Scrappin' Addict

Sorry

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I haven't been here for MONTHS, sorry everyone. Seems like I've been so busy, both kids in school, cub scouts, girl scouts, work, etc. etc. I'll try and do better, I promise :)

Carlee can ride with no training wheels now!!

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Its been a LONG TIME blog......

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Ok, life has gotten in the way of my blogging. First my wireless router went down on me, then work got in the way. My Uncle has had a stroke, and I've been keeping him a caringbridge.org site, so that has taken what little free time I've had. I promise to be a better blogger this spring and summer, especially once Uncle Ronnie is on the mend. 
 
For now, if you would like to check in on his caring bridge site, here is the link.
 
www.caringbridge.org/visit/ronniedebord
 
Thanks for caring-see you again real soon.

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Sent from my iPhone Bobbi Oneal

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Sent from my iPhone Bobbi Oneal

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Sent from my iPhone Bobbi Oneal

I'm a bad blogger...

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Forgive me-I'll be back real soon, if I ever get my router up and working again.

Whimzy

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Whimzy
Originally uploaded by wlrph

I love those pics of her ;)

Some new layouts-

2008-10-05T19:45:00.003-04:00

sorry for the bad pics-this cold has my head in a fog

these are all with the new Kenner Road kit from September-so loving what she is doing-of course I added a few vintage game pieces & encyclopedia pages of my own.

The second layout is a photo of my grandfather as an infant-taken in either 1918 or 1919-I have discovered this was the worst months for deaths from the flu ever-so I've been wanting to do a layout highlighting that-when I got this PP Vintage Moon transparency with my KR kit, it just seemed like it fit. The other is a layout of my son being his usual germ-a-phobe self eating without his hands because he couldn't was them at the park :)

I've found my new favorite kits....I think

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check out Kenner Road at www.kennerroad.com
 
I'm so in love with her kits-hope its a success for her!!

I wonder

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I wonder
Originally uploaded by wlrph

my grandfather is in the middle in the back-WWII

Like a deer in headlights

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Like a deer in headlights
Originally uploaded by wlrph

quick layout this weekend, TFL

quick layout..

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Scrapbook 002
Originally uploaded by wlrph

..just took like 10 min, but I like it

TFL

Here's my Dad..

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dad
Originally uploaded by wlrph

..handsome lad wasn't he. You've been gone way too long, can't wait to get to know you better someday.

I miss you Dad.

Picture Perfect

2008-09-06T22:38:00.002-04:00

When I found this quote-I knew I had to use it for this picture. Add to that the old sewing book I found, just itching to have a page ripped out, a price tag, some lace, embroidery floss, and buttons, and you have this layout. Used Daisy D paper & Bazzill cardstock, CI rub-ons. Thanks for looking :)

woohoo-I'm published, kind of

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four of my layouts on www.scrapbooking.com in the Sept e-zine. Just click search and type in my name and you'll find them, I'll post links later

I've had an awful day..

2008-08-15T16:25:00.001-04:00

..at work, but on a good note-I won a 22 inch LCD TV- (or rather DH did, but he doesn't have to know now does he :) )

Another milestone....

2008-08-12T12:35:00.000-04:00

well, today is the first day I dropped Asa off at school then I went to work. It seems like he's farther away than ever. I am glad he's liking it, just wish Carlee could've went with him.

Updates...

2008-08-11T09:34:00.001-04:00

Asa's back at school today-he threw up again this morning, but seemed ok with going after that.
 
Carlee kind of has a cold, and I gave her some medicine for it yesterday afternoon-which made her sleepy. She got in the bed and asked me to lay down with her-which I did, then we both fell asleep. When I woke up, Asa had learned to ride his bike by himself with no training wheels. He only got his first bike at the end of June-and had never ridden one before then. Danny said he asked him to take off the training wheels yesterday-and that's all it took-he can fly on it-and so far no scraped knees.

Altered....

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shadowbox
Originally uploaded by wlrph

...made this for my new msg board friend from Idaho-Tim Holtz Distress Inks, Crackle Paints, Metal Tag, page from old encyclopedia for background, coffee ring stamp, old typewriter computer font, Hemp string

What would you do with one of these???

