Mother's Day Present

The kids made me this picture frame for Mother's Day.

Kristen had seen something like this before and thought it would be a cute idea for Mother's Day.
She helped Marley and Mason make three of these, one for me, one for Janelle, and one for Stacia (Janelle's mother).

I just love it!

Two digital scrapbook pages from 2012 - Dyeing Easter Eggs, and Not sitting on the Easter Bunny's lap

A Few Scrapbook Pages - Mason's 1st time at the Pumpkin Patch, Keeping this Moment Alive, and Mason's First Haircut

This page is from 2010.

These pages are from 2012

Digital scrapbook pages - 4th Annual Mason and Marley Zoo Picture, Playing or reading in the leaves, Mason's first time at the Singing Christmas Tree

I have been really getting into digital scrapbooking lately. I have never really enjoyed the "crafty" part of scrapbooking and doing it digitally with templates, pictures and stories totally fits my style.

So, I thought I would share with you the latest pages that I have been working on.

Okay, that's it for now. Thanks for stopping by.

Big Baba's birthday cake

Tonight the kids and I made a cake for Big Baba. His birthday was Wednesday, so since both kids were here tonight I thought it would be nice for us to make him a homemade cake. He seemed to really enjoy it.

Mason was so excited to put the candles on his cake, Marley lit the candles and we all sang.





Happy Birthday Big Baba!

Throwback Thursday - Yardstick Bubblegum

When I was a kid, my cousin Lynda and I used to take turns visiting at the other's house for the summer. They lived, at the time of my story, in New Jersey and I thought it was such a long trip. My uncle Bob, who was a minister, used to have contests for kids at his church. I'm not sure if it was Vacation Bible School, or a promotion for Sunday school, but he used to have these prizes that he would promote throughout the contest. One of these prizes was a yardstick of bubble gum. I'm sure I never won it, but I always thought it was the greatest thing!

So you remember that Lyn?

Fast forward a million years, and while we were on vacation this year we went to Smoky Mountain Knifeworks, and there it was - the yardstick of bubble gum. I couldn't believe it. I hadn't thought of that in years and years.

I looked at it for awhile and we actually left the store, got out to the parking lot, and I just had to have it.

After I took some pictures of it, I gave it to Marley. Here are a few pictures of it.







Isn't it amazing, when you least expect it, memories come flooding back and it's almost like you were there again. I hope I never lose my memory!