I can't believe my baby is TWO!!!

How amazing is it that these pictures turned out so cute when especially my youngest was so crazy in between camera shots??!  haha  I'm actually pretty easy going most of the time, but this "photo shoot" was one of the more trying, and I went by myself with my three kids.  I just felt like crying when I got back into our car afterwards.  LOL  But I guess it's worth it cause they really are cute!  :)

Also I wanted to let those that are LDS know that  I participated in the LDS Blog Train again for June, and you only have one more day to download most of the contributing scrapbooking kits!  For complete list, go to my scrapbooking blog here: http://shellymariescraps.blogspot.com/2010/06/lds-blog-train.html

For this theme, we did vintage, heritage, family history or genealogy type of kits.  I absolutely LOVE family history.  If I am not designing a new kit or scrapbooking, I am searching and researching one of our family lines.  Wait till you see all the beautiful kits all the designers have created for this!  Here's a slide show of all the contributions to OF NOBLE BIRTHRIGHT.

They have a blog train of FREEBIES or free downloads every other month that are all focused around an LDS theme.  The first month I participated in was Missionaries, and it was cool!  I can't wait to see what they have for their theme in August! 

Summer is finally here!!!

Yay!  I'll be back with summer photos, I hope;)  But I do have this layout I did with my kit, Lil Mermaids, of my 3 kids on a visit to the zoo!

Mother's Day & Father's Day Layouts!

I did these layouts for my parents for Mother's Day & Father's Day.  The one with my mom holding me as a Baby and then me holding my first born, beautiful Jessica. Made from a beautiful kit by Dancing Princess Designs called Butterfly Heaven.

This layout is made with a new kit called Happy Anniversary by all the designers at DID (including me), and it is really my favorite picture cause I love hugging my dad, and I remember that feeling of hugging him after not seeing him for so long while I served my mission in far far away, Thailand Bangkok!

Update...

Almost a year later... here's the most recent pics and layout of my three kids made with one of my scrapbooking kits, I Like Green. on sale now at both of my stores! DID and the Studio
Here's a better one of "the Boy" made with fabulous Designer, Mitsybelle's kit, Cee Zee.

Oh, and just had to add this layout, too. It's one of my favorites of my sweet little ballerinas on the night of their first dance concert last December. Made with my kit, A Happy Day, on sale now at theStudio.

So Tired should alway be my title. LOL

If anyone is interested in why I haven't posted for over 2 months, please see my other blog and see what I've been up to. I am now going to be a digital scrapbooking designer, and will start to sell my stuff at one store, and hopefully a second one soon after! I have been so busy though that I keep forgetting to update this one. I will be back with more personal family details as is the nature of this blog, but please check out http://shellymariescraps.blogspot.com/ in the mean time;)

Okay fine, here's a recent pic. And my baby just turned ONE!

Have a great day!

The new 30!

So I turned 40 this week. I guess it's the new 30? haha Doesn't really seem to be affecting me much. I think I'm too busy to worry about age. haha But it does make me want to lose weight sooner and get in better shape. I told my husband I wanted to be the sexiest 41 year old ever. He wants to know why I can't just be the sexiest 40 year old. haha But I know I'll need a year to get there. So I've got too much work to do to worry about age. And my young kids make me feel younger. My mom called me on my birthday and told me I was one of the biggest blessings in her life. So I guess that's something:)

We're supposed to go visit her and my dad today. And I guess we still will, but my youngest is sick. He has been sleeping through the night, but now has the croup so I've been up with him since 5 am. It's hard listening to your child breathe when it's so rough sounding! As I type this, I am still sharing my "office" with him so he's in his crib watching his humidifier. My first two never had anything like this. So this is a first for me. Well, first child to have croup, but 2nd time he's had it in his young life. The first time was right after Christmas. He was not quite 7 months old then. Now he's almost 10 months old, crawling, and fast becoming a character just like his sisters!

Too Much Going On...

Okay, so I missed February. But I was still recuperating from surgery, working on too many mortgage loans, starting to teach piano lessons again, and getting more into my favorite hobby... Digiscrapping! Some know this about me, some do not, but I now digital scrapbook instead of the tradition paper method. And I've been getting ready to do another blog just to document this fun hobby of mine:) A lovely lady in Australia, Cazzie has asked me to be on her Creative Team, and I am a CT (Creative Team) Member for Silly Beans Scraps, and just love the world of digital scrapbooking I have found.

Here's a page I did recently for a speed scrap at http://www.getdigiwithit.com/.

I used the March Collaborative grab bag kit available at GDWI. Fun stuff!