TIME TO CELEBRATE!!!!!

This weekend is very, very special in my family. My brother Bill is 53 and has never married. This weekend he is marrying Maria Javed!!!! Maria is a beautiful woman with two awesome twin 15 year olds - Xena and Donnish. We are very, very blessed to have you join the family!!! They will be married Saturday and there will be a big party afterwards. Talk about fun and photo ops!!! :) This scrapper and sister can hardly wait!
Meanwhile, I have a couple of projects to share... One is the card I made for my husband Steve's birthday last week. I was totally ill with the flu and had taken a bunch of meds for sinus and pain so I was "high as a kite" when I made this card. (Blushing here!) It's totally not my style but I love how it turned out!

Next is a two page layout that took me over a week to do between grief and illness... I used a Close To My Heart sketch, a Scrapdango challenge for one page, a My Sketch World challenge for the other and created this layout about my dear friend Trish...


And finally, I just want to thank all my dear, dear friends and family who have been praying for my family and I lately. Life's been super crazy with emotional ups and downs, crises, illness and everything else. Without your support and prayers and encouragement it would have been much more difficult to get through the past few weeks. I honestly don't know how people manage to get through life without faith in God! I certainly wouldn't be able to anymore! So THANK YOU! God is gracious and merciful and has placed some wonderful people in my life to be "Jesus in the flesh" as a little girl once told her daddy many years ago. May God richly bless each and every one of you!!!
Now... It's time to get ready for my trip!!!!!! It's WEDDING TIME!!!! :)