Merry Christmas, Happy New Year and Happy Birthday!!!

Well, it certainly was a hectic holiday season, I have to say Im glad its over! We didnt have a great one even though it was Jadie's 1st Christmas. We had some unfortunate things happen on Christmas Eve and that seemed to set the tone for the Holidays. Anyways, everyone is fine now and we move on......

My Little Jadie just had her 1st Birthday!!!....I can believe that my little angel baby is one! How did that happen??? It's been a hard year for us but without our beautiful girls, it would have been much worse!

HAppy Birthday Princess!!!

Creating Christmas :)

Just some projects I have been working on this Christmas......I could not, for the life of me find a nice stocking for Jadie....so I made one :)

A journal I altered for one of my Daughters friends for Christmas, we arent 'buying' alot of gifts this year :)

Next some of the Christmas cards I made this year...

Also check out what Mission Create has come up with for Mission 0005

Mission Create!

Happy scrapping all!!!

As promised...Halloween pics!

I know I know....Im a little behind...since its almost December~~ But here are the Halloween pics of 2009! There is alot more but I just picked a few :)

My girls on Halloween

Our 16th Annual Halloween party at our House

My friends Clarice and Michele

My bestie Wendy :)

My Julie

The biggest turn out ever...about 50 people!

Mario and Luigi (my hubbie is L)

2 of my favorite gals...Nicole and Deborah!

The Mario Clan

Stay tuned for some creative goodness!

Mission Create 0003

I havent posted since the last Mission Create challenge...sorry but we have alllll been sick in this house! Yuck. Everyone seems to be on the mend now finally....

This is what I came up with for our challenge on Mission Create...I used all the concepts

Why dont you head on over there for some good ole scrapping fun!!

Coming up soon....Halloween pictures...and oh there is some Doozies :)

Mission 002 is up...

Head on over to Mission Create

Get scrapping ladies!!! :)

This is what I came up with for this challenge:

Mission 001 is up!

Come out and join us for the first challenge on Mission Create!!

This was my take on the challenge:

I would love for you to join us with these challenges....there is a prize this month :) donated by Rosa from The Paper Passion!!!

J

Big scrappy news!!

My great creative friends Nicole, Vanessa and Deborah and I have started a new Challenge blog!

Please come and check us out.....The first Challenge is on Sunday Oct 4th. I cant wait to great creative with all of you!!!

http://missiontocreate.blogspot.com/

Happy 10th Birthday Julie!!

My beautiful daughter turned 10 yesterday! 10!!!!

I cant believe it...she is really growing up :(

Here's to you my girl!

In other news...Im going back to work on Sat....booooo

Also stay tuned for some awesome scrappy news!!!

Schools in!!!

Well we had great summer..did lots of fun things. Tons of camping and beaching. I have to say though, having 3 girls at home for 9 weeks was tiring :) sooooo I'm happy school started!

Here are my girls and there Back to school pics

Jamie is in Grade 2

Julie is in Grade 5-which I cant believe!!!

Hecla Anniversary

Jeff and I celebrated our Anniversary on Saturday :) We have 11 great years of marriage!! We deceided to go camping with the kids. We went to Hecla....what an awesome time!! We had never been there before and honestly, it was my favorite camping spot so far. The campground was super clean, the scenery is amazing. We had a view of the lake from our campsite!

We even did a little hike with the kids to the lighthouse. Everyone really enjoyed themselves!

On another note....going to Atlanta tomorrow!! I cant wait to see Jill :)

Here are some awesome pics from our trip.

On the hike to the lighthouse

The lighthouses

Our own private sunset view :)

'The' Cliff

View from our Campsite!

Kinda funny pic taken by Julie..fitting though as it was in a church and on our Anniversary :)

Our awesome site!

Where are you???

LOL...Im talking to myself.....

I *think* I have lost myself :(

I have been talking to my Mom about this recently...I know its pretty common to have a sense of 'lost self' after you have a baby but this is ridicuous.

