The news on our boat......

Well, Michael went down to the marina yesterday and this is what he saw......

This is the road into the marina....

I know and fully recognize that these are just boats to some.... but to us, it's our thing.... we spend our family time here, it represents love, laughter, hard work, joy, freedom and everything in between. It's our thing.......

By the Grace of God, in the middle of all of this massive destruction there are a few piers that are untouched and unharmed by the hurricane.... where our boat is located is on one of those few piers. She is completely unharmed, practically untouched, and just as perfect as when we last saw her.

We are so thankful, I can't even begin to express my gratitude. I am speechless.....

Hurricane Scrapping

Well, I was able to take advantage of a little down time, Mikayla and Michael were napping, even though it was still pouring outside it was light enough outside to shine some light on my scrapping area. I was able to work on some swap items but also did this layout. The true challenge was not using my cricut.... I had to get creative....hee hee

After the storm

We are SOOOOO thankful, only minimal damage to our fence and roof. No problem!!!! Only about 50-60 feet of fencing is broken. We'll take it. We are SOOOO thankful to be spared.

Hurricane Ike

I haven't been able update in awhile but here I am. Here are some of the storm clouds before the hurricane hit. They were awesome in real and the pictures don't do justice to how it actually felt, the air smelled different, there were no birds around, it was very still but the clouds were moving sooooo fast.





Once the storm hit, I was too chicken to go look outside and see what it was doing but just hearing the storm was enough for me, I didn't move, all I could do was stare at the window because if that board got sucked off I was grabbing Mikayla and running to a different room. It was incredible, I was scared for Mikayla, she woke up one time and asked what that noise was and I told her it was the wind, she said OK and went back to sleep.

We could hear the rumble (the typical train sound) of the tornados all around us and I was expecting the boards that Michael covered our windows with to be ripped off at any second because the winds were so intense. There are just no words to describe it.

I'm so thankful that no one in our immediate group of friends/family were hurt or property lost and I'm so thankful that Mikayla wasn't afraid at all, she all but slept right through it.

Clean boat!!!

Michael worked so hard yesterday on our boat, he just cleaned his heart out. The deck is shining!!! What a pretty boat!!! Hope she stays safe from hurricane Ike.......

(35 feet long - 11 feet wide)

Latest scrappy page

Here is my latest page, done late on Friday night.... needed to do something though, it feels as if I've been on a hiatus but I'm back baby!!!! The paper is clear transparency paper with white paper behind it. It's the first time I've worked with paper like that.

Choo Choo......

Mikayla is VERY into trains now and just has to wear them. We have one t-shirt w/trains on it and it does get dirty every now and again so I attempted to make her one. I found the printable iron on transfers at Hobby Lobby, printed it and this is what I came up with. I have another one I'll make for her too. She was SOOOOO happy!!!



Here's my little race car driver, hee hee, what a ride!!!!