Your Way Freebie

Hello all!!!
Boy it's been a rough day!!!!

Been busy beginning to get all the new Catechetical School year put together....
it's busy and it's time consuming, but I love every minute of it (okay except for the nasty head-aches I get from staring at the computer!) I will only get busier from this point forward.

Other than that I had to run out and get some iron on transfer paper for our youth group, only problem was I'm out $10.00 because my printer wouldn't catch the paper right... geez.....

But the worst of all was the fact that my washer is now officially on the fritz and it flooded my laundry room and kitchen, I'm so darn happy that it didn't make it to the carpet.

Although I would like to have a very good day everyday I too must accept the fact that it won't always be that way, I would love to "order" it that way but as the old saying goes in our home "this isn't Burger King, you can't have it your way"

I'm sure there are others out there that use that term also... it just seemed so darn appropriate to give it as a freebie because of the day I had.

I hope that your day went a lot better and that you are able to use this on some of those silly pictures you may have.

May you have a blessed day!



Here's your freebie, as always please send others to pick up their own, and maybe if you feel so inclind you can leave a little love while you are here (I sure can use some right now)

Quick Freebie

Whew!!! It took me a while to change my blog layout....
so this is going to be a quicky....
I have got to get out of the heat, my computer setup is in the garage so when it gets really hot my legs start to swell and well.... it's time to head in!!!

I've decided not to stand amongst the crowds...
I've chosen to live my life for Christ....
My life is not my own and that's okay....
I choose to be different.....
I choose to be who God knows I can be (even if I haven't figured that out yet)
I realize I'm a part of this world but not of it....

So I dare you to not be a part of the crowd
I dare you not to fall for everything or else you won't stand for anything...
God loves you.....
I dare you to know that...
Most importantly I dare you to be different!

Have a blessed day
Leave me some love when you pick up your goodie.
I pray you feel the presence of God in your life today




As always please send others to pick up their own.
Here's your giftie....
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Motherhood Freebie

Hi ladies (and any gents that may stop here)...
I had a really lazy day today, which I really was in need of after
being on vacation with 3 teenagers lol...
If you read and or picked up my last freebies then you know all about it.

So in light of being a MOM on vacation I felt it would be a great idea to share some Motherhood freebies (yep more than one) with you all today.
I have chosen to be a stay at home mom when I first learned I was pregnant 18 years ago. Although it wasn't a vocation that I embraced whole heartidly, not that I didn't want to but when society seems to think that both parents should be working or if you don't have a college degree then you aren't successful in life. Success to me in life is raising God fearing, law abiding, loving, caring, compassionate children so that they in turn when they are adults will be able to do the same. So far both my dear hubby and I have done a fair job, but only by the grace of God!!!

So if you are out there, a new mom/dad and you stay at home as your primary vocation in life, know that you are being cheered for!!!! I applaud any person who choses to stay at home and do what we do. I applaud anyone who decides that it is better to sacrifice for the betterment of our family. Yes being a single income family can be very hard at times!!!! Since my hubby is a State employee we only get paid once a month (believe me it took forever to get use to living that way) and there's always alot of month over than money.... but we make it because God provides and we have faith in Him for providing and we are grateful for all that he gives to us.

Whew... now with that off of my chest just remember if you struggle as a mom you are not alone... and Motherhood is not for wimps... so I hope that these freebies can be used for some of those crazy moment pictures but most especially for those favorite baby pictures....

Enjoy!!! As always please send others here to pick up their own and leave a little love as I truly am blessed by your presence here.

Have a great day!!!



Here's your goodies!!! Just click the previews to download

This Much Freebie!!

Oh boy... the last few day's of vacation just flew by!!!! We got home by 3:00 and the animals acted like we had been gone for 20 years!!! I love going on vacations but I really do love being home too!!!!

