Nieces & Nephews

I do not have any kids of my own so my nieces & nephews are the next best thing. I don't think it is possible to love them more if they were my own. Plus, they go away..LOL

I have 5 nieces & nephews, they have provided me 7 great nieces & nephews. WOW. I just thought I would share my little pieces of happiness.

This is Hailee & Devin. Could you just eat them up. How beautiful is this shot. My niece Kristina took this of 2 of her brothers kids. Just melts my heart.

This is Kevin with his oldest son Kevin Jr. (the above 2 belong to him as well) Little Kevin is such a beautiful soul. I miss them lots.

Here is sweet little Hayden. OMG he is so adorable. He belongs to Erika & Russell

These 2 terrors...I mean cuties belong to my sweet Kristina & Shane

Joey, little Joey. Erica's brother. He is all grown up now...

What a handsome boy. He is in colege now playing Soccer. He will go far.

The Smiths...wait, how did Karen get in here? Well, it is because of her I have most of this beautiful family to call mine.

ScrapMadness

March is Scrap Madness month over at Boston Scrap Fanatics. If you need inspiration, go check it out at http://www.bostonscrapfanatics.com/
One of our Design Team members,  Tina has put alot of work into this. She has challenges & ideas for every day of the month.
I can't wait to see what she has planned.

Heritage

I have been looking through some photos wondering what to scrap. I just cannot believe the amount of photos I have. I just think I will share some with you.

This is my Grandpa Doughty. Picture was taken in his home office sometime in the 50's. He had all sorts on things going on from this office.

Grandpa Doughty again. Photo taken in June 1983. I just adored him. He was a character. He would do things like play a record & record the date on a note card he kept inside the record sleeve. Everytime..LOL
He had a great Train set he used to have set up in his living room. I remember when I was in Junior high & High school, I would want to talk to him about my history homework. He knew things...he was very intelligent. He was seriously opinionated. I loved that about him. He spoke his mind & you never really knew what was going to come out of his mouth.

I know this is a bit dark. Hopefully you can see it. This is my Mom when she was 14, in 1958...WOW. I love the very basic composition of this photo. The background is awesome.  Oh & she pretty much never changed, she was only 5 ft, & never weighed more than 115 (even when she was pregnant) She was tiny. I miss her so much. They say it gets easier. So far I am not seeing that.

March 1955. My Mom & her brother Earl. She was 11 here. I look at this photo & see myself. I have never really thought I took after her as much as my Dad, but this is pretty awesome.

Anyway. I think I found what I want to work on so I will go do that. Thanks for looking.

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As if I needed to be reminded

Why I love tattoos...

This pretty much does the trick. Whoa.

Which brings us to January

Well, January was a very low keyed month. Pretty much work and home, making Jack a very dull boy.
Oh wait, I did take Housni to the MOS to see the Pompeii exhibit. He was pretty impressed. But other than that just stayed home.
I did work pretty hard on Layouts & projects. Can't post the LO's because they are going to someone very special later on in the year. I have to start early so I do not get hit with a deadline & an incomplete book.

November/December 2011

Going to finish up the last of the year so I can get moving.

November was a very different month. Housni went on vacation for 4 weeks & I am left here. BUT, instead of focusing on the fact that he is gone & I miss him...I focus on the fact that "HE IS GONE" Whew....alone time...me time...do what I want, when I want time. Oh, I do still miss him, but after almost 10 years, it's OK.

I did my normal everyday things, but I moved furniture, scrapped nearly everyday, & actually went out with friends not feeling guilty that it was my only time to spend with the hubby.

Had my long lost dear friend Katy over for a long weekend. Started when she arrived around 8 Thursday night, I made us some pasta, we ate then headed to MGH, took my friend Kathy some pasta, then it was off to the midnight show of Breaking Dawn Pt. 1.

OK, so we were by far the oldest in the crowd...but we had a great time. Katy Lou however had to drive from New York...took her about 6 hours so she was a bit on the tired side & napped during the movie...it provided more entertainment for Kathy & myself.
After the movie we went outside (pretty cold night) to wait for a Taxi..you cannot park in downtown Boston.
Taxi never got there..we were pretty much the only people on tht part of Tremont St at almost 3am...but we are pretty close to the Theater District..as we are standing there police cars, and ambulances are wailing down the street.   Finally a taxi.
Get home and in bed at around 4:30. We have another busy day ahead of us that begins at about 6:30.
I get up take a shower, cook breakfast while the others are showering & getting ready. We ate & headed out the door at 8:30 on our way to Danvers...to see Yup, Breaking Dawn...LOL. We needed to process it.
Saw the movie, went to eat lunch at Buffalo Wing Stop whatever it's called. It was good. Then we took a little shopping trip. Went to Topsfield to Absolutely Everything. Then headed up to Manchester, NH to go to Hobby Lobby. I so love that store. Then we went to the Land's End outlet store. Then to eat at oh I forgot the name of the place but it was good & headed home. Boy were we tired.
Sunday morning we had breakfast & Kathy got here early & we headed out to the Museum of Science. The Pompeii exhibit is there.

 It turned out to be pretty great. By late afternoon we were exhausted. Headed home for dinner & crashed early. I took the day off on Monday, we made bbq briskit in the crock pot. We then scrapped all day...was really fun.
I went to work on Tuesday but Katy stayed & scrapped...she left Wednesday morning.
I made a few more shopping trips during the month, but pretty much stayed close to home.

It's December already...wow, year flew by. Housni came home on the 5th & it was back to reality. His schedule changed & it was pretty traumatic to both of us, but we have to have jobs so we get over it.
Christmas came & went without fanfair. I spent the day alone as Housni was sleeping, but I spoke to my family on the phone.
Now ready for the new year.