Moments in Time

Jess went to a school party Thursday night with her best friend, Jessie. The party had a Fall theme with dressing up optional. Jess went as an 80's girl and her friend Jessie went as a pirate. Aren't they cute? ;-) They had fun.

On Friday night, I had a few friends from my local moms' group over. We spent the evening chatting, eating, stamping and scrapbooking. It was fun! I made this card for a swap on Saturday:
I went with my friend Lisa to her stamp club and came home with these swaps: Lots of great cards! I made this card while I was there (I really love this stamp set!):
I have been so busy making Christmas stuff for the craft show, that I have been dying to make some Autumn cards. It was so fun to play with the fall colors!

And here is a picture of my best friend.... Dixie. She's the friend who craves time with me the most and feels my rejection the worst. She's looking very dejected because I wouldn't take her for a walk. A) I was tired and (admittedly) grumpy and didn't feel like taking a walk, and B) Jess had already taken her for one earlier. But, of course, a walk from someone else doesn't count. It has to be a walk with me. How can you say no to someone who feels that way about you? We went for a walk. :-)

...wherefore art thou, Autumn? I still can't believe it's the middle of October! Our weather's been a bit cooler, but still abnormally warm and we'll be back up into the mid 70s by tomorrow. Most of the trees are still green and I miss the beautiful colors of Fall. I'm having a hard time getting into the pumpkin and Halloween mood.

One harbinger of Fall is here.... school pictures. (These are all thumbnails - click on them to see the full sized version.) This is Jessica's school picture. She has her Daddy's half smile in this one.

As school staff, I got my "school photo" too! For me, it's very smiley. (I'm not a smiley person and always *think* I'm smiling when apparently I'm not.)

Ali had her school picture taken last month, but we don't have it yet. We just got her soccer pictures today, though. They came out really cute! (Of course, I'm biased, but...)

Well, I hate to blog and run, but homework, dinner, stamp orders and Christmas cards await...

Well, at least in my craft room it is. I've uploaded the first 3 Christmas card designs that I'm making for my upcoming craft show. Look for the Photo Album link on your right for my Christmas Cards album. Once you're in the album, click on each link to see the whole card. (My blog software seems to chop them into squares when they show up as thumbnails.)