I am completely blown away...

by all of the love I've been shown! I posted in the forums of my creative teams that we'd be gone for awhile & that we were getting ready to celebrate Miles' Heaven day. I told them about how we try to do something good for others on that day because he was so very good to us. I could never have dreamed what I would find when I got home from vacation on Sunday night.

First...I logged onto digishoptalk to check the forums and just see what was happening in digi land. I saw a thread by Shannon (the site owner) that she was thinking of me and she had a link to Jessica Bolton's thread. I clicked on the link and then I started to cry...look what I found:






I already felt so lucky to be on Jessica's creative team...and now I feel so very, very blessed to be a part of these wonderful women. Thank you all so much!! (If you want to get this kit, go to www.thescrapspace.com/jessica and download it...it's free! All you have to do is pay it forward to someone else!)

After I finished downloading it, I received messages from Rez & Cherekaye for me to check out another amazing kit. Here's what I saw on Christina Renee's blog:



Again, the tears started to flow. Thank you so much to all of my buddies on Christina's Dream Team. This truly is a very amazing dream...I love all of you so much! If you want to pick up this kit, go to www.christinareneedesigns.blogspot.com Again, it's free...you just need to pay it forward.

And...check out what else I found on Lauren Reid's blog (I swear I get to create for the coolest, most generous people!!) Thank you all so much for creating these!!



You can pick these up at www.laurenreiddesigns.com/blog

Then, on Wednesday, Christina put these up at her blog:


There's also a challenge over there for you to check out...you can win some amazing gift cards from some super sweet, talented designers!!

I can't thank everyone enough that has been involved in celebrating Miles' Heaven day. I've seen people giving each other gifts in the digi community, I've seen people mention him & do something special in his memory on their blog (thanks Janet!), and I've seen lives touched across the globe. It has truly been an amazing, amazing experience for me.

Here are some layouts I've made using the kit & a couple of these are using the quick pages.







Thanks again to all who have been involved...I love you all so very much!!!

To celebrate Miles' day, we took the kids to the zoo...they loved it! I'll try to post more about that tomorrow. We also bought some preemie clothes that we are going to send to our NICU so that they can give them to a NICU family in need.

I hope you are all having a fabulous day...now go download those amazing kits! :)

On Vacation!!

We are taking some much needed time away! It's just so nice to get out of the house every once in awhile!

We met my parents for dinner at Lamberts on Tuesday night (yummy!!!) and then headed on in to their house. Mason thinks he's at Toys R Us!! He's having a ball playing outside and getting spoiled with lots of attention. Millie sure enjoys the extra attention, too!

We are here until tomorrow morning and then we are heading up to St. Louis. I am going to hang out with Kristen tomorrow & that'll be lots of fun! Tomorrow night is Jason & Annie's rehearsal dinner & I look forward to getting to see them. Hopefully Grandma Mize will watch the kids so we can have a kid-free night! :)

Saturday is the wedding and Uncle Sean & I are doing the pics. I am crossing my fingers that I"ll be able to get a couple of good shots that day! :)

Sunday will be two years since Miles passed away. I've been trying really hard to stay upbeat...but he is constantly in my thoughts...and I've been extra teary, too. It is so hard to belive he's already been gone from us for two years. I hate it that he isn't here with us. He would have been such a good buddy for Mason & I can't help but dream about what life would have been like. There is such a void that just cannot be filled. We try to do something fun on Miles' Heaven day...I want the kids to grow up celebrating his little life & having fun memories on those days. We are taking the kids to the zoo. THere's an aquarium at the zoo...and since MIles loved his fisher price aquarium, we figured it would be a great way to remember him.

Last year we invited our friends and family to celebrate Miles' Heaven day with us. He did so much good for others and his life brought so much joy, that we would love to see that continue on. So...we would love it if you would do something good for others on Miles' Heaven day. IT's a wonderful way to honor and remember him...and it does our hearts so much good to hear of the wonderful things that happen in his memory. I would love for you to let me know how you celebrated his day so I can include it in his box of memories.

