Bionicle Update

OK, so those Bionicles that Brody got for Christmas, the ones that I said would take him six months to get through, well he finished the last one tonight! I can't believe it. He's hopelessly addicted to them. This just confirms my suspicion that he's going to be my little engineer when he grows up! (scrapbook layout to follow tomorrow...lol!)

Holly's Dictionary

This is a layout that I've been wanting to do for quite some time. I've been compiling a small list of things that Holly says in her own special way. I'm not sure if you will be able to read the list, so here goes:

booger = burger, butter = peanut butter, choc-o-lot = chocolate, nim-n-m's = m&m's, oberalls = overalls, paper towels = toilet paper, puck = punk, sprinklers = sparklers, syr-e-up = syrup, tuckerware = tupperware, unihorn = unicorn, and ????? = aluminum

These are my favorite types of things to scrapbook, because these are usually the things that we forget about with time. This way, she will always have these special memories! :)

JE Dunn Christmas Party

Tony and I went to the JE Dunn Christmas party for the first time this year. It was held at the Midland Theatre (which is gorgeous by the way). After that, we headed over to the Power and Light district with a bunch of my co-workers and wound up at the PBR Big Sky bar. As seen below, Tony and I had obviously had too much to drink, because there is no other way that either of us would have gotten on that stinking thing...lol. We were both sore for days. I had bruises on the inside of my knees from gripping that damn bull that lasted for over a week!

Christmas Eve Layout

As I promised, I've been working hard while on vacation to get caught up on some projects that I've been neglecting. The 2-page layout below is of my family on Christmas Eve at my Mom's house. We had such a good time eating lots of good food and playing Battle of the Sexes. Of course the girls whipped the boys butts 3 out of 3 games...lol!!

New Projects

I've finished a couple of new projects that I wanted to share with everyone.

The first one is a 5x5 photo frame album. I did one just like this for Chris of her two cuties. I wanted to have something setting out for people to look at to let them know how much we appreciate and love all of our dear friends.

This one is a Family Recipe Book that my Mom and I put together to preserve all of our favorite family recipes (all the way back to my great-great grandmother). I created this one for me and another one for Holly to put in her Hope Chest for when she's ready to start her own family.

Merry Christmas!

This year has absolutely flown by. I can't believe it's over and I'm a year older...lol. I've been on vacation for the last week and I'm finally getting some of the stuff I wanted to do months ago accomplished. I actually got to spend the day scrapbooking with my Mom today. I got a couple of projects finished and I'm hoping to get a lot more done next week (so look for another post!).

The kids had a fabulous Christmas. Holly got a new Nintendo DS and Brody got enough Bionicles and Lego sets to keep him busy for at least the next 6 months...lol. I got Tony a new office chair and he got me a beautiful diamond necklace (Not really fair huh. I got the better end of that deal!!).

As usual there was a pretty funny story attached to this holiday. The layout posted below explains the whole thing. But the short version of the story is that Brody wanted to get Holly a new pair of shoes (which he did) for Christmas. He picked out the cutest Pair of Sketchers, but when Holly opened them up on Christmas morning, the box only had one shoe in it...lol! Tony and I laughed so hard we were crying. The look on Holly's face was priceless. The only thing she had to say was "Mommy, why is there only one?". It was pretty cute. We went back to the store yesterday and picked up the other shoe (it turned out it was the display).

I hope that everyone had a fantastic holiday and we wish you the happiest new year!!