6 Years Ago...........

6 years ago today we said good-bye, unexpectedly, to our daughter Marcail. You were an angel here on earth for the 2 years. Heaven sure holds a special angel now. We know you are the most beautiful angel and we cannot wait to see you again........

Love you and miss you,
Mommy, Daddy
Seth, Zackery
Ciah & Kami

My Pink Stampers Father's Day Challenge

I made this card for the Father's Day Challenge for My Pink Stamper. I do not have a lot of male oriented stamps, so I decided to make a more elegant card.

Tammy

My Graduate

As part of the school pictures, they took one of Ciah in her cap and gown. Love the little tassel that says 2010 on it...........

Tammy

Ciah Graduates

Today Ciah graduated from preschool. Does not seem possible, as it was just yesterday her birth mom was giving birth to her!! Needless to say, her Daddy and I are so proud of her:)

Tammy

Mother's Day

Happy Mother's Day to all the moms!!

Tammy

My Pink Stamper NSD Challenge #4

The inside of the card says "A Cherry Hello"..........

My Pink Stamper NSD Challenge #1

A Mother's Day card for a challenge for National Scrap Day.

A Card For My Best Friend

I made this card for my best friend, who lives approximately 4.5 hours away. The inside says, "Let's Hang Out" :)

Tammy

Easter Sunday

The girls enjoying a chat with their Papaw before the Easter Sunday service.

Tammy

Easter.....

Hope everyone has a wonderful Easter!!!

Tammy

It's Spring!!!

Since the weather was nice here today we all headed outside. Kami decided she was going to join Seth in a game of baseball. I do not know how those little arms were holding up that wooden bat, but she got a few swings in:).

Tammy

An Irish Blessing for St. Patrick's Day.........

Wishing you always,
A wall for the wind
A roof for the rain
Tea beside the fire.
Laughter to cheer you
Those you love near you
And all that your heart might desire.

-Irish blessing

Finalization Day

Today at 9 am our youngest legally became "ours". Granted, she has been ours, in our hearts, from the moment we seen her picture, but it is always nice to hear the judge say what we already know. Needless to say, it has been an exciting day..........

Tammy

Late Wordless Wed.

A simple card I made for a friend for Valentine's Day. I do not have the name of the stamp set, but it is a Stampin' Up set.

Hope everyone has a sweet and Happy Valentine's Day!

Tammy

Wordless Wed.

Ciah Impressing Her Brother

After receiving 5.5" of snow my 12 year old went across the street and borrowed his cousin's sled. Up until the point of this video, he had been going down the hill with Ciah. It was so sweet seeing him excited when Ciah braved up and went solo:).

A card for another My Pink Stamper challenge. This is a retired Stampin' Up stamp set. Since my sister likes cats it is the perfect card for her:).

Tammy

My Pink Stamper Challenge Card

A card I submitted for the My Pink Stamper Challenge. The challenge was to use black as one of your colors.

Tammy

Yee Haw

A card made with Stampin' Up paper and ink. I used the Just Jeans background stamp and the stamp set Yee Haw. It was colored with Prisma Colored Pencils.

CASed Snowman

I seen this snowman on a blog (sorry I do not remember which one) and had to have the digital image. Bought the image and made the cute snowman. Thinking of using it as a thank you card:).

Tammy

In Heaven..................

Tea heaven that is..........lol. About 3 weeks ago I ran out of the tea I had brought back from India. Yes, it has been 14 months since I have been back from India and I just ran out of the tea. I had one huge suitcase packed full of the stuff. Yes, I know, I am addicted. Sorry Lipton, you just do not cut it anymore. You haven't since I set foot in India 7 years ago and had my first taste of there. Anyway, I came home yesterday and there was a box sitting in the kitchen waiting on me. Inside.................... my tea from India! Needless to say, I have been savoring every sip I take:)

Tammy

Birthday Boy...........

My oldest baby is 12 years old...........sniff, sniff. How did this happen. It was 11.5 years ago I was standing in a New York airport waiting on the escort to walk down the hall with him, after coming through customs. Now we are celebrating his 12th birthday while he tries to act cool. But Mom still sees a hint of the little guy sitting in the stroller taking in the airport activity. Happy Birthday Seth, I hope it was a good one.............

Tammy

Chef Kami

My hubby snapped this picture of our 3 year old Christmas Eve. She was pleased as punch when she got her turn at putting the hat and apron on....lol.

Tammy

Merry Christmas

Merry Christmas to you and yours!!

Tammy

Favorite Christmas Card........

This is my favorite Christmas card I made this year. Home for Christmas is the stamp set used. It is a Stampin' Up set.

Tammy

My Oldest Is Growing Up..............

I can't believe it......... My oldest will be 12 next month....sniff, sniff. It really hit me last night when I dropped him off for his first dance. The Snowball Dance. Then this morning he informed me of all the girls he slow danced with. My baby slow danced with girls..........sigh. Hope they realize how lucky they were to have danced with him!!

Tammy

A Simple Card...............

