My 17th Anniversary

Flowers Phil got for me for my "anniversary".

For those of you who know me, you know what I mean by the title. For those of you who don't know what I mean by this, I just celebrated my 17th anniversary of being 29! This works for me very well. I love my anniversary, which was 2/11. I had a wonderful day as I received many phone calls, cards, texts, and well wishes. My parents and my father-in-law gave me cards that were tear jerkers! My brother-in-law that lives in New Jersey called me and told me he loved me. It is sooooo wonderful to be so welcome in Phil's family and feel like I have been with them forever. Everyone is so good to me. Thanks to all of you who remembered me and wished me well. It was a great day.

Snow Bowl

My cousin Tate was the head coach.

Seth and Collin participated in Laura Street Baptist Church's Snow Bowl. Tanner watched and took a couple of pictures. I took pics from the Bearcats letters from the field that represented each of the boy's name.

What a weekend.

Wow, are we exhausted! We kept the granddaughters this weekend and are definitely not used to the late night feedings! We also kept the granddogs...they were more work than the girls! We had a blast and hated to see them go home. Lainey hardly cries and is such a good baby. She has grown so much. Sorry, no pictures. My batteries are not staying charged. Someone is either using them or they are not good anymore. Leena was such a good girl. Grandpa took her to the park and rode bikes. She came home filthy! We wanted to take them out to show them off but with Lainey's eating schedule and the dogs, we stayed home most of the weekend. Maybe next time. Our house is trashed so this week we will have to work on that. Anyway, we had a super weekend.

Some Scrapbooking Layouts

The next layouts are of my father-in-law's 90th birthday party. He was surprised by a ride in a Model T which Phil arranged!

I like to take pictures and cut them apart then place them side by side. I also use the cropped off parts as an added embellishment. The lemonade embellishments came from your flower shop in Tarkio, Mark and Lori!

The Lemonade Stand layouts were as much fun to make as to watch the kids run the stand. Leena was a definite attraction!

This one is of Seth...I like it because of the simplicity of the page.
I thought I would share some layouts I have worked on in the last few months.

Many thanks, Mende

I want to just take this moment to thank Mende who has inspired me with all the fun gadgets for my blog. I have learned how to add more fun gadgets from your blog and have had fun with this learning experience. Thank you! :)

Merry Christmas Family Pictures

No, I don't give my kids beer...even though Collin looks like I do! I can't decide if he is a Mountain Dew man or a grinch! I was very proud of all our kids as they were appreciative of what they received and said they didn't expect all they got. Next year, I think we will do some charity work and maybe instead of buying a bunch of gifts, put the money together and all of us go on a weekend trip...am I nuts or what?!

Our "little" family finally got together for Christmas after much stress and working with everyone else. We had a WONDERFUL time and took family pictures. I love the pics of Davin and Hannah. Of course, with our goofy bunch, one had to be with us acting goofy. I don't know where we get this do you DAD?

Icicles...these are a few of my favorite things!

I snapped some pictures of some pretty icicles hanging from our front porch...yes, I said pretty! There was a huge one hanging from our top roof that I could see from our upstairs hall window but didn't get a picture of it. Maybe next time?