Another online crop......

This weekend at Just Cre8. Check it out! I'm not getting a whole lot of time to participate, but I AM working on a mini "book of me" and a few of the many challenges posted! I'm enjoying it!

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This layout was for one of the challenges -- use at least 10 different manufacturers products.

This challeneg was to use as many "office" supplies as you could. I used staples, avery tag, noptepaper and paperclip.

... and this challenge was to create a 6x12 layout.

a couple more....

I love the way this one turned out. I really like the simple style of scrapbooking :-)


This is my dh when he was a baby -- getting ready to leave the hospital.
"collage-y" style is not something I think I am good at, so this layout was a real challenge for me!

Some recent layouts......

I'm taking part in a two-week event at Lovebug Scrapbooking. I just love the events they have at that forum! Some of these are for challenges at Lovebug University, and some are just a few of my recent pages.


I love these photos taken by my sister, Jane. Her camera does the 3-shots with one click, so she was able to catch the action of Timothy throwing water over himself.


Me and my big sis. I'm the one with the braids.


More shots taken by my sister, Jane. Isn't the big photo awesome!?


My three boys with some of their cousins. They had so much fun together this summer!


A bunch of the cousins having fun on the curly slide.

Thanks for looking!

bad blogger award....

goes to ME! Lol!

I've been very bad in keeping up with my blog. Life just sometimes seems to get in the way, you know!

This past month we traveled across our province and visited with my brother, sister-in-law and nephew. We had a fabulous week! Lots of exciting things to see and do.

The most fun was wall-climbing! It's something I've always wanted to try and I'm glad I can at least say "I did it once". Actually, I did it more than once, but the kids were much better at wall-climbing that I was. Here's a photo of me on one of the easier walls :-)

We also went mini-golfing, visited Signal Hill, visited the Geocentre, went to a movie (Mr Bean's Holiday, which we loved!) and went to a local beach. Of course, we did a bit of shopping, with my obligatory trip to Michaels (bought an alpha die for my Cuttlebug)

After that week of excitement, I spent a week getting the kids' lesson plans ready for school. I usually do up 12 weeks in advance. I also had to order some new math books (yaaah! says Jessica, NOT, says Luke) and an astronomy text. We're doing Jeannie Fulbright's Exploring Creation with Astronomy.

We just finished our first week of school and so far, things are going well.

My son is 15 today......

and he is not here to celebrate with us :-(

He is having fun, I'm sure, at camp. He left last week for two weeks of survival training with the Air Cadets. He is in the bush for much of the two weeks. I mailed a birthday card last week, so hopefully he will get it tomorrow when he come to base camp.

Devin and I are so proud of Luke! He is quite the young man. He loves his brothers and his sister and is a great help to them. He is still not too old to want to be around his mom and dad. LOL!

Right now, airplanes are a huge interest as is anything to do with geography. Becoming a pilot is his dream. We believe he can accomplish his dream!

Anyway, I thought I'd post a few of my favorite pictures of my big boy when he was not quite so big :-)












This one was taken when he was ready to leave on his trip last week.

We love you Luke! Hope you're having a GREAT day!!

Build me a son, O Lord, who will be strong enough to know when he is weak, and brave enough to face himself when he is afraid, one who will be proud and unbending in honest defeat, and humble and gentle in victory." -- Author: Douglas MacArthur

Some new layouts

I did this one for one of our Sisterhood of Scrap challenges. We had to use a book title as the title of a layout.



This one is also for a Sisterhood challenge -- use felt on a layout. I cut the title letters from felt using my Cuttlebug. The sketch is by one of my "sisters" - Sarah Wilson.


Thanks for looking!

Happy Birthday to my girl....

Can't believe Jessica is eleven! She is certainly growing into a fine young lady. We are so proud of her!

Thought I'd post a few pics of her through the years:

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, Sweetheart! We love you!!

summer fun

Hope everyone is having a great summer so far :-) I am enjoying having lots of family around, though sometimes it seems we are spending all our time in the kitchen (cleaning and preparing meals/snacks) and doing laundry! LOL! We certainly are loving our time spent together outside in the fresh air. My kids built a fort in the wooded area by our home, and the cousins sure are having fun playing in it.

Here we ar at the local playground. Even the teenagers and tweens love to play on the slides!

Deanne bought these super waffle-like sundae dishes, so, of course, we had to make sundaes!

LOTS of toppings on these!!

Summer Stroll online crop - Challenge #7

Angie's challenge was to scrap about a journey. Here's my layout:

Summer Stroll online crop - Challenge #12

This layout is for Jean's flower challenge -- make your own chipboard flowers. I'm not sure what the big flower is but the other ones I did with my Cuttlebug. Sketch is by Selena.