Happy New Year!

Of course, with the holidays, quite a bit has happened since my last post and I have a lot of pictures to share.

First things first...I can now post those projects I was working on for Christmas gifts. I made an album for my sister's wedding pictures. The entire album can be viewed by clicking here.

I also made a chipboard Family album for Anna, my mother-in-law. Completed project can be viewed here.

And I made a Friend chipboard album for my friend, Karie. Completed project can be viewed here.

The holidays came and went this year with us spending time with friends and family back in Ohio.

It was fun to have all the little ones at the Waganfeald Christmas again.

Del got me a Wii for Christmas. I womped on him in bowling (how could I not with such form??), but we were pretty well matched in golf. The children were perfectly content just watching from the grandstands.

And although I've been extremely sick with a cold, Del scored some Charlotte Bobcat tickets from the Chairman of his company for this past Tuesday night. Yes - we are sitting on the floor! Amazing seats - very cool!

And just because.....

Chalupa tolerating Maggie again.

And a rose from a bouquet Del bought me before Christmas that is still hanging on.

Hope everyone had a very Merry Christmas and a safe New Year's.

See you tomorrow for Flashback Friday!

Photo(s) a Day - Day 27

Happy Thanksgiving, Everyone!!

Instead of cooking this year, we had a nice buffet lunch at Red Rocks Cafe.

And since it was absolutely beautiful here today, it was perfect weather for a walk with the puppy in the neighborhood.

And, yes, that is Del wearing shorts on Thanksgiving Day! It was 64 degrees here today.

Happy Mother's Day...

In honor of Mother's Day I thought I would post a couple of my favorite pictures of me and my children!

Happy Mother's Day, everyone!!

Happy Easter!

Happy Easter, everyone! It was a beautiful spring day here so after church I decided to take advantage of the trees in bloom and use my tripod to take our picture.


Including a family portrait - well a partial one anyway - Chalupa was missing.


Del and I took a few days off this weekend to make it a longer weekend. We had no plans, just taking some time to decompress and play with the puppy.

In other news, Chalupa has had another ailment this week. It seems she has developed an ulcer on her right eye. We're assuming that Maggie might have scratched her. We're having to put two different kinds of drops in her eyes every four hours. After two days, her eye is looking so much better!

I'm also still plugging away at my new online class at Big Picture Scrapbooking. I am sorting through all my pictures (some more than 20 years old) and finding connections between them that I may not have found otherwise. As I continue my sorting, I will be sure to post some of the connection I find. It's actually been pretty fun. More on that later...

Hope you all had a great weekend!

P.S.

What do you think of the new additions to the blog (title block picture and playlist)? I'm so impressed with myself! HA!

Happy Valentine's Day...

So, since it is Valentine's Day and since I had the day off (not to mention I had a coupon), we decided to take Maggie to the Puppy salon. She came home with these cute, very girly bows in her hair.

She doesn't seem to even mind them one bit, either.

In other news....remember Mr. Frog?

Well...since this picture, we've had an incident....Mr. Frog's name is now Lefty. The reason for the new name....well....Lefty no longer has his left arm.

But it doesn't seem like Maggie cares that he is one arm less - she still loves him just the same.

And, of course, so as to not to leave our other child out....here is Chalupa sleeping in her favorite spot - on her Poppa's lap.

Happy Valentine's Day, everyone!

Better late than never...

Del's sister, Laurie, asked the question on their blog "Have you made any New Year's Resolutions?" In previous posts, I alluded to some of the resolutions that Del and I made this year, but today, I actually committed to them even more by creating a layout of them.

I stole (or what is better known in the scrapbooking world as "scraplifted") the title for this page from one I saw in one of my scrapbooking magazines. Some of these intentions are pretty lofty, but having them down on paper will help us remember throughout the year what we should be working on.

I also started the projects from my scrapbooking class. The first project was to decorate an ordinary composition book and make it into a daily journal. I've never been very good at journaling, but I hope to use this book to write down a few words or statements each day to remember at least one thing special from that day I want to remember.

Well, another weekend is about over. Since Valentine's Day falls during the week this week, and since Del is scheduled to have is Lasik surgery next weekend, we decided to go on our Valentine's Day date last night. We were going to go to a very upscale restaurant for dinner, but Del ended up taking too long of nap and I ended up watching a movie too long (a movie I had already seen, none the less), so we had a little change of plans. Instead of going to The Capital Grille, we went to Hops before going to see the Charlotte Symphony. Since neither Del or I have ever been to the symphony, we can count this as our "new" thing this month! Yeah!

Although I talked with her on her actual birthday - I wanted to wish a very Happy Belated Birthday to my niece, Lisa! Her birthday was Thursday, February 8th. Hope you had a great day, Lisa! Lots of love of wishes coming your way!

Until next time...