Reflections

This is the photo wall (well, my side) at my mom and dad's house. Nice huh? But as the whole purpose of this challenge is to capture and reflect our year, I'm sure that's what this does too. Of course, there are the pictures that I wish weren't there (who let me CRIMP my hair??) but they each tell their own story. There's my prom pictures. When I went with a date and went by myself. The year my dad said my mom WAS NOT allowed to do our hair or put makeup on. The picture of my dad and me...my color guard pictures. My senior pictures. The picture of me graduating from FSU. I can tell you a book from that one picture. The one picture that made me decide it was time to lose weight. Pictures of times I was too young to remember. But I Love to hear others tell the stories. Pictures...reflections...

My favorite color: PURPLE!

So today's focus was purple. I went through a million ideas for this and thought most of them were too staged. My favorite color is purple so most of my stuff IS purple! I decided to be simple and show my iphone case. Of course, as all of you know, this isn't easy with nosy boys!! And he knows he's not allowed to touch the phone! This one I couldn't resist. Proof that ANYTHING is a child's toy! This is my scrapbook tote and they love to pull them around.

Kids These Days...

Oh kids. How fun. When I got to this theme, I was thinking, much like I saw some others were, what "kids?" But as I was trying to think, my kids did it for me. Kids. Who can find fun and play wherever they are. Whenever it is. Even at the table eating breakfast. What? You can't see them? Yes. Those are my babies playing hide and seek under the table.

One would assume a 15 month old can feed himself, right? Sure...everything BUT blueberry poptarts.

Santa's Workshop

Wooo Hooo!! I'm back in action. It has been quite a long time since I have scrapped and here is my first attempt back at it. This is a layout of when I took my babies to a Santa's Workshop they had set up. It was fun and they really enjoyed themselves.

This is for Just Buggin: In the Shadows and Practical Scrappers: Buttons. Of course, last week I could have used this for almost every challenge blog out there, but noooo, I couldn't get my booty in gear to get anything done!!

The paper used is from DCWV Holiday Stack, the ribbon is from Big Lots, the Santa is cut from Christmas Cheer and stickled, and the title is from Lyrical Letters. The buttons are from a huge bag I found at Walmart.

And just for the record, this took me a lot longer than I anticipated. So I only got this done last night. Here's to more tonight!!!

My favorite things...

I'm still debating on whether or not to take pics of the babies, because they ARE my favorite things, and I do have some ideas going...so we'll see...But here are Day 4 of pictures...My favorite things!! I think this might go beyond favorite in that I can't really function without it. With two kids 16 months apart I need some artificial energy in the form of coffee!!

This is also a saving grace for me. If we had our own place it would actually have it's own place too. And it did up until a few days ago. The room I used was just too cold so I packed it all up so I could take it to the dining room to do some scrapbooking.

I wasn't really doing this for CC or for anything other than just having fun with it because I just have a regular point and shoot. But then I began to look at backgrounds and placement even if I can't get the technical stuff :)

A day at the park

My pictures today are from the park. I took the kids on a long walk in the wagon to this little park in our neighborhood. Both of them were crawling through the tunnel and I got Ava as she was climbing out and Brayden peeking through one of the holes. I decided on two today because I wanted to have one of Ava but I loved the one of Brayden. I should have taken a picture of the dadgum hill I had to climb when we left.

Playing catch up!

So a few friends have decided to do a 365 pictures challenge. The challenge is to take a picture every day and show it off! Many of them are doing it to enhance their photography skills, I'm just doing it so I have more to scrap :). It's a pretty popular theme in scrapbooking too, so I'm excited to get both things going. I'm just going to keep the two together since they go so well anyways! BUT, as you can see, I'm behind! I have to catch up!! So here are pictures from the past few days.

January 1, 2010 (wow that was wierd): This picture was taken by Ava, who really really wanted to use my camera. It's blurry because I was behind her trying to make sure she somewhat had her brother in the frame, didn't drop my camera and hit the right button.

I will have to come back for today's picture. (How can I be falling behind already??)