Happy Anniversary to my WONDERFUL Hubby!

Posted by Liz McCoy Saturday, August 30, 2008 View Comments

Today is our 5 year anniversary. Happy Anniversary It still feels like yesterday we were talking about getting married.  We knew 3 months after we started dating that we were going to be married one day. 

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Layout completed right after our wedding one of my first layouts ever!!!

We started dating 8 years ago in September. After all these years I still love him as much as I did the day we got married.  What a wonderful man of God, husband and father!  I am so blessed to get to spend the rest of my life with this man.

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We are so thankful to have such a wonderful life, a wonderful marriage, and a wonderful little boy!!!!!!!! I love you honey…and happy anniversary!!!!!!!! 

How to use the Mouse with Grover

Posted by Liz McCoy Wednesday, August 27, 2008 View Comments

Thought I’d pass this along.  A friend of mine John C. is a computer teacher in Mexico and he and some friends put together this video to help teach the young children how to use the computer mouse.

Be sure to check out his blog and leave him some love…this video is GREAT!!!

LINK TO JOHN’S BLOG

Okay guys...I'm loving this one it is TOTALLY out of my comfort zone ( I didn't use a quick click HAHA) But I'm really loving how this is turning out. On Saturday Elizabeth Weaver, shared with us GA Croppers a kit that she's yet to release and I just FELL IN LOVE with it. Especially how beautifully the bkgrnds worked together while playing with the blending modes. The Kit is called Runaway Dream look for it soon in the DSP Store!!!

I also used Lauren Bavin's Custom Chipboard Alpha Simple, and Irene's Rhinestone Doodles. I am on such a ROLL!!!

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UPDATE: Runaway Dream is in the store NOW!! Check it out:

http://store.digitalscrapbookplace.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=8759

Blessed with Rain

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We've been abundantly blessed so far with all this rain from the hurricanes & tropical storms.  You may or may not know that Georgia has been in a drought for the last 8-10 years.  The last 2 years have been pretty serious!!!  Lots of water conservation and not watering lawns washing cars etc.  We've been blessed to have been receiving a bunch of rain the last 3 days from all the storms in the gulf and carribbean. 
One of our main resources for drinking water is Lake Lanier & the Chattahoochee they have been very very low as of late.
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Perilously low water levels in Lake Lanier Reservoir north of Atlanta is threatening the metro area's water supply.

Chattahoochie in Helen, GA (This is the river we just went tubing on a few weeks ago)
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This is most likely on the "long run" that the tubing company offers.  We've only done that once in the 10 years we've been going to helen to tube.  b/c the water is soo low you have to walk your tube most of the way.

So I wanted to let you know that Lake Lanier has already gone up a 1/2 a foot as of yesterday from all the rain.  And here are pictures of the Chattahoochee river in Helen:
http://www.wsbtv.com/slideshow/news/17302398/detail.html

Here was the about state of the river when we were going down:  You will see from the slide show that the water is really high and no rocks are showing.  Also you'll see a bridge and the water is almost to the bottom of the bridge.  We go under that bridge!!! WOWZERS!!! 
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Tubing on the Chattahoochee

Cropping

Posted by Liz McCoy Saturday, August 23, 2008 View Comments

We're here scrapping and chatting!!

Wish you were here!
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Thanks are in order

Posted by Liz McCoy Friday, August 22, 2008 View Comments

Just wanted to publicly thank Kim Liddiard for her wonderful (and speedy) design work on the new logo for the mom’s group I organize at Meetup.com

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Is this awesome or what?!?!?!  Kim is so giving and I greatly appreciate her inspired design for us!!  Oh yeah it looks awesome on a t-shirt too!  Meetup.com does offer a shop for each group too… so who knows!

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Here is her website: www.thecreativepixel.com  she shares lots photography and digital scrapbooking, and life posts at her blog.  She has a heart of giving and that just makes her a WONDERFUL person!!

(can you tell I thinks she ROCKS!)

 

Well if you’re looking for a mom’s group in duluth, ga feel free to join us over at meetup.com  Here is our site address: http://moms.meetup.com/2428/

 

Oh yeah and I've received lots of great posts in regards to my comments post.  I hope to do a follow up post soon.

 

Thanks for reading!!!

HAHA This is the message I just received while posting on a friends blog this morning.

I am a big commenter on people's blog posts. I try to comment on all or most posts I read on friends blogs. It is part of my life motto right now of investing in people. Which is to take time and invest (or give of) my time, life, etc into others. To me that being a better friend.

Sometimes I think hmmm maybe I should slow down and wait for more reciprocation before continuing to comment on everyone else's blogs. That is what I've been thinking about for the last few weeks.

My family did tell me at the reunion that they do read and appreciate getting know what is going on even though they don't email or comment. That made me feel better and helped me see that it is worth it still.

I don't get too many comments on my blog posts but I do very much enjoy reading the ones I get. I like the comments because it starts a dialog between my one sided posts and the people who are reading them. Is it an ego thing??? Hmmm...why are comments soo special???

I have a few questions for you:

Do you read other blogs?
Do you ever comment??
What types of posts make you comment??

Are there any kind of posts you want to see more of on my blog??

I look forward to hearing from you.

Oh and FYI you DO NOT have to register any where to make comments on my blog.

I'm on a ROLL!! I got 3 yes 3!!!! Digi Pages done last night (and also my ATC) and I was able to get 7 pages done with his birthday cards on them. WOOT WOOT.

