In Search of Myself

Don't ask.

Goofy kids. And stating the obvious, I blurred out some stuff in my neighborhood.

Jake & Lucy

props to my sis Sheri for taking this great picture!

Hello?

It's hard to explain how frustrating it is to have a child who won't talk to you on the phone.  Until pretty recently, Jake wouldn't talk to ANYONE on the phone, beyond hello, goodbye, and nodding.  (Can't hear the rocks in your brain, buddy.)  But Jake has out of nowhere developed a love for the phone, to the point he runs to answer it and will bother me until I let him talk.  This is a VERY awesome development.

end of July

catching up ye ole scrapbook, can you tell?  :)

Aowyn's 3rd bday

So it was 2 weeks ago . . . I get around to stuff eventually.  :)

(The girls' friend was at the party, too, and since I don't know her parents well, she has been blurred.)

My life in pictures

So the past few weeks in whatever pockets of free time I have found, I've been working on a pretty indulgent scrapbook album.  It's all about me.  It's called Encyclopedia of an Ordinary Life, it's a challenge that I am doing with some people from DigiShopTalk.  I have all my alphabet pages posted -- they're here if you want to see -- but I ended up with a lot of pictures I didn't get to use.  So I made a photo appendix to the end of the book -- a 16 page-long overview of me in the last 28 years.  (Hey, I already warned you it is a self-indulgent project!!!

Look what I made!

I just finished up a very fun album!!! Jake is really into asking me lately about days of the weeks, months of the year, trying to put it all together in his mind. And of course, I think the easiest way to help him understand is a scrapbook project! So this is an album I made to be printed as a 8.5x11 landscape Shutterfly book. Each page spread will have a full size picture on the left, then on the right, 7 pictures plus text. I used various kits by Dani Mogstad (DesignByDani.com) to add a little interest to the right hand pages.

Today and yesterday

When we got home yesterday, I pretty much let Jake do whatever he wanted.  (It was, after all, his birthday.)  For some reason he wanted to watch both Shrek and Shrek 2 (he has never seen either one and has never been interested in watching them.)  So we did that, ate some chocolate cupcakes Nana had made him that day (FROM SCRATCH!), played a lot of board games, and when Lou got home from work, they played Monster Trucks on the Nintendo Wii for a while before bed.  Good day!  Jake's party with his friends is tonight, so that will be fun (and stressful.)

Oh, and here's a page I made yesterday:

I see you

Paint!