Happy Holidays!

Hope that everyone has a wonderful, warm and happy Christmas. We broke with tradition this year, and opened all of our presents on Christmas Eve. As usual everyone got quite a haul - and they are now quite contentedly playing with their loot.

Tomorrow will be a nice relaxing day, getting up and opening the stockings and the Santa presents and then relaxing until the neighbors come over for Christmas dinner. Mitch is making his super-wonderful Prime Rib - my mouth is watering just thinking about it!!

Here's little Emma in her Santa hat - look at that mischief in her eyes! I think her Dad & I are gonna be in trouble in her teen years :)

Scrap Shanty kit sponsor layout

Uses the Metro Chic kit from the Scrap Shanty December Sponsor
The Scrapping Spot and the December Sketch Challenge Sketch.

To the kit I added:
Chip Chatter Alpha, White cardstock, White uniball signo pen, White Souffle pen.

What in the world was I thinking?

Every year, I vow to start making my Christmas cards earlier - or even **gasp** buying them. Every year I end up making them, and starting the 2nd week of December LOL. Considering that I send out over 100 of those suckers - I guess I'd call myself a glutton for punishment!

This is what the card making production line looks like. Thank goodness for my Cricut going to town cutting out all the circles :)



Next year, I RESOLVE TO START MAKING MY CHRISTMAS CARDS EARLIER. Remind me would ya? LOL.

Bows, and bows and bows

One of the DT members, Amy - over at Scrap Shanty, made up an awesome tutoral for the upcoming Cyber Crop.  Making your own bows from scrapbook paper.  Amy gave us a sneak peak of the tutorial and Emma & I couldn't resist making some bows of our own.

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Go Team!

Braeden is playing on the Parks & Rec league for the 4th year in a row. He has the same coach from last year, and a lot of the same players - they are hoping to be the league & Golden Ball champs again this year. They got off to a good start, winning their first game 26-19. Braeden played really tough - and scored 8 points. Go TEAM! (that is their name, LOL - Team!) That's Braeden - #39

Citizen Soldier by 3 Doors Down

For Brett, who loved this video when we saw it at the movie theater.

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Christmas Tree

We put up our tree tonight. Mitch assembled it, and since its pre-lit we didn't have to do anything with the lights. I put up the snowflake garland and bead garland and then the kids did the rest. Turned out pretty good I think.

Time for the Ark?

This is our flooded yard.


After getting about 10 inches of rain in 24 hours - Mitch had to make a sump pump by using our garden hose to suction water out into our culvert. Mitch actually put his mouth on the hose and sucked to get a suction started - he said I didn't wanna know what he sucked into his mouth - GROSS! But it did the job, and helped to get what we were calling Jones Sea to abate quickly after it quit raining.