These pages were done using the Studio J from Close To My Heart!  You can get pages done so much faster...which helps when you are so far behind.  But I still enjoy cutting and pasting with the traditional scrapbooking.

More pictures to come soon....

Life is short....enjoy every moment...and scrap them to enjoy them over and over again!  ; )

Life changes

Wow!  I can't believe how long it has been since I blogged.  My life has changed drastically!  I have had two surgeries, my two daughters have gotten married!  Life has been FULL of CHANGES!  I have tried to scrapbook all of these life changing events...
After we got home from going to Arizona May a year ago, I started on a life changing journey to change my life and the direction that I was going in....I decided, after alot of research, to have Bariatric Surgery.  On June 16th 2011, I had the Roux-en-y Gastric ByPass surgery.  It completely got rid of my diabetes.  It has been a struggle to learn how to eat again, but at the passing of the complete year I have lost 88 pounds!!

While losing this weight, my dear husband decided that we needed to go on the Virginia Creeper Trail (an old railroad trail that has been turned into a trail for walkers, bike riders, and horseback riding).  We road bikes (the first time I have been on bike in over 25 years!  I had fun until I wiped out coming off of a train tressel and tore my rotator cuff.   So in October I had surgery for a rotator cuff! 

In December, one of my twins became engaged while she was in Guam visiting her boyfriend stationed in the Navy there.  Also, in December, on the 30th, my other twin daughter was here, she had been living in San Fransico, and her boyfriend from Wales came to visit for Christmas and they eloped!!

All of 2012 has been planning the wedding of my dear daughter that was engaged.  She returned to Hawaii in February to be with her intended while his sub was in dry dock in Pearl Harbor.  They both flew home on the 22nd of June and were married on the 28th of June.  They left to go back to Hawaii on the 5th of July!  So this has been my roller coaster of a year since I last blogged.

I will have you know that I did indeed dance at my daughter's wedding!  I have many, many pictures to scrapbook.  I have been doing a little here and there.  I am going to try to post some that I have done to show you I have been "crafty".  I am planning on posting more regularly here.  My life will settle down some now!

Sedona, AZ

on the Pink Jeep tour!!

At the Painted Desert

At the Grand Canyon

June 2, 2011

Well, it is so hard to believe that this time last month I was in the great state of Arizona! Wow! It is so different from NC. I loved the Grand Canyon!!! It was breath-taking!! Pictures are beautiful, but nothing like seeing it's beauty with your own eyes!!

While out there we also went to the Petrified Forest and the Painted Desert! Absolutely beautiful there too. We also visited Sedona. Such a beautiful place too! I highly recommend if you go there, take the Pink Jeep Tour!! We went "off roading" and it was wonderful!!

While in the Phoenix area I went to the Museum of International Music. This was wonderful too. If you are a music person or a history person...great trip. I wore these earphones and when you would get in front of a particular area, you would hear and see this area of the world and their music. I "traveled" around the world and enjoyed their music!

Back in NC and trying to get caught up. I took soooooo many pictures it will take forever to get them all scrapbooked....but I will definitely have fun trying!!

April 4, 2011

WOW, I can't believe that it is already April!! My daughters are going to be 25 this month! Where does the time go?? (I know everyone says that, but it is true) I had a great weekend at Myrtle Beach on March 23-27th! Courtney and I just kept scrapping the whole time....except to eat and sleep! I was really excited about what I got accomplished. I got 64 pages done for the whole crop. I was sooooo pleased. Since I have been back home, I have had a lot of work to make up, so I haven't been able to post this before now. Hopefully I will get some pictures up soon of some of my pages! Take care and remember to cherish each and every moment with those you love before time slips away!