Delana's First Haircut

Maelee gave Delana her first haircut. We had just gotten back from vacation. While visiting my mom she tried cutting Delana's bangs. I had to keep an eye on her and make sure she stayed away from her with those scissors. My mom is a BIG BANG person....litterally. She loves bangs and she loves them big! I remembered when she combed all of Maelee's hair forward and cut it all into bangs, and I did not want that for Delana. But my mom kept complaining about Delana's hair in her face for most of the trip. Maelee overheard our conversation. So one night last week Scott and I were laying in bed and Delana and Maelee were in our bathroom playing around.....I thought probably in my makeup. They were giggling and laughing like they always do. Then all of the sudden Maelee and Delana came out....I did not look at them but I remember Maelee saying, "okay we are going to bed. good night." She hurried off and she let me know that Delana would be sleeping in her room so that I did not have to put her in her crib. I went in to tuck them in and try to get Delana out of Maelee's room because I knew Maelee's plan of a sleep over with her sister would never work. So I when I picked up Delana I thought she looked different so I looked closer and She had big bangs and a mullet!!! I laughed and cried. I asked Maelee why and she told me because Grandma said we needed to see Delana's face better. So thank you Grandma. She alway gets her way!

Delana is wearing a dress that was originally owned by my big sister Cheryl.

This is three of my older siblings....Chuk, Christen, and Cheryl (I had a blast at my family's houses scanning and scanning. I got some really really great pics! I can't wait to go back and get more.)

More About Templates

Heritage Makers has a wonderful desing team that has designed some really great templates. As a consultant we have monthly incentives, which include a paycheck of coarse, free products, and free templates to share with our clients. I usually earn two or more company templates a month. I used to never pay much attention to them, but lately they have really released some BEAUTIFUL templates with wonderful themes.

I just wanted to share these because believe it or not, Christmas is around the corner. This will be my fourth Christmas with Heritage Makers. The luckiest people in the world are those that receive a Heritage Makers book under the tree for Christmas. I love the month or two after Christmas when I hear from my customers the reaction their family had to their storybooks. Such special memories captured and shared and then they generate even more memories and stories.....it is a wonderful addiction!.....storybooking!

View these:
Tour of Duty

Call to Arms

Before I Was Your Mother

What it means to be a....(family name)

Our Family Roots

The Life I've Lived

The Love I've Known

A New Story Begins

Family (7x5)

Me and My Dad

My Life (7x5)

Baby Girl (5x5)

Baby Boy (5x5)

Honoring Dad

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Not gone inactive...just got back from vacation

A friend of mine, Sabra (sometimes I think she is the only one that reads this anyways), asked me if I have gone inactive on my blog or what was going on? I just got back from a two week long vacation to Disneyland and to visit my family in AZ. Now I am home and just sorting through my pictures and also trying to catch up with work. I have quite a few books I am working on for customers as well as trying frantically to meet an August 20th deadline of submitting templates I have made to Heritage Makers. You can view some of them here or here is my latest (I plan to use this template for my family reunion we had). I am hoping they accept some of my templates and will pay me for them. They are planning to launch a creative center where thousands of customers will be able to pick out templates.

So I am still alive, and I survived my trip alone on the plane with two crazy girls and a broken foot in a cast. I had a blast and when I get the template situation under control I will post some great pics of my vacation. Here is one for now. This is the first time all 17 of my parents grandchildren have ever been together. They range from age 20 years to 20 months. We had a family reunion on my birthday. All five of us siblings together. This was the best birthday EVER!!!!!!

(I don't know why this picture is so pixelated in this view, if you click on it you can see it much much clearer)

Thursday Night July 10th...JOIN ME ONLINE!

I am teaching a Masters Digital HM Storybooking (digital scrapbooking) online workshop. This is a company wide call. Join me and see what I am teaching. Come learn how to do this and much more:

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Happy 4th

I hope everyone had a wonderful 4th of July. We had a great time. We went over to my friend Jen's house and celebrated with her husband Dave and their two children. Fireworks are legal in Va (small ones) so we bought some fireworks and let them off. Maelee loves the "sprinklers" (sparklers) and Delana was scared of everything and clung to Brianna's lap until the very end Jen got her to hold a "sprinkler"

Old Friends are the Best Kinds of Friends

Those Pics Above are from 2004 and the ones below are 2008

The week we moved into our house in VA there was a sweet single mother that moved in right next to us in that same week. Her name is Mindy and she had a cute three year old daughter named Taylor. We were there about a week before Mindy asked me if I would be interested in caring for Taylor during the day while she worked (she is one of the best hair stylists). I said sure. So that is how I became the daycare lady of the neighborhood. Mindy and I became good friends, like family, and Taylor and Malee became best of friends!!! They moved in Oct 06, the same week Delana was born. She moved only 45 minutes away, but here in VA that seems so far. But We have only seen eachother twice since they moved.....not enough. Taylor called a few weeks ago and invited us over. We were so excited to see Taylor. I have missed her. It was very oddly a cold day....very strange for summer so the girls could not go swimming. Instead Mindy did Manicures and Pedicures for the girls. Taylor did not get one....she was not excited at all about doing nails....she is a huge TOMBOY. Even on our way there in the car Maelee asked if Taylor was boy. I asked her why she would say that. She said, "because she does not like to wear dresses and she loves the Power Rangers." I then explained to Maelee what a tomboy is. Anyways, we had a great day. I love Taylor so much and I have missed her and Mindy. My hair has also missed Mindy very much. I wanted to share some pics of Maelee and Taylor.

Happy Day

I had the most wonderful day today! I have been fighting with Dell for the last three days about a power cord. They kept misplacing my order. One day I even got a battery in the mail from them. I was so disappointed when I opened the box to find a battery instead of a powercord. I know have very strong opinions about how terrible Dells customer service is. I lost the power cord for my lap top two weeks ago. I have been miserable without it. My powercord finally came today. I spent the day busy trying to catch up with work past due......I have four books to make for the dance teacher and for parents that want to order a copy. Here is what I worked on tonight.....it is far from done, still need to do the journaling and add a few more pages for some other classes.



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I also had a great day hanging out with my buddy Natalie. She is a young woman from church. I met her four years ago when she was 12 and I have always enjoyed spending time with her. She has been helping me with the kids. She comes at 7am to make sure that she is here when the Delana wakes up to get her out of her crib. Then she makes the girls breakfast......I am very spoiled!!!! The girls were picked up at 10am by another lady at church but Natalie decided to stay and hang out with me. She has her drivers permit so I braved it and let her drive my van so we could go get some greasy drive through food (chick-fila). The funnest part was hunting for money....with my foot out I am out of work and we are trying to pinch every penny we can. So Natalie and I hunted all over the house for every quarter and dime we could find in the house. It took a few minutes to count out $9 at the drive through window but it was fun. And her driving was great! I was very impressed!!! She can drive miss broken leg daisy around anytime. this is Natalie: