I REALLY miss Florida...and Happy Anniversary!

OK, today is my 16th wedding anniversary! Woohoo! And I can't think of a better man to have in my life all these years than my sweet Shane! We managed to get a babysitter last night and actually went to a really nice restaurant and listened to a live band! It was AWESOME! I am TRULY blessed. I know that all relationships have their ups and downs, but I can honestly say that Shane is, was and will always be my very best friend. For those that know me, you know I don't typically scrap "mushy stuff"...but I will share a couple of pictures from last night that MIGHT find their way on a scrapbook page some day! ;-) (oh...and I tried my first Appletini. Not sure I am crazy about martinis, but it certainly got better the more I drank! LOL)


So to my darling hubby...I LOVE YA BABE!!

On other news...we had a vicious ice storm the Friday before Christmas. A couple of big tree branches fell on Grandpa's car and we just noticed yesterday that it cracked the windshield. So I guess I will be calling the insurance co. tomorrow to get that taken care of. Grandpa doesn't drive it anymore, so at least it wasn't a really bad thing since we have 2 other cars. But this is what my front yard looked like...Nice, huh??


On a postive note, we never lost power. Thousands lost power for several days. Not good in record low temps and all the hotels booked up for the holidays!

Anyway, hope everyone had a great holiday!!

I miss Florida!

After being back for a couple weeks (and it feels MUCH longer)...I miss Florida!! Of course, after getting sick and now Logan is home from school sick, it hasn't been nearly as fun! LOL But it was totally worth it!!!! So I will leave you all with layout of Logan at the lake this summer.

Using more of the awesome Scrappin Sports and More papers! It is awesome because it is 2 sided and both sides are totally usable!! For the water, I busted out some OLD Fancy Pants chipboard (that I have recently decided I am forcing myself to use up)and covered it with SS&M paper with the help of my friend Mod Podge. (Yes, we are finally friends...we used to be true enemies as I couldn't get the stuff to stop bubbling up. Good thing it started to see things my way! LOL)

Got Game?

We sure do! Around this house, my son is obsessed with games. So I wouldn't be a good scrapper if I didn't document it, right? With the help of Scrappin Sports and More and awesome Boxer transparencies, I was able to do just that!

And hopefully, Santa will bring me a Wii Fit for Christmas so I, too, can use some awesome game paper!!...oh yeah...and get fit! ;-)

Homemade ornaments

The 2nd Challenge at Kids Can Scrap is to make a homemade ornament. Bailee was totally up for the challenge and made this oragami ornament out of scrapbook paper and stickers. Here it is hanging on our tree...

Didn't she do a great job? Oh...and this year we got a REAL tree...
At the lot...

and after...(ok, bad picture...but you get the idea!!)

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas...la la la la la...LOL And can I just tell you how AWESOME the house smells with this live tree??? YUM!!!

The Vacation projects have started...

check out the Boxer DT Blog for my first project! I used a MOSD clearly petite album and some awesome Boxer papers! I wanted a tag that I could attach to my Disney album so that I could quickly identify the Disney album.

Oh yeah...it officially happened. I went on vacation and now I am sick. Ugh! But it was worth it!!!

We're BAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACK!

And can I just say that Disney was AMAZING!!!! We had such an awesome time and my feet are finally starting to not hurt! LOL We did 4 parks in 4 days...had wonderful weather...lived a dream...and realized that vacations are such an important part of life. I think it will be a lot sooner before our next adventure. I will load some pictures later, but I can't tell you how valuable it is to just go out there and scream and have fun! Bailee and Logan had a BLAST!!! We faced the Yeti...dropped 5 stories in the Tower of Terror...road the Aerosmith Roller Coaster...and watched the most amazing shows and fireworks!!!

ETA: Here are some of my fav pictures...and OH YES!! I am getting ready to scrap these babies!!!
Here is Expedition Everest...AKA "The Yeti Ride"


Shane and I at Epcot...Bailee took the picture! Didn't she do a good job?


and finally (because Blogger is being a pain...)the kids with the BOLT characters...




And when we got back...we learned that Bailee and Logan had each won a prize at Kids Can Scrap! How fun is that? The 2nd Challenge is up...so if you have kids...make sure to let them play along!!

Oh...and I finally got my SLICE! Woohoo!!! So hopefully today...between running around and trying to get laundry and this house back in order, I will have time to play with it!! I am hoping to have a Slice party sometime, although with the holidays, I am not sure when I will do it. But when I do, I promise to include my dear blogging buddies with an on-line blog party with Slice give aways!! Stay tuned...