summer lovin'

ok.....just a quick post...not an epistle like i am GOOD at writing...life is crazy...I have no time to do anything...and i am not even working..how is THAT possible!?! This summer i am focusing on cleaning...that is not a fun task..but hey...it does tend to pass the time better......i am also watching one of my ACTS sistas little boy this summer...he is 8 and a total sweetie! LOVE HIM! Let's see..what else...tutoring in the morning...planning for the next school year already..love that...and spending LOTS of family time together at our friends house...in their backyard oasis...it is beautiful! It is our Friday thing...a couple of families including ours journey over to Club Herr..and soak in the sun...eat, drink and be VERY HAPPY! Here is a layout that i did for our last trip...that's it..sorry..but i am TIRED..late night last night...we had a FLOOD PARTY...yes, my neighborhood survived the June 18, 2007 floods..they have rebuilt..(some from the ground back up) and we partied in the streets that were once covered with water...were last night covered with overflowing friendship and an awesome neighborly spirit..i LOVE this neighborhood...can't we just build on kevin?!

night night girls...xoxo.ash

remember me.....

kane LOVES to make mean faces in pictures...so i must go with it..or i miss out...

the girl LOVES watermelon...i think that she ate the majority of it..and devoured the leftovers!
what would a grouping of pics by me be without one of these....








so i have been a little on the absent side...refocusing i guess you could say...







last month of school was just pretty intense....We lost our dearly beloved pastor and friend, Father Pat...i LOVED that man..had such an amazing bond with him..and miss and think of him EVERYDAY!







I went to the ACTS retreat this past month...oh my gosh...one WORD...auuuuuuuuhmaZiNg! I can't tell you how much it has meant in my life to attend something so wonderful and as a bonus..i got myslef 80 new sisters.......they are JUSt awEsOmE!







Graduated Miss Hunt from Kindergarten....cried....had to send her up the aisle at the beginning of the ceremony and about didn't let go...yep..i was a bawl bag...had to give a little introduction to our song that our k3, k4 and kinder kids sang..and almost cried during that too...had to PULL IT TOGETHER though... miss my k3 kids ALreaDy!!! Made some cute books for them TOO..oh..i HAVE to post those...note to self...







Miss Sadie Marie was born on the 15th..beautiFuL niece of mine..check out www. raizinkane.blogspot.com for more pictures..they are soo sweet...







My sweet neighbor lady has a little pool that she loves to float around in and my kids are always asking..can we go to MiMi's house and swim...and the answer of course is ALWAYS no...like she wants my little dolls in her pool splashing all the water out..anywHo...she BOUGHT my kids a pool of their very own...and the pictures tell the story..they are having the TIME of their lives with that thing...so thanks MIMI for the awesome gift...my kids TOtaLLy LovE it!







i also took some prom pictures for my cousin and his friends..check em' out..they are on the raizinkane site...pretty sweet...(note to self..must add link.)







ok, well, nothing to terribly exciting...there has been a TON more going on..but oh my gosh.i would be here ALL NIGHT if i listed it all...loving summer vacay...loving that teacher joB!







have a fabulous three months..b/c that is probably how long it will be until you hear from me again...xoxo.ash

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prom pics..that's right you heard me.. so...i took some pics for my cousin's graduation invitations and they turned out really cute..so he asked me to come out and take some pics of he and his date and his friends..they were so preciOuS..i loved doing it..what FuN and they all looked amazing...i know that they had a BlaSt...ahhh..prom memories...so long ago..but i remember that smokin' hot turquoise/blue/silver number...cute...and wasn't i such a skinny mini..two kids and many moons later...here we are to 2008...so enJoy..this is just a teaser..mostly all of the pics are in need of some editing....so here they are...