The weather was really good while we were in Monterey, we got there on Monday. After we settled in we headed over to the skatepark so that the boy's could burn off some energy. While they were skating Lance, Katrina and I headed around to the Dennis the Menace Park and had some fun acting goofy, yeah she's a little too big for the swings and such but I really wanted to see what it looked like because it was next to the skate park and we had never been there. We also managed to find a bench where we could see the boys skating and took pictures from there. After spending time at the parks we went over to Cannery Row, of course we did a bunch of window shopping, spent time sitting on the rocks by the water while the boy's jumped around and messed in the water. We ate dinner at Bubba Gumps (love that place) and then just walked around killing time while waiting for the 8:00 showing of Star Trek at the IMAX Theatre!! Oh it's a good movie if you're an old school Star Trek fan!!! I do believe it's one we will buy when it comes out. The IMAX theatre was really nice and the sound system was FABULOUS!!! The only complaint would be that they started the movie like 15 minutes late??? Who does that??? Once the movie was over we called it a night
and that was the end of Day one of our Vacation.


Day two we decided to head to Santa Cruz on Tuesday, once there we set up base camp on the beach, ate lunch (made sandwiches at the hotel to save some money), got the kids their ride bracelets (purchase them online and save $7.00 each geez I sound like a tightwad! LOL!!!). Gabriel and Justin (Justin is Gabriels best friend came with us) headed onto the boardwalk to ride the rides. Katrina, Lance and I managed to keep from getting completely sunburned (some of our body parts didn't have enough sunscreen and got burned (Or should I say Lance and Trina got burned in spots, weird! spots!), then the boys came back and picked up Katrina so she had someone to ride with. Lance and I sat on the beach until 5:00, needless to say I had to feed the birds (taking care of God's creation) yeah eventually we had about 20 birds surrounding us lol.... We had a reasonably cheap dinner, spent time walking in all the shops. Finally the boy's caught up with us and the kids played a round of miniture golf, by this point we were exhausted and had to drive an hour to get back to the hotel. End of Day 2 of our Vacation

Day 3, the next morning (wed) we went to Point Lobo's, it's such a beautiful place to go!!! BUT TEENAGE BOY'S KNOW HOW TO FREAK ME OUT!!!! Oh my goodness the climbing and jumping and the fearlessness next to the edges of cliffs and the sea.... okay so they tested my limits of "allowing them fun"! I had made sandwiches for lunch (saving money again), after lunch we headed over to a hidden little cove for about an hour where the boys decided to have a rock skipping contest and Trina felt inclind to see that all the seaweed be broken up and thrown back into the water. I was able to put my feet in the water during that hour (a very very chilly event for me) and Lance just sat there looking at all of us like we were sideshow freaks lol, we headed back to the hotel around 4:00 and spent the rest of the evening hanging around and being lazy (something I really wanted to do!!!)

Today we finally got everyone and everything loaded into the car by 11:45 and decided to go to the Gilroy Outlet Stores, we mostly walked in and out of the stores although I was willing to buy some new shoes for Gabriel, he said "I don't want any" Whoot Whoot!!! Okay so it was nice on the pocketbook but his shoes are looking like he's had them for over 3 years they are so bad!!! He keeps blaming them on skating but he's always been hard on shoes! So he didn't get anything but I managed to find some cami's for $5.00 and got 4 new ones (I like to wear them to bed, they are comfy!) Yeah I'm so beyond looking cute when I go to bed, it's all about the comfort!!! LOL...

So heading home we managed to hit a construction zone that meant we would be driving only 3 miles an hour, which meant we would be getting home 1/2 hour later than we thought!!!! Let me just say that I thought bringing a friend for my boy would be beneficial to everyone but by day 2 you would have thought that they were really and truly siblings with all the arguing and "snitching" going on... geez you'd think I raised animals! lol...

You gotta love family even when they act like a bunch of lunatics!!!!
And I LOVE my Lunatics!!!!! So darn much!!! That's why I made the freebies I made tonight.



But all in all we had a wonderful time and I wouldn't give it up for a moment. I'm sure you all have had some similiar experiences like my own.... so in an effort to celebrate being with family I made some extra freebies. I hope that one of the "xtra's" that I give you with the "main freebie" is a saying that you use in your own home. If there is something different maybe you can let me know.

As always please send other's here to pick up their own and leave some love, I absolutely feel blessed by your words!!!
I pray your day is truly blessed!!!



Here's my gifts to you....
(click each preview to download)

Vacation Freebie!!!

