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Saturday, December 26, 2009

Merry Christmas!!!

Santa Presents for Bryce

Santa presents for Clara

The kitchen and shopping carts are for both!!!

Santa did some great shopping on Craig's list this year!!!

Clara looking at the bottom of her stocking to see if she missed anything!

Bryce and Clara in their stockings!!!

He loved his tractor

She wouldn't stop putting on lipstick all day! Some real... some pretend!

Bryce was on clean up detail!

Our breakfast

Clara in her 3rd outfit by 9 am!

Our "stocking" gifts- Brian's family always exchanges stocking gifts which could be anything that fits in a stocking... the stockings grew to these large ones 3 years ago... when the small ones were overflowing... now the large ones overflow too.... I must admit... I enjoy the stocking gifts!!! It is one of my favorite parts of the day!

Here is the pile of regular gifts that the family goes through... about 13 of us!
Imagine coming into a family that gives this many presents... it is overwhelming at first!

Bryce, Clara, Gavin and Makenna (Makenna is showing the card I made her)

The kids in front of the stockings

What 4 year old gets the most excited over a blanket... well, Bryce does!!! He has wanted a blanket just like Grammy's for a long time...

Clara and Grammy

Gifts from Tanya and Jimmy... love the recorders!!!

ARTastic and Crop Addict Challenge

I created this layout for 2 challenges...

My 1st time entering over at Artastic... challenge was to use a portrait type photo and an earring on the page... well, I am wearing the earring!

Second challenge is for Crop Addict's weekly challenge... Resolve... your New Year's Resolution

My resolution is to make my new house into our home... I hope we can move soon and create our Cozy Cabin!!! Thanks for stopping by...

Christmas Eve

Twas the Night Before Christmas... and our busiest day of the season!!!

The kids enjoyed a jammie day filled with fun activities including...

eating their last chocolate in their advent calendars...

last tag in their tag book that says... build Rice Krispie houses...

Bryce put snow on his house...

Clara goes for minimal decorations... most end up in her tummy!

Thanks to Buffy, the kids put Reindeer dust out on the lawn this year to help guide Santa to our house.

On our way to church they sprinkled it!

I think he is coming!!!!

Heading into church!

God bless!

Our family when we got home!

Next tradition... open one present before bed... new jammies!!!

Cookies and milk for Santa

This year, Mommy made Nana's famous peanut butter balls and Buckeyes!!! Yummo!

Bryce said "There is no time to read books tonight!!!" We convinced him it was okay to read one quick story... Twas the Night Before Christmas!!!

Here is our Charlie Brown tree that Santa brought us!!!

After kids went to bed, I finished making lottery ticket holders for the family for tomorrow!!!
It was such a fun night!!! More about Christmas tomorrow!

Wednesday, December 23, 2009

Twas the Night before the Night before Christmas...

Twas the Night Before the Night Before Christmas and all through the house... wrapping paper is laying around and gifts galore...

Wow, has it been one busy week! I haven't had a chance to breathe let along blog!!! We celebrated Christmas with my Mom, step father, sister, nephew and Grandma this past weekend... will post pictures soon... when there is more energy.

I think I have gone shopping every night and I thought I was done... but no!

Here are design team layouts to share... 1st is for Practical Scrappers- we shared a tradition!

Next, is my Scrapping the Music layout- our song this week is the theme song from "National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation."

These are a few of my favorite things... cars!!!
1st came to mind- my Jeep Commander which I will be purchasing when we are in our house.
Then, I thought, I should scrap my dream car!!!
Every since I watched Cruel Intentions... I fell in love with the Jaguar Roadster!!!
Maybe one day???

Next, I played along with Design Dollies with all 3 of their challenges:
Sketch
color- kraft, light blue, orange
buttons- 9 or more

Tonight, I announced my second design team call for Scrap That Poetry. Check out the call here. Please post about the call on your blog to spread the news!!! We had wonderful applications with the 1st call and cannot wait to see what I get this time!

Stop over and play along with our Night Before Christmas challenge.

I am looking forward to a very busy day tomorrow with the kids...

finishing stocking gifts

wrapping

baking

Rice Krispie house decorating

shopping- Brian's turn

opening jammies and reading "Twas the Night Before Christmas"

Church

God bless and Merry Christmas!

Tuesday, December 15, 2009

Twas the Night Before Christmas

Twas the Night Before Christmas when all through the house...

I could recite this poem by heart, my mom read it to us mostly from memory every year. She still comes to my classroom each year (if able to) to read it to my students. It is one of my absolute favorite traditions that I carried on to my children. Every year, we open new PJ's on xmas eve and read the poem. I chose this poem since it was so fitting! I loved reading the meaning behind the poem and how it began. Google the title and you can learn so much about it.

I hope you all come over and play along with us. It can be any project relating to Christmas!

My next project to share I created for Practical Scrappers. Our challenge is to create a Christmas decoration. I used YUMMY Jillibean Christmas papers to cover a metal star that my Grandma gave me! I can't wait to be able to hang it in our house.

This layout was created for Ch{all}ange Masters Color challenge. Our colors this month are red, green, blue and cream. I love this Webster Pages paper. It is my first time using it and it has such a beautiful vintage feel.

Finally, here is a card that I created for Sketchy Thursday's Second Chance Challenge.

Thanks for stopping by!
I hope you join me in participating in some of the challenges above!

Sunday, December 13, 2009

Message to Bryce and Clara

Message to Bryce
http://portablenorthpole.tv/watch/708ca2aa2070e4783d65156c7cb5beb2

Message to Clara
http://portablenorthpole.tv/watch/1a2502eb57f8d0fc0ee40fa5671530f6

Christmas is coming...

Home for the Holidays

I enjoyed creating this layout for a few challenges.

First, I used Sketchy Thursday's GDT layout sketch.

Challenge was to use at least 3 different pattern papers for 3 different lines.

Use 3 different clusters of embellishments.

The second challenge was for From Screen 2 Scrap. This is my 1st time participating with them.

Their criteria is:
use a Christmas song title for your title

use 3 or more Christmas embellishments

lots of colorful bling

"My favorite challenge" is for A Few of My Favorite Things: Favorite Holiday

It is a tie between Christmas and Birthdays for my favorite...so I chose Christmas!

This picture is from last year's Christmas Eve when we made Rice Krispie Houses for Christmas breakfast. Bryce began asking when we are making them this year. You can't start a tradition unless you want to do it every year with him!

The 4th challenge that this layout fits into is for Frosted Designs- Happy Holiday Challenge.

Check out all these great challenges as well as stop by and play along with Scrapping the Music and Scrap That Poetry!!! I can't wait to share the newest challenge for Scrap That Poetry on the 15th!

Some pics for my December Daily album...

Happiness is playing in your parents PJ pants!!!
My Mother in law and I were laughing so hard when they came down the stairs in these!
They looked so cute!!!

Getting ready to go decorate our Gingerbread Houses...

Before we began

Proud decorator!

Pure joy!

Teamwork!

Santa visted our Gingerbread House Building at preschool.

They both were excited to see him this year and couldn't wait until it was their turn to sit on his lap and tell him what they wanted for Christmas.

Clara- Barbie makeup table... (she is my girly girl)

Bryce- California toy (that is his Brycism for Transformer- not sure where it came from but it is what he calls them now... along with Chickadonalds is McDonalds) I love his Brycisms!