Amazingly easy and tasty Sandwhiches

Pepperoni & Cream Cheese openfaced sandwhiches.
I shouldn't need to say more. But I know I do. These are amazing. Simply toast a plain bagel, add cream cheese (I use the 1/3 fat stuff) and then on a separate plate heat about 14 pepperonies for 10-15 seconds (don't overheat!) and lay them over the cream cheese. Enjoy.

These are so amazing. My survival during my pregnancies DEPENDED on these. I think I had one at least once a week...often more! (And no, I didn't gain extra weight..lol) Now I try to avoid them because of the fat content...BUT...they make a mean comfort food. TRY IT. Even if it sounds weird. Or don't. You'll only be missing out on the greatest combination of food ever!

9 & 10 month bear pics

Kaden turned 9 months on Easter Sunday. Hence the dressed up picture with his bear. :) Also, hence the lack of Easter pictures. Hmm...should have thought it through better.



By 10 months it was getting increasingly difficult to get him sitting with his bear. This was the best I could do. It makes for some fun pictures though.

Oklahoma/Camping

This next set of pages is my top favorite, I think. I LOVE the texture here, and the colors, and the patterns...just all of it. I might have something to do with the fact that it is also great memories!




These next ones are the first time (and only, I think!) camping with a kid. It was long nights, with a baby between us trying to keep warm AND asleep! We had fun, and Kaden had a blast. He was born to be outside.




Why, OH WHY, did I not texture the orange part of the second page? I will never know.

7 & 8 month bear pages

As simple as they are, I love these pages.



I just noticed it kinda looks like the croc is getting ready to beg for some food. Hmmm. (It would be appropriate for a scrapbook of Kaden, I guess.)

Christmas!

Oh how a baby changes Christmas! The wonder, the excitement..just everything. We spent Christmas with my side of the family, and Matt and Bonnie got to visit us for a day.





Again, I wish you could see the texture of these cardstock stickers. They are *almost* as good as my Cricut cutouts...but much more pricey! I had bought them before I got my cricut, but was more than happy to have to use them.

5 & 6 month bear pictures

These pages were tough for me. There are some of pages where you're just glad to have them done. I am pretty hard on myself, so I know most people won't see the things I see...but some will... and that's the part I'm trying to ignore!


Good thing he is so darn cute.

Thanksgiving!

In 2008 from May to November there were 4 babies born..and all of them were able to be together for Thanksgiving. It was a perfect time for pictures! I found the stickers I used at Hobby Lobby. They are called cardstock stickers and they even had 4 little Indian/Pilgrims. I wish you could see the texture of the stickers...they match the texture of the stickers throughout the book..and lately I've been looking for some for Kate's book.. guess what I can't find? I had fallen in love with them, too!


We also took pictures of just the 3 boys... l'il turkeys. They've lived up to that name since!

Acacia, the lone girl..and first granddaughter... learned early how to hold her own. My favorite picture is the last one that shows how tired of her Kaden was by the end of the pictures.

Our Favorite People pages

Here are the next 2 page spreads. I loved this one. I just had so many pictures of Kaden with all kinds of people we love. I spent a long time getting those circles cut from the cricut and arranged to look "random". It's so true that being purposely random is a hard thing to do. See the texture under the alligator. I think this is the page that helped me fall in love with texture. I can't wait to enlarge my colection of folders.



By the way, Kaden was the first baby Brad (above picture) had every held.

This next photo is Kaden with his Grandparents and Great-Grandparents. The next one is with several of his aunts and uncles. Somehow Uncle Andrew made it on their twice... He should feel special.




He is so loved.

Finally some more scrapbook pages!

So, I've had Kaden's scrapbook "done" for about 3 months now (except for one set of pages which is my brother's wedding that we went to when Kaden was 3 months old...adn somehow I completely forgot...shhh don't tell my brother!) and, Yes, I am just now getting around to posting pictures. I'm really happy with the scrapbook, and think it's crazy how much my style has changed in the process of just 1 book. I learned a lot. The most important thing I learned is I LOVE TEXTURE. I will point it out when I can. It adds so much to a page!

These are the baby shower pages...it's so nice to remember how blessed we were at Kaden's birth and how everything we could have possible wanted or needed was given to us. In the first page, it is the surprise baby shower thrown by my highschool girls volleyball team that I coached. They each wrote "advice" on the bibs to help remind me the joys of mothering. I love them!. Also, there is a pocket with a white paper that a little girl (about 3 years old) drew for him as her baby shower "gift"...it was so incredibly sweet.

The diaper shower was thrown by our church in Gillette...we had only been here 6 weeks...how cool is that?

I don't have pictures of the shower Luke's extended family threw for me, or the one our church in Butte through. Like I said before...so blessed.



Oh and Kaden was about a week late. Hardest.week.ever. It's so much easier after the first baby!

I wish I had another recipe to share...

I have this amazing sandwhich (?) I really want to share with you. BUT I refuse to do it until I have a picture. And I'm not making it just for the picture. SO I do promise the next time I make it, I will share it promptly. Until then, know that I am hiding an amazingly mouthwatering secret easy recipe.

Did I mention that it's amazing and mouthwatering? And easy?