Please keep us in your prayers...it's definitely a difficult time for us.

We love you all!

Our needs...

Ah yes...the battle of the needs and wants. Just kidding! I saw this on Janet Phillips' blog and thought I'd give it a try. You need to go to google and search for {your name} and needs (for example, I googled Kellie needs) and then see what the 10 first then things are that you need!

1) Kellie needs a clue (well...isn't that lovely!!)
2) Kellie needs to bring it.
3) Kellie needs to find enough time to work on her PhD
4) Kellie needs her infusion of magnesium
5) Kellie needs our prayers (could always use those!!)
6) Kellie needs to stop reading a script
7) Kellie needs more air-time (and yes...I think a lot of these are referring to Kellie Pickler!)
8) Kellie needs to channel her inner Angelina and drop dad's last name from her's
9) Kellie needs to go
10)Kellie needs to take a few lessons from the Britney Spears experience

Well...now that you know my needs...let's see what Tyler needs!

1) Tyler needs a turbo
2) Tyler needs a friend to eat with
3) Tyler needs a life
4) Tyler needs to learn Russian
5) Tyler needs a new therapist
6) Tyler needs to accept that no one is self-sufficient all the time
7) Tyler Needs Traffic Solution (not sure what that even means!)
8) Tyler needs a band!
9) Tyler needs a caring new home (hahaha!!)
10)Tyler needs some juice

Ok...I want you go to go google and find out what your needs are! Please post them in my comments section so I can laugh with you (or at you!!)

Want to see a new layout? This layout uses a ton of Christina Renee's goodies and some of the funky playground's funk that spring collab kit. You all really should really go and stock up over at the playground (I highly recommend Christina, Lauren, & Traci!!), spend $10 and get the collab free!



Isn't she cute?

Guess what?!? I noticed Millie got her first tooth tonight! She bit down on my finger and lo and behold...there was a little tooth there! That explains why she's been so fussy here lately!!

We're excited for tomorrow...Aunt Denise and her boys are in town and we are all meeting for lunch at the Olive Garden! Yummy!! It'll be fun to see them, the grandparents, and Laura & Mary, too!!

Hope you all have a great day!!

Momma's got some crazy curls!

I don't know how many of you watch the show "Lost," but Tyler and I are addicted (thank you Jessica Hollis!) We've flown through seasons 1 & 2 on the DVD and then downloaded the episodes of season 3 we missed on Itunes. We are all caught up and loving it!

There is an actress on there (Evangeline Lilly) who has the best curls. I thought I'd give it a try. So...I was going for something like this:


But for some reason, I kept ending up like Hurley!!



So...obviously I started to give up on the idea of embracing my natural curl. I went to Kim on Thursday for a haircut and she just laughed at me and my "Lost" description of hair. She cut a lot of the weight out of my hair and added some more layers. She challenged me to put the straightener away for a week & try to get used to my curls again. I'm happy to say...I don't look like Hurley anymore. I'm still adjusting to them, but it sure makes getting ready a whole lot easier in the morning. My hair is fixed in less than 5 minutes!

Here's a pic of Millie and I at the park on Saturday wearing matching curls! (and Tyler wans to make sure that everyone knows he's the photographer behind the camera! LOL!)



So...you're all caught up on Kellie's hair drama! Don't you feel more enlightened now?

Ok...I need to tell you guys about the fun kit I used to make that layout. If you spend $10 or more at www.funkyplaygrounddesigns.com this week, you'll get it for FREE! It is packed full of tons of goodies!! I had tons of fun scrapping with it!

Here's the full kit:


I've been such a bad blogger that I don't know if I ever told you guys I'm a guest on Christina Renee's dream team. My favorite scrappers are on her CT and I feel so lucky to be scrapping along side of them. Also...the amazing Traci Murphy has asked me to be a guest for her this month, too!! She also sells at www.funkyplaygrounddesigns.com Seriously...somebody pinch me! I just started scrapping a year ago...and can't believe how far I've come and who I've been able to work with this year. It has been such a fun ride!!

So...go shopping & scrap! (and let me see the pages you make!)