12 months of photos

More from R's baby book. After all the hard work of taking photos monthly I condensed it to one page. I love the Clothesline by Danielle and it's perfect for this project.

Kitschy Digitals| Clotheslines, Curated

Creativity by Crystal| August 09, Birthday Day Brushes

The Journey

Life changed for us quickly. We found out that we were going to Fort Bliss two months before we left. We had no clue what Fort Bliss or El Paso meant other than not beach location we were hoping for. We did not know when we would be moving to Fort Bliss. 

When J came home from Basic Training and OSUT, just a week later we were in El Paso. After a two day drive, two weeks in a hotel, and a moving van a month later, we were here.

As we stand on the mountain and look over El Paso we realize this is home for now

We were out of our element; desert, Mexicans, and their culture. Why did we get sent here? Why not closer to home or a tropical destination? We were here so we learned to deal with the dry heat, culture shock, and military life because we had to. We have seen the beauty of this area. It has only made our family stronger.

Ruger was born here. We made friends here. Home was very distant. Georgia is home. We had a house, family, and good friends. We learned we still had our family, our friends, and our house.

Right now we are on an adventure and learned a lot from our experience. Learned we can do anything.

You can find strength in life changes as I have. Not only moving but dealing with the army wife life.

Queen of Quirk
You Are Here Full Kit
Knotty Girl Paper Pack
Map-Google maps
USA map- clip art

 This is inspired by my pinterst boards. Here is the original at Tickey Boo.

*We have been in El Paso almost 2 years now.

New JS Layouts

I have new layouts to share! Hope you enjoy. Thanks for looking.
Products are available at JessicaSprague.com

Echo Park
Sidewalk Chalk Paper Pack 1
Sidewalk Chalk Paper Pack 2
Sidewalk Chalk alpha, borders & wordart
Sidewalk Chalk Elements

Kitschy Digitals
Vintage Picture Frames
Thrift Store Grab Bag
Woodgrain Frames Digital Kit
Elle's Studio
Country Fair Journaling Tags ... Coming Soon
Woodgrain Tags
Cosmo Cricket
Early Bird Paper Pack
Earth Love Elements
Creativity by Crystal
Me & My {Baby} Brother Paper Pack
Queen of Quirk
Love: Me Accent Pack

Cosmo Cricket Joy Ride Paper Pack, Early Bird Elements,  The Boyfriend Paper Pack, Mr. Campy Paper Pack, Early Bird Paper Pack
Queen of Quirk Scrap Canvas - Flutter

Echo Park Life is Good Paper Pack 2, Springtime Paper/Element Pack #2
Little Boy Paper Pack, Everybody Loves Christmas Paper Pack #1
Little Girl Paper Pack
Splendid Fiins Baker's Twine

Delovely Paper Pack & Delovely Candy Candy by Cosmo Cricket
ESS Stitches V1 By Carina Gardner

Cosmo Cricket Everafter Paper Pack, Snorkel Paper Pack, The Boyfriend Paper Pack, Early Bird Paper Pack, Earth, Love Paper Pack, Joy Ride Paper Pack

Echo Park
For the Record Paper/Element Pack #1
Cosmo Cricket
Hello Sunshine Paper Pack
Crystal Wilkerson
Crystal's {Inspired By Susan Weinroth} Template #03-Butterfly

Creativity by Crystal
Crystal's {Inspired By Susan Weinroth} Template #08
{Color Me Happy} Paper Pack #1
{Happy Spring} Mega Paper Pack
August '09 Rainbow Stripes Paper Pack
August '09 Teeny-Tiny Dots Paper Pack
Crystal's {PLAYGROUND} Element Pack

Kitschy Digitals
Woodgrain Frames Digital Kit
Candy-Coated Garden: Icing Flowers

For the love of baking

Homemade Collection by Baers Garden

I must admit that I love to bake. Especially cupcakes (who doesn't right?). I love the way they look, how easy they are to create, how the smell, their just cute! I love cheesecake or anything with cream cheese. I love chocolate. I love red velvet cake, but I haven't mastered making read velvet cake yet. I love strawberry flavor! I enjoy being the wife a home that's in the kitchen baking. I like to send J to work with treats and he usually shares. It's my part of reaching to the heart. In the phrase, "A way to man's heart is through his stomach."

I am currently working on my stash of cupcake things. I am excited to make cupcakes, but I can't just make them for anything... they tempt me too much. It must be for an event...

Oh but I did make cheesecake cupcakes for the weekend and they are sooo yummy. Photos to come.

I get better at baking everyday.

