Made it safely

Well, aside from starting off moody yesterday, we all made it to my Mom's house in Oklahoma. We did get out of our moods and had a fairly pleasant trip too. We are all glad to be here. Just wanted to check in real quick but now I have to go. My mom just got home from work and my DH and I are leaving our DS with Grandma and going out to celebrate our 9 year anniversary. Yea!!! I will have some word art to share when I get back.

Have a blessed day,
Stephany

Visit to the Arlington Highlands

We went to Michael's for an outing today to pick up a photo book to put some brag pages in for the grandparents. While there we saw they had a toddler/preschool craft time. Andrew got his heart set on painting something and so I decided to go ahead and let him have a little craft time. I figured I didn't have to clean up the mess. He did really well not making too much of a mess. He picked a little wooden truck to paint and chose the color black to paint with. After he finished painting the truck he got a little stocking to glue thing on. I will take some pictures of these things and eventually get them scrapped. I wanted to kick myself for not having my camera with me to take pictures while we were there. My little man did me proud by not throwing a tantrum or making a mess. What a sweet little guy. He even used his manners and gave the craft teacher two hugs.

When we came home I thought to take advantage of my his nap today by scrapping some more. I put him done probably around 1pm and he didn't go to sleep until close to 3pm. I would have skipped his nap altogether but he is going to stay the night at a friends house tonight while my DH and I go to a Church Board dinner. Oh stuffing, I haven't even gotten his things together. well, there is still time because we don't leave until 6pm.

Anyway, here is the LO I got finished today. I found a really cute word art from Tina Chambers that I had downloaded forever ago and thought it went perfect with my DS's character.

Credits for this LO:
Template: Lisaminor_8x8_tp1
Kit: petitmoineaux-jardinextraordinaire
Fonts: Socilly Awkward
WA: Define by Tina Chambers

Freebie Time

Just thought I would try designing again. I needed a kit to go with a picture of my son and decided to make one. Simple enough, right? Well, let me know what you all think of my new kit Checkers, Stripes and Bubbles, Oh My! This is my first time using 4shared on the upload side of things. I hope I did this right. If I didn't, bare with me. I will try to fix it asap.

I also finished a LO done with my new kit.

Credits: Template - lisaminor_ht5_square
Fonts: Child's Play and Arial
KitL Checkers, Stripes and Bubbles Oh My! by me


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Innocence of children

Okay, so today my son was supposed to be sleeping for his nap. I thought I would finish the movie we were watching yesterday (Miracle on 34th Street-the newer version). While I had the movie on I heard humming in the background. I went to investigate and low and behold my son was humming to Away In A Manger. That just melted my heart. Instead of busting him on not being asleep yet I just quietly shut the door and let him continue. I love to hear him sing and especially when he sings about Jesus. I can't wait for the day he will come to know Jesus in a real and personal way. Jesus is our hope of salvation and I pray that we can continue to teach our son and any future children that truth.
Just thought I would share one of the special things about our day today. Hope you are all having a great day and God bless each of you,
Stephany

I almost forgot to add a sweet thing my husband did yesterday for me. I will preface this by giving a little background: Anyone who is either born and or raised in Oklahoma knows that Christmas officially starts when we hear a certain jingle on the tv or radio. That is the BC Clark Jingle. Having moved from Oklahoma when my husband and I got married we missed hearing it until going home to visit family. Well, last night he sent me the link to the jingle on the internet and it just made me cry (I am a very sappy person). It was so sweet of him to share that with me. And so if you all would like to hear this special jingle than scroll down to the bottom of my blog and you can play it. It is quite a catchy little jingle. Hope you enjoy!

What an crazy weekend and some sad news...

Eric and I had a very busy weekend. It started off with a Brown Bag Cookie Exchange, Dumpster Diving, Choir Rehearsal, a Christmas Parade, and then finished off with two performances on Sunday.

I went with two of my very close girlfriends on Friday night dumpster diving for the first time and had a blast. We thought our night was worthless until we went to the Container Store and found some really great items. There was quite the thrill.
Then my Church had a float in the Christmas Parade on Saturday night and that was a blast. The temperatures were nice until half way through when the wind picked up and reminded up that it was fall going into winter. The float was beautiful. Well all the parade was pretty good. I took pictures of my son with different Loony Toons characters. Pics of that will be up in a few weeks. I am a slow scrapper.
Then on Sunday I was in a Musical/Drama at my church called The Christmas Shoes. My husband played the husband of the mother who dies. By the grace of God he made it through splendidly.

