Birthday Bliss!
Thanks so much to all of you who wished Ashley happy birthday. She had fun reading all your comments. I had to post one more picture of her...isn't she cute!!! I sure miss those days! Hope you enjoy the Christmas Memories book cover pattern. It's

Blog Hop Announcement!
Time to announce the winner for our Cross Country Blog Hop! It took us a while to get all the logistics of finding winners together, but now we have names of 3 terrific blog hop participants that religiously commented on every blog. They were pooled out of the highest number of commenters that I have ever seen. So Thank you, Thank you, Thank you for spending the last couple of weeks with us. It has been so rewarding for us to read all your comments about our stories, hear your own stories sparked by what we wrote, see your excitement about the projects and then actually see how many of you have gotten to work and finished many of the hop projects and loaded your photos on the

Sweet 16!!
Where has the time gone? 16 years ago today, we were blessed with the cutiest little baby girl! Well, she actually looked like Yoda from Star Wars when she was first born. Ashley Kathryn, was born at 6:29 in morning...weighing 6 lbs, 6 oz. and was 19 inches long. It sure seems like that was just days ago, not 16 years. I have really enjoyed every stage with my kids...good and bad. I enjoy having teens and pre-teens but I would love to go back for just a day and hold my babies again

Getting Creative
 Every year for Christmas my family and I love to decorate gingerbread houses.The Wilton company has the best gingerbread house kits for busy family's. Everything you need is in the box and the house is already to go so there is no baking and you can get right to the fun of decorating! We get some ideas for the box, but mostly the kids just decorate it as they wish. My job is to mix-up th

Sweet Creativity
Today is the last day for our Blog Hop...hope you all enjoyed hopping with us as which as we have enjoyed having you hop! You will have through out the weekend to leave a comment on all the project posts so that you are entered in the grand prize drawings. Now on to today's topic....favorite holiday craft! Every year for Christmas, my family and I love to decorate gingerbread houses.The Wilt