My Mother-in-Law Gave Us A Scare, It's a Boy, and Recent Scrapbook Layout

My mother-in-law ended up being taken to the hospital by ambulance Thursday night a little after 1:00 a.m. for chest pains. She had been getting them for three nights in a row and wasn't going to tell anyone about them. Apparently, she must have said something to my father-in-law Thursday night when they started again, and he called my husband's brother (who's a nurse) to get over there quick. He went to give her one of her nitro pills, but she was out of them and she was getting cold and clammy and not talking right, so he called 911 and the rest of the us. By the time the ambulance showed up, she was being argumentative, so evidently she was starting to feel better. She was in the hospital all weekend. Her EKG came back good. They did a stress test on her yesterday and she's having a heart catheterization tomorrow morning. My sister-in-law (who's also a nurse) seems to think it's her hiatal hernia but MIL does have heart problems (had a heart attack back in '96 when she and FIL were on vacation down in Florida), so I hope they figure out what is going on with her. She said that it felt like the chest pains she had when she had her heart attack years ago. My mother-in-law needs to slow down and stop doing so much. But she won't listen. She turns 77 a little over a week from now.

Earlier that day, I took B. to the mall after school with me to look at some home decor stuff they have in one of the stores there. I ended up taking her for a slice of pizza for an after-school snack and decided to try and get her hair cut at the salon I just had my hair cut and highlighted at within the past couple of weeks. She has been wanting to grow her hair long and has been refusing getting a haircut since we had it cut right before school started back in August of last year. I told her I just want it evened out and it would look nicer with some long layers put in. My husband's cousin's wife, Missy, happened to be working and so she cut B.'s hair and she ended up curling her hair all over (B. asked her if she would please do it). I didn't expect her take the time to do all that, but it sure made B. happy and she wouldn't stop taking selfies of herself afterwards and looking in every mirror she passed by. lol!  Missy did a fabulous job and B. and I were both pleased with her new look and it was nice getting to visit and talk a little while with Missy plus we saw B.'s teacher from first grade there. Afterwards, once we were back home, she was still taking selfies and I asked her "what are you doing?" Her response was "What? I'm really fond of my hair." lol! She's just starting to learn how to use a curling iron and is still awkward with it. So getting her hair curled is a huge deal for her. It sure made her day!

In the meantime, my poor husband was on his way home from work and ended up being the eighth car back when they decided to stop traffic to do blasting up on the hillside. This is on a main road that has had major rock slides in the past. They've been working on it for a really long time already. The signs say that when they are doing blasting in the area the wait would be 15-20 minutes. Not. My husband ended up sitting there along with a bunch of other people for a whole hour. Ridiculous. Traffic was backed up for miles.  And they decided to do the blasting when people are coming home from work. *sigh*

Before we left to visit my husband's mom in the hospital Friday night, B. got a text from Ashley with a 3D picture of the baby and said that she and Sean were having a gender-reveal party that night. By the time we got home from the hospital, she had sent a video showing her opening a huge box to reveal whether she was having a boy or a girl. It was filled with blue balloons and so they are having a boy!!

Well here is my latest layout from this past week....

I used a Colorbok scrapbook kit that came in a big 12x12 tin from Big Lots that I got more than several years ago. My daughter was four years old in these pictures and was into Strawberry Shortcake back then.

That's all for now. Til next time....

Leapin Lizards Layout & another Layout I Tweaked

Today was a pretty low-key quiet day. We celebrated our nephew's upcoming 10th birthday earlier this evening and then my husband and I started watching the new season of "House of Cards" on Netflix after we got home. We loved watching it last season too. With Netflix, you get to download the whole season at once and just watch it whenever you want. We watched two episodes this evening.  I'll just watch whatever my husband wants to watch usually. But there are two shows that I really like and that hold my interest while watching and that's "House of Cards" on Netflix and "Amish Mafia." We really liked the Sopranos on HBO, but that doesn't exist anymore. Oh and "Chuck". We loved that one too. I miss Chuck and was sad when that series ended. So if you have Netflix, I highly recommend "House of Cards". But you would have to watch it from the beginning.

Anyway... I stayed up late last night past midnight to make this layout for the 50 layouts challenge I'm doing this year where I have to create at least one layout every week. I've been wanting to scrapbook this story for awhile now and I'm so glad it's finally in the book. It's another layout from Ashley and Sean's wedding...

The journaling says: "After the wedding ceremony, I found you & one of Ashley's other sisters, Loretta, playing with lizards. You told me later - "If only my dress had pockets, because then those lizards would have been coming home with me."

 Patterned papers are from DCWV Lemon Flower (I'm scrapbooking this wedding with mostly papers from this stack). Glittered cardstock is from DCWV La Creme. Yes, I cut out the centers of the background pp and the glitter cs. Can't be wasting it since I'll probably need it later, so there's a cardstock base that you can't see. MS French Scroll Punch-Around-The-Page set, MS butterfly punches, Thickers, green round stickers from walmart, bling flourishes are colorbok from Big Lots, Prima circles bling, the  rhinestones in the centers of the flowers and on the journaling spot came from the wedding section at J's - they're by David Tutera. Goes really well with the yellow/gray colors of the wedding. Speaking of the flowers, I got those in a big pack at Big Lots a long time ago. I glimmer misted them and added Stickles to the tips of the petals one day just playing around in my scraproom. They've been in a jar for years. Glad I finally found a use for them, the gray satin ribbon is American crafts ribbon and is also from Big Lots, Fiskars journaling stamp, and the charcoal half-pearl on the butterfly is from a pack I got in the dollar bin at J's.

Speaking of Ashley, she called a few weeks ago to let us know that she and Sean are expecting their first child this summer! We are so happy and excited for them!

I also did a little tweaking on this next layout this past week that I posted recently that I said I didn't like the title area of and also added some embellishments....

Before:

After:

I like this version so much better. I couldn't stand how the Ready For was just floating there with nothing to anchor it to the layout. The arrow solved that problem and the strips of paper across the top helped with the big area of stark whiteness which was also bugging me. The school themed stickers were ones that I got at Dollar General back when I first started scrapbooking that I had actually given to B. She had them out in the living room for some reason (unopened) and I told her I was going to use them on a layout. lol!  So I put them on cardstock, cut them out and pop-dotted them up on the layout. And added some punched tiny stars and enamel dots.

Well that's it's for now. Hope you all are having a nice weekend....