Greet the Morning

R is so happy when he wakes. He looks up and just grins. I am so glad he is always easy to please and sweet baby. I am blessed. Not to say there are not times when I am cleaning up spit up or up at 3:30 am because he woke up in the middle of the night (a-hum, last night). But in general he is always grinning for strangers and happily playing. We even giggling at each other lately.

I used Bike Season from Baer's Garden to create this layout. One of my favorites so far.

Change

So change has come in the digi scrapbooking world for me. Little Dreamer Designs Shop is closing soon. Love all the designs over there and great CT. Now I have moved on to Baers Garden Designs over at Scrapbook Graphics. I love these amazing kits. This is my new layout for the kit Storyteller.

 When I Met You

from conception...

I knew I could not wait to meet you.

I knew I would love you forever.

After 41 weeks, lots of morning sickness,

hard to get out of bed...

After all of this I meet this beautiful being.

When I met you.

Baby Pages

For sure one of my top favorite layouts!

Credits

Wonderfully Made Crystal Wilkerson
Crystal's {Inspired By Susan Weinroth} Template #03
The Funky Fresh Paper Collection
Me & My {Baby} Brother Paper Pack
The June 2009 Paper Collection
September 09 Paper Pack
Crystal's {Sweet Vintage Charm} Elements
October '09 Sweet {Eye Candy} Elements
Crystal's {Back to Basics} Paper Pack

 

Eat You Up Carina Gardner
Color Kit 2
Cosmo Cricket
Joy Ride Candy Candy
Early Bird Paper Pack
Elle's Studio
Monogram Tags

Watch and Learn

Watch and Learn, originally uploaded by eja stewart.

I've been MIA. So Thanksgiving was nice, but not very eventful. I cooked some yummy food. We just has some of Jason's buddies who really had no where else to be. Then we frantically had to find a place to live by the end of November--that was stressful! NO ONE would even call us back or even pick up the phone. We finally found an apartment which took way to long to process us. So we had a day and a half to move everything by ourselves and the next day hubby went out of town. This is a layout for an everyday moment in our lives. Jason was playing a game and I was probably trying to get supper on the table. Ruger was probably just wanting to be held. Finally Jason was multitasking.

Splendid Fiins @ JessicaSprague.com
Make a Mess - masks vol. 2
brilliant-just egg lace
@ the office paper pack 2
decorative circles
Teen (add-on) full kit
feedsack element pack 2
Flea Market - brads
too cool for school pack 2
Tween (add-on) paper

Mid November Update

Moving so soon! I am looking forward to Thanksgiving. Though I am already seeing so much of Christmas I am almost tired of seeing it...before Thanksgiving! I am thankful for the Lord, my family, friends, and for all the blessings in my life. I have 2 new layouts!

JessciaSprague.com

Baby Giraffe Cosmo Cricket
The Boyfriend Paper Pack
The Boyfriend Elements
Crystal Wilkerson
Me & My {Baby} Brother Element Pack

Crystal's {Inspired By Susan Weinroth} Template #05

Little Dreamer Designs

Christina Smith Subtle Memories & Post Me Strip Months
JM Designs Watercolor Mask
Designs by Lenora Wood Panel Alpha

Happy Wednesday

I have a new layout for you to check out. Using all In the Making Designs by Linda Roos.

JessicaSprague.com

In the Making Designs

Be Berry Paper Pack
It's a start templates 2
La Storia Elements Pack

I have great news. I will be creating layouts and such at Little Dreamer Designs! I can't believe I made the amazing team!

Also check out a giveaway over at Makita Studio. She is giving you a chance to win her new kit that is coming to LittleDreamDesigns.com.

Happy Heart

So I have made my holiday photo to print and send. I am really pleased with the way they turned out. Here is a sneek peek.



A layout using mostly In the Making Designs products.

In the Making Designs by Linda Roo
Flutter By Elements Set
You Are Awesome Mini Kit
La Storia Paper Pack
La Storia Elements Pack
Modernist Elements Pack
Crystal Office Supplies Element Pack
Kitschy Digitals Granny's Sewing Basket
Cosmo Cricket Haunted Candy Candy

So over at JessciaSprague.com you can take one of her awsome classes for FREE. There is a free class starting November 29. Oh and it's not just for digital scrappers! Inspiration everywhere class information here. Register today!

5 months, next week...

6 MONTHS. It is sometimes hard to believe how fast time flies. And like it is always said it's when your having fun- and  I am having fun. The past 6 months have been perfect. Here is a page to put in Ruger's baby book about his 5 month. I used Linda Roo's new brushes for One Buck Wednesday at JessicaSprague.com. Every Wednesday at Jessicasprague.com there will be lots of digital goodies for $1-that's a deal!

