Surviving Christmas!!!

Well we survived, just barely. Of course I was tell the last minute finishing up my homemade gifts. And of course I realized I didn't get a picture of a single one of them. I hadn't been able to post any of them because family would have seen there gifts if I posted them here. But silly me I didn't take the time to take the picture so I could share them with you. I'm sorry! Some I gave to my mom and I promise this weekend I will take pictures and post here then. Other gifts I feel might have been a waste and not really appreciated but hey, what do you expect from people who don't have a clue what work, thought and passion I actually put into the project. (I have issues can you tell) LOL But on to happier things.

The kids loved all of there gifts, and so did my hubby. I especially loved all of my gifts, Santa got my husband and I an MP3 player (Thank you so much Santa!), I received some books I was really wanting, and the Twilight Soundtrack I had been wanting since November. But thankfully it is over and this week after finals I can get back to scrapbooking for us again. I have so many ideas and so little time. I know get busy.

I hope each of you had a wonderful Christmas and that you got to take some time to do something for yourself. That's what I'm going to do after tomorrow and my last two finals. Wish me luck. I'm off to study now!

Your friend,

Amber Korn

December 4th, 2008

Well I'm feeling just a bit of nostalgia tonight. The reason being is that 10 years ago tonight I was still single. Yes, I did have a night out with the girls but it was nothing even close to over the top. It was just three of us and one was my best friend and the other was my soon to be sister-in-law, who at the time was 8-months pregnant. We drove through the town we live in, Christmas light display and I was at home by 10 o'clock. As you can tell it was one wild night, we had good clean fun and that was all that mattered. Anyways I was afraid to over excite Jennifer, she might have gone into labor, then I'd have been in BIG trouble. LOL

Anyways, it's hard to believe how fast the past 10 years have gone, and that Chet and I have been married that long. I look back and realize just how much we've changed, what we've gone through (believe me it hasn't been pretty) how tired we are, how happy we are that the kids are going away for the weekend at there Grandma Candie's. And we have nothing planned. We are just looking forward to a quiet weekend, without hearing "She looked at me!" "He punched me!" "I'm hungry!" "I'm thirsty!" "But I don't want that!" (The list could go on forever! LOL)

But with all of that being said I wanted to share a real quick post with you of a page I completed tonight. Of course it is of the kids and was taken around the first week in November, just before the fall leaves started to come off of the trees. We were very lucky to get these shots, about a week later they had almost all fallen off, and were gone. Was that good timing or what.

The paper packet used was Magic Moments, My Acrylix Chocolate for the "Fall" letters and Celebrate for the "Happy". The tree in the corner of the right side page was a piece of a card that I had made at a friends workshop, who is a consultant for Stampin' Up! I'm not much of one to make or send cards but I love to take them and place them on my pages. I believe I've decided this year to make that one of my resolutions for the new year. To send more handmade cards. Let's see if I can follow up on that.

Here's the page, I hope you all love it.

Your friend,

Amber