Merry Christmas

I just wanted to take a moment and wish everyone visiting my post a Merry Christmas, and happy holiday season. Stay safe, much laughter, and make memories that will last a lifetime.

My son made it home from Gulfport, MS today for a few days. I will be off enjoying my time with him for the next few days. Please keep him in your prayers, as he will be shipping off to Kuwait in a couple of months as a SeaBee for the US Navy. It will be the end of 2008 before he gets back home. I am at peace with this, knowing his heart is where it should be...although we will miss him and we are hopeful that this year will pass quickly.

I will be adding pictures and layouts probably next week.

I have added some links to my favorite scrap sites under sites of interest....feel free to click and take a look around and snag some goodies, should you wish. These girls work very hard, so please give credit where it is due and leave a Thank you, should you download any of their work.

Merry Christmas, Priscilla

Guess Who Turned SIX!

Goodness how time seems to fly when you are having fun. It seems like just yesterday I was laying in the hospital, scared out of my mind since my little guys decided to come two months early. FORTY HOURS OF LABOR, and then a C-Section. My you can't tell they were 3.8 lbs and 3.14 lbs now.

We had a wonderful time for their birthday. We went with the "Pirates of the Carribean" theme and they had a blast. We had pizza for dinner, then they did a treasure hunt, and pin the flag on the ship. Jadan made out with the gifts too, I had a whole livingroom floor full of Thomas the Tank Train set, and of course Samuel jumped on the opportunity to help Jordan learn his new video game.

We got the biggest laugh out of Jadan, and I just have to share. We were trying to put his train set together, and he kept on talking about "destructions"....I was like what is he talking about...and he reaches over and grabs the "instructions" and says here is the "destructions"....we couldn't help but laugh.

This is my challenge for Scrap Girl's Twelve Days of Christmas Contest- Task six. I call it "The Meaning of Christmas". Wish me luck...

Scrap Girls 12/20 - Thursday Challenge for Journaling I have used a couple of these photo's before....so it's a rescrap. The Poem is "An Angel Left Her Wings." by: Tina M. Marascia.

Scrap Girl Challenge - Smiles, I can't resist the smiles on Jordan's face in these pictures, I turned the one on the bottom to a sketch.

I have been busy, but am taking a moment to update my blog a bit. Adding several new scrap pages. I just finished the first two scraps today for a "12 Days of Christmas" Challenge @ Scrap Girls, December 2007 Contest...wish me luck.

As usual, Double click on the pictures a couple of times, for a better view.

Norm and I Christmas 1999

This is number 2 of my submissions for the contest. This one is called "I believe in Santa." I snapped these pictures of Norm and Jordan last night while Jordan was giving daddy some love, and watching TV.

This is another contest entry for "Inspirational holiday songs". I chose "Frosty the Snowman," since I had several pictures of Jadan from his Christmas program to use.(Video located below)

This is one of Jordan's pictures from his Christmas program. It was made for SG's Frame Challenge.

I was just playing around and wanted to do something a little different, so I made oval pictures, instead of the typical square/rectangle pictures I scrap. These pictures were taken the day Breanna and Samuel came home from the hospital, and exactly one year later after their first birthday party. They still love to curl up on the couch with Norm or I and snuggle. I was going through some pictures the other night and found the pictures of their first birthday party. Stay tuned, when I get a chance to scan them....you will probably be seeing more layouts, of that special day.

This these next couple of layouts I did of Breanna. She wasn't feeling well for a few days before, and decided to try to snap her out of her little funk she was in...it worked - I did a small photo shoot of her a couple of weeks ago with her teddy bears. I can't remember which challenges I did this for at the moment, but here they are.

(I am not too sure how much I like this one, I was trying to get away from the typical pink that seem to be the majority of her layouts.)

I'm finally back

...not much to post, will try to get around to putting some new stuff up in the next few days...

My computer's DVD-Rom quit ejecting last week, and when Norm carried it in to the Geek Squad...they said the hard drive was going bad and so I basically got a NEW COMPUTER....they boosted my HD up to 320 Gigs....replaced my DVD with a 20X, and it's running so much better!!!

Tonight was the boys, Kindergarten Christmas Program. Jadan is the one on the lower left with no sun glasses and clapping for most of the beginning of the song. Jordan is the one on the next row up to the right with orange star sunglasses, and his hands out in front of him.

I was able to catch a couple of songs on video with my new camera....Heehee....Here they are take a peek!

SG's Challenge : Surprise Expressions

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I forgot when we put the tree up on Thanksgiving day that the kids had a fit when the presents went under the tree. They begged and begged to open just one gift and they would leave them alone until Christmas....and so far THEY HAVE!!! LOL

Here is Samuel's Surprise when he opened his Star Wars Characters.

Oh my, Christmas is upon us...

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Jadan is silly. Norman was burning some pictures to CD for me when Jadan discovered that the labels from the CD's actually had left over stickers. He went to town, peeling and sticking them. As I was walking out the door to my best friend's sister's baby shower, I snapped his picture. Later I discovered that we were challenged to use a book cover as inspiration for a layout. I of course remembered that we got books at the book fair the other night, and so I told Breanna to run downstairs and get me her book. I had the perfect layout in my head (Breanna's Grumpy Layout is below). Jadan couldn't be outdone so he ran downstairs and got his book. He bugged me and bugged me until I used his book as well - "Dora Saves the Mermaids". This is what I ended up with.


This is our Christmas tree this year. Norm and the kids put it up as I was making Thanksgiving dinner. It keeps them out from under my feet, and they all four decorated it. We have several ornaments clustered together of the same color, but it's beautiful just the way it is.


Christmas Traditions: Stocking hanging
There is an ornament that hangs with our stocking on their shelf. This is an ornament that was sent to me by a friend. This ornament is made of metal and is a rustic heart, with many jewels on it. It is hung in the middle of our stockings to represent the little jewels I have in my heart for the little one's that went on Angel's wings to heaven all to early. Today is the anniversary of my second loss, and it allows me to share with my children, family, and friends the memories of happiness, and saddness of loss regarding siblings that should be with us today, but only were in our hearts briefly.


This is the layout I had in my head when we first had the children's book challenge. Breanna sometimes has the tendency to sleepwalk. This is one day when she was taking a nap, she wandered into my room and fell back asleep on my bed. I thought she had waken up but apparently she was still asleep, because she doesn't remember me snapping the picture.


This is a layout, "Deck the Dog in Boughs of Holly", I did for a friends of mine using her freebie scrap materials (polkadottedplum.blogspot.com). They tend to feature my layouts on thier site. Thanks Lauren and Amy. This little guy was my Christmas present last year from Norm and the kids, my little buddy Harley.


Jadan Decorating the Christmas tree on Thanksgiving Day. I have several more pictures and will be adding layouts as I get the chance to scrap them.


Another layout challenge I did for Scrapgirls regarding Military appreciation at Christmas. To all of our troops near and far....We wish you all a safe holiday season, and may you be home with your families soon.