Thank You {and lots more Christmas photos}

I'm continuing to work on my thank you notes!  So...I'm popping in today with cards for the current CAS-ual Friday's challenge.  I shamelessly cased Laurie's gorgeous card layout here.  Don't you just love the touch of patterned paper.  I just adore her designs.  I think I'll be using this layout again very soon!

Since I have several thank yous to send, I went ahead and made a set of cards for the Hero Arts Challenge too.  It's not the best photo of the set, but you can get the feel for the set :)

With my Hero stamps out, I decided to make another card too. I needed a thinking of you card for a friend who lost their dad on Christmas day.  Certainly am lifting their family up in prayers.

I also have more Christmas pictures to share!  These are from the day after brunch.  We host brunch for both sides of our family.  Very laid back day with lots of play time for the kids.  Living in a house full of boys means that there is quite often Nerf guns purchased for Christmas.  At some point in the day, there always seems to be a Nerf gun fight.  Pat was trying to teach Jay how to shoot the gun.  You can see Pat laughing his head off because Jay kept trying to shot himself in the face. The three boys:  Collin, Marcel & William were shooting at Pat off our balcony!

 Below are snapshots from the day...enjoying a yummy brunch.  Marcel and William jamming on their paper guitar and good old family time together.

The highlight of Collin's day was getting out his Easy Bake Oven.  He cooked for about an hour with Aunt Cindy, Olivia, Madeleine and Elizabeth.  We all enjoyed cookies and soft pretzels out of the Easy Bake Oven.  My little chef was in his glory!

And that's it for today!  Thanks for hanging in there (if you made it this far!).  I hope you have a great Thursday!