Holiday Extravaganza Sale Nov 26th - Dec 1st, click to enlarge

'Cleaning the house before your kids grow up is like shoveling before it stops snowing.'

Somebody loves her brothers

Brandi and I took Camryn to find a flower girl dress. She just had to have her picture taken in it with Brandi and her brothers. LOOK - I GOT A PICTURE OF STEPHEN WITH HIS EYES OPEN!!!!!!! I love to capture those real smiles!

Me and dad

Sun trying to peek in

Pictures in Ed and Janet's backyard

Stampin' Up! Upcoming .......

November 26th - Dec 1st Holiday Extravaganza Sale. I haven't a clue what the sale will be. I think this is supposed to be an after Thanksgiving day sale type thing. I will post when I know what it is.

December 1st - Last day to place your Christmas wishlist order to guarantee arrival for Christmas. Club order due. The date was moved back in order to include the Holiday Extravaganza Sale - whatever it may be. Yvette hostess

December 4th or 5th (leaning toward the 5th)- Christmas party/ornament swap email me if you think you my be able to attend - This is RSVP, I will need to know by Dec 1st if you think you may be able to attend. I will send a followup email to those that reply.

Product Offer: December 1, 2008-January18, 2009
Spend $20 and get 20 percent off any stamp set from the Fall-Winter Sampler - below
Item # Description Retail 20% Off
111564 Flight of the Butterfly $31.95 $25.56
112911 Vuelo de la mariposa (Spanish Flight of the Butterfly) $31.95 $25.56
111676 Puns from the Past $27.95 $22.36
111660 Just Jawing $25.95 $20.76
111624 Dreams du Juor $18.95 $15.16
111700 Thank You Kindly $13.95 $11.16
111714 Wow Flowers $12.95 $10.36
112955 Flores llamativas (Spanish Wow Flowers) $12.95 $10.36
111600 Bella's Bloom $12.95 $10.36

Our kittys - strays that nobody wanted.

Mt Olivet Cemetary

Are you sick of my Fall pictures yet?

December 1st Stampers Challenge

Ok, this time I am really giving you tons of time to participate in the challenge. Dig through your stuff that you keep hording back. Pick something that you just had to have and have never used....and use it! Please try to stick to Stampin' Up! products to help inspire us to use what we already have.

• Make a card with something you already have but have never used - Stamp set, embellishment, or just something you purchased and haven't gotten to yet.
• Second, make a card using some kind of dry embossing. You may use a stylus and stencil or just use your cutter for a straight edge to make grid/score lines.
• Make a card using a cardbase only. No layers. Helpful hint - mask off your paper and do light sponging, stamp an image over that, and your sentiment off to the side.

And more Fall pictures

Stampers Challenges fom stamp camp

Wow, look at the wonderful job Melissa, Claudette and Mary all did on the challenge.

• Mary did the card with the cute little spider for a Halloween card




• Melissa did the cards with the stocking and the Peaceful Wishes pine. And the Snow Swirled card in an earlier post with the blue cosmo glitter.




• Claudette used Bloomin Wonderful, Flower for all Seasons and made that adorable Sana box.

Thanks so much for everyone participating in the challenge. It's a lot of fun to see the different things we all come up with. I am going to go ahead and post next month's challenge to give you all more time. Give it a try!

More girls....more Fall pics

New Fall Pics

Sheldon's Birthday gift from Camryn

Pictures of the girls that Melissa and I took this weekend

The girls Fall pictures

Looking at the front door

This is the glass in our front door. This tree came up in our veggie garden back in 2000, the year we were married. Sheldon and I transplanted it to the front yard. The tree has never had pretty fall color until this year. I love the golden hues.

Breakfast - Day after Halloween!

Halloween Night - Girls and Grandma

School Halloween Party day