Shirley and I had such a nice time at the CKC Mesa Preview crop today!!

And here is the ONE LO I got done in five hours. :lol:

Girl
by DawnInAZ
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Tim Holtz Ranger Video-UBER COOL!

This is one of the COOLEST videos of how products are packaged at Ranger Industries!! Tim Holtz shot the footage!

I scrapped!!!! YEA!!

VCW-Tink's Bling Challenge
by DawnInAZ
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This is a 12x12 LO of my great niece Andrea for Tink's Bling Challenge in VCW COF on scrapbook.com.
We were to do a one or two page LO ... and count Bling points.

1 point: each Rhinestone
each Blinged letter
each Bead
5 points: each silver gold or metallic add on
10 points: Each item that has glitter on it
Each Stickled item
15 points: Blingy Paper
Blingy Flower
20 points: Blingy Ribbons

My blingy items:
I Stickled the butterflies, and all of the title letters.
I have a blingy Rhinestone border around the photo, blingy trails behind each butterfly, blingy flower centers all over the page and on the small flowers, a blingy flower on the large bloom. The paper is that super cool SEW CUTE PP from Prima. I used the very cool Martha Stuart lacey border punch on the green journaling mat.
Alot of the items on this page were from my Swirlydoos Whimsy Kit for March!

CUTENESS extras!

Ladies and Gentleman, I give you

AMERICAN IDOL - KID STYLE!

Here is Mason and his friend Daysia performing for the "audience."

(Jazzy, her sister is watching.)

Quite the talent!! No bashfulness here!

BIG FINISH!!

"Deep" moment.

Mason, I love how much of a ham you are!!



Here are some more photos of family CUTENESS!!

Connor and Mom enjoying time together.

Look who is sitting up now!

Playing with her toesies!

Playing and chewing!

Love those dimples Mason!

He and Ralphy love to play and run together!

Mason lost his first tooth!

Two Gamer Brothers!!

Connor, such the poser! He called this his "big boy look."

haha!

Connor has such a nice smile!

I am baaaaaaaaaaaaaaack!!!

Oh boy, I have not been doing good with keeping my blog up to date! I will try to get better at it! Whew, do I have so many pics to post!
Here are some random holiday images around our house from Christmas.

Isn't Andrea's holiday outfit the most adorable thing?

Ralphy, kickin it under the idol tree, oops I mean the Christmas tree.

(Idol tree comment is a family joke!)

I love this angle I caught with Ralphy looking up, almost seemingly at the tree.


We had lovely holidays, with Megan and Andrea spending most of their three weeks at our house. What bliss that was to have a baby going through milestones in the midst of the holiday stuff!
Here are some photos of major CUTENESS from the December visits,

through the holidays and into first week of January.

Note the bib signage. Haha!

Big eyes!

Mason and Andrea have a fun moment.

I was so thrilled that I caught this UBER adorable grin on Andrea's face!

My youngest sister, Melissa with my lil nephews, Connor and Mason.

Connor and Mason's new puppy, Saylor, was lounging next to the gifts on Christmas Eve.

Andrea has HAD IT with her hat!

The adults smiling so nice, but babies just have to fuss sometimes!

Gangs all here on Christmas Eve! On top left is Skyler, top right is Mason, then Melissa, Megan, holding Andrea, and Connor is in the front.

Megan and Andrea kickin it on Christmas Eve.

Andrea loves her new jumper that her nana and grampa gave her!

Connor and Mason opening a gift together.

Mom is in craft happyland!!

We posed Andrea in front of the tree, next to the gifts.

Jacob wasn't feeling good, but after nana prayed over him, he was so much better that he came out for gift opening! Thank You God!

Sweet Dear Layout

Well, I am instituting alot of change in my life!
My weight is such a burden to me. So I need to make changes to get my health improved! I have already started watching my food intake. No soda, no eating after 8pm. No fried foods. I started doing Wii Fitt over the weekend with my parents! Not only is it alot of fun, but I am exercising and not realizing it until after each session!

I just finished this LO. I also just realized I mislabeled her age as 2 months, and she was one month here. So that will be changing. The writing was not as good as I would like anyways.

Sweet Dear
by DawnInAZ
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Thanksgiving 2008 photos

Here are some photos I took from Thanksgiving Day 2008. (With my new Canon EOS Rebel XS!)

My Niece, Megan and her four month old daughter Andrea.

My bro in law, Ed, getting ready to put some food in the big outdoor oven

My youngest sister, Melissa, holding a sleeping Andrea when I first arrived.

No one remembered to bring/get napkins so Ed used the leftover Power Ranger ones from my nephew, Connor's birthday party. Funny huh?

Isn't this a pretty table? Ed actually set it up like this and then called me to get a photo before everyone sat down. I have my family trained well!

Look! Andrea is trying to lift herself up to crawl!

My nephew, Jacob is texting a friend and my dad is sitting next to him watching the Cowboys game.

I think this is my favorite photo from Thanksgiving. Andrea is laying on her mom's shoulder.

My bro in law, Donnie with his son Jacob. Nice to see smiles!

Um....slight problem in the outdoor oven. Ed had turned on the fan inside, not realizing my mom had just put the sweet potatoes in there. The fan blew some of the marshmellow topping off and it smoked really bad on the bottom of the oven.