their both babes!!!

What a fun day we had today!

It was Hallies blessing day and take a look at her mama...

isn't she a babe too???

Hallies grandpa gave her a very special blessing

and then we had a fun wintery day here in Arizona!

The day time temp. was probably around 70 degrees.

Darn chilly.....don't cha think???

It's starting to be "normal" to me????

It's starting to be normal to me to have Thanksgiving,

Christmas shopping and decorating, and planting flowers all in the same weekend.

It was the anniversary of our sixth year here

in Arizona last week, and now I can say this is a lot

more normal to me than shoveling snow would be.

These months here with the weather fabulous

are what make the summers worth it.

This is heaven!!

I really have to say I enjoy Christmas shopping a lot more here.

I have never really enjoyed cold temps and big heavy coats,

even worse being cold. I still yearn for familiar

even though it is getting more familiar here.

I miss my family and my amazing friends.

But, I have been truly blessed to have made wonderful

friends here also. I am grateful for all of you!!!

So, I guess what I am saying is..............

DEAR SANTA, I WANT IT ALL!!!!~

( my hubby will say...I've known that for a long time)

Doesn't get much better than this....

Playing with ink, paper, stamps, bling.....

my hubby, my kids (which includes my cute son-in-law)

and our precious little grandbaby!!!!

Awesome Arizona weather...

All this makes for a really fun weekend!!!

We are "madly in love" with this babe!!!

We are all "madly in love" with this babe!!!

But... look at her Grandpa!!!

He is quite smitten with her...

This morning as he was gooing and gawing over her

Lindsey said, "Hallie when you get big

and want BIG things....just ask Grandpa!"

...that say's it all doesn't it??

Our little sweetie pie!!!!

Everytime our little sweetie pie gets dressed

we have to take new pictures.

Oh my goodness!!!

Being a grandma is the greatest!!!

I am having a lot of fun...

Meet Hallie Nicole!!!!

Meet my beautiful grand daughter

Hallie Nicole!

She arrived on November 1

weighing in at 8lbs. 13oz. 21 1/2 inches long

You can't see it here but she has tons of black hair

and she already has us all wrapped around

her tiny little finger!

Happy First Anniversary B&D

Happy Anniversary B&D!!! One blissful year already!!!

Dana keeps harrassing me because I haven't scrapped their wedding.

So, I just wanted to remind her that I did create "tons" of fun

things for their engagement. It was a little more carefree when I was

on the design team rather than teaching. But, I promise a fab mini

album one of the months real soon......

This layout created for Mystic Paper last year when I was

able to be part of their awesome Design Team!!!

(I literally had to sneak this off of the wall...

when Ellen wasn't there to stop me hee.. hee... Ellen)