What I made with My Memories Suite!

OK, so I know I said I would post this sooner so you could see but Lyle turned 40 this week and that has taken all of my time....SO... I am going to extend the giveaway to November 4th at midnight. I will change the original post and that is where you will enter the giveaway. The instructions are all there. Go HERE

OK so I did this album in about an hour, maybe a little bit more. I fooled around a lot! The first 4 pages are pre-created templates and the last 2 I created myself. It was a lot of fun. It takes me awhile to get any creative juices flowing, so I think this is pretty good for a first attempt. Here it is:






Here are the 2 I created:




Only a few people have entered the giveaway...I know more of you wanted to so go enter here.

My Memories Giveaway!!!

So I was asked recently if I wanted to do a My Memories software giveaway! Of course I was very excited to be able to do so. Go hereto check out their software.

It is AMAZING!! I was looking at this software a few months ago. I have been feeling guilty that I am so far behind. But really, it is a pain to have to print out all of your digital pictures and then figure out some cute way to put it in your scrapbook. I literally have over 1000 pictures I would need to print. I had a hard enough time keeping up with film pictures, once we went digital...forget it!! So that is why I am so excited to use this software. It is all digital. You can just move your pictures that are already on your computer and put them into scrapbooks. They have lots of pages to just fill in, or you can customize it and be as creative as you want. They also have this amazing feature called "Quick Fill". You pick your theme and then quick fill and it literally just fills it for you!! How EASY is that?? I will be using that one for awhile until I feel like I am closer to caught up. You can purchase other styles of paper and themes, but you all know how I am about a deal and free stuff??? They have a section on their website that has FREE stuff!

You can print out your projects from your printer, or have a photo store do it (Costco, Walmart etc.) or you can have them printed in books! Check out the video above so you can learn more about it!
Here are some links for My Memories:
Blog- http://blog.mymemories.com/
Facebook- http://www.facebook.com/pages/MyMemories/140359372717593
Twitter- http://twitter.com/#!/mymemoriessuite

So here is how this My Memories Digital Scrapbook Software Giveaway will work.

1. You can enter by going to the My Memories website
and choose your favorite digital paper pack or layout, then leave a comment telling me which ones you like. (then I can check it our too! :) )

2. Go to the My Memories Facebook page and "like" them, then leave a comment and tell me you did it.

3. Tweet about this giveaway. Then let me know you did!
You can also follow My Memories

I am so excited about this digital scrap booking software. It is going to make my life so much easier, and help me feel so much less guilty!

Oh, and check out my sidebar. If you don't want to wait for the giveaway and just want to get the software which I will add is so reasonably priced, you will see a button over there you can click on to get $10 off. Just use the code STMMMS69698

Such a deal!

The giveaway will end at Midnight Mountain time on Halloween. October 31st!! Via Random.org. So go check out

UPDATE: The giveaway will now end on Friday November 4th at Midnight so enter now!!!!!

I will post what I made with this amazing My Memories Suite next week so you can see some of the easy, cute things you can do!!
POSTED!! Go HERE to check it out

October 6th SNOW!!

‎Let's note the date, shall we...October 6th...OCTOBER...not anywhere near Halloween yet! Look what we have... — in Tooele.

The kids, of course, are excited! Me...not so much. It is my first day of work, which is inside but still just a little more stress. Jackson has a football game today, OUTSIDE!! Not looking forward to sitting out in the snow for that! UHG!! And if it is going to snow there needs to be enough for a snowman. Pretty sure that isn't going to happen!
It rained all day yesterday, which was different since we haven't had a rain storm since we moved here that lasted longer than 30 minutes. It drops a lot of water but is short lived. This was most of the day, Oregon type rain. Hot cocoa weather! We will see what tomorrow brings. We went from one place with unpredictable weather to another apparently!! Good thing we like it here. :)

General Conference October 2011

Well, apparently it is easier to get tickets for General Conference in Utah than it is in Oregon. Any time we talked about getting tickets to Conference while we lived in Oregon, we were led to believe that they were kind of reserved for leadership and that it would be almost impossible to get enough for our family. So, imagine our surprise when we went to Stake Conference here in Tooele and they announced "If anyone would like tickets to General Conference let your bishop know how many you need." Of course, Lyle went immediately to our bishop and told him we would like 8 for our family. 2 weeks later our bishop handed Lyle an envelope with the tickets for Sunday afternoon session. We were so excited!!

We watched the morning session on regular broadcast TV. (Because you can do that in Utah. I am not even sure they showed it at the church other than Priesthood Session)

Then we left for Salt Lake. There was even a parking pass. Of course it was 5 blocks away, but it was free!! It was INSANE how many people were there. Lots of people asking for extra tickets along the walk to the Conference Center and outside it.

Really you are still watching it on big TV screens because you are far enough away that they look so little down by the pulpit. But it was awesome to be in the same room as a modern day Prophet and Apostles and the talks were great!!