The Big Chill....

Last week was an interesting week to say the least!

We had a little snow. Whoever said it never snows in the south was wrong. It has snowed a 3 different times since I have been here. I love it. The kids get so excited and run from window to window and in and out the door to get as close as they can to the snow. They do not care how frezing cold it is. I love their sweet smiles.

My wedding anniversary was last Monday! My hubby and I have been married for seven wonderful years. Don't get me wrong we have traveled on some crazy bumpy roads and some smooth sailing seas....But your life is what you make it so choose to make it GOOD!

A few minor hick-ups in our everyday life stuff. Yeah....We are traveling on bumpy roads right now......It will all smooth out....I gotta have faith!

A wonderful girls day out for my wonderful friends. It was our friend Brandys birthday and we went to Baton Rouge. Shopping at the scrapbook stores and ate lunch at PF Changs.... My new favorite restaurant! What more could a girl ask for.Happy Birthday again Brandy, my sweet friend.

We built and designed another stage set for the church...Thank you Heather, Matt and Stacy for all your help. Last night we had a ladies Christmas meeting for church called the Big Chill....The photo above I jacked off Christies facebook.... it is a photo of all my girls. It is so wonderful to have amazingly talented, beautiful, loving, kind hearted friends who would do anything for you and are totally real about life. Love you girls!

P.S. You can see part of the stage we built in the photo. Yep.....Watch out us girls are pretty good with power tools!

Have a great week. I am looking forward to this weekend. I get to spend the whole weekend scrapbooking at the Arbor Oaks Retreat house in Lake Charles. Gotta love that! Hugs and kisses. Amy

I am so excited to announce I made the Creative Team at Faith Sisters. I can't wait for the upcoming year. A time of devotion, reflection and relationship. Hope you all will take a few minutes to check out My Lifetime Story challenge for 2010. Can you believe the year is almost over. I am excited to see what God has planned for the New Year. I am excited to have the opportunity to share my gifts and talents that God has given me with others..... Love to you all, Amy

What is your FAVORITE Holiday?

Mine is and forever will be Christmas. I can't say that I decorate a ton but I do have a tree and a few nic-nacs. Jaxon, When he was almost 1 loved the ornaments so much he knocked over the tree. At that time I had a tree full of unique hand blown ornaments, of course you know when they hit the floor they go to ornament heaven.....It is okay each year I continue to collect my own handblown ornaments and as a tradition I have started,I get an ornament for each of the kids so when they leave home they have their own collection for their tree. I do have a nice collection of the cool glass "inside" painted ornaments from Pier 1 Imports....a fave store of mine. They make great gifts. So now we resort to a tree full of ornaments the kids have made...We made salt dough ornaments one year but we can't put those up cause Jaxon tried to eat them...LOL. We have fun making ornaments for the tree. Another tradition in the making. My favorite present for Christmas is my stocking....full of sweet little surprises. It is usually what I shop for first when it comes to the kids presents. My mom always had the best little treats in our stockings and if we got up earlier than her we could always open it without her being there.....little did she know, it was my favorite present. Don't get me wrong I loved everything but I love a gift with "little" stuff. I think that is why I love to fill a gift bag or box with little unique items that I have searched for. It makes for a more personal gift.

So What is your favorite holiday memory?

For my layout, My favorite memories of all is the time we spend together as a family. The whole day no distractions of work or phone....Just family. We spend Christmas day with Jasins mom, brothers and step-dad. This year will be very different. We are going to be visiting my dad. My Dad lives in Missouri with his wife and my sister, Julie and her family and my 2 step brothers and their family. This year will be the first Christmas I have ever spent with my dad. Ever in my life. So I am excited and can't wait. Lots of new memories to be made!

Here is my layout for our design team at What is Your Fave Thing?

