Happy New Year Everyone!

Where did the year go! Well for some great news my nephew was born yesterday. Dominick Mason Andux arrived at 1:57pm on 12/31/2008. Talk about a great New Years Eve, what more could you want to start a new year than a new baby. He is so Beautiful!!! Congrats goes out to my Sister and Brother in Law. I am so happy to be an Aunt again. I tell you it is the next best thing to having a child yourself.

Here are some pictures from our New Years Eve! Well as most people do at the start of a New Year you think of things that you may want to change or improve on. There is always things that I want to change and we can always improve ourselves as people but as I sat with my family last night I stopped and thought how lucky I am and how grateful I am for all that I do have in my life. One thing I want for 2009 is to make more time for my Family and another is to make some time for myself. That of course would me more scrapping for me, lol. Onto some great Scrapping News. The ADSR Season 4 starts this Sunday January 4th and guess what we are Team 44. Our Team name is "About A Boy" It is the first time I have ever done anything like this and I am excited to get started. Happy New Year Everyone, here is to a awesome 2009!

I Believe in Santa Claus

This is Dylan looking up at our Christmas Tree. Credits: Merry Berry Kit by Shabby Scrap Designs found at Scraphead. Credits: Wordart by Inspired Mommie Designs. You can get this great new wordart at Pretty Scrappy.

Christmas Magic

These are pictures of Dylan and Ciara Sleeping. Credits: Merry Berry Kit by Shabby Scrap Designs found at Scraphead. Credits: Wordart by Inspired Mommie Designs. You can get this great new wordart at Pretty Scrappy. Credits: Crumpled Tag by KDesigns found over at Groovy Scraps.

Thoughts for 2009

These are some thoughts for 2009. Credits: Snowraven's Winterblooms Kit found at Scraphead and Magickal Scraps. Credits: Elegant word art by Bethany found at ScrapOrchard.

Nice Normal Family

These are pictures of us in our Santa Hats on Christmas Eve. Credits: Snowraven's Merry X-mas Time Kit found at Scraphead and Magickal Scraps. Credits: Elegant word art by Bethany found at ScrapOrchard.

Holiday Memories

This is a picture of us playing the game Trouble. We played lots of games over the Holiday. Credits: Snowraven's Merry X-mas Time Kit found at Scraphead and Magickal Scraps. Credits: Wordart by Inspired Mommie Designs. You can get this great new wordart at Pretty Scrappy.

Winter Wonderland

This is a picture I took of a Snowy Area where we live. Credits: Shimmering Crystals Kit by Sarah Barber Designs found at Divine Digital and Groovy Scraps. Credits: Wordart by Inspired Mommie Designs. You can get this great new wordart at Pretty Scrappy.

Merry Christmas!!!!

We made it, another fantastic Holiday full of so much fun. I think I even got everything finished, lol. The Christmas Cards are done and have all been put in the mail along with a few special packages that had to be shipped to our family that lives far away. The shopping has been done and the presents all wrapped. All the presents are put under the tree. Dylan's Christmas story has been read and then after he fell fast alseep in his bed. As the house is so quiet and everyone heads to bed I lay hear just thinking about all we have to be greatful for. This year it just seems like everything has fallen into place. I picked up Ciara my step daughter after work and as we returned home to Dylan, Carl and Grandma Joan we had so much fun. We baked cookies, so many cookies that I am all cookied out if that is possible. After all the baking was done we decided we would sit down and play some board games for some good old fashioned family fun. What a blast we had Carl picked Trouble to play first and then after we moved on to sorry. Hours went by and what fun we had just sitting around being silly and playing games and eating some of the yummy cookies we made. It was so nice to have the kids together for Christmas this year. This morning we started the day with Breakfast and some more fun and then off to pick up the Grandma's. We celebrated with some of Carl's side of the family and I even got a great 4 generation picture. We unwrapped presents and spent some time together and of course more cookies to share. Then as the day moved on everyone went home Mom and I prepared our Family Dinner, Lasagna,YUM! Dylan and his Dad put legoes together for hours. As evening approached more family came over. My Brother, Sister in law and the kids all came over for an evening of fun. More Presents, Pictures and more fun. We ate a big Christmas eve dinner and after relaxed some and played Uno Attack, what a fun game that is. As it got later and later everyone left and then we began to settle in for the evening. Dylan wrote his note to Santa and put out Cookies and Milk. Then as I tucked him into bed I began his traditional Christmas Eve Story of The Night Before Christmas. It amazes me every year how intently he sits with me and listens and I read his story. As I tucked him and kissed him good night he closed his eyes and went right to sleep. He knows Santa doesn't come unless we are all sleeping. We finished putting the presents under the tree and off to bed we go with the anticipation of what Chrismas Morning brings to us, the joy of being together. From our family to yours we wish you all a very Merry Christmas! Here are a few photos from last night.

Christmas Card 2008

Here is our Christmas Card for 2008. The picture to the left is Me, Carl and Dylan. The picture to the right top are cousins, Anthone', Jerry, Dylan and Amber. The bottom right picture is My Mother, My Brother, Sister in law, Niece and Nephews and Me and Dylan. It is hard to get everyone together all at the same time, lol. The writing on the card reads: With Love from our family to yours, Joan, Carl, Crystal, Dylan, Thom, Lisa, Anthone', Amber, and Jerry. 2008

Precious Jewel

Credits: Shimmering Crystals Kit by Sarah Barber Designs found at Divine Digital and Groovy Scraps. Credits: Wordart by Inspired Mommie Designs. You can get this great new wordart at Pretty Scrappy.

ADSR Season 4

It is offical we received our confirmation e-mail for the Amazing Digiscrapping Race Season 4 Registration. Our Team name is About a Boy and we are team #44 in the Race Forum. There is a link on the left side of my blog that will take you to our team blog if you want to follow our Race Adventures. Sarah made this great blinkie for our team!

The Magic of Christmas

These are pictures of Dylan in front of our Christmas Tree this year. Credits: All I Want for Christmas Kit by Sarah Barber Designs found at Divine Digital and Groovy Scraps.