Cute Pictures of the Kids….

Yesterday Emma started the part-day enrichment program at the CDC (Child Development Center) here on the base. Since she’s too young for kindergarten and our area doesn’t have a public pre-school program available, AND the private ones are “junk” here, I figured I would put her in the program at the CDC at least for [...]

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Pictures from Elizabeth’s Wedding

My beautiful sister got married on August 18th and it was the best day of the whole year that she could – it was my birthday! I will forever remember her anniversary and I think that was the secret reason she chose it
Emma and Sarah were her flower girls, and Elizabeth’s colors [...]

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I finally used Pick a Petal!

I needed to make some thank you cards for a friend's baby shower (as usual, part of the gift I give them) and since I was going to have a friend over stamping with me at the same time, I didn't want them to be too complicated and I don't know how everyone else feels [...]

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Cards for Shane

After seeing Yvette’s card, I was inspired to get up from the computer and make one for Shane myself. It’s fun for me to do, and I hope that it helps him achieve his dream of 350,000 cards for his birthday this year on May 30th. He’s almost half-way there! Emma wanted [...]

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Cards for Troops

Recently, as I’ve mentioned before, I helped organize an event here at Laughlin AFB where volunteers
came and stamped cards for the members who are deployed right now from our base. There are 68 or so that are deployed and that’s a lot considering the mission of this base is to train Air Force Pilots, so [...]

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Emma’s Birthday

Four years ago today I gave birth to my little baby girl, Emma. I can’t believe she’s already FOUR!!! The time sure does fly by and I’m sure that when she’s a teenager I will think that it was just yesterday that she turned four. We can’t take any of these days we are blessed [...]

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Emma’s Birthday and Gretel is in da House!!

While my parents have been here, my hubby has been out of town so he’s been missing out on getting to know our new puppy Gretel. She is super sweet and friendly. Even though we were sad that Peter had to go while they’re here, it was good timing for me and he [...]

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Blog candy WINNER, my NEW BANNER, plus a CARD!!

Well, little miss Emma (as you can see above) drew 2 numbers to decide the winner of my blog candy. For the first digit, I had her draw from 0-7 and for the 2nd digit it was 0-9. She drew a 2 and a 7, so lucky commenter #27 is the winner. Who was that [...]

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FS01 and the Pinewood Derby

Well, this card is another one that I made for the Featured Stamper Challenge on SCS. For details about Kurtis (the featured stamper) see this previous post. The card I CASE’d this time can be seen here. I only changed the colors and the stamp set used (I used Delight in Life [...]

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Heart Attack!!!

I went to check on my littlest one, Sarah. She’s down for a nap right now, and I went in and her bed was empty! I knew she hadn’t come out because her door was shut and it creaks when opened and I hadn’t heard a thing. I scanned the room a [...]

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