End of the Year PageMap

I love Becky Fleck's PageMaps, they are a great source of inspiration for me when I am needing a little push in the behind. She is having a little contest on her blog for the end of the year.

This is my version of the end of the year pagemap contest. Wish me luck!!Paper is by Heidi Grace and Bazzill, Chipboard by Scenic Route and letter stickers by Making Memories and American Crafts. Also used my Creative Memories corner rounder and Stampin Up border punch.

Journaling says "ian playing with the net that the easter bunny brought him" and the date and place on the Scenic Route chipboard circle, above the picture the full title is "how to catch a Goofball" and along the side in the little Making Memories letter stickers it says "give him a net and he will catch himself".

More layouts

I scrapped this weekend and finally the stickles is dry and I could scan things. This first one is based on a sketch by Katie Stowell and a digital template by Anne (aka Stormrose). I used this sketch as the sketch challenge for the week over at the ScrapShanty.
This second one is my attempt to get as many pictures of coloring easter eggs on one page as I could. And using up some buttons. The large letters in this one are the Noah letter stamps from Studio Calico and then I coated them with black stickles.

Both of these layouts were made using the Confections kit by Studio Calico. All except the Basic Grey Obscure buttons.

Seeing Santa

The gym we belong to had a kids night tonight and Santa came to visit. He was a good looking Santa for a Santa that drives a Honda and almost hit us driving through the parking lot. The boys really enjoyed getting to ride on the little red train that Ms. Teresa had arranged for the kids.

The "follow me" thing.

So from what I can tell when you sign up on blogger to follow someone then when you log into blogger is posts at the bottom of your homepage what their newest post is. So I guess it kind of notifys you when I post something new. But it is still new to me so I am not quite sure what it does.

If anyone has any other information about this please share!!

Little contest I entered...

I entered a little contest over at ScrapSupply.com that was due last night at midnight. For the challenge you had to come up with a list of 10 words that describe your home in December. I took this picture friday after school to use for the challenge. Journaling says "I have a feeling this is just a preview of what will be going on at our house over HOLIDAY BREAK picture december 12, 2008". And my 10 words are...

bored

lazy

hungry

messy

constructive

destructive

playful

noisy

silly

happy

Products Used:
Bazzill cardstock, Basic Grey patterned paper, Basic Grey buttons, Studio Calico stamps, Quickutz scallop border die.

And the Winner Is....

THE STEPS!!! Ian tripped today while playing at the gym's kids club and landed on his face. He was a brave little guy though the guy in charge said he fell and then just got up and came over to say what happened and he put some ice on it. He is probably going to have a pretty good black eye in the morning. Hopefully it will heal up quickly as we are supposed to get pictures taken next week on friday! But that is about par for the course for us when we are supposed to get pictures taken. LOL!! At least he wasn't crying and it isn't hurting him. Plus I don't think he is minding at all that I MADE his lay down on the couch to watch cartoons all night with ice on it. We'll see how it looks in the morning, it definitely didn't effect his appetite, he ate two helpings of beanie weinie tonight!!

Mountains

I seriously think I was born in the wrong spot. There isn't anything like this in Iowa. There is something about looking at this that just calms my soul. It is so beautiful!! I could have stood and stared at it for a very long time.

I just got back from a little visit out to see my friends Kim and Mel out in WA State. As you can tell from the picture I am way up high, we had dinner at the Space Needle in Seattle and it was really good. The whole visit started because Kim got me hooked on reading those Twilight books and we decided it would be fun to go and see the movie together too and see some of the sights of where the books were supposed to take place. More pictures from that later!!

Around the World at Christmas Time

That's the name of the 1st Grade Christmas Program this year. They sang songs from all around the world. I have the program with the song names but I will have to put them in later because it is in the back of Darren's truck right now.

Ian was so cute in his Santa hat. He didn't want to wear it after he got there because none of his friends were wearing a hat, man I sure hope we aren't getting into that whole peer pressure thing already, I am totally not ready for that.
He has this funny look on his face in a lot of my pictures and when I asked him what was wrong after the show because I thought maybe his throat was bothering him from singing his lungs out like he likes too, he said no, he had to sneeze. LOL!! That's my kid!!

The highlight for Ian was getting to be a bell ringer during "I Saw Three Ships". It has been all he talked about for the last month. He did a great job!!

And what would be Christmas around the world if you didn't have a song that represents Christmas in Mexico, you know since we live in Texas and many of the same traditions are done here. So they danced and pretended to swing at a pinata!!! ((Ian said he really wanted to be the person holding the pinata but he didn't get that part.))

That's Ian's friend Patrick playing Santa Claus!!

The whole first grade!!!

Home for the Holidays

Ok so I was gone for about a week visiting family and stuff and I wanted to share a couple of pictures of the boys with their grandparents and my whole big family.
And a quickie of the boys as we were leaving MO playing in the snow!! They had so much fun and kept begging please can we go outside and play in the snow!!

COMING SOON!

The ScrapShanty has another fun daily challenge coming up starting next week. It should be a lot of fun and I just wanted to share with you the little teaser blinkie that Didi made for it.

So make sure you check out the ScrapShanty Blog and Message Boards for more information!!

How long have you been blogging?

Well I just noticed that I passed my 3 year blogging anniversary the other day. November 30. 2005 was the day I started this blog. I didn't really know if anyone would look at it let alone read it or comment but here it stands today still going strong. Still not sure why people look at it or read it or comment but thank you to those of you who do.

I promise tomorrow to download the pictures off my camera from our trip and post them. Right now I am just too tired.