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August Photo a day part 2

Here are the next round of photos for my photo a day challenge at Get It Scrapped.  I am having so much fun at this!

A full Plate – Day 6

image(4)So it is a full bowl not a plate, but the peaches here in the summer are to die for!  I am serious this family puts them away.  I am the lady walking out of Sam’s every week with 4, count them, 4 boxes of peaches.  And yes, I will be back for 4 more next week!

Architecture – day 7

image(11)This is the architecture of a work out.  Our entire family goes and climbs stairs for 1 hour on the weekend.  The girls and I run/walk up and down 4 flights then run around the back side of the bleachers just to do it again and again.  John does it with 67 pounds strapped on his back!  Woo Hoo

gobbledygook – day 8

image(5)Three brown haired girls in our house (4 counting me)  Can you tell who is who or is it just a bunch of Gobbledygook?  Thanks Tami for bringing us a great word, so fun to say!

Bloom where you are planted – day 9

image(3)So these lovely cucumber plants are more than happy to bloom where they are planted in fact this is a flower bed that we use for them on the side of our house and 2 plants have now grown the entire length of the 12 foot plot.  happy, happy, happy and cucumbers coming out our ears, good thing we like them a lot!

Frame – day 10

image(2)I realized as we playing at the park on one of our few school free days left that one of the parts of the play set looks just like a poloroid so we definitely needed to pose!

Clearly – day 11

image(1)Clearly I have a bump in the bed!  Hmm, wonder what it could be…

image(6)Thanks Lori for “helping” make the beds!

Don’t Blink – day 11

d48e9656fef411e2ac4722000a9f393d_5I think you get it

Cat Nap – Day 12

image (2)Yep even John is getting included.  This amazing man is working way too much right now, he deserves as many of these as he can nab!

Another wee photographed for fun.  I’ll be back next week with more!

Happy Wednesday!

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August Photo a Day

Hello all!  I am playing along with a photo a day challenge over at Get It Scrapped.  The group there came up with a quirky list of daily inspiration to be caught on film for the month of August to get us picking up our cameras.

Not sure yet what I am going to do with all my fun photos but I did promise I would share them along the way, so here is my first group.  I am finding a few topics to be a little more challenging so I am not going to continue in order but as I find things to fill the holes.

August 1 – August

8-1Here is a look at our August.  It is a quieter month at least at first glance.  Swimming and diving have taken pat of the month off, but we are busy getting ready for school on the 14th!  And Lori left the sweet post it for me to keep me smiling.

August 2 – on cloud 9

8-2Yum, these put me on cloud 9!  I drooled over them at the Whole Foods store and John bought them for me.  Thank you John!!!

August 3 – if the shoe fits

8-3Well this particular day we were supposed to be going to the zoo BUT john got called in so plans changed, I mowed the lawn and wore my work shoes instead of play shoes.  It worked and we got to the zoo the next day so disaster avoided!

August 4 – new

8-4Yeah zoo day and a special treat of a NEW Imax, Kenya, African Safari.  It was fun and the zoo was perfect, overcast so cooler so we could take in all the outdoor exhibits which we don’t do all the time.

August 5 – ant’s eye view

8da2d9dcfef411e2b53f22000a9e5e0e_5Looking up at my two girlies that keep shooting upward daily!

So the rest of my shots will most likely be out of order.  But sounded like there were several others doing the same, besides this is for fun.  I am taking all of my pictures with Instegram so I am playing around with filters on all of them and that is why a few look a little different.  i plan on printing them and maybe doing a mini album or squeezing them into a few scrapbook pages we shall see.  It is certainly not to late if you would like to play along come join us HERE!

Happy Wednesday all!

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3 Photos

Another wonderful article over at Get It Scrapped!  This time on scrapping with 3 photos.  I am always so impressed how well thought out the articles are.  Debbie, Amy and Tami take such a wonderful approach listing options and showing highlights to different design elements!  If you didn’t know the Get It Scrapped Blog has new articles almost every week day.  It is an impressive amount of creative inspiration pouring out of that site.  I am so lucky to be a part of it!

In this article I have a new layout that my family will LOVE.  It is featuring some family members and my Mom came up with the inspiration for it so thank you so much Mom!

1 2 3 4 Camille’s so cute we want some more!

On the family scene the girls are back to school!  Wednesday was their first day in 2nd and 4th grade.  Both came out of the building with huge smiles saying they had a perfect day and both waved to several people both on the way in and out of the building!  Yeah for great starts.

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Welcome!

I am currently in Arizona but wanted to put a quick post to welcome my friends who are finding my new site for the first time! What do you think of the new look? I can’t tell you how excited and pleased I am with the new look. My incredible friend Amy Kingsford created this for me. Thank You Thank You Thank You Amy!

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9/28/2011

Hi all! Well I have emerge from my cave! My class is done, art work complete, classes written and photographs taken. All submitted. Horribly behind my normal timely-ness I locked myself in my office the past couple days and got it done. So sorry Debbie!

Now I am realizing a whole month has gone by and although I have taken about 300 photographs every single one of them has been staring down at a table with art work on it. My “One Month At a Time” layout will be looking pretty unusual for the month of September. And yet we have been busy! Lots of fun little things, Sara ran in a mile run for school both in PE but also in a little cross country fun day (she did great by the way a mile in about 11.5 minutes not to bad for my girly girl!) we went to Living History Farms for a gorgeous day outside. Swimming, diving, girl scouts started up, new boots for the girls and today feathers in their hair. Oh yeah we are the trendy ones at our house. Except we bought the kit and did them ourselves instead of paying the salon. Very fun. All in all good times.

Here are a couple more layouts from last weekend. The first is another from last Thanksgiving what a great trip! We are looking forward to Arizona again this year!


Here is a layout from our Chicago trip last year I just realized what a horrible job i did shooting the layout but you get the feel. Girls way up high on the sky deck! I actually posted the original shots around this time last year.


Hugs to all!