**sooooooooo..i am not too sure of Y it adds it twice...hmmm...oh well, maybe because they are so fabulous...they need to be shown twice...night night..xoxo.ash

leave me some love and tell me what ya think?! do you think i might need to hang up my fabulous pink camo Eliza Lou camera strap..or should i keep on a clickin?!
xoxo.a

salute...to digi..LOVE IT!

this is something awesome that i was asked to make for a girlfriend of mine..now imagine this baby blown up into POSTER size in a big frame with a black mat...yuM! it is pretty awesome..i was totally HAPPY with the finished product...lots of pictures on there..the look on mommas face when she picked it up was PRICELESS! yeah...

ok...i have a confession...i am TOTALLY addicted to this crazy digital scrapbooking....BUT i have NO TIME to do it for myself....so that is why i am doing the couNtDoWn to the end of school......i am going to do nothing but digi scrapbook ALL summer long..that's right girls...i am going to slap some sunscreen on the kids and lock them outside in the backyard all day long...throwing them an occasional hot dog or "gorrilla cheese" (as kane calls them...) and a glass of water that they can split..kidding...no..i won't lock them out..but there will be rules...mommy can't be bothered while on computer rule....you know that one girls...right!

ok..but seriously...calm down and cease calling cps on me..but i am going to do some serious scrappin..and i am SOOO pumped up about it..seein that I have about 10 tons of stuff left from the store..i can either burn it :) or do something with it...so I am thinking HYBRID projects a plenty!

speaking of HYBRID..HELLO..you should have SEEN the calendars that i made for my preschool mommas today for marvelous moms at school....so SWEET...but OH THE DRAMA leading up to getting them printed...ok..so are y'all ready for an ashli wolf story...well, here goes. (what would my blog BE without one?!)

so...............i got these hot little calendar covers in a download that i totally LOVE...can't remember where..but i will think on it :) so anywho.....I took some SUPER precious fat face pictures of my preschoolers oh my GOSH..they were So cute...and i spent tons of time making these (ok..that was a stretch because it as a template :) so i made these CUTE calendar covers and was like HOLY cow this is going to take 4ev to attach and send to MY GIRL KATIE at Staples..(love how we are GIRLZ...i see her more than i see my kids some week) so i was like, well, what about a 4shared account...so i did it..downloaded them all (took a while) and sent them to STAPLES at 12:49am on Tuesday morning...ONLY to find out that staples couldn't open the webpage...UGH....so i had to copy them all off of the 4shared account...onto my computer at school (SHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH) and then send them BACK as an attachment..took forev... anyways..she got em....printed one..it was the wrong size..no prob..we will print them a different size..so while they are printing i will jet off to get a frame for something ELSE that i made... and to pick up the pocket calendars...so i run to michaels..super fast...because of COURSE they will have the 16 pocket calendars that i am needing RIGHT?! wrong..they are "seASoNAL items" ugh...it wasn't nice the thoughts that were racing through my head...but i actually just started LAUGHING...hysterically...WHO ELSE would this happen to...my calendar covers are PRINTING and i have NO calendars....WHY ARE THESE SEASONAL ITEMS>..like WHAAT season would that be..because TO MY KNOWLEDGE...summer, spring, winter AND remarkably ENOUGH fall are all represented in the calendar correct me if i am wrong...but those are the seasons.......right...so they aren't seasonal....the woman was a total haggatha...i tend to gravitate to those people to..shedding positiveness and happiness onto someone WHO doesn't want it at all..i share my woes wiht her..laughing all the while...and guess what...she tells me my total and shoos me out the door...class! from there..i went and totally WIPED out target of the only 10 that they had..and then i went to the denton walmart...i found a TReAsUre TrOve of them...EUREKA right....i grabbed up a handful of them and off i went to checkout.......only to hear the nice checker lady say...um..maim, would you really like to buy these...i am like UH YYYYYYYYYYYES!!! i have to have them....and seh is like, well maim (gotta love that...)) these are academic calendars and they are from 2007-2008 and they end on AUGUST 08.............omg..if i would have bought those..i would have been TOTALLY messed up! so i race back, grab up some more with the RIGHT date and am outtie...go back to staples..and they are n't all done...ahh..but it is OK...so me and the staples family kicked it until 9 together...it was fabulous! all was well, got the calendar covers all fixed up..aside from the one for a little girl in my class...hers was printed off mirrored so instead of saying I love you, mom...it said mom, uoy evol I NICE, huh! not sure HOW that happened...corruptness in the file i guess..who kNoWs! so i will post pics later tatersss.xoxo.ash