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altered
Originally uploaded by wlrph

This came in the mail to me this week from a drug company-advertising for a new anti-fungal (no wonder drugs are so high). I started to put it in the trash, then I thought hey-why not try to use my newly acquired scrapping powers on it!!

It came like this.

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altered
Originally uploaded by wlrph

It came flat in an envelope-looked like this-it has a flimsy rubber band in the middle the pulls the sides today when it isn't being held flat.

After paper was applied

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altered
Originally uploaded by wlrph

I cut out the two pieces of paper-I stuck them to the calendar-the edges didn't really look good, so I covered with ribbon-better than nothing.

Then I added some small pics I had taken of the kids yesterday, some Maya Road ribbon and embellishments, random buttons given to me by my Granny, and Making Memories ledger letters.

I traced it while it was flat

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altered
Originally uploaded by wlrph

then I cut out two pieces of patterned paper to apply to the calendar.

The top of my creation

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altered
Originally uploaded by wlrph

{AWW}

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altered
Originally uploaded by wlrph

My Man

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altered
Originally uploaded by wlrph

Cutie

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altered
Originally uploaded by wlrph

Best Buds

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altered
Originally uploaded by wlrph

Hard Work

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altered
Originally uploaded by wlrph

first time he got to use a weed-eater

Sweet

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altered
Originally uploaded by wlrph

Kind of cool

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Originally uploaded by wlrph

I'm happy with it-it'll keep me entertained at work :)

My boy is now a man.....

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....or at least he thinks he is-he got to use the weed-eater for the first time today-then, in the tradition of his father before him, he got his first yellow-jacket sting. Go figure

New layouts from the weekend

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These were for challenges/sketches at the Kits & Pieces
forum for their "Make room for MORE" Crop coming up this weekend.

This first one is a Journal-A-Lot challenge-where 1/2 of your layout is supposed to be journaling-Graphic 45 PP
This next one is for a Background challenge-I painted craft cardstock with gold & pewter metallic paints-then I took the metal theme and ran with it. I raided Danny's garage for various metal elements-and then took some Tim Holtz alcohol inks and and colors all the metal - the journaling says "Tough as Nails"
and this last one was an adaptation of a sketch by Julie Fen-fai Balzer - it really changed from her original-and is way more colorful than I usually do, but Carlee was helping pick out the stuff for it

NOTE: to self

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Buy 7Gypsies Savannah
 
& Karen Russell Acrylic Stamps after CHA!!

Karate belt test yesterday.

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And once again they did great-I love the respect and discipline the class is teaching them. You wouldn't think a Mom would love to see her kids fighting!!

Hehehe-I'm a little excited today

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Scrapbooking.com is going to put three of my layouts in their e-zine. How cool is that!!!

Crack Shot

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MME PP & Rubon

MM Cardstock

TH Distress inks

She's got the look

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Graphic 45 PP

HS chipboard

MM Paint

My first real mini album!!

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Scrapbook 022
Originally uploaded by wlrph

I broke my bind-it-all out today-and this was SO SIMPLE to do!! It only took 4 pages of Teresa Collins' FABULOUS Journal-it papers, two Zutter 8x8 chipboard covers, one pkg zutter cardstock pages in black-and a few narratives stickers, some heidi swapp chipboard alphas-and it was done!! I'm so prou of myself for finishing an idea instead of leaving it half done!! WOOHOO!!!

(and I used one of TC's fabulous leather album closures too-AWESOME!!)

Inside front cover

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Scrapbook 023
Originally uploaded by wlrph

TC PP
MR Sheers
Narratives stickers

UNO

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Scrapbook 024
Originally uploaded by wlrph

TC PP
HS Journaling spot & Chipboard alpha
MR ribbon & slide

Ladderball

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Scrapbook 026
Originally uploaded by wlrph

MR Sheers
Inkessentials white pen
TC PP
Narratives stickers

Ladderball journaling

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Scrapbook 025
Originally uploaded by wlrph

TC PP
HS chipboard alphas
Narratives stickers

Washers Journaling

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Scrapbook 027
Originally uploaded by wlrph

TC PP
MR Sheers
Narratives stickers

Washers

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Scrapbook 029
Originally uploaded by wlrph

TC PP
HS Chipboard alpha
Kaiser rubons

Baseball journaling

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Scrapbook 030
Originally uploaded by wlrph

