It's Saturday!

And you are thinking...yeah, so...it is Saturday. Well today Jon comes home! As a matter of fact he is on the plane right now. It left early from San Diego (6:30 a.m.) and will arrive in Spokane around 9:30 and then they will be home around noon or so...yay! And Scott's house sitting gig is done today too so we will be a full house again. It was interesting just having one child at home for the week. Pretty darn quiet!

Today I have a card that I made for Emily to show you and then a couple of more swap cards.

So here is Alexa's Bad Hair Day from Stamping Bella. This is the card I made for Emily. You guys know how much I love pink so I had to go with pink and brown for my main colors. The bunny's ears are fun flocked in white and the bunny nose and Alexa's hair bands have glitter on them. There is a little bling in the right upper corner and then finally I used some card scent on it after I got the okay from Emily's mom. I sincerely hope that Emily will like it!

This cute iPodbella card is made by my friend Katie Skiff (who sent me an RAK I get to show you guys). I just love the layout and colors....hmmm...I say that a lot don't I?

And this one is by Katie Cotton. It looks like Katie has a MySpace account so go check her out! Aren't they are cute so far? The last two come on Monday!

Tomorrow is Easter...my favorite day of the year. I won't be posting any card photos but do check back in tomorrow anyway. What a blessing it is that Jesus took our sins upon himself on that cross. Tears form in my eyes as I think of the fact that my sins helped hold him there. But then...the day of celebration...Easter. The day that Jesus triumphantly arose over sin and cemented for us all an everlasting life with him! Thank you Jesus!

Good Friday

“My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.”

2 Corinthians 12:9 (NIV)

Devotion:

Jesus is the author of compassion and kindness. When facing the pain, agony, shame, and horror of the cross he couldn’t walk away – because He saw YOU. As Max Lucado says in his book The Final Week of Jesus, He saw us “right there in a middle of a world which isn’t fair … He saw you betrayed by those you love. He saw you with a body which gets sick and a heart that grows weak. He saw you in your own Garden of Gethsemane – and he didn’t want you to be alone…He would rather go to hell for you than to heaven without you.”

He saw each one of us together and individually all at one time, the good, the bad, and the ugly yet he went to the cross anyway. Thank you, Jesus for Good Friday!

Scripture and devotion from the Proverbs 31 daily devotion.

More Swap Cards

Here are a few more of the cards I got in the swap. Unfortunately I don't know who three of the creators are for these cards. Hopefully they will comment and tell us though!

So, this first Golfafella is by Dawn Barghorn. I absolutely love the combination of papers and colors she used and the twill...perfect!

This Cakeabella is one of the unnamed cards. I hope the creator of this card will tell us who she is as it is adorable! Love the color combo on this one too!

Awww...PMSabella. Who can't relate to her sometimes? Isn't this layout and color combo great? I would love to know who made it!

Lastly, is this great Cuppcakeabella card. She is so adorable! And brown and pink...totally my thing!. Did you make her?

Yeah, so I didn't really get much accomplished here at home yesterday. When I got home from shopping (you must know that it is a half hour drive for a Target, Walmart, or Costco) I was exhausted. I made spaghetti for dinner and then sat in my chair watching the college basketball semi-finals. Now I don't know much about basketball (other than the fact that I was sad that Belmont didn't pull out a win against Duke...Belmont sure did play well!) but Todd loves it so we watched some. Kyler stayed at a friends house last night and I thought I would get lots accomplished but low and behold a headache snuck in and I ended up going to bed early. Good intentions I'm telling ya. Anyway, the headache is gone for now (I think it is sinus stuff due to things starting to grow here) so I'll exercise and shower soon. Then hopefully I'll get some stamping accomplished!

I hope that you all get just a ton accomplished today. While you are at it...do something nice for someone today, k?

Craft Critique: Quick Photo Fixes in Photoshop

There is a great tutorial on how to fix your photos on Craft Critique today. Go check it out! Craft Critique: Quick Photo Fixes in Photoshop

Bella Birthday Card Swap

Some time ago I took part in a swap through the Bellaholics group that was just for birthday cards. I figured...who doesn't need birthday cards? I'm so glad I joined that swap as all the cards I got back were fantastic! Here, in alphabetical order, are a couple of the cards...

