Happy New Year!

What a wondeful year 2008 has been! But as good as it was, I am looking forward to a fantastic time in 2009. I am anxious to see the adventures the new year brings us: new ranks in Scouts and Webelos, campouts, Evan getting to spend several days in Ashland at the Shakespear Festival with his Jr. High, spending 3 days with Alex's class in Yosemite, family times.....and I am sure many other things!

We had an amazing Christmas! The boys (all three of them) definitely made me feel special. Evan had Dave drive around until he was able to find me the Jane Seymour Open Hearts diamond necklace (which Evan paid for himself!).....that brought me to tears on Christmas afternoon. I have to wait a couple months to fully get Dave's gift. He bought us tickets to see Grease in San Francisco in March...and even a night at a plush hotel! I almost fell out of my chair when I realized the tickets were for the ORCHESTRA section!!!! OMG!!!! NEVER have we sat that close! Boys loved their Street Waves and have gotten quite good at riding them.

Hope you have a safe and blessed 2009!

Merry Christmas!

From our house to yours:

MERRY CHRISTMAS

and a

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

May all your wishes come true this holiday season!

(photo is from a couple weeks ago before the Christmas program at church! Gotta love a guy in a tie!)

Been crafty!!

Been getting a few little gifts done...keeping it quick and simple this year. Here are a couple that I have made recently. Top are post-it note holders and the bottom is a bookmark made from a jumbo paper clip! I also made 3 CD case calendars for my father-in-law, husband and brother. Haven't decided yet if making them digitally saved time or not...I think it did as I was able to use the same page for all calendars!

Starting to feel the last minute Christmas rush! Going to enjoy a leisurely lunch with one of my best friends (who I haven't seen since last Christmas) and then hit the ground running to get errands done and the house cleaned before tomorrow afternoon!

Looonnngggg time no post!!!

Wow! I can't believe it's been over 6 weeks since I last posted on my blog! Guess I really haven't had too much to blog about and haven't been doing much scrapping lately to show that either!

I will though, take from my friend Tisha's blog, a Satisfied Saturday Six....six things that I am satisfied with or happy with! That should catch you up on my life....

1. I am THRILLED at how well things are going at our new scrapbooking message board! It's a place to hang out and chat and scrap.....a place for friends and I am so thankful for my pals Tilda, Carrie and Angela for starting it with me! Come check us out www.chattyscrappers.com

2. The Christmas stuff is up....packages are starting to go beneath the tree. It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas here!

3. My inlaws recently purchased the house behind us. Not to live in full time but to come down and spend time with the boys. Tonight is the first night my mother-in-law is staying there...and Alex has already asked if he can stay with her tonight! Made her night!

4. Getting some stuff rearranged and cleaned in the boys rooms. Our houses have such tiny bedrooms. Until recently one room had bunk beds which took up the entire room. Now we put those in the other house and got a smaller bed for that room. Kind of make a little more room for at least one of them! But now is the job of CLEANING their rooms...which are a MESS!

5. Enjoying my current long-term position as a special ed teacher at the high school.

6. Slowly getting back to scrapbooking! I have a few projects in mind....hopefully I can pull them off before Christmas!