October pictures

A quick catch up of pictures from our October 2007... Of course I will have cute Halloween pictures to add soon! :)
Friends Trent, Jason, and Stephen all have birthdays within a few days of each other and even though it was the big 30 for Jason and Stephen they wanted a very low key evening, so we had games planned, but actually all we did was sit around and talk. It was nice. Jason's wife and my good friend Bethany made a cute cake and we fit 30 candles on it! Notice the flaming fire ball, center.

Beck absolutely LOVES Ketchup. It makes me quite sick to my stomach, but he is so cute when he "asks" for it. He points at the fridge and then points at his plate with his little grunt like noise, like "come on mom, I know there's Ketchup in there." He once tried it on cereal and I almost threw up, so I took it away and got to listen to screams and him hanging on the fridge for a while.

This is Beck's photo shoot for my dad's photo tie that we are gettin him for his birthday. The suit doesn't fit very well around Beck's midsection, but my dad loves pictures of Beck in his suit, so we had to squeeze him into it one more time. This is obviously not the picture that we used, but I coudln't resist his cheesy grin, so I stuck it in my blog. He is almost 21 months. My little man is growing up. This is Beck and his girl cousins, Piper, Hanna, and Alizah, here in Moses Lake at their primary program. He does have a lot more cousins, but these are the ones that he sees every day and that he is more than ready to say "Bye" to me and blow me a kiss if he knows that he gets to go with them.

Altoid Tin

Sommers, sorry this took so long to get to you. I had to borrow a camera, I cry every day since i lost mine!!! Argh! It was easier to blog it then send an e-mail, I'm still not to quick on the computer side of things..... Good Luck!! I took a class on how to make these from a gal named Tiffany at a scrapbook store called All 'Bout Scrappin that used to be here in Moses Lake, but I don't know her last name.... I changed it a bit and made it a month to month tin to see how Beck grew and changed each month. So that means that I added a lot more paper to the accordian fold and added quotes and things in between the pictures every now and then.

Use the old Altoid tin, some of the new ones have raised tops, you don't want that one. Measure your paper to the top, bottom, and sides of your tin, cut "templates" and then size accordingly. Using different coordination patterns for each. The inside template should be smaller and the top and bottom of the tin always seem to be different sizes, but it is quite easy to sand off any edges that are too big or hang off and you can't get it with scissors after you have already glues it down. Mod Podge (from Wal-Mart) the back of papers to glue onto tin. Mod Podge (glue) all papers on first, do not Mod Podge over top yet. Be careful when ModPodging sides and do not use too much, will rust the hinges on lid of tin in the back. You can scrape off extra ModPodge later.

Use (2) 12X12 papers for insert. Measure to fit inside and then fold accordion style, first in a long rectangle, you will round corners later to fit perfectly into the tin.
Glue one rectangle insert end to the other, this picture below shows a small hint of a line where papers connect, you can only use one 12 X 12 paper, but there won't be as many picture slots obviously.
Now use a corner rounder, if you don't have one get it at Wal-Mart, $3.88, use on the corners of folded accordion rectangle. It's easier to punch 2 edges at once.

Now you can "glue" Mod Podge in bottom of insert into bottom of tin if you want. Mine is not glued down, since i added pictures later, it was easier not to glue it down, so I could take it out o to work on it every month for Beck's new pic to be added.

Now there should be some "extra" paper that did not fit when you accordian folded your insert, this is where you make your tab, so that the pictures are easy to fold out and look at. I added a "tab pull." Now embelish the heck out of the little bugger and mod podge over top. Making sure to let dry before you close the lid or it will rust. Good luck Sommers and send for questions, these instructions are probably hard to understand!!!

