Happy Birthday Dad!!!

Today is my dad's birthday. Dad, I hope you have a wonderful day and your card is in the mail. I thought maybe you would like to see a picture of me for once, so here a little birthday present for you. Hope to see you & mom later this month.

We've had a couple of busy weeks. Raquel has been at her dad's for over a week and we are looking forward to her coming home next week. Vern had a week off, in between jobs, so Ayden and I haven't had a chance to get bored. As per normal, Ayden insists we spend most of our time outside. This week we've been hunting for wild strawberries, (I know they are yummy, because she won't share with me) and I think we've picked all the ones in the yard, much to her disappointment. It's so cute to hear her trying to say strawberries. It's hard to believe she will be 2 in a couple of weeks. Below is a picture Raquel took of us on Canada Day.

I used Blushbutter's newest kit, it is so enchanting (I love the fairy and the unicorn). This is the first of several pages I have been working on, that I am using it for. I hope to get the other pages, of the girls done soon, but with Vern being off this weekend and Kyle dropping in for a quick visit at the beginning of the week, that might not happen. Summer seems to be going by so fast...

Canada Day 2008 II digital kit credits: Unicorn and Fairy Clipart Kit from Blushbutter
Fonts Used: AdineKimberg & Adorable

Thanks for stopping by my blog, have a terrific long weekend!

Precious Baby Girl

The newest member of our family, was born a couple of weeks ago. I am very happy for my brother, Chris & Harmony. They gave my new niece, such an unusual & beautiful name, Medea Rose. Chris was very thoughtful and emailed me a bunch of pictures. I couldn't resist doing a page of Medea, she is so adorable. Hopefully we will get to see her sometime soon, but since they live near Vancouver, pictures will have to do for now.

I hope you have a nice weekend!

Precious Baby Girl digital kit credits: Baby Girl Heart Strings Mega Kit & Unicorn and Fairy clipart kit from Blushbutter
Fonts used: Chopin Script & Park Avenue BT

Spaghetti! Spaghetti!

Summer is here! We've had some beautiful weather the past few weeks and the girls & I have been spending lots of time outside. Raquel is enjoying the fact that school is out for another year. She is so proud of herself for passing into Gr. 4. We had a busy couple of weekends, with Vern's mom & Jim stopping in and then Brian & Judy surprised us with a visit this past weekend. My mom & dad will be coming this weekend with Madison, so of course, the girls are looking forward to that.

Here is another page for the girls heritage album. I decided to do this page, because Raquel brought home the poem in her end of the year school work and I thought it was so cute. It seemed to go so well with this picture I had of Vern. Seems to me that this is exactly how a 4 year old feels about spaghetti. The poem is by Jack Prelutsky.

Spaghetti! Spaghetti!
Spaghetti! spaghetti!
you're wonderful stuff,
I love you, spaghetti,
I can't get enough.
You're covered with sauce
and your sprinkled with cheese,
spaghetti! spaghetti!
oh, give me some more please.

Spaghetti! spaghetti!
piled high in a mound,
you wiggle, you wriggle,
you squiggle around.
There's slurpy spaghetti
all over my plate,
spaghetti! spaghetti!
I think you are great.

Spaghetti! spaghetti!
I love you a lot,
your slishy, you're sloshy,
delicious and hot.
I gobble you down
oh, I can't get enough,
Spaghetti! spaghetti!
your wonderful stuff.

Spaghetti! Spaghetti! digital kit credits: A Touch of Legacy from Nath Fun Stuff.
Dragonfly by Art Within Designs from kit elements
Fonts used: Calligraph421 BT, Accent Wet Noodle, Alba, Papyrus & Blackletter686 BT

Thanks for your comments and have a nice weekend!

Lovelier than Lilacs

I spent some time this week scanning in some more of the old pictures my mom gave me. I know I've said it before, but I do really love those old pictures. I wonder about their lives, their dreams, sorrows and heartaches. I have a lot of them digitized now and organized into family files.

