New Digi Scrap Pages

So I realized it has been forever since I updated this thing. I have been going through some stuff. Anyway, I have been doing a few more digital scrapbook pages, so I thought this would be a good time to upload them. Tell me what you think!

More Digital Scrapbooking

I started making a silly album to chronicle our time as Hurricane Ike Refugees a few months ago, and since I had some down time this week, I decided it would be a good time to finish the album. We were evacuated for 6 days... 11 family members in a 2,300 square foot, one-story house... things were a little tense from time to time! *This album in no way means to make light of a very serious situation which left many people, including my own uncle, homeless. It was more to laugh at ourselves. Enjoy!

Semi-Annual Girls' Slumber Party & Jean's Baby Shower

August 30, 2008

Twice a year, the aunts and cousins in my family get together for a Girls' Slumber Party extravaganza. This year, we included an intimate baby shower for my cousin, Jean, who is anxiously awaiting the arrival of her first child, Miss Eva Kelly Hays. Eva will be blessing us with her presence just in time for Christmas. Since Jean and her husband Wendell are currently living in Orlando, we wanted to make sure we could throw her a shower before the baby came.

We started out the party in the afternoon with mimosas (sorry Jean!) and some light conversation before heading to the nail salon for manicures and pedicures. Since the majority of the family has fall birthdays, this was Aunt Linda's gift to everyone. It was wonderful to have a day of pampering!!

After the nail salon, Baby Eva decided that she was hungry for cake. We couldn't turn the growing baby down, so we bucked tradition and ate our cake before dinner. Jean says that Eva feels if she has dessert first, she will always have room for it. We actually had two cakes. One for Baby Eva (chocolate with a chocolate mousse filling and a super sugary icing) and one for all the birthday girls (yellow cake with cream cheese filling, cream cheese icing, and chocolate covered strawberries). Sorry chocolate cake - the yellow cake was DIVINE!

Once we had our fill of cake, it was time for dinner. We had a yummy firehouse spaghetti (compliments of Aunt Mary) and my famous Mexican Cornbread Casserole. There were also many delicious appetizers, a great salad, and Aunt Linda's famous crockpot tortilla soup. My cousin Doug made his appearance, as he is often a staple at the parties.

After dinner, we finally let Jean open presents. She was really excited and thrilled at all the great loot! My sister showed up with Madison and she helped with the present opening. She really is a great little helper! I can believe how big she is getting!!

After all the presents were opened and we had ooohed and aaahed all we could, it was time for the slumber party. This basically consisted of laying around talking and laughing until we couldn't keep our eyes open. It was a ball spending time with family. Thanks to Aunt Linda for hosting the event, as usual. I can't wait for the next one!