ABC about Me

A-Attached or single: Attached
B- Best Friend: Stephen Ashton
C- Cake or Pie: Pumpkin Pie
D- Day of choice: Definitly Saturdays because Stephen is home and our family gets to spend all day together.
E- Essential Item: chapstick
F- Favorite Color: blue
G- Gummy Bears or Worms: neither unless they are the cour gummy worms
H- Hometown: Burley Idaho
I- Indulgence(s): hot baths, book reading, scrapbook night
J- January or July: July
K- Kid(s): Beck Nephi Ashton, 20 months, baby #2 due in April
L- Life is Incomplete Without: Beck and Stephen and bacon
M- Marriage Date: October 10, 2003
N- Number of Siblings: 5
O- Oranges or Apples: Oranges, that someone else peeled and removed all the yucky white stuff from
P- Phobias or Fears: Spiders... enough said
Q- Quote(s): I hope you dance....
R- Reason To Smile: knowing I get to take a nap
S- Season: Winter, Christmas is my favorite, family and friends, and well, I really like presents.
T- Tag Three +: Jakobi, Jenn, and Sommers (This means that you have to do this) (Sommers, I lost my camers, but I am going to borrow one to show you how to make the altoid tin) :)
U- Unknown Fact About Me: I had a toe nail removed 3 years ago and it still grows with a big crack in it
V- Vegetarian or Meat Eater: Meat, bacon is my favorite food
W- Worst Habit: chapstick
X-Rays or Ultrasounds: Ultrasounds , what's so grat about an X-ray, unless I guess you are an X-ray technician, but it usually only means you have to wear a cast...
Y- Your Favorite Food: bacon and cookie dough, not together of course. You can imagine what my cholesterol is
Z- Zodiac: Leo

I am domesticated...

I never cease to amaze myself..... Well, until I wake up and smell the Mountain Dew.... just kidding. Anyways, today we went to Tri-cities. Stephen had an appointment and I tagged along because I wanted to buy a pair of "nice, dress pants." It's a rule now that we don't get to wear jeans to teach at the school. I totally agree with it, but it just kind of sucks that I am 4 months pregnant and the only pants that fit happen to be a pair of jeans. :) Anyways before I drag on and on, I tried on about 25 pairs of "slacks" at 2 different stores and every single one of them were too long, except for the pair of shorts that were like slacks that I thought were cute, but Stephen informed me that they were "butt ugly." Anyways, normally I just wouldn't have gotten a pair, but I thought to myself, "hey, I made my own applesauce and I just scrapbooked the other night until 5 in the morning, heck, man, I can hem a pair of pants." And woola! (Is that a word or even close ot correct spelling?) I hemmed my very own pants! Don't look too closely, I ran out of black thread and used brown on half, I still can't figure out how to put more thread on the bobbin using the machine instead of doing it by hand. But if I say so myself, they don't look half bad, well, at least they are the same length!

Anniversary

Today Stephen and I have been married for 4 years!!! Wow! I know that people say it all the time, but it really has gone by fast. To think that we have known each other for 4 years and 4 months and trying to go back and think about how it was before without him in my life isn't even possible. Without being all lovey dovey, it just seems as though that part of my life doesn't even exist. So, it's either the euphoria of being happily married or a declining memory, but it sure does feel as though this is the only life that I have ever known!

I fixed it, I fixed it!

I am amazing, I tell you. There are some days when I think to myself, "Korbi, did you really just say or do that?" Then their are other days when I think, "Yeah, I could go to grad school..." Then I realize that it took me 3 years, a stint living abroad, and 4 colleges later to get an associates degree. My problem is is that I want whatever I can't figure out to be solved now, and I want it to be a click away, I don't want to have to search for the answer, and I don't want to have to wait for someone to find it for me. I want it done and finished and fixed NOW! But this time, I found the problem to my little "won't show all my friends and family's blog links at the same time" problem and I did it myself! Wow, I never cease to amaze myself, then I burn the mac and cheese.....

HELP!!!

Someone please help me! I keep trying to add people's blogs to my blog and only one will show up on my actual blog page, how do I get them all to show up? Hmmm... Technology, what a mystery to me....

Making applesauce

Today was looooonnnnnggg! First we planted about 200 bulbs, then Stephen had to go on an appointment and I finished and made a small retaining wall on the side of the garage for some of my special "Queen of the the Night" black tulips. Then I planted a bunch of hyacinths and by the time we got inside it was 3 pm and Beck was READY for his nap! While he slept I made applesauce and then canned it. Not the first time, the 2nd time, but this was the first time by myself! Stephen bought a box a fujis, I felt like I worked forever and I only got 4 jars, 2 hydrators filled with apples, that I don't even get to try for another 6 hours. Poor Beck woke up after an hour nap and just followed me around the kitchen whining as I was covered with sticky apple juice, so I couldn't pick him up for a while. Then I made enchiladas and stuck them in the freezer for Monday. What did we have for dinner tonight? Just chips and salsa, I got so into the applesauce and enchiladas it was 8pm before I finished. And now it's 11 Pm and I am creating a blog, someone stop me....

Beginning

In the beginning there was a girl, a girl who knew how to send e-mails, but didn't know how to attach pictures, thought that MySpace was the space that surrounded your body, as in a space bubble, and then for her birthday her husband got her the internet! And it all began....