A better day

I have been scrapping a bit and that always makes for a better day for me. The first layout is of my granddaughter and my daughter, Chelsea is absolutely wonderful with kids and that big smile on her face is so pretty to see, one day Madison will get to look at this and see just how much her Aunt Chelsea loves her.



The next layout is of my son and my granddaughter, Steven has always shied away from a camera but he doesn't seem to mind getting his picture taken with his kids, good thing since I love to take pictures of my family. I hope he always remembers to give her big hugs and I hope she never gets to big to want those good hugs from her Daddy.



This is my Doug, he is truly one of the good guys, he calls me his princess and he makes me feel like one every day, even if he won't buy me a tiara. Doug always takes such good care of me and I could not ask for a better partner in life or a better best friend. Angel, I love you and I hope you know I always will.

It's a Blog Train

Hi everyone, I hope you are here for the goodies, Sweet N Sassy Digi Scrappers is having a freebie Blog train today, this is my part of the train.





My scrapkit can be found here.

But there is so much more out there, below is a list of all the blog's where our train is making a stop, so come on in and have some fun.

New family layouts

Well I have been scrapping again, it is just about my favorite pass time, I love working with photos of my family. This first layout is my daughter-in-law with my adorable granddaughter Madison, I really like working with black and white pictures, there is just something about a black and white photo, I can't put my finger on it but they are just so rich looking. All the layouts I am posting today were made from kit that my friend Enigma designed, the kit is called Timeless and you can find her kit at Sweet N Sassy Digi Scrappers or at Mischief Scrapz and be sure and check out Enigma's blog here.



The next layout is done with a beautiful little girl who is very dear to our hearts, she is such a character and her big ole blue eyes are just enchanting.



This layout is done with a picture of my father-in-law and 2 of his sisters, we had a family get together last year after Christmas, it was a lot of fun and I learned a lot about my father-in-law's family just sitting there listening to them talk about when they were younger.



I saved my favorite for last, this is my husband Doug and our grandchildren, Johnathan and Madison, if you ever read any of the comments left on my blog most of them are from him, I could never have asked for anyone more supportive than my husband, I am a very fortunate woman to have married such a wonderful man.

Football Pages

These are just a couple of really simple layouts I did tonight with pictures of Chad during the football game last week. Wellsville won 60 - 6 against the Sebring Trojans, it was Senior Night at home and it was nice to see our Senior boys come off the field together as the fans stood and cheered them on. It seems like yesterday that Chad and Chelsea were in second grade, I am sure the next 2 years will fly by and it will be our son coming off the field to the cheers of the crowd. So far this season I believe Chad has scored 10 touchdowns, 4 2 point conversions, I think 3 or 4 interceptions and the same for fumble recoveries, I am sure if I am wrong someone will let me know. I can't count the number of tackles he has been in on and he had a very nice quarterback sack this past week for about a 10 yard loss. Here are the layouts, very simple but very much my style.

More Family Scrapping

Doug and I went to see the kids on Thursday afternoon and of course the camera came out, I got some really cute pictures of the grandbabies, Johnathan is such a little ham, he does love to have his picture taken, he even agreed to hold Madison to take a picture with her, I haven't gotten those scrapped yet but I did get one done of Miss Maddy sitting in her saucer thing, she is going so fast.



Doug and I and the twins went to see the kids again on Saturday and guess what I took, the camera of course, I got some really wonderful pictures, I have only scrapped a couple of pages so far from them though, one is of Doug, me and the twins, somehow I got us all crammed into the stairway and Steven started taking pictures, he is pretty good with my camera.



Steven with his children, when did I get old enough to have grandchildren?



Well, that's all for now but come back real soon to see more family layouts. Thanks for stopping by.

Another Homecoming Layout

I finished another layout of Chad and his date on Homecoming night, of course I had some bumps along the way, my computer decided it was time to stop recognizing my external hard drive, which of course is where all my play things are stored. I thought it was going to be melt down time for sure, but thanks to my friend Enigma and her never-ending amount of patience with me it all got worked out, even with the ranting and raving and threats to throw it through the window.

