Happy New Year!!

Happy New Year to all my friends!!

Can't believe this is my last post of 2007, can't believe it is all over already!!

Not to Rub It In But....

man it is so nice outside.

I feel bad for all of you who are stuck inside cause as much as I miss the snow and change of the season you cannot beat playing outside in 74 degree weather on New Year's Eve. I have all the windows open in the house and there is a beautiful breeze blowing through.

Ian is even wearing shorts because he was so hot.


Happy New Year's Eve, I hope everyone's weather starts being nicer. According to one of the weather men here it is supposed to start getting colder here for the next week so we should enjoy this while we can. But that is only if you listen to channel 5, channel 4 tells a different story.

If I have to count them all.

I did 152 layouts as of today for the year 2007. I don't know if I will get anymore done tomorrow but if I do I can adjust it accordingly.

I went to a crop on Friday night at Scrapbook Heaven with my friend Melanie and I ended up getting 5 layouts (out of the 6 I had all planned out) done. Pretty good for me in 5 hours. Means I am getting better about planning my layouts.







Most of these are inspired by Becky Fleck sketches in one way or another.

Nothing Fancy BUT I Did Dust Off The Supplies

I actually scrapped yesterday. They aren't my favorite work but I wanted to post them anyways. Got more of these photos from summer 2005 done that are all printed out already.






Probably would have looked better if I actually turned on the old computer upstairs and scanned them. Might have to look at bringing it down here and putting it somewhere where I can use it on the laptop.

Thanks for looking.

There are reasons why I am not on tour...

For Christmas Hubby and I got an Xbox 360 and the game Rock Band. It comes with a guitar, drums and a microphone. A microphone you may say, yes I said the same thing, how could you play a game with a microphone. Basically you sing karaoke and if you can match pitch and stuff you win points.

Watch if you dare, that kid that sang badly on American Idol looks great in comparison to me!!!

A Very Star Wars Christmas

Uncle Brian and Aunt Cherlyn sent the boys some presents but we heard they weren't feeling very good today so they couldn't video teleconference with us when we opened presents so we videoed it for them to see.

Merry Christmas you guys, get well soon.

Happy Birthday Baby!!

Can you believe it was 3 years ago that my water broke on Christmas Eve and my father in law had to drive me to the hospital to have a baby? It doesn't seem like that much time should have passed. He is my baby still and I want him to stay little! But he isn't.

Today he turns 3. A big boy, one who is ready (if not completely willing) to go potty on the big potty, one who knows his ABCs (if not always in the correct order) and one who has decided that as a big boy he can do everything by himself. I don't know why they call them the terrible twos, it is always the threes that seem to be bad to me. But he is my baby and I will survive this one and he will hopefully make it to four. :)

Some pictures of opening presents this morning...

Chuck E Cheese!!

My hubby and I swore we would never go back to this place after we took Ian there when he was little but Evan talks about it all the time!! It is so cute, we drive past and even though he has never been there and doesn't know what it all is he always says "I'm going to take Kimberlee there on my birthday."

Well Kimberlee wasn't able to come but we decided to go to Chuck E Cheese anyways for an early birthday party and we were pretty impressed. It was nice and clean inside and there was some one constantly cleaning things inside. And most surprisingly, the pizza was actually good!!

We invited Phillip, a friend of the boys, and his mom to come along with us and the three of them had so much fun with the tokens and playing all the games.

I made a cake!!

Evan's 3rd birthday is on the 24th and I decided to make a cake this year instead of buying one. I found one of those mold pans at Hobby Lobby and it was Evan's favorite Lightning McQueen.

After much trouble with getting food colors that were the right color this is what came out.

Pretty cute, if I do say so myself. And I know that Evan will love it.

SWIG

So over the Veterns Day weekend my girlfriends and I all got together here in town and ended up a bar named Swig. It was this really nice martini bar. Now for someone who doesn't drink and has never had a martini, I did pretty good that night and found that I really really like sour apple martinis.

One of my friends Mel sent me this awesome little Christmas gift, I love it so much and I have it sitting out on the counter (minus the chocolate which was eaten in record time) and I smile everytime I see it!!

Thanks again Mel and you are welcome to come and visit any time!!

Holiday Memory #20

Holiday Memory #20 - The New Year

List some things you like to do every year to prepare for the New Year. Is there anything you always like to do for New Year’s Eve or New Year’s Day? If you’d like, you can save this journaling for the actual New Year’s Day just like with the past prompts for Christmas Eve and Day.

New Year's day is normally the day that I take down the Christmas tree and put away the decorations.

This year we are planning a kid's New Year's Eve party. Just inviting a couple of friends and their kids to come over for dinner and then we are going to play some games and watch some shows and drop the ball about 8pm so that the kids can get to bed at a decent time. Ian has been really interested in the whole changing from 2007 to 2008 so I thought this would be good for him to ring in the new year!!