Disney World-Feb 2011

I used dryer sheets, tattered angels spray and stickles to make the flowers. I found this idea on Gabbys sight. Such a pretty mess. She does some awesome stuff.

Yesterday I spent 12 hours scrapbooking at Scrap-a-looza. What a great event. The company was great, the food was wonderful, the place was great (lots of room to work and move around), super prizes. Thanks Leanne, Chrissy and Tammy for doing such a great job and offering such a great event. I managed to get 8 pages done and am very happy with all of them. The pictures are of our youngest grandaughter-taken by her sister as a project for her photography class in highschool. She got 100% on her presentation.

I am preparing for our trip to DisneyWorld and have completed quite a few pages. When we get back all I will have to do is print the pictures and adhere them to the pages.

I am visiting with my grandaughter and her two little girls in Northern Alberta and having a great time. Sure will miss these girls when I go home!

Its hard to believe that it is almost 4 months since I have posted anything. Life has been incredibly busy. In November we had to put my mom in a private care home. On October 31st Wilf and I took her to the hospital with a very swollen and bruised shoulder. The doctor told us that all the bones in her shoulder were so brittle that most of them were fractured and suggested surgery to put a metal plate in her shoulder. Both her and I decided this was not an option. She will be 100 in April. So my daughter-in-law Gaye started hunting for nursing homes. Mom finally agreed that she couldn't take care of herself any longer. Within 2 days Gaye had found a wonderful place and we moved her in on the 4th of November. That month is a blurr for me as we had our eldest son, his daughter and her youngest daugther arrive the day mom went in and they stayed for 4 days. Off came all the sheets and the next weekend my youngest brother, my sister-in-law, their daughter and their grandson arrived to see mom and to help me clean out her apartment. They were here for 4 days. Off came the sheets and the next week my sister-in-law (same one) and their youngest daughter came to help more and visit mom. That same weekend our middle son and his wife were off to the Virgin Islands for a cruise she had earned from work, and I stayed with their 3 boys. 16, 13 and 10. They were wonderful. Very helpful and very responsible. I really enjoyed spending time with them and getting to know them a little better (as you only can if you live with them). But I was also taking care of mom, Wilf and our house as well. On into December and then it was shopping for a few gifts (didn't buy for our family, as we are taking them to Disneyworld in Feb-19 of us will be going. 3 couldn't make it). Then the baking, the decorating and still the visits to mom. She is settling a little better, but doesn't like to have lost her independence. I hosted Christmas eve dinner for 14 of us and then hosted Christmas day dinner for Wilfs family. Boxing day we left for Grande Prairie and spent a week with our eldest son and his family. We had a great time. The 4 little great grandaughters are such a delight. Next week I go back up there (flying this time) (we drove boxing day-11 hours) to spend a week with my grandaughter and her 2 girls as her husband is away on a training course for his new job. I am looking forward to girl time with Amy and the girls. So thats what my life has had in store for me. Hopefully I will get some good pics and be able to post some. While we were away, my hard drive calfed and I had to get a new computer. I am just loving it.