My 1st SCRAPBOOK SUNDAY!

Today is Scrapbook Sunday! Grab our button and add it to your blog, if you'd like to join. Each Sunday we will "Show and Tell" of a fave scrapbook page (or two,or three!!) of ours! Please join us too!!

I chose this page from my youngest son Gage's 1st album! He is turning 2 next month and I am getting extremely sentimental about how fast he is growing!! He is my last baby and I am having a very hard time thinking that soon he won't be a "baby" anymore!! These pics were taken at the hospital on the day he was born! Back when I first started blogging a year ago, I did a post about my high-risk pregnancy that I had with Gage. I miscarried twice within about 7 months prior to becoming pregnant with Gage. After the 2nd miscarriage, the doctor ran some tests to find out that I had developed a blood clotting disorder. My body had begun to form blood clots in the blood vessels of the placenta at around 8 weeks; which restricted the blood supply and nutrients to the baby, leading me to miscarry:( So when I became pregnant with Gage, I had to give myself blood thinner injections in my belly twice a day for the entire pregnancy; go to my hemo. dr. every couple weeks to have blood drawn to make sure my levels were "good" enough so that no clotting was taking place. I had to also be induced a week early with Gage; so that I wouldn't go into labor on my own and hemorrage due to the thinness of my blood. Scarey huh??

Here is big brother Gavin with his new baby brother that he waited SO long for:) He also took my miscarriages hard; he wanted a new baby brother or sister so bad!

This sweet lovey baby Gage used to doze off in his bouncer chair and hold his hands together so sweetly! He loved his ba-ba's so much and is such a happy boy to this day!

And here is my soon to be 2 year old "Gagie-Bear" (his nickname) at the library the other day when he found a magazine with Dora on it!! He was saying "Mom! Ooooooh!" in this photo!! LOL He is SUCH a character!!

Thank you for joining me on Scrapbook Sunday; sorry to be so mushy today:(

Please check out these gals to see their SCRAPBOOK SUNDAY pages:

Holly -- Girls at Heart

Ashley-- Domestic Divas Fancy

If you have joined us, and your name isn't listed here; please leave me a comment and I will GLADLY add you!!

Easter Swap EGG-STRAVAGANZA Partners...

Just wanted to say THANKS again to all the gals that joined my Easter Swap Egg-Stravaganza! The swap is NOW CLOSED!

I have emailed everyone their partner and their info. Please contact your partner and keep in touch with them throughout the swap!

Also, please remember to mail your partners package NO LATER than March 25th!! If something does come up, please contact them and let them know what is going on. Let's make sure that everyone has fun and gets a lovely package full of Easter/spring goodies to cheer us all up from the Winter Blah's we've had!!

Also, please take pics of what you send and what you receive so that I can compile them for everyone to see:)

Here are the partners... Click on their names to be linked directly to their blogs!

♥ Pea and Lori are partners ♥

♥ Sue and Joy are partners ♥

♥ Tammy and Sonia are partners ♥

♥ ME (Noelle) and Katie are partners ♥

I can't wait to see pics of what everyone gives and receives! Have a ton of fun creating and shopping ladies!!

Here are the RULES one more time:

Please make something for your partner: a card, a tag, a wall hanging, a hand-painted egg are some examples. Feel free to choose your own based on your own crafting talents!

Please include the following: an Easter egg of some sort, candy, something "spring-y", and a buuny or chick. Feel free to add other doo-dads based on your partners hobbies/interests.

Please spend a minimum of $15.00 to be fair (before shipping costs).

Alright girls, GET HOPPIN', its time to start the SWAPPIN'!!
(hehe, I made that up!! lol)

♥ Noelle ♥

Something NEW!

Holly from Girls at Heart and I have agreed to host Scrapbook Sunday! She actually started it on her site and I thought it was a great idea! We both love to scrapbook and thought it would be fun to get a bunch of you gals together to show one of your pages each Sunday; and give a little description about it! Feel free to share info on the products you used as well! We ♥ New Ideas!! I am trying to figure out a better way to link the sign-ups, so bear with me for now! If you'd like to join us, leave a comment on this post and copy our button to add to your page. We will begin this as a group this Sunday!

