DD Day 25

 

YEAH it's done!!!!! Nothing fancy here but I have a completed album!!!! Last night as I was finishing it up I started thinking about why not go thru the 31... I took the notes, have the pictures.  We will have to see, I'm doing a whole day crop next Saturday so I might just take this with me and see what I feel like working on.

DD Day 24

 

Christmas Eve morning at Dave's parents equals Turner Christmas.  Lots of stocking stuffers, gift cards wrapped uniquely (my was in a ball of duct tape), yummy breakfast and pancakes!  I needed more space for photos so I grabbed a losing scratch off that I got as a stocking stuffer.

DD Day 23

 

Wow this album is going slow.... now that the holidays are over I'm not in the mood to scrap Christmas stuff.... but I must keep going.  So so close!

DD Day 22

 

Remember this album.... I am just getting back into it to finish it up.  I have all my photos printed through the 25th and sadly now that the holidays are over I just might stop there and not to the end of December.  We will have to see how the next week goes.

DD Day 21

 

These two pages don't really go together but I wanted to document both things.  Lots of errands this month, Ashely got out of school at noon and we spent the rest of the afternoon running errands.  I got the idea/title from an Ali Edwards page.  The second page is some of the places we have found our elf this year.

DD Day 20

 

Pajama Day!  It is not often that Ashley doesn't have to wear her uniform to school and for it to be her pajamas makes it even more fun!

I hope everyone had a very Merry Christmas and got everything they had hoped for.  We had a great Christmas!

DD Day 18

 

Another quick page about some of the projects we have been working on.  With Christmas full speed ahead around here my pages are going to have to be pretty quick to keep up.  I have done so good so far.  I hope to stay on top of my album the next few days!

DD Day 17

 

 

I added a center page to the 17th because I thought it would be fun to show some outtakes of our Christmas cards.  I just realized I spelled outtakes wrong (thanks spell check) so I will fix that immediately (but not re scan it).  The back side of our card is blah... but its late and its done.  I have been randomly going back and adding to the past pages to jazz them up I am sure that will happen here.

Christmas is getting close... are you ready?

DD Day 19

 

A little out of order because I am waiting on my pictures to be printed for my earlier days.  A spread about some of the animals we share our land with.

DD Day 16

 

The girls both did great on their visit to Santa.  I love the less than 30 minute wait to see Santa at Bass Pro BUT I hate having to go at 9:00 AM to get a line ticket for 4:00 PM.  The line tickets are insane here, is it like that anywhere else in the country or is it just here?

DD Day 15

 

A quick page about an early Christmas present of cookies!

Pat myself on the back, I am half way done!!!! I plan on going the whole month of December because the celebrations won't really end for us on the 25th.

DD Day 14

 

Go to this site now and make a special video message from Santa for your kids.  Ashley loved it!  It is very well done with lots of personalization.  The only thing I would have done different is list Ashley as naughty instead of nice, because she thinks all is cool because she is on Santa's nice list.  Ashley can pretty much resite this whole video back to you (and she has many time to others) but she always leaves out the part where Santa told her to listen to her parents.

DD Day 13

 

Every year we get a few new ornaments, at least one new one for each of the girls and always one for any places we have visited. I love pulling out our ornaments each year and remembering the all the vacations we have taken together as a couple or as a family.

Had to have a Cardinals one this year for the 2011 WORLD SERIES win!

DD Day 12

 

I have done a good majority of my Christmas shopping online this year (have I mention how much I hate Christmas shopping?).  It is so much easier in my mind to shop online instead of going store to store to find something.  On the left I have included an envelope where I will put all my buying list once Christmas is over.

DD Day 11

 

I am really loving this December Daily... I love playing with all the fun things in my scrapbooking stash and I love that I am getting these stories scrapbooked.  I did this same concept with my blog in 2009, now I want to print out those blog posts and get them into a book.  And I need to read threw them to see what has stayed the same and what has changed.  So fun!

Ashley's school Christmas program was wonderful.  The Kindergartners played the bells and the rest of the big kids acted out and sang the Birth of Jesus.

DD Day 10

 

Ashley loved riding in the Christmas parade with her Daisy Scout troop.  Dave's mom watched Allison and Dave dropped us off at the beginning and picked us up at the end making the whole experience very enjoyable.  Ashley was scared for some reason but after the fact loved it.

DD Day 9

 

A quick DD page about story time and some mischievous our elf has been up to.

DD Day 8

A yearly tradition, the gingerbread house.  The minute the box came into the house Ashley has been asking and asking to put the house together.  I am surprised that we made it to the 8th to finally give in.  Allison... well she loved playing with the box, typical one year old!  I just noticed the beer cans in the background... nice!

DD Day 7

 

 

Have I ever mentioned that I hate Chuck E Cheese?  I don't know if it is the scary mouse or the need to disinfect before leaving.  But I hung tough for Ashley and her classmates birthday party.  Again I had a lot of photos so I added a piece of chipboard to the center to have more room.

DD Day 6

 

 

I had two events to document on the 6th, St. Nicholas Day and our first snow, so I cut up a baseball card protector to add a few more photos to the center of the spread.