Project 365... and a Scrapbook Page

Sept 2, 09 - The reason I can not get Jaemen to let go of the passie... Cause I am thinking we have probably taken out stock in Playtex. He finds them everywhere. But this is a common sight in our household one in his mouth and him playing with two-four others...

Sept 3

Sept 4thThen... I think I have fallen in love with 8.5 x 11 pages.. Which isnt cool since I just bought his 12 x12 album. But I think I am just going to inter-mix them since the smaller ones fit too.. Tell me what you think?? And dont you just miss that little face??

Until next time

Karidan

While the cats away...

the mouse will play.. haha yeah right..

Well with Sherrow here... that usually means I scrap a lot more because we are not watching tv together or just spending a little quiet time with each other. This time has been no different. Although I have not got a whole bunch done I plan to! Thanks to my Dad and Maryanne, I was able to get a lot of supplies from one of my favorite scrappin stores and here are just a few pages I have made from them so far.

I LOVE this page!! It is soo cute and I know I said I was done with his baby book but I will probably forever add to it.

And this is one of those pages I will talk about that doesnt have a home.

I also have a now a couple of pages waiting for a home since I do not have an album for Jaemen's pages from 1-->2 years old. Yes now it is really setting in that I am about a year behind BUT I got a whole book done, a whole year accomplished. And I am soo happy for that since I have never finished a book yet. But this wont be for long since I ordered THIS and it should be on its way. These albums are going to help me be able to display them on a shelf in the living room or something so that I am not the only one. I am getting the same books as this picture and I love the look of this for display(although mine are leather not fabric). I am hoping to get every color of these albums and two in each since I hope someday that I get so many layouts that I can fill more then one. But for right now just one in every color a different year in each color.

I know that I have not posted Jaemen's halloween experiences BUT he has an awesome costume and NOBODY better steal it.. Haha just joking. But for real I am just waiting for a little closer plus I didnt get the best of pictures of him. He has another escapade here on Oct. 3rd... So we will see..

Lastly, I am going to do my darnest to bring back the Project 365... I know I have not been taking any pictures and honestly I think it is a little much for some one that works. Maybe great for someone that is a stay at home momma like Jennifer... She has done awesome for two years in a row... Go check out her blog it is awsome and I would love to have those results but I am thinking next year Project 52... A picture a week...

And to prove it here is September 1st's Picture.. This is a picture of the AWESOME lamps I got today at Target thanks to my mom for my Bday. I got two for each side now we just got to get the bed off the floor with a frame and a bracket for the tv to put on the wall and two nightstands and the room with be complete. Oh I also need to take a picture for the wall behind the door that I have been wanting to take.

Until Later

-Karidan

So Sorry...

So a lot has happened since the last post...
1. I was in another accident.. Everyone was ok but the car did not make it
2. We have bought a new car... 2004 Grand Am... and LOVING IT!!!
3. Sherrow had a family reunion
4. The internet was down for almost a week
5. Jaemen had a temperature of between 102-104 through the whole week of the fourth
and last but not happy to report...
6. Project 365 has taken a major hit.

So I guess let's recap a little more in detail on each one of those.

1. So the day of my mother's side graduation open house/party. I was traveling to go and get Sherrow from work and was in an accident. It was pretty bad but everyone (Jaemen and I) made it through. I suffered pretty bad the next day considering I turned the car so I was take the blunt of the accident and not Jaemen. I suffered also on the emotional side for a little. I had a lot of guilt about having JJ in the car and not being more careful.. About smashing another vehicle and no this one was not quite paid off. But after a late night breakdown Sherrow and I conquerred all of my feelings since I held them in until now and I had to see through all of it.

2. The accident was on the 6th and drove off in a car I think 18 days later. I am very happy that we could bounce back from the accident and not take as big of a hit as I thought we were going to take. We went from a 1996 Bonneville to a 2004 Grand Am and only increased our payment by $50.. We have been wanting something more but I definetly didnt want to smash one to get the other. But we came out on top and are very proud of ourselves.