The paper is Bo-Bunny. Love the vintage santa and angel. Great paper. The lace I found at a wholesale place. It has Santa and his reindeer. The santas list card came in a pack from October Afternoon. 2 prima flowers and a vintage milk cap, I got in my Jenni Bowlin Kit from last month and rub on letters from 7 Gypsies.

These are some old paper milk caps I found at a flea market.....Been trying to find a cool place for them....I cut into the circle all the way around and bent one part forward and the other part back.....Making this unique little flower.


I pray that everyone remembers the reason for the season. Whatever your belief may be. Jesus came so that we could have life. So live everyday, enjoy every moment and Stay away from the mall it only causes you stress....LOL. If you can't find that special toy your child wants for Christmas wrap up a note in a box and tell them they will get it when all the craze from the holiday subsides. We all tend to walk a little on the dark side when it comes to stuff like that. Take a look around at all the beauty, Christmas lights, Family, Beautiful trees and decorations, Family, Yummy food and sweets, Family, Family, Family and Family. I hope all of you have a wonderful time with Family. Hugs, Amy

Creative kids....

I hope everyone had a peaceful rest over the Thanksgiving Holiday. We spent the whole week with family it was great. I love that the kids get the whole week off of school. Although most of their vacation time was spent with their Ma'maw and Pa'paw. It is a good thing. We went to visit....Hahaha, funny, huh, visiting your own kids but they have 2 acres of property and they love to run around and play outside! I am so thankful for our family. What would we do without them? I am thankful for all my sweet friends.....What would I do without YOU!!!???


Last week we had our Friday Night All Night Scrap at our church. When I was running around picking up last minute goodies Alexandria asked me if she could get a paper mache tree and some scrapbook paper. I made some of these trees last year but nothing like what she came up with. I love to let them play free with their creativity. Here is a picture of the tree she made.


She just tore strips of paper...Green and black to match her bedroom. Curled them on the ends with a pencil and glued them to the tree. She added buttons, feathers and sequins. So easy and a great centerpiece.

I made this little Christmas wall hanging!!!





I found these giant dominoes at Target and knew I could use them for something. The little embellishments are cut out of some greeting cards I found for $3.99 for 12. Those of you who are in the states, you know of a store called Ross Dress for Less.....well they have everything....and way less than any large department store. Well, I have just found that they also have some pretty cool scrap booking supplies...I have bought Making Memories, Colorbok, Chatter Box and 7 Gypsies paper packs there.....Paper and embellishments in a sample pack for $2.99 to $6.99. The 7 Gypsies pack had 100 peices of paper, 4 different rub-on packs, 4 large sticker sheets and a journal sticker sheet for $6.99. What a deal...


I was scrappin' recently, cutting out little frames on a piece of American Crafts paper. Jesse is usually the one at my feet when I scrapbook....all his mighty creative juices flowing. I did not even know he made this robot with all my scraps....He made it and put it in his book bag for his teacher..... Don't worry I let him give it to his teacher but not before I took a picture of this cute little robot and posted it here for you to see.


I love it when they use their imagination and get creative. Jesse always comes home from school and duplicates projects they did at school that day.....I have a bucket of scrap paper I give the boys and Alex too, if they need some cool paper.

Come back tomorrow for the latest challenge for What is Your Fave Thing... We gotta a great new challenge headed your way!

Faith Sisters....

You gotta go check out this blog....

http://faithsisters.com/forum/index.php?topic=11486.msg111171#msg111171


I have recently stumbled {Thank You Julie for sharing it with me!} on a faith based blog. They have different challenges and they are all to encourage our faith!

If you go to the link above it tells all about their year long challenge for 2010. It is called My Lifetime Story....An album all about "me". Leaving a legacy of faith behind for the generations to come. It is so inspiring to me. We often forget to scrap ourselves. How wonderful is it to leave a book behind telling a story of us. Why we do what we do and why we are who we are! I can tell you I so wish I had that from generations past in my family. So I am going to take on this challenge and pass on a legacy to generations to come. Hope you join in!!!!