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As the year comes to an end I have decided to take a moment and reflect on the past year.  I’ve tried do keep this blog updated this year so you have probably already read about our highlights, so I’m sorry if this is boring but I’ll try to cover things that I haven’t already covered. Let me start with the baby, Alex.  Al is 17 and a senior at Arts West (a private art school in Eagle, ID).  This is his second year there and although he is struggling a little bit with Senioritis, I think he is still enjoying it.  There for a while he was living with a friend in Eagle so that he would be closer to school, but we finally resolved the car situation and he now has his own transportation, so he’s back home with us.  Not sure what he plans are for college yet but we are just being happy with the small success, such as graduating from high school.  He helped his grandparent this summer with their shaved ice shacks, working events and helping grandpa make sugar wa...

Dana’s sister Laura is undergoing treatment for breast cancer and to show support for her Dana decide to shave his head. Take a look: We Love you Laura and are praying for you to get well soon. Love you all ~~ Mitzi

Here is a little family update.  Alex moved back home in November.  Yah!!!!  Once we were able to get him his own transportation he decided that the living situation wasn’t the best and that he wanted to come home.  At this point we are trying really hard to get him through this senior year and get him graduated.  Here is a picture of him that I found on Art’s West website that was taken at retreat at the start of the school year.  Those of you know Alex, know that he evades the camera, so I take the pictures that I can get when I can get them. Love ya All…. Mitzi

I was playing around learning Photoshop with Avery’s picture, so I thought I would share them. Click on the picture to see a bigger, better picture. It was fun, but nothing in Photoshop is a quick and easy as it appears. Love ya ALL… Mitzi  

Jessie wanted me to take family pictures for her again this year, so we went out today and shot a few.  Here are some of my favorites. I’m available if anyone ever wants me to do there family.  Love, Mitzi

Here is my Halloween wreath.  I like how it turned out and it was super easy.  I have enough burlap and fabric to make another, so I might have to pick up another ring. Love you all ~~ Mitzi

  These two little guys came to visit at work today.  I so wanted to take one of them home.  The are Pomeranian and Chihuahua. So Cute~  Just worried that Mia might think that it’s a snack.   I’m still thinking about it. Love you All ~~Mitzi

This summer when we were in California for Bri’s wedding, Terri and I fumble the hand off of my small pocket camera and it took a tumble on the railroad tracks at the train museum.  Which it apparently didn’t like because now it just complains when you turn it one.  I’m going to have to buy a new one soon. WHAT, you say, has this got to do with the Women’s Fitness Celebration????  Well, only that I didn’t want to take my big camera on the walk so we don’t have any pictures of us at the walk.  I did spend about an hour looking through all the bazillion of pictures that the Idaho Statesman took to see if I could find us but I didn’t find a single one. Therefore, I decided to just make my own.  Here it is, the 4 of us walking in the Women’s Fitness Celebration.    This has become a tradition for us each year, but this year we had some “wimp outs”.  {Shawna, Sharlene, Cheryl, you know who you are……} I drove out to the mall to meet up with Salena a...

I”m having some fun with my Silhouette machine.  Made a new key rack to hang by the door for the car keys.  It’s sooooo fun.  Just wish I had more time to do things with it.   Love you all ~~ Mitzi

YUMMMMMMMMMMMMM my favorite!!!!! We had a ladies craft night at Salena’s last Wednesday night.  There was Jessie, Shawna, Sharlene, Cheryl, Marcie, a friend of Salena’s, Salena and myself {of course} were all there to start getting into the holiday season.  We made these darling “Count down to Candy” advent blocks.  It was a very fun evening. Here are some pictures of mine. I deviated a little from some of the others.  I decided to antique my block with Charcoal instead of brown.  Just because Halloween is kind of dark.  Also, I felt that the white numbers weren’t standing our enough, so I outlined them with the Sharpie {My favorite pen}. {Pictures are kind of dark, I need to work on my indoor camera skills.  I have light issues}   Love you all ~~ Mitzi

I completed my first project with my Silhouette…….  I had a boring glass jar that I was using for a cookie jar, so I thought I would dress it a little……… {Sorry about the glare from the flash} Those of you who are fans of How Does She? will recognize my spin off of one of there ides.  I just love all of the great ideas…… OHHHH, what to do next!?!  So many choices.  Keep checking back for more updates. :) Love you all ~~ Mitzi