3. Sherrow had a nice family reunion over the fourth. Unfortunely, Jaemen was not feeling his best and could not enjoy the beautiful beach at Seven Lakes State park. (which is very far out) Flint did not have fireworks this year due to the recession so we just enjoyed a few back at his sisters house. Also due to the fact I had a sick child in my arms the whole day I only have one picture and I didnt even take it.. But at least it is of our family.. You can tell that JJ was not feeling it.

4. Not much more to say the laptop was acting up and no internet.

5. On the 3rd when I went to put Jaemen to sleep I noticed that he was a little warm but nothing serious. So I went to check on him about two hours later and low and behold he was burning up at that time I think it was 102.4. So gave him some tylenol and hoped he would wake up and be better. NOPE... about 4 o clock I woke up again and he was still burning up this time it was 103.1. Long story short... Everytime the dang tylenol would wear off his temp would be right back up in the 103's. He didnt eat anything other then one helping of applesauce and one juice. I knew then something was up. So the next morning I took him to the clinic and there you go he has a throat infection. This poor kid just got over pink eye.. oh yeah I guess I should have put that in the list too.

6. Well sad news.. at least to me. Project 365 has taken a major hit in June. I thought ok Karidan just bounce back in July and yeah I think I have only taken 3 pictures of the past 7 days. It will be ok I will get back to it. And hopefully pack to blogging more also.

Meagen also just came to see us for an hour. I am soooo excited they might (fingers are crossed) be moving back to Michigan. I CAN NOT wait to hear if Mike gets the job.. But while she was her she was more the kind enough to TRY (key word) to get some pictures of us together. It really didnt work. Jaemen still wasnt feeling the best and Sherrow WOW Sherrow was giving the craziest faces ever. I should post them just to embarrass him so he wont do it again even though he claims he didnt know these were serious pictures. WOW... anyways here is the best and ONLY picture I can pull from the batch...

Well I will try to be more on top of the blog now that the internet is back up...

Karidan

Project 365 Marches on...

May 17, 2009

My mom, Jaemen, and I took a trip for the first time down to Canton, Mich to visit the IKEA store!! It was everything I thought it was going to be!! I LOVED IT!! I was on my way for two tables for my scraproom that is currently being revamped even though it was never really "vamped"

May 18, 2009

My Camera is BACK!! All nice and cleaned and FIXED!! Oh I also had to give JJ a hug because it wasn't his fault.. I guess they are having a lot of problems with the AF censors!!

May 19, 2009

When we went to IKEA I picked up these rods that are normally used for hanging kitchen ultencils but I am using it for my own "Clip up"!! Now I can see everything that I have!! I have two of them right beside each other, one will hold all my stickers and rubons and the other will have all bigger embellies and clear stamps...

May 20, 2009
Went over to Grandpa and Grandma Chapman's last night... Great day just to sit out and play with the camera! Not a very good shot but this is JJ showing me that he has something on his hands with he hates!!

Lastly, I have done two more layouts for JJ's Baby Book almost done and I should finish it up tonight when JJ goes to bed!!! Here you go!!

Update (107/365)

WHERE DO I START??

Well lets start at some cool news!! I have been picked to design for a digital scrapbook designer. Now that I dont have school (well in a week) I will have time to do some of the things that I love. What this entails for me to do is turn in a layout per kit that she designs (will try to do at least two for her) and for me to post those layouts in the galleries that I already do post plus her store ahhscrap.com. You will see her blinkie to the right and below to go to her blog and see all of her designs. Felicia is a great designer so please go and check her out if you are interested. ****OK so I just want people to know that I didnt think my dad would want to go her store but I guess he is interested soooo click above DAD!! LOVE YOU!!****

But that is pretty exciting... So watch for some layouts to come!!!

