One Little Word!

Good Morning everyone!  I cannot believe our extreme winter weather here in Nazareth, PA! Our wind chill this morning is minus 22 degrees and our actual temp is 1 degree F!!!!

Brrrrr . . . . . . . .

And I am here today to show you the latest challenge at Challenge YOUrself'!  

This  month, we are featuring "One Little Word."  Each of us on the design team picked our word for the year and made a layout with US in the photo!  If you have not heard about "One Little Word," you can check out Ali Edwards' blog to learn more about it.  I had not heard of it and after reading about it, absolutely love this concept!

Here is the layout that I created:

As you can see, I picked "believe" as my one little word for this year.  Our family has been through so much in the last months of 2013, that I want to believe that everyone will get well and be healthy in 2014!  My mom's condition after breaking her hip in December of 2013 has been deteriorating, but we are trying to be positive and take one day at a time for her.  Seeing her in the intensive care unit has not been easy, but we know that ultimately all things are in God's hands.

Okay,  here are some close ups of my layout:

I stamped the word "believe" using an old stamp that I had in my stash that was given to me years ago! The photo is of me, Anne, and Karen right after we decorated our Christmas tree this past December.  I also used lyrics from Josh Groban's wonderful song, "Believe!"

" . . . believe in what you feel inside, 
and give your dreams wings to fly,

you have everything you need, if you just  . . .

believe."

So please check out Challenge YOUrself to see the February challenge, the wonderful prize you can win, and most importantly, to join in on the fun of scrapping YOU on your awesome layout!  I can't wait to see what everyone creates with OLW!

And now I would like to share some photos with you taken on January 1, 2014.  I took these at a good friends' home:  Barb and Jimmy have been having my family and Karen and Tim over to their home every New Years Day for many years now, and it has become a beloved tradition for all of us!

Barb's home was decorated for the season:

 One of their adorable cats was just relaxing:

 Their tree was beautiful!  As you can see, Santa made a visit to their house, too!

Katie and Anne enjoyed the day, so much!

Katis says: "Thanks, Santa!"

Here's Anne testing her new harmonica:

As always, thank you so much for visiting my blog today.  Please stay warm and safe today.  And have a good one!!!