elizabethmccoy

Mommy completed another scrapbook page for my scrapbook:


Layout designed using a picture dh took of us
in the mountains a weekend or 2 ago. I just LOVE LOVE LOVE getting
kisses from ds and he loves giving them.



I love how Marcee Duggar's Kristee Page Kit is just soo pretty and a bit bohemian worked great for this picture recolored in sepia. I like how it seems a bit vintage.



I used DSP Liz font (available Nov 07 Club Digital) and American Typewriter

We sold the big brown recliner which is a tremendous blessing! We now have a big beautiful empty spot in our living room!!! We both just want to dance around in it :) We just have to get a few more things out of that space like the piano (hopefully next weekend). And then we're ready to rearrange and get that room organized!!!

Yippie! Woo Hoo!!

We had a wonderful dinner at a family friends house. The chef made such an AWESOME table of food. We had a great time sharing things we're thankful for since last thanksgiving. At fellowship on tuesday we went through bible verses focusing on Thankfulness, Thanksgiving, Giving Thanks. I thoroughly enjoyed the sharing and it really put my mind in a thankful state to praise God for all he does for us!

Hope you all had a great thanksgiving too!!

I started falling asleep on Saturday around 8:30 and went to bed early. I woke up early b/c ds is an alarm clock for 6:00 am. The plan for the day was to go up to Tallulah Gorge State Park in the North Georgia Mountains. In order for us to go we needed to leave by 9am to get there for our branch meeting at 11am. I wasn't sure if I wanted to go b/c I was sooo tired but I didn't want to miss anything either. So I decided to go and I am so glad I went the colors in the mountains were AWESOME. Jack loved being outside and walking the trail he walked the whole time and for not having his morning nap we were all amazed. He had a meltdown during the meeting he was sooo tired he didn't know what he wanted just to scream and cry.

We spent the whole day up there and started heading back home around 4-4:30 he didn't sleep on the way home but did take a 45 minute nap while we went to our favorite craft co-op. I wanted to go there b/c I knew they had some wood toys made in the USA. I found a few even got one for my MIL to give him. I just have a hard time asking for toys which could be recalled any minute. I also am having a hard time buying made in china stuff in general. I told the shop worker they should have a big sign out front advertising their lead free toys!!

I finally decided what would be on Jack's xmas list...PUZZLES I picked out some wooden puzzles by melissa & doug who assures their customers their products are completely lead free. We are also starting a 529 plan for Jack and are asking if you have to get him more than a puzzle then give him $$ in savings bonds or college savings.

It is going to be a simple holiday in our household this year...NO EXCESS...I think that is going to be my moto for a while.

Sunday night we stopped at grandma's house for some homemade pizza for dinner then we went home and crashed and went to bed early again....onto monday

I had a crazy busy weekend. It went by way too fast. I'm going to take the next couple of posts to get it all on here.


Saturday all day I had photography sessions at the park. Things went well and the photos turned out good. I was pleased...and I think the clients were too. It was my first time taking kid shots. I learned a TON!!! The main thing was that with kids a 30 minute session does NOT work. For families with young kids we need an hour session so I will be adjusting things in the future. I had 2 bookings cancel due to sick kids so that opened the schedule nicely. The colors of the leaves were AMAZING this past weekend which just made the pictures PERFECT!!!

Here are some of my favorite shots over the 2 weekends:







Mean while DS was at home with Daddy and on his 2 day of diarrhea poopie diapers everytime we turned around. He also had a birthday party that afternoon which I made it home on a break to take him to it. It was SOOOO cold on saturday and the party was outside in a shaded back yard which made it even colder. I stayed for awhile and he and grandma stayed for a while longer then went home.

We're really getting into purging and decluttering our home. I've started selling a few things online and hope to see some quick sales.

http://www.elm-designs.com/mccoyhome/sale.htm

It's nice to try and get a little cash flow too.

I really really want to clear out the house as quickly as I can. We've finally got a solution to the piano issue and expect it to leave the house on Dec 1. My next area to work on is my serving dishes and cake plates. My dad is wanting to have a garage sale before the spring...If we have any more great days like this past weekend that might actually happen....but not sure when the weekends are filling up.

Here is a scary little cartoon for you.

I love plaxo as an online address book manager. I don't really care for all the new social networking apps b/c I have to many of those already. But I've been a premium member for a while and you may have received one of my cards.

They've offered since I've been a prem member to de-dupe (remove duplicate address book entries). That has been really nice to use but it was limited to just to one folder of contacts and I have my separated into like 8 folders. I went to check things out the other day and went to de-dupe my contacts and I was soooo surprised and excited to see that you can now de-dupe contacts between folders. I had over 200 duplicates which were combined!!!

I just love finding that apps have added new features that actually solve my specific problems. Can't wait to see what happens next.

Well our first organizing session was yesterday morning. I feel like it went really well. Elaine gave me some really great direction on where to take our mounds and mounds of filing. We pretty much discussed the direction of the Living Room and a couple of pieces of furniture will need to be removed. I also got homework to finish up the paperwork sorting it. We ended up with a large box of shred which was awesome more than I thought b/c we had just gone through most of it a couple months ago when we emptied the office.

We've separated the long-term storage and the current items. The long-term will be stored in the file cabinet in the garage. The current things will be stored in a 2-drawer file cabinet with a small desk either in the Living room or the Kitchen.

Ken and I both like the idea of the desk in the kitchen there is a nice place for it where the china cabinet is. We maybe returning the China cabinet to my in-laws around Christmas time. We'll see. It could also move into the livingroom.

The living room will still continue to be the playroom for Jack and a seating area. I hope to get the home work done quickly so we can have our next session soon. Of course next week is Thanksgiving so I'm not sure if we'll have another session or not.

But over all I think it was a success. Things are magically happening like on the TV shows but they are moving forward and I am in 100 times better shape than I was 2 days ago.

God is Great he really knows my heart's desire to take care of these items so that I can be a better woman, wife, and mother for Him.

Love ya!

Well last night we sold the computer armoire to a buyer I had been going back and forth with on voicemail. We finally got a pick up date scheduled for last night around 7:30. At this point he still had not seen the piece in person just pictures online. But he came by and loved it and paid us exactly what we were asking which was great to get that large piece out of the garage it really opens up a space for me to work on the garage sale/donate items i want to put together.

Next I'm going to get the brown leather recliner out there on craigslist to try and get that sold quickly. Of course the truck is still for sale :). And i'm hoping and praying to get the piano out of here by xmas time.

Well I've finally have set a date with Elaine (my organizer) to get started working on my house!!! Yippie....i've just been busy and haven't had a moment to get with mom and see when she can babysit. So i'll have to take pictures so I can document this. Just making the commitment to hire a professional has been a tremendous weight lifted off my shoulders.

Now to get the piano, computer armoire, and huge leather recliner out of the house and the truck out of the driveway....oooh i'm so excited!!!