Thanks for helping!!

Noelle and Holly:)

Calling all "Chicks"!

Hey chicks! Sign-ups for my Easter Swap Egg-Stravaganza close tomorrow!! We could still use ONE EGG-STRA special gal to join us!

The info about my swap is on a previous post, I believe its the fourth one down. Swap partners will be listed and emailed on this Sunday!!

Please join us, please?

♥ Noelle ♥

♥ My Cutie Pie ♥

This is my oldest handsome son Gavin's 1st grade photo from school! Doesn't he look like a little college preppy boy? He really needed a haircut but we weren't able to squeeze one in, in time. He likes to get his hair buzzed really short and lately has been asking to get it "bald" like daddy's!! Brian offers to do it for him in his "garage barber shop" but Gavin always yells "NOOOO" and runs away! LOL He is such a character; I cannot believe that he will be 8 in July:( Time has flown by WAY too fast with him! I look at him now and listen to the things he says and can't help but believe that he will be "something" VERY SPECIAL one day! He told me today that when he grows up he wants to be a VOLCANOLOGIST!!! Whoa baby:) And I have not doubt that if he sets his mind to it, he will be!!

What do your children say they want to be when they "grow up"? Or if your children are grown, did they "become" what they always wanted to be?? Ever since kindergarten I have wanted to be a teacher and a mom; I have accomplished one of those! Just wish I was paid for being a mom!! LOL

Have a great night girls!
♥'s Noelle

UGH!! No GOOD News here...

Well, a couple hours ago I got a voice mail on my cell phone from the principal at the school I was trying to get the teaching job with. He said that he was sorry but he chose someone else, that it was a hard decision and that he'd keep me in mind if anything else should be available. Now first off, I think that leaving a voice mail is just crappy! I had 3 interviews; I deserved a call in person! I am just crushed, sad, disappointed, discouraged, angry... I immediately deleted the voice mail and began to cry. Brian came up to me and hugged me for a couple minutes and told me that there is something better out there for me. I have to think like I always do... that everything happens for a reason. At least I can have peace that I just don't have to leave my little boy just yet:) I have had a back up plan in mind, which I think I may try to pursue. I would be able to set my own schedule but I would work independantly as a Developmental Therapist with a program called First Steps. I would work one-on-one with families and children from ages birth-3 years; doing developmental therapy in their home with their child one hour a week. My friend does this and loves it; she's a mom too so setting her own work hours works great for her too. So we'll see what happens...

Thank you all for your words of encouragement, prayers, advice and for just being there for me through this long, drawn out interview process!! You girls mean so much to me; and I thank God for your friendships!!

Hugs,
Noelle

Hello!!

Hi there girls! I couldn't resist having to wait till Saturday to do another post! I miss chatting with you all so much:) So as I get older, I admit I find myself sharing the same interests as my mom. I do love some of the ideas that Martha Stewart comes up with but she is SO boring on her show!! LOL I enjoy watching the show that her daughter and friend have called Whatever Martha!; when they tease Martha!! Hope thats not too mean?? Anyway, I LOVE this Easter table decor and the bunny garland in the pic above. I found it on her site. Isn't it so cute and springy??

Here is an adorable give-away that you must HOP over to enter! Sherry from Edie Marie's Attic is celebrating her 1 year blogaversary and is giving away this adorable bunny, egg and painted candlestick!!
I so want to win:)

Darling Ashley from Domestic Diva's Fancy gave this award to ALL of her followers on her blog! She is a fun young gal who scrapbooks too:) SO to keep up with the award spirit; I give this award to all my sweeties that FOLLOW me! If you are a visitor that hasn't signed up to be a follower, please do so!! I love new peoples!! :) Then you can nab this cutie pie button too!

If you have not yet left a comment on my previous post for my 1st Swap: Easter Swap Egg-Stravaganza... please scroll down to read the details and I hope that you'll join us!!!

Have a great day girls! I should know today if I got the teaching job!!

Big HUGS!!
♥ Noelle ♥