My AMAZING Family

This is My Amazing family.
I love the song playing for the music for this slide show. I had so much fun putting this together to time some of the pictures to match the words of the song.
A quote from the Family Proclamation Says"All Human Beings male and female- are created in the image of god.....Each has a divine nature and destiny Gender is an essential characteristic of individual premortal, mortal and eternal identity and purpose.

I Love that I have a Boy and a Girl. so I have been greatly blessed.

I Love My Son I get to enjoy all the ruggedness of boys. Scouts, camping trips bike rides, muddy clothes, rocks found in pockets, sweaty sneakers, Hot- sauce tastings, ( Not me just him lol )and all that  So Much  Boy stuff LOL he is  a wonderful son who is proud to be serving his country in the National Guard and preparing to serve the lord on a mission.He has such a upstanding countenance and valiant spirit

I Love My daughter for all that Girly girl stuff we get to do, Shopping, nails, fashion,.I love that she is a girly girl, but is not afraid of hard work and serving others too.She loves to act on stage and also in the national Forensics Competitions( Public speaking when I was in school) . she likes to look girly too and has such a sweet countinance and beautiful spirit

The family Proclamation says" Children are an Heritage from God" when I think of Heritage I think of such a treasure given too us.
I am eternally Greatfull for the gift of motherhood that I have the opportunity to raise along side my Wonderful eternal companion/ husband such a choice Son and Daughter of God
I Love Being a Mother

I Love My Husband!

Family Proclamation quote" Successful marriages and families are established and maintained on principles of faith, prayer, repentance, forgiveness, respect, love, compassion, work, and wholesome recreational activities".

I Love My husband he is My best friend, My love and My eternal companion and I am so grateful for that He lives the above principles every day and I am so grateful for that he is such a support for our family. He is a wonderful father and a great example of Christlike love for Our kids . and he is  an amazing Husband.

We are only human and as with any other couple may not agree on everything. But I love that he treats me with respect and love and that I will be with him for eternity . But as it says on this scrapbook page he is the
" Gift that made all My dreams come true"

Pages were made with Kiwi-lane templates and Bo Bunny papers

My modest Makeovers/ Teaching My family

I signed up over at Wardrobe Refashion to not Buy one article of new clothing for 2 months and refashion what I have. I took the following pledge

The Pledge

I _Marie E pledge that I shall abstain from the purchase of "new" manufactured items of clothing, for the period of 2 months. I pledge that I shall refashion, renovate, recycle pre-loved items for myself with my own hands in fabric, yarn or other medium for the term of my contract. I pledge that I will share the love and post a photo of my refashioned, renovated, recycled, crafted or created item of clothing on the Wardrobe Refashion blog, so that others may share the joy that thy thriftiness brings! Signed_Marie E

I have been doing this for a little while anyway. or shopping at Thrift stores then making things over or Refashioning to fit me.
I was sick of not being able to find Cute Modest clothes and didn't want to pay high prices for shopping online. And after a trip out west to Utah, Arizona and Las vegas My Eyes were opened to some great styles of modest clothing.
Now I am not talking Long sleeves Roll neck sweaters, and skirts down to the floor LOL
Just cute modest clothing that at least covers my shoulders.
so please sign up and follow me as I show you how to makeover what you already have. or how to refashion those thrift store finds.
Be sure to check out
for some great ideas too.Lets save some money and Have fun while saving some of Our earths resources
By recycling what we already own.
I was going to set up a separate blog for My Modest Makeovers. But what with this blog and trying to set up My Boo Boo's Bows website and business blog to be fully operational . I think I would loose My mind if I had another blog to keep up. So i will be posting here.

So your probably wondering how this ties into the family celebration. One thing that many leaders from church teach us is to live within our means and avoid Debt if at all possible. And use what we have and distinguish between wants and needs. I think If we live these principles It will help in many aspects of family live. 

Part of The Family Proclamation states

"Parents have a sacred duty to rear their children in Love and righteousness, to provide for their Physical and spiritual needs"

Well by saving money in some areas It will free up money to provide in other areas. My goal these next couple of months is to not only save money on clothing but to Plan My meals better and use some food storage to save money also I hope this will free up some money to Plan some freezer meals ( one day cooking  30 days of meal) But that is another whole post by it's self.

So I hope I don't overwhelm you with My blog posts the next couple of months as I plan to

1 Make a page a day for My family scrapbooks ( family History)

2 Recycle reuse Refashoin clothing ( teaching self reliance and resourcefulness to my family)
3 Plan My meals better use what I have.( nurture my family through well balanced meals)

4 And share My many other creative pursuits and Life experiences ( as I strive to Nurture and teach my family). 

Crop out diabetes.Tons of projects I accomplished this week

Sorry I haven't updated lately.

I have had a very fun , productive Busy week this week. I Have been involved in a Online crop To Benefit Diabetes. You mad a donation to Crop Out diabetes then had access to some really fun challenges.
the link is here. www.cropoutdiabetes.ning.com Make a donation then you can join us.


So this post will be a picture over load I made single layouts,double page layouts, altered items and cards. This was my week of fun and My husband didn't mind as I wasn't out spending money on supplies. I was finally using some of my stockpile of supplies. LOL.
There were 26 challenges and I did 19 of them. I may finish one more up in time and make it 20 we will see. So hope I can give some inspiration to you. I will past 6 in this post then Post more in the next few posts Give me a chance to get them all uploaded. I am so excited with the amount of pages i finished this week. catching up on my Scrapbooks is one of my goals this year so I am well on My way.

 

Challenge #1 show your values

  

Close up of values these are the values we teach the Young women at church I hope I can be a good example of these values to my Daughter

  

Challenge #2 Wings, fairys, butterfly s bird etc etc

this is a card I made for my niece

used the cute fairy form A childs year cartridge

 

Challenge# 3 Journalling

use your words

this was a whole lot of journalling!

 

Challenge #4 Enjoy every moment use time on a page

I have wanted to use this saying on a page for a long time I cut the about time embellishment with Graphically speaking cartridge

Challenge #5 use pebble on your page, paper, embellishment

I have had this paper for a while perfect for this page of my son and his obsession with rocks LOL 

Challenge #6 Peek aboo . use things that peek out of pockets etc. I used tags in Pockets