He LOVES Tim Hortons

Oh my goodness, Jaxon our youngest, sometimes says the funniest things.

Yesterday I was pulling into the Tim Hortons parking lot; to get my fix, when my youngest son Jaxon, says 'Woah Mom, there are tons of kids here!' I explain that they are from the high school, out on lunch. I tell him that when you go to High school, you are allowed to go off school property and go to the Tim Hortons for lunch if you want to.

He says in a VERY excited voice

"YEAH! I am going to this High School, so I can go off popety to Tim Hortons!"

SO made me giggle! Yep raising him right, to love Tim Hortons! lol

I love his innocent way of thinking.

It is another ugly rainy day here. Perfect for scrapbooking!

Have a great Friday!
Debby

When the forecast is nothing but ugly, time to scrapbook!

April showers bring May flowers :)
UGH! Enough with the rain and clouds! I want sunshine! Beautiful bright warm sunshine!!
I bet everyone in Alberta agrees right now! OIY! They have had terrible April weather!

Well when it is ugly outside, might as well just scrap! And I have been doing that.
Saturday was supposed to be sunny, so I was going to do weeding, but now it looks like rain. Which kinda works out great as Saturday is National Scrapbooking Day! I can stay inside and scrapbook, guilt free! :)

I have been working with stuff Jayme sent me, from Scrapbooking Fanatics. Mostly new stuff, like Sassafrass Lass, but I also broke out an older kit she sent me featuring Pink Paislee.

These are our boys digging in the backyard - before we turned this area into a parking lot. These feature Sassafrass Lass stuff.


This one features Sassafrass Lass as well. My son Jaxon and his love for corn on the cob. I had fun creating the little corn on the cob with a small circle punch.


This one is using Pink Paislee Cupid Line. It's me and Jaxon 5 years ago. I played around with fabric flowers on this one.


I hope you find some time to scrapbook on Saturday, there is so much going on ALL over the place!
Happy Thursday and as always, thanks for stopping by :)
Debby

Happy 11th Brithday Kolton

Today is my oldest boys birthday. We had his party on Saturday and it was a great turnout, not great weather though!

Amazing how time flies!
I remember when he was little, I would look at him and wonder who and what he was going to become. Was he going to be tall, was he going to be loving, was he going to be a doctor....................
Today, we are getting glimpses of the man he is to become.
He is going to be a tall dark handsome man, who is very in touch with his femine side.
teehee


This is him at his party. The winners of the games we played got to do girly things to him and he was totally okay with that. He loved it and really played it up.

I think he will have something to do with the arts. He is always dressing up as some super hero or another, he writes the most imaginitive stories and loves to be center of attention.

We love you Kolton, Happy Birthday!

My Family

A few weeks ago we finally got around to doing an updated family photo. My Mil and Fil were on hand to help capture some of the photos and get in on the action as well.
They turned out okay, but I think we will do it again. The scenery is great, but it looks fallish, not springy.





It is hard to be on the other side of the lens. I wish I had set the camera up so my husband and I were more in the middle of the children. But I still love this shot; us ignoring the fighting, bickering children. lol



Can't wait to scrap these now!
If it is sunny in your area, get out and take some pictures!
Thanks for stopping by!

My Heart Belongs..... SFDT work

This is my sweet son Jaxon. I love these pictures, I caught the lights in his eyes and the right colour balances to show his freckles and colour of hair.
I did this page for Scrapbooking Fanatics DT work. Jump on over to the SF BLOG to see more details!

Here is another layout I did recently.


I have been trying to do more events and special days in my scrapbooking as well as use memorabilia. For this, I made a pocket and tucked in the kids report cards from term 1. Last week, the kids came home with term 2 report cards and I am going to repeat this idea. I get memorabilia in the books and it will show the growth of the kids over the year. If you have a chance give it a try!

Thanks for stopping by!
Debby

I made the COVER!!

Well not me technically, but my layout did!!!
On the COVER of Canadian Scrapbooker!! Due out March 1st 2010!!

I am so excited!!!!
woohoo!
It is not my child, just my design.

Scrapbook Fanatics DT work

I recieved the most wonderful package from Jayme at Scrapbooking Fanatics. It was filled with Pink Paislee Cupid goodies, Color Box goodies, lots of Bazzill and so much more!
I got this box yesterday morning and dove right into it. I was so inspired!!!
Here is my first page:


Doesn't that embossed Maya Road heart look like chocolate!!




