Since it is the final week I have to prepare before opening my website, this will be my final give away (for the time being). I’ve designed this 6″ x 6″ mini album using Teresa Collins paper. I adore her paper and her blog! So, here’s how you win this album: Comment on my blog daily (you may comment on any post) until Saturday, April 26th. Each new day that you comment I will enter your name in the drawing again. This gives you at least 6 chances to win. I will draw a winner at random Sunday, April 27th and announce the winner on my blog! Good luck!

Today was really unusual…it seemed that everything wound up mixed up and crazy (as far as my schedule). I was hoping to get some scrapbooking in. I still might…after all, the wee hours is when I work best!

One thing (specifically) did go well today…

This week I’ve been helping my parents with their horses while they’re in Idaho. I had the privalige to see this today when I let the horses out to graze in the pasture…

I love to visit my parents house, I swear it’s like a mini-vacation for your soul!

…I love uninterrupted time…How do I spend it? Well, these precious few hours usually come late at night after my kids are tucked in and generously kissed goodnight. My passion is my family and our memories, naturally this equals scrapbooking.

Family + memories = scrapbooking

I love the late hours, my creative juices start to flow…I’ll come up with layout ideas, organize photos, make homemade cards for my friends and family. I also love the time to think, read the scriptures and listen to the spirit.

I love knowing that my family and our memories will go on for generations…There will never be a doubt that I loved my family and friends!

…let the wee hours and these pages unfold my soul…

I’m not exactly sure when I wrote those words…I just scribbled 2006 at the bottom of my journal. I am sure I’d just finished reading a Rebecca Sower article (she SO inspires me to journal) in a scrapbook magazine or something of that sort.

I still feel the same about the wee hours, although it’s getting harder and harder to stay up late now that I am working full time. Believe me, I’d rather stay up and create than sleep…I just turn into “crazy-coo-coo-lady” when I don’t get enough of those precious Z’s.

…that’s what I was back then. Just a twinkle. My parents, they were definitely seeing stars…

I love my Mom’s shoes and the stars on her shirt…and is that a leather jacket my Dad is sporting on his ‘Honda’?

I love the photo of my parents “riding” a motorcycle, it’s a glimps of their love when it was brand new, the photo was taken approx 33 years ago. I took the photo of my silly parents laughing (below) just last year in Washington DC. They’re still in love after all these years.

How blessed we are to have family to spend Easter with. Our family headed over to my Parents house in the afternoon for an EGG HUNT with my little niece Kayla.

Afterwards we had a beautiful (and super yummy) ham dinner at Vanessa’s (my sister-in-law) mother’s house. She decorated her table so darling and made it really fun for my kids by having Easter Egg cookies to decorate – so sweet!

For all you pretty paper lovers…don’t worry, I’m working on some projects and I’ll share them really soon!

….can’t help it, they’re so darn cute! Believe me, if you could get your hands on one of these cutie pies, you would be done in too…

What? I have to be somewhere? Sorry, I have business with puppies to attend to…

I have so many projects stuck in my head…sometimes I just don’t find the time to do all the “fun” projects when “life” projects seem to take up most of my time. I drove up to PSB today and bought one of those new ATC holders from 7 Gypsies. Believe me that is the project that I want to be working on. Instead, today is filled up with work, kid’s homework, cleaning stalls for my parent’s horses, driving to the airport…yeh, it’s pretty packed full.

I needed to do something creative so I threw together a little hanging flower arrangement. After all, I did buy the silk flowers earlier this week. The arrangement didn’t turn out as “lovely” as I imagined but it’s a little something pretty. What’s not pretty about flowers, right?