Yaa hoo!!!!!!! I can not wait for my 2 older kids to go back to school. I love them, but it is better for them to be at school in a more structured environment. Speaking of back to school… Robyn's Chic Scraps has the cutes kit called Time for School in her shop at Ahhh Scrap. It is so cute, great for all those back to school and 1st day pages.
Isn’t that so cute. Here is the page I made of Dawson’s 1st day.
Hazel Olive Designs has a new kit out called Urban Sketch Book. I was a little unsure how I would use this until I found the barbed wire paper. I had been sitting on this picture of Ty for a while and it was the first one to pop into my head when I saw the paper. So I went with it. Urban Sketch Book is a really fun kit though. Go check it out at DigiTop3.
Well, looks like I’m gonna have to get a J. O. B. Don’t really want to. I have enjoyed this time at home. Preston and I pretty tight, but anyhow, I got to stay with the first 3 years of his life at least. But it is not all completely bad. Meme got laid off from one of her jobs. She had part time for 2 companies in the same office so she stayed at the same desk. So she got laid off from one of her jobs and will be working out of her home with the other. So my wonderful idea to DH was ~ why doesn’t Meme watch Preston and pick up the other 2 after school. I am younger and its easier for me to work. Not to mention that sometimes I am bored almost to tears at home. After a while it really does start to feel like a prison. You can only clean so much before quite frankly my dear, I just dont give a damn. So, hi ho, hi ho, its off to search for a job I go.
Oh… Oh… I finally got our rafting pics from this summer. OMG!!! Check this out. It was SOOOOOOOO FUN!!!!
This was the whole crew of us that went that could go on the big rapids. There were like 5 people that had to go on the lower rapids.
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Fixing to enter the rapid.
And away we go…
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Wooooo!!! Hoooooo!!! That was Da’ Bomb!!!! I’m ready to go again, Lets Go!!!!
And true to my scrapbook nature, here is the page I made. My Brother-in-Love, David Gurule, too the pic behind the rafting pics. It is of the Rio Grande Gorge.
I know… I know…. I did not catch the house on fire. I did not spontaneously combust or anything like that. What I’ve been thinking about is journaling. I went to one of the forums, can’t exactly recall which one right at this second. But one of the threads they had in the forum is about journaling. The whole point was to ask a question and get you thinking. Like “What was your first childhood memory?” or “Where do you like to go with your dad and why?”, “What is your favorite food and why?” See its got you thinking too. When we were at Mom and Dad’s this summer I loaded a Creative Keepsakes journaling program onto my computer to try to help push me along in the journaling process. I think this might even be good for just everyday journaling. Just some prompts to get cha goin’.
So here goes: 1st question is (drum roll please): Tell me about your dream home. (Oh, thats a good one, Derrick and I have been talking about this for a while. Dream building!) What does it look like? How big is it? How many bedrooms? Where is it located? What color is it? What style is it? What is your favorite feature of this house? What is your favorite room in this house? Is it old or new?
That gives you something to think about. Hmmmm…. Let me know if you journaled about that.
Willard has been in NM all summer. It sure has been quiet without him here. And I must add that the laundry pile is not near as big. I did not know that 1 person made such a difference, but it does. We are meeting the WHOLE, well almost whole family in Northern NM to ride the train. Can hardly wait. Wooo! Wooo! Can hardly wait to see what Preston thinks about that.
Speaking of Preston, TODAY is his 3rd birthday. Happy Birthday Preston. Gosh, it is so hard to believe he is already 3. He is such a good boy and really smart too. The other night we had already put him to bed and his habit is to say. “I want a drink of water.” He will just keep at it until you get up and get him a drink of water. Well Derrick was back in our room reading and Preston was calling daddy. “Daddy come here. Daddy I said come here!” Out of the mouth of babes right…. Anyhow, Derrick out of frustration gets up, to give him a friendly tap on the rear to reiterate his need to go to bed. Well when Derrick walks in the room and turns on the light, Preston is sitting strait up in bed holding out his thumb like a hitchhiker and says “bugger”. I asked Derrick what he did with that after I picked myself up off the floor from laughing. He said “I wiped the bugger off and told him to lay down and go to sleep.”
Opening presents is serious business, ya’ll. I don’t think the look on his face hardly changed at all. All business!!
We had a really good time. Glad to see Dennis in better spirits.
Until next time. Oh, I will get our rafting pictures from Mom this weekend. You can bet I’ll be posting those.
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