1 dozen wedding anniversary!

Hello blogland! How was your weekend?
My weekend was awesome!!! Yesterday Mr. Hubby and I celebrated our 12'th wedding anniversary, I still can not believe that 12 years have gone by so fast. On Friday I cropped at THE PAPER NICHE with my 2 scrapbooking besties and GINE who suggested that I buy the 7 GYPSIES 4X6 TRAY that The Niche just got in and I have to say it is the best purchase ever!!! This is what I am giving Mr. Hubby for our anniversary tonight when he gets home from work.



I figured I would give him something that he could never ever buy anywhere and I hope he loves it as much as I love it. All the papers, stamps, ribbon etc are from THE PAPER NICHE
so all you local ladies stop by there to get one because that tray RAWKS!!!!!!!!!!

I am off to bed since I have to get the girls ready bright and early for school tomorrow so I will leave you with some pictures of our anniversary.


We had lunch as a family at our girls favorite restaurant...TGI Friday and we brought my mom to share this special day with us, I just wish my dad was still around to see what a beautiful family we created : (

After lunch the girls decided they wanted to go to the park, note to self "never ever go to the park wearing high as all hell wedges" my feet were killing me but our girls laughter and smiles made the pain worth it.



Well ladies, THANK YOU for stopping by and for always leaving me such kind words, they sure make my day. Have a great week!!!

Live Laugh Play

Hello ladies : )
How has your week been so far? Mine has been great ever since I was told on Monday that I have nothing to worry about since the cyst they found has no potential of becoming malignant YAYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY! I have to go back to the hospital in 6 months but for now I am living a happy life with no worries.

Here is a layout that I did of Mr Hubby and myself on an old tree at Greynolds Park which happens to be a park I used to go to when I was a teenager and I am pretty sure Mr Hubby did too.


I used JILLIBEAN PAPERS that I got at THE PAPER NICHE, I had contemplated trying out for their DT but as always I chickened out and decided not too :D :D :D I really like this simple page because it's all about the papers, y'all know I am not much of an embellishment kinda gal ; ) BTW my Angejolie took this picture of us , she is working that Canon like a pro lately and sorry for the crappy layout picture but the lighting sucks in my house at night.


How yummy are these clouds? I used my WILLOW BEE clear stamps by NIKKI SIVILS and covered them with Crackle Paint after I embossed them with ZING embossing powder. I heart those clouds like it's nobody's business and now I no longer have to draw clouds, all I have to do is stamp away!


How cute are they?


Here they are resting, I love how their little feet are just dangling : )


All of us, well some of us...us, my brother and nephew, Mr. Hubby's brother and family.




Some of us trying to do cart wheels...I must share with you that a 36 year old should NOT be doing cart wheels, I pulled something as I was landing.


And what's with the pose??? She learned that one from her sister and cousin : )

Well ladies this is where I say THANK YOU for your sweet comments and personal emails on my last post, you all RAWK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Have a wonderful week
(((((BIG hugs)))))

Will He B The One???

Hello ladies!
This is a quick post to share with you a page I did for THE PAPER NICHE with the new NIKKI SIVILS papers. I decided to scrap a picture of my Hubby's younger brother and his wife AKA my favorite neighbor/scrapbooking buddy and sister in law since their story is perfect for the name of the paper line. You see, they met in elementary, started dating in junior high later on got married and are now parents of a 7 year old and 3 year old, at the age of 31 the have been together for 1/2 their lives and that is something you rarely hear now a days.


How cute are they??? I also want to say that they are one of the 2 greatest people in the word, they are kind, loving, patient, incredible parents, wonderful aunt/uncle, the greatest friends and anyone who know these 2 are truly blessed to have them in their lives. You see that little paper above their heads with a little heart? Well it's holds the most beautiful little note written by him to her.


