Wanted to share    a awesome Christmas Present   we got this  Christmas  from Karen and James  .. Our  bestest friends  that live in Maine .. we all have been friends for  18 years… How do I remember that ? Well when  we 1st got married  is when we  moved to California  and  thats when we we met Karen and  James  / AKA Opie and ever since then we have  always kept in touch even after  we all went  different ways  after leaving the Navy.. Every year we  do  our Christmas  exchange  with each other .. .. Karen and James always  pick out the BEST things to give us  for Christmas ..   and well this year is NO different .. Karen has been into Airbrushing and painting  for awhile  you should see their  room she painted  a scene on   it is sooo gorgeous .. This year  she painted us a mailbox with all the license plates  of the states we lived in, California, Mississippi, Tennessee, and Michigan … Mississippi is where Rich and I met , Oxnard California  is the 1st place we lived after we got married , Tennessee is where we had Jessie and  were stationed in Memphis  , and  Michigan is now where we live  once  we got out of the  Navy.. Wow what a awesome  Christmas present huh?  Rich has not put the box together yet because  he wants to  seal it before we put it out this  spring … I just love it ..

Here are  some more  cards I received  while we were gone on vacation over the Holidays.. so Nice  to come home to  these goodies instead of  Bills right ?  Thank you all..

I also received  some goodies just about a week ago from Jaycene.. Thank you  for  everything girls .. If you  haven’t seen the BIG surprise party  photos please check out yesterdays post below  for the links to  them.. I am still spinning from  all that happened .. 

Until later … Happy Stampin!!