5#FIVE#CINCO

it's our 5th year anniversary....

used the cocoa daisy february "color swatch" kit.

we have been thru ups and downs in our relationship.
ya gotta have the ying and yang.
without the downs, the ups wouldn't be so exciting.
life would be boring and you really wouldn't learn from each other.
what i love about our relationship is we do argue...
but..
we always make up.
we can't seem to stay mad at each other too long.
i love him.
so happy and grateful we found each other...
especially grateful that we are gonna keep it going...
til we are oldies but always goodies.
lmao!

happy 4 years!

happy anniversary to my hubby of 4 years!
yes today is the day...
we got married in a civil ceremony with just immediate family & a few friends to witness it.

got up real early this morning and did this..
dedicated to us...

i cannot believe we've been married for just 4 years.
it seems longer...
in a good way!
looking forward for some more & more.
i love this man so much.
he is my best friend...
my shoulder to cry on...
my biggest supporter in everything i do...
he loves me back no matter what...
i could keep going on & on....
i am so grateful that someone up there brought him to me.
he is the one.
i love you my hubby!
thank you for being with me this long and more to come.

anyway, on to the rest of the layout..
here's the deetz...

i used the cocoa daisy march 2013 "sketchbook" kit.
i got the kit a few days ago.
i used only 3 sheets of patterned paper, front & back.
punched shapes of different styles/sizes of circles...
punched borders (love that ek success swiss cheese punch!)
paint splatters, doodling (of course!)...
love how it all came together.
those b&w photos are old ones but good ones.
i love 'em!
hubby loved 'em too and the whole sha-bang layout.

nice way to end the week & begin the weekend.

tomorrow hubby & i are heading to santa monica to spend the whole day together...
going for a run, lunch, run again (depends how far we run at first), & just hang out ...
me & my hubby only and only us.
no kids, no dog.
yey-yah!
so looking forward to it!

hope you all have a great weekend!
and those who have anniversaries...
happy anniversary!

41 years today

my parents have been married 41 years as of today!
wow!
they have a great relationship!

they got this card yesterday...
so now i can share it...

with lots of detailz...

used the july 2012 cocoa daisy kit.
also used some punches from fiskars, ek success & martha stewart.
of course the doodling around the letter stickers makes 'em pop.

happy anniversary mom & dad!
we love you!

loving these past 3 years!

yesterday was our 3rd yr anniversary..
we'll be celebrating tonight @ dinnertime..

but we did get to exchange gifts last night...

he got me this lovely card and even more lovlier STARBUCKS gift card!!!!
yey-yah!
i used it this a.m. and got myself a grande iced skinny caramel macchiato.
i'll have to go the "tall" route from here to get more mileage off the card.

here's what i made him...

the card...

supplied used:  cocoa daisy "pier 39" kit: crate paper & pink paislee patterned papers, american crafts cardstock; add'l supplies from my stash:  stamps by hero arts & michael's, ink:  stampcraft, pen & marker: sharpie, uniball signo, twine, staples, punch:  fiskars.

the mini-album...
for this one i used the cocoa daisy "by the numbers" kit:  papers:  my mind's eye, american crafts letter stickers and elle's studio layered numbers.

i love these elle's studio layered numbers, used them to represent our wedding anniversary date...

this was real simple mini-album..
cut up my papers 4x6, decked out the cover w/ the layered numbers and letter stickers...
inserted each photo between each a paper, added my journaling on papers to the opposite side of each photo...
binded everything together with a ring...
and there you go!

my hubby loved it.
*smile*

have a great weekend!

happy happy 3 years in a row...

today...
is our 3rd year wedding anniversary....

took this..this a.m. while my hubby dropped off maiya at school.
he always has to take it off while going for a run, because he's afraid it'll slip off plus when it's cold out, his fingers tend to get freezy.
he's sensitive like dat!
lol...

and a sneaky peeky on what he's getting...

will share the rest & the card i made for him soon...

anyway,
to my best friend, my soulmate for life...
i love you so much...
and thank you so much for being you...
and letting me be me.

xoxo,
j

at this time, on this date

o my!
gotta share this one...finally!

here's the layout i've been wanting to post for awhile...
i used some american crafts pp and cardstock and letter stickers from my stash.
i've been wanting to use this pp for a long time but just couldn't figure out when and with what...
also used scraps and scraps from some cocoa daisy kits.
crate paper, echo park, jillibean soup, october afternoon, sassafras, etc.
did some tone-on-tone layering of some border punches and doodling.
spray inked here and there too.
also used a ribbon holder as a template for those yellow painted circles you see there.
so fun.

the photo was taken during my and my hubby'z trip in seattle for our 1st yr wedding anniversary.
that was back on 3/13/2010.
the picture was taken exactly at 1:36 p.m., thus the title.

okay, okay...
here it is with the lil dittiez...

a nice way to end the week.

tomorrow nite is date nite while our wonderful neighbors watch the girlz.
it's been too long since we've had one.
dinner & a movie.
can hardly wait!

have a great weekend!

#2 of 2

today is our 2nd anniversary of our 2nd wedding ceremony.
yes we got married 2x.
1st in a civil ceremony on 3/15/2009.
then on 10/24/2009 (after my hubby got back from 6-month deployment).

here's some photos from our 2nd ceremony that i never got to post....

usually WA state is pretty cloudy and rainy around this time...

but something just said, "hey this day...this day is gonna be sunny with the bluest skies."

photos taken by lowell mooney.

a friend of mine helped decorate the reception area.
yes.... those are carnations!
i don't care what anyone says!
carnations are beautiful!
so there!
i created all the tags, layouts for the wedding.
that was fun to do!
i would do all over again.
even the wedding.
it was one of the most fun days of my life.

happy anniversary babez.
xoxo