There is so many things I need to change that Im not sure where to begin:

I want to quit smoking (again)

I want to lose alot of weight

I want to scrap more

I want to eat healthier

I want to do more active things with my girls

I want to be more organized

I want to find myself

This is only some of the things...yikes...got some work to do!

Anyways, I dont want to be a downer.....so dont worry I will get there :)

On a happier note....

I get to go see Jill in a week, and then drive back home with her and my Mom....super excited! I miss that girl like crazy!!!!!!!!!!!!

Just Add Sugar

My very talented friends, Nicole and Deborah have started a great little blog called

Just Add Sugar. They are selling beautiful cards and mini albums. Go check it out!!!

Scrappin with my sister

Isnt the the internet grand!!! Here's the deal....my sister Jill lives in Atlanta right now...soooo we cyber scrapped on Friday (through gmail) It was nice to feel connected to her...I miss her so much!

Anyways, she totally outscrapped me. Jill did 3 pages I did one :) Truthfully, I played alot of Bubble town while we chatted. :)

This first LO is the one I did on Friday. It is done for the DT Wed challenge #11 over at TPP.

The second LO, I did on Sat :)
Later

J

Life is a Beach

We went to Grand Beach on Sunday. I managed to get some nice pics. Enjoy!

Dont you just love summer :)

Cupcakes anyone?

I've been making these little cupcake pin cushions.

I think they are cute!

They are about 2 inches high.

I will be selling them soon :)

Perfect for gifts.

$3.00 each

If you are interested, let me know in the comments section.

J

VEGAS

Since N and V are talking about it, Im going to talk about it :)

Going in October

Cant wait

Going to have so much fun

Great company

Good times

Many margaritas

No kids

Its going to ROCK

J

HIP HOP.....

HEY! You found my blog :)

Welcome!

This wonderful site called The Paper Passion is hosting a Fathers day hippity hop 'BLOG HOP'

All you have to do is is comment on each person's blog for a chance to win a great prize!

Here is the card I created.

I used some yummy Jillybean journalling spots, good old sewing, some fuzzy thicker, some white glitter chipboard hearts and some buttons!

My kidlets are still small so I can get away with making my hubbie a 'Daddy' card LOL

My Husband, Jeff is the BEST Daddy in the world! Happy Fathers day honey :)

All you have to do is go and visit Alison and comment on her blog then hop on over to next one...and so on :)
There you will find a link to the next blog.
If you want to travel backwards through the blogs, the person before me is my Friend Vanessa.

Make sure to comment on each of the blogs and then finally head on over to The Paper Passion blog and comment there too :)

Here is a complete list of all the Blogs

Enjoy looking at all the yummy Fathers day themed goodness!

Hayley http://www.hayleycreates.blogspot.com/
Jenn: http://thewickedlywonderfulworldofwustaz.blogspot.com/
Wendy http://www.wendysommers.blogspot.com/
Dorrie: http://dorriesden.blogspot.com/
Tessah: http://ramintessahscraps.blogspot.com/
Nicole: http://www.justnicks.blogspot.com/
Vanessa: http://www.grooveygrover.blogspot.com/
Jocie: http://jociejocie.blogspot.com/
Alison: http://alisoncreates.blogspot.com/
Wendance/Wendy:http://www.wendancedesigns1.blogspot.com/
Laina: http://lainamillson.blogspot.com/
Dawn: http://dawnhueser.blogspot.com/
Carrie: http://laterg8r.blogspot.com/
Jodi: http://luvalotland.blogspot.com/
Jill:http://jillelizabethsarginson.blogspot.com/
Kathy: http://scrapperkat.blogspot.com/
Diane: http://www.scrappeediane.blogspot.com/
Pam: http://fairyrocks.blogspot.com/
The Paper Passion http://thepaperpassion.typepad.com/

7 already?

What more can I say....my beautiful Jamie turned 7 on Jun 6th.
Having little girls is bittersweet....you love watching them grow but still want them to stay little. We spent the day at Tinkertown, then on Sunday had a little family party.

Ohhhh my heart is full these days I tell ya.

I love my family :)

Happy days

J