It's All About The Journey

Still January

Ciao! It certainly has been a very cold and very long January. I can not remember a winter where our temperatures have been in the single digits and below zero for as many days as we have had. It truly has been brutal. I'm hoping that February will be much kinder to us. :)

The day after New Years Day we had another snow storm. On this day it was only 3 degrees and the wind was blowing quite a bit.  But Wayne was quite the trooper. He went outdoors and did what he had to despite how cold it was. Once again I used the Seasons Mini kit and Taylor Expression words. I love this set. I love keeping my pages simple but using dies helped to dress them up a bit. I like that too. :)

 

I have put together 4 pages so far for our 2014 PL book for Wayne and I. 

I used the mini Holiday kit to make these 2 pages for New Years Eve and New Years Day. I used the words "New beginning" die from Taylored Expressions. Love it.   Wayne and I spent our New Years Eve watching the movie "The Family. I love Robert DeNiro.......it was good but there was some violance in it but some humor as well. Wayne and I had snacks to eat and watched the ball come down in Times Square. It was a quiet but nice night. On New Years Day, I made a Roast chicken dinner for Wayne. I had veggies. :) After dinner I went  and visited my favorite blogs, hence the photo of Becky Higgins PL blog. It was a quiet and very nice way for the two of us to start off the New Year.

 Lastly I have a photo of Gracie 2 days after Christmas. We celebrated Christmas with her, her mommy and my 16 year old granddaughter Darcy. We all had fun watching Grace open her gifts from Santa. It has been many years since Wayne and I have watched a baby open Christmas gifts. She is such a blessing and brings so much joy to all of our family.

Thank you for stopping by to visit with me. I hope that you have a wonderful weekend. And as always stay safe, stay warm and SMILE BIG. :)

I'm late in wishing everyone who visits my blog a Happy New Year. I was prepared to share my wishes by using a card template from Stampin'UP! So..................

...............Happy 2014 to you. :)

The only thing that I added to the template is the washi tape. I did add  the Very Vanilla color instead of the white that was all ready there. I printed it out and it came out great.  

 

I'm also catching up with the last of my 2013 Project Life pages. I did begin printing out my New Years Eve photos and will also work on my 2014 book. So many good memories. I am looking forward to many more wonderful memories in 2014. Hope you are too.

Kitchen Update

We added a buffet over by our sliding glass doors. We are waiting for the electrician to come back this week, to add the lighting under the upper cabinets and hook up the new outlets. The Installer needs to come back to tidy up a few issues and the granite people will be here on January 24th and then the kitchen will be finished. A long process but so very grateful.
 

And after many weeks of having temperatures in the teens,single didgits and below zero we finally had a warm 33 degree day. Rain and Ice but still warm. :)

 

Thanks so much for stopping by. 

Stay warm,stay safe and Smile BIG! :)