IT’S HERE…………… You should have seen me looking out the window every 5 minutes watching for the UPS man. {I missed him yesterday that’s how I knew it was coming.} Silly me, I didn’t order any colored vinyl. I got the white and the two heat transfer rolls that came with it but no other rolls. Does anyone know if you can buy the rolls local? I did get is setup and but a some letters and a flower out of card stock. OH BOY!!!!!! I’m just so excite I don’t know what to do first. :P Love you all ~~ Mitzi

Here is the final vinyl project that I’ve been working on.  I took the frameless picture idea for How Does She website and the “Family is:” wall display, merged the two ideas into one of my own. I’m really excited about it because I can easily change out the pictures and they can be pictures of all sizes (even though I have all 4x’s up now).  The pictures are held on by magnets that I made for Fall, which means I can change them out for different season.  I can use it for displaying Christmas cards over the holiday.  I think it turned out really cute.  I have it in the hallway so it was hard to take the pictures, but it you click on the picture you will see a larger version.   It was fun to make and I LOVE IT!!!! Love you all ~~ Mitzi

The Balloon rally was this weekend.  I woke up at about 6:40 and decide to run over to Cresent Rim to take pictures.  I was sure that I was late enough that I wouldn’t be able to find a parking place. To my surprise I was ahead of the crowd.  I found an easy place to park and a short walk to the rim.  This was the jets that did the fly by to start the Rally. Here are they are starting to take off.   And they’re off…. View of the whole field starting to go. Caught this picture from my car when I was getting in it to leave. I decided to keep my camera turned on and out on the passenger set as I drove home.  It paid off.  This balloon was sitting in the middle of rode when I got to the light at Protest Hill and Boise Ave. This one was by the old fire station on the corner of Boise Ave and Broadway. I got a lot more pictures, so to view them all, go to my Share site to view them.   Click here to go to Mitz Picz Love you a...

It's been ordered. YAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH!!!! This is me screaming... I'm soooooo excited............ Love you all ~~Mitzi

My winnings.............. I entered in a drawing on How Does She and won $98 worth of colored twine from the Twinery and it came today. Look at how much I got. I'm going to get my creative juices going and come up with a project to use it on. If anyone need some for a project or have any ideas just let me know. I'll share. I think I have a lifetime supply. :) I'm just so excited. Love you all ~~Mitzi

We lost very special person this week. Dana's Mom Gerry Keyes Lewis lost her battle with cancer this week. This picture was take last June at Tori's Graduation party. We are going to miss her but we know that she is in a much happy place enjoy the company of God and all of her family that as preceded her. Just want to say, "We love you, Grandma Gerry". Love you all ~~Mitzi

I finally got my vinyl lettering, so I could complete a couple of projects that I started. This one is a prototype for some Christmas presents I'm going to make for Tori to give to her sorority sisters. I left it for here to put pictures of her sisters in it. I think it turned out very cute. Close up of the lettering. "Alpha Chi Omega Sisters". This one also turned out very cute. I like that you can change out the pictures very easily. I have one more project to finish. I'll post it as soon as it's done. I'm excited to buy myself a Silhouette machine. That is my plan for my Fair money. :) Love you all ~~Mitzi

I know it hard to tell from this picture but he is pretty excited to have gotten his license. When I ask him how come I couldn't get a smile from him for this picture. He showed me the picture on his drivers license and said, "That's enough of a smile for any picture!.............. Now we just have to find him a car. Any one have a cheap beater of a car?!? Love you all ~~Mitzi

On July 29th, Tori and I had the amazing pleasure to go see Lady Antebellum and Tim McGraw concert. Tori took the camera but she didn't make sure the battery was charged, so all we had were our phones. As you can see we got more backlight than Tim. He's there.............. Either way both group were awesome. We had a great time. Love you all ~~Mitzi

...even if they are raccoons. When we were in Lake Tahoe on Friday evening we took Zach and Hunter over to the pool about 9:30 pm. While they were swimming we noticed thew two baby raccoons running around the stairs that leads to the pool. All I had with me was my phone, so they are the best pictures. If you look closely right in the center of this picture you can see the two of them. In the picture below the baby is running in front of the steps just left of the tree. This one is a little better, he is on the second step from the bottom. See how little he is. He wasn't very old. Love you all ~~Mitzi