Beach Day

After my last scrapbook club meeting, I went straight to work using pieces of the kit. It was really the background paper that inspired me. I knew it would be perfect paper as a backdrop to these pictures of Nick, the first time he went to the beach. Other parts of the kit include the bottlecap, that I used to display the month, the corrugated paper, and the Luminarte radiant rain I used on the blue cardstock. I created the coral paper using a stencil and glimmer mists.



More Monkey Business

It brings me great satisfaction when I use ALL the paper I recently bought. Considering that I still have paper from 1997 when I first started this hobby, that is saying something. I can't believe I have paper that old, but it's hard to let go sometimes. I always think, "well you never know, might come in handy." Most likely, I'll pass it on to the kids to let them play around. So, using the same paper from yesterday's scrapbook layout, I made a card for a birthday party we are attending this weekend. This is also the first square card I have made, so that added a little extra challenge for me.

Monkey Faces

I'm finally on a scrapbook roll again. My goal is to finish the year 2008 by the end of summer and I'm almost to Easter. I'm getting there, slowly, but surely. It's hard not to have fun scrapping when you get to see these cute pictures again. I titled it "Monkey Faces" because Nick is known around our family for constantly making silly, goofy, serious, and mad faces. I bought this Recollections paper a while back and it fit the theme perfectly. Now, if I could get him to stop making mad faces at me, I will have really accomplished something.

20 Year Reunion

This weekend was my twenty year high school reunion. I was surprised by the mixed feelings I had before the party. I was anxious, nervous, excited, and giddy about seeing all my old classmates. Here I am with two of my best friends before the party. We had to have some champagne to toast our twenty-four years of friendship. When we first arrived at the party, we half-jokingly thought we should turn around and go straight home, but we carried on, and ended up having a fabulous time! Amazing to see all of us twenty years later.



Pizza on the Grill

I have been itching to try something new, baking a pizza on the grill AND making my own pizza dough in the bread machine. Both turned out to be a solid choice. I cannot believe how easy it is to make dough in the bread machine. I don't think I can ever buy it again at the store. I may have to tweak the recipe to get a bit more flavor, but I was very happy for the first try. And grilling the pizza, well, Brian did all the work on that one, and he did a great job. Not that I had any doubt in him.

First Lost Tooth

Paige lost her first tooth about two weeks ago. I love this picture of her taken before her dance recital because you can really see that cute little gap. She was so happy to have lost her first tooth. Many of her preschool friends were losing teeth and she just plain felt left out. Kids are so funny about things like that. The tooth fairy brought her two dollars for her first tooth. That seems about right these days.

Spa Time

Although we are still waiting to install the solar on the pool, it is done! It is so nice to see the landscape finally finished. It adds a whole other space to the house that we haven't used since we moved in nine months ago. The kids have been dying to go in, so we fired up the spa last night (since it's still a little chilly, June gloom and all) and had some family time hanging out. We had so much fun!

Happy Robot

I used a Mojo Monday layout from a few weeks ago to create this card for a sweet two year old boy that lives on the East Coast. I don't get to see him very often, but he sure is loved by us. How cute is this little robot having hello? All the papers I got at Michael's and this was the first time I put them to good use.