Happy Anniversary Honey....

Well, I have waited until today to show you my latest card creation. I made this one for my honey for our Anniversary. Today we have been married for 17 years. It has been the best 17 years too. We met in high school when we were 15 and started dating then. He has given me a wonderful home to live in, two beautiful children to love, and he loves me unconditionally. (even with all of my stamp stuff all over the place). What more can a girl ask for. We are celebrating this weekend by going to Epcot. It will be a nice get away. The kids are with my parents for the weekend so they are having fun with Nana and Papa.
Well, onto the card....

I used a combination of old and new goodies. I had some Valentine paper left over from last year so that is the heart. The base is Naturals White, middle layer is Early Espresso, and the top layer is River Rock. I used the Vintage Wallpaper embossing folder with Crumb Cake on the folder to give the design a more stand out look. I punched the birds out in Very Vanilla and then sponged a little bit of Pretty and Pink and Silver Shimmer paint on them. Popped on little pearls for the eyes. The ribbon is the Very Vanilla seam binding. Love this ribbon. Want it in more colors... :-)  Happy Anniversary is from Teeny Tiny Wishes set. I must say that I cased the layout. I saw one similar on Split Coast and loved it. I changed it out a little bit. I love the little "love" birds.
Enjoy and have a wonderful weekend.

Jeannette

Soccer time

Well, this season we combined both of the kids soccer team parties. I thought that it would be easier to do one BIG ol party instead of two. Nope!!! I think the two individual team parties is more personal and I will just stick to that. I still had to make two cakes but this time I had to do them at once instead of a week apart. The two that I made this time around was kinda plain looking if you ask me, but the kids loved them.
Overall I think the kids had a great time and did not mind both teams being there. But I could not walk around and talk to everyone like I could in a smaller setting. Both teams did an amazing job this year. Andrew's team (U8- The Tigers) won all 8 of their games and they got to dump what ever they wanted to over Coach Chris's head. Let's see we had Red Power Aid, Red cool-aid, caramel milk had been sitting out in the heat, diet coke, and the favorite was pancake syrup with pizza sauce. Chris was such a great sport about this. Our U12 team The WildCats had a great season as well, with only 2 losses. They got to "clean" Coach up by pouring water over him.

We are now resting for the summer and gearing up for the fall. I have attached the link to the video that I made of the "dumping".Take a look and get a laugh.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rHDa1S_zGI8

Happy Stampin & Bakin

Jeannette