T-Ball Layout

After many weeks of not scrapping I was able to sit down and play with paper and pictures a little bit this week.  It has been a while since I have completed a challenge at Birds of a Feather, so I decided to start there.  I chose to do the color challenge.  I got the inspiration for this layout from a sketch I had pinned here on Pinterest.  

The pictures are from last years t-ball, his first year of playing.

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Echo Park Layout and Vacation Layout

Hello there!  Back again to share some layouts I have made quite a while back.  I had two pictures sitting on my desk FOREVER waiting for just the right paper.  I finally got tired of looking at them and figured I'd make whatever I had on hand work.  I chose to go with a fun summer line from Echo Park.  I used a sketch, but for the life of me cannot remember where from.  

I wanted to get a picture of these meals that I crave.  I LIVE for these meals!  Wilted lettuce salad, green beans, taters and corn on the cob all from the garden (either my parents or ours) and a good ole' steak bbq'd up by the grillin' king, my hubby, Chris.  Saying these meals are delicious does NOT do them justice.  So I grabbed a pick and by the end of the meal it was obvious that Maddy loved it too as she had food all over her face.  

And a close up of the titling, journaling and stitching.  

 A while back my friend Karen was purging her scrappy items.  She came across this layout she had completed but hadn't put pictures on it yet.  I jumped at the offer as it was stinkin' cute and perfect for some vacation photos I had waiting to be scrapped.

I loved how there was a smaller page on top of a larger page.  I want to try this myself sometime!  So fun!  

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Coast Vacation

Hello all!  It has been a while!  I have been peeking in at others blogs, but don't always have time to comment on your posts.  Life has been quite busy lately.  A week ago yesterday we took off for the Oregon Coast with our camper in tow for a family vacation.  My parents stayed in a hotel nearby for the first half of the trip, and we met up with Chris's Grandparents, parents and brother and sister in law the other half.  We had so much fun and did so many fun things.  

We hit the Oregon Coast Aquarium.  

 The kids really enjoyed it.

 After that we stopped by Mo's.  You can't hit the coast without going to Mo's for a shrimp cocktail and clam chowder (well, I take that back...I could..but Chris can't).  Notice Maddy's hair.  Between time in the car and all the wind and moisture there was no taming it.  

My mom found out that the tide was going to be at its lowest point on 4th of July morning.  So we took off for a specific beach (can't remember the name of it now) to do walk and search for 'treasures'.  There were TONS of starfish and anemones.

 We attempted a family picture and the usual happened.....

 I'm not sure if you can see it, but there are a tone of starfish....

 The kids thought these little Hermit Crabs were really cool.  Heck, Chris and I were entertained watching them too.  We watched them climb out of their shells, flip the shell over and take off.   

 It was so pretty and fun.  It was quit slippery and I think almost everyone took a tumble as did many other beach goers that morning.  Below...you can see how far out the tide was, it is usually up where the kids are.

 We camped at Beverly Beach our first half and it was nice as we could drive to the opposite end of the  campground and walk under the highway to get to the beach.  We could have walked, but it was a tad far for the kids.

 Thank goodness for Mema (my mom) who walked in the ocean with the kids.  I thought it was too cold.  Chris and my mom didn't mind wading in the water with the kids though.

 I came across this on one of my walks and thought it was really neat.

 We weren't in camp but 10 mins. and the kids already had the Park Ranger stopping by to talk to them.  Haha!  We had just unhooked the trailer and unloaded bikes.  I was in the trailer grabbing their helmets and the Ranger stopped by and informed them that they are required to wear helmets! I just wasn't quite quick enough I guess.

 We went to Newport on the bay front to watch fireworks.  I ended up in the car for an hour and a half and it went like this:

 We went on our first family bike ride!  Many many more to come in the future!  It was my first time in over 10 years riding my bike!  *gasp*  I was a tad nervous too.  haha!  Maddy did great, although she dawdles and stops to look at all sorts of stuff.

 This is at Lincoln City on our last half of the trip! The day was beautiful and sunny.  BUT, it was DANG cold!  I mean, I had jeans, a sweatshirt AND my heavy winter jacket on and was still cold!  There was a guy there that set up at least 8 of these huge kites.  It was fun to watch him get them up in the sky.

 We had to make one last trip to the beach the night before we left.  Miss Maddy chose here striped capris, ladybug rainboots and heavy carhart jacket.  lol....she was crackin' me up and drew all sorts of looks!

It was a very fun fill trip.  Like usual, it wasn't long enough.

Thanks for stopping by!  I have a few layouts to share.  I just need to get pictures of them.  No, I haven't been scrapping.  They are from a month ago, I have just been busy and sidetracked with life!

Jillibean Soup Double Page Layout

Hello there!  I hope you all have beautiful weather like we do here!  

I had a few minutes this morning and thought I'd share a layout I created a while back.  

Another simple two pager.  I used a sketch, but for the life of me can't find it!  I just live this Jillibean Soup line.  I will be quite sad when it is all gone.  

 These pictures were taken over a year ago.  We had been couped up inside for so long when the sun finally came out we headed outside for a walk to the creak and to play in the yard.

 I love Jillibean's sticker and die cut pages.  It makes it so easy to embellish a layout.

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More layouts and Photos

As I mentioned in a previous post, I discovered some layouts I hadn't taken pictures of and shared and also found a few on my little netbook I don't use very often anymore.  

This is another quick and simple layout.  Lately I have been creating layouts with many photos and two pages layouts.  The pictures in the layout are from when both brothers and sisters in laws came over to work on wedding invitations and party favors for one of the brother in laws wedding.  Confused yet?  Maybe I should just toss out the in-law part.  :-)  Maddy was quite attached to her Uncle Adam.  Ad one point I caught her sitting in his lap as he was trying to work on the wedding invitations.  So cute!  :-)  I am so blessed with fantastic brother and sisters that the kids love!  :-)  

The line above is super old.  But I loved it so much I couldn't get rid of it and knew I could create a layout with a few small scraps!  