I still want to do a couple more pages 1 of the food (we catered a yummy meal from a friends restaurant), one of the little kiddo guests (there weren't many) then one of the singing happy birthday. The 1st birthday album will be 20 pages double sided! HAHAHA....with 300 pictures it ought to be big :)



It will be sooo nice to actually have a scrapbook complete! Then I need to move onto his 2nd birthday party YIKES! I need to catch up :). Jack already LOVES looking at all the pictures he'll see himself, point and say Jack-a-mo!





CLICK HERE TO SEE THIS LAYOUT IN MY DSP GALLERY






CLICK HERE TO SEE THIS LAYOUT IN MY DSP GALLERY





This is the invitation page the invite was a little booklet with photos of Jack throughout his first year narrated by a little poem noting his first year accomplishments. You can see below how it looks once the invite was attached.






These are pictures of the "completed" book. Still have a little bit left to do. As you can see some pages have a blank spot. Those were the "guestbook" pages that each guest wrote a sentiment and they could color/decorate the page anyway they wanted. I took their picture to put on the page. I need to get the pictures printed and stuck onto the pages. This picture also illustrates how I scrapped his birthday cards. I just used coordinating papers and xyron'd them onto the paper. I plan t add a bit more embellishment to the pages. I was thinking a big graphic arrow with the name of the person who signed the card. There are 7 pages of cards so far. I think I have a few more cards from his 1st birthday around the house some where.






MORE 1ST BIRTHDAY LAYOUTS:

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Jack's B'day - King for the Day




My Cousin Tina!

Posted by Liz McCoy Thursday, August 21, 2008 View Comments

This is my cousin Tina and her son Adam. 

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Here we are together:

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Photo Credit: Adam C. (tina’s son) snagged from Tina’s blog

What a treat to get to chat in real life HEHEHE.  I know Tina so much better after keeping up with her blog.  Do you subscribe or read any family members blogs??? Do you feel like you get to know them better through their blogs???

WooHoo! I made $0.03 so far.

Posted by Liz McCoy Wednesday, August 20, 2008 View Comments

Um...if you haven't noticed I have now added ads to my blog. Right now I'm not seeing any kind of benefit to having them there. I have made all of 3 cents! WOW!

So if you feel so inclined feel free to check out the ads on my blog. Maybe after a few months I'll make $1.00 HAHAHAHA

THANKS!!!

We stayed Sunday Night at my mom’s sister Rosie’s house. She and her husband live on his families’ farm. It is a BEAUTIFUL farm and here are a few pictures I took (the ones of me Tori took). This summer they had their son’s wedding here. I saw pictures and they were spectacular!!! It really would be a GORGEOUS place to have a wedding. Their house is BEAUTIFUL too…aunt rosie just got a brand new food network looking kitchen.

Anywhoo…more photos to come!

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Home and exhausted

Posted by Liz McCoy Tuesday, August 19, 2008 View Comments

We made it to grandma's house aroung 7pm last night not bad really it met our goal we set when we left on Friday.

Jack had a rough night last night he woke up at 2am and didn't go back to sleep until 5. I of course tried to watch tv with him while he got sleepy again but I just half slept. I went back to bed when he did. Then the garbage truck woke him up at 8:30 and he woke me up then too.

He has been begging/crying for dr. Deb our chiropractor since yesterday. But today is Tuesday and they don't open until 3:30 so we had to wait.

We're here finally at the chiropractor's office to get adjusted.
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Almost there

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We're almost home!! And traffic is of course SLOWING us down! Jack had a melt down after 13 hours in the car.
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Stretch break

Posted by Liz McCoy Monday, August 18, 2008 View Comments

Stopped right before lexington at a rest stop
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We're on the road again. This time we are heading home. We had a great time in Ohio.
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All done :(

Posted by Liz McCoy Sunday, August 17, 2008 View Comments

What a fun afternoon spent with family.
We played and talked and played and talked. Oh yeah and swam and swam and swam.
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Family reunion

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We made it!
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After we made it to aunt marianne's and uncle jim's we got to visit with aunt barb, cousin Jeremy, cousin becca and her hubby cody, delia, colton, aunt marianne, and uncle jim.

We had yummy dinner and celebrated jack and delia's 2nd birthday with cake and presents. What a treat!!

The kiddos (and adults) had fun playing with the toys.

We all went to bed early (9:30 pm)

We are going to hang out a bit this morning the we're off to our next stop: Norwalk for the family reunion.

Hugs! Liz
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So we had 5 minutes before we get to aunt marianne's and the train crossing started dinging, the arms went down, and we we're stuck behind a train. It wasn't too big of a train but there we were.

Jack made the most of is and made train noises.
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Lunch

Posted by Liz McCoy Saturday, August 16, 2008 View Comments

We stopped at chipotle just north of cincinnati and a stretch break.

We're getting alittle restless trying to make it to columbus to our aunt and uncle's house. I we're soo close but still a good bit away.

I hope jack's second cousin delia is still up for playing when we finally get there.

Anywho....catch you at the next stop.
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Stretch break

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We stopped in corbin kentucky to stretch and stop at the christian bookstore and outlet.

I got jack a couple of cute shirts and jessie got a bat and ball so jack loved hitting
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And we're off... We're looking forward to a great day on the road!
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Made it to the hotel

Posted by Liz McCoy Friday, August 15, 2008 View Comments

We made it to the pool that we had been promising jack since we left.

The pool was very tiny but very nice. The whole hotel is brand new. We all went swimming and enjoyed the hot tub.
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