16 years ago today I married the love of my life…
We have lived in 2 states
Built 2 homes
Adopted 2 puppies
And had 2 amazing boys
And we did it all together
Happy Anniversary Mike! Thank you for making my life perfect! I love you!
Happy Friday
I unexplainably woke up at 4:00 am this morning and could not go back to sleep. I figured I may as well get up and be productive with the time. I am sure I will be loving it about 2:00 this afternoon when the lack of sleep hits. It will be even more fabulous because my entire afternoon is filled with back to back meetings. At least I have a 4 day weekend to look forward to. Last weekend was Mike’s big 45th.
His choice of celebrating was to stay at home most of the weekend and cook for us. He started off the day with his Bobby Flay inspired Bloody Mary’s and brunch on the grill. Those breakfast sandwiches are too die for.
We just hung around the house all day and he grilled us fabulous burgers for dinner. I told him I would make him anything he wanted for his birthday cake. He picked Oreo Cheesecake. I found a few recipe ideas and made a Cheesecake Factory inspired Oreo Cheesecake for our dessert. It was probably my best cheesecake effort to date.
Nicholas loves birthdays, singing and helping blow out candles.
Nicholas has decided he likes to stamp and made his Daddy a birthday card.
The great thing for me is all weekend he wanted to go down to my scrap room to stamp and do crafts. He is pretty self sufficient down there, I set him up with his own drawer full of old stamps and stamp pads, paper, stickers, and other items I didn’t want anymore. It let me get some scrap time in too, I just have to let him have control of the TV while we are down there. But that’s okay.
This was my simple card for Mike. And since I have a ton of layouts I haven’t shared, here are a few….
Jackson’s first Christmas….
At the pumpkin patch, I scrapped the enlarged photo I had in our entry way during the fall season.
ZooLights at the Phoenix Zoo in 2009 in a rare 2 pager…
Have a great weekend….
Has it really been 2 weeks?
I guess so. Life has been busy. I have been working a lot of late nights and time with the kiddos has been short, so I my time online has been very limited lately. We have also dug into a few house organization projects, so that has kept me busy on the weekends. It is time for a ScrapTiffany challenge. The first challenge for February was to use a yellow and grey color scheme.
Good colors for a Studio Calico kit. I think this was Napa Valley (November), with a few other things thrown in.
I have always loved this picture of Mike and Jackson. Jackson is definitely Mike’s son. Jackson is very attached to his daddy. He is super grumpy when he is hungry, doesn’t like to be told he can’t do something, quiet at times and a chatterbox other times….which one am I talking about? Both.
I have been sidelined by heel pain. I was doing well on my walking for the 3 day Walk, but I am suffering from plantar fasciitis. My doctor has tried several treatments to let me keep walking, but I haven’t seen a tremendous amount of improvement, so I agreed begrudgingly to wear a boot for 2 weeks. Which means no walking, no extra things. Lots of rest. But hopefully it will be what I need to get over the hump and avoid physical therapy or worse, surgery.
Since I didn’t have to get up early to walk or go to work, I stayed up until 12:00 am on Sunday night and got 4 layouts done with January’s Studio Calico kit. I was struggling with this kit, so used a couple of challenges to get a start.
First was the Sunday Sketch at Studio Calico. I converted the sketch to a 12x12, but otherwise stayed pretty close to the original design.
Studio Calico was hosting some CHA challenges this weekend, one of them was a self portrait, so this was my take.
I’ll share the other 2 and more soon.
I have lots more to talk about, but it’s getting late and I am trying to get more sleep. So it will need to wait for another day.
Have a great week!
14 Years, Fish and Greetings
14 years ago on Tuesday I married this man...
We celebrated our anniversary with a long weekend at home, on our anniversary we spent the day with our family and took the boys to the aquarium and out to lunch.
Nicholas ran from one exhibit to the next to see the "fishies"...
We ate lunch at Claim Jumper. Meals out are always an adventure with a 1 and 3 year old...
Instead of eating his apples, Nicholas dipped them in caramel sauce and then ranch dip, and then wanted me to eat them....
At least when we got home, they were worn out and took naps. I joined them for a short nap and then headed to my scrap room. I broke into this finally (Studio Calico August kit)...
Here is a peek at what I worked on for my ScrapTiffany challenge for next Monday....
With all that time off, I would have expected to get a little more time to scrap in, but my mojo just didn't deliver. I made a quick anniversary card for Mike....
And last week I made this card for a baby shower I was attending....
I am glad the rest of my work week is short. The boys have colds, so I hope they are better by the weekend. Hope you have a happy Thursday!
