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This weekend was great! My dear friend, Janice, and I loaded our scrappin' stuff up on Friday and headed out to a weekend crop that another dear friend, Sherri, was putting on at her church. Sherri sells Creative Memories products so she puts these crops on a couple of times a year. (I would love to have you join us at the next one...just let me know if you are interested.)

We had a room full of women and a few high school girls putting memories in photo albums. We were "busy little bees" all weekend. There were two Cricuit machines going, paper punches, "hammering" for eyelets and brads...you name it and it was probably there. It is always fun to see how each of us has our own scrapping technique.

I was able to complete 13 pages in Ethan's album. Now, keep in mind, Janice and I were there for 5 hours last night and I was there from 10-4:30 today, so they weren't full days. Ethan was so excited when I got home and showed him the new pages in his album. I think he looked at his album about 6 different times before I finally told him it was time for dinner and the album needed to be put away. He was so proud of his pictures of "Baby Ethan". The next set of pages to go into his album will be his 1st birthday. I ended there because I need to make a little trip to Treasury of Memories. I'm needing some John Deere paper and stuff and I'm hoping TM will have just what I need.

So, here are some pictures of the weekend.

This is my friend Janice, another friend, Kathy Jansen, and myself...hard at work, completing many pages!
Working hard!!
This is our friend Shelly. She gave us all a good laugh this afternoon. She is wearing two pairs of glasses just to see whatever it is that she is putting on her page and get it on straight. I think it's time for Shelly to invest in a new pair of glasses...hehehe.
Here are just a couple of my favorite pages from the weekend. I realize the lighting isn't the greatest...sorry!

Weekend Plans!!

I am so looking forward to this weekend! My dear friend, Janice, and I are leaving this afternoon for a weekend scrap! I have everything sitting by the door ready to go. I am really looking forward to getting away, fellowshiping with other women, drinking coffee, and, oh yeah, getting pages completed. I am going to be working on Ethan's album this weekend. I only have his first 4 months of life in a photo album at this point. It's time to get busy! It will be nice to go and have no responsibilities. It is a local scrap so we will be able to sleep in our own beds tonight but will get up and leave in the morning and head back to the scrap. I will try to remember to get pictures of our weekend and post them later. Oh yeah...this is only the first of 3 "scraps" that I have on the calendar. I have two more coming up in the next 8 weeks...an all day scrap at church in March (let me know if you want to join me...would love to have you there) and then my dear friend is having her annual scrapbooking/cardmaking slumber party in April. Oh the fun!! I better get a lot accomplished over the next two months. Okay, have a great weekend and be looking for pictures of the weekend and completed pages leter.

***Oops...I made a mistake when posting this...the scrapping slumber party is in March. How does one make such an error? So, that's 3 scrapping events in 4 weeks. (Thanks Janice for catching my mistake!! Good thing I had it on my calendar correct!)

White stuff...

Where did this white stuff outside come from? Nobody warned me about the possibility of snow. It all started late this morning and hasn't really stopped. We have gone from big flakes to snow pellets and anything in between. I was really hoping that winter was on it's way out and spring was coming. I have tulips that are starting to peak out of the ground. I am really hoping that this weather is gone very quickly!

These pictures are from this morning and the roads were still clear. The snow is now sticking to the roads and the temperature is still dropping. It is brrrrr, cold!!

Hmmmm.............

Look who's online!

Just a quick post with a link to Paige's hospital picture. Both Mom and Baby are doing great!

http://www.newbabynews.net/hospitals/stj5/public/stj5birthannouncement.pl?babyID=h5-11696

More of Paige Elizabeth

I thought I would quick post a couple more pictures from the day. "Thank you Jesus for this precious little girl that you have given Todd and Trisha!"

Another picture of the sisters! They have stolen their daddy's heart! :)

Auntie finally gets a picture with Paige...I was so busy taking pictures of everyone else I almost forgot about me with Paige...Thanks Trish for taking this picture!

Practicing for the many pictures to come...Paige, your other Auntie Tanya has the camera ready to go for those many photoshoots. Isn't she just precious here?!

It was so fun to just spend time with Trisha and Paige this afternoon while Todd and Brenna had some special time together. Trisha and I were able to just sit and talk about mommyhood and other fun stuff. I am so thrilled for Todd and Trisha! God has truly blessed them with this beautiful baby girl.

Welcome Paige Elizabeth!

This morning at 6:07 am, my sister and her husband welcomed a little girl. Paige Elizabeth weighed in at 6lb. 4oz. and was 20-1/4 inches long. She is a beautiful baby with lots of dark curly hair. Trisha and Paige are doing great! (Todd is doing great too :))

I got a call last night around 8:30 pm that I needed to get Brenna (Todd's daughter) as Todd and Trisha were headed to the hospital. We were so excited that the time had finally arrived. Brenna came to our house and I camped out in the family room with her as we would be getting updates throughout the night. At 2:50 am, the phone rang and it was Trisha. She was dilated to 6 cm and they were ready for Brenna to come in to see them. Brenna really wanted to go to the hospital with them at 8:30 pm but we convinced her that she really needed to get some sleep before becoming a big sister. Whew...glad that worked! I have never seen a child wake up so fast and throw on clothes. She had picked out the "perfect" outfit before we had left her house earlier. She and I were out the door by 3:10 am and at Cruisin' Coffee by 3:15. Todd was in much need of coffee as he had been up since 4:00 am Friday for work.
We arrived at the hospital by 3:35 am and found our way to Trisha's room. Brenna was so excited when we walked into the room. She snuggled with Todd for awhile and then the Grandmas started to arrive so she snuggled with each of them for a bit too.
By 5:30 am, we were leaving the room as it was getting close for Miss Paige to begin to make her way into this world. At 6:30 am, Todd came to the waiting room to get Brenna as she was the first one to meet her new sister and got to have some special sister time with Paige.
I think Trisha is going to get a bow of some sort in Miss Paige's hair!

My sister has waited so long for this absolutely perfect day! She is so proud of her precious little baby girl.

Todd's girls... :)

It was a perfect morning! Brenna (McPhail) and I are now going to go lay down and get some sleep so that we can head back in to Bellingham this afternoon to see our precious sister/niece again.

For more pictures of this beautiful baby girl, click here http://thesilvesfamily.blogspot.com/