Category: Family

  • Hello!  Yes, I am still alive.  I wanted to pop in and let you know I am still here. Between the boys being home for summer vacation, a crazy busy summer work schedule and dropping everything at a moment’s notice to clean the house for a showing so many times… I have neglected this blog…

  • Listen.. Do you want to know a secret? I can FINALLY tell!  My scrapbook room has been featured in Creating Keepsakes Creative Spaces 2011!!!  It’s a special publication bookazine FULL of beautiful, creative spaces (and mine is one of them – I know, pinch me!) I love my space – it’s my own personal Oasis…

  • I thought I would be more scared, but now that it is official, all I feel is peace. 11 1/2 years ago we bought our first home.  It was a real fixer-upper and we were ready for the challenge.  With the help of family and friends (parents especially) we spent 4 months remodeling our home…

  • Welcome to the second annual My Mind’s Eye spring blog hop! My name is Amber Packer and this is your next to last "hop"!  I am sure you have enjoyed the fabulous creations the other designers have shared with you. I just LOVE spring. I love watching earth slowly wake up.  When I first knew…

  • Last week I had a feeling that I needed to save all the photos we have on our external hard drive to our new, bigger internal hard drive and didn’t do it.  On Friday, I couldn’t access the external hard drive.  I didn’t panic, it’s happened before because of a bad cord.  So, I bought…

  • What a fun idea my Son’s Den Leader had when we were coming up with a theme for the Blue and Gold banquet! PIRATES!  Almost every boy loves pirates, right!? And, you can walk the plank and go on a treasure hunt for games.  Well, this is what the crew came up with: My friend…