This Fishafella card is made by Bev at Country Frog Creations. She is such a great stamper and such a nice person too!

This Curlysurpriseabella was made by Dannette Ruger. You can check out her blog HERE. Don't you love this layout? I may have to try this once or twice!

So I may get the chance to do some of my own stamping today. I have a couple of cards to get out to people from my blog, a blogging friend just announced that she is preggers so I want to make her a card and then there is a little girl that is sick that I'm going to make a card for. Lots of stuff to do but...I'm in the mood so it should all fall together fairly quickly. All that is after I exercise, shower, do some shopping in a neighboring town, and finally get home! Not much for me to do today is there? LOL!

I hope that you all have a very blessed day!

Meet Ya At The Wave Pool!

I thought that you guys might enjoy seeing some of the pictures I took during our little get away.

The first picture is of Todd and Kyler in the Laser Tag room. Now THAT was fun! I'm not sure how I got the picture to turn out so cool looking but I'm pretty sure it was night shot with me accidentally moving! LOL! Oh, did I mention I kicked their butts each time we played? Oh, yah...me the master laser tagger! LOL!

Next is the master climber. Where Todd and I failed...he succeeded! The little stinker! No, really he did a great job on the rock wall and I was, well, horrible. This is a complete turn around for Kyler as just a couple of years ago he was to afraid to try the rock wall. Wow! He sure is growing up fast, isn't he?

This is where Kyler shouted at dad "meet ya at the wave pool"! It was the cutest thing and he loved the water. Now, you have to know that Kyler is still very afraid of the water and doesn't know how to swim yet. No, I haven't been a bad mom and not tried lessons as we've tried lessons many times...he is just afraid of the water. I don't know why and try not to analyze it. He has agreed to take lessons this time though and be serious about it so maybe soon you'll be hearing a different tune from me.

So there you have our trip in a nutshell. We wanted to make those couple of days all about Kyler and aside from the Outback Steakhouse we had for dinner on Monday night...YUM...it was! Kyler's 10th birthday is coming up in three weeks! All things Spiderman have commenced here and we are deep into the web of party planning.

I hope you all had a great last couple of days...I've missed you all! Now...off to catch up on everything! Oh, WAIT...I forgot to tell you about my new signature. Beth from Freckled Fun has added this great new service to her line up. Not only will she make you a signature with a little picture but she'll load it into your dashboard so that it will automatically be there when you post a new message! All that for a measly $3. What a deal! Go check it out...leave a message for her and she get back to you quickly! Oh, and does anyone know how to get rid of the boxes around my pictures and my new signature? I know I'd have to do it in the dashboard but not sure exactly what to do. Thanks!

This is it!

Remember that Hanna card from the other day? Well...as much as I liked it a tent topper card kept coming up in my head as another type of card to try. So...I sat down to create and this is what I came up with. I love this card! I think all the accents from the little gems to the little bit of glitter is just perfect! Oh, and it smells lovely with some Misbehavin' Sista's card scent on it! You can click on it to make it a little bigger.

I am sure that some of you are wondering what the card scents are. Well, it is a brand new company that sells these little jars (that look like nail polish bottles) of specially formulated scent made just for card stock. All you do is take a little of the scent on the brush and lightly slide it along the edges of the card stock. Use more for a stronger scent and less for a more subtle effect. It really is quite a fun effect for the card and it is Todd approved...he thinks they are pretty cool too! You can also check it out HERE. I started off buying three scents...Vanilla (for birthday stuff), Misbehavin' Sista's (for stuff like this) and Fresh Linen ('cuz I love this kind of scent) and I can already see that I'll be collecting more!

Just so you know...I'll not be posting to my blog over the next few days as we take some time to go to Triple Play/Raptor Reef with Kyler. Scott will be home to work and take care of the dogs so we won't have to worry about that. I'll be staying busy so that I don't start to get anxious about Jon being gone. I did that yesterday in the shower...starting thinking about all the things that could go wrong but I prayed about it and felt better right away.

I hope you all have a peaceful Sunday and I'll "see" you in a couple of days!