Labor Day Weekend

The last weekend of summer. Have fun all of you moms sending kids off to school! Mine will be going on Tuesday. But for now, we'll have one last weekend of summer. Hopefully the weekend will cooperate for us to go to the beach a few more times!
Have a great weekend!


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Booked our vacation!!

Finally, finally... we are planning our first vacation!! (without other family members that is) :) We booked a great vaca to Walt Disney World for Jan '09 and we are planning on surprise the kids at Christmas time. OH, SO excited!!! Can wait to see the kids faces as they soak in all of the "magic of Disney" Only 4 1/2 more months now.

A couple pages to show off today:




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This is Gabe and Ry last summer. Auntie Kelly got them matching shirts and they were SO CUTE!

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Last week of summer is here...

We just got back from Wisconsin visiting with Aaron's family. It was very good times. We spent time at the lake, boating and swimming. The kids had LOTS of 4-wheel riding with Grandpa Red. They were very sad to go.

Now we are on to the last week of summer. I made Sophie a backpack tag for school (since she is riding the bus)

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Summer Almost Over...

I can't believe that summer is almost over. One more week until BOTH Sophie and Gabe start school. What am I going to do. Boo hoo.... Well, it might be nice right away to have a little time to myself; but I'm sure that will get old fast. Well, I am going to get one go field trip in next week with them before school starts...what should I do?

Here's a layout that I did last night at ScrapMatter's Speed Scrap (you have to following instructions and finish a layout in an hour)Turned out not bad! It is from when we went to Chicago, last spring.

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Here one of Soph I took at the park. Sophie LOVES her freckles! Especially since I told her, that my grandpa called them angel kisses. If you've guess it, I have millions of freckles. So with that in mind she is delighted to have a few sprinkled on her nose....she keeps waiting for more

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Layouts Recongized

So, today I go to open the blog page at ScrapMatters (which is a site I stalk regularily) and OMG...there are my layouts, plains as day. This SO made my day!! Check it out:
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Been sick...

Most of you know that I've been sick for while now... about 3 1/2weeks now. Yep, still have that crazy tiredness and hacking cough. I just can't seem to get over this. Went to the doctor AGAIN they gave me stronger meds, an inhaler and I got to sit in LABS for over an hour to take a chest xray that I never got too (I eventually had to leave to get Sophie to an appt) Anyways, here are a few layouts I've done over the past few days (in between coughing). Good thing they aren't paper layouts! HA!


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Here's my sneaky two when they want something.
And it was actually Gabe that started this whole things and taught Soph.

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Family

I just LOVE my family. Sometimes I just need to say it outloud! We had the BEST time yesterday at Valleyfair, and the kids were SO delightful! They had no meltdowns, no moments of tiredness...they just plain old enjoyed themselves, which in turn makes me enjoy them ALL the more!

All that LOVE just inspire these great pages.

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Going to ...Valleyfair!

I am so excited! I have been begging Aaron to go to Valleyfair for the last two years! He broke down and got me tickets for my birthday... so we are heading there tommorrow!! YAY! Can't wait! Now it totally better be 85 and sunny!


This was our summer family picture last year. I just realized I haven't takin any this year. Boo hoo, no family shots or shot of the kids. Bummer.

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Ready 2 Learn? Lets make pictures better...

I always thought you have to take AMAZING pictures to be a good photographer. And although my photography skills are not that bad, PHOTOSHOP is an absolute dream! It is SO easy to make horribly dark pictures better. Almost all of them, including the ones that my hubbie, Aaron takes. HA! Here is an example of one that was rescued:

Open your picture. Then make a duplicate copy in your layers palette by right clicking on the layer of the photo, then select, duplicate layer. Then choose the top layer of the photo and move up to the scroll down, select SCREEN. Do this once or twice till your photo is amazingly lightened. Then continue with your color correcting. EASY, right?


Here is my layout that I did with these incredibly HORRIBLE photos.
Believe me ALL of them were pretty terrible. Pretty cute, huh

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I'm havin' major inspiration!

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Totally Cleaning House...

OK, not really. But it feels like it. Just get a few pages done in the last couple days and organizing some photos.

The new addition in our house... a piano!! $100 baby! Sophie is SO thrilled!


Over 4th of July, Gabe's friend (who is 5) started riding his 2-Wheeler with out training wheels. Well he had to do it too. He did SO wonderful. In about 5 minutes he was off on his own. Big Boy!

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Gramma and the little ones:



Here is one of Leinie. Times flies, I think she is about 7 1/2 now?




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Getting on with REAL Life!!

Trying to get back in the swing of things since being back. It still seems crazy though. I started shopping for fall clothes for the kids and we registered Sophie for school today. A 1'ST GRADER!! Ahh, so weird.

Things have been busy scrapping of course. There is a grand re-opening at ScrapMatters. So this week will be a crazy scrapping week. Which is good, more pictures done and stored away!

Here are a few that I've done recently:

I have to tell the story behind this one: We just got up north and we were walking on the shoreline. DH and the kids were picking stones to 'skip rocks'. Well my DD slipped on the slippery rocks and fell in. She was SO upset that she thought she was bad and ran off... After I calmed her down and told her it was an accident I decide since she was wet already, her and her brother might as well go swimming. So I know this is going to forever be a cherished memory. "the time when they got to swim in their clothes'

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My Gabe. Such a Sweet Boy!!

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Here is little, er, big Aisiah (Sammy).

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Some of these layouts are going back to last year. But I thought you'd still want to see:


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I'm BACK!!

We are offically back! I bet you missed me right? Woow, what a week. I have been sick for the last 2 weeks now, not always the best time to take a vacation but alas that is what was planned. We spent the last week and gramma and papa's, playing with our cousins, and a couple trips up north as well.

Heres a pic for ya, we had our first family bowling night on this last rainy Friday night. OMG the kids LOVED it! Gabe asked tonight, if tomorrow we could go bowling. HA HA That would be the life to go bowling every day!






Here is a collage of pics from our 4th of July Kids Weekend that I put together at the resort up north. 2'nd Annual!! Yes, this is the 2'nd year we did this and hopefully we will continue. Ah, it was SO awesome!!! The kids had a blast... we had a bounce house, golf game, balloon pop game, face painting, parade!! How much more fun can you get?!?


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Party Hat Freebies...COME PLAY!

IF you haven't picked up the freebies at Sugarplum Paperie, do it now before the end of the week. This whole kit is FREE, right now...go download http://www.sugarplumpaperie.com/

Lots of fun going on TODAY... hee hee Be sure to check out her site for more details! It's Sugarplum Paperie's 1st anniversary and there are LOTS of good stuff going on... including a BLOG hop where several other have made goodies that go with this kit!

Here is my very small contribution! Feel free to download at: http://www.4shared.com/file/56874122/76211998/Party_Hat_QuickPage.html