16 Years!

"Life isn't about finding yourself.......Life is about creating yourself!" - author unknown -

Since we were practically children when we got married, we had a whole lot of growing and creating to do. So to him.....thank you for giving me and continuing to give me the freedom, security, support and love that I needed in my ever evolving creative process.

A week in the life of....

This has to be my all time favorite quote from a TV show or movie. Of course it was on Dexter:)

Deb to Dexter: "What the f@*# is scrapbooking?"

Dexter in his matter of fact way of speaking: "The tradition of putting photos and memorabilia into a family keepsake albums, along with relevant journaling"


I laughed and laughed and laughed! I love it! Maybe you just had to be there.....or be a scrapbooker:)

Last year I did Alie Edwards "a week in the life of" and here are a couple of pages from my finished album. This was a really fun project and the whole family joined in with me. It was such a great reminder to document your life and celebrate the everyday!
Putting these on my blog just made me want a 12x12 scanner even more!!!!! I will add the rest of the mini later when I have more time to play.

I started my week of documenting on a Monday, which worked out to be a very typical Monday. Your suppose to do a regular, typical week of you life to show your everyday stuff. I did find that I love my everyday and find comfort in my everyday rituals. I am so very blessed that everyday I have, I spend with my favorite people in the world!!! Lucky me. Cant wait to post the rest of this album!!!!

Mattias cracked me up last night!

Mattias: "Mom I think I want to be a lawyer when I grow up, they make good money on the legal fees that they charge. Do you think I should be a lawyer for Barnes and Noble or Starbucks?"

Me: "Why are you thinking of only those two companies?"

Mattias: "Well I really like Barnes and Noble and I'm GOING to like Starbucks one day and I can bring you home a coffee every night"

It cracks me up that he sees how much I love coffee and he figures that its in his future as well. I also love that my happiness is helping him decide what career choice to make....yeah I know he's 9. When he is really making career choices I will be at the bottom of his concerns....I'm OK with that! I will enjoy him while I have him:)

4th of July ~ 2009

Boy Debbie and Bill know how to throw a PARTY! The weather was great, the food was great, the company was the best! Spending the day with all my favorite people made me feel like a very lucky girl!!!!!!!!

Crab feast! Yummy!

So nice having our family here visiting. This was the first time I had all of my God Children together in one place and I didn't get a freaking picture!!!!! What kind of scrap booker am I???

Papa enjoying some sweets and watching the volleyball game

Steph giving Misa a ride:) How sweet

"No fire here, Please" We tried to sit in the no firework zone, didn't work out so well.

Mattias enjoying some sparklers

Brings me back to my childhood..hanging with my cousins

"this is our fate, I'm yours!!" Every time I think about our little sing a long I just smile and smile! Like Nana said "Jonathan and Kristine, thank you for giving us Donavin!"

This morning.....

The house was full, busy and happy. I'm so happy to have our family here! Marce, Justin and Steve went for a very early round of golf and I slept in. Monica cooked up a monster batch of Menudo and the house had a lovely comfort food scent

The girls munching and being silly

My kitchen has turned in a Mexican cuisine restaurant

The master chef at work. Can't wait to eat!

Marce helping Papa with the laptop

The kids playing a game. I love morinings like this, talking, coffee, just being at home, just relaxing , just being us.

Got the fireworks and we are ready to pack up and go to Debbie and Bills for the big bash. All I need is a little tranquilizer to get me through the night(the fireworks make me nervous...I'm getting so old)

Us and the City

Lets see....Monica, Alberto, Leilani, Stephanie, Lil Alberto, Steve, Lisa, Tess, Jace and Zach are all up here this weekend for a 4th of July visit. I love when family comes up for a visit! We love to show off our beautiful city:)

I love to get flowers whenever we go to the Market, Marisa liked these ones.
Stopping for a drink and some food. It was hot...hot for us at whopping 85 degrees. Yuck!

Very patriotic

Note to self:

Don't forget to......Rest
Nuture your relationship

Soak in the beauty around you

Nurture yourself

enjoy the little things

Let your mind wander

and Breathe

3 Days.....

Just us. Just him and me for 3 blissfully lovely days. It was just what we needed:) A Road trip with really loud music and me singing my heart out.... a tribute to MJ. Marce made us a CD with some of his best stuff. We were actually very busy: bike rides, hiking, golf, lots of talking, reading, waterfalls, Marce's Birthday:)....we did it all.