I've been busy lately getting the house ready for Christmas. I spent about an hour trying to take the perfect photo of my tree for you but I just can't get it. Stupid digital camera. It makes everything really yellowy or very dark and just the lights show. I don't know why my indoor shots are so yellowed and grainy but I HATE it. I'm extremely disappointed especially at this time of year when all the pictures I want to take are indoor. My next camera will have to be an Olympus again I suppose to make use of all my lenses, but I refuse to buy without spending some serious time reading up on it first. I think that's the mistake we made on this one, we just listened to whatever the guy had to say. I also want to make some time this year to take a camera course.

I share with you a photo of my sugar cookie recipe I made. Very yummy. They are frozen in the freezer downstairs awaiting Mom and Dad's arrival so that they can be eaten. They are very tempting though. So far I have been good and only eaten 2. We'll save the rest for the boys. (Okay, maybe I'll eat one more.)

Dad asked me last night if we can rent a hot tub for the yard when they are up. So today I need to see if that is possible. They have those propane fired ones I just don't know if it will be able to get in the yard. The tub would have to be turned to fit through the gate... Does anyone in town even rent hot tubs? I'll have to find this out today. Dad thinks it will be cool to be in a hot tub when it's nearly -40 outside. I think he's ridiculous and he's going to have to wear a toque while in there, but whatever.

Last night I did some scrapbooking and finished off several pages. I had four layouts nearly complete. I'd work on them at June's, get tired and come home. They were all sitting in individual ziploc bags. I'm quite proud I completed them. One of them was my Canada Day layout for goodness sake! About time I finished that. (Speaking of which, Crystal I am short one photo and wondering if you can print me a vertical 4x6 of that group shot you have). The other layout I didn't post here is my last Christmas page from last year. I figure you need to finish a holiday before the next year's rolls around. So I'm all ready to go now.

This is my layout for this years Thanksgiving. The majority of the layout is made with a Studio Calico kit. I'm been receiving their kits for about 5 months now. I LOVE THEM! A box of scrapbooking supplies arrives on my doorstep once a month. It's all really neat stuff that I either wouldn't buy on my own or wouldn't be able to get unless I ordered online. Very fun stuff. They don't often give you too many embellishments though which is okay because I get to work in the stuff I already have.This layout is from forever ago. Ryan's birthday was in September and I made him a soccer cake. The night I started this page I was struggling and I think I started by scraplifting (just had to pause and wonder why blogger did not recognize scraplifting as a word. oh dear) from one of June's Close To My Heart books. I just couldn't finish it. I think it had been incomplete for nearly 2 months. Its now done. It's simple but I quite like it. My favorite part is the "Soccer Field this way" embellishment I had. Perfect fit

I don't work until 12 today and I'm debating between going and taking the recycling, going to the dump, washing the floors etc and scrapbooking. This is a really hard toss up people. I don't know what to do.