It's a Boy!

Allow me to get personal for a moment ...

I am a truly blessed woman. My husband and I have been married for five years. Five glorious, beautiful, fantastic and fun-filled years that we've been truly grateful to celebrate together. For almost the same amount of time, we've been trying to start our family. After a year of trying, we were blessed with a pregnancy, only to have it end in a miscarriage six weeks later. Since that time, for one reason or another, we haven't been able to get pregnant again. That was four years and many infertility treatments ago. And we have longed to bring children into our home!

About a year ago, we started working on the adoption process. There is a little boy at an orphanage in South Africa, named Charlie, that we have been trying to bring home to us. But the process is terribly long and painful. We're at a somewhat stagnant point right now and have been for some time. It could take up to a year, or even longer, before we are able to go through with his adoption.

While we're still hoping and praying to bring little Charlie into our family, we made the decision in the meantime, to move forward with our lives, and start the process of adopting an infant from a local agency here in the USA.

We just barely found out that we have been chosen by a birth mother! She is due in late October and is having a little boy! We couldn't be more ecstatic!!

In honor of this, I have created a few little baby boy backgrounds! I am hoping to get some little baby girl ones made soon too. But for now, I'm being selfish and only took the time to finish the boy ones! :)

Sorry for such a long explanation and for getting so personal. But I felt the need to express my emotions in creating these new backgrounds ...

It's a boy!!

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Holding on to Summer!

Anyone who knows me personally knows that I am a lover of COLOR! The bolder, the brighter, the better! And to me, summertime epitomizes bright, fun color. I know that for most, school is already back in session. But I'm just going to hold on to summer for a wee bit longer :) Enjoy these backgrounds with papers and elements courtesy of Designer Digitals, Summertime Designs, and yours truly ...

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Seaside

These are really simple, and even kind of plain (for my taste). But the papers SO reminded me of the trip my husband and I just took. One of our prizes on the Price is Right was a week long stay in the Hamptons. We had such a wonderful, relaxing time! And these papers took me right back there! So ... for my own nostalgic sake, I created a few backgrounds to remind me :)

(Papers courtesy of Designer Digitals)

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Smoothie Shop

Enjoy these new backgrounds inspired by the "Smoothie Shop" paper collection at Designer Digitals!

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Rainbow of Zebra

Pretty much any color your little zebra stripe loving heart can desire! :)

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Oh Say Can You See

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The 4th of July

Here are a couple more 4th of July backgrounds I made with some papers I purchased over at Designer Digitals. Enjoy! Just a few more days! :)

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Summer Fedoras

So I was utterly inspired by Summer's (Summertime Designs) newest papers and elements - "Fathers and Fedoras." SO cute! They can be for guys OR girls. I love it!

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Let Freedom Ring!

Okay, so it might be a little early to start posting Fourth of July backgrounds. (Although it's now less than a month away!) But this is one of my VERY favorite holidays and with how crazy my summer is going (it's the busy season with weddings), I am worried I won't get any created before the 4th if I don't do this now.

A few years ago, Shabby Princess had these papers and elements and I snatched them up, just waiting for the right time to use them. And, well, my friends - I think the time has come!

Enjoy! And God Bless America! :)

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Let the Sunshine In!

I don't know about where you guys are living in the country, but we've had rain for almost 2 weeks straight here! I am READY for the sunshine and for my SUMMER!

Here are some fun new backgrounds inspired by Amy Teets "Sun Porch" designs over at Shabby Princess. Enjoy! :)

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