January.....ALREADY!!

HAPPY JANUARY, EVERYONE! WOW!! 2010!!! Can you believe that? And what are you calling it? Two thousand and ten or twenty ten? I kind of like twenty ten. It's different. I can remember when movies and books were popular about the year 2001...2001: A Space Odyssey, and that one about 1984. That was supposed to be the way far out future with lots of space stuff going on. Sci-fi space age. And here we are! 2010!! We are living in that space age future.....minus all the weird spage age stuff! LOL Aren't you glad though? Those were really weird ideas back then. The way cars and houses and clothes and people were supposed to look and all. Anyway.....welcome to 2010!

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I hope you all had a wonderful Christmas. Ours was great. We headed out to Queen Creek to spend Christmas Eve with Stephen R. and Karma and Chris and Melany and their families. Had Indian fry bread and all the trimmings for dinner. Played the gift exchange game. We decided to make homemade gifts this year. No going to the store to buy anything for them. Having to make items with just the things we had on hand around the house made for some really interesting gifts. I was so impressed with what all the kids came up with. Stevie made a yarn hat on one of those round looms. One of the boys made Rice Krispy Treats. Another made a cute little Lego car. Chris made a picture frame with a very interesting photo in it. We had a lot of laughs over that one.

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After we got home, Kodi decided she wanted to open her gifts before we went to bed. So we changed our tradition and let her. I kind of like doing it that way. With no little kids around at our house it makes it so we can sleep in on Christmas morning! It was kind of nice. But I miss the magic of Christmas that comes with having children around who still believe. It just isn't the same when everyone is grown up.

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We had a Ward Christmas party for the adults in our Ward this year. They served us a very fancy, elegant 7 course dinner and it was so fun. Yummy food too! I was really glad Stephen and I went.

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It has been cool and beautiful here. We've had some rain and this coming week is supposed to have a good chance of rain for most of the week. I sure hope it happens. Our highs have been in the 70's the past several days. And we are knee deep in sunshine. Beautiful Arizona weather.

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Kodi and I went outside to watch for the International Space Station the other night. It was cloudy out and I was afraid we wouldn't be able to see it. But the clouds parted some and we were able to see it go about halfway across the sky. I had my camera and was taking pictures trying to catch it in one of them...which wasn't easy because it was so dark that you couldn't tell what you had on the little monitor thingie. But I did catch it in one of the pics!! I was so excited that I caught it!! I had to scrapbook it. So here is the layout I did about it. I love the way it turned out!

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And Hope has been sending me photos of the Logan kids. This is one of Cydney admiring Aunt Hopie's Christmas tree. I loved it and had to scrap it. The photo is just so precious.

Will be working on a couple layouts for Monika Designs this week. She sent me her newest kit last night. I'm excited that she likes my work enough to keep inviting me to do the layouts for her. It's quite an honor for me as I'm not an official member of her Creative Team - CT. She does beautiful design work. And I'm still a CT for Jan Waite of Waite For The Moment Designs. I have enjoyed working for her also. I love being able to use these beautiful kits and then keep them in exchange for doing the layouts. :) And it's fun to get to know these two ladies and to be their friend.

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I'm back into making cards also. It has been nice to be able to work on them again. And I'm still hoping to cross stitch again soon. I feel the mood coming on me. I've also bought the fabric for the first two grandchild birthdays for 2010. So I need to work on them this week. I have enough to do to keep me out of trouble. Let's hope it works!!

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I hope you are all enjoying your new year. It has been a good one for us so far. I'm looking forward to the changes this year is bringing for us. Hugs to Everyone!!