Dawson the Snowman

We went to Dawson's school concert last night....he was Papa Snowman in the production Melton the Warm Hearted Snowman.....he did great - remembered his lines and all....

meanwhile, poor Brayden is running a fever, and as the Motrin wore off, he got cuddlier with me and just wanted to go home....he woke up with it still, and the advil is working to keep it at bay, but I'd like to know what's going on with my boy....its not fun having sick kids!

Welcome to Winter!

Winter has arrived with a bang this weekend.....we are sitting at -22C and not expected to warm up until Tues....BRRRRRR!! Not much going on around here lately.....but the Christmas Tree is up....we have a busy week ahead with Beavers Christmas party, school Christmas concert & pics for the boys. Last day of school is Friday...then its 2 weeks off for Dawson....and 2 long weekends for me..... Back later this weekend with some scrapping I hope!!

Merry Christmas!!!

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December, already??

Where has the year gone????

Finally got a great shot for the Christmas cards on the weekend....one thing off the to do list...

I have had no time for scrapping lately.....hope to remedy that soon!!

Monday Monday....na na na na

come on, sing along, you know you want to....LOL!! While trying to think of a great title for today, all I could thing about was the song Monday Monday by the Mamas & Papas.... did a little scrapping this weekend, but have two boys with the flu that slowed me down....home today from work with them, and I think they are finally feeling better...me on the other hand - not as well... Hoping to do the 1 hr layout contest over at Creative-Scrappers.com tomorrow night!! you should check it out too!!!

Friday...where has the week gone....

just a quick Hi!! Heading out tonight for a Passion Party at my friends.....boys are heading to the neighbours for Boys night.........

Typical Monday

Mondays...yuck! I really don't like Mondays. I don't like the alarm going off...I don't like the mad rush to get out the door. I don't like the traffic on a foggy/slippery commute. Overall today was okay, as far as Mondays go. Its also Beaver night...so its a mad rush to feed Dawson & Matt before they race out the door at 6:20 pm....then its Brayden & Mommy time....tonight we're playing cards....hit or stay Mom....all I can say is Thanks to our neighbours, Brayden wants to play 21!! LOL!

Peace and Quiet!

I finally have a day to myself....I'm home alone....can do whatever I want......and here I sit on the computer LOL! The boys have gone hunting.... I've done nothing scrappy in the past 4 days. Wait - I did a fast scrap challenge for the ACOT Crop yesterday, but otherwise nothing....I need to do a card today for my Aunt for her birthday...and I need to get some digi stuff done.... And then....the phone rings.....looks like my quiet day is over....Dawson called asking if I wanted a hot chocolate from Timmys! From the way Brayden was talking in the background, the hunt was successful today....but it also means they'll be heading out again to Papa's soon....days like this I'm really happy we don't have a garage!!

My first award!!

Wow!! I feel like I've been on the red carpet LOL!!!! Deann gave me this award:

Thanks Deann!! I'm going to pass it on to Aimee & Day

I Scrapped!!!

A real layout.....LOL!! I've been so busy working on swaps the last little while that it feels really strange to be doing an actual layout. This is from PUmpkin Carving this year. I don't know why but we've never done it before. Dawson got right into, scooping seeds out, using a spoon and his hands. Brayden was into scooping for about 5 mins then didn't want to get dirty lol!! The PP is all SU - Ghostly Greetings dsp, the orange cs strips unknown, the spider paperclip is from a swap on a scrapbooking board I co host....the layout is a loose lift of a layout by one of the other board members...thanks for sharing your layout Marlene!!

Finished!

Finished the last of my Winter Swap Items today....feels good to have it done and know that I am done with swaps until after Christmas....my next one isn't due until January!!

Is Hunting Season over yet......

I'm definitely ready for it to be! I think the boys are ready for daddy to be home too!! They are stir crazy!!

Keeping my sanity by scrapping today......got a couple more swap items finished.....Christmas Tags. The reindeer is a $1 stamp, cs not sure, pp not sure, colored with my watercolor brush and marvy markers, misc white fibre. Thanks for stopping by

Deck the halls....

Finally got my act together and got started on the last few groups for the Winter Swap. This is an altered coaster, I lifted the idea from Lisa Martz over at SCS..no stamping on my version though. Each little list is personalized so that it can be put on the fridge and written on...and kept handy for Santa to see.

Supplies used: All SU - Riding Hood Red, Very Vanilla CS, Dashing DP, Creative Memories journalling pen

Friday Night Creative Challenge

This afternoon, I posted this challenge on the Scrapbooking board I cohost....I challenged the girls to make me a Christmas card....and post it by 10 pm mst (so they had a little over 6 hrs)

This is the one I did (well I actually did two of them) Simple, yet elegant. I can't find my 'good' white ink, so I'm putting more of these on the back burner until I find my ink. Nice and simple. I used SU Cardstock - riding hood red, and baja breeze, baja breeze ink, Lovely As A Tree Stamp (by SU) and white fibre & ribbon (non SU), and the SU Scalloped border punch.

TGIF!!

I must say this has been a long week.....but the end is in sight! I was able to get the boys fed, Brayden tubbed all before 630. Dawson finished his homework, and was in the tub by 700...Yay!! Both were in bed by 730 and I finally had some quiet me time. (unless you count the cat slapping me in the head with her tail from her perch on the back of the computer chair lol).

Cracking Down

So my hubby has gone on yet another hunting trip starting early this morning and not due back until Tuesday.....I plan to take advantage and have the bedtime routine back in place, yet again, starting tonight!! And its good tv night - ER, Grey's Anatomy, CSI, Survivor.....and some scrap time too I hope....I have a Winter Swap to finish...and still have 3 groups to do of 5.... Edit: when I wrote this post last night and scheduled it to post in the morning, little did I know that my day would start off with my 3 yr old playing with the front door, hence allowing our dog to escape for a roam about town. After driving around looking for her, I was about to give up and leave her until after work. I went home to be sure the gate was open so she could at least get into the yard....while I'm sitting in the driveway who should stroll past me with her head held up, almost smiling, and so very proud of herself but Miss Sierra......well at least I know she knows where home is.....sigh.

Sharing for the first time

I made this adorable Santa for a Holiday Altered Item Secret Swap for the scrapbook board I am cohost on....I love him and it was really really hard to part with him.... I just hope that his new home enjoys him!!!

Howdy!!

Holy Scrap!!! I'm jumping in with my eyes closed....but what better way to do it!! Look here in the very near future for updates on my family and more importantly my outlet - scrapbooking & stamping projects!!