I can't believe how fast my kids are growing up. The twins, Christian and Emma turned 9 on Dec 24th and Abigail turned 8 today. The Lord has truly Blessed me with my family. I thank God daily that I get to be a keeper at home and home school my Blessings. Here is a picture taken on the twins Birthday. We also celebrated Abigail's the same day (her choice), we had my whole family over for dinner and birthday cake. The kids had a blast and loved all the Wonderful gifts they received. Sorry the picture is kind of blurry.

That's what I called this card after I made it. I was really Happy with the look, even got Kens approval. What do you think??? I love this Apple stamp, I got it from Stamping Bella....Yes she sells more then just Bella's. I used Dazzling Diamonds from SU on the Polka Dots, the ribbon is from JoAnn's. The rest is self explanatory. My mind is going nuts on all the things I want to do with this Apple..

I am back from Las Vegas.....I already miss the Sunshine!! I will tell you my niece pointed something out to me as we had to walk through a little part of the casino to get to our room, she said "Aunt Lisa take a good look at the faces of the people gambling they all look soooo unhappy" I have to tell you she is right, not a one of them looked happy. You sure can't buy Happiness, True Happiness comes only from having a relationship with our Heavenly Father. I already miss my Sweet niece Michelle and her husband Chad and my brother Tim and his wife Mindy, we all had a Wonderful time visiting. As you know we took Nehemiah with us, he was such a good boy. He Loved meeting his Uncle Tim and Aunt Mindy, and his cousin's Michelle and Chad...Michelle's dog Sophie just loved Nehemiah, he has never been licked as much as that dog licked him. I also wanted to share with you the Wonderful blog award I received from my Sweet niece Jamie this is one of the nicest ones I've seen...Since I can't choose on who I would like to forward this too, I choose ALL my Faithful readers. So consider yourselves Awarded!!!!

I just had to share with you all this Great find!! I found this adorable Bag in the Tea room at the University of Washington. I fell in Love, plus it was originally $35.00 on sale for $13.95... I love bags that are big enough to act as a diaper bag but not look like one...Isn't it the cutest!!!!

Ok...so most of you know about Paper Pretties by now since I can't say enough about them,well this is the kit for this month...Isn't this Bella and her Fella Adorable......I am loving these kits...you get a kit every month. The kits come with EVERYTHING you need to make 6 Adorable cards, including the stamp!!! They have an Awesome design team...Go over to the Paper Pretties Site and take a look for yourself, I'm sure you'll be hooked. What I love is I don't even have to leave my house to get stamping stuff, its delivered right to me, how sweet is that!!! Below is my card for this month...I water colored the Bella and her Fella with SU markers and my water brush, I was really happy with the out come,what do you think???

I made this card about a week ago, just had to mount the main image. This card was my attempt at making a five minute card...Well nothing takes me five minutes. I bought this stamp this summer. It's made by Memory Box , I just love their stamps!!

Doesn't this stamp just SCREAM fall!!!

My "How Sweet" set came this week from Paper Pretties I had alot of fun playing with this last night....I've moved my stamping area into a little corner of my husbands office. His office is right off the living room. This should make it much easier to stamp more often...So get ready to see more from me!!!! Plus what I did move out is the stuff I use the most, I have it nice and organized!!! Do you think it will stay that way???

Supplies:

Paper: SU & Mat Stack

Ribbon: SU

Coloring: Prisma's & SU Markers

You all know by now how I joined Paper Pretties .....well if your a member of Paper Pretties you can join their Yahoo group which offers up weekly challenges...So this weeks challenge was a specific layout...So the card your looking at is the card I made for this weeks layout...Plus....this is the first time I have made a card with the infamouse "Bella".....What do you think??? My sister said I colored her face to orange...So its "Bella"with a suntan,or should I say "Bella" who used sunless tanning lotion...*smile*

I received the following card from Julie ,this is the cutest!!! Julie is one of Paper Prettie DT members, she sent me this card as a Welcome to Paper Prettie!!! Is she the Sweetest or what!!!!

