TOGETHER

i finally finished my albums for my bps class Library Memories. I feel so liberated now that i can let go of the whole chronological thing and move into just creating & enjoying my pages. The system is set up so easily it takes off the pressure as well as lets you create as you would like. so if you have a chance to take this class with Stacy Julian it is amazing. She is amazing, i heard her speak last year in arizona and it was life changing. after it was over i had to actually go out side, sit on the curb and analyze myself. it made me think a lot and i think i have made a few changes in the right direction since then. this is what my albums look like, i cant go into the whole layout of the system way to long, you will have to just take the class but there are FOUR main albums All about us, Places we go. Things we do, People we love. I want to eventually find blue clips instead of the black ones but i am not worried about that yet. In each album there are title pages, here is a s

i have yet to post about easter...so here goes. i ended up having family & friends to my house for easter am. (you know who you are). when i said i would have this event it was 75 degrees and sunny...so i assumed that would be the same weather one week later at my home, NO it was 22 degrees and 2 inches of snow. apparently we did not have the egg hunt outside as it was planned in my mind. anyway it was a fun morning lots of people and kids, just how i like it to be. but i must show you what my basement looked like : so funny. you see this is how it goes with my family at holidays, there are 11 kids (give or take a few) and we send them into the basement to play until we let them eat. therefore they have overload when they get into all the toys, they are the same toys they always have but it is just something about having other children to play them with. people ask me if my basement is finished...why would i ever finish the basement? where would the toys go? where would they pla

so i finally finished kims cj . it was titled Pet Parade and man was it cute. i liked this one a lot for two reasons 1 it was a little therapy for me to scrap a page about bob. i hadnt done it yet so it kind of broke me in. although i sobbed as i was going through each picture i liked seeing the pictures. 2 it is fun to scrap pets, get out of the people , kid, zoo, park etc. mode. i feel i have accomplished something again today which makes me happy.

man the weather has been awesome the past 3 days. tonight it is all going to change though. we have been outside for the past three days. my kids love it. last year wyatt was terrible when he was out there, he would leave the yard whenever he could, ride his big wheel in the road or across the street. this year he is so good though. he stays inside the "lines". i can get so much done when they are out there playing! we went to columbus on monday to watch the buckeye game with jamey & kristen. so fun, she is so fun and the kids play so well together. jamey is todds friend from high school and it cracks me up. they are so opposite but have been friends for years. ok remember how i painted the foyer, well after two weeks of looking at it i decided i didnt like it. i got the shelf i wanted from target and did not like the way the brown looked with all the different woods etc. so a sunday trip to lowes for some primer and a new baby blue gallon of paint. it got done today and