Oh my... Michaels ♥

Hey gals!

How's your weekend so far?

I'm trying extra hard to be in a better mood this year... so far, so good! lol

I am getting a sore throat with all that yucky drainage... why???

Anywho, we got like 15" of snow last night or some craziness!!

Its really pretty out there though, and really cold!!

Here's a few pics of our yard this morning...

The mailbox!! I can always tell what fresh snow fell by how much is on the TOP of the mailbox...

now that I look at it, I think I want to spray paint that sucker this spring to something a bit more vibrant... yellow??

Our almost buried SUV!

Woo-hoo for 4x4!

We can't park it on our drive in this weather, cause it slides back down even with the emergency break on!

Our big maple in the front,

looks so pretty with the snow on it!

Hubby's work van, BURIED!!

I was trying to get a shot out the kitchen window to the backyard but my cute gingy window clings are stealing the show!!!

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So today I had to run to the store and thought...

"Why not run to Michael's to blow that gift card on some fun crafty stuff?"

Turns out my hubby needed me to run and errand for him right out by Michael's so...

cha-ching!! Perfect chance to head there! And here is what I got...

I wanted a Memory Box for some misc. wedding things that we could tuck away and look at each year on our anniversary... and I love this one and the saying!!

It was $8.99 and I had a 50% off coupon!! So $4.50!!

Here are a few items I placed inside... our response cards, an invite, our program, the boys flowers and one of each of our wedding favors... which reminds me, I never showed them to you!!!!

Believe me, I have about a hundred or so wedding pics I still want to show you but have put on the back burner with everything else!!

For half of the guests we had a deck of cards... cause Brian loves to play cards!

And well, you can't see this one!! But the other half of the guests got a hot cocoa packet with a chocolate spoon (a touch my mom added)... well, cause I LOVE chocolate!

I'll have to take a better pic of the hot cocoa packets for you to see.

You know at the reception, I never noticed how these napkins were folded, which I don't like OR how the favors were tucked inside the napkins... NOT crazy about that either!

Boy, you really do miss a lot at your own wedding don't you?

Back to the Michael's goodies...

A new Paper File!!

Oh do I need one of these!!

These were half off too; I think it was like $4!

A super cute Making Memories banner kit!!

It was $12.99; but I got it for 80% off!

You can makes the words NOEL, PEACE and JOY!!

Mini gingerbread garland a a snowflake garland for $1.50 each!

Scrapbook stickers for the bachelorette party, wedding and honeymoon!!

Mountains stickers for our honeymoon and these cute blingee words!!

Stickers for our honeymoon album for the Ripley's Aquarium page and the horse back riding adventure!! (LOL)

I got the stickers above at Walmart...

and a couple other things show below!

(Had a return there so used that $$ to purchase these things...)

Martha Stewart Opaque marker set!!

The doiley border maker!!

I love the scalloped look to this and can't wait to use it in our wedding album ♥

Look at these cute glittery letters!!!

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All in all, a good day!

Me happy with all my deals ♥

My gift card was for $30 at Michael's and my total was $31.03!

Wow, $1.03 out of my own pocket...

NOT TOO SHABBY!!

Gage busy playing moon sand while I snapped all these pics ♥

He was sooo excited to use a "PLASTIC" knife!!

BOYS!!!

~Hope you all are enjoying 2010 so far!!~

Noelle ♥

Winter Fun!

Make a Smilebox photobook

Happy NEW Year!!

Wishing you all a very Happy New Year!
May 2010 bring us all lots of happiness, luck and love ♥


Love~
Noelle ♥

My Presents/After Christmas DEALS ♥

Whew... what a day!

These boys and their bickering are making me CRAAAAAZY!

I am SO looking forward to a cocktail tomorrow evening to ring in the NEW YEAR!

I decided to show ya what I got for Christmas and some of the after-Christmas deals that I've found!!

My cute slipper boots!

I asked my mom for these and when she went to Old Navy to get them, they didn't have my BIG FOOT size of 9/10... but we went there the day after Christmas and there was ONE pair laying there and for 50% off so momma got them for me! My husband HATES them, thinks they are so ugly...

