I can’t believe it’s really been almost two months since I’ve last blogged. I think this has been the longest thus far. I really wish I could come up with a good reason in why I’ve been absent. And please don’t take offense if I haven’t left a comment at you blog in that time either, as I haven’t even been a very good blog reading friend either.
So, I’ll keep the words to a minimum this post and just give you pictures instead. After all, don’t they say a picture is worth a thousand words? Think of how many words I’m saving you! 
Probably the biggest even in our house, was Jackie’s first dance. It was a church dance and a formal at that. I know it wasn’t necessary to go out and spend so much money on a dress and stuff, but I wanted her to feel special. I was blown away with how quickly hair, makeup and a dress can turn a little girl into a young woman!
The whole thing was definitely way out of her comfort zone. From what I heard, she was asked by several of the young men to dance, but she only danced one dance with one boy. When I talked to her, she said she was just so uncomfortable. While she was dancing her cheeks were so hot that she was sure they were going to just about burn right off. Poor thing. She’s just entering into this whole brand new world.
We finally got a really good snow! Hey, end of February, why not! Eric really went all out and helped the girls build a snow fort. It was really cool! It fit either 1 grown adult and two kids, or all three kids at the same time.
I have actually been doing quite a bit of scrapbooking. With the exception of some journaling and getting layouts in albums, I’m back to being caught back up now! Woo Hoo! I’m still into the pre designed page packs, where you cut everything out, ink and adhere, but I’ve really gotten into using up my own stuff with this really great online sketch class that I learned about from some scrapbook friends.
Actually I loved it so much, that I went back and signed up for the rest of their sketch classes that were already done, but they still had all the content up. Here are some of my layouts I did from those sketches. Oh here is the link to their blog too in case you want to check them out. They just finished their Got Sketches 103 class, but it’s not too late to sign up for it and get all the live class benefits. The forum, gallery, pdfs, videos, etc are all still up.
And finally, on Facebook (yep another place on the web for me to spend my time, although I’m not as active on there as I would like either), Maricar had asked me to share pics of my scraproom with her. So I finally remembered to get out my camera and post them for her. Thought I would post them here too, just in case anyone else wanted to see it. Although I’ve reorganized a little bit since I’ve took them about a week or so ago. Nothing major. Everything pretty much looks the same. Just moved my Cricut stuff over to the double white tables and L&B systems and moved some of my Quickutz, Sizzix and Heat gun over to where the Cricut stuff was. Just works better for me.
The only thing I didn’t really take pics of was that all the cupboards over by the bar area all have fun little books, albums and misc other stuff to alter. I also house my smaller punches and corner punches in the drawers over there as well. And I didn’t take pics of the wine cellar either. Since we don’t drink, I’ve used that to store on one side more of my scrappy stuff and on the other side, stuff the girls are allowed to use no questions asked. But you’ll just have to imagine that as it isn’t very organized at the time, and my excuse has been there isn’t a light in there, so it’s hard to really see. Well, as I type this, the builder’s crew is installing one in there (they are finishing up some things leftover from our one year warranty type of inspection, like more cracked tiles, a few fogged windows, things like that).
Okay. So I feel caught up on my blog. Now time to go get Miss Erica all ready for school and hopefully, fingers crossed, I’ll be able to catch up on everyone else’s blogs after I drop her off at school. If you don’t get a comment from me today on your blog, life happened, and I promise, I will be dropping by soon! 
