The Motherload: December 2007

I just love this time of year...from Thanksgiving to Christmas...it's such an amazing time! And when I think about where I was last year, with so much hanging in the balance and feeling so without direction, this year is just so much sweeter! God is really amazing. This year is shaping up to be one for the most wonderful yet. Just before Thanksgiving, Ben went on the Kidd's Kids trip which was just awesome for him. The stories about the families on the trip were really powerful. We made a scrapbook of the trip using the Magic Quickpages by Amanda Lee and Creative Imaginations.

Thanksgiving was wonderful. The cousins played really well together. And all of the kids are finally at the age where they can just run off and play. So nice as we planned our Black Friday morning. Here are a few pics from the day.

Nolen was no where to be found. He was running around with his cousins the entire day!

We managed to get our house decorated early. We were supposed to have a little party at our house right after Thanksgiving but the girls got a virus so there was a location change at the last minute. We bought some decorations from Target after Christmas last year, so it was so much fun having a few new pieces this year like the feather Christmas trees and new light bulbs for the doorways.

I just completed this layout highlighting our decor. I used one of Amanda's Photo Stacker Templates and Laura Ping's CurlyQ Kit and Tis the Season Add on. I love these kit!! It was so fun to actually be able to make a little time to decorate this year. Last year I think we pulled everything out at the last second and it was out until February! We're really try to make up for our lameness last year by doing it up this year!

This last weekend I had the best time! I visited Gotta Scrap in Rockwall and did a little Digital Show 'n Tell. They had the best set up for me and it was so great to get back into the swing of showing off what you can do with digital scrapbooking. Gotta Scrap has completely re-worked the store and it so cute! I love how hands-on and enthusiast D'Uan and Patty are. It's so refreshing to really witness the deep love for the craft and for their customers!

After Rockwall, Virginia drove us to Waco where we took an awesome class by Debby Schuh at Crop-Paper-Scissors...another cute store. The album we made was so fun and I was really, really impressed on how well the kits were put together in the exact order that we needed everything. Debby is really a great teacher!

To top the weekend off, we had a really fun get-together at my house Sunday evening in honor of Debby. A bunch of the old Magic Scraps crew came so it was like a mini-reunion! Everyone looked so good. Nicole was so cute and prego with baby #3. Kristy looked great...and Erica and Shannon didn't look one bit different. I love it that after all these years, we can all still laugh together.