Grade 12

I was so happy to get this picture. Believe it or not, it is a school picture. I enjoyed the rich colors but for some reason, when I took the picture of it, the richness turned bland. I found these old foam stamps and used some white paint. Found some flowers that match and some random cut up bling to embellish the corner.

Cherish

See, I took the favorite picture, blew it up and made it pretty with bling. Too bad we don't know who took the picture because I would like a clearer one. But, this helps us to preserve the memory.

Smile

Holy Cross had a Winter Formal for the Grade 12s which they have done for a few years. Faith got a beautiful red dress for it. She was so excited. Mike (unlike him) bought new dress pants, shirt and matching tie. He showered, shaved and did his hair . . . and then . . . he danced and danced and danced. Faith was so happy. These pictures were sent to her by e-mail. She doesn't even know who took the pictures. But, the left top one is her (and my) favorite. Got to use some of the newer Basic Grey for this layout.

You Rock My World

While we had those few warm days in January, we went tobagganing at Diefenbaker Hill. Faith wanted to go with Mike and his family, so Lucas and I tagged along. Mike isn't much for tobaganning, but he went a few times with Faith. Again, glad I got a few pictures of it. They are so cute together.

Happy 18th Birthday

This is Faith's 18th Birthday party. We went to Saigon Restaurant and then had birthday cake at the condo. I used some patterned paper which was pretty busy so I cut some of it away to make it less busy. For a present I made her a card holder and put in gift cards and lottery tickets. She loved it because she could get things as she needed them and what she needed.

Yum & Christmas Joy

This is one of my favorite pages from Christmas. Probably because I saw the look on Jade's face when she tried Auntie Brenda's Chocolate Mocha Christmas Log she brought for dessert. Jade doesn't eat much but this dessert had her agreeing to a second helping later on in the evening. Everytime she thinks of it, she says, "YUM!"

I found my brass templates while I was moving so I decided to try them with the new core cardstock. I will let you know that when sanding this stuff, the color lightens quite a bit. Otherwise, I got the look I was wanting. Faith is holding up one of her gifts from Gramma that each of the girls got: The recipe, cookie sheet and all of the ingredients for Rolo Cookies -- their all time favorite. The paper worked well, the star is stickles and the balls are brads.

Sky and the Guys

Well, I found Sky's school picture on the bottom of her locker. I think it looks great. She sure is growing up. I looked everywhere for the right tones to put together this page. I think this line looked the best. These pictures are from Mom's birthday party this summer. Unfortunately I didn't get a single picture of my dad for the page. As you can see by most of the pages I did over the past little while, I have been using a ton of old product. Hey, if it works . . .

Play Fight

Lucas has always had this in him. He likes to make knives and guns out of paper and then play fight. While I was wrapping Christmas presents, he grabbed the empty tubes from the wrapping paper and began a sword fight with me. We played until the tubes were destroyed. Then he ran and got some cardstock and we made guns, knives, swords and grenades. He even made a laptop to send messages. He played "commando" on my bed, making bunkers and war noises for hours. It sure is nice to see him playing like a kid -- even if it is kinda vicious.

Wii Christmas & Christmas Traditions

I took lots of pictures of the kids playing Wii. They all had their favorite games and played with one another for hours.

There has always been a family tradition to play some cribbage on Christmas Eve. However, because there was only Ken and Brenda and Me and My Kids home for Christmas at Gram and Gramps house, there were only a few for cribbage. Ken attempted a game with Gramps and Spud Man. I think it makes Dad feel good.

I had one day alone over the Christmas Holidays. I chose to sit in front of the television, watch two movies I had been wanting to watch and scrapbook. I only had a few old things at home to use on the pages plus my adhesives and scissors. So, I did what I could. I even had an old lettering template I hadn't used in forever that I used on every page. I didn't want to waste time getting up and going to the computer, so I didn't journal.

Guitar Hero III - Legends of Rock

Lucas spent much of his Christmas holidays playing Guitar Hero on the Wii. I really don't know how he does it. His fingers fly across the buttons. Guess he needs a real electric guitar. As you can see, I am still using up old product.