Next, Jaemen going to the hospital. I am still getting asked what happened so I guess I will go through the whole 24 hours that we were in the hospital. Well it first started out that night after I put him to bed. But let me remind him that he was perfect ate a whole dinner and everything. At about 10 pm though I had a feeling something was wrong since he wasn't sleeping well at all. He was waking up about every 30 minutes... finally about 3 am I pulled him into our bed with us and he was crying like he was in pain and a little bit of agony. I thought maybe an ear infection so I gave him a little bit of Tylenol. Waited for that to work and 3o minutes later he was still crying and now screaming at times. I was getting pretty worried so I work Sherrow up and asked him if he had went to the bathroom that day and he said no. So now I am really thinking a belly ache plus now I can hear his little tummy bubbling. I finally get him to practically pass out with us at about 6:30. He woke up with me at 9 but still he was moaning and whining all the way through those three hours. At nine I got him some gas X for babies and then went to store for some Prune juice and left for work telling Sherrow to call me if he thinks it is getting worse. Sure enough like an hour into work he text me telling me he is really screaming and still hasnt even walked a step. (very unusual for our on the go little boy) So I called the doctor and they said get him to the ER now. So we get there and they were telling us it sounded like Appendicitis, which is completely scary. So they ordered labs, X-rays, and ultrasounds to check. As we were coming back from x-rays they were telling me the labs did not come back good and we met the pediatrician surgeon that was called in for my child. That is scary. And she felt him and told us she didnt think it was appendicitis but something was wrong still and it could be that his bowels were retracting into themselves causing a lot of irritation. So he got a barium ***enima*** (Sorry spell checker changed it he is not anemic, I have also linked it if you dont know what the poor little guy had to go through***where we good see all of his intestines and after this happened we were admitted for the night. It was so sad to see my little boy so out of it. But it was like something just clicked and he came back to life. We were so excited that he had stopped crying and it seemed like everything was better. So we were discharged the next day with the doctors not really knowing what happened because they didnt find anything during the anemia but they said that it might have not been happening at that time and the anemia fixed it. Whatever it was the anemia fixed it he might have just needed to be flushed out. He has been ordered to eat more fruit and veggies but that is pretty hard we have resorted back to baby food fruit cause he wont eat real fruit and he only eats peas. Oh and LOTS and LOTS of water. (which he gets a lot anyways so that didnt matter) So all in all he is fine and thanks to every one that gave him your prayers and to my dad and maryanne for bringing up the great calzone ever since I didnt get to eat until like 7 that night.

I have updated Shuttercal with pictures. Lately it has been getting pretty hard to find something to take a picture of but hopefully after this little last hump of school I will have time to actually think about it and get a little more creative. Because I have hit the 100th day of Project 365 and I think that is something that I have made it that far. Sherrow asked me the other day, "Have you been taking pictures everyday or have you fallen off?" I was like "Heck no!! I am on top of it!!"

On the school front, I have a final on Monday along with my poster presentation. I also have a paper due (which I knocked out today) and 3 lab report to wrap up on Sunday. Then just my final Analytical lab report for my mini project and I WILL BE DONE!! YEAHH!!!

At last, I am going to leave your with a picture of Sherrow at the casino with his winnings for his first time at the blackjack table. I didnt take my camera (i know, I know) but Sherrow wanted me to just leave it at home so I could just have fun and not worry about pictures. BUT I did was like oh man I wish I had my CAMERA!! So I just took pictures with my Camera phone like I did with Jaemen in the hospital.

Karidan

Day 81-85

I just wanted to post some pictures from this week couple of things going on around here in the Jackson/Chapman Household..

First Day 81... I never thought a load of laundry getting washed would make me so happy, but when you havent had a washer/dryer since July then you would know what I meant! It did take a little work though.. First the store didnt have any washers or dryers and then we had to wait until the next day to get them delivered since Sherrow didnt want to break his back... then once we got them all hooked up the sewer lines in the basement were all clogged so I had sewage backing up in the basement. Next came the sewer cleaners and bleaching the basement down... But at last we are getting to the very last load of laundry that had piled up..

Day 83.. I got my hair done!! I love when I can get my hair done . It is red underneath looks really good I love it!!

By the way Jaemen is the worst helper when it comes to laundry he just throws everything out of the baskets and makes a huge MESS!!!

Day 84... Didnt have much to take a picture of... so me and Jaemen took a picture in front of the NEW curtains that I havent taken a picture of because I want to get the wall accents finished first plus they need to be hemed...

