Happy NEW Year 2009

I know I am posting a little early...but we are going to friends to celebrate tonight, so I wanted to wish you all a HAPPY NEW YEAR early!!!! I hope your new year is filled with LOVE~LAUGHTER~HEALTH & HAPPINESS!!!

The Sweeney Family

Here are my most recent LO's Enjoy! And go grab these kits!!!

I am re-doing our wedding album with Christy's NEW Stroke of Midnight kit!!! I LOVE IT!!!

This is one of my favoites!!

NEW Stroke of Midnight kit by Christy Skaggs

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Sledding at Mission Park for Christmas Eve



Here is the kit I used for my LO's the NEW Winter Kiss kit by Christy Skaggs!
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Here are a couple more LO's

Not many finished yet...but we had a WONDERFUL Christmas! We even mangaed to catch a movie too on Christmas Day...Marley & Me. If you love animals at all DON'T GO!!! You will bawl like a baby. The theater was packed and there wasn't a dry eye in the place! We all came home and hugged Duchess. *sniff sniff*

On to the LO's...

Our 14 year anniversary and our son took the pictures for us!!! He did a Great JOB!!!

One of the many I will be doing from Christmas Day. LOL

A few from my CT Lo's...

A Little Bit of That kit by Christy Skaggs at GDS

credits for my LO's can be found in my gallery at GDS(link)

Here is the kit I used "A Little Bit of That"

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Wishing you all a HAPPY NEW YEAR 2009!!!

~A Few Layouts~

I have been a little busy playing:) LOL Hope you enjoy all the LO's

Still snowing here!!!

So CUTE!!! Aren't they??

Thanksgiving with family.

My friend and her precious little one. Awwww:)

All about me challenge. This was HARD to do.

Our beginning Boy Scout.

Our little cutie!!

An extraction and I LOVE IT!!!!! LOL

Wishing you a Very Merry Christmas and a Blessed New Year!!!

Only 4 More Days!!!

MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!

Here is our family Christmas card this year...we were on a family vacation to California this summer and I just love this picture of all of us! We wish you a holiday filled with LOVE, LAUGHTER, HEALTH and many BLESSINGS in the New Year to come.

I cannot even believe that there is only 4 more days until Christmas!!!! We have been so busy this year. The kids got out of school 2 days early this year because if record snow fall. It dumped 2 plus feet of snow in 24 hours and is still snowing off and on! Yippy, we love snow:), well, unless we have to drive some where or shovel! Since we have been inside so much...I have made 3 batches of our caramels, 1 batch of secret fudge, and several batches of cookies:) We will be delivering our treat tray to our friends and neighbors today. We have or Christmas program and church today first, some sledding of course, and then we will be visiting our neighbors. My husband and I even managed to Celebrate or 14th Wedding Anniversary! It was a horrible day to go anywhere, but we did manage to slip in lunch at our favorite Thai restaurant. It is hard to do much with our anniversary so close to Christmas, so I think we will be changing that in the near future;) I better stop rambling and get going.

A Few SNOW Day Pictures:

Snow Angels by Mis

Sledding buddies:) They are sooooo cute!!!

Our Boy Scout builds a SNOW CAVE!!!!

The snow fall on our deck!!!!

Future Snowboarder:)

I hope you enjoyed the pics and I will be back with layouts another day:)

A Different Kind of Christmas Poem

This poem caught my attention today and I wanted to post it for all of you to read. We need to pray for our service men and woman, especially during the holiday season. Thank You!


As I sit in my warm, safe home I am blessed by all the young men and women serving our country while I reap the blessings! They are a true gift here at Christmas! May we never forget them in our hearts and in our prayers!

The embers glowed softly, and in their dim light, I gazed round the room and I cherished the sight. My wife was asleep, her head on my chest, My daughter beside me, angelic in rest. Outside the snow fell, a blanket of white, Transforming the yard to a winter delight.

The sparkling lights in the tree I believe, Completed the magic that was Christmas Eve. My eyelids were heavy, my breathing was deep, Secure and surrounded by love I would sleep. In perfect contentment, or so it would seem, So I slumbered, perhaps I started to dream.

The sound wasn't loud, and it wasn't too near, But I opened my eyes when it tickled my ear. Perhaps just a cough, I didn't quite know, Then the sure sound of footsteps outside in the snow. My soul gave a tremble, I struggled to hear, And I crept to the door just to see who was near.

Standing out in the cold and the dark of the night, A lone figure stood, his face weary and tight. A soldier, I puzzled, some twenty years old, Perhaps a Marine, huddled here in the cold. Alone in the dark, he looked up and smiled, Standing watch over me, and my wife and my child.

'What are you doing?' I asked without fear, 'Come in this moment, it's freezing out here! Put down your pack, brush the snow from your sleeve, You should be at home on a cold Christmas Eve!' For barely a moment I saw his eyes shift, Away from the cold and the snow blown in drifts.
To the window that danced with a warm fire's light Then he sighed and he said 'Its really all right, I'm out here by choice. I'm here every night.' 'It's my duty to stand at the front of the line, That separates you from the darkest of times.