I call them my FAKE UGGS!! LOL

Mom got me a Coconut Body Butter and Shower Creme (already in my shower) from The Body Shop...

love, love love the coconut smell!!

She got me some crafting supplies!

Look at that Mega pack of Martha Stewart glitter, ai-yi-yi!!

A new hot glue gun cause mine was AWFUL, some glue sticks and that tool, that I am drawing a blank on the name.... a boning tool?? LMAO That sounds bad.... its to make your paper creases really smooth!

Hahaha, someone help me out with the name! I am too lazy to go upstairs to see the name of it:)

Look at all those pretty colors!!

My Valentine swap partner will be thankful that I got these glitters ♥

Mom also gave me a $30 gift card to Michaels (CRAFTS!!!) and one to Old Navy but I forgot that amount...?

She also got me and the hubbs a DIGITAL photo frame!!!

Eeeeek, I have never owned one of these before and double EEEEEK it holds 6400 photos!!!!!

Our wedding photos would take up 1/4 of that!!!

This is a super cute gift card holder that my mom got to put the Michael's gift card in!!!

As I mentioned my hubby gave me a $50 gift card to Old Navy and then I got some $loot$ from my in-laws and my grandparent-in-laws too; which helped me to get some of these things...

Couple of cute mitten ornaments for $0.50 each at Target along with these rub-ons for scrapbooking!!

More rub-ons and some stickers, all for $0.50 each!!

Adorable cupcake liners and gingerbread pics for a buck from Walmart...

A big pack of Ghirardelli coffee's... YUM!!!

I think it was like $4 at Target!

Usually some of my bday/Christmas money goes to buy more wrapping paper, bows, tags, etc. for next Christmas... I loved the colors of these rolls of wrapping paper!! Both for $1.50 at Walmart!!

Other misc. things for wrapping... look at those pretty colored bows ♥

Cute tags and gift bags from Target...

I think I got all of this and the pic above for under $5-6!

From Kohls, this Cranberry Tart, which smells SOOO good body care gift set; only $6.00!!

Regular price $30!!

A new cute scarf, colors look much prettier in person...

a WISH gingerbread word set, and a 6 pack of lip balms...

I had earned $20 Kohl's cash from when I was shopping for gifts the past couple weeks!!

My total today was $26 and some cents, minus the $20 Kohls cash... so I only paid $6 and some cents for all of this!! WOOT WOOT!!! I ♥ Kohl's!!!

A recent GW find... some old Christmas invites from Halmark in the 80's, some cute buttons and a bagful of old wooden mini ornaments... I snagged these items for $0.76 total; it was HALF OFF DAY!!

Close up of the lil ornaments...

I was thinking about making a wreath with them??

Found these cute colored snowflakes felt placemats at KMart last weekend; they were $2 a piece but SOOO cute!!

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Oooops, I forgot to show another gift!!

I got this Adorable Vera Bradley coffee mug w/lid and a $20 gift card to Barnes and Noble

 from my brothers girlfriend Jhannin!! This mug is SOO cute:)

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Well gals, I'm off to finish a bit more ironing...

then its time to hit the sack for some zzz's!

Thanks for visiting me today ♥

~Noelle~

An Amazing Story!!

This is SUCH an amazing story... GOD is all around!!

(I found this story on aol.com)

~Noelle ♥

Tracy Hermanstorfer, 33, was getting prepped for childbirth at the hospital Thursday morning and her 37-year-old husband was by her side when she began to feel sleepy and laid back in her bed.

"She literally stopped breathing and her heart stopped," her husband said. Pandemonium erupted as doctors and nurses tried to revive her with chest compressions and a breathing tube, but nothing worked.

"I was holding her hand when we realized she was gone," Hermanstorfer said. "My entire life just rolled out."

Doctors told him, "We're going to take your son out now. We have been unable to revive her and we're going to take your son out," he recalled.

After the Cesarean section, some of the team rushed his wife to the operating room while the others attended to Coltyn.

