my life my memories by Tracy Lynn

Hello
So lately I have been doing a lot of thinking about the upcoming year. This year has seen a few big changes in my life. My father in law has passed away, my eldest son graduated from high school and I am now a grandmother.
My father in law to be Mike Mccarty has passed away. He was a wonderful man whom I care for deeply. I miss him a lot. He lived a street over from us and every time I walked the dogs I went by or saw his house. It is hard walking the dogs now and seeing the empty house. As hard as it is for me I realize my fiancee, Chris, is having a much harder time. He has now lost both of his parents. His mom passed away several years ago. This is the first holiday season without Mike and it is so hard for us.
The next big change, my son, Matthew, graduated from high school. I am very proud of him. It is so hard for me to think he is no longer in school. I feel like life has flown by and I should have stepped on the brakes. This change is leading to another huge change for next year. Mathew is thinking about joining the Marines. I am again proud of this. My only concern is he wants to join the Marine recon division. If this happens he will be put in harms way for most of his military career.
Finally my baby, L.B., who is not exactly a baby i now a Junior in high school.
Chris's older son, Andrew, has a son now. My grandson is Liam and he is so super cute.
All of these changes and a few of the ones to come are why I am making a few changes or goals of my own.
1) I am going to blog more. No more excuses. I am going to sit down and write on this blog more.
2) I am starting a weekly video program...Tuesdays with Tracy. This is where I will create a scrapbook page or a card or maybe both. I will be featuring some new products or some of my current favorites.
3) I will be doing give-a-ways. These give-a-ways will include my current favorite product and/or a product that was featured in my video for that week. This is my way of giving back to a hobby that has given me so much.
I have fallen in love with card making. Which is great because I am determined to use up a lot of my old stash before diving wallet first into the new goodies that are coming out at CHA in January or Feburary. I am so excited to see some of the new goodies but I must make room for them.
So these are my thoughts as of late.
Thanks so much for popping in and reading my little blog.

Hello everyone
I hope you are having a great evening. We had trick or treating this evening. I love seeing all the kids dressed up. They are so so cute.
Today was a great day. One of my layouts got picked by the design team to showcase it today. It was so great to be showcased. I loved it.
So all in all today was great. What did you guys do today? I hope it was great for you as well.
Even better I have tomorrow off. Yeah it is going to be a scrappy good day. Hugs Tracy

Another layout from New York. These photos are of the Metrazur. It is a restaurant located in Grand Central Station. Audi hosted the dinner for the first night in New York.

This is another layout I did of my recent trip to New York. I am in the process of making a mini album of this trip and I will be doing a video soon of the whole album.

These are some layouts I have completed of a mini album I am doing on my recent trip to new York

Hello ladies. How is everyone? Well another week has gone by. It is Halloween time and my boys are looking forward to a few Halloween parties. Me, I love hot apple cider. I also love the fall colors. It seems as if Nature is exploding in color before the long winter sleep that is going to come sooner than I would like.
I have been busy organizing. I am finishing up a mini album of my recent trip to New York with Chris, my fiancee. I am also working hard to organize my scrap room. Not an easy task. I have so many random single sheets of paper. I am gathering them up and ordering matching papers from the collection to make a page kit. I have some basic grey and Kaisercraft on the way.
I am falling in love with the Kaisercraft line of papers as well as Pink Paislee. If you get a chance check out these blogs they are full of inspiration. I also recently discovered page maps blog. Lots and lots of ideas. It should be on every scrappers favorite list.
So let me know what you are up to. Next week I will be taking photos of my not so neat scrap and posting them. If you have some great organization tips I would love to hear them.
For now I must go but I will be back soon. Hugs Tracy

What is going on? I have been super busy lately. Life is going by so fast. I am working about 50 hours a week. On my days off I am been scrapping like crazy. I will be posting 2 mini album videos very soon. One is almost complete. I have to do a final run through to make sure I am happy with it. The other is 50% done. The first one is my sons kindergarten graduation. I am a little late on this one because he has graduated from high school. :) What the hey better late than never. The other is a lot more current. It is of Mine and my fiancee' trip to New York we took last month. So what have you been up to. I want to hear about all the wonderful and wacky adventures you have been on. I also have been searching youtube for some inspiration. Not many mini album videos out there right now. I bet you are all busy creating some fabulous albums. I cannot wait to see them.
For now I hope you all have a great day. Hugs Tracy