I used the WILL HE B THE ONE clear stamps to for the "True Love" and embossed it. Turns out my brother in law was "THE ONE"


I stitched over the hearts and for my letter I decided to Glossy Accent them so give them a shine and with my scraps I also did a page of Mr. Hubby and I, it so happens that the 4 of us went out for dinner with old friends 2 Saturdays ago and it turns out that Mr. Hubby was also "THE ONE" : )

Well ladies I am off to watch the Olympics since both my countries are playing against each other, that's right Canada and the U.S.A. I am a Canadian citizen and as proud to say that I am an American resident : ) Have a wonderful week!
One more thing, tomorrow I finally have my appointment to have a new mammogram and ultrasound for that cyst the had found on my right breast so please say a prayer for positive news...I believe in the power of prayer. Thanks a million : )

Is it spring yet?

Hello ladies! Hope you all had a beautiful weekend, kinda wish I could say the same BUT we were home with a feverish/asthmatic 3 year all weekend, it's a miracle I was able to work on the killer FEBRUARY KIT from THE PAPER NICHE. As always LEAH has done a fabulous job putting this bad boy together and though I was only able to do 5 pages and 1 little message holder because of poor sick Soli I still have enough to make a few more pages this week : )



This is a picture of our Angejolie when she was 3, like most moms do, I bought more pictures than I needed and figured I might as well scrap them right?




Us at Smokey Mountain, I wanted a picture of the mountains but there was no one to take one so I put my camera on the top of the car and ran my @$$ off to join my family, you gotta do what you gotta do to capture the moment.




My soulmate and I, next month we will be celebrating our 12'th wedding anniversary and I will be putting a note in the envelope for our daughters to read one day, the secret to our marriage is basically keeping in mind that it's like a job, you need to work on you marriage daily, never hit bellow the belt, no name calling because once you spit out that insult you can't take it back and honor and trust your partner. I pray that one day they will find a love like we have.




Here we are at his pinning ceremony, I sort of made this one very simple because I will be framing it. How handsome is he in his white and greens ; )




Angejolie and I were talking a walk while Soli was napping in the car with daddy and we placed the camera on a rock and snapped away, out of nowhere she asked me if Little Red Riding Hood lived in these woods, you gotta love a child's imagination : )




How cute is this little message holder? I love it!!!

I so need to blog more but it is so hard to do that + being a mom, wife worker, cook....you get my point right? How do you all do it? Please share with me : )
Have a wonderful week and as always THANK YOU for your wonderful messages!

All about the embellies

Hello there! Before you go any further let me warn you that this will be a PICTURE HEAVY POST ! : ) SO if you decide to keep going you have been warned ; ) Here is a layout that I did based on THIS POST these ladies always have something great going on at all times, you see I went to French school from Kindergarten until 6'th grade so I can still read and speak french but my writing is not all that good anymore : (


It was all about putting your embellishments on your pictures, now for those of you who know me, you know I am not all that good with them so this was quite the challenge BUT I love the way it turned out. This picture is of my Angejolie being so over it because I kept snapping pictures of her in her Filipino shirt my mom in law gave her when she went to the motherland and those Elvis glasses : )


I used my American Crafts stamps to make this cute little cloud and rain drops.


Here's a heart I cut out and covered with Crackle Accents and these cute little beads were sent to me in the most delish happy mail package by the FANTABULOSA B.P. You see, she always finds these beautiful vintage buttons and ribbons etc. and for some reason I can never ever find anything like that down here in South Florida so she sent me a bunch of yummy findings :) THANKS B.P.!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Now yesterday my Angejolie had a birthday party to go to, H. turned 6 this year and she is my inspiration because this year she turned 6 cancer free. This beautiful little girl kicked cancer's @$$ before she was 6, years old, she lost her hair before she was 6 years old, she had to endure chemo before she was 6 years old and yet through it all she has always kept her smile and she is the sweetest little girl!!! Here are some pictures of the party which she had at the movies, they got a special behind the scenes tour and H. even got to start the movie.


