Oh My Goodness

I cant believe its been a whole month since Ive posted here. I have been so busy that I just havnt been able to add another stop on my daily computer work!

I Hope everyone had a great Christmas and New Years. We went to Laughlin for a few days and had a great time. We never go anywhere on New Years so this was a treat. On top of a great trip and a free Lobster Dinner, Mike even won a good chunk of change on the penny machine...He still cannot believe it. Someone was watching over us.


Michaele and I are Teammates for the Amazing Digi Scrap Race - Season 4... It has been two weeks now and 6 challenges - we are having a great time and I am learning lots.


Is everyone working on the new craze....Project 365 - Taking a photo every day and then making a layout(or 2) of those pics at the end of the week. What a great album we are going to be having... - Also takes alot of time, lol.


The weather has been nice here in the desert - the last couple days a bit cloudy and sprinkles - supposed to get colder and more rain Sunday-Tuesday...Im so ready for Spring!


Grandaughter Kaylene has been so busy with her Basketball and Vollyball touring we hardly get to see her these days - nor does Michaele! Between school and sports she is still bringing home Straight A's!


I have not been a good CT for Jennifer or Michaele this month due to the ADSR Challenge and trying to keep up with the challenges at TSG and Deco Pages.


Michaele is doing the Sketch/Template Challenge at Deco Pages - Love this template she has given for the challenge and the posting prize is super.

Please go to her Blog too as she has some adorable goodies for the Project 365 and the cutest little hearts for Valentines Day.


Jennifer has made the cutest kit called Tweet-Tweet -Ive used it for one of my layouts for the ADSR Challenge where you cant used any photos - It is an adorable kit and is just too cute,
you will have to go see it over at Deco Pages.


And, Jennifer is also running the ABC Challenge - what a gorgeous Alpha she is giving us to work with and great Posting prize too!


I will be posting some kind of freebie soon - As soon as I can get out from under all these challenges I will be doing. Dont give up on me :)


Here are a few of the layouts I did for the ADSR .

Michaele and I both did this layout:

I did this one using one photo split into three frames.

I did this one of My Dad.

This one had to be of my first layout posted at a gallery - Re-do the layout :)


This is my layout using Jennifer Rassi's darling Kit Tweet-Tweet - we could not use any photos but must share a feeling from within the layout.

This was my layout this week taking a layout from my partner Michaeles gallery and flipping or rotating it and then turning the layout 45 degrees - whew that was fun!


Thats enough for today - Hope I can get some qp's up and freebies for everyone!

Have a wonderful week and hope to be back soon.

MERRY CHRISTMAS

JUST WANTED TO WISH EVERYONE A VERY MERRY CHRISTMAS AND A HAPPY AND HEALTHY NEW YEAR.

Off to pack for a couple days of Christmas with Michaele, J, Kay and Kori...Uncle Joe and Carol too :) Hope everyone has a blessed Christmas and give thanks to God for all we have.

Hugs and Loves!
Robbi and Mike

Wow, Ive had 10,000 Visitors

Wow, what a nice thing to wake up to. Thank you all for visiting my little blog, makes me feel very loved.

It's official - they said we got 10" - Well, thats lots more than the dusting I wished for!
Well, we shoveled snow for two days- now we have temps in the 20's for 2 nights and lots of ice - sure glad we shoveled our way in and out, cleared off the dock and patio but it still slipping off the roof and we still have 2' berm all the way around the house from that.



Hope you are all ready for Christmas. I sorta am....Have a bit of baking to do and need to get the truck in for some servicing on Monday or Tuesday, depending on the weather. Will go have our Christmas with Rosie as we will go to Michaele's Christmas eve Day (I think) depending on the weather...expecting another storm like the last one, but more rain and less snow. So will see, hope we dont get stuck here staying home!



In case I dont get back I just wanted to Wish everyone a very Merry Christmas and a Happy and Healthy New Year!



I will leave you with a couple layouts of my beautiful Grandchildren. (and Godsons child too)


Kori and Santa - Kaylene missing...too old for Santa visits :)

Ruth and Roz by the tree before visiting Santa

Brian and Amys Daughter Danica with Santa




I will try and get back with another freebie for you before Christmas- Luv Ya all and thank you so much for stopping by.

Be Careful what you wish for :)

I had been wishing for some some - maybe just a light dusting over a few hours - Wow, did I get my wish and then some. We live in the Southern California High Desert and the chances of snow are very rare, in 5 years its snowed once!

I had been sleeping very lightly, like a kid at Christmas DH says....waiting and listening for some sign of snow.....yesterday I woke up a bit later than usual around 7 and I peeked out the window and it was just starting. I woke up dh and said its snowing, its snowing....he could have cared less...at this point I was grabbing my slippers and a sweatshirt and 2 cameras in hand and heading outside. The snow was not sticking - yet! Long story short....it started sticking on everything including the cement around 1:00 in the afternoon and then we got the full force of the storm - Wow, it snowed and blowed and snowed till almost 7pm. We got about 7-9" of beautiful fluffy snow....It was awesome, but I knew it was going to be a big job to clean up after it. To make matters worse we lost our Sattelite dish and tv for most of the day, after many brushings we finally got the hose out after the snow stopped and it started working once again...didnt want to miss our evening shows!



We have a patio cover and of course our Christmas decorations, Santa and his elves in a boat and 2 christmas trees up there...well, we ended with about 8" of snow on top of that and it has been dripping and melting all day. We shoveled all the snow off the boat cover, dock, catwalks and then the patio.....whew, I burned off alot of calories today shoveling snow and throwing it into the lake!

Late this afternoon we tried to start the front yard - well, the snow has been slipping off the 1st and 2nd stories all day and we have a 3-4' berm all around the house - including the garage and front courtyard.....Its still falling off the roof! We shoveled off the berm to about 2' and laid it out so it would melt better as it was in the shade.....tomorrow it will be another day to shovel more and unbury our blow up Santa and snowmen, hope they still work.


I have taken over 200 pictures - I know a little overkill. I will remember this day always and dh wont let me forget my wish !


Here are a few pics of the Desert in a very rare and Unusual Snow Storm.




After the storm it was just so beautiful.

Christmas Around The World Freebie

Wow, I cant believe its that time of the year already - seems like just last week we were furiously jumping from blog to blog collection all these awesome Kits by 100's of designers.....It never fails to amaze me how big this is, and how much the designers give of their time and beautiful designs to all of us that use their creations. Thank you to everyone for sharing with me and making possible my Scrapping of our Family and Friends lives.

Today I have made a quick page using my daughter Michaele's CATW Kit (burkhartscrapzone) and hope you will stop by her blog (or have been sent here by her blog...lol) and pick up the gorgeous kit she has to offer.

Here is my layout using her gorgeous kit (and her childrens photos) of which I have made you a Quick Page to play with this Christmas.

This is such a small way for me to thank you for using Michaele's kits and my Quick pages ...I do love making you happy and hope you enjoy our Quick Page.

Here is the preview...

The link can be found here at 4Shared

Please leave me a little lovin here or in my chat box if you dl, I'd love to hear your comments.

Hugs and Happy Holidays to everyone from our Home to Yours!

Robbi and Mike