"They hand him to me, he's absolutely lifeless," Hermanstorfer said. The doctors went to work on Coltyn as Hermanstorfer held him, and soon he began to breathe.

"His life began in my hands," Hermanstorfer said. "That's a feeling like none other. Life actually began in the palm of my hands."

Martin said Tracy Hermanstorfer's pulse returned even before she was wheeled out of the room and into surgery. She estimates Hermanstorfer had no heartbeat for about four minutes.

Hermanstorfer remembers getting sleepy and closing her eyes in her hospital bed, then awakening in the intensive care unit.

Friends have asked if she saw a light or had other experiences described by others who have survived near-death experiences, but she didn't.

"I just felt like I was asleep," she said.

When doctors told her what happened, "I'm like, 'Holy cow, was it that bad? Wow.'"

The Hermanstorfers returned Monday to their home in Security, just outside Colorado Springs about 65 miles south of Denver.

Both Mike and Tracy Hermanstorfer worry that she might have a recurrence. Martin said she can't offer the Hermanstorfers much advice because she doesn't know what caused the original problem.

On Tuesday, the couple celebrated a delayed Christmas with their 3-year-old son Kanyen and Tracy Hermanstorfer's 11-year-old son, Austin, from her previous marriage.

She plans to tell Coltyn about his birth when he's old enough to understand.

"I'll tell him everything ... that he's my miracle baby. That he had a tough time coming into this world, that he's my miracle baby and he's still here with us," she said.

She said Austin is worried and confused but the experience is improving his already-close relationship with Mike Hermanstorfer, his stepfather.

Kanyen doesn't understand much except that doctors had to work on his mom in the hospital, she said. His reaction was, "OK, we got the baby, let's go home now."

Filed under: Nation, Health

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Christmas Eve... Part 2

2 of my wild 'n wacky brothers are over tonite entertaining my boys so I'm gonna steal a few moments to post the second half of our Christmas morning!!

Here is our oldest Gavin, being super happy that he got a new DS game!

One of MANY of the Lego sets he had on his wish list that retail totaled probably $500!

I had to have "the talk" that Santa can't get you everything you want...

maybe some of your other family members may get you something that Santa "couldn't"...

We also had to have another "talk" on Christmas morning as to why little brother got 2 "BIG" boxes and he didn't... "Well, you asked for smaller things that cost MORE money than some of the BIGGER boxed toys that Gage got" Ex. Legos' average $20-$40 for a SMALLER set and DS games are on the average of $30!!

So, he GOT that "talk" and was fine with it!!

Oy, I even tried to make sure they had the same NUMBER of boxes this year,

but of course THAT went un-noticed!!! LOL

The ever so COOL Maxis Dragonoid from Bakugan... huh? you might say...

its a WEIRD boy thing... kinda like Pokemon.... when he tries to tell me about it, I have a HARD time following ;)

Some new chapter books...

(this Santa encourages READING as well!)

Ever popular Lincoln Logs with a train set included...

(NOT on his list but daddy... oops, I mean SANTA played with those as a kid and thought it would be cool for his son, oops... I mean Gavin to have some to play with too;).. )

Guess Who Extra!!

I cannot wait to play this game!

Darn Santa forgot to buy the AAA batteries for it though!!

REALLY happy that he got this driller thing from Lego Power Miners...

he didn't waste anytime at all building this!!

Sorry Sliders... happy for that one!!

Already starting to get an attitude...

and messing up his newly cleaned room,

by yours truly...

MOMMY!!

Even the cats hung out during gifts...

they must have known that Santa was bringing something for them too...

A stocking full of cat toys picked out by their Big Brother Gavin:)

Here is my mom's themed gift this year...

all loaded up with Gingerbreads ♥

Don't ya love that cute gingerbread spatula!!

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And don't ya love the

AFTERMATH of CHRISTMAS???

Ugh, I don't!!!

Lovely trash bag full of wrapping paper scraps, oy!!

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Up next...

Christmas at my mom's and with my in-laws!

Whew!!!

What was your fave gift that you got this year?????

Love ya,

Noelle ♥