Merry Christmas!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

A Very Merry Christmas To Everyone!!!!

This season has been very busy leaving very little time to do any blogging or scrap booking. So now that the kids are immersed in their presents I wanted to at least stop in and wish everyone a great day today. I hope every ones day is filled with great times and lots of love!

From all of us to all of you

MERRY CHRISTMAS!

Tis that time of year!

Family relationships for James and I have been very trying over the years. We have both had harsh words, bad feelings, and held grudges or had grudges held for us on both sides of our family. So for along time this time of year has been my least favorite because to me it is the time of year when we should be able to forgive and come together as a family. It has taken a while for this to happen, we are finally getting there. For the first time in years I look forward to spending time with all of our family from both sides. It feels really good to know that we all can love each other no matter our disagreements and come together at this time of year. I am so thankful for this Thanksgiving and for the ability to be able to let go of bad feelings and embrace our family for who they are. It feels even better to have family become the center of the Holidays! To me that has always been what the Holidays were about!

So thank you to all in our very large family for being nothing more then you!

We all love all of you and are looking forward to continue to grow together as the family we all want to have!

Happy Thanksgiving and Merry Christmas!
Love Mandi, James, Brianna, and Russel

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.