Finally...

The tree is all done! It's different for us this year but I am happy with the way it looks. Merry Christmas Everyone.

28 Years

Wow! It so doesn't seem like it could possibly have been that long since we got married, but today Cliff and I celebrated our 28th... Anniversary I know it's crazy this time of year but we did manage to get out for dinner with our good friends the Deans. We went to Kings Fish House and had a yummy meal. Thanks guys for helping us celebrate 28 memorable years. Love you honey!

Welcome to the age of....

Facebook! I decided to start a facebook today. So far I have 14 friends....who knew it could be so fun....I better be careful or I will never get off the computer! hehehe. So if you are on facebook and want to be my friend....give me a holler.

It's beginning to.....

Look a lot like Christmas! Well at least a little bit around my house. Check out this cute little goodie that arrived yesterday. I bought it from a wonderful online friend who is a very talented designer. It's the cutest little book designed for you to take a picture a day during the month of December....I loved the idea but am so not into making little books....when I saw Michelle's album listed in her Etsy store I new I just so had to have a "Michelle Original" so I bought it! I love the way she has made it so beautifully shabby chic! Even my best attempt at shabby chic isn't very shabby. Ha Ha! I am hoping to capture the everyday little things that you don't always photograph or journal about throughout the month...wish me luck!

Here's another one

Here's one more layout with the Christmas kit from http://www.scrapbookdeals4u.com/ I still have a couple more to do so hopefully I am not boring anybody with them. ;-) I really love the way this one turned out. I had next to no Christmas photos from last year so hopefully I will get some more this year so I can use some more of this wonderful kit.

Not One but TWO....

That's how many kits I got to play with from Scrapbookdeals 4 U for the up coming month of December. We are posting layouts a bit early on the sight so I decided I would give you all a look at what I have created with the awesome Christmas and Prudence Kits here on my blog. The kits go on sale December 1st and believe me when I say that Martha has loaded them FULL of fun goodies. The "Prudence" kit just screamed vintage to me so I started out doing a few older photos with it but then I decided to do a layout of Jeremy and his missionary buddies and it worked great for that too...so it is a very versatile kt. The Christmas kit is just awesome and works well for Christmas photos or not... I did a couple of layout that weren't Christmas related at all and it worked perfectly. So I highly recommend either of these wonderful kits over at http://www.scrapbookdeals4u.com/

Jeremy's Gift

Ok....since I have to mail Jeremy's Christmas gift early I decided I had better get the scrappy part of his gift finished. I have been working on a little 6x12 book for him of photos since he has been on his mission. I was going to add photos from Thanksgiving on the November page but since we got together early in the month for Mom's funeral I figured I could use a bunch of family photos from the trip and finish it before Thanksgiving. I like the way it turned out. I used a bunch of 6x12 sketches from Pagemaps.com and just ran with it and really had fun creating it for him. Hopefully he will enjoy it.