still deciding...........

I'm still deciding on a word for the year........

Things I am grateful for today: Kevin getting me breakfast while I am still sleeping, playing good golf (yay me!) and warm bread with butter.

happy new year!!!

I can't believe it is 2009 already. I have been a bad, bad blogger but this year I intend (no resolutions only intentions here) to blog much, much more.

I love Ali Edwards and every year I try and come up with a new word for the year to focus on and I can't decide. These are my options: BELIEVE, DARE, STRENGTH, PERSEVERE, DREAM, BALANCE, RENEW or ACHIEVE. My mom thinks I should go with FOCUS and my dad likes STRENGTH. Kevin likes BELIEVE and I'm still meditiating on it...........

I usually come up with three things I'm grateful for everyday but have never blogged them before. The big ones are obvious: my family, Kevin, my boys, health, a job, money to pay the bills, food on my table, a roof over my head, good friends etc....... so I usually try and remember some of the small things that I'm grateful for everyday. Today they are: dinner at my parents house, a lazy day at home with Kevin and puppy kisses.

Happy new year to you all and I hope 2009 brings you everything you wanted and more!

my travel album

I have been a very bad blogger, but in all fairness I did go on vacation (Kevin & I went to Hawaii) and I have been swamped at work. As a result of all this I have had a cold for the past 2 weeks & summer colds suck!

The good news is that Freckle Friends has developed my Cabo travel memorabilia album into their July project of the month. I love this album because it uses 7 Gypsies envelopes to store all these random items neatly. I think I might have to make one for Hawaii now! I have been busy scrapbooking so I will post all my new Hawaii pages up soon - of course the first ones I made were of our cage dive with sharks!!!

some more recent layouts

some of the wedding layouts

new layouts

I actually got quite a bit of scrapping sone on NSD & I am very excited about that. Here are a few of the new ones I completed.

national scrapbooking day

I'm looking forward to National Scrapbooking Day this Saturday. What a great excuse to do nothing but scrap (not that I really need an excuse...) all day long and catch up with TIVO. At the moment I am kinda blown away with LOST - I love that show but I can so easily obsess over it. Ben is my favorite character - he is so twisted! Sorry for the diversion, what is everyone else doing on NSD?