Baking Spirits Bright - Two Page Scrapbook Layou

 Baking cookies together is one of our favorite traditions. Each year our tribe gets even more creative and enjoys creating their tray of masterpieces together. Even the grands did such a great job. The cookies turn out beautifully.

We made cookies together yesterday, but these pics feature our cookie making from 2018. 

This was the first time making cookies in our new home. What a joy to have an island with space to spread out. Our oldest son's family brought their new puppy, so he added to the cuteness factor! The middle bottom picture (above) is my granddaughter seeing the brownie roll out cookie dough for the first time! Priceless reaction!!

Our family brings us such joy!! I'm so glad that they live within a 20 minute radius and we are able to hang out together about once a week! We are blessed! I know many grandparents are separated by such distances. It may not always be this way, so we treasure the time together.

Thanks for stopping by my blog today and checking out my Christmas layouts. I have a few more to share this week. Hope your week leading up to the celebration of our Savior's birth is blessed and safe.

Egg Masters - Two Page Easter Layout

We went to the most wonderful Good Friday service this morning. Believe it or not, it was a drive in style service at my place of employment! Great music and an absolutely wonderful message given by one of our employees. There was lots of whooping and honking when it was over. What a great way to start our day, focused on how Christ loved us so much that he gave his life for each of us! There were some dark days before he rose from the dead! But, now we can rejoice knowing that Easter is coming!!

Here's an Easter layout from 2017. This is my son and daughter-in-law coloring eggs in the kitchen at our old house.

 These two get super creative with their egg decorating. It's fun to watch them. I got a little creative with my paper choices for this page!! There is a lot going on here...lol. As I look back at this, I might have changed a few things, but that's okay. I'm not going to change it. It's done and the memory is preserved. The mission was still accomplished.

 I love the two little scalloped flower clips on the title. It doesn't lay very flat in the album, but it will continue to flatten out over the years.😆 The red rick-rack is like masking tape and is so quick and easy to put down on a page. It's very forgiving and pulls up easy if you need to adjust it.

I hope that you have a very meaningful Good Friday, even though you may not be able to celebrate the way you have in the past. It will be different, but I know that God is working all things for our good and His glory. Stay strong and stay safe! If you have a chance come back for another Easter post on Sunday.

Two Page Scrapbook Layout - "Roll Out the Red Carpet"

Here's another layout from the fun travel conference I attended in Houston a few years back. One of the evening events was in the George Brown Convention Center across the street. It was a bit of a walk, but they sure made the walk interesting!

 The lady in red was singing opera. Her gown came down into a red carpet for photos with her. The lady in white was silent, but used her hoop to do all kinds of graceful moves.

 The also had a band similar to "Stomp" that  was mainly percussion. They seemed to appear out of nowhere with very little set up. They were really entertaining as they beat on their garbage cans and pots!

Thanks for stopping by my blog today. Stay warm!!

Two Page Scrapbook Layout - "Our Home for the Holidays"

I still have a few Christmas layouts to share with you.

 I apparently forgot to add the date on here. There's no journaling, because it's pretty obvious the pictures are of our (previous) home decorated for the holidays. I believe this was 2016. At this point, we had purchased our lot and were trying to finalize our home plans for our dream home to be built in the following year. This was our final year of fully decorating that home for Christmas.

 We sure did love our old home in so many ways, but we were also very excited about the fact we were in the process of making our dream home a reality...finally. We had 28 years of memories in this, our first home. Our tiny dining room was bursting at the seams now that our oldest boy has a family of four and our youngest was at that time engaged (now married). Even though it was tiny, we managed and always seemed to make it special for everybody.

We tried to make it a place where everybody was comfortable with a little bit of magical ambiance. Now that we are in our new home, I look back at these pictures and it's bittersweet. Love all of the memories that I'm preserving with my scrapbooks. But I also LOVE making all the new memories in our new home. Two days from now we will have been in our new place for a full year, completing the full year of holidays and memory making in our new home. We are so thankful and blessed to have a little more room for our growing family to enjoy when they come for family dinner each week and especially for all the holiday meals. We are truly blessed to fulfill our LONG time dream of building. For a little taste of our new home (before we moved in), you'll have to come back tomorrow for a sneak preview layout!

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