TC PP
Narratives stickers

Baseball

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Scrapbook 032
Originally uploaded by wlrph

TC PP

Catch

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Scrapbook 033
Originally uploaded by wlrph

TC PP
Kaiser Rubons

Catch journaling

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Scrapbook 034
Originally uploaded by wlrph

TC PP
Narratives stickers
HS Chipboard alpha

Basketball journaling

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Scrapbook 035
Originally uploaded by wlrph

TC PP
Narratives stickers
MR Postal acrylic

Basketball

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Scrapbook 036
Originally uploaded by wlrph

HS Chipboard alpha
TC PP

Soccer

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Scrapbook 037
Originally uploaded by wlrph

Tc PP
HS Chipboard Alpha

Soccer Journaling

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Scrapbook 038
Originally uploaded by wlrph

TC PP
Narratives Stickers

Frisbee

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Scrapbook 039
Originally uploaded by wlrph

TC PP

Asa's first shot

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Scrapbook 040
Originally uploaded by wlrph

TC PP
Narratives Stickers
MR Postal frame

journaling for Casino

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Scrapbook 041
Originally uploaded by wlrph

TC PP
MR buttons

.

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Scrapbook 042
Originally uploaded by wlrph

TC PP journaling
HS alpha

Water balloon

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Scrapbook 043
Originally uploaded by wlrph

Narratives Stickers
Kaiser Rub ons

Journaling to go with water balloon pics

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Scrapbook 044
Originally uploaded by wlrph

TC PP
HS Chipboard Alpha
MR
Kaiser Rub-ons

back of last page

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Scrapbook 045
Originally uploaded by wlrph

TC & Maya Road

Inside back cover

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Scrapbook 046
Originally uploaded by wlrph

Heidi Swapp clock & chipboard alpha
Narrative stickers
TC
Maya Road

outside back cover

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Scrapbook 049
Originally uploaded by wlrph

more Teresa Collins!!

Happy Birthday Paper Trunk!!!!

2008-07-01T09:28:00.001-04:00

You are one year old and I LOVE your stuff!!!
 
check out the Paper Trunk celebration at 
 
http://papertrunk.blogspot.com/2008/06/happy-birthday-paper-trunk.html

My Papa

2008-06-29T12:00:00.004-04:00

My grandfather, Orville Lee. I miss him so much, he's been gone for almost 8 years now, but it only seems like days sometimes. He was the most influential man in my young life. Growing up without my Dad or other grandfather-I spent a lot of time with him. The way his hat is cocked to one side was how he was, and he wore his caps that way his whole life. A good man, with just a hint of an edge underneath the surface.

And since I was the only grandchild for 16 years, I got a lot of attention LOL. He taught me to fish, hunt, build, use power tools, all the useful stuff :) I miss you a lot Papa.

New layout

2008-06-26T11:00:00.002-04:00

Using the Making Memories Passport Line

Some vacation pictures.

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Some pictures from our vacation-I love this one of Carlee with the planter-they were all over the place!
....and this one of Danny & the kids jumping on the beds at the hotel!! They love doing that!!

Hello again..

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..no pictures-I'm at work (sshhhh)

We took a small family vacation to the Tennessee mountains last week. The kids had a BLAST. I think they would be happy anywhere as long as there was a swimming pool. Spent two days at an amusement park, where Asa got to be a magician's assistant-he loved it, but kind of got embarassed when the magician made a joke at his expense. He got over it though.

Since we've been home he has been helping his Daddy work on our pasture fencing. He got his first official work related injury-a blister on his thumb (technically from whacking at the weeds with a corn knife-but since he had his work boots on we'll call it work related!!) He thinks he's so grown up-he's even getting a little farmer's tan!! Carlee wants no part of fencing-says its too boyish.

We also bought them their first bicycles-and they're loving them, I don't think they'll need the training wheels very long. Carlee likes riding a little better than Asa I think but I hope that will change.

At karate yesterday-Asa did really good in the "races" they have. When he started he'd always been 3rd or 4th, but now he's usually 2nd (sometimes tied for 1st). I'm so proud of how much stronger and faster he's become. The class has helped him in so many ways. Its helped Carlee too, but she was always lean & fast, and never really had a problem with self esteem LOL. Anyways, no regrets on karate classes.

I'll try to post some pictures soon, til then have a great week.

