Happy 4th Yall!

So Did Everyone Have a Happy 4th Of July? It was kinda a whirlwind. IT was fun! Tiring but was so great to see family. I miss them so much. We had just been up to Mississippi recently, and John is working 2 territories right now (the other guy is out of the country for 3 weeks)So he is on call and we couldn't make it up there again for the 4th with all extended family. SOoooo. Our immediate family just came on down here to us. (YAY!) Was exhausting but Soooo worth it! I really miss them and get home sick some times.
Feels good to see them.
I toook a lot of photos as you can imagine haha. Bella had a wonderful time with her cousins. She Pestered her cousin Bradlee.. He pestered her.. John Pestered him.
Everyone had a great time.









(Don't ya love her red boots? That is my child I tell ya!!)

SHe didn't care too much for the loud fire works. Her ears are so sensitive.




Bella's Bestie Eva Caroline (from across the street) We have known them since they both were toddlers. (Bella and Eva) she is a cutie. a best friend across the street? Is that not the coolest?

The next day Kasi and Jason Came down (the actual 4th) and we celebrated our nations birth with much food and festivities. (we like to eat can't you tell?)






He looks so sexy when he cooks! (or vacuums or does dishes.... I just love him hahaha)



Bella always has to stick her tongue out in photos... never fails I have a set of photos with her stickin out her tongue... little dickens.




must be genetic??



John surprised Bradlee by making his favorite STUFFING (Yes I KNOWWWW its July but we missed Thanksgiving with me having shingles and they were out of town) SO we had fried Turkey and Stuffing and a ton of FRESH LOCAL FARMERS MARKET GROWN VEGGIES YUMMM!! It was awesome (although I don't eat stuffing. I take their word on it.

Kasi and Jason Are they not the cutest ever?


Kasi threatening to beat him if he doesn't stop throwing pop rocks at her feet.








Bella liked these.. she thought they were pretty!

Later that night after everyone left, We did our traditional 4th of July fireworks with Eva caroline and family.







The ones that were loud...




Bella doesn't care too much for...



so hard to believe they are 7!!!! I hope everyone had a fabulous 4th of July! (remember what the reason of the Holiday is! NOT JUST A DAY OFF WORK!)
Remember our soldiers!
Remember the sacrifice!

another layout with MME Sophia from

I did another layout last night but it was really late and too dark to photograph it.
The colors were so bright and cheery I wanted you to see them for all they were.
I waited till the bright sunshine today so You could really get a good idea how pretty they were.

J.R. and Chantele at Scrapbook Obsessions Really put together a wonderful kit. The Making Memoriess Jewels in this kit are amazing and these ribbons are sooooo awesome! (LOVE THEM) You know I am all about the embellishments!
Everything is from the kit except the distresser I used and the inks I used on the edges of the flowers and on the edges of the letters.

Here are some close up shots so you can see the details.



I used 7 flowers and 7 jewels on this (so I could remember Bella is 7 in the photo) I do little things like this on my pages to help me remember without having to put Bella is 7 years old on every single page.



And another view of the entire layout.


This is such a versatile kit You can do a lot with! Hope you have fun creating with it!

OH Happy Day... ahhhhh...

Yes I have been Stalking the mailman.. The UPS guy.. The Fed Ex Guy All mail people.
I got my kit from Scrapbook Obsessions today. Yeah I have been scrapping ever since then. Yall know I am a slow scrapper. I put stuff on the page, then take it off. I knit pick way too much. Cant help it. It takes a lot of time for it to look not so perfect. THIS KIT is soooo adorable. I JUST LOVE this My Minds Eye Sophia. THe embellishments have so much BLING (and YOU KNOW IM ALL ABOUT SOME BLING!
These photos were so perfect to go with also!

I had started out with the sketch and the challenge at THE COLOR ROOM as you can see I ughmmm strayed from it SEVERELY! I never was very good at following directions haha. BUT there is the challenge if you would like to play along! It really is fun! I have some really good pals over there is some fantastic talent (just look at that place wowweee! By the way!!! HEY MS. COLETTE congrats!!! we know Jing Jing is one talented smart cookie! AND SHe knows talent!!)

So, There are two kits available right now, a large kit and a smaller kit. Supplies are limited so ya better get it over there! This kit is adorable!
everything I used is from the kit except the staples, the colorbox chalk inks distresser and outline pen. Everything else came in the kit compliments of Scrapbook Obsessions.


