Laura Vegas

was informed last night by deneen that i need to update my blog! lol! so thought i’d give you some tidbits to tide you over. i have my challenge for the mm idol contest … but can’t share until tomorrow. voting goes back up in the morning with all our new designs … so keep your eyes out for that! in the meantime . . .

• expo was fun. did a little shopping. didn’t really spend that much. got some new making memories of course, a pack of new basic grey, pack of white bazzill cardstock (running out of the 100 sheets i had gotten before dina’s store closed), and just a few other random things. the class was fun …  a cute little tag album by rusty pickle. fun to get out though and talk lots of "scrap-talk".
• spend 7 hours yesterday at the softball field. started at the crack of dawn (well really it was 9:30 … but that’s pretty early). spend about 15 minutes just trying to find somewhere to park. walked a super long way to get there once we did park. got sarah to her team and they didn’t have her uniform … so had to track it down at their house. then had opening ceremonies … then a 45 minutes gap … then team pictures … then a 45 minutes gap … then their first game. wasn’t enough time in between to run home or do anything … so we just hung out there all day. all in all … 7 hours … in 84 degree weather! and my first sunburn on the year to go with it!
• got home after softball and had enough time to pack up my computer and a few things … and headed over to dina’s for a crop. i never scrap on the go … i just can’t pack up and know that i have what i need to scrap. partly because i never know what it is i need! lol! so i figured i’d just bring my laptop and work on all the pictures i have piled up from the last 3 months. and i did. everything from january thru march is edited, loaded on winkflash in case any friends or family want them, organized in folders, and saved on my external harddrive. feels good to have a fresh "photo-slate"! lol!
• i had sarah with me last night at dina’s and by the time we got home it was almost 1:00 am. sarah was wanting to spend the night … made me drive home to get her pjs … and then changed her mind. lol! her and tawny were having so much fun … and tawny was being the biggest goofball. but then i think the day caught up to them (remember … 7 hours on the field) … and they just crashed!
• had to get up at the crack of dawn again today … and pick alyssa up from a sleepover birthday party she was at. then get her back here and ready for soccer. luckily her dad drove out to take her … because sarah was being the worst stinker this morning (partly her being extra tired, party just being herself). i finally left her with joe … who agreed to hold off on going to bed since he worked last night … so that i could go watch alyssa play for a while. they were scrimmaging against these 11 year olds … although they looked huge!
• got back from soccer … made sarah lunch … started some laundry … and finally got around to working on my challenge for MM idol. i cannot believe i got it done that late. i know it’s not due until midnight … but i hate to wait till the last minute since you never know what could go wrong. lol! and i had the design all in my head … just took me a while to get it all figured out and looking like what i had planned. can’t wait to show you in the morning.

and that’s pretty much been my weekend. i’m sitting here and it’s almost 5:00. i’m beat tired since i havn’t slept good the last few nights (even with the sleeping pills! lol!). i have no idea what’s for dinner. i havn’t done any housecleaning. and i have one heck of a week ahead of me. oh yeah … i never blogged about that, did i? just to humor myself … let’s go over my week.

• monday:   daycare kids (just 2 + my 2) from about 8:30 – 4:00 … sarah softball practice from 5:00 – 7:00.
• tuesday:   daycare kids from 7:00 – 6:00 (5 total + my 2) … alyssa soccer practice from 5:00 – 7:00
• wednesday:   daycare kids from 7:00 – 5:00 (4 total + my 2) … all 4 older girls get out of school after lunch … joe umpires the high school baseball at 4:00 … sarah has softball game from about 5:00 – 7:00 … alyssa has choir and awana from 5:30 – 8:00 (which sarah has to skip for her game)
• thursday:   daycare kids from 7:00 – 5:00 (6 total + my 2) … all 4 older girls are going off track so they get out after lunch … joe has umpiring at 4:00 … alyssa has soccer practice from 5:00 – 7:00
• friday:   daycare kids from 7:00 – 5:00 (5 total + my 2) … older girls are off track so that means i now have 4 extra girls bugging me all day) … joe umpires at 4:00 … sarah has a softball game from about 5:00 – 7:o0 … alyssa has to go to her dads.

i’m sure there’s something i’m forgetting. and i know i shouldn’t complain … since i know others do it all the time … and some have more kids to get places. but i’m really dreading this. i’m still exhausted from last week … and i havn’t had time to even chill this weekend. as soon as i saw our schedule i was just totally overwhelmed … i’m not one who likes to be that overly-busy. i know it’s for the kids … but i do need some down-time in there too!

well … enough boring you. you can blame this all on deneen since she told me i had to update! don’t think she knew what she was in for! lol!