Happy New Year!

I hope everyone has a great year and "May all your troubles last as long as your New Year's resolutions." Joey Adams

Brayer class with Michelle Zindorf

On November 14th Lacey and I went to our favorite store in Nashville, IN (Papertrix) and took a stamping class. I had been following the work of Michelle Zindorf on her blog. She does great cards with a brayer. When I found out she was teaching a class in Indiana, I knew we had to attend. Her blog is http://zindorf.blogs.splitcoaststampers.com/ She does a great job of showing you step by step how to make her cards on her blog. Lacey and I had a great time at her class, and learned how to brayer without the harsh line. If you have a chance to take her class I would recommend it. Here are the cards we made at the class.

Our Christmas Card

Here is our handmade Christmas card for this year. This was sent to all our family along with two pictures of us all. The supplies used to make this card are…

Stampendous- Winter warm stamp
Stampin up- Serene Snowflakes stamp
Whisper white, brilliant blue, and brushed silver paper
Brilliant blue and black ink
Marvy snow marker
Ticket corner punch
Copic markers- C5, B26, C1, Y06, YR04, and B21

Merry Christmas!

I hope everyone has a great Christmas. This past weekend we celebrated Christmas with both sides of our families. The grandparents spoiled Daniel rotten. Aunt Gena got him a pony, and Aunt Lacey got him a fun toy that makes LOTS of noise (I think Lacey is trying to make me pay for something I did to her when we were growing up). Everyone had lots of fun with Daniel. He was exhausted after all the fun. Now we get to have a relaxing Christmas at home with just the three of us. I could not ask for a better baby's first Christmas.

Poor Tim

On December 5th Florida played Alabama for the SEC Championship. The winner gets to play for the National Title. Needless to say it did not go well for Florida. We lost to Alabama 32-13. This was payback for Florida beating them badly last year. The Alabama players had been waiting all year for this rematch. It was an ugly game for Florida. Daniel loves to watch football. He did not watch this game, and instead covered his eyes so he did not have to watch it. I just felt bad that this is how Tim Tebow’s college football career is ending. At least an Alabama player won the Heisman trophy, and hopefully Florida will only have one loss this year to the team that wins the National title.

Thanksgiving

Although we were dealing with illness, Thanksgiving Day was actually a good day for us all. We were all feeling well. We went to my aunt Janny’s house for the big family celebration. We all had a good time. Here is a picture of Daniel for his first Thanksgiving, wearing the hat they made for him at daycare. Thanksgiving weekend is always fun because that is when the big football game between the Florida Gators and FSU is. In recent years the Gators have dominated FSU. Of course the Gators won again this year. Here is a picture of Daniel in his Gator outfit for the big game.

Sickness, Sickness, and More Sickness

It has been forever since I have posted a blog. The reason for the lack of posts is my family has been sick off and on basically since I went back to work. As if going back to work isn’t hard enough, or busy enough, my entire family has been sick at some point recently. The week before I was to go back to work my husband Nathan got the swine flu. I was so worried Daniel and/or I would get it, but we did not. There has also been the issue of the shortage of swine flu vaccine. There was a massive vaccine clinic at the football stadium here in Louisville. Thousands of people went to this drive in clinic. On the first night we all went down after work so I could get the vaccine, so hopefully I won’t get sick. Daniel is too young to get the vaccine. We had to wait a little while, but it was not too bad. My first week back to work I did not even make it a whole week before I received a phone call that Daniel was running a temperature. By the time I picked him up and got him home he did not have a temperature. I think he was just getting overheated at daycare. This overheating issue went on for several days, but is finally better. Then Nathan and I both ended up with a stomach virus within a matter of hours of each other. At first we thought it might be food poisoning, but we later learned the virus was going around at daycare. Luckily Daniel did not get that either. My parents came to visit their grandbaby that weekend. We were all better, and I cleaned all the bathrooms, but Grandma even ended up catching the stomach virus. Nathan then ended up with a sinus infection. Ever since he had the swine flu his immunity has been down and he has caught everything he has been exposed to. He literally has been sick for weeks. Daniel also got his first cold right before Thanksgiving. It was better over the long Thanksgiving weekend, but then came back that Sunday night before we went back to work. I also did not have a good Thanksgiving. I ended up having a fever, and other symptoms. So, on what was supposed to be a fun day off I ended up having to take a walk in appointment at the doctor office. Which meant I had to spend two hours at the office, mostly just waiting to be seen. I have told the story before about how Daniel does the things that the baby book says he should be doing that week. Well after going back to work I had gotten a little behind in reading the book. One week he had dry skin that was really awful. I did not know what to do with him. No amount of lotion could help the problem. I later read in the book for that week and they talk about how babies can have chapped skin. I told Daniel he doesn’t have to do everything they talk about in the book. I was hoping we would all be better after our long Thanksgiving break, but that did not happen. I guess I will have to settle for us all being healthy by Christmas. That is quickly approaching, and I can’t wait. I knew we would deal with Daniel getting sick when he started daycare, I just did not realize we would ALL have to deal with that issue. As of right now we are all doing much better. I am looking forward to the time off at Christmas, and hopefully I will get back to posting more often about more enjoyable things.