My Uneventful Weekend...

Yesterday morning was a seemingly uneventful morning, for about 2 minutes! At 7:30 I decided to get up, well, my daughter decided that I was going to get up. She had climbed in bed with me at 6:30 when my husband and my son got up (this happens almost every weekend morning, because my son gets up very early and my husband can't really sleep in anymore...I have no problem with that).

I walked out into the living room, glanced at the backdoor, which was open, and caught a glimpse of my husband walking pieces of drywall and paneling up from the basement out to the garbage outside. Do you know what my WONDERFUL husband was doing?? He decided that my craft room needed a makeover!

He took down walls and cut out a hole so that I could see the kids while I was working...he is going to put up a huge countertop so that I will have a ton of space. It will be an "L" shaped countertop, with one side being about 8 feet and the other side being about 6 feet. I am so excited. It should be done this weekend. I will post pictures as we go...I have demolition pictures that I will post tonight.

I am so excited...he so great!

Baby Shower Invitations

So, here goes...I really hope that these turned out nice. I think that they did. They are for my brother and his girlfriend and my future niece's Baby Shower. I am so absolutely excited about having a new niece! I am practically jumping out of my skin waiting to meet her!! Anyway, I am making the invites as I said...here is your first sneak peek:

What To Do...What To Do...

with all this time that I have today. My hubby took the kids and went up to his parents and to an extended family Christmas today. I didn't go because I had to work this morning and then they would have had to wait for me to get out of work. Nevertheless, now I have all this time today, after work, to do whatever I want. What I really want to do it scrap...but, what I should be doing is cleaning. What a dilemma. What I will probably do it clean a little and scrap a little, clean a little and scrap a little. I really do have a reason to scrap. My brothers girlfriends baby shower, that we are throwing for her, is February 13th and I am making the invites...that need to go out like the end of next week!! Ah!! Anyway, I really need to start those, so that we can send them. So, I have a reason. Anyway, hopefully I will post some new stuff today! And get some cleaning done.

New Year, New Resolutions!

So, today is going to be my last post of 2009. Thank goodness. I have always loved the New Year because even though so many new years resolutions go undone or unfollowed through, I still feel like it's a new beginning. I have many New Years resolutions this year in a couple different areas of my life:

Family

• Every day my kids get bigger and bigger and more independent, it makes me sad, yet it makes me happy too. It means that Justin and I have done something right. Therefore, I am going to cherish every day with them and do something special with them to develop more family traditions that they will remember as they get older.
• I am determined to have family dinners at least 3 times a week. It's hard, but I think that it's important and it just takes a little bit of planning.
• I will also try to remember that my husbands needs to know how special he is to me also. I will try to make a larger effort to show him.

Work

• My dad always said, "All you have to do is what they ask of you." It's so true if you think about it. It will not only help you do your job, but also help you go above and beyond.
• I will make an effort to be grateful that I have a job, when so many other people don't.

Scrapbooking/Cardmaking

• Recently I have started making cards and I have found that I really enjoy it. So, I will continue to make cards and develop my cardmaking talents.
• I will also make a bigger effort to get my kids scrapbooks done and to scrap those cherised memories, not just the ones that I have pictures for, but the ones that really mean something.
• I am also going to make a HUGE effort to organize a design a craft room that is conducive to creativity.

Well, that's it for now. I'm sure that there will more as the year goes on, but all will encompass the loves of my life, my family.

One Last One...

Here is one last card that I whipped up for my hubby tonight. It's his last day at work for 2009 tomorrow and I wanted to make it a good one, so I am stuffing this in his briefcase tonight for him to open in the morning. Enjoy!

Simple Birthday Card

Here is another simple card that I did with the help of a Pagemaps card sketch. It's a birthday card. I used my Gypsy, mt Cricut Expressions, and my Martha Stewart Embossing Gun. Sorry it's not the best picture. My craft space is a huge mess right now, so trying to find room to take a picture is a little difficult!

Get Well Soon...

Here is a card that I did for my grandmother who is in the hospital tonight...please pray for her. She has a lot of fluid in her lungs and they think that she was in respiratory arrest.

It is also the card layout from the Mojo Monday Sketch Blog. I have been meaning to try one of their sketches for quite some time and when I saw this sketch I sat right down at lunch and planned it all out on my Gypsy...unfortunately the sentiment turned to Get Well Soon when my mom called in the afternoon to tell me about my grandma.

Hope you like it. Thanks for looking.