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Kevin and Jillian in Cozumel.

I took over 100 pictures of everyone on the slides on the Carnival Fantasy! We spent our days on the ship laying out by the slides so that Jillian could be on them. I can't wait to scrap these!!!!

This lo is one of my favorites that I've done lately. I adore these papers and the pictures are dear to me. Our whole family loves the beach, and I enjoyed capturing Jillian and her bff Lynzi playing at Biloxi Beach!

Jillian and I are HUGE Kenny Chesney fans! Did I say huge? Yep!!! We have been to 3 of his concerts in Lafayette and even got to meet him at the 2nd one. Anyway--this LO is our Kenny Chesney Concert. What a Great time we had. Toni Guillory and her daughter Simone came with us. Thanks to Toni for the Great pics of Kenny and Sugarland!

I'm Back!

This lo was done in June. I finally got to do this July 4th, 2007 lo. I used buttons, stickles and my stamps to add more pizzaz.

I just love these papers and thought they would be perfect for Rhetts birthday pics. I even used left over chipboard negatives, distressed them and backed my journaling with it.

This is Erin and Jillian cooling off at the resort in Cozumel. We spent the day at the Wyndham Resort and Spa. It was Perfect!

This was a picture of us on our last night on the Ship. It just doesn't look right without Rhett in the picture! He had to stay home because of work--we really missed him!

This is a picture of myself and my longtime bff who lives in California. Erin and I stayed with them while we were in Cali! Ceci and I went to Santa Barbara that day.

Wow, what a busy Summer! Sorry I've been gone so long--4 days after my last post, Kevin's Mother passed away. We had the funeral and are still mourning the loss of an AWESOME mother in law and Grandmother! Had Jillian's Dance Recital the day we burried Mrs Lou and the next day. The next two weeks we tried to get our lives somewhat "normal". Went to New Orleans for a friends daughters wedding, then went to California the next week with my oldest Daughter, Erin. Missed my husbands birthday and Fathers day so made up for that when I returned. Celebrated my son, Rhett's 20th Birthday and left 2 weeks later for our summer vacation--a Cruise to Progresso Mexico and Cozumel. Whew!!!!!! That brings me up to today! Now we are just preparing for the new school year. Erin starts her 2nd year of Medical School Monday July20th. Go Erin!!!! Jillian will be a 6th grader and has grown so much this summer that NOTHING fits from last year! We are starting a weight loss contest at the Studio this week so I know I will still be busy! I have gotten to scrap a little in between everything. Am taking a class from Wendy at TM this weekend and hoping to get back into the crop mood. Thanks for sticking with me, I will try to post more often!

These are some pictures from the fitness retreat

Wow! I hadn't realized its been so long since I've posted. My world has been topsy turvy since I returned from NY. Kevin's mom's health has been declining. Throughout the last month she has been put into the nursing home, fell and broke her leg, had a subdural hematoma and was hospitalized. She is back at the nursing home and holding her own.

At the same time Toni and I at the Studio had a Fitness Retreat at Chicot State Park, we cooked, talked and worked everyone out pretty hard! It was alot of fun and took alot of planning. In between all this we had 2 weekends of Recital pictures for Jillian.

I haven't been able to scrap any pages because of all this. I have been making travel journals! I was so pumped!!!! After several people saw the journals I made for my sisters, 4 people asked me to make some for their own trips to New York. I have JUST finished the last one and will be delivering it tomorrow! Whew!!!!! I love making them but want to do a "Summer" themed one. I am hoping to be able to get back to scrappin some pages by next weekend.

Thanks for checking in to my busy life!!!

We're Back!!!

Having lunch at "Juniors". Brisket Sandwich, yumyum!

Look at us on GMA!!! From l-r, Penny (wearing blue), Me (grey) and Wendy (red). We are stars!

Me and Jenea Naquin in Brooklyn. Jenea is from Eunice but lives in Brooklyn. She works on contract for several designers. Some of the purses she worked on are featured at Henri Bendel and are going to be in an article in Elle Magazine! We had a great visit!

New York will never be the same now that the Fruge Girls have left!!! haha What a trip!!!! We walked all over Manhattan! As much as I am used to working out, I don't think I have ever walked so much in so many days! From the time we woke up, till we went to bed we were walking! And up and down those steps to the subway!!!! I kept reminding my sisters that they were put there to be our interval workouts!

Good Morning America was a blast! Got to see one of my favorite Country Artists, John Rich and was seen on TV by family and friends. My feet are blistered, I am sleep deprived and I have memories to fill 5 scrapbooks! Once I have recovered I will start scrappin and postin. Have a good weekend and thanks for stopping by!

New York Bound!!!

WooHoo!! I can hardly believe that we have finally made it!!! We leave tomorrow morning for our Fruge Sisters Trip to New York!! It has been in the making for a whole year now!!! I will have lots of pictures when I return. I heard there is a new scrapbooking store in Manhattin and I plan on finding it!! Everyone has packed their travel journals and we are ready to fill it with memories.

We scored tickets to Good Morning America for Tuesday March 24th. Keep an eye out for us, I am working on our posters tonight!!! See ya !

Layouts from the weekend

This is one of the one page layouts I have done recently. I love this dotted swiss paper and it went with the pictures so well I just had to use it! I was able to get many angles of Jillian's baptism and enjoyed putting them all on this layout.

This layout was of Kevin's family. His father had had a heart attack and everyone came to Eunice when he was released from the hospital. He is doing fine and I was able to get a picture of them all!

This is a layout I have been waiting to try. As you can probably see, I don't like a lot of white space. But I felt that these pictures needed white space. I am so glad I recorded our annual process of dying eggs. Thanks for checking in.

Recent layouts

This is my version of Wendy's Valentine Layout at Treasured Memories. I completed it at home. I have never done a layout about Kevin and me, so I decided to use some of our pictures on the layout.

This layout was the one that I had almost completed at the Mega Crop. I finished it a few nights ago. I love these glitter papers, and even though it is a layout for my son the colors matched their tuxes perfectly! Thanks for checking in.