in the PALM of MY HAND~

I can't even tell you how long we have been looking for a Desert Tortouis.....so I tell everyone that we are looking and my fellow artist friend Connie texts me the other day...she has a friend getting rid of some turtles for his mom!!!! YIPPEE!!!! Then she called and said we could have 2~ WAHOO!!!! THANKS CONNIE!!!! As you can see they both literally fit in the palm of my hand! They are just little babies...1 month old!!! They eat a little, very little and they sleep ALOT!!! My boys named them Rocky and Ali!~ I am just in love with them but you ought to see my boys!!! especially Austin the Big Dog #72! They make him melt!!! Speaking of the Big Dog his football team beat WestWood this weekend for West Woods 50th year Homecoming. Mt. View put up 50 points in their honor the score was 50-12. The Big Dog is getting healthy he got to start in the game and played the whole thing until they put the 2nd string in at the end!!! So glad he is getting back to normal!!! (well still 20 lbs lighter but atleast not 30 anymore) & of course I forgot my camera!!! GRRR I was not happy! Luckily 5 more regular games to go until playoffs! (cross your fingers on that)

I had a fab class in Payson this weekend! Busy Busy but very Fun! It was my " TIME IN A BOTTLE" album. It is really pretty! Some fun techniques and a lot of layering and collaging it's just yummy! Thanks Ladies!!! One day I will remember to take pics at class....One day!!!! Hope everyone else had a great weekend! Fall is coming...I can feel it if I wake up early enough in the morning! We have to wait a long time for "Fall" hear in Mesa!!!! But when it gets here it is sooo worth it! We are in for some amazingly gorgeous months of beautiful weather!!!! I am just a "little" excited about it!

Have a great week! Thanks for checking my blog! Love, Suzette~

Enter If you Dare.....

Do you love Halloween??? I am getting sooo excited to get out my decorations and round up past years pics for this fun album! OMG this was a fun one to do. Aren't Holidays a BLAST!!!!! I love breaking away from the same ole'! I will be teaching my "HAUNTED" album at The Scrapbook Barn on October 11th from 5-9 and October 15 at Paper & Metal Scrappers from 10-2. Don't be scared!!!!~

Football, spaghetti dinners, Senior year....

Oh Boy!!!! It has been busy lately! Besides trying to get Austin back on his feet from his ruptured, infected appendix we have had the Varsity football team at our house every Thursday night for the past 4 weeks for spaghetti dinners. (only 6 more to go...depending on playoffs*&%#) It has been crazy busy but very fun! What a great group of boys! The senior boys have been a little full of themselves making the Jrs. have their time getting anitiated...pool tossing etc. But I have to say when it is as hot as it is here...the jrs. haven't been too upset about taking their turn in the pool. In fact the Srs. were kind of bummed when the Jrs. were having more fun than them!!!!I am lucky enough to have a bunch of great moms helping out too. Many hands make light work for sure!!!! Fun pics...cute boys!!!

What time would you save in a Bottle...if you could????

I am selling a few kits for my "Time in a Bottle" Album. I have taught my first class & have some upcoming classes scheduled. But I have received a lot of interest on this one... so I want to make it available to some of you that watch my blog & that don't live locally. If you don't live here be glad...it is still sooo darn hot!!! I am really ready for a break in the weather. This is my homesick time of  year. I can already feel it starting. Thanks for checking I am working on some great stuff & I have learned a couple of simple tricks I want to share too. So keep checking...

thankful~

I am so thankful for modern medicine and living in this day and age. Austin's appendix ruptured & perferated about 2 and a half weeks ago. He was an extremely sick boy! The past couple of weeks he never seemed to be really getting better. He had drainage bags on his sides and when those were removed and he was still pretty sick the Dr. told me the things to watch for incase he was getting an abcess. So, sure enough last Sunday night he started having more pain and started a fever. His tummy was bulging out like a 5 month pregnant lady. Just BAM all of a sudden!!! We got him painfully in the car and back to the hospital. Where they discovered a 7 centimeter abcess right where his appendix would have been. Thank heaven for morphine because once they gave him that his pain decreased. The next morning they did another procedure to remove the abcess. The next couple of days he started improving. His color started coming back, he could move around a lot easier by himself and about an hour ago I got to bring him back home. On the way home he said, "My Life Really Sucks Lately!!!"  and yes ok even though for a 17 year old football player it does suck!!! I can't believe on Wed. by noon we would be packing up to leave the hospital with a boy doing so well when Sunday night things were looking extremely scary. So.....as the 17 year old's mom....I am very thankful to live right now with modern medicine and very thankful to be bringing my BIG BOY home!!!!~

If I Could Save Time~

"If I Could Save Time"....It would be now....I know other times in my life I would have loved to save the time & capture it...but right now the past year. Life is Good~ It is all about to change rapidly though & if I could save time right now & stop it I would. My girls are grown & have started families & don't need me so much anymore which I have gotten pretty used to. But my boys are here under my roof and still love their mom & they aren't afraid to let me know they need me. Austin is going to be a Senior this year...and like I said things will be changing rapidly!!!! We are really looking forward to his football season this year & a lot of other things. But none of us are looking forward to him graduating & moving on. Sooooo my "If I Could Save Time" album will have a lot of fun photos I will be adding to it about this amazing time in our life. Also, speaking of changes....I will be teaching this fun "If I Could Save Time" album at The Scrapbook Barn in Mesa, AZ on August 27th 10-3:30 It has a real working clock on the front, some fun technique, and some really cool embellishments in it. So stop by the store soon & check it out~

Lazy Summer Daze~

We just got back from Utah~ We saw so many cousins, relatives, and friends! It was a great time! Time goes waaaaay too fast especially on vacation. I taught a class last Friday right after we got home in Payson. I am flying out to North Dakota to return my 2 neices I stole...and then I have a class on Saturday July 30 out at Creative Quest. Busy, Crazy, Would like a little more Lazy......lol~