This may be the first time...

that i've ever scrapped a holiday/event right after it occurred! ;-) I just couldn't resist these photos of my three cuties!



In other scrappy news, I was super excited to be a Guest Designer for the Cartwheels art blog. You can check my post out here.

Having a great weekend here. Got some QT time in with the hubs last night (we geeked it up with Rockband 3 :-), and tonight I had a movie and popcorn night with the kids (complete with a fire in the fireplace for the first time this season). Hope you all are enjoying your weekend, too!

Book giveaway and picture overload!

Did you all know that Nancy O' Dell is a scrapbooker?? I didn't either, until I was contacted by someone at Creative Memories. CM published this book by Nancy that is all about scrapbooking, and they sent me a copy for myself and one to giveaway to one of my readers. Thanks CM!

Full of Love Book by Nancy O'Dell

Full of Love explores the power of the family photo album to create confident, secure, happy kids. Drawing upon her own experiences and the advice of renowned child psychologist Dr. Kenneth Condrell, award-winning entertainment journalist and TV host Nancy O’Dell shows how photos and albums reinforce family values and traditions, strengthen family bonds, build self-esteem and show children how much they are loved.

Full of Love also features simple shortcuts to creating great albums, including timesaving tips on how to tell better stories, shoot better photos, and take advantage of clever tools and techniques. Dozens of sample album pages are included to inspire you to get started on albums for your children and for yourself.

If you're interested in winning a copy of this book, please leave me a comment on this post, and I will draw a name on November 30th.

Now..... picture time! I went to Cheryl's place Friday night to scrapbook and hang out, and she gave me some photos that she took of me and my little guy when we went to lunch last month. Here are a couple of the ones that she took - I love them!

Halloween time! Introducing Super Girl!
And Harry Potter!

And our little bear (Lucas had multiple costumes, this was the one from Halloween night lol).
Halloween party time.
Some pics from last weekend when we hung at my parents' house.

And some very recent ones from yesterday - the kids and I went on a long walk around the n'hood. It was gooorgeous weather out (low 60's) and the trees are so beautiful. Our neighborhood is about 35 years old, and I just love this time of year since there are so many gorgeous trees in full autumn color.


Right now I have a quiet house after a very full weekend full of fun family time (including bowling in which I kicked my hubby's butt ;-). I'm off to go enjoy some creative time while the kids are sleeping! I'll be back soon with some scrappies :-)

Lots of fun AMM stuff going on!

First, I have my layout to share for our monthly DT inspiration over at AMM. I love participating in these, and this month's layout that we were inspired by was so much fun! This is my layout, and you can check out the original and the other DT layouts here.

Next, the November kit is ready, and it is goooorgeous! I'm so excited for this to arrive on my doorstep! You can find out more here.
These last two weeks have been soooo busy! I'm trying to find time to just sit for a few minutes here and there lol. All of our Halloween festivities were a blast, and I promise to come back and share some pics. Hope you all had a great one, as well :-)

It feels good to be back!

Ok, sure, i'm not scrapping as much as I used to, but i'm definitely getting back into the groove, and it feels great! I had so much fun creating this the other night. I love it when I have time to pull out the mists, the punches and do some handcutting - my favorite things :-)

Lots going on this week as we get ready for Halloween. We have school parades and parties for Noah and Chloe on Friday, Halloween party on Saturday, and trick or treating on Sunday... can't wait! What do you guys have planned?

You can pick your jaw up off the floor...

since I know you all are shocked that I blogged two times this week so far! LOL! I've actually been a creating fool, and it feels goooood. Here is another JBS layout I did last night - i've been in a Jenni Bowlin groove. I'm hoping to get in more scrap time tomorrow night and break in the goodies the AMM DT gets to play with.

And here is a Fancy Pants layout I did last week. I'm sad to say that after two awesome years, I am no longer Fancy. :-( My design team term just ended, and FP just announced a brand new design team. While i'm going to miss designing for this company that I truly love, i'm excited for my friends who made the team, and I can't wait to see their inspiration.
Lastly, Michelle at AMM is having an amazing sale! Unfortunately, it ends tonight, so you all don't have very long to act on it. You can check it out here.

Ok, this blogging fool ;-) is tiiiiiiiiired from one super adorable baby who keeps me up all.night.long. Fortunately for him, I love him so much that there isn't anything he could do to make me mad at him, hehe.

Happy hump day, friends!

Better late than never...

So, sweet Doris sent me more awesome JBS goodies about 7 weeks ago (she is way too good to me!). I know exactly when it was because I remember coming home from the hospital to the big box of goodies. :-) So, since i've only made a few layouts since the little man has been born, I hadn't had a chance to dig in yet. Until this weekend. And oh, did I have fun! Sigh. I seriously love me some JBS.

So, I don't want to jinx myself or anything, but I think i'm hopefully getting back into my scrap groove. I do believe i've had enough talks with Lucas that he understands he needs to go down for bed easily at night, and he needs to give me a long first stretch so I can get to creating ;-) Let's see how well baby number 3 listens hehe.

I got another awesome box this weekend, this time from AMM. Both Cosmo Cricket and Jillibean Soup are sponsoring our team this month, and I got some yummy products to play with... can't wait!

Things here are still going well... we've been keeping busy. We went to Dutch Wonderland (basically a family amusement park target toward the under 10 crowd) yesterday and had a blast!! Last week, I got to have lunch with Cheryl which was way overdue and so much fun - love getting in some quality girl time. Anyway, hope you all are doing well, and thanks for bearing with me and still visiting little 'ole me in my very minimalistic blogging pattern these days!

Catching up with some pics...

So, it's been a couple of weeks since I had a photo session with my little man, so today seemed like the perfect day to squeeze in another one ;-) Here are some of my favs...






He's such a joy. Totally adoring and loving that little guy!

This little girl is such a ham. She wore her dress-up veil to my bro and SIL's recently along with her princess gown. The gown came off, but the veil stayed on all day...
And this little man will be SIX tomorrow!! Ahhhh, I can't believe it. Seems like just yesterday that HE was the little baby I was holding in my arms! We have a fun birthday weekend planned, including his birthday party at the Lego store on Sunday... can't wait to help him celebrate!
Hope you all are doing well! Thanks for bearing with me while I continue to be a blog slacker. I'm slowly but surely getting out of my I-have-a-newborn-haze. I even hung out with the neighbors tonight... whoo! :-)