Happy New Year!!

Wishing you all a Happy and Healthy 2008!!

We are spending New Year's Eve and New Years Day here at home as George and I have colds. I also have a burned left hand. Burned it this afternoon with boiling water that was meant for my tea. I missed the mug in which I was pouring it into, as I sneezed and moved. Stupid me!! Well, I sure hope 2008 begins better then how 2007 is ending.

Christmas Came and Went

Hope everyone had a very Merry Christmas with your families and friends. We had fun with Briana, Santa gave her lots of cool stuff. The only bad thing that happened was that Briana broke my floor torchiere lamp.

Christmas Eve-Our House





Christmas Morning

Her two favorite gifts.......Her kitchen and her Barbie Guitar.




Thanks for stopping by. {HUGS}

Wishing you a Merry Christmas

I hope you enjoy your day with your family and friends

What a Fun Day

Yesterday we took Briana to see Santa. At first she was scared, would not let go of her daddy. Somehow after about 10 minutes, George convinced her to sit with Santa. I do not know what he whispered to her, but it worked and here is the end result. I just love the picture.

Then when we got home from all the shopping. we started to do our first Gingerbread house. Briana had a lot of fun, I just let her decorate it anyway she wanted.

Here are some pictures.

Thank you for visiting my little pad. {HUGS}

Happy Birthday To Me

Yup today is my Birthday, I turn 38 today. I am getting closer and closer to 40. I am just glad that at this age I am very healthy and I feel good. Briana thought it was all about her, she wanted to blow out the candles from the cake my mother in law did and open my presents. I had
a lot of fun today.

George gave me just an awesome present, I don't think I could ever top this gift in a million years. He found my family 8mm films from when my brothers and I were just tiny little ones, these films are at least over 40 years old. He took them to get them transferred into a DVD. I was blown away, I have not seen these films since I was a little girl. I remember my parents would play these when we were small, we would all sit down in the den floor and just watch them all night. What I did not remember was how goofy my parents were, I just laughing and crying at the same time.Oh yeah! They were such party goers...LOL! They party a lot. I really miss my mom and I am so glad to see this DVD. I have watched it 4 times already. We are going to make copies for my brothers and give it to them on Christmas.

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Miss Briana

I've been wanting to take pictures of Briana to send out to our families and friends that are out of state and to those who have not seen her in awhile. Yesterday, Briana wanted to wear a dress and she picked the one she wanted. So I decided we should take some pictures, she said okay. We went outside and she was just being a witch, she would just run all over the yard and pose whenever she wanted. I took 20 shots and these are the only ones that are okay looking.

I am going to try again or Do you think one of these is fine to send? Which one do you like???





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It's Almost Christmas

It's beginning to look like Christmas around the Heredia household. The tree is up, the indoor decorations are put up. We are behind in buying presents and sending out our cards, as George and I have been terribly sick and we are just feeling like us again. I thank god Briana has not gotten as sick as we were. I will be doing some Christmas shopping this week. I have to do a list of everyone and just head out to the stores and buy everything in one day. I have done this before, but not with a toddler, so we will see how this goes.

Here are some pictures of our Christmas Tree.

**have been practicing how to take better photos of Christmas lights and such. Hopefully I can take better pictures on Christmas Eve.

Hope everyone is doing well. Thanks for visiting me.

National Children's Memorial Day

Today is National Children's Memorial Day. That occurs on the second Sunday of December each year. It's an important day in my calendar, because I lost my baby boy-Adrian Michael Heredia on November 17, 2002.

On Sunday, The Compassionate Friends (a global organization of bereaved parents, families, and friends) holds a Worldwide Candle Lighting vigil. It's a pretty neat concept. In each time zone around the world, at 7:00 PM your local time, candles are lit. Then, an hour later, they are extinguished as more candles alight in the next time zone. In this manner, the light travels around the world, all in memory of children who have left our sides too early.

Please light a candle this Sunday evening for the families who have lost children

Campassionate Friends



Thank you so much.

ScrapFreak Blog Challenge

What are your...

5 favorite paper manufacturers?
Scenic Route
Basic Grey
Doodle Bug
3 Bugs in a Rug
American Crafts

4 favorite things to scrap?
Briana (Daughter)
George (Husband)
Home Life
Family

3 favorite techniques?
Stamping
Tearing
Inking

2 favorite trends of the moment?
Chipboard Albums
Rub-ons

1 favorite reason to scrapbook?
I scrap for my family, my children, grand-children. So they can see how we grow up and see all the world changes year after year. It's also an escape for me. I enjoy the peacefulness it gives me.

Thanks for visiting my little pad. {HUGS}

Can't Believe It!!

I am still sick....it's been a week since I was feeling sick, oh how time passes by. I went to the doctor on Thursday (11/29/07) and she gave me some strong medications and I am still feeling sick. I have yet to finish the antibiotics she gave me, but I still feel awful.

This is the Doctors diagnosis:

Medical Term:

Pharyngitis (Sore Throat)
Lymphadenopathy (Swollen glands)
AOM-Effusion (Middle ear infection/fluid in the ears)


I so want to get better fast, I want to get into the Christmas spirit, but just can't feeling the way I am. I still have all my Thanksgiving decor up :(