Here are some close up's of the embellishments:






since it is dusk it is hard to take photos so here is another photo of the full layout. maybe you can get a true view of the colors.



I LOVE LOVE the ribbon and the flowers in this kit. SOOOO adorable.

OK Im off to create some more. I have a lot of cute photos from this weekend. Perfect for this paper.
Happy creating.

upside down and backwards ... like me...

yeah yeah yeah I know some things just happen. kinda like this card. It was a CRAZY week last week to say the least. BUT I Had to say Thank you to a very special lady that does so much for so many people. I had won a marker kit from TOMBOW on UNKIT.
Bella and I were making cards for Papa to send him at the Rehabilitation center where he is getting his hip back to working again. (he had hip replacement) So I thought I would make an additional card for my sudie sudie.
I worked so diligently on this card. I was very distracted though.
Bella was asking me "where is this. Where is that... Mama can I use this... where are the stickles (you know how I am about my stickles!!!)
so I got distracted to say the least.
So I know you all heard me talking about my upside down backwards card.
USUALLY I will cut the front off and turn it around and fix it but this time I said... nahhh Im just gonna leave it this way. It kinda represents "me" right now and hey Sudie will say YUP thats our Nancy... she is a little backwards anyway...

haha So I thought I would show you the card.

I cant find the one Bella did but she used such pretty flowers and bling. Im kicking myself I have looked all through my files.
Sudie showed it on her Unkit live show. I will give you a link.
Bella got so excited when Ms sudie sudie (thats what she calls her) showed her card!)

SO I have been telling you all about our trip home Im telling you we crammed about a week into those 27 hours.
We got to go by our neighbors that we used to live beside. We saw the house we used to live in.... I almost cried. ALl the flowers we worked so hard on.... gone.
The magnolia tree I put out in my daddys memory... gone.
IF I had knowwwwwn they were gonna dig all those flowers up I WOULD HAVE DUG THEM UP AND BROUGHT THEM WITH US! We saw the neighbors across the street at my aunts funeral. She warned me. SHe said YOU MIGHT NOT want to see it. She knew how I had prided myself in those flowers. John and I worked sooo hard in that yard.
Oh well. Its not ours now.
We have a pretty yard here too... I still am sad about it though.
I have some sweet photos of Our neighbors from back home. It was sooooo good to see them.
Granny and Papa D is what we call them.
I have the cutest photo of Bella with Danny boy Their dog.


Even Danny (the dog) was happy to see us see him cheezin? how cute is this picture?)





You will see these coming soon on a scrapbook page haha. no doubt.

After we left there we all went to UP THE CREEK to eat. We used to love this resteraunt. I was sadly disappointed they didnt have fried strawberry cheesecake on the menu anymore. I guess it was the universes way of saying "Nancy, You don't need to eat that!" OH well. The mashed potatoes were good. ANd the company was even better!!

Yes thats me over in the corner. thats our whole clan in there.
see me cheesin' with my new smile.. yes thats just the temp smile but I got a smile.
we were sooo tired it was 11 at night but we made them take a pic while we were all together.

Thats all of us l to r Kasi's husband Jason, Kasi, Bella, Adam, Bradlee me, John and Mama... we were one wore out crew.

Tomorrow I will have to show you the pictures of Bella text messaging her cousins Adam and Bradlee across the table it was soooo funny.

Dad's mini album

So I told you yesterday, that I would show you the mini album I made for my "Father in love"
I put the cover of it up on facebook real quick when I got through with it to see what you guys thought.
This was a big time rush job.
I stayed up till 3 am finishing it before we left Saturday Morning. This trip just about wore me out but was so worth it to see his face. He had NO IDEA we were coming up to see him.
He had hip replacement surgery and it was really hard on him. He has NEVER been sick. He is a very independent man. Always done everything for everyone. He has gotten kinda down. (to say the least) Bella had been making him cards and sending them to him. Just not the same though as a personal appearance from his kids.
Having all his kids there on fathers day was definitely a plus!
John called him from the hallway and said how he wanted to show him something and about that time I opened the door and Bella came walking in with this:
















These are just a few of the pages... yes there are more....
It gets hard to load when I put so many photos..

BUT I did want to show you what I made for him. He was so happy just to see us and then the mini album he was even more thrilled.
I have more photos to share tomorrow we saw so many people we haven't seen in so long.