Happy Holidays...boy I've been gone a while!!!

Where do I begin...

well I spent the weekend before last working on Christmas cards

for my family and friends that turned out like this...

... pretty cute I thought. So, I had the bright idea to take

a picture of the kids together wearing their Santa hats in front

of the Christmas tree for all the grandparents and family

that looked like this...

So far so good! On our way to my dad's house Tuesday night

for his Christmas, we ran by CVS and my hubby drops me off

at the door to run in and print off a couple quick pictures for my

dad, but I never even made it into the building! Only a few steps

across the sidewalk and my feet slipped on the sheet of ice and

down I went catching myself with my head. I'm not sure if the

fall knocked my out or not, but I couldn't see anything for probably

a good 30 seconds. I just remember my husband calling out to me

from the car asking if I was OK, and I responded NO!!!

He said he knew then that I was really hurt, because I always

say that I'm fine. I found out later that my poor girls were in the car

crying because there was a puddle of blood on the sidewalk were my

head hit, and thank goodness my poor little baby Carter was asleep

in his car seat while my hubby and an EMT that just happened to be

walking out of the building helped me sit up.

I found out that I have a concussion (not sure if I spelled that right)

and trying to sit through the holiday parties and all of our families

houses was almost impossible. I hope they can all email me pictures

because I was and still am way too dizzy to take any. That just makes

me want to cry because it's my baby's first Christmas.

So, that's why I haven't posted for a while but now that I'm stuck

here at home and can't drive I'll try to do some catching up.

Hope everyone had a much better week than I did!!!

Happy Holidays All!!!!

My Karate Princess

My sweet Emmy is having a blast in karate!

We signed her up when a dojo opened up recently

just down the road from our house. We thought

that karate would improve Emily's confidence and

self-esteem, and boy we were right...she's thriving!!

Tonight she actually came home with a new badge

for me to sew onto her new blue gi for being able to

do the splits. It's a big deal in her beginner class to

get the colored gi...they all start out with white ones

and when the students can finally do either the

splits or the straddles then they can choose either

a red or blue gi...Emmy chose blue. She is sooo

proud of herself and I am too. I love seeing her

come out of her shell and truely enjoy something

that she thought she would never have the guts to

do. She is learning and just moving right along...only

one more step to go and she will get to be promoted

to the next class and receive her yellow striped belt!

I'm so proud of her!!!

That time of year...again!

Oh my goodness! I absolutely love this time of year and all of the

gorgeous decorations, but I really dread this time of year and all

of the decorations too...can anyone relate with that or is it just me?

In our family it is my hubby's job to go out to the garage, find where

he stashed all of the Christmas boxes the year before, and bring them

into the house for me and the girls to set up. Every stinkin year he

goes out to the garage and returns with about 3 or 4 boxes (we have

about 10 Christmas boxes) and promises me that this is it, no more

boxes to be found anywhere. We debate this for about 15 minutes

and then miraculously there are some boxes that seem to appear

from nowhere back in some remote corner of the garage. Well this

year, all boxes have made it into the house except the ones with our

tree lights and ornaments!!! So, our tree is still sitting bare in our

living room and I think my hubby would rather go out and buy new

decorations than have to dig through our garage anymore...oh my my!

Hopefully I look back at all this one day and laugh!!!

So, I am posting pics of the girls putting our tree together last year

because I may not get any this year...wish me luck!!!

December's Layouts for MOXXIE

Here are my layouts that I created this month for MOXXIE.

My assignment was to work with the basketball and wedding

lines. I had a great time making the basketball layout, because

I got to use photos from 4 or 5 years ago of my daughter Becca.

It was just really fun to be able to scrap those older photos and

reminisce about the great times we had watching her play during

her first year of basketball. I also created a basketball frame

cover that I can just switch out with velcro and replace with

the current sport of the season. Becca plays tons of sports

so the velcro and switching of the frame covers

really will come in handy.

Hope you enjoy!