Celebrating Madison's 2nd Birthday

Madison has turned 2! Where have the last 2 years gone? They've gone by too fast for me. We had a family gathering to celebrate her birthday. At first she didn’t really know what was going on! Everyone was picking her up and saying Happy Birthday and how old are you now, LOL! But once she started opening her presents.....well she thought that was pretty neat. And when her Barbie Doll birthday cake came out she knew it was all about her, LOL! Here are just a few photos I took.
Princess Madison, not too sure what's going on, LOL!
Barbie Doll cake
blowing out her candles

wearing one of her ballerina skirts

giving me a sweet hug

a hug for Papa Ted too!

having a chat with us

Madison and Kassandra

Jesse

opening her gifts

all for Madison!

giving Uncle Matt her blankie

Our Thanksgiving

Well is been a while since I last posted, lots of things happening. We celebrated our Thanksgiving quietly. Son Matt, daughter Tracey, daughter in law Rachel and 3 of her youngest ones Madison almost 2, Kassandra 7 and Jesse 10 joined us for dinner. We had turkey with all the trimmings. Ted made yummy apple pies for our dessert. Here are some great photos :

Tracey and her dad

Rachel with Kassandra & Jesse

Matt, Madison Rachel and Kassanda

Cuttlebug Spot Challenge

My friend Donna was telling me about the Cuttlebug Spot Challenge. Their challenge is to make a card for Breast Cance Awareness. This is my card. The embossing folder I used was devine swirl. I was surfng the web the other night and found a blog Having An Art Attack that had the instructions for making the rose. The rose was pretty easy to make, I've made mine smaller to fit my card. I used stickles to give it some glitter. The white swirls I cut with my Cricut using the Wedding Solution cartridge. The stamp ($1.50) is from Michaels as is the ribbon. The breast cancer symbol I bought at Michaels too.

My Latest Cards

Below are cards I've made last month. I haven't made as many as I usually do as I had Madison for a week and it takes me a few days to recuperate, LOL! And I'm in the midst of starting a scrapbook too....so my card time is limited for a while. Thanks for stopping by!
this is my first shaker card, not sure if I like how it turned out so may do it over...

I saw a card like this on the web while browsing one night and fell in love with the style of it so thought I'd give it a try

I made this one for my friend Rita who is our Woman of the Year

this one is for our Chapter Sweetheart, Linda

this is for our friend Bruce

here's a pizza box I made

we had a swap in our group to make a bookmark card

I also made a separate bookmark

Celebrating Thomas turning 8

Thomas playing his new guitar

here he is blowing out his candles

and serving us cake

reading his card from gramma & Papa

here's a goofy pic of brother Alex, Papa and Thomas

here is the card I made him

Celebrating Rachel's birthday

We celebrated Rachel’s birthday (Madison’s mommy) on Sept 26 in their new home. It was a lovely day, my son Mark (Madison’s daddy) did most of the cooking and it was all so yummy. Below are some great photos I’d like to share. Thanks for stopping by!
a great pic of Rachel with her flowers & butterfly

Rachel & Madison blowing out the candles

this is great gramma Nellie (Mark's gramma), Rachel holding Madisonn and great uncle Joe

a great close up of Madison

Madison loves butterflies like her gramma!

too cute

Madison riding the butterfly, LOL!

this is the card I made for Rachel, it's a bookmark card

when you remove the bookmark this is what you see

Madisons' visit in September

Well it’s been a while since I’ve posted anything. It just seems like September flew by. I had Madison for a week and had a great time with her. Her parents moved into their new home, so gramma got to have Madison. I’ll take any reason to have her come visit us, LOL! Below are some pics, she has just sprouted up....she’s going to be tall! Thanks for stopping by!
this is goofy Madison in ourctruck

Madison with her Papa

a great shot of Madison smiling!

here's Madison with the little one that lives a couple of doors away

Madison in her car seat

here Madison is wearing her 'baby' sleepers on top of her pj's, lol!

Madison with me having a quiet time

this is a great close up shot

Madison's Papa Ted

playing with Papa on our porch

here she is wearing magazine holders on her feet, lol!