by tough is that prior to this weekend events I have been working hard getting ready for them and fighting a cold, the emotional toll of it all the back and forth between me and some of my friends and family got to me and on sunday night driving back from Paso Robles this cold really hit me and I spent most of my monday in bed! need to call the tomorrow! there is just to much to do and I can't be sick.

Rae Gun: Giveaway: Citrus Summer Ruffle Diaper

Rae Gun: Giveaway: Citrus Summer Ruffle Diaper

Sunday Night Surprise!

I almost forgot! when I got home Sunday night, there on the kitchen table was the mail and an envelope for me from Creative Cafe ! I won one of their sweepstakes they have on their blog for us readers! and it was to cute! 3 bottles of their new glitter glue in great colors pink, blue, green and some fun glitter green brads I can not wait to use on a page! I am going to try and scrap this weekend! and add the photos here!

HAPPY TO BE HOME!

Last Wednesday the girls and I left for a road trip across California (well we actually went north from Oceanside to Sonoma about 495 miles!) The good thing my girls are good travelers. It also helped that we got one of those portable DVD players, so they watched movies on the way up.

Once we got to Sonoma we had a fun time! On Thursday we went to the new museum in San Francisco with anti Janna, my kids really enjoyed looking at the albino alligator. I personally do not know what was more interesting the alligator or the enclosure. It truly looked like a swamp a fancy one (Something Fancy Nancy would say!) he had mist and trees, lots of fish and turtles to keep him company. All the other exhibits were just as fascinating to see also! there were lots of rare fish and jelly fish too!

On Friday we drove another 85 miles to Ukiah and got to spend some fun times with Grandma Lynette, it was a beautiful drive, lots of wineries on the way I wanted to stop, instead I just took some pictures. The girls were happy to see their grandma and not to happy that we could not stay longer! we will try to go back to Clear Lake this summer!

Saturday the girls played with the new fun toys yaya surprised them with (arts and crafts! give a child a crayon and they are so very happy!) and then we spend the rest of the afternoon at the park in Sonoma playing and watching the ducks and the people. kids and parks they go very well together! we then had a nice dinner with the family!

Sunday after breakfast we drove home! we had a short drive at the Golden Gate Bridge and took some photos there, we also had a chance to stop by Anti June's house and got to see June & Jeff and the cousins (Kenny, Shelly and Kayla also Vicky and Amanda and just when we got there Lori Alyssa and Blake) for a little bit. Then we were home safe and sound by 10 p.m. Sunday night! and yes so glad to be home! in hot sunny Oceanside.

It is saturday afternoon, and I am getting ready to go scrapbooking with our friends tonight! I am looking forward to it. Will post pictures pictures as soon as i figure it out.

I have decided to try this! why? I did ask myself that!
hopefully to be able to get better at writing about our life and to help me remember for those times when I find myself scrap booking in the middle of the night or sometimes after 3 a.m. and my brain goes blank! but that those not mean I stop! I just keep going! one more page!

Next thing I know is 5 a.m. and time to go home and get a few hours of sleep before the kids wake up, wanting food! you would think that times like this I would just give them a bowl of cereal and call it a day! no not me! the weekend is time for coco's type of big breakfast!

the whole nine yards, eggs, pancakes, hash browns, bacon, fruit plate and juice. The weekends are the only days I cook a big breakfast the weekdays is all about cereal, fruit shakes, fruit.

till next time......