Whew! Christmas parties are over!

All the parties are done.  The decorations are put away and the house is cleaned.  I even got a chance to shop a little today.  Here are a few pictures.

Grandad is working really hard putting Jack's kitchen together

Pile on Doug!

My Big Birthday Boy

Jack had a little family birthday party on his  actual birthday, then on Saturday he had a big family and friend party.  Here are just a few pics, hehe.

here he is playing with his new trains.

getting goofy with Aunt Anna and Uncle Doug

here he is modeling his new Cars pajamas from Amy

here are picks from his Saturday party.

No Christian, wait

It's Santa birthday boy

I got baby Emily

blow out the candles

present time

Melissa and baby Lucy

Cristian and Gracie

Gator Golf

Another Fresh Brewed Designs Blog Hop

The talented miss Heather is having an image release and to celebrate that she is having a blog hop, go check it out there are a lot of prizes throughout the hop.

Crafty Time

OK, so I had about an hour to craft today, and these are the 2 cards I made.  I was feeling like using glitter today. Now that I have my new scrapbook shelf hung up and can see all my glitter on the shelf, I felt like using it.

You can't really tell in this picture but this first card is super glittery, I used snowflake stickers and the snowman and tree is chipboard.

At least you can tell this next card is glittery.  I got the image in a swap and all the snowy parts of the image have a ton of glitter on them.

Awesome Blog Candy

Lisa is offering some awesome blog candy, here is the link.

Happy Thanksgiving!

It was a long but fun day.  We had lunch at my Mom's then dinner at Paul and Natalie's.  I got to see my Grandma at the nursing home too.  I am so excited cause tomorrow I am gonna watch New Moon, yay and go to the new house to unpack some boxes.

Here is one of the few pictures of all of the kids together and facing forward.

Here is Jack and Christian, after Alek and Nathaniel left Jack followed Christian around everywhere.  Poor Christian, but he was sooooo good with Jack, he didn't get mad once that he kept following him.

2 cards and a pool party!

We spent Friday and Saturday working on the house, we got a lot of stuff moved into the rooms that are finished. So today I wanted to rest, I made 2 cards and then we went to a pizza/pool party at Paul and Natalie's so we could all visit with Uncle Ken before he had to leave to go home.  Jack had fun swimming with Jason and all of the other kids, then ate pizza and lots of sweets. Then Jack played air hockey with Gracie.  The kids had fun playing on the pool cover before it was opened up.

Onto the cards:

The first card I made is just really simple, I embossed 2 lines on both sides, put gold shimmer ink on them and added a pretty sticker to the card and then a sentiment.

This next card is for the cute critters club challenge to make a Christmas card using pink and red.  The paper looks light pink and dark pink but I swear it is red and pink.