Wow what a Christmas!

I took soooo many pictures this year that I had a really tough time picking which ones to put on the blog. I ended up with 25 after I picked through them all. We had a really good Christmas this year, we spoiled the kids and spent time with lots of our families. We watched "A Christmas Story" multiple times, opened gifts with the kids on Christmas Day at 1:00pm so they could have time with their other families, hosted the Larsen family dinner and gift exchange with lots of laughter at the selection of gifts, and had lunch and presents at Gramma Twyla's house with board games afterward. The kids got goofy when they opened their presents, the girls loved their Coach purses, Cameron loved his pocket watch and his knives, and Mike laughed at the duck tape and gloves Cameron gave him and was relieved to finally get the toaster oven he has been asking for. Jimmy got a gun and was super happy, he freaked when he opened his slicer from Rachel, I got an Ipad which I was totally NOT expecting at all and Rachel got me that awesome Stephen King book I wanted. We all had alot of time off together and got to really relax and enjoy the holiday. Whew, now I need to focus on the New Year!! Happy New Year to everyone, hope yours brings you everything you hope for.

Merry Late Christmas

I hope everyone had a peaceful and joyous Christmas. Jim and I had alot of time off so we were able to spend lots of time with each other and the kids. We pulled out a bunch of our old board games and had a marathon session-we played games that hadn't even been opened yet. (some for good reason!!) This year "tree picture" was taken by Rachel's boyfriend Sean. He was so patient, he even put up with me giving him a "lesson" on my camera. The end result was good, although the first picture I opened up was blurry and made me panic just a little bit. I'll post more pictures of our family Christmas' later this week. Have a good week all.

I'm baaaack! Just in time for Christmas!

Wow, where have I been? Nowhere really, just hanging out at home. I've had the lat 7 days off and I've just been shopping for Christmas and relaxing at home. It has been a really nice break and I've enjoyed just doing nothing most days. We've got all of the Christmas presents bought and mostly wrapped, all of the food bought for dinner tomorrow and nothing left to do but wait for Christmas morning. So I finally headed out to the Loveshack to put away some new stuff I bought over a week ago and maybe scrap a page or do a project. I pulled out the pictures below and was inspired to create these two layouts. They came together pretty quickly and I'm happy with how they turned out. I promise to blog more regularly again once the holidays are over. Sunday we are heading up to Jim's moms house for our Christmas with his side of the family, I'm looking forward to it. Enjoy the next few days my friends. Merry Christmas!

Happy Birthday Tiffany!!

My sweet girl Tiffany is having a birthday today. As most of you remember she moved to Alaska this year and I miss her terribly. We get to see each other next month at CHA and I can hardly wait. Usually it's the scrapbooking I look forward to at conventions but not this year- I need a Tiffany fix! Unfortunately I am still having blogger issues so I cant post any pictures on here so click on this link to go to Tiffany's blog and learn a little bit about her. I love you Tiffany and cant wait to see you!
http://www.scraptiffany.typepad.com/

I think I need help!

I think I may need an intervention.... from mini albums. I haven't scrapped a regular page in probably a month or so. I have been just doing mini's with some of my favorite pictures. You know it's bad when your husband asks if you do "big" albums anymore!! So this one is the pictures from the photo shoot we did in Olympia last month. I used a Maya Road album that Tiffany had given me and I picked up some Bo Bunny papers that I loved from a local store. I really like to blue colors with the pictures, they seem to match perfectly.

So I actually had a lot more pictures but Google or Picasa wont let me upload any more pictures. Apparently I have used up all of my space? I didn't even know that was possible. So, I need to figure out if I have to buy more space or if there's a way to delete some of my older stuff. If any of you have advise please let me know. Thanks!!

Rachels Birthday Dinner_Thanksgiving

Yep, I'm behind in my posts! Last week we took Rachel (and her boyfriend Sean) to dinner to celebrate her 20th birthday. We let her pick the place and she chose Applebees which was nice because it was close to home for all of us. We gave her the new Nook Color for her present and she loves it- look at that smile on her face. Now we just need to figure out how to use it well. During dinner Jim offered Mike $15 to drink the whole bottle of A-1 and of course he did it. The lady at the table next to us was cracking up watching him!

I also posted a few pictures from Thanksgiving at our house. Jim made a deep fried turkey for the first time ever, it turned out really good. The only thing I don't like is the stuffing has to be cooked outside of the turkey and I like the flavor of it inside the bird. The day was nice and quiet, everyone was gone by 4:30 to go to other dinner so Jim and I had the night to ourselves. Hope everyone had a nice holiday too.

Rachel turns 20 today

Today is my beautiful daughter Rachel's 20th birthday. I have to say, the time seems to have sped up since she turned 18, 20 crept up fast on me. Rachel has always been loving sweet girl with a strong personality and she continues to be that kind of girl today. I am very proud of her and love her with all of my heart . Happy Birthday my girl.