Homecoming pictures

This past Saturday was our high school's Fall Homecoming dance, my son went and took a very pretty young lady who he has been going with for quite a while now. I got some pretty good shots of him alone and wanted to get them scrapped.

Remembering our babies

Oct. 15th is Pregnancy and Infant Loss Awareness Day, in honor of that day a wonderful scrap designer that I know made a kit to share with everyone for free. I took advantage of this offer and made this layout. My son and daughter-in-law got pregnant last year with twin girls, they picked out their names, Meeka Anne and Madison Rhea, the doctors insisted on calling them Baby A and Baby B, Baby A was always the most active when it was sonogram time and the kids decided to name her Meeka Anne, Anne after my daughter-in-law since she was always doing something, Baby B was to be Madison Rhea since she was the lazy one during the sonogram, Rhea after my son, they chose to use both their middle names but just changed Ray to a girl's spelling. Well on a routine OB visit with the high risk doctor on Valentine's Day of this year we were told that Baby A had died, our entire family was devastated by this news. The kids really took it hard and had some rough time to get through together, as the mother all I could do was sit back and offer as much support as a grown son will take and be there for both of them when they needed me, my husband was a big source of strength for me and for the kids also.

Beth continued to carry both twins for the rest of the pregnancy and delivered them 6 weeks early, Madison needed a little help at first and was in the NICU for 10 days but she is a trooper and came home to us after those few short days, at the time it seemed like forever but I am so grateful that she got to come home to her family. My son did a lot of growing up during that pregnancy and I am very proud of him for that, somewhere along the way he went from being the son who was not always the most responsible guy around to being the man he is now. Our Maddygirl is now 5 months old and very healthy, we are all very grateful that we have her in our lives everyday but Meeka will always be in our hearts, when Madison is old enough to understand the kids plan on telling her about her twin sister, that will be a very difficult talk I am sure but I know they will handle it with grace.

I have been scrapping

I have been scrapping my heart out, I have enjoyed doing the layouts I am going to share with you. The first layout is of my adorable grandson Johnathan, this was his preschool picture from last year, that mischievous smile of his lets his personality shine through.



This one is my Johnathan with his little sister Madison, this picture was taken in July of this year when Madison was just 2 1/2 months old, she is a real cutie but then again I might be a little prejudice about this baby girl.



This next layout I did with pictures I got from one of our high school football games, my son Chad plays varsity football and his twin sister Chelsea is in the marching band.



This is my husband Doug and our twins, Chad and Chelsea, we were messing around in the backyard and since I am camera happy and we were being a little silly I told them to strike a pose and this is what they did, it really turned out to be a cute picture of the 3 of them. I am very blessed to have these 3 as part of my family, even when they can drive me to distraction I love them with all my heart and I am very proud of each of them.



I hope you have enjoyed seeing my family and I will be back soon to share more goodies with you.

A freebie

Hi,
Wanted to put this up here for anyone who might be interested in it, these are some of the first background papers I made, they are all 600 x 600 so good for tagging.

You can download the file HERE

New Layout

This layout is my daughter and my brother-in-law, it was a very pretty day last fall just after a winning football game so pictures were definitely in order that day.

Welcome to Spitfire Designz

Well, welcome to my little corner of the internet, I am getting this started due to a friend who has convinced me that someone other than myself and my family might like some of the scrapbook layouts that I do. So Enigma, thanks for the support and the kick in the pants. The layout you see below is done using Enigma's scrapkit Sunset Dreams. I hope you enjoy this layout, it is of my kids who are 13 in the picture dated 2005 and 16 in the one dated 2008. I adore these kids and they know it. They are both very active in school so that makes my husband Doug and I very active in school too, somehow I thought at my age I was done with high school, boy was I wrong. Once I get used to this I will be posting more and sharing more layouts with you, and I hope you come back and see me real soon.