Next up is my March Project 12 layout.  Project 12 is important to me.  Even if I don't have time to be scrappy, I try my best to at least get my Project 12 done.  I think years down the road I will enjoy reading the recaps of every month.  March was full of the kiddos being sick.  :-(  They got better just in time for Spring Break which we spent camping.  

I am so excited to be seeing more and more garage sales pop up.  :-)  This was my haul from last weekend. 4 games for the kids, a camping folding chair (like new), a little purse for me, a book for Maddy, a few craft kits for the kids, a few pieces of clothing and two little clipboard things I plan to use for a road trip.  They open up and have a compartment perfect for a coloring book and some markers.  No more 'uh oh Mommy, the bag of markers fell' the kids getting frustrated with not having a hard surface to color on.  All this for $12.  I was pretty happy about that!  Especially considering we have played most of the games many times now as well as the book has helped Miss Maddy not have accidents.  

I also found this purse Maddy is holding at a garage sale.  It looked new.  I got it for my sister in law who mentioned she was wanting a purple purse.  Maddy would NOT let it out of her site!  She even went to bed with it and took it to the grocery store and carnival with her!  Haha!  

 We had a few nice days last week.  The kids were able to get outside and play. While on their play structure, they found a frog!  I was shocked to see both of them picking up the frog!

 Even Maddy caught it and held it!

Crazy kids!  It is pretty darn cute to watch Maddy try though as she is usually just an inch short of grabbing it before it hops away.  haha!  I sure hope warm weather is on its way back again.  I'd like to get back outside and not freeze!

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More Layouts and Pictures

I discovered a few layouts I had completed a month or more ago! 

My apologies again for the bad pictures.  

I am pretty sure I used a sketch for this one, but can't remember.  I think I need to start writing the sketch I used on the back of the layout when I am done.  Chris and I love to go to Charlie's.  It is one of our favorite restaurants.  We try to go on St. Patties Day every year to get our green bombers (green beers).  

 Another layout I came across.  Again, I think I used a sketch but am not sure.

I have been keeping my layouts pretty simple.  

We had a heck of a busy week last week.  Peyton's school had an Olympic event.  It was so much fun to watch all the kids.  Each class represented a different Country.  Peyton's class was Japan. They spent a few weeks learning about Japan and then created shirts and hats for the event.  Each child did one running event and one field event.  

 Friday night was Peyton's school Carnival.  It is the PTO's big fundraiser.  I was volunteering to help set it up and worth the ticket table, so the kids Great Grandparents came over to watch them and take them to the carnival.  They had a lot of fun.  Of course, they wanted to play on the playground for a bit too.  It cracks me up that there are all sorts of fun game booths and the kids are drawn to the playground.

 Saturday and Sunday we picked did some planting.  The kids had a blast helping.

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Fell off the bandwagon....

I have fallen off the scrappy bandwagon.  How I miss it and want to jump back on board!  I was able to finish up a layout this week (in the whole half hour I had, haha!).  But other than that it has been a couple weeks.  :-(  I think National Scrapbook weekend was when I scrapped last.  The kids are demanding more and we have been gone lots.  Hopefully this summer I will be able to find more time.  Maybe bribe the kids with a trip to the park if they give me some scrappy time without fighting and tons of interruptions.  

One of this months challenges at Birds of a Feather is to scraplift a layout in the gallery.  I chose this beautiful layout by my super talented friend Karen.    

And this is my take on it:  

 I really want to keep going on my Project 12 (a layout each month recapping the month).  I loved her squares and used that as my jumping point.  Its not very exciting...none of my Project 12 layouts are.  But they are done and I am okay with that.

This past weekend we went camping.  YAY!  Oh, how I have missed camping!  I really wish I could buck up and learn how to drive the trailer so that we could do it more often.  Its the whole backing thing that has me scared.  Anyhow....we were able to get our favorite spot.  It seems people go out earlier and earlier every year to snag there spots.  I started getting anxious seeing all the trucks and trailers headed through town.

 What is camping with out a little Washers?  My father in law built this game and it is one of our favorites.

Maddy sitting with her Grandma.  Stealing her lemonade.  Poor Grandma couldn't keep a bottle of ice tea or lemonade without the kids trying to take sips off it.  I have ice tea too, but Grandma's is better!  :-)  Isn't that true though?  Its always better if it comes from a Grandma!

 The kids had a blast in their Power Wheels Jeep. Unfortunately, the tires are getting bald and it struggles getting traction out at camp.  They still had fun though.  Grandpa and Grandma got their workout pushing the kids around when they got stuck and/or wouldn't go.

 I think the Little Miss will be our Archery girl.  She had a lot of fun with Peyton's bow and arrow.

 A new tradition for us is saving our Christmas tree and the last night of Memorial Day Weekend camp tossing it on the fire.  Its is neat to watch!

I am still couponing.  I get giddy with excitement when I can go into a store and walk out with freebies (the Colgate toothpaste and some of the sodas) or cheap cheap items like boxes of cereal for 75 cents.  I have spent a lot of time in this new hobby and am just now learning how to take less time saving money.

 Then there is t-ball.  Peyton is LOVING it!  He caught his first ball in the air that was hit by the opposing team!  VERY cool to watch!  I have been a bad mommy about getting photos.  MUST.REMEMBER.CAMERA!  Here is the Miss Maddy on her way to last nights game.

 Yes that is a tiara and camo jacket.  What is missing in the photo is the blue Spiderman sandals with Princess socks on.  haha!

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