OK-I'm a terrible blogger..

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..but I promise vacation pictures this week!!

I can't believe it...

2008-06-21T08:22:00.000-04:00

..Tim Russert passed away. Doesn't seem possible.

Another day at work

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This is my 2nd twelve hour day-I like the fact I can squeeze a lot of hours
into only a couple of days, but miss being away from the kids SO MUCH!! Its
especially hard if one of them (like Carlee did today) wakes up before I
leave.....so hard to leave the little munchkins!! If it weren't for my Mom
coming to the house to babysit I don't think I'd be working at all- :-(

Sweet

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Sweet
Originally uploaded by wlrph

This is one of my new favorites. The journaling reads "TODAY: I fell in love with you all over again"

How could you not with those gorgeous eyes!!

Future Model

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Future Model
Originally uploaded by wlrph

Such a sweet picture of DD-she can even made a rock look pretty!!

Enuf is Enough

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Enuf is Enough
Originally uploaded by wlrph

I just love this picture of him...he's so annoyed with me!!

(and my baby lost another tooth today :(....

I think he gets tired....

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Originally uploaded by wlrph

...of Mommy taking so many pictures!!

Have you ever seen a more perfect girl?

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Originally uploaded by wlrph

....I don't think I have

Family Fun at Memorial Day

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Click on the picture to get a larger version-what's wrong with it?? Aren't computers wonderful!!

Page of Little Learners picnic

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Page of Little Learners picnic
Originally uploaded by wlrph

..and a gift for the FRC staff

Page from the kids first bowling trip

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Page from the kids first bowling trip
Originally uploaded by wlrph

and a K&P multiphoto challenge.

Visit www.mykitsandpieces.com

Wonderfully you

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Wonderfully you
Originally uploaded by wlrph

using Karen Russell's Narrative Line

Journaling reads

"Carlee-your sweet smile melts my heart everytime. You really have me wrapped around your finger."

The Thinker

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The Thinker
Originally uploaded by wlrph

My little boy is so serious..makes me worry sometimes

Eye Candy

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Eye Candy
Originally uploaded by wlrph

"Whenever I look you in the eye its like I can see your soul"

This is the look of work waiting to be done....

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Asa working April 26 2008 057
Originally uploaded by wlrph

....just glad its my husband's work and not mine :)

Carlee page

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Scrapping-Scarlet Lime April 08 kit
Originally uploaded by wlrph

Asa Page

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Fragile Asa 6
Originally uploaded by wlrph

First-you determine which gravels you are going to move first

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Asa working April 26 2008 001
Originally uploaded by wlrph

Then you fill this wheelbarrow with it so you can move it

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Asa working April 26 2008 002
Originally uploaded by wlrph

Then you have to smooth out the gravel you just dug up from 10 feet away!!

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Asa working April 26 2008 004
Originally uploaded by wlrph

See, this new gravel is much better than the old gravel was

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Asa working April 26 2008 010
Originally uploaded by wlrph

The Thinker

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Asa working April 26 2008 030
Originally uploaded by wlrph

Apparently, Asa is having his own little strike against working-must be the union blood in him

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Asa working April 26 2008 035
Originally uploaded by wlrph

He thinks he's getting tired at this point

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Asa working April 26 2008 040
Originally uploaded by wlrph

Asa is obviously explaining something-he talks with his hands

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Asa working April 26 2008 042
Originally uploaded by wlrph

Looks like the boys have abandoned work for the day

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Asa working April 26 2008 058
Originally uploaded by wlrph

Why do little boys love to bother cats??

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Asa working April 26 2008 059
Originally uploaded by wlrph

Never seen many light sabers on a farm before!!

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Asa working April 26 2008 065
Originally uploaded by wlrph

Trying to be a better photographer....

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But I'm not..but I got some good pics of the boy helping Daddy work....First-you fill the wheelbarrow with gravel

Asa says you gotta put your back into it.....

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"Whoever Believes in the SON has eternal life...but whoever rejects him will not see life..."John 3:36

Found this sketch on the Homegrown Hospitality Blog - I LOVE IT

My babies think they're artists...

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The first one is a picture that Carlee drew...she loves drawing

This next one is Asa's....he says its a rainbow-and that's God under it with his throne!!!

I love my babies!!!

My Fearless Offspring!!!

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