Credits
In the Making Designs
Journaling Brushes
Mandarin Breeze Elements Pack
Basically {spotted+dotted} Paper Pack
Flutter By Elements Set
La Storia Elements Pack
Cosmo Cricket
Mr. Campy Borders
Girl Friday Borders

This week I was out of town visiting all my friends and family back home in Georgia. Been busy that's for sure. Not a moment alone! We had something to do every day. Well, ever year my parents have a hayride for about the past 20 years for the church folks. I have only missed 1 in my entire life and that was last year. But not this year. Ruger and I made it to ride in the hay.

Hello, Monday

Kitschy Digitals has some of the cutest frames that are NEW at JessicaSprague.com You may have noticed the frames are the ones on her blog a while back. The are called Clothesline digital kit and too cute not to have. I am in love with them.

Credits
Kitschy Digitals
Clothes Line Digital Kit
Queen of Quirk
 Jeepers Paper Pack
Lucky Duck Paper Pack
You Are Here Full Kit
Echo Park
 Apothecary Halloween Element Pack 1
Splindid Finns
 @ the office paper pack 1
Creativity by Crystal
 Crystal's {Sweet Vintage Charm} Add-on Elements
 Crystal's {Tons of Scallops} Template Kit
 Crystal's {Rainbow Sherbet} Collection

So this weekend was great. Pumpkin Patch on Friday and after church on Sunday the Airsho all in the same weekend. With all the planes fling around how could you not love being at an airshow. It's events like these that make me wish that Ruger was old enough to remember. I know that the most important thing is making our own traditions, though we will not be here forever to make this a regular tradition. I guess he will have to look at the pictures years down the road to know that he was there. It was funny, but made me sad when he would get that huge frown/cry on his face and scream when the jets were flying by very loud. It made me a little sad seeing how much that sacred him. Until the jets were done he was not in the best mood.

Happy Columbus Day!

Today is Columbus Day! The best part of this day is family time over a 4 day weekend--yes a 4 day weekend. And not only that but for the hubby a 3 day work week. Best week for him this year (other than his vacation time -of course). So we went to a birthday party this weekend. Grilled out with Jason's buddies. And today just hanging out. Here is a LO for the birthday party. The weather was perfect for a back yard celebration. It is now only in the 80s around here. Feeling nice. It's the first days for us in West Texas desert getting a break from the hot 90 degree weather. I also have a LO from this summer while visiting back home of Ruger and his friend. I hope these boys will be friends like I had friends growing up. My best friends were those I went to church with and they still are some of my closest friends. They are the truly best friends forever!!!

Lots going on over at JessicaSprague.com. New classes, more CTMs, and many more LOs. Head on over there to check it out. Here is my layouts for More In Store Monday...

Hello, I'm 2

New Template/QP by Creativity by Crystal

Full Credits

Boys + Friend

Splendid Finn's Feedsack Paper Pack &

Feedsack Ric-Rac & Messy Stitches

Full Credits

Welcome Fall!

All the wonderful new products coming from JessicaSprague.com is looking a lot like fall.  Here a some new layouts. Today is $1 BUCK Wednesday. Today there are 16 products each is just a buck!! One Buck Wednesday is every Wednesday!! I used Splendid Finn's Epoxy Mixed Bag and Echo Parks new digials Orchard Lane 2 Paper and Elements.
I can not wait to get some fall pumpkin pictures to show off! Well, I made it another week without my hubby. So glad he has a few days off. Hopefully I will get my fall pictures this weekend, we will see.

Credits

Credits

I have

some catching up to do on posting. Here are my recent creativity with digital supplies.
Well my poor baby was given shots this week and I made it alone! It was a hard week with no one to help out in the evenings. Being apart stinks. I am proud that this week is almost over. Whew!

My first to post actually hybrid 12x12 page. I think I will be doing more hybrid pages! It was a lot of fun and pretty easy!
Credits from JessicaSprague.com



So here is a bag I was given for a shower gift. I have placed photos with 4x6 mini pages. I thought of this as a page all together. I am really pleased the way it turned out.
Credits-In the Making Designs








and of course a page for the baby book. Credits-JessicaSprague.com


R's Hand Prints. I am exicted about this layout. I 'digitalized' his hand prints for his baby book. I used Jessica's Photoshop Friday Ep. 6 to create this page with his hand prints.

Queen of Quirk & Pasilee Press| You Are Here Full Kit
Kitschy Digitals|Fabric Covered Buttons Kit
Jessica Sprague| Photoshop Friday Ep. 6