a little slideshow..enjoy the craziness

ok...so here is pics of my weekend....pretty fun and crazy...we started off with field day on friday...mason's first birthday on saturday and (did i mention that my camera DIED on me..just batteries though) and then we raced back home and left for the hartman campout...lots of goodiez to work on today and show ya later.. thanks for checkin' it out! xoxo.ash
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happy SunDaY!

all aboard...this poor conductor had to wait a little while longer to leave the station..thanks guY!
here we are my great uncles..do i look a little like that side of the family...i am told i do! especially uncle davey..the short one...hmmm...go figure...
this is my great grandma's house...it was just moved from its original spot about a mile away...someone is going to renovate it..we can't wait to see how it turns out..they are a neat bunch of folks...and i know that they will make it look fabulous! oh and a disclaimer (lol krystal) my family DID NOT paint it that color.........no way..it was nice and white when we had it
yeah................I got in.........i need this in my life right now...to help me understand all sorts of goings on.... to no computer for me the weekend of may 16th.... i will be with some awesome chicks and i can't WAIT!
this is a clipboard that i made using krystal's goodiez... i like how it turned out..pretty fuN!

what an awesome weekend it has been....didn't start off too hot...friday..NOT GOOD at all...won't EVEN start into that though..happy thoughts..positive thoughts....happy thoughts.... anywho..i do have to tell you THIS pure ASHLI WOLF original story...so when I closed up the chic shoppe i had SOOOOOOOOOOOO much stuff..i had to get TWO mini warehouses (one i already had) to put it all in.........so i had 186 so thinking it would be easier..i chose 168 so we filled BOTH of those babiez and then went back and cleaned out one and condensed...ok pretty smart right...well, not really because i switched the keys and locks out....so i wasn't able to get into my mini this weekend...i was almost breaking the key off in the lock until i realized WHAT i had done..oMG! hilarious..afterwards...went to lunch with ONE awesome grandmama and my fun fam... and YEAH..guess what else...it was the Webkinz extravaganza or something fun like that......so of COURSE we are the proud new owners of two new webkinz...princess ashlin and ryan the LION cute name...that was ALL kaney...thanks grandmama for a yummy dinner and the new additions

ok........so then we went to the zoo..for a train ride because APPARENTLY the zoo doesn't think that they need to let people in after 4:30..oh MAN..were we sad! we did get to ride the train though...it was a bit pressing because RIGHT before we heard the ALL ABOARD..hunter decided "she had to go the the bathwomb" oh my GOSH..........i was like NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! ( i should have though..what would kate goslin do....but i didn't i straight freaked OUT) so we exited the train...me, my daughter about to wee wee wee all the way home.and kane SCREAMING at the top of the lungs...YOU MEAN MOMMY...YOU WON"T LET ME WIDE THE TWAIN........ oh didn't I look like mother of the year... after almost going to fisticuffs with the zoo lady who wouldn't let hunt use their bathroom because they were closing GRR...we CHUGGED across the parking lot to the LOVELY and oh so CLEAN park potties...RAN back to get on the train in time to hear the WHISTLE..yes, WE MADE it! The glares from the fellow train riders after dragging my kids off were turned into smiles as they saw us sprinting across the park..not such a bad mommy after all...so HA!

no germanfest for us this year..gotta LOVE that texas weather..it was FREEZING today...but we did get to meet up with my grandpa's brothers...they started Longhorn Barbecue in Spokane Washington...pretty neat old coots! I love those guys...i wish that my grandpa was alive to see them and how they LOVE my kids...it is soo cute! We all ate at the center..yum...i had to make up for not going to the fest...so i had a huge platter of sausage, german potato salad..and kraut!YUM...don't worry..i watched my portions...i only had 1/3 of it........

