Gobble Gobble!

We are up and cooking! LOL. Of course there is already way to much food and the smell of the turkey has my tummy rumbling. :P

I just wanted to stop in here and wish everyone a Happy Thanksgiving.
We will be taking tons of pictures like normal so layouts will come soon!

Much love from our house to all of you!

Made Something

I am so excited right now. I created my first very own all mine word art! Yeah me! LOL Wanna see? here you go.

And here is what I did with it

Pretty cool huh!

I will be playing around with PSP alot and hope to soon have some freebies up for you all!

A Mothers Love

My mom in law (soon to be :P) is a wonderful, happy person, She is always smiling and tends to look on the bright side of things. So todays layout is for her!

We love you Kathy!

Credits:

Background: "Chocomint Wedding" By: Jennifer LieberenzBoth elements: "SAS MMK 2008" By: Boo Silva Of BooLand Designs

As for life around here, everything is pretty normal. I am playing around with two different programs to see which one I like so I can start designing my own digital stuff. Maybe soon you all will see my freebies up here and I can start giving back for all the ones I have downloaded! LOL :P

Anyway, lots of love from us here to all you out there!

Papa Jack

"Music to my ears"

By: aussie_caz (Caroline Stedman)

This is my Papa. The source of the musical talent in the family. All of his children play along with a few of the grandkids and at least one of the great-grandkids. He has taught us all the love of music. Thank you Papa!

Pictures you want scrapbooked????

Hey everyone! Just a thought, if you have any pictures you want scrapbooked, just send them my way and I will see what I can do.

Love you all!
Mandi

Brianna

This is our Monster! As most teenagers are she is trying, we love her anyway, although sometimes we wonder why. :P

Blogs are supposed to be.....

..... about life. Maybe a daily journal, a reflection on life, somewhere for your views or thoughts. There really hasn't really been in my blog. So a little bit of life today.

We had Russ's confrence this week. He is doing well, as usually. Although he does need a bit more help in his divison and multipulcation. His teacher loves him, of course. He spent this weekend with his dad. They kicked about and watched a couple of movies.

Briannas SARB meeting was also this week. She was told that no matter what she thinks, she is not yet in charge of her life. We have another meeting in Dec. If she does what she is supposed to everything will be good. If not we will end up with a $400 fine. Right now she seems to be taking things serious. We will see!

I have applied for the lead position at work. I will interview for it Thanksgiving week. Keep your fingers crossed for me!

Other then that we are just trying to get ready for the holidays. This is always a hectic time of year!

We love everyone and wish you all the best this holiday season!!

James

Credits:

Frame and background by Carolina Girl All Grunged Up

This is my love. I don't have many GOOD pictures of him cause he is usually behind the camera. He is my love and what keeps me going when life just gets to be to much!

RAK A Bration challenge LO

Credits:

Friends 4 ever word art: "4"ever + Friends Wordarts by Shelly Chua
Back Ground: Aqua Papers by Nicole Kaltenecker NBK
RAKscraps is 4 years old and they are celebrating like crazy. Here is a layout I did for one of the challenges.

My Little Rock Star

This is one of my favorite pictures of Russ recently. I took this the day he opened his amp. from papa. Thought I would share it with you all now that I finally have it scrapbooked!

Still a lot going on......

Thing's are still extremely busy around here. It is the time of year for the kids first report cards and parent teacher conferences......

Russel had to take an extra morning math class for a few weeks just to help catch him up in division. Other then that he has been bring home mainly A's in all his class and homework. I will let you all know exactly how his conference goes. He is enjoying his guitar, still loves Pokemon, drives all over the park in his car (will get pics up soon), and just in general loving life!

Brianna started out the year strong and we are hoping she continues to go down this path, no matter how hard it gets! She is still a MySpace addict and the person to go to if you want something done with your profile.

James is busy busy with work! You know him! He is also working on a few programs for the computer and fixing up the RV getting ready for road trips.

As for me, I am working like crazy and running circles trying to keep up with family life! :P On the work front, the Lead position has opened up. I applied for it and as long as no surprises pop up it is mine. Yippee! I will let y'all know for sure when I get it.

I finally installed my scrap booking program on here and am getting ready to work on some new pages. Looking around every ones my space and face book pages for photos of those of you I don't get to see very often. So look for scrapbook pages of you all in the next few weeks!

I love and miss everyone!

