a few new layouts ive been working on...

something that is not fun at all...

pink eye!

my three favorite teams made it to the final three in the amazing race tonite!! im psyched, i dont know yet who im rootin for, i think nick and don. but honestly i really like all three teams!!

been working on cover letters for most of the day....it's so difficult to know what to say and how to "grab" the reader!! i hope they sound ok.

i posted my challenge for we b' today in their gallery. here it is...

erica and i went to pick up the kids this morning. we have both colin and catie for the day. its been nice. i just layed catie down for her nap. she did'nt want to nap at 1pm so i took her in the scrap room with me for a little while. then she started to yawn!!



so i rocked her for about 5 minutes and she was out like a light.

we are having a slumber party with colin tonite. he is really looking forward to it. so am i!

i started mittens. my first one was a sorry disaster...it looks like it might work more as a finger puppet than a mitten. i started a second one yesterday and im going to try and finish it today. colin wants granny glittens amazing mittens, he told me he wants to eat the mittens i make... i told him he can't eat them b/c they are made of yarn. he's toooo cute!!

last night was the first meeting for the church newsletter. fr. o'brien wants a hard copy newsletter to be pubbed quarterly. i suggested a blog as well, everyone seemed to like that idea. there were 5 of us plus fr. o'brien. hopefully we can get it together and put out a super newsletter.

this is our last week with colin before he goes to va for 2 months. erica and i are tying not to think about it to much but im sure it will hit us on saturday when they drive away. i cried alot when i first found out. im going to try and think of it as if he were going to ri for a couple week vacation.

we had him again today. he is such a sweet little guy. he keeps telling me that he wants five slumber parties. its so hard to explain days and time to a three year old.

i love him so much my heart hurts sometimes!

happy new year...a little late!!

we spent tuesday at mom and dads. then yesterday i taught at elden. i was suppose to meet with mr. cardamone ( the principal ) but he was out.

today we have colin all day... we are going up stairs now to watch ratatoullie.

oh, i had the best day today. we went to the erie canal museum. colin, nonni, papa and me. it was so wonderful. we saw so many gingerbread houses in all shapes and sizes!
this was colin's favorite house.



and this was my favorite one.



here are a few more photos of us.

here is our family photo from christmas eve. i think we all look very nice.
it's amazing to see how much colin has grown.

i was just reading the mb over at 2peas. a lady got a new lens for her camera...omgosh the photos she took are amazing!! the camera is a Canon 30D and the lens is an 85mm 1.8, i googled it and $1,500 is the cost, yikes!! maybe some day!

here is the lo that i scrapped at the we b' dt scrap party...i love it!!

christmas was lovely, colin enjoyed all his presents and had a fun time playing with them this morning before they left for ri.

we had a nice time at mom and dads. i got my cricut!! whoo hooo im so excited. ive already used it twice. i ran home and got some scrapping stuff, then back to mom & dads to scrap a little before dinner. erica got a gorgeous singer sewing machine and she already started a quilt.

overall it was a wonderful day!!

well, it's christmas eve, what a crazy season this has been. im glad christmas is here. i still have all my wrapping to do but it's ok b/c i can do it tonite.

erica and i are going over to moms in a while. we are having a christmas eve early dinner with the fam. mom wants the kids to open her gifts, so that will be nice.

then tomorrow am we are going to chris and heather's to watch the kids (well, colin really) open their "santa" gifts and our gifts.

Merry Christmas!!

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last night was our scrap party at we b scrappin', the design team. it was so much fun. those ladies are amazing! so friendly and welcoming. i had the best time! we chatted and scrapped and shopped! i cant wait until our next scrap party in februrary!

tonight is slumber party with the baboo! he is sick, poor sweetie. runny nose and horrible cough. ive been coughed on at the minimum 5 x's today full in the face....oh joy!!

so much has happened in the past week, i don't know where to begin.

we took our photo shoot of the kids for our christmas cards...oh my did they come out cute. colin was a elf, "elfie" and christina was the sugar plum fairy....tooo cute!!

we had colin and catie for the day on monday...that was fun, we got lots of cute shots of catie. i feel bad that we have so many less shots of her than we do of colin when he was that age. but we just don't get to be with her as often. colin was with us 3 days a week when he was a baby.

we took colin to his last music class, he had the best time. he really enjoys going to class, dancing and singing. he and nonni danced their feet off!!

then we took a photo of colin with nonni and papa on the bench at music.

here's a new layout...i love this basic grey patterned paper!

oh my, it's been such a busy week. i can't belive i havent posted in a week.

i taught 2 days this week, which is nice. colin came back and i spent two days with him and we just had a slumber party weekend. it was awesome. we went to the rudolph ballet at the civic center yesterday. it was amazing, better than last year. colin loved it and we had the best time.

tonite we are going to the plainville restaurant for dinner with nonni, papa, heather, catie, colin and me.

Here are some photos.
This is Colin and I getting ready to go into the Civic Center to see Rudolph.

Here is Colin decorating his gingerbread man.

This is right before we left for Plainville.

here is one from our thanksgiving 2007.


and a few more i've just finished...

here's our honey bear christmas tree. i love it, it's the perfect size. red lights this year, my multi colored lights died. i like the red and so does lucey!!

this is the star that i made in 1994 for our very first honey bear tree.

today i organized my layouts. i had a huge stack that was so high i thought it would topple over. colin has 11 12x12 albums...

yippee... blogger has been having trouble the past couple of days with viewing images...i followed the directions found on the "known issues" blog and it worked...

im so happy. i was worried b/c i need to post my column and those are both images.

ok, well, here are the ornaments i've been working on. i got the pattern from irene's blog (previous post). they are so much fun and easy too!!