A little bit of November.......Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving......this is how we finished up the night......
drinks and bowling....

(nice face Danny) :)

Boys helping out in the kitchen......

Our little family

Alex and his girlfriend Lauren

(she is very sweet) :)

the princess & me

Team Boy....

Team Girl...

The *big* kids

The *younger* kids

My Daddy & me

Annalise & Nanna

with the amazing Turkey Cupcakes :)

What a blessed day with family & friends!

Bella Blvd Plastino

Plastino Collection

Bella Blvd

my Summer mini album

Check out the Bella Blvd Blog to see the whole album!

Thanks for taking such great pictures of it Stephanie!

So fun working with this collection!

Annalise had the perfect outfit on to use the

ladybug product!

punches, machine stitching, inking...FUN!

Annalise & Buppa

she told him to

"Push me bigger Buppa"

popped up the word bigger

& made a fun ruffle with paper!
Thanks for taking the time to stop by

& look at my work! xoxo

Time for a little Bella Blvd!

Some of my work has been showcased

on Bella Blvd this week!

This mini journal is made with the adorable

Flirty collection!

back of the book

little tabs

And this fun layout of Annalise
also using the Flirty collection!
circle scalloped ruffles around the photo!!
Blooms a Bella

Happy Halloween!!

Jack being so helpful with the pumpkin carving.....

4 pounds already.....the way he eats.....

he will catch up to Webster in no time!!

She did so good cleaning out her pumpkin this year!

She wanted a scary face this year on her pumpkin!

& the glasses are for *fun* called attitude glasses from

Claire's. She wanted to have glasses like mommy!

My little Snow Princess

Love it!

Christmas Details

A little more Bella Blvd today.....

my little princess is featured over on the Bella Blog

today on a layout called *All Dressed Up*

She was 9 months old there....

checking out her awesome new shoes ;)

Don't forget to take a look at all the other

amazing projects that are posted today!!

Bella Blvd. {inspiration}

So, Bella Blvd has come out with some super

fun new products....showcased here is the

*honey, I'm home*

collection! LOVE all the little houses!

This card was made with the SUPER cute

Super Stud Collection.

loving all the robots!!

And a card made from the

Swing into Spring

line.....love this line :)

Welcome Jack

So, we just went to see the boys play soccer....

Larissa suggests we stop at HAWS.

Then Annalise finds this little sweetie...

His name is Squiggles......

10 weeks old

So, we all agree it would be good to bring him home....

and we picked him up today, she couldn't be more thrilled.

or the daddy.....

so we took this boy, named Sprinkles

(at the moment) to visit Uncle Danny,

Auntie Larissa, Jake, Harrison and Journey!

a little love for me too :)

Then we took him home....to meet

Webster.
Webster will learn to love him, right?

So, I would like to introduce you to

Jack

short for

Jack-o-lantern.

(yes, since we adopted him in October)

Saying Goodbye to Lily.....

On September 11, 2009 we had to make

the terribly hard decision to say goodbye

to our sweet baby girl, our little furbaby,

Lily....{Lily Bean}.....{Beanie Baby}.....

She had been sick for quite sometime, and was

weighing in less than 7 lbs at this point.

She stopped eating, didn't walk much,

was down to one working kidney and that one

only worked at 80%....was sick with IBD and

was showing signs of being diabetic.

When I looked at her frail little body,

she just looked sad and in pain....

So, we had that talk (again) with Annalise.

Letting her know how sick Lily was, how she needed

to go to the Vet and that she might not come home.

We told her that she was so sick, she might die.

She understood what we told her and she had

a heartfelt goodbye with her before she left for

school that morning. Lance drove her that day

and said that she cried quite a bit on the way to school

but was okay when he took her to class. It was heart wrenching

watching her say goodbye....I will cherish these photos forever.

After they left for school, I called the Vet.

Talked about Lily.....what was best for her.

We were to be there at 10:30.

2 hours.....can I do this?

Upon many tears.....we went.

I knew it was best for her.

I loved her that much.

We said goodbye to her in the car

before going into the vet.....

and took our final pictures with her there.

That sweet little face, her soft meows.....

her excitement over treats.....

will all be missed.

We will see you at Rainbow Bridge someday

sweet little Lily Bean.

Blogger......missing for almost 2 months!!!

I apologize. Life got in the way again!

So, some highlights from the month of August....

Forts in the living room 8-22-09

Even Lily joined in :)

Celebrating 14 years of marriage.

August 25, 2009

Roses, candy, cards,

and dinner at PF Changs.....

& shopping @ Mayfair.

(A new hot pink Coach bag...

from the Poppy Collection)

August 31, 2009

First Day of School

1st grade

(yes, the school bag matches the skirt!)

you and the girlies....

so cute!!

And a face lift for our bedroom.....

a little trip to Ikea

led to a new bed, painting the walls...

oh, and new lamps too ;)
after the all the new fun stuff!

My princess from the princess party!

& a few jumping princesses too!