Merry & Bright Kit by Snips & Snails

Stephanne from Snips & Snails is releasing a Christmas kit called Merry & Bright. Since I already have the whole year of 2009 scrapped, I went back to my 2008 photos. Wow!!! Talk about changes, check everyone out. Even Mikey looks different now. Course I guess we are all getting older.

Hope everyone has a Happy Thanksgiving!!!

Christmas Time's a Coming!

Just have some things to post on here for memory sake and then I'll get us caught up in photos.

• Josie has been in big girl panties since November 1st. Mostly she goes without having any accidents and I believe we are officially potty trained. Diapers are only at night and nap, which I think I could get rid of but Mommy's paranoid!
• She is into singing all of her bible songs and knows about all of them. She is also starting to try and say the Pledge of Allegiance to the Bible.
• Her music is expanding, she was wanting to listen to music last weekend and found my CD's. And guess the first one she grabbed?!!! Made this Mommy so happy. She grabbed John Cougar. or whatever you want to call him. He's still Cougar to me!
• We started putting up Christmas decoration on Nov 1st. and now she wants to decorate everything.
• She helped Mommy put up her Disney tree in the family room and actually did very well. When she did get bored though, she started tearing my boxes trying to get the ornaments out. Not good!
• She & I went to Wal-mart to pick her out a tree, I had planned on getting her a pink one but she picked out purple. It is actually very pretty, but a little too small for ornaments, so I bought some purple lights to put on it. The only ornaments she has on it is the ones Uncle Christ brought her this past Tuesday and they are monster trucks.
• Speaking of Tuesday, this past Tuesday was the second week of no Mommy's allowed in dance class. And she did really well this week. Took a little coaxing but there were no tears shed!
• This past Monday evening, I had a pampered chef show so Daddy stopped to pick up Josie and take her home. When they got home they fixed our downstairs toilet. Tuesday evening, Josie & I come home from dance class and she said she wanted to take a bath downstairs. I needed to pee and this is the conversation that took place as I was peeing.

                       Me: Josie, I am so glad you & Daddy fixed the potty and we can flush it now!!!

                       Josie: Mommy! pause  I didn't say damnet!

                       Me: You didn't?

                       Josie: No Daddy did!

I about died! This girl talks way to clearly and picks up on way too much. But even though she shouldn't be saying it, you can't help but laugh cause it was hilarious.

• After she went to bed last night I started putting the ornaments on the upstairs tree. When she woke up this morning, she was running back and forth between me and the tree, telling me she sees Strawberry Shortcake and Mommy pick me up!

Now we'll get caught up on photos.

Daddy telling Josie to eat the pumpkin!





Josie telling Daddy how to draw her pumpkin and he's not listening to her.







Michelle helped her carve the one on the left and Daddy carved the one on the right.

Josie really got into Halloween. It didn't take her long to figure out what the costume was for.

 Then we had a Ninja and a Cheerleader Barbie.

Josie had a blast when I got my Pampered Chef kit. She ended up climbing in the bag.

 Cindy made this cake for Kayla, she wanted a Barbie cake.

Granny made her a purse and matching dress. Josie got one too.

Josie had to play dress up last night after we had our bath.



Snips & Snails and some Cute Kits

Check out these new kits by Snips & Snails.

Love the colors in this kit.

Then there is this kit:

Would be really great for some teenage photos or even some photos of people playing the Wii games.

And last but not least is this kit:

Snips & Snails is at it again

I have three new kits to share with you today from Snips & Snails Designs.

First up is Shabby Lady. You can find it here:

Next is Thankfully Blessed and you can find it here:

And last but not least is Mr Fix It, and you can find it here:

Falling by the Wayside Again

I just can't seem to keep up anymore. I really need to buy me a big calendar that I can actually write in the lines what needs to be done that day. I was suppose to have posted these layouts for my CT's last week and completely spaced it in the excitement of my first Pampered Chef show and dealing with a sick husband and sick baby. Sorry Girls!
Guess better late than never!

So here goes:
First up is Kolby & Matthew by Valarie Ostrom at Elemental Scraps. Loved the colors in this kit.

Here's the link to this kit: http://www.elementalscraps.com/shoppe/Kolby-and-Matthew-Papers.html and http://www.elementalscraps.com/shoppe/Kolby-and-Matthew-Elements.html

Now onto Snips & Snails. Remember how I said this girl had been on a roll. Well I have several layouts to show you for her.
First up is Bless Our Nest.

Beautiful muted, distressed colors in this kit. You can find it here:


Next up is Modern Woman. I think the name says it all with this kit.

You can find this kit here:


Last but not least, there was a collaboration that began on October 30, called SeaSide Solitude. As soon as I saw it I knew of the perfect photos.

You can find more information about it here:
http://www.divinedigital.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=219

I think I'm going to go to Staples at lunch and get me a bigger calendar to get myself organized better so I can stay on top of this stuff more. The older Josie gets the harder it is.
I also need to update the blog on her too. Hopefully within the week I can get that done. Plus I got to get the Halloween Theme off the blog, but I don't really want to do Thanksgiving because I am already in the Christmas mood. I've already put up our Disney Tree, the miniature tree and Josie & I went to Walmart on Monday and she picked out a purple tree for her room. Now I'm going to start on the upstairs as the basement is now decorated other than hanging snowflakes from Josie's ceiling in her room.
Yeah!!!