ok..........so after we got home..magic elves came to our house and whipped it into shape it DID help that kaney fell asleep with ryan the lion and slept through the windstorm of domestic craziness...so the house is clean spic & span...and then that gave me some FUN time to make some goodiez...i got some graduation invitations done WOHOO...and i made a FUN little hybrid project using krystal hartley goodiez available at the potato bar http://www.polkadotpotato.com/ YUM! and oh my gosh..i am working on a super surprise for someone VERY special..more about that after i am done though..it is SUPER cuTe! i love IT!

so...thanks for reading once again........sorry that i TALK non-stop...that's just ME!

xoxo.ash

mcbloggin' again....

me and kaney at hunny's birthday party..i love his beautiful eyes..he is a charmer...

her little report turned out so cute..if only i would have turned them around..ugh...anywho..look at her sweet little handwriting...i am a dork..i know...but i loved it!
oh yes, this is HOW he sleeps..no matter WHERE he is...my bed, his bed, couch..whatev...i wake up with him in my bed and a foot in my ribs...........OUCH! pray for NO "funder" because that is when he comes a runnin' to our room...enter painful sleep for me...
invites anyone...............they turned out pretty sweet...........LOVE them!

i am SOOOOOOOOOOOOO on cloud nine...could THursdays GET any better....lost AND grey's ahh..life is GOOD! so girls...i DID it..i got my invitation order (the biggie) done..they turned out so precious..the bride miss shawna LOVED them.........ahh..a happy bride..YEAH! i love her..she is SUCH fun to work with..and she LOVES my crazy kids...speaking of...kids...we had a book fair this week at school..buy one get one free..that ROCKS...so we got a PIRATE abc book (betcha can't guess who picked that one) and some crazy strawberry shortcake book..betcha can't guess who picked that one.........

miss hunt and i worked feverishly on yet another project...a ZOO REPORT on flamingos..when she was little she called them flabingos...ahh..i miss that! anywho...i printed off the pictures of the crazy lookin' pink birds...and in TRUE ASHLI WOLF style..i forgot them on my desk at school..so i had to DRAW a flamingo for her..oh my gosh...not sure how this turned out..but she a great colorer so hopefully..she covered up my ratty drawings...anyways..if you want to know ANYTHING about flamingos..just ask me and huntgirl...we are pretty much Flamingo afficionados (i spell VERY phonetically)

biggest loser update..ANOTHER pound this week...............WOHOO! i hope that i WIN..that money would be HOT! speaking of hot..that tanning bed that i was in..oh my gosh...BURN BABY BURN...lookin' forward to the weekend..........WOHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOo germanFesT! can't wait..gone however are the days of reckless abandonment and stocking up on beer tickets and souveineir (spelling badly again) germanfest "china"...yes, we have moved on from those wILd child days and on to riding the rides (who even KNEW they had rides?) and family fUn! can't wait to eat sausage on a stick...funnel cakes...and do the CHICKEN DANCE..for those of you who have NO idea what i am rambling about...the germanfest rocks...a weekend of german faire in a little town west of us...usually we get blown away with torrential DOWNpoUrs...and gale force winds...one year, they booted us out on a Sunday because of a tornado blowing through the town in the next county..LOVE THAT! i will post LOTS of pics...we love acting the fool and taking lots of fabulous pictures :)

hmmm..have y'all been to the POTATO BAR?! http://www.polkadotpotato.com/ go NOW and check it out...you can print ALL of the paper and embellishments out and do some scrapbooking with it or some fabulous hybrid doozies..........

anywho..................WHAT HAPPENED on AMERICAN IDOL....what on EARTH..this is making me SOO mad...i stopped watching the year that Chris Doughtery (sp) was voted off...and i am ALMOST to that poitn............they BETTER not vote off David Cook..........oh now that would be BAD!he better WIN!

ok...........enough..of the insanity.........and incessant ramblings.....