merry Christmas to me!!!

today in the mail i finally got my Christmas present!!! dan let me order them at the begining of dec - and we never thought they would get here!!! but im soo excited!!!

they are my new bella stamps - gramma you know them because that is what i made your knit happens cards with..... and mom and marci - the teach and the bikini girl are bellas in your calendars....

so here are my new ones - bookwormabella - and her saying is - a book is a gift you can open again and again - plus i already had a saying for her - oh the places you'll go - Dr Seuss

then i got snowbunnyabella - im loving her!! because arden got a coat like her for xmas - and brynn got the boots for xmas!!!!

then a new one called MWAH bella - her hand will hold up the saying - she can say MWAH and Sistah - which is what brynn says constanly now - im not a baby - im a sistah!!!!!

and finally a little swing dress - that is the one i think i am most excited about - have you ever seen a cuter dress????

finally.....

here's dan at the end of the party..... a little frazzled!!! he said - i just dont know how you girls do this- my hair was in my eyes all the time and it was tickling my neck and this eyeliner is making my eyes water - this is freakin hard to do!!!!! haha! - what we women go through to look beautiful!!!

more!!

we played twister and the kids did a scavenger hunt and found chocolate coins at the end!!!

oh and here's a picture of the display you saw when you walked in the house - complete with scavenger hunt treasure map!!!

more pirate party

all the guests came dressed in costume!! it was soo cool to see how creative everyone was!!!!!

pirate party

today was Mason's pirate birthday party!!!!

3 more pages

ok - so now it is 4:30am...... and it's time to get to bed!!! well actually way way past time to get to bed.... but i did get three more pages scrapped!! some of them dont have pics - because i need to get them developed still - but you can tell what is going on.... three more pages for my journal your Christmas album.......

christmas journal album

so tonight im sitting here scrapping and talking on the phone with my best friend kathea and she is working on a 9x9 album and just crankin out the pages..... and here i am only on my fourth layout of the day and i have been scrappin AAAALLLLLLL day long!!!!! so i decided to switch gears..... now im working on my 9x9 christmas journal album - it is a really fun album that i have been doing with my Christian scrapbooking sisters...... so anyways i thought i would just copy a 9x9 page kathea just did so i could get some inspiration - here is what i came up with!!! thanks kathea!! im sooo loving this page!!!!

oh and that is my little binny - in her Christmas outfit!!! lovin the pose!!!

page 81 of new CTMH catty

love this layout!!! i have done two pages based on it! man i am loving it!!!!

mr fix it

on thanksgiving day dan decided that his sparkplugs and sparkplug wires needed changed...... 8 hours later - SUCCESS!!! he was such a mess when he finally came back inside!!!!

i used the fixafella image on this layout - that makes two layouts today with bellas!!!

good mail day!!

dan just brought in the mail and wow was it a great mail day!!! samuel got a game boy game in the mail that he ordered online!!! we just ordered it the 26th!! and we ordered it around 11pm - so two days and it's here - that must be a record or something!!!!

and then arden got her grade card!!! straight A's!!! she aced all of her finals and got A's in all of her classes - her high school GPA is a 4.0!!! yahoo!!! great job arden!!!!

give thanks

just made this layout today - trying to have a whole day of scrapping and stamping.... so far so good!!! also trying to do some layouts using bellas!! so this is a thanksgiving layout with chefabella..... we didnt do the traditional thanksgiving meal of turkey and mashed potatoes - instead we made two different soups - they were both a big hit with the family!!! Chicken Noodle Soup and Creamy Corn Chowder. YUM!!!

10th anniversary

here is a layout i did before christmas - the pics are of me and dan on our 10th wedding anniversary....

Go BUCKS!!!

here is our little Buckeye Clan!! "it's a Red Ohio State day" is what i said to the kids this morning... they knew exactly what i was talking about as they raced to their room to make their beds, get dressed and then to the bathroom to brush their teeth. For Christmas Auntie Marci got us all Ohio State stuff!! and I mean a ton of Ohio State stuff!!! with the National Championship game coming up - we needed to be prepared!! and the kids had all grown so much over the past year that all their Ohio State stuff just wasnt fitting! so it was Auntie Marci to the rescue!!! now we have so many Ohio State shirts that we have designated three different sets of clothes!!! our red Ohio State day, our grey Ohio State day and our jersy day!!! GO BUCKS!!!!

first post

i was just hanging out on the computer tonight when i look over and see sam and brynn sitting so nice together beside me - wow! when does this ever happen??? so nice to see a little peace amongst all the craziness in the cooper household!!!

ok - now back to being crazy.....