I am singing Praises today because I just found out my Sweet Niece Michelle has become a member of Pink Cat Studio design team.. I'm sooo excited, she wanted to be a member of a DT soooo bad. I've told her it was just a matter of time!!!!So you know what that means......I'm gonna have to buy some of their stamps,um....I just placed my first order....Woo...Hoo...another reason to buy more stamps.... CONGRATULATIONS Michelle!!!!! Love Ya!!!!

I got a visitor today who said she wants to stay and be part of our Family....Can you guess who it could be???? Your right!!!! the one and only "BELLA"....Thanks to the Beautiful rak from Kristine, Kristine also sent me ALL these Bella images...Oh how I can't wait to play...Kristine is one of Paper Pretties many talented design team members...Kristine you are too sweet, it truly made this frazzled Mom's day...Its grey out today (everyone knows I hate the grey days) and the kids have cabin fever, then to top it off my back is out again!!! There is hope....I see the spine specialist tomorrow morning, hopefully we will find out what he can do for this pesty herniated disc of mine...Oh did I tell you about how I got the dreaded call that I needed to come back for another Mammogram and Ultrasound, Thankfully they got me in the next day, but Boy was that the LONGEST 24 hours....Praise God it was just a density!!!! Thank you again Kristine you truly made my day!!!

BTY... Robbin if your reading this... Kristine lives in my old stomping grounds...Your neighbor town!!!!

My Sweet niece Michelle (aka Meg Bee) sent me these adorable stamps she picked up at Michaels....This really made my day Peach...We were kind of having a rough homeschooling day,with my back still out, (but slowly improving). I told the kids lets take a little recess break and I ran out and checked the mail....I brought in the padded envelope with five sets of little eyes watching in anticipation!!! They all screamed in excitement knowing Mommy loves getting treats in the mail. Michelle you are to generous to your Aunt Lisa!!!! BTY go take a look at her Blog the Fall file card she made today is to die for. Do I see designer in her future of what!!! She has already been published with Close to My Heart!!! Love ya Peach!!!!

I joined Paper Pretties.....They are a Card in a Box Company...I am so hooked already and haven't even received my first card box...Go to their site and read all about receiving their card in a box, you get enough stuff to make 6 of the same cards, including the Rubber Stamp. This is such a GREAT idea for us busy moms who are dying to stamp but don't have the time to Create. All the work is done, I just have to put them together...Thank You Christie for coming up with such a ingenious idea!!!! Above is a sample of one of their cards from one of their past card boxes...They have some really Great Deigners too!!!

Well here is my attempt at Kirsten's blog challenge...You still have a few hours to participate...Plus you will be really Blessed by the Beautiful work she does...When I grow up I want to stamp like her *Smile* The card is basically self explanatory, I used Prisma's and Gamsol to color the Ladies dress and Copics for her skin and background...

I took advantage of the sale Hambo was having a couple of weeks ago and bought this Adorable Cow for me and the Soccer Ball for the kids...The three oldest play soccer in a Homeschool Soccer League...They love it!!!! The Cow and Ball were a steal of a deal.

Ok..My nephew Chad constantly say's "Aunt Lisa doesn't post enough on her blog" so this one is for you Chad!!!! I took this picture this evening. The kids were getting ready to walk out the door and go to church with Daddy...Nehemiah and I stayed home because he's got himself a cold. Don't want to get ALL the other little ones in the nursery sick. So Chadster!!! Aunt Lisa is going to work on posting more.....Promise!!!!

Water Arobics!!!! It was fun but I'm feeling a litte sore today. I dragged my niece Myranda along with me, wasn't going to go my first time alone. Can you guess which one in the picture is me??? LOL......

My sister at http://www.applesofgoldinpicturesofsilver.blogspot.com/ is having a "Huge" blog candy give away...Hurry on over, there are three differnt give aways. Also, be prepared to be " Blessed" by her blog. This is just a picture of the 1st prize, just wait to see what she's giving 2nd and 3rd place winners.

If you know my husband you would know that he "Loves"Blackberry season, he cans Blackberry Jam every year. This year my sister Trudy was here and went with Ken and the Kids picking....I got to stay home!!! Well a couple weeks ago we went to the local Blackberry Festival, here is a picture of us waiting to catch the bus to it, we decided to make a whole day of it and even ride the bus down to the Ferry...The kids loved it!!!! I played "Tour Guide" on the bus.

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