You know I used the "I need to take pictures of this special moment" excuse because I have never seen how they run things at the movies ; )

I almost forgot to show you her girft wraping....


We stamped two little girls and then placed them on chipboard, then we cut them out and put Angejolie's and H's initial, we also stmaped the flowers and the "for you" which we also placed on chipboard to give it a pop. Angejolie loves to make "pretty wrappings" as she calls it.

Later on we took the girls to eat ice cream at Dairy Queens because it was a beautiful night and I got these pictures


Angejolie's new thing is to do bunny ears when taking a picture as for Solimar, please excuse the messy hair but this kid will NOT let me do her hair....EVER!!!!!! and instead of fighting that battle I just let her go out looking all sorts of crazy ; ) don't judge me :D :D :D


And this is a picture Angejolie took of the moon, she said "look mama! I got a picture of the moon for you" because she kept seeing me try to get a decent picture of it. Gosh! I love those girls.
Well ladies, thank you for letting me blab away, have a wonderful week!!!

2 pages and 1 proud mama!

Hello ladies! As you all have heard our neighbour island of Haiti was hit with a major earthquake last week and thousands of people have died, thousands of people are still missing and many are homeless and injured. Yesterday my Angejolie told me that she wanted to take what ever she had in her piggy bank and donate it to help help our Haitian community. This is how much she and Soli had



My husband and I did not talk to the girls about what was going on because we did not want to scare them but their school has been talking to them about it and showing them ways to help out, their school always promotes helping out different charities, our troops, children in the foster system as well as ill children so this was not surprise to me. They have set up boxes for clothes and money through out the school, here they are bringing in their money to school this morning.



And talking about Haiti, LEAH did a layout about the tragedy and it made the catwalk at SisTV, I have to say that it is such a touching page.

On a lighter note, here are 2 pages I did for THE PAPER NICHE with the new VINTAGE VALENTINE PAPERS FROM FANCY PANTS. Oh how I loved playing with those papers, I am so going to be getting more of those papers to do other layouts of me and my handsome husband since we are about to celebrate our 12'th wedding anniversary this coming March, WOOT!!!!!WOOT!!!!!


Here we are at a 70's Bday party for my girl Jiggy Jen.


And on this one I used a picture of us 12 years ago and the one form Jiggy's Bday party this past November, look at how young we look :D :D :D

Well ladies, as always THANK you for stopping by to check out my crazies and for your lovely comments. Happy Hump Day to you all and may the rest of your week be great!

Long time no post!

Happy New Year ladies!I t seems like for ever since I last posted but the last week of December we went on a little road trip to Georgia and Tennessee with my husbands parents, all his siblings and spouses and alllllll our kids. When we came back Solimar got sick, she had a fever of 102 for 6 days and her asthma was in full force so needles to say I was held captive at home by my poor sick little girl and her accomplice Dora the Explorer ; ) I am happy to say that Soli has gotten better and she finally went back to school on Monday which finally gave me time to play with the awesome January kit as well as the add on from THE PAPER NICHE










Shhhhhhhhhhh but I got this picture from LEAH'S BLOG ; ) who as always did an incredible job putting this yumny kit together.





This layout is about my word for the year 2010 "BETTER" I want to be a BETTER mother, a BETTER wife, a BETTER friend, a BETTER me.



Here we are at the top of Smokey Mountain on our way to where we were staying and we had to stop for the girls to touch snow for the first time and the cool thing was that seconds into taking the picture it started to snow. Did i mention that my in laws rode with us and believe it or not they are the greatest in laws in the world, they kept our daughters entertained throughout the 12 hours drive to Georgia and then the 6 hour drive to Tennessee.



Another picture of the top of the mountain, how beautiful is this earth!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!



Last but not least our beautiful girls. Their relationship is a puzzle to me, it's complicated, they fight, they love, they fight, they play, but in the end they work it out together and I end up with a beautiful picture like this one.

Thanks for stopping, have a wonderful weekend!