Day 85... I GOT GLASSES!! I can see. I have needed these for a while now. Awhile back I got a HORRIBLE eye infection and that was the end of contacts and was never able to get glasses so now that I have my insurance back, I got glasses now Sherrow is the next one.

This is also a picture of HURRICANE Jackson if the gate happens to be down when he gets up from a nap or in the morning this is what is going to happen 99% of the time. I will find Scooters whole water bowl completly filled with dog food...

Thats all for now...

Karidan

St. Patty's Day (77/365)

Well both me and Sherrow had to work so Jaemen spent the majority of the day with Granny but when we did go get him we went to Buffalo Wild Wings for 60 cent wing night!!! And then we played outside.. Jaemen is loving be able to just run.. run.. and RUN some more...

I am really still getting used to my camera and I just found this awesome site, Borrowlenses.com (Meagen check it out) It lets you borrow lenses. So you can see how you like them before buying them!! I am soo going to try this when school is out!! I have been looking into possibly getting this lens in the far future so this might help my decision.

Here a few pictures and a comparison (meagen has been asking for this)

This is his new thing... He just goes around saying Oooooo....

And now that he is walking he wants to do a lot himself like going up and down stairs... (rusty cage action kinda cool)

This picture I didnt know if I liked it better in color or in B&W but for once I think COLOR...

And look at this one year later.. Jaemens little hair wasnt even curling and now he has a little fro. He looks so much more grown up and I CANT get him to smile for the camera anymore where it used to be so EASY!!! Now he smiles as soon as the darn shutter closes!!!

Until next time.. Photo of the day for today will come later went to the Space Research building at the University of Michigan.. (not very interesting picture just the pic of the sign) but I went there to see this...

Analytical Electron Microscope

Until next time!!

~Karidan

Photo-A-Day 46/365

I do want to start posting more of my Pictures from Photo-A-Day!!! I am hoping to get in 2-3 a week so you guys arent just seeing the layouts. Mentioning the Layouts I finally had January printed off and I am soo happy with them. I cant wait to get more done over Spring Break. But here is my Picture from today....

Jaemen always plays behind my chair (when he is being good) when I am doing Homework so cute and the pictures actually are kinda cool from the geometry of the wall...

Hope everyone had a great V-Day!!!

Karidan

MY 100th Post!!!

Ok... so the first project that I tried did not go very well BUT BUT BUT I am going to try a new one called Project 365!!! This consist taking a picture everyday (yes Everyday)... And then scraping them each week... I am going to digitally scrap these cause it will be easy and then I plan on printing them off at Shutterfly (little expensive $54), Snapfish, or another solution that I can find that is a little cheaper!! I might just print them off monthly to spread the cost over the year! I will have to see!!! I figure this is a great time to start this things are settling down here with Jaemen not be an infant and all. Actually not sure why I just said that!! He is walking and all over the place. haha but he is learning soo much these days. Anyways.... I will be posting here a lot if I can keep up with this. I am looking into a site to hold all the pictures and to feature them here on the blog.. it might be flickr or something like that I havent quite found what I am looking for yet. Oh and it isnt always going to be of jaemen yes it might be of random things in our lives to document it. (so that means yes dad maybe of FOOD) And like todays I am documenting Sherrow and I's very quite New years eve. We spent it together, Jaemen was knocked out by 10 and we played cards and Dominoes.

So wish me luck with this journey and yes some might be thinking that I am crazy but hey I am going to try...

Oh and I had the twins on New years Eve day and have some pictures to show.. My little boy is just the sweetest thing SOMETIMES... when he isnt yanking out the twins pacifers and he doesnt do it nicely... he does love giving kisses though..

Ok we wont let them do it for to much longer I know they are boys but it is soo cute right now!! and when they are at each others throats later I will show them these!!!

Ok Lets see how I do.... Oh and if the going gets tough I will be happy with 5 out of 7!!! But that can only happen when back in school which starts on Monday yuck!! LAST hard Semester YES!!! Since I did past all classes and GOT ALL B'S!! yeah!!

Karidan