Something for ME

So I have a few friends who do this FUN card color challenge and this year I got the scoop! I started with color throw down #172 but I wasn't confident enough to post it.

I did not have all the colors. I substituted Taken with Teal for Bermuda Bay and Rose Red for Melon Mambo and I used markers.
The stamps I used are all from Stampin'Up Snowflakes, Snow Swirled, Gifts of Christmas and Season of Joy!

Here are the cards I made. I think they turned out good. Interesting to use colors I do not associate with Christmas at all.

Wow another New Year 2012

I am not really making any New Year Resolutions this year.
I am just going to try and do BETTER than last year in EVERYTHING!!!

I forsee so many changes in this coming year most are exciting and those are only the ones I know about.

Sierra graduates in May and sometime in the Fall will be leaving for college!
Mom will just have to get used to it and get a life! HA

These events have been formost in my mind lately. Being able to spend so much time together over the holidays has made me realize how much of my life is HER! and I know it will always be that way but I never thought I would have a hard time letting her go and grow up... but easy tears tell me differently.

In my Institute class on Tuesday we talked about what we have learned and could share to help us in the New Year. (I posted it on Facebook as my status 1 day) Anyway 1 of the comments was to ENJOY the MOMENT...LIVE IN THE NOW So that is what I am going to do this year :D

Family Christmas Letter

It's begininning to look a lot like Christmas!

Well before we left to Utah for Thanksgiving Doug and Sierra had the house all decorated with lights and as soon as we got back the Christmas tree went up and the house was all decked out and the star and our Three Trees were out decorating the yard... and we got some snow!! :)



And we rescued our little penguins from the big bad vandals we had last year! With their new colored lights they look DISCO fantastic!

Carving Pumpkins

It was a little late this year but we did manage to carve pumpkins before Halloween!


Sierra and Doug went Freehand with their designs and I found a picture in the book I liked and went with that!

Doug doing brain surgery on his soon to be FACE!







Me concentrating on following the pattern !




Doug's PUMPKIN FACE


My Haunted House

Sierra's Edgar Allan Poe inspired pumpkin




We had a FUN meal of mummies and fries!

Halloween Costumes

This year Sierra was SLEEPING BEAUTY, she chose to wear the BLUE part of the blue and pink dress!
Her friend was DOROTHY from the Wizard of OZ!

Our First Snow 2011

We got our First Snow Oct 26th on our 20th Anniversary!!!