No one had to ask or beg or implore me, I'm proud to stand here like my fathers before me. My Gramps died at 'Pearl on a day in December,' Then he sighed, 'That's a Christmas 'Gram always remembers.' My dad stood his watch in the jungles of 'Nam', And now it is my turn and so, here I am.

I've not seen my own son in more than a while, But my wife sends me pictures, he's sure got her smile. Then he bent and he carefully pulled from his bag, The red, white, and blue... an American flag. I can live through the cold and the being alone, Away from my family, my house and my home.

I can stand at my post through the rain and the sleet, I can sleep in a foxhole with little to eat. I can carry the weight of killing another, Or lay down my life with my sister and brother.. Who stand at the front against any and all, To ensure for all time that this flag will not fall.'

' So go back inside,' he said, 'harbor no fright, Your family is waiting and I'll be all right.' 'But isn't there something I can do, at the least, 'Give you money,' I asked, 'or prepare you a feast? It seems all too little for all that you've done, For being away from your wife and your son.'

Then his eye welled a tear that held no regret, 'Just tell us you love us, and never forget. To fight for our rights back at home while we're gone, To stand your own watch, no matter how long. For when we come home, either standing or dead, To know you remember we fought and we bled. Is payment enough, and with that we will trust, That we mattered to you as you mattered to us.'

PLEASE, would you do me the kind favor of sending this to as many people as you can? Christmas will be coming soon and some credit is due to our U.S service men and women for our being able to celebrate these festivities. Let's try in this small way to pay a tiny bit of what we owe. Make people stop and think of our heroes, living and dead, who sacrificed themselves for us.

LCDR Jeff Giles, SC, USN 30th Naval Construction Regiment OIC, Logistics Cell One Al Taqqadum, Iraq

"Strictly Piano" by Jim Kelsey

My best friends husband has just completed creating his "Strictly Piano: A Christmas Celebration" CD which is available for purchase on his blog. There are 13 tracks of instrumental piano which he has arranged from familiar Christmas favorites. It would make a great stocking stuffer! He did all the piano work himself. You can go check out his blog for a list of tracks and to purchase.

Here is what you'll get:

TRACK LISTING:
Angels We Have Heard On High
We Three Kings
O Christmas Tree
O Come, O Come, Emmanuel
Go Tell It On The Mountain
Away In A Manger
It Came Upon A Midnight Clear
I Heard the Bells On Christmas Day
I Wonder As I Wander
Of The Father’s Love Begotten
Silent Night
Lo, How a Rose E’re Blooming
The First Noel

He is using the money on much needed repairs for his 1927 Ford Model T so he can get it running again. He LOVES to take their daughter Kaity out for rides to the park and she LOVES to get to go with Daddy in the Model T!

The AMAZING Digi Scrapping Race !!!!

I am so EXCITED!!!

My BFF and I are going to be partners

in a scrapbooking challenge race!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Here is OUR blinkie!!!! I LOVE IT!!!

Kandy Kane from Natural Designs made it for us!

THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!!

The name of the race is... "The Amazing Digi Scrapping Race" season4 or ADSR. If you want to learn more about it, you can check it out HERE at Natural designs in scrapbooking. It is a fun challenge but you have to have a partner. There is also lots of FREE stuff and prizes throughout the event. Go check it out!

Now, here are few LO's I have done lately. All of them were made with a kit from Sunshine Studio Scraps or SSS, it was a collab kit done by the Sunshine Girls. The name of the kit

is "Sweet Afternoon", you can check it out HERE if you want to purchase the kit.

The credits to my pages can be seen at GDS in my gallery...HERE

Oh ONE more thing!!!!!

My friend Christine Chambers just started a NEW business "xtinedraws" and you have to go check it out!!!! She is an amazing artist and is drawing COOL family illustrations!!! Perfect for your Christmas Cards!! Here is the link to her site... http://www.xtinedraws.typepad.com/ and here is her family and what your illustration can look like!!! So AWESOME!!! Congrats Christine and Good LUCK!!!
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So SORRY!!!

I hope you all had a WONDERFUL THANKSGIVING!!! We were glad to be home after Thanksgiving and put up our CHRISTMAS TREE!!!!! I love Christmas!!

What a busy month this has been so far!!! I apologise to everyone who has stopped by and you are seeing the same old post!!! I have been working hard on scrapbooking, but the kits I have been working on were not yet released, so I could not post them. Christy Skaggs just released these two kits into the stores now, so if you like them, you should grab them!!!

"ROASTING CHESTNUTS" at GDS (just click the link)

My LO's

SNOW DAYS collab kit with OMATT also at GDS

My LO's

I will post more LO's later:) Have a GREAT Day!!!