Happy 6th Birthday!!!

Today I am a little late because I was volunteering for the first time in my oldest son's kindergarten class.  They had a half day today. His kindergarten is only half day anyway but he goes during the PM schedule.  So today was a little crazy for us.  We had to get up early and get ready for school right away.  I think all in all it went very well.  A friend watched my youngest son so I could spend some time helping out in my son's class.  It was a lot of fun and seeing them have their own little Thanksgiving "feast" of pocorn, fruit and cookies.  There were two classes there since we were combining.  My son's class was the Indians and the other class were the Pilgrims.  It was so cute.

Anyway, today I wanted to share with you the projects I made for my son's class yesterday.  Yesterday my oldest son turned 6 years old.  I am still in shock that he is one year older.  It amazes me how much he is growing and maturing now that he is in school.  I am so proud of his accomplishments and just know that he is going to grow up to be a wonderful man someday.

My son decided that he wanted a Knight on his goody bag tags(?).  It was quite the intricate project but it wouldn't have been so bad if I had gotten started on this part much earlier.  That is my procrastination coming into play here.  I kinda cheapened it up a bit with staples but the morning before I was supposed to take them in I just couldn't get the rope to work the way I wanted.  You will see in the picture. 

I am also adding a couple of pictures of my son. 

This is the day we brought him home from the hospital.  He was 2 days old in this picture.  The outfit is an outfit my Mother in law made for my husband when he was born to come home from the hospital in.  My youngest son also wore this outfit home from the hospital and now this baby will be coming home in the same outfit.  I just love tradition.

And this is my son on his 6th birthday.  I can't believe how much he has grown and how much of a young man he looks like now.

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Whimsy challenge

Oh my gosh!!!  Can you say behind?  I am scrambling to get everything done and still take care of my house.  It just isn't working that well.  But I did get a project done for this weeks Whimsy challenge.  The challenge is to make anything other than a card.  Please go to the blog and check it out and make something wonderful to share with everyone.  Remember, you don't need a Whimsy stamp but if you do have one we would love to see it on your project.

Here is my card:

 

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Birthdays, birthdays, and more birthdays

The end of the year is always been the busiest for my family.  When I married my husband and had my children it only added to the chaos that is the end of the year with holidays and birthdays. 

November 7th was my husbands birthday and a very busy one at that.  Today is my Dad's birthday and I couldn't have asked for a better father than the one he was to me and my siblings.

Thursday is my oldest son's 6th birthday.  I cannot believe he will be 6 already because it still feels like he was born only recently.

Today I am going to show you a project I did for my son's kindergarten teacher.  In conversation she mentioned that her birthday was last Wednesday, Veteran's Day.  So on Thursday I spent the morning getting a little something together for her birthday.  For the card I saw the same layout used by Lorie and I loved it.  It is simple, cute and so easy to throw together.  Plus, I just love the PTI "Life" stamp set.

The basket was already made a long time ago.  It has been sitting on my desk taking up space for a while and it just happened to match the colors I used on her card.

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I'm back with Whimsy

Hello everyone!!!  I hope you had a wonderful week.  It has been crazy here not having the internet.  I really didn't realize how much I depend on the internet until I didn't have it.  I was going crazy.  But we are back for now and hope we don't have any more complications for a while.

When I realized my internet was down I was getting ready to log on here and show you a card I made for the Whimsy challenge.  I was very late in getting it done so I didn't get to have it posted on the Challenge blog but did want to get something done. 

There is still a few more days to get a project done.  This week is watercolors.  I haven't done much watercoloring but new I needed to challenge myself.  If you want to join just watercolor something, anything, and put it on a project.  We would like to see your Whimsy images if you have them but if you don't please don't hesitate to join us anyway.

Here is my project, a digital image that was designed for a good cause.

 

I didn't mention this earlier but my laptop is not getting internet access because our router is having issues so I don't have access to some of my editing programs.  I hope you don't mind settling for a very simple image. 

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Internet Issues

Hello All!!! This is Melissa's sister, she wanted me to go on here to let you all know that she is having internet issues and has been unable to connect. As soon as she can get this resolved she will be back to update her blog.

She wanted to make sure everyone knew that everything is ok, just the lovely internet :)

Spread the Love Blog Hop

*This post will remain at the top of my blog until the 9th at the end of the prize giveaway.  Also remember you can send Jaimie a card at anytime.*

Happy Monday!!!  I hope everyone had a great weekend and a wonderful and safe Halloween.  I will do another post about Halloween.  I want to make sure that this blog hop gets the notice it deserves.  Here is a snippet that explains most of it.

"On October 4th, 4 teenagers armed with knives broke into a home in a small town in New Hampshire. Alone and sleeping inside were a mother and her 11 year old daughter. These 4 boys broke into this home with the intent to rob and kill anyone inside. They stabbed the mom, Kimberly Cates, to death and left her daughter, Jaimie, for dead in their driveway. It was a completely random act, their home was chosen only due to its secluded surroundings."
Our hope is that everyone hopping around today will stop for a moment and think about Jaimie and her father and what life must be like for them now. One moment in time has changed their lives forever. We are asking that everyone reading this message please take a moment to make a card and send it off to Jaimie. You can make something very simple or much more involved, but please share some words of hope and love and let her know that people do care and want the best for her.

The address to send cards to Jaimie is on my sidebar with the button about the blog hop.  There has also been a special blog set up and Jaimie and her story.  Please go here and check it out.  I know they are doing some special giveaways with some great sponsors.

If you came here first please go to Katharina blog here.

The card I made for Jaimie is in conjunction with the Whimsy stamp challenge for this week.  The challenge is round and round.  Use as many circles as you can or want to.  I have also added a heart for Jaimie as requested by Denise.  Here is my card.

From here you will want to go check out Leslie's blog here.  Thank you so much for taking a moment to look here and hopefully you can continue the blog hop and join in on the festivities.  This is a sad thing that happened and cards are a small gesture but they really do mean a lot in uplifting spirits.

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Coming Soon, blog candy

I have been slacking on my duties as a blogger.  This week has drove me crazy and nothing is going to change in the upcoming weeks and months.  With more holidays coming up and 6 birthdays and other personal stuff I am just going to do my best to get what I can done so you have something to see.  But in between those occassions I will be posting some minor blog candy.  So keep a look out for those.  I hope to have the first one posted very shortly.  Plus, Monday is another Whimsy challenge so please come back for that at the very least.

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