This is a picture of my great aunt. Leona, was one of my maternal grandfather's four sisters. Raquel and I both think she was beautiful and like the picture on the right. I suppose this is really an introduction of sorts to Leona. I don't know Leona's date of birth or when she passed away, but I do know a little bit about her life. I have quite a few pictures of her family and will eventually be doing more pages for my heritage album.

I really like this kit of Deb's, lilacs are one of my favorite flowers. I had decided I wanted to use a quote about lilacs on this page. It was all done, except for that and finally after several hours of internet surfing, I found this one, (you'd think there would be more quotes on lilacs). It seemed to go perfectly with the rest of the page. The quote reads:

Thou art not lovelier than lilacs,—no
Sonnet I

THOU art not lovelier than lilacs,—no,
Nor honeysuckle; thou art not more fair
Than small white single poppies,—I can bear
Thy beauty; though I bend before thee, though
From left to right, not knowing where to go,
I turn my troubled eyes, nor here nor there
Find any refuge from thee, yet I swear
So has it been with mist,—with moonlight so.

Like him who day by day unto his draught
Of delicate poison adds him one drop more
Till he may drink unharmed the death of ten,
Even so, inured to beauty, who have quaffed
Each hour more deeply than the hour before,
I drink—and live—what has destroyed some men.

Edna St. Vincent Millay,
Renascence and Other Poems, 1917

Lovelier than Lilacs digital kit credits: My Lady and My Lady Add on freebie from Doxie Designs.
Fonts used: Mutlu, French Script MT, Monotype Corsiva, Porcelain & Kayleigh.

Thanks for stopping by my blog. Have a nice weekend!

Enchanting & Lovely

June's challenge at Blush-n-Dusty is to do a LO featuring yourself. It really is a good subject, as it is not very often I do a page with me in it. Since I'm usually the one taking the pictures, there are not that many of me I guess. These pictures were taken in our yard a couple of weeks ago.
Enchanting & Lovely digital kit credits: Gentle, Digital Essential Frames, Victorian Wedding Digital Scrapbooking Kit, Baby Boy Heart Strings, Gold Butterflies, and June challenge kit, Pretty You, from Blushbutter
Fonts Used: Ajile & Monotype Corsiva

Enjoy your weekend!

Dance in the Rain

We get a lot of rainy days in June. Normally I like the rain, but today it matches my mood and I wish, I had the time to go for a quiet walk in it.

I really like this quote and have been wanting to use it with these pictures of Raquel for awhile. I took these pictures, about a year ago, one afternoon after she got off the bus. She was enjoying the rain and doing a little dance. Raquel didn't see me taking pictures right away, but once she did, she had to give me a little pose. My beautiful girl, I hope you always remember to dance in the rain.

Dance in the Rain digital kit credits: Faes for print and crafts 1, Easter Basket, Boy Oh Boy Kit, bracket album scrap template #2 from Blushbutter
Rain Drops share Pam Dragon, Dragon's Breath Resource Forum
Fonts used: Delitsch Antiqua, Eras Light ITC, Adorable

Have a nice week and don't forget to dance in the rain!

Happy Mother's Day!

I want to wish my mom a Happy Mother's Day. I love you mom! I hope all of you mothers have a wonderful day.

This month's challenge at Blush-n-Dusty Yahoo Group is to to do a page of your pet. We have so many pets, it was really rather difficult choosing pictures. We have 3 beautiful wolf/husky cross dogs. We got our 2 males last year and they have grown a LOT, since these pictures. They were so cute then and we sure had fun playing with 7 puppies.

Checking out the Litter digital kit credits: Dog Kit from Doxie Designs (one of Deb's freebies), Summer Dreams from Blushbutter and Pet Pretties from Dusty Bear
Fonts used: Park Avenue Bt and Perpetua

Have a nice week!