Today, I found out that my sister's SIL and BIL were in a terrible wreck yesterday and the SIL did not survive. They were on their way home from vacation when they had to stop for a jack-knifed semi on the road. While stopped on the side of the road another semi behind them did not stop in time and jack-knifed as well taking out many of the cars stopped in front of it. My sister's SIL was sitting in the middle of the van they were driving in and the back of the van ended up in the front seat. I pray she was gone before then because her husband tried to pull her out and then the van burst into flames. What terrible heartache we are all feeling right now. PLEASE pray for my sister's inlaw's and husband as they endure this tragedy of losing a daughter, sister(inlaw), wife and mother right now. It will be a long Christmas for them.

I pray safety for all of you traveling this Christmas season. And let us not forget the reason we have to celebrate and that is Jesus Christ. Life is short so give a hug to all your loved ones and be friendly to those you meet along your path.

Stephany

Whew...I am tired

I stayed up last night scrapping until 2:45am (technically this morning) and then woke up at 7:00 because my little angel doesn't sleep past then. I got two more finished today. I wasnted to get our Thanksgiving pictures scrapped and I think I have them finished. I'm a little sad that I didn't get any pictures of my mom or her new house really and she was kind enough to let us stay with her. We are going back in two weeks to stay for Christmas so I won't pass up the opportunity again. Here are the LO's I have completed: (I have all the credits listed in the original file but I can't remember them all right now).



This template was created by my friend Terri
Kit used was Borboleta by Isabelle Lima DESIGNS
WA - Be Thankful by Melanie
I don't remember the font right off the top of my head, sorry.

Template used created by Valarie Ostrom Template #14

Kit used was by Rose Made Designs - Thanks

Fonts are Decade and Andy

Template by Andrea Gold #155

Kit used was the Add-on kit to The Magic of Christmas by Newlife

Again, I don't remember the fonts here.

Template by Andrea Gold #153

Kit used was the MIS November Round-up Mega Kit (various designers used)Template used by KimB Designs - B-day Bonus 1

Kit used Pumpkin Pie and Pilgrim by Polka Dot Plum

Font used on Title was Decorative Chocolate BoxTemplate used Template 5 from Skittles and Scraps

Kit used was Winter Is Here by my friend Lisa Minor

Font I think is Tall PaulTemplate again is from Skittles and Scraps #5

Kit used Hiver by Maman Scrap Passion (hope I got that right - no TOU)

WA from the MIS November Roundup Mega Kit

Update on Lisa's DH and a new LO

Sorry I haven't let you guys know the update yet. Her dh is doing GREAT. When they did the surgery it took less time then the surgeons thought it would and he was released from the hospital the day after. Wow, God is good! What an answer to prayer. The Lord does have great timing indeed.


Here is a LO I did yesterday while my little man was taking a nap. My friend Lisa is such an inspiration to me and she showed me that using a little white space as a background is okay. She also showed me where I could find these great frames. My son loves the play with playdoh and in this LO we were making insects and reptiles. Or at least I made the insect and he made a reptile. Here is Fun with Playdoh:

Credits:

Template: SSC69L
Frames: By I Made This Today (not by Stephany)
Font: Cry Kitty, A Little Pot and 2Peas Scrapbook

Hope you all enjoy and God bless,

Stephany

Need Prayer...

I don't know if anyone will read this but I have to ask for prayer anyway. Lisa's Husband just had a disk rupture in his spine (I think that is where). He has been in tremendous pain for the past weeek but it ruptured sometime this morning. He is scheduled for emergency surgery today at 1:15pm. If you could please say a prayer for Mike (Lisa's husband), Lisa, their family and also the surgeon's that would be very helpful. Thank you!

In Christ's service,
Stephany

Okay, so I'm posting on Steph's blog

She's a new blogger, and a newbie scrapper too!
But she's made a freebie to go with my "For the Toys" kit, so here it is!


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Welcome to my new blog

Thanks for stopping by. I hope you enjoy your visit as I ramble about my life and show off my wonderful family. I will try to be back at least once a week to give updates and have a new picture for you. My friend Lisa has so graciously taught me to digiscrap and now she is trying to teach me to design a little. With that much being said I will try to offer up little freebies here and there as I learn. I figure that since I love freebie hunting I should return the favor. I would just like to take a second and thank all of the wonderful ladies (and guys) that are so kind to offer their talents to us for free. I can't tell you how much that has helped me get started. Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!

Have a great night and happy scrapping!
Hugs,
Stephany