Our 2009 Family Christmas Picture Layout

Thanks for looking!! :-)

Buttons Challenge

Our design team challenge at Practical Scrappers was to use buttons. So I threaded some ribbon through four buttons and placed one in each corner of my picture set. I am so happy to be on this design team. It forces me to scrapbook and get things done that I wouldn't probably have done yet. Thanks for looking and have a great day!!

"Twilight" themed table for New Years Eve dinner.

Every year at my church, we have a New Years eve dinner. We have a tradition that anyone who would like to decorate a table can do so and my Pastor's wife rents the table cloth for you and you bring all your dishes and decorations. Its always a lot of fun decorating your table and seeing what everyone else does with their table. Here are some pictures of our tables from last night. They were all beautiful.

My sister and I decorate a table together every year. This year we decided to do a Twilight Themed table (minus the vampires since it was at church). We basically went off the book covers for our centerpiece and used the apple from Twilight, flower from New Moon, ribbon from Eclipse and chess board and pieces from Breaking Dawn. We also used the Red and Black from the covers of the books.

My mom decorates a table every year and this is a picture of her table.

This was the table my Mother-in-Law and Sister-in-Law did. They also decorate a table together every year.

Here are some other ladies' tables.

Then last but not least, my Pastor decorated a table. He loves Jaguars so he did his table in a Jaguar theme. He also is very handy and hooked up a chandelier to go over his table. It was really cool.

Our 2009 Family Christmas Picture

What a great weekend!!

Well the party was a big success and my mom LOVED the scrapbook that my sister and I made for her. Here are just a few pictures to show you. We all went to our favorite restaurant on Friday night (her actual birthday) and gave her the album. Then Sat. was the actual party. Thanks to all of you for your nice comments on our layouts for her album.

Mom getting ready to look at her scrapbook for the first time.

Our family at the Spaghetti Factory for my Mom's 50th b-day.

One of the table's at the party decorated in my Mom's favorite colors. Sage green and brown.

A close up of the centerpieces we put together.

The cake my sister made along with the Happy Birthday cut out using Ashlyn's Alphabet and my cricut!

The Cake Table.

My mom with her cake.

My mom opening her new Gypsy!!!

Myself, My mom and my sister Ashlee.

Today is the Day...

...that we finally get to give our Mom her scrapbook album!! We are all going out to dinner for her b-day and we're giving it to her then. Her party is tomorrow evening, but we figured she wouldn't really get to look at it there, so it would be better to give it to her tonight.

Ornament I made for my Mother in Law

This is an ornament I made for my MIL for Christmas. I got this idea from Archivers. You just take a 2x3 acrylic stamp block and a 2x3 wallet size picture. You use 2 sided tape that comes in 12x12 sheets, also purchased at Archivers. I altered the picture using Picasa and Walgreens photo to add the year and the holly leaves border. Then I just used glue dots to attach the ribbon to the block. This is a picture of our whole family that we took on Thanksgiving. Its her brother and his family, her sister and her family and then her 3 sons and their families. Thanks for looking.