Snow Much Fun

{Snow Much Fun}

Well we got our snow finally! We've had a forcast 2 other times before now, but this time it really came! About 12 inches of it! lol We were probably the only ones in the neighborhood (besides the kids) that were truly excited about it. We haven't gone through this year after year to be tired of it yet. hehe Alyssa just could NOT wait to get out there this morning, but it was still falling very heavily with pretty high winds so we waited until it let up a little and then finally bundled everyone up to go out.

Kyleigh was not too thrilled about it at first, as the snow in the drive way came up to her croch and she couldn't move! Alyssa's gloves didn't hold up long (especially since she could only find one of them and was in too much of a hurry to look for the other one) so maybe 5-10 minutes into being outside she threw a huge drama mama fit and ran inside. Finally after about 15 minutes she came back out to join us and Eric gave her a pair of his gloves to wear.

Eric shoveled off a little runner area on the driveway for the girls to use his old childhood sled. The girls both loved this, even though it went pretty slow. The snow was just so soft, dry and deep! Eventually though they noticed the other kids across the street on some of the plastic slides on a big hill and we headed over there for a few minutes. Ky and Alyssa both went down on one of the other kids sled and boy did they fly compared to our drive way. The first couple runs were slower, but as the kids went again and again and packed it down it got better. I can't wait till it's packed down still a little more and I think I'm going to have to try! hehe It's been many a many a years since I went sledding (We lived in Alaska when I was in 2-4th grades).

So...here's a few of the snapshots from today of the girls playing outside.

Alyssa standing at the bottom of the neighbors hill were they were all sledding.


the girls going down the big hill. hehe



Ky's first moments and experience in snow! haha Poor baby.


ahh now we've got some smiles coming.


slowly sliding down the drive way on Daddy's sled.


Looking up for mommy to take a pic. :)

{Winter Dreams}

Only a couple more days till Amy and my "Winter Dreams" Collection is released. These winter kits are coming out just in time for my new winter pictures! I can't wait to have a few minutes to start scrapping again and use these kits. We'll be having our launch chat on Sunday night, 10 PM Eastern time at Digiscrapshak.com. We hope you'll come an join us. We'll have an exclusive ad-on freebie for all in attendance, at least one free collection to give away, and a contest to announce for a chance to win more products.



The whole collection will be only $15 through 12/8, after that it will only be $18. This is a $25 value if each of the parts were purchased individually, but it also includes a bonus element pack that will NOT be sold individually! Scroll down to my preview postings and you can see all the individual previews.

{Holiday Tag}

And now.... a tag from my friend and CT member of mine, Amanda (thanks Amanda, sorry it took me so long to respond to it lol)

1. Egg Nog or Hot Chocolate?
2. Does Santa wrap presents or just sit them under the tree? Sometimes he wraps the smaller things.

3. Colored lights on tree/house or white?

4. Do you hang mistletoe? No, but i was thinking about it when we were putting up our decorations this year. I thought back to a year when my little brother and I went around the neighborhood selling bunches of it to make some extra $. LOL

5. When do you put your decorations up? We put them up Thanksgiving weekend...especially good this year since it's way too cold, and the snow and ice now would have made it a little tough.

6. What is your favorite holiday dish (excluding dessert)? I think I'd have to say Green Bean Casserole..I never make it any other time. yes, I know I have werid favorites. lol

7. Favorite Holiday memory as a child: hmmm I don't really know... nothing is coming to mind for this right now, but maybe I'm just too tired...

8. How and When did you learn the truth about Santa? You know, I really don't know. Must not have been all that traumatic for me. If I had to guess, I'd say it was probably when we lived in Alaska sometime between 2nd and 4th grade. Wow..will Alyssa really know the truth that soon? I hope not.

9. Do you open a gift on Christmas Eve? Sometimes my parents let us open one growing up, but my husbands family always did Christmas on Christmas Eve after returning from midnight mass. We've sort of followed his tradtion some years, but it really just depends on when we're leaving to go home. We often have Christmas several days early before we leave to go home and see our families.

10. How do you decorate your Christmas Tree? How? Well, put the lights on, put the garland on, add all the ornaments that will fit, and then put that topper on. :)

11. Snow! Love it or Dread it? Still LOVE it. Give me a few months and a few more huge snow falls and my love may fade lol

12. Can you ice skate? It's been many years now, but I used to ice skate everyday at lunch time when we lived in Alaska.

13. Do you remember your favorite gift? Well, I think I might have to say my iceskates were one of my faves, maybe the Barbie Dream house too. Can't think of any more recent gifts that might top the list right now.

14. What’s the most important thing about the Holidays for you? Spending time with family.

15. What is your favorite Holiday Dessert? Pecan Pie and Fudge

16. What is your favorite holiday tradition? Probably the tree trimming and decorating the house.

17. What tops your tree? an Angel

18. Which do you prefer giving or Receiving? Giving

19. What is your favorite Christmas Song? I don't know that I really have one.

hmmm, who do I pass this tag onto now? I think....Amy C, Lisa W, Sondie, and Raechel! hehe Anyone else interested, go ahead and do it too and link me up here so I can visit your blog to read. :)

{Glitter Flakes}

OK..so now..did you make it through this entire novel of a posting? hehe if you did, I have a gift for you! I was inspired by my recent snowy weather and made some glass glitter snow flakes, AND I made them so they can coordinate with the Calm Kit in the Winter Dreams Collection. :)




upclose details:


download here, and please let me know which kit in the collection is your favorite! I can't decide between cozy and calm for mine, but I know I'll be using calm very soon to scrap my snow pictures! :)

Hope to see you Sunday in the DSS chat room, and by the way..I think you may want to stop by Amy's blog also if you haven't done so yet. She has this AWESOME Grinchy freebie for you. :)