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First, I hope everyone had a happy holiday! It was crazy here! The kids were so excited. I think they were bursting at the seams on Christmas morning!

Kaileyne's Christmas theme was HANNAH MONTANAAAAAAAAAA!

I think she almost fainted every time she opened a gift that had HM in it!

You know how six year olds are! It is all about the drama! LOL

The only thing she loved more was Pixos! She has not stopped playing with that since she got it.

Jet's Christmas theme was Monster trucks and Wall*E.

He loves Wall*E. he has watched the movie at least twice a day.

And he laughs. Oh how he laughs!

I love my son's laugh!

You can be in the other room and when you hear him laugh, you laugh.

His laugh is so contagious. So genuine.

Quinn's Christmas theme was oblivion. LOL

He did not care.

He just dug himself a hole in the middle of the ripped wrapping paper and made a home.

That was his fun for the day!

Ok, enough about the kids. LOL Let's talk about me me meeee!

Yes, my husband and my brother got the ceiling tiles, lighting and floor down in my new scrapbook room!!!! YAY!! That was my Christmas present.

Then, my MIL got me a gift card for Lowes. Double YAY!!!!

Went out this weekend. Bought a door. A door frame. Outlet covers.

And had the guys put them in this weekend. Triple YAY!

It looks like a room now!

We cannot put the base moulding or the corner round in until the cabinets come (heavy sigh), but it is coming around.

I was going to put a closet door in my room, but decided to put a curtain there instead. I thought that the door would make the room look smaller.

And that would not to at all. LOL

I want it large in charge!

So, now I have to save up for my cabinets. It will take me a little time but I am so excited.

I even cleaned up the entire basement tonight. It was a disaster!

But knowing that now I can set up my craft table in it, makes me all giddy inside. hee hee

I am going to do that tomorrow. I may even put some things on the wall.

I may even transport some things downstairs from the disaster I call my "current scrapbook room."

Kaileyne says she will help me as much as possible. Why? because she knows as soon as that room is clear, it is all hers to Hannah Montana up.

My baby girl will have her own room. She is beyond thrilled!!

I do not have any pictures of my room yet. I want to do a couple things before I take pictures.

I should be getting my curtains this week (fingers crossed).

Once I get them put up, I will share some photos.

I need to ask your opinion about something anyway.

Ok, gotta run. Tomorrow is "go to the dump day."

After cleaning the basement, I have a lot of things to throw away. Too much for the trash guys to pick up.

And my little baby boy is turning one on Thursday. Can you believe it has been a year?

And his party is Saturday. So much to do.

So, I will holler at ya soon.

Have a great week!

Merry Christmas!

From our CRAZY Family to yours!

Thank you Secret Santa!

A bunch of us from the Creative Memories Design Team decided to do a Secret Santa.

It is always fun! And I had not done one of these in so long. So, I was really excited!

It is so nice to be able to get to know someone and spoil them with goodies at the same time.

Don't you think?

Well, I received my package from my Secret Santa Yesterday.

She definitely deserves a shout out!

She was very generous.

I loved everything, but my favorite is the hand made picture frame. Isn't it adorable?

I only had one problem. I still do not know who she is! LOL

Hopefully she will come out soon!

Thank you Secret Santa!

And Merry "Almost" Christmas!

What? Only four more days?

Oh geez! I thought I had more time. 4 days?

I am "almost ready"

Just need a few more presents wrapped.

Today, is cookie day. Kids will be making sugar and chocolate chip cookies today from scratch.

Ok, I made them from scratch. The dough is in the frig. Ready to go. I did that last night. James helped. And then my brother came down just in time for the community cookie dough taste test.

Tomorrow is a full at the school. Crafts and Pizza Party.

Pick up a few more things for hubby.

Then, I need to create 3 classes for a crop before Christmas.

No problem right? Where is that egg nog? LOL

Hope you all are having a good weekend.

FOUR MORE DAYS!!!! Are you ready?

My Weekend at Scrapbook Cottage!

Well, it finally happened! After many years, I actually was able to go away and crop for a few days!

