I had a wonderful Christmas

This...is what makes Christmas so special. My three beautiful granddaughters!



Daughter and family....



Brother and me....and the rest of the crew (whose photos are stuck on my dead laptop for the time being...coming soon!)

Getting Crafty for Christmas

Been busy getting ready for Christmas. It's coming up way too fast! And this is my last week for "getting ready". I have some cards to send out tomorrow, a little shopping to finish up, a few gifts left to wrap.

I made these little photos frames with 50 cent acrylic frames and some scraps from my paper scrapping box - they are for the little ones so didn't want to put too much into them.

Fourth of July

For the fourth, Mike and I headed south...to Lakeville MN and watched the fireworks from a friend's backyard. Awesome!

My First DET Layout

This is the first layout I did for DET...isn't this kit so pretty?

The April Club digital is just FULL of wonderful kits!! I had SO much fun using them!! Lisa's Journaling Strips quick click made it SO easy to pull everything together!! Valeri's Rosy Morning page kit is gorgeous, Tina's Easter Joys word art gave me my instant perfect title, and Suzanne's Dilemma font and one of Kim's Decoredges gave it that perfect finishing touch!

I recolored some of the papers and elements in the page kit to a pink to match the easter basket in the photo.


Journaling reads:
Pretty girl, pretty dress, and a basket full
of candy. A beautiful Spring day in April.
Fun with cousins. So why is Amy crying?
Could it be because we wouldn't let her open
her M&Ms and have candy before dinner?

Credits/Store link:
Journaling Strips Quick Click by Lisa Carter
Rosy Morning Page Kit by Valeri Brumfield
Easter Joys Word Art by Tina Chambers
Decoredges by Kim Liddiard
Dilemma Font by Suzanne Walker

All available in the April Club Digital !!

North Dakota Christmas

Our trip to North Dakota for Christmas was nice. Weather sure cooperated......it was about 40 degrees while we were there. We left Christmas Eve morning and came back the morning of the 27th. Got to do some hot tubbing at our hotel :)

This is Amanda, Mike's mom Irene and Mike and I while we were there.

So........for the rest of this month.....I have to finish up paperwork and start getting tax stuff ready..... and oh yeah.....finish planning and packing for our trip to Puerto Vallarta on the 29th :)

After that I am planning a trip to see my new grandbaby due on Feb 7. Will probably head down to Illinois around the 24th or so of February, sooner if I can find good ticket prices. Also planning a trip to Vegas with my friends Wendy and Debbie to celebrate Deb's and my 50th birthdays in April. That's about all I have planned for now.

Mike has been looking at the racing schedules and getting excited as they add the familiar venues. So I definitely see a few racing trips in my future as spring and summer come along! We're hoping for a few good concerts this year as well, though we saw far too many last year and don't expect the list to be as extensive this year. We are talking about going downtown on Feb 18th to see Colin Mochrie if we can pick up some decent tickets on the street.

Whew.......I think that catches us up.....hope you are all doing well, that you had a super Christmas and that you all have a safe, happy and healthy 2006!!

Love,
Mike and Gail

Merry Christmas!

OK, so I have some catching up to do!

December was fairly busy for us. I finally got hired on permanently at Wells Fargo on the 16th :) After that I had to spend a few days concentrating on employment paperwork (not done yet, and staring taxes in the face now!)

We had a holiday open house for close friends and neighbors on the 17th and had a wonderful time with all of them.

I had finished up Christmas shopping and shipping for my family that week. Then we had to finish shopping and getting ready for our trip to North Dakota on Christmas Eve. So it was pretty much holiday busyness the whole month. 

A timed shot of our Christmas tree. That's about all I've been doing for the last few weeks....all that Christmas stuff!! Cold here....5 out now (-6 at this time yesterday! Woohoo warm spell!! LOL)

xox
Gail