15 minute scrapbooker

I have become a 15 minute scrapbooker. I start pages, save them, and come back to them later. Sometimes on the weekends I will put a movie on and scrapbook. This is a couple of months worth of 15 minutes here and there. If I didn't enjoy scrapbooking so much, I would have given it up a while ago. 

I have to do a little something creative everyday or I would go crazy :)

My therapy...

:)

I have a confession...

I have watched "Pride and Prejudice" and "Sense and Sensibility" more than I will admit to and I just can't get enough! 

And the books! I am a closet Jane Austen fanatic!

Did you see "Austenland"?

My next craft project is to make a tote bag exactly like this :)

 

this week

Now that school has started again, I cherish the weekends so much! With a new school year comes new germs and so I'm trying to stay well. I wasn't feeling well on Friday but I'm doing much better so that's good :) I've entered yet again a new chapter of being a mom this year. The kids are in 3 different schools for the first time and we now have 2 teenagers. They want to spend more time with their friends and they have things going on at school so there's lots of time in the car. :) I have 3 years until Braden is an adult and he'll go off to college. 3 very short years...that's hard to believe.

Just finished this page up today. On our way home from Utah this summer, we stopped at Zion to hike The Narrows. Aaron hiked the entire length of it as a teenager and we thought it would be fun to take the kids there. We hiked about a mile and a half in. Southern Utah is a beautiful place!

 

I started this page after school got out and just finished it today. It was a great school year. I have to say that I miss seeing Paige at recess but she is enjoying junior high.

 

 

Happy 15th Braden!

August 18, 1999  6:01 am

The day I became a Mom. I'll never forget when they placed you in my arms...you weren't crying at all, you just stared at me :)

Hope you have an awesome birthday son!

We love you!

Summer catch up and Back to School

 Hello! It's been a fun summer and a busy first few weeks of school! I did this school pictures page from last year over the summer...the kids have grown up so much in just a year!

We went to Disneyland in June and had an awesome time!

We also made our traditional summer trip to Utah. My mom was on her class reunion committee this year. I made 5 posters (20x30) and she had them printed at Staples. These were displayed on easels throughout the room. I had so much fun putting these together!!

These pictures were taken from the yearbook. Do you see the foxy girl in the top right hand corner in that silver jacket?? That's my Mommy! :)

 Pop culture events from 1974

Also while we were in Vernal, we had our family pictures taken at Remember the Maine. It's such a beautiful place!

 

weekend scrapbook pages

Love my kids! :)

oldie but a goodie

I started this layout 6 years ago. I had forgotten about it until just last week. I think at the time I wanted to add more stuff to the page but I love the simplicity of it and kept it as is :)

Long live the 80s!

Gotta love the 80s! :)

one of my favorite books

my journey

Ostrich Festival 5k 2014

The Ostrich Festival 5k is a fun family activity that we like to participate in. The weather was nice and cool and we were done with the race when it started to really pour :) It had been 70+ days since we got rain so we really needed it!

 I was in front of Heston and Aaron and I took this picture as I was passing them. Heston wanted to pass me and he did :) I'm more of a jogger than a runner. I run 11:45-12:00 minute miles and I'm okay with that.

 before the race...

 Paige took 3rd in her age division :)

 Braden took first in his age division with a time of 21:38. He took 16th place overall! It's all that soccer he plays :) He's thinking about doing Cross Country next year so we'll see...

 

Dobson JV Soccer

Braden finished up his first year of high school soccer. It was a fun and busy season :) The JV team's record was 7 wins 3 losses.

January 2014

Lots of fun things from January! :)

a page about Grandma

A page about Grandma

on her birthday :)

love you because

{Credit}

Ali Edwards Love You Because template

San Diego New Year's trip

 After Christmas, we took a little trip to San Diego. Our friend Katrell suggested we visit Coronado beach and I'm glad we did. What a beautiful place! We also went to the San Diego Zoo and then drove up to Temecula to spend New Year's Eve with Matt and Alisha's family. Happy New Year!

Welcome 2014!

Welcome 2014! It's been so awesome to have the kids all to ourselves for 2 weeks. We really needed a break from the craziness of everything and I have really enjoyed the break from driving all over the place. When your kid(s) start high school, it becomes really hard to spend time with them because they have a lot going on. It's making me sad that we only have a few more years and Braden will be off to college...the days are long but the years are short...
Christmas was great! Here are the last of my December Daily layouts. I'm waiting until Persnickety Prints has their next sale to get these printed off. Going to Golfland during December has become one of our new favorite traditions. I love Christmas so much...it's always sad when it's over.