Monday, December 14, 2009
Pretty in Pixels...My Photography Blog
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Monday, December 7, 2009
Tuesday, December 1, 2009
The Feast and Festivities
After we ate, all the girls left the kids and cleaning up to the Dads while we went to see New Moon. A few parts of the movie were a bit ridiculous as far as acting and Bella is just way too awkward to watch sometimes, but it was definitely enjoyable and entertaining, and so good to spend a few hours out to a movie with other women. I cant even remember the last time I saw a movie in the theater before then!
On Friday, we turned up some Christmas tunes, set up all the Christmas decorations, and hung the ornaments on our tree...then watched Victoria pull them all off!
{here I am helping Victoria hang her ornament on the tree}
{She decided she would rather hold on to it and play with it a while longer. Every morning she will go to the tree and pull off her ornament along with a few other bulbs...which she thinks are balls just for her to play with}
{Shawn hanging the Christmas lights outside around the door...once he was finished, I of course changed my mind and decided I didn't want them hung there after all ha ha}
Saturday evening we heard a couple fire trucks and police cars on our street so we peeked our heads out and saw SANTA riding on the back of the truck. So we bundled up and went outside to see him with all the other neighbors. Apparently Santa pays a little visit every year on the back of the fire truck. It was really sweet! Victoria just stared, she wasn't too sure what to think off all the loud sirens, honking, flashing lights, and Santa.
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Friday, November 27, 2009
In The Spirit Of Thanksgiving
For the past couple months I have seen my life in a bit of a different light. I mean I've always been grateful, but maybe I just didn't truly recognize the amazing, unmeasurable blessings in my life and stop to actually see what has resulted because of them. A new life. Love. Health. A home, a job. Family. Peace. Happiness. Knowledge. Insight. Humility. Faith. Strength. Courage. Comfort. Endurance. Friends. Compassion. Laughter. All the result of blessings big and small. I am not only grateful for my blessings, but also for how they've changed and shaped my life. It's touching really. It's amazing too how there are so many different ways and forms my blessings have come. It's nearly impossible to think of them all.
A few weeks ago I was checking out at Walmart (a blessing in it's self to be getting out of that place) and as I grabbed my bags and finished paying, the checker said, "have a blessed day". I thought about that simple little comment as I left the store and drove home. I really appreciated what she had said, because it made me think not only how blessed my day was, but also my life after that and how that checker cared enough about somebodies day to wish them a blessed day. Not many people say things like that these days.
In the spirit of Thanksgiving I give thanks to my Heavenly Father and all those who have blessed my life incredibly. I am living the dream...my dream, at least...which requires a few changes and adapting here and there, but I am grateful for changes, for the opportunities they bring, the new chapters they begin, and the memories they create. I am grateful for 2nd chances...and 3rd, 4th, and 5th ones too. I am grateful for the ability to pray, and for the answers to those prayers. I am grateful for my testimony of Jesus Christ. I am grateful for pure, unconditional love and that I have so much of it in my life. I am eternally grateful for family- for my remarkable parents who through living have demonstrated and taught love, devotion, passion, service, wisdom, care, hope, and faith. I am grateful for my strong siblings; Casey, Rose, Kurt, Jake, and Newt.
I am forever Grateful for my best friend, my amazing husband, Shawn, and for knowing with much confirmation, that we were meant to find each other and love together for the eternities. I find myself wordless to describe how grateful I am for my beautiful daughter, Victoria-she is the most astonishing blessing. I love having her smiles, laughter, sweetness...and even sassyness in my life, I love having her tiny hand to hold, being able to wipe away her tears from those chubby cheeks and to help her experience the world, all along side her Daddy. Although it is sometimes frightening to raise her in a world such as ours, I am overwhelmingly grateful to have her and to be a mother. I am blessed, and I am grateful.
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Friday, November 20, 2009
Digital Scrapbooking Help
I need some help from all you digital scrapbookers who do such and amazing job on all your designs...
I need a few good websites to get some cute stuff....or any freebies you know of would be awesome too! I need some good stuff for our Christmas Cards...
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Tuesday, November 17, 2009
It's a Good Morning
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Sunday, November 8, 2009
All Things Halloween
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Sunday, November 1, 2009
The Perfect Pumpkin...Smashed
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Picking The Perfect Pumpkin
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Sunday, October 25, 2009
What a Little Witch!
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