I'm waiting on my kids to get ready to leave for the day so you are getting a vacation freebie while I am waiting (uh somewhat patiently!!!) We are in Monterey and the adjoining cities (today we head to Point Lobos).... my favorite place to escape to, although the kids are driving me completely NUTS!!!! But their my kids and I guess I'll keep em!! After all I have too much time and energy invested in them lol.....

We always stop at San Juan Bautista with a picnic lunch so we can uh yeah eat lunch... and of course we have to take pictures too. My mom always asks me why I always go to the same places when we go on vacation and my typical response is, "Well if it ain't broke then don't fix it!!!" Hmmmm maybe I'll do that quote for wordart!? What do you think???

So needless to say I have a bunch of the same type of pictures except I get to see the kiddo's grow up in them... yeah! This time we brought along one of Gabriel's friends (too keep him busy and happy--- happy kid=happy Mom!) and we were finally able to take a full family picture. So this is us at San Juan, and yes I will be posting more of our vacation pictures along with some freebies, so if you're not following me (which I humble beg you to do) then stop back by and check in every now and again.



I Made this quicky to go with my word art using
Bel Vidotti's Fluer's Freebie Kit.... dang I'm gonna miss her!!!! I really wish she would return I love her kits!!!


The saying can be two fold as it is for us... we were in front of the Church and the statue is of St. John the Baptist but you see we are able to know what Love is because of God first and foremost, but we are also able to know what Love is because of each other!!! So thank you Jesus for lovin' all of us!!! Remember, GOD just LOVES the heck out of YOU, so remember that!!

Here's your freebie, I hope you like it!!! Leave me some lovin', comments, suggestions, or whatever...lol....
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I pray you all have a very blessed day!!!!

Some Fishy Freebies!!!!

Hello Everyone!!! Let me just say "Wow"!! I'm really thrilled at how many have come this last week to snag my freebies and for those few who took the time to leave me some luvin' I want to thank you very much for your kindness!!!

I'm heading out to vacation WHOOT WHOOT!!! (okay my poor attempt at a written whistle lol) But I'm sooooo darn excited about getting away even if it's only for a few days!! We are escaping to my favorite place to just sit in God's presence.... Monterey!!! Oh yeah being by the ocean definitely puts life into perspective and realizing that even though I'm just another little speck on this earth, no matter how small God loves me... WOW!!! And remember He loves you guys too!!!

Okay I know you're here for a freebie or 2 or 3 or Wow... 4?? Yep I felt I couldn't do just one since you all enjoyed my others so much!!! I've done something a little fishy here because of course knowing where I am heading and how much I love being near the water (although I don't fish). I absolutely love to EAT fish lol.... but never have had to catch my own, unless you wanna count going to the store and purchasing some... does that count??? LOL...

Okay enough of my rambles I have to get busy packing so we can leave by 10:00 at the latest.... I'm not sure if I'll be posting anything while I'm away (maybe/maybe not) so I hope that you will return for my new wordarts that I have for you when I return....

Like I said these are a bit fishy, I hope that you have something or someone in your life that you can use these with....

Have a very blessed day!!!





Here's your freebies!!!!! (you'll see duplicate sayings because some have hooks and some don't)

I'm Back and with Freebies!!!

Wow... I didn't realize I was gone from here for so long!!!
Life sure does have a way of taking you in places that keep you from
blogging!!! But I hope that doesn't keep anyone away from here!!!

I managed to get through 2 graduations, 3 Sacraments, Mother's day and Father's Day and a Ordination Celebration since April (the last time I blogged) although somethings did cause a little bruising around the edges (wow my daughter is out of high school???) all in all I had a great and busy time getting through it all!!! And I couldn't have done it without my Hubby, kids and very close friends!!!

So I thought with all that help from them I would make a little wordart that you might be able to use after all the Fourth of July/Holiday's/events that are happening in your life!!!

I hope you enjoy them as much as I did making them for you to use. I'll post a layout later on using these.
As always please send other's here to pick up their own.... thanks!

Just click the tag for your download and make sure to come back and get all 4 (or whatever you might need) and leave a hello while you are either at 4shared or here.









Here's your Freebies!!!