And I sure have missed it!

A good friend of mine, just opened a Crop House call the Scrapbook Cottage.

It is in Hedgesville, West Virginia. About 20 minutes from Martinsburg.

The place is absolutely gorgeous!! As soon as I got there, I was relaxed.

She has 2 big crop rooms. We each got a 6 foot table to scrap on (those who know me know I tend to spread, so this was good LOL) with your own Ottlight and Craft mat.

The food was awesome. Leigh is a great cook.

I scrapped until 4am Saturday morning. I just could not stop. The creative juices were going.

I scrapped 8 pages in less than 24 hours. I have never done that!

Everyone had such a great time. We plan on doing this every 6 months.

So, if you get a chance, you should really check it out.

You will not be disappointed in the Scrapbook Cottage.

Leigh thank you so much for inviting me! I had so much fun!

Hey Dawn, I am thinking if my scrapbook room is not done by Spring, that we should go here. We will invite our friends to come with us. what do you think?

Ok, gotta run. Going to a Christmas Craft Fair with the kids today.

Hubby is staying home to work on the scrapbook rooom for me... YAY!!!

One step closer to getting it done...

Have a glorious Sunday!

Day #3....Creative Memories Advent Calendar

I know some of you are still a little surprised that I am on the Creative Memories Design Team.

I am not. I am proud to be a part of this team. There is so much talent and the women are so wonderful to work with!

You should really take another look at CM.

They still have the High Quality albums and tools that we cannot live without, but the things they have and will be coming out with will blow your mind. It sure did that to me.

I am honored to be a part of this!

So, with that said I want to show you an Advent Calendar I created using CM's Everyday Display, Jewel and Primary Christmas lines and new alphabet stickers.

I created this for our 30 Days of Holidays. Each day during the month of November, you will find a brand new holiday project idea that was created with Creative Memories Products by our Design Team. You should really check it out.

So, here is mine....

The squares are 2x2 and I put magnets on the back of each square. I also cut out24 red "X"s and put magnets on them as well to mark off the days as they go by.

The stockings and mittens are from Big Lots. I put all the red "X"s in the mitten and the stockings will hold the daily goodies for the kids.




I really love the way it turned out and it was a lot of fun to put together.

See ya tomorrow.....

Talladega!

Ok here I am... Day #2 (told you I would be back heh heh!)

let's talk about Talladega!

I had the best time ever! We met up with some old friends and camped for 6 days.

We hung out and even spent some time with some of Denny's, Kyle's and Tony's Pit Crew one night. yeah we did!

It was AWESOME!

Race Day was H-O-T! Hot! I was baking in the sun. But it was all worth it.

And even though the end of the race ended in a call from Nascar.
Tony won! And I was there to see it! Woo hoo!

Also, Denny Hamlin was in a bad wreck. It happened right in front of us on the backstretch. It was bad. He had to be transported to the hospital. But he was ok.




The only bad thing about the entire experience was that I was unable to see my friend Gretchen. We talked on the phone, but we were not able to hook up.

What were we thinking? LOL The track is huge. She was on the front stretch. I was on the back.

I am so sorry Gretchen! I miss you and I wish we could have spent time together.

Overall, Talladega was amazing! I had so much fun, but was ready to come home to my family.

Next year, we are taking the twins to Richmond to see their first race. I think that may be the only race we make it to next season. But I know the kids will love it! And Richmond is a track we have never gone to before. Fun! Fun! Fun!

On a sad note, yesterday was Tony's last ride in the Home Depot #20 car.

He starts his new ride with Stewart-Haas next year in the Old Spice #14 car.

And it is Red! Yuck! I do not look good in red. I will miss the orange! But we will be ready!

We go where our driver goes!

So, that is it. Talladega in a nutshell.

I camped. I drank a little too much (shhh do not tell anyone). Spent time with old friends. Met some new ones. Talladega Perfection.

Have a great day!

And see you tomorrow.

PS I will post an advent calendar I did for Creative Memories in tomorrow's post!