Love to scrap and chat????

Well...with the closing of another site that I visited and hung out at for years, some of my best cyber friends and I decided we needed a new home to hang our hat, sit and have coffee or wine and chat...well, and maybe do a bit of scrapbooking! So.....we opened the doors of Chatty Scrappers (www.chattyscrappers.com) and are having a blast with new and old friends!!!

If you are one who loves to just sit and chat and scrap....learn new things...make friends....then this is the place!

Twelve Years.....

Where have 12 years gone? It's hard to believe that 12 years ago (on the 19th) we were blessed with a wonderful, happy, intelligent little boy. Watching him grow from a baby, to toddler, to little boy, to the young man he is today has been a wonderful experience. Not a day goes by that I do not thank God for him or the gifts he brings to our family. I am looking forward to facing the years to come with him....teenage year, driving, high school, college. The future holds bright things for him! LOVE YOU EVAN!

I'm here

I went to a weekend long scrapbooking retreat this past weekend! WOW! What a great time. It had been years since I had been on one. Packing was a challenge as my entire scraproom wouldn't fit in my little car but I think I did pretty well. Here is a sampling of the 27 pages I got done!!!! YEP, 27 scrapbook pages!!!!

Had to scrap these photos of Yosemite Falls in different seasons. It looks like a totally different place during the different seasons.
Gotta love that smile...he had just gotten his braces and loved to show them to people!
Had fun using the Basic Grey Archaic paper for this layout of a hiking/camping trip we went on in the spring.
January 2007...we had a RARE cold snap...things all over froze including our pool! Top photo is a chunk of ice from our pool.

Other than a scrappy weekend away, life has been busy. Scouts, soccer, work, family.....never stops. Right now we are gearing up for Evan's 12th birthday on Sunday! YIKES where did my little boy go!!!!