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!!
Dawn - the mail boxes are Awesome! What a great present to have, and everytime you go to the mail box you can think of your friends!
Posted by: jenny | January 08, 2007 at 08:46 AM
What a wonderful gift that mailbox is! So many memories. How wonderful to have such great friends!
Posted by: JoyFL | January 09, 2007 at 12:05 AM
Wow, what a treasure of a mailbox that gives you treasures each day someone sends you a card.
How lucky you are to be you!
Posted by: Gina Wrona | January 09, 2007 at 01:13 PM