ok, I've done it!! I've weighed the chances of a crazy finding my kids to the annoyance of having a protected blog and both spencer and I have decided that it's not a bad thing to have an open blog. I'm not even going to change my childrens names.

1/2 way there

I'm tootn' along

Ok I really didnt need this today, but I clicked on the Raspberry patch blog and then the first digital freebie and started reading down this lady's blog and she has been collecting money and stuff for her friend who has a baby daughter with cancer and her oldest son has down syndrome ... can you believe what some people's trials are. she has a quote from Mother Teresa that I thought I'd post

"I know God will not give me more than I can bear, I just wish He didn't trust me so much." -Mother Teresa

http://www.famofcookies.blogspot.com/

Ok, well I have totally been sick, honestly thought I would die Sunday night. Until yesterday I thought I just had the flu because my body ached and I had thrown up 6 times, but I went to the dr and I just have a really bad case of Strep throat. Let me tell you ... I have never been sicker in my entire life!!! strep sucks and has played havoc on my new years resolutions, except for my diet thing. I set a two week goal to lose 5 lbs and I'm into it a 1/2 week and I've already lost 5 lbs so I'm doing pretty well :)
I'm working on a digital book, the kind that shutterfly prints out of Ethan and Mason's first year. I'm still going to do their scrapbook scrapbook, but I thought at least I would have a hard bound book of their first years completed. so I'll start posting those pages.

This is the January page of the family calendar I did for the Bellamy Family. I loved how it turned out and thought I'd post it