Love Mandi

P.S. We also have a majority of our photos for the last 6 years viewable here.

Long Time....

....Life has been very busy for a while and I got out of not only posting, but actually out of scrapbooking all together! But I am back :)

Anniversary LO for my dad and Rita

Credits:

Background from Manuela Bohner's Anniversary Wishes kit

Word art from Enableem's Weazys 40th kit

Double Heart Embellishment from Enableem's Anniversaty Wishes kit.

All found at Rakscraps.

I made this layout for my dad and his wife's first anniversary. I plan on doing all, or most of, the wedding pictures for them. They are some of the most important people in my life. I am a self pronouced Daddy's Girl! LOL They will be moving soon and I will miss them terribly!

I Love you guys and hope you enjoy the start to your wedding pages!

Love Mandi

We have had to deal with A LOT of nosiey niehbors lately so James came up with a saying that I thought I would share with all my friends and family! I love it!

Everyone minds someones business...
I mind my own...
Whose do you mind???

LOL....Isn't that great!

Love you all!

New Layout

Credits:

Background from Marcee Duggar's Butterfly Haven @ digitalscrapbookplace

Word art from Laurie Garza's Family word art

This is my siter-in-law and her family. They are absoultly beautiful people!

Thanks everyone

Thanks everyone for your kind words on my backgrounds! If the links go down let me know and I will see what I can do to get some new ones up! Also keep your eyes out for new freebies. I am not going to put a time on when new ones will be up since I am still learning the program. But as soon as make something eles I will post it here and let you all know.

Thank you to my friends and family for your kind words on the layouts that are up. I will have at least one more up some time this week if not more. I am so gald you all enjoy them!

Take care eveyone and I will talk to you all soon!

Mandi

My Birthday and First FREEBIE!!!!!

Well, I couldn't sleep last night so I decided to play in paint shop pro...and guess what. I managed to make something...LOL. I made 3 backgrounds. There is no theme to them, I was just having fun. And since its my birthday today I figured it was the perfect day to give away my very first freebie. Here is a preview:



I hope all of you out there in digital scrapbook land enjoy these as I had fun making them. Leave a little love if you download them, Ill even settle for constructive critism...LOL

Sorry these link are no longer avaliable.

To my family and friends

Hey there! I hope you all found this ok! :) Like I said in the email I sent out you can save these pics to your computers (right click-save as) and as soon as I find out the best and cheapest way to print them I will let you all know. I really hope you all enjoy the scrapbook pages. I will occasionally post just pics for you all too!

The kids started school on the 16th this month. Russel started 2nd grade and will be 7 the 23 of September. Brianna started high school and will be 15 the 1st of October. Of course Russ is thoroughly enjoying school. Brianna seems to have a new outlook on school. She seems determined to keep her grades up and do good. We are very happy to see this change in her. She also tried out for the jazz choir at the end of last year and is one of 2 freshmen to be admitted into this class. I can say that she is growing leaps and bounds, not just physically but mentally also.

James is working to hard as always. We have found someone to help him get everything he needs together and the paper work filled out for his General contractors license, I just do not understand all legal mumbo-jumbo on the paper work...LOL. We are hoping to get all that underway soon so he can work his own hours at his own terms! It will be nice when it happens, although I don't expect him to slow down much!

I am doing well. My health is getting gradually better. Besides that I am just trying to figure out how to be a stay at home mom and wife. It is such an odd role for me, I'm so use to working or going to school. I have not given up on school, just ran into some bumps and am taking a break.

Well that's enough for now. I hope you all are doing well! We love all of you and hope to see you all soon!

Mandi

My Heart...1st LO With Scrapbook Factory Deluxe

Background from ConnieB. & Tanja's Bright 70th kit

I did my first layout with the Scrapbook Factory Deluxe Program. I really like this program for making layout. It was really easy to use with lots of options for what you can do with pictures, embellishments, and text! This is my baby boy, now almost 7, when he was 6 months old. He is my mircle child, since his birth I have miscarried 5 times. So I thank the heavens everyday that I have him! He really is my heart!

Looking for

Ok...im looking for something rather unusual in the scrapbooking world. I need a few digital scrapbooking kits that are based aroud the group ICP (Insane Clown Posse). My little brother and his girlfriend are getting married in April and they are hugh fans of this group. I really want to make them a scrapbook with embellishments and backgrounds based around this group. If anyone can help me it would be very much apprecated!