Christmas 2014

Timothy, Rayna and Mikhail spent Christmas with us this year. They arrived on Christmas Eve day and stayed through Sunday morning. Was great to have a little one in the house for Christmas morning...though he really didn't know what was going on.

The kit I used for these layouts is called Polar Express and was created by TBAB (Touched By A Butterfly). For the first layout I used a template by Anita Stergiou Designs.

Grandpa can't wait to watch the "Polar Express" with little boy a couple years from now...maybe even next year!

Later in the day, when grandpa got home from work, Mikhail gets a battery operated train. He was so excited with the train going round and round on the track. Look at that smile!

Uncle Keith gave little boy a wooden train and track that was the hit of the morning. Look how intent Mikhail is playing!

Niagara Falls, NY

We went to Niagara Falls, NY to visit my dad in mid November. NF is back home for Ken and I. Keith and the other two boys grew up going to visit grandmas and grandpas there.

We went down to the falls, it was 30 degrees outside, so was pretty cold, especially at the falls with all the mist. Everything was frozen, was difficult to walk on the ice.

Here are two layouts I created using Sparkle by TSSA, Jodi Watson.  I also used two templates by Brenian Designs. 

The first one is of Keith, check out that paper behind him, I think it looks like the falls!

This is of the three of us, Kathy, Ken, Keith. A local came down to the falls with his son (at least we thought it was his son). He asked if he could take our picture...so here it is. You can see everything iced over in the top photo.