I made this card for my niece. Simple to highlight all the coloring I had to do:).

Tammy

Have To Brag On My Hubby..............

I am so proud of my husband! He decided about a year ago that a great way to honor the memory of our friend, Emily, was to build a Habitat For Humanity house in her memory. On Tues. the house was dedicated. Here is a link to a small statement on a website that Emily's friend wrote........... http://www.lexingtonprosecutor.com/?p=2335

Tammy

Happy Thanksgiving.......

We are getting ready to head off to my parents for Thanksgiving. I hope everyone has a wonderful holiday!!

Tammy

The Dreaded Phone Call.........

It is the phone call every mother dreads............ Mrs. M. you need to come pick up Ciah, she has had a little accident on the play ground. She needs to be taken to the emergency room!! Uh, we go from "little accident" to being told the "emergency room"? No big deal, I inform them I will be right there to pick her up. So I'm driving to the preschool to pick her up thinking they are making a mountain out of a mole hill. When I arrive the preschool director is outside waiting on me, which I thought was odd. She scurried over and gave me a report on how Ciah was doing and what they had done to stablize the arm. I walk in and there she sits, on her teacher's lap. They had taken a disposable rubbermaid lid (the blue see through kind) and had a gallon ziplock bag of ice on top of the lid. They then had a layer of paper towel ontop of the ice, then Ciah's arm on top of the paper towel. They had then taken gauze and wrapped it around the whole get-up. When I walked up to her, I tried to look in to see her arm, but all I could see was her finger tips. I asked her to move her fingers and she did with no problem. So I'm still thinking they are blowing this all out of proportion, that she just sprain it and they were covering their butts and being careful.

So I load her up in the truck thinking about what I'm going to do. On a fluke, I called the doctor's office. I figured I might as well pay the office co-pay opposed to an emergency room co-pay, since it was probably just a sprain. As luck would have it, they had an opening at 1 pm and it was just after noon when I called. In my mind I was timing the drive and hoped that arriving early would allow us to get an x-ray and be seen and that way I could get back in time to pick the boys up from school. We arrive 30 minutes before our appointment time and sure enough, the doctor is eating lunch in her office and they got the verbal orders for us to go ahead and go downstairs for an x-ray. We go back into the x-ray room and they proceed to say we needed to remove her arm from the ice to take the x-ray. So we gently slipped her arm out to find a nice odd angle about 2 inches above her wrist. So I knew from looking at it that is WAS broken, it was just a matter of how bad. Would it require surgery or would they be able to just adjust it and put a cast on it.

I love modern technology, as by the time I got her back up to the doctor's office, they already had the x-ray results upstairs and they were in the process of calling the orthopedist. So the only problem I had now was what to do with our 3 year old. There was no way she would sit still while they were setting Ciah's arm. Thankfully their dad's office is across the street from their peds office. So I was able to drop the 3 year old off with the secretary and John left his job site to go pick her up. One of the nice perks of being part owner is when it is an emergency like this, he was able to also pick up the boys from school.

Once we got to the ortho. office, they decided they would need to set her arm at the same day surgery center down the road. We had to wait until 4 pm for them to set it, as they wanted to "knock her out" and she had a cupcake around 10 am that morning. So by the time we got to the same day surgery center and they got her checked in, clothes changed and arm marked, it was almost 4 pm. They gave her some medication to make her loopy, and when they went to take her back she was a brave little girl and did not even wimper. She just held onto the mask they were going to use and off she went.

Within an hour, I was back with her in the recovery room. Since they knew I was a nurse, they let me go back and sit with her before she woke up. Which was nice as it kept her from crying, which is very normal for kids to do when they come to. The funnniest part was when she noticed her nice green full-arm cast and the look she gave it.

We finally pulled into the driveway at 6 pm that night. Needless to say, we had an early night as there is nothing harder than waiting to get back to your child. Part just to be able to hold them and assure yourself they are alright. The other part is to be able to assure them that you have not disappeared. Are we upset that she broke her arm? No. These things happen. She could have broke it here at home the same as she did at school. It was just one of those fluke things that can happen and did. Although, I would have bet any amount of money it would have been my 8 year old who would have broken a bone. I have always said, it is not a matter of "IF" he breaks a bone, but a matter of "WHEN", as he is so active. I never guessed my 4 year old, quite, little girl would be the first of my children to do so. I just hope she doesn't start a string of events......lol.

Tammy

For Halloween.........

I called this one Distressed Eye of Newt........lol.

Cock-A-Doodle-Doo.............

Another card with my new favorite Stampin' Up set, Rustic Rooster.

Something A Little Different...........

I liked the design of this stencil and tried to chalk it. Added a few brads and this is what it ended up looking like. I doubt I will be using the whole design again, as I think it is too big..............

Tammy

Whine, Whine, Whine

Who forgot to tell me that when girls turned 4 the whining started? One minute a certain 4 year old is acting so grown up and the next minute she will whine about everything. I think when the teen years hit I am moving out..........lol.

Tammy M.