Perfect...

I love Christmas Eve. Especially when it's a perfect one like today is shaping up to be. It's been snowing here all night & into the morning, and we awoke to a beautiful snowy and relatively mild day. Here's a pic of my backyard taken a few minutes ago:

I'm not a winter person, but I do love snow on Christmas Eve. I'm baking a cheesecake and some cookies , still wrapping gifts, and the kids are outside in their snowsuits, digging forts, throwing snowballs, and enjoying the snow. I still have a million things to cross off my to-do list, but I'm relatively stress-free at this point. I'm just enjoying the day puttering about the house, and listening to my favourite BNL Christmas cd. It's all good!

I wish I could say the same about my December album. I kind of stalled at day 13, and although I've been taking my pics faithfully everyday, I just haven't had a second to sit down and print anything or even entertain the thought of scrapping them. I've been insanely busy the past 2 weeks, thanks to my own procrastination on the Xmas shopping front. I do intend on sharing my album here once it's done, so I hope you don't mind that it's after the fact. I love what I've done so far, and hope that soon I'll have an evening to sit down and get it up to date, hopefully before New Year arrives! Here's a photo of Noah from my December 7th entry, it was our 1st big snowfall that stuck, and since then, we've gotten a ton more of snow.

Wishing all of you out there much peace, joy and happiness this Holiday season.

Merry Christmas!!!

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Photo Album Scrapbooks winners...

My little elf was home from school today because of our provincial election, so he did the honours:










Ann Costen ( lucky # 1!) and Geralyn, please email me at melanie.louette@gmail.com, and I'll get your copies out to you tomorrow am. Thanks for playing along, you'll enjoy this special issue, I'm sure!


I'm hoping to be able to upload some December Daily pics tonight or tomorrow morning. Having the kids home from school today has kind of thrown me off schedule.

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Hit and run post

I have the day off today, and want to take full advantage of it. There's so much I need to get done, and only a few hours to accomplish everything before I have to pick up the kids at school. It's amazing how fast the day flies by when you're not at work! I've already got a few pages of my December Daily album done by some miracle, and will hopefully get around to photographing it over the weekend. In the meantime, I'll leave you with this layout, done with some of the funky new AC teen line. I thought it would be strictly girly, but I was pleasantly surprised!

I've also got a 2 extra copies of this SS special issue to give away:

Just leave me a comment here ( lurkers included!) and I'll do my darndest to get this shipped out to you before Christmas, although I can't guarantee that our miserable postal system will deliver it in time. I spent 14 bucks last week for 2 day 'express' service to mail birthday cards to my niece across the country, and she got them about 5 days later... nice work, Canada Post. Man, that is irritating.

Have a fab weekend y'all!

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