French fry fort and others

I told Pam I'd post the french fry fort...and here are some others

more Nov and Dec pages

Nov and Dec

more pages

here are a few more

pages blessed with things from my STC sisters

Here some pages with things from my sisters, see what you recognize!

Some Christmas ornaments

Wesley wants a Santa Claus/Snowman tree this Christmas. So, I'm making ornaments...

looking for ideas

I had a camera malfunction and do not have the pictures fo the Gingerbread house before it was "attacked", but, I want to do a page anyway. I have no ideas! Here are some of the things that I have that i thought could work, but, I'm looking for suggestions...

Time for spring flowers

I needed some spring flowers, and May was too far away.

Isn't it amazing what you can do with a few stems from DollarTree?!

Deer me

Ok, ladies, here's what the deer have to look at...

We did find time to have some fun

Even though the weekend wasn't what you'd think of as a "fun" one, we did manage to find time to have some fun. On Friday morning, while my parents met with the lawyer, DS and I spend an hour and a half in the pool! What fun, he hadn't been in a pool since a few days before Christmas. (He missed the Cub Scout pool party the weekend he was sick). And, I hadn't been in the pool with him since vacation. He still knows how to swim! And, we had a few races, it's becoming more of a challenge for me to beat him!

Then, even though Grandma lived in a little tiny town, they have an awesome LSS, and, I HAD to go! I really went to look for some artist embellies for the poster, but, I did a little shopping while I was there. They didn't have the embellies I had in mind, but I found a Pinewood Derby Car! And, paper! My mom, who does not scrap, but enjoys looking at what I do, was going nuts over the papers, it was hard to behave, but, I figured that the family would notice if I spent all the grocery money on papers! I can hardly wait to go back to help clean out the house so I can go back and get some more great papers! (Like I don't have enough, but, if I want to get those 209 done in the next month or so, I will need more paper.)

Grandma's Memorial

She lived a good long life. Three days short of 96 years, 9 months. She was ready to go ...she had been without my Grandfather for over 38 years and missed him terribly every day of those 38+ years. She would tell you that she had lived a good life.
I spend most of my week working on her "memorial poster", as well as taking care of things here for my parents, who were there taking care of things for her memorial. I think that her poster turned out very well, I only wish that we had been able to find photos from when she was younger (We did find a portrait and a few snap shots, but had no where to get them scanned, so, we put them in frames instead of on the poster). I hope that it captured her last 20 or so years well...
She was loved by so many... and we were all amazed to learn that she had helped to start the church that she attended for just short of 75 years. Pastor Greg did a wonderful job of her Memorial service, he knew her well. And, Mr. Peter's did such a wonderful job of making her truly look as if she were just asleep. And, God gave us a sunny, and not too cold day. My parents chose to not have a graveside service, and I think it was a wonderful choice! We each went on our own to say goodbye in our own way. And, low and behold, we ran into some other family members there, and they had seen some others leaving when they had arrived, it was a happier way to say goodbye...

I'm so thankful that my parents came home and picked us up, I didn't have to drive, and we got to spend some extra time together, something we don't seem to be doing much lately.

It was a long week, and now, we must move on...lets hope we can all have such long and happy lives

Here are more of the October pics...

playing catch up

Since I am soooo far behind on this blog, I'll add a few things at a time. We'll start with October. There were lots of Cub Scout events to scrap. And, then, there were the "tomb stones" for the ghosts wagon, or was it his version on Grave Digger, his favorite Monster Truck...and, who can forget pumpkin carving. I'll try and pick my favorites, but, if I didn't love it, I wouldn't scrap it!

Happy Birthday

It was "the best day ever"! What a happy birthday boy. He didn't even mind that we can't have a birthday party with his friends. (Sorry buddy, some people in the family are 70 year old babies). He was so surprised with his Green Machine! And, he loved his cake and all of his cars, monster trucks and Lego's.
Today he and Daddy moved the seat on the Green Machine forward so he can reach the petals easier. And then, we took it to the big parking lot at the school so he could figure out how it works.
Unfortunately, he woke up last night, with a fever I think. He was feeling better so, he played outside and we tried out his new toy, but, then he wanted to come home. He hasn't done much, and has now been asleep for 2 hours. At least he wasn't sick for his birthday!