Ourselves, Elfed.

Sorry, I just couldn't help myself!
Starring Jan, Jamie, Jared, Fonda and Ma. Set your coffee down before pushing play.

Send your own ElfYourself eCards

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Happy Thanksgiving 2008!

Journal Your Christmas 2008

It's time again for Journal Your Christmas with Shimelle.
Last year I Journaled My Christmas, or at least most of it...Here's a few of the posts I had about it. I was looking thru the book the other day and actually finished more pages than I remembered.
The concept is to record something each day of December and into early January. It was a fun project but I decided that I better get my book prepared first in order to be able to get it done again this year. I have started on that and I think this year I will have a combined project of Journal Your Christmas and Ali Edward's December Daily project. Which is a similar project about just recording a memory a day, no matter what it is, where Shimelle's project has daily jump-starts and specific prompts to get you going each day and creative suggestions for your pages.
With two trips planned to MO this December, I think I better keep it simple in order to keep up!
I have my book almost ready and will post some pictures soon.

The 25th of November

Playing along with Shimelle for Scrap-Your-Day. This month's theme was including yourself in your photos. I didn't get too creative with that, just consciously remembered to DO it!

It was a rather un-eventful day. Work, school, home. Nothing too exciting. At first I thought I would have just a few pictures, but LAD pulled thru in the evening and provided photo opportunities. I think I took a total of about 50 pics, but whittled it down to about 19. Wow this might be a record for me!
Morning routine:

Cold today

This is the sight I was greeted with when I went to pick up LAD. They are very observant and spot Moms right away! I was so proud to see LAD carrying 2 purses, one pink, of course!

LAD was displaying his possessive quality here. His friend in the green shirt was saying Hi to me and LAD was telling him "That's MY mom", in a not so nice tone. It's ok buddy, it's OK.

You definitely cannot sneak up on this group, they all know who belongs to who!

Heading out.

Our obligatory stops on the way out of the building:
The fish tank across the hall.

Roxanna at the Basket Boutique.

Then at home. After supper. LAD wanted to "work". So we got out his stamps and stickers.

And one thing leads to another:

Which turned into:

Poor Harry. He's so tolerant.

What do you keep in your bottom dresser drawer?

The one who is not so tolerant...

LAD was obviously not in the room when these photos were taken (from the iMac)! :)

And that's the end!

Kreativ Blogger Award!

I received this nice blog award from my friend Janet. Her blog is always entertaining and inspiring!

Here are the rules of the Kreativ Blogger award:

1. The winner may put the logo on their blog.
2. Put a link to the person who sent you the award.
3. Nominate 5 blogs.
4. Provide links to their blogs.
5. Leave a message for your nominees.

And now I nominate Ma, Jan and Cassie.

First Snow!

It snowed an inch or two today. Roads are just wet. It was a pretty snow, big flakes! LAD and I decided to go out and enjoy it!
These pictures today fit perfectly with this weeks Design Your Life sketch at BPS. I'm a few weeks behind, so just decided to jump back in and catch up later.















Layout and concept provided by Cathy Zielske, Design Your Life workshop at BigPictureScrapbooking.com

We got this small snow shovel a few weeks ago, finally putting it to good use!

We ventured into the back yard, found some dump trucks and buckets. Had to fill up the buckets with snow from the playhouse.

He picked up speed as he went!

Goodbye Autumn!

Highlights of LAD to ARK

LAD spent last week with Oma and Aunt Suzie while Daddy went deer hunting with his buddies. I think they were on the go pretty much the whole week! They started out going to Petit Jean State Park.

New sunglasses and a tiny bag of pink rocks!
All of this leading to exhaustion!

Chores:

A visit to the Veteran's Day Parade. He was very excited about the Candy. I hadn't heard about the puppies!

Playing with his cousin Andrew, who is his new BEST friend. I think he would follow Andrew anywhere. Thanks Andrew for the two bags of toys cleaned from your room and given to LAD!

Entertaining his Oma and Great Aunt Jeanette:

A scenic ride on the Arkansas & Missouri Railroad

Life is great with an Aunt (and Oma) like LAD's!!!