I have a few more projects - rolling around inside of my head - I hope to get them out in the next few days!
If you don't have this line, run over to Scrapbooking Fanatics and grab it! You won't be disappointed, it is fabulous!!!

And in my world of 'Sickies', Kolton got it. sigh. He is much better today and going to school tomorrow. I pray we are done with this thing!!!!

Sickie here Sickie there

Boy oh Boy were we hit with the sickies!
First it was Danny, and he had it BAD. Then Jaxon got it and it was bad, but didn't last as long. And the last few days is was hubby, and he had it BAD.
Now I am worried Kolton has it, he is showing very small - might not be - symptoms. So watching him.
I have been lucky enough to escape it so far, even though I have been with each sick person, playing nurse. Puke buckets, washing, cool cloths and so on.
I hope I continue to escape it! Lots of handwashing and lysol spraying!

For today I will be happy, everyone seems to be okay.

I have scrapbooked through all this though. As the sick one was finally sleeping, I would clean, then scrapbook.

I don't make resolutions, but I do have a 2010 goal. I am trying to scrapbook more events. Birthdays, sports, Christmas, Holidays and so on. Seems I pass over those pictures and do the everyday ones. But the events are so important!

I have started, and while I find it a bit hard, I am doing it. So far I have scrapped 2 school pages and a trip to the pumpkin patch.

My challenge this past week over at the Inspired Scrapper was to use pockets, so that is when I scrapped the pumpkin patch, as I had tons of photos. So the pockets were great in allowing me to add many photos, but still decorate. Check out the Inspired Scrappers blog for more details. Here is my page - and it is a double pager!!


I was asked to design for the Memory Workshop for January, here is one of the pages I did for them. You have to receive her kits to see the rest! I did 2 double pager, 3 single pages and 3 cards with Sandra's kit. These really go far and include so much to play with! She includes so much to play with, but I think my favourite thing is you get so much cardstock! I love cardstock!!!


Well off to scrap some more! Hope you are all finding some time to be creative!
Thanks for stopping by!

New Years Eve

Happy New Years Eve everyone!

May you appreciate, love and learn from the year we are leaving behind and be humble, hopeful and excited for the year to come.

I don't make resolutions, as I hate to disappoint myself, but I am hopeful that I may continue to learn and appreciate what lies in my road ahead.

Tonight we are hosting a New Years Party. We will play card games, board games, some Wii and then we might even dance.

I have some fun New Years hats, but can't seem to find them. I know we lost some in the snowball fight at last years New Years party, but thought I still had some?
And do you remember those noise makers you used to get, remember you twirled them? hhmm wonder if you can find those anymore?

The above photo is of the kids playing in the snow we got yesterday. It was wonderful snow. Great for rolling the biggest snowballs possible!

Well Happy New Years everyone, may you be safe and warm!!!

Giving it a go here

I am a terrible blogger.

And for the past few years I have been paying for a blog I hardly used.

Hmm, why?

So here I am, on a free site, where I won't feel guilty about not blogging.

Christmas was wonderful, lovely and tiring. I love Christmas, I love lights and decorations, I love Christmas crafts, and the look on people's face when they open special gifts and most of all I love spending great time with the family.

BUT I have to admit it is very very tiring too! For 4 days we cooked, cleaned, decorated, visited, drove, laughed, cried, cleaned some more, cooked some more and on it went!

My freezer is full of pea soup and turkey soup, great for those cold winter nights. Did you make soup stock? My mother in law helped me with my pea soup. I have made it once before, but was a long time ago and couldn't remember how. It turned out wonderful! But I am the only person in my house who enjoys it. So I froze it in small jam jars. Just enough soup for one! They have no idea what they are missing!

My fridge is still full of leftovers, trying to use them up. Tonight was shephards pie with all the vegetable and potato leftovers. Tomorrow is scalloped potatoes with baked chicken probably. The homemade perogies, they went in the freezer. My mom makes these every year and they are the favourite at the table. This year, she made tons and there were lots leftover that we had not even cooked. YUM!

During all the visiting we did seem to pick up a small virus. bleh! I was sick first, then hubby and then Danny. I am hoping it goes no further, but most likely Kolton and Jaxon will end up with it too.

Well off to read my book and tuck myself into bed.
Night