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Grocery shopping this morning (still in his PJs) after we dropped the kids off at school.

And with this I've officially competed one month of p365. :)

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Round Table with home group.

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The boys playing baseball in the back yard.

P365 Pages

Now that we're 4 weeks into this little project I thought it would be fun to share what I'm doing with my P365 photos. I wanted an easy way to get these printed and into a book, but I knew I wanted to have space to journal a little about each picture too, so I created this really simple template. It takes me maybe 10 minutes to complete each page, which is totally manageable. :) Each week will be printed as an 8x8 page (printed on an 8x10 and cropped) and I will add them to a basic scrapbook album.


I'm really excited about this project! It is hard some days to figure out what to take a picture of (and I feel like I'm filling a lot of days with Mr. N right now), but I know it will be so cool to be able to look back and see one thing we did each day of the year.
I think about the plans we have already this year (birthdays, Disneyland, holidays, possibly another trip to Seattle...) and I picture what kind of photos will fill those days, and it makes me excited. Fun stuff mixed with the everyday life stuff. :)

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I changed my mind on today's photo, which means I'll need to change it on the page I just put together too.

Waiting to go in after we went for a walk to pick up little league sign-up forms.

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N reading me his baseball book instead of napping.

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Science night at the kids' school. There were lots of things the kids liked, but this was the only room un-crowded enough to take a picture in.

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"Hi Cowboy Mama, I Cowboy N..." He loves playing cowboy with his hat and horse.

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Trying on some new summer clothes that came in the mail today. They love to match! :)

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It's rare to get a picture of N sleeping these days. He's such a light sleeper he usually wakes up the second I open the door. Today he stayed asleep when I went to get him up to go pick up the kids, so I grabbed a quick picture.

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Watching the 49ers game. Just like my (baseball) Giants, some good SF TORTURE!! Not quite as good of an ending though.

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I took this yesterday, just didn't get a chance to post it.
The kids doing Mad Libs. :)

Scrapbook Friday

Another Seattle LO. I'm almost done, just a zoo page, about 4 pages for all the fire station pictures, and maybe one random page, I think that should be it! lol
Everything is from Britt's new kit, Workin' on the Railroad. I didn't have any train pictures (unless I go way back to '05), but I thought the kit matched this picture so well!

full credits here

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Puddle jumping between rain showers.
We went out for a quick walk when it was just lightly sprinkling this morning and stopped to jump in a puddle (and chase some birds) before we went in.
I think this is one of my favorite pictures so far in this project. <3

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Playing with the Disney stickers that came in the mail.

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Our new Elf on the Shelf. He gets into even more trouble than Candy Cain, but he's much cuter.
The Kids all LOVE these PJs and all 3 of them always wear them the first night they're clean. :)

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The kids had so much fun playing with their cousins at Aunt Lyndsey's work. They didn't care that it was freezing cold, they ran around and yelled like maniacs. 6 boys an 1 girl... Crazy!

Start of the week stuff

This is a weird week. The kids were off today (of corse), and they have tomorrow off too. Their school has 5 "staff development days" this school year, and they took most of them attached to 3-day weekends to give us 4-day weekends. I love the idea (and I'm already looking forward to a long Memorial Day weekend), but we just went back to school 2 weeks ago, so this is really throwing me off.
Anyway, I did plan meals for the week and drag all 3 kids to the store with me, so here's my menu...

Monday- easy meal (cereal, leftovers, ect)
Tuesday- crock pot potato soup
Wednesday- pasta with meat sauce and salad
Thursday- burritos
Friday- ?
Saturday- breakfast
Sunday- homemade chili & TJ's cornbread

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N reading to M.
He had me read this Winnie the Pooh bath book to him over and over, and then he read it back to us. He even did this cute little clearing his throat thing first. lol

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My dad brought over 4 blueberry bushes that he'd dug out of his yard for us. The kids helped him and Matthew plant them.

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I was on the computer this morning and looked over to see this. My sweet boys reading in a "cozy spot". ❤

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N, all bundled up ready for our morning walk. I love that he has his "paci/blankie", I know I will miss him having them someday.

Scrapbook Friday (and some new scrapping goals)

First up, Britt has a new template pack out called Fill 'Er Up. They're based on some of Britt's recent pages and I'm LOVING them!! When I scrap without a template I tend to line things up and leave a lot of blank space. It's not a bad look, but it get's repetitive when I do it over and over. I was super excited for these templates because filling up the whole page is not something I tend to do naturally, but I love the look! Britt does such a good job filling the whole page with photos and elements, and her templates are so easy to use!
I did two pages with them, both from our trip to Seattle last summer (I know we're having a beautiful January, but I'm totally missing summer lately!).

full credits here

full credits here

With a new year comes new scrapbook goals. Last year I set a goal of one page per week, and I actually came closer than I thought I did. I scrapped 43 pages in 2011, only 9 less than my goal. I also set a goal to finish a year album before I turn 30 (next month, eek!). I don't think that's going to happen. I started 2011 working hard on getting 2010 scrapped, but then I ended up scrapping more and more current pages and never got very far on 2010. So, I've decided that since I'm doing P365 this year I'm not going to do a whole year scrapbook (I will be printing P365 photos in an album, but I'm going to do something really simple for that). Instead I'm going to focus on scrapping 2010 and 2011 pages. I know I will be doing a separate album for our Disneyland trip like I've done in the past, and I will probably want to scrap other special events, but I would like to get at least one of those years done by the end of 2012.

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R has been so sweet lately when I drop him off at school. He waves and blows me kisses and signs "I love you".

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Heading off to school this morning.

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N sorted all his purple fruit loops out at lunch today (he was eating leftover breakfast with his lunch).

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The kids doing their reading homework after school.

Start of the week stuff

I'm having a hard time getting going this morning, but at least the menu and grocery shopping is done.

Menu:
Monday- crock pot chicken quesadillas
Tuesday- pizza rolls and salad
Wednesday- chicken nachos
Thursday- pasta and salad
Friday- something easy
Saturday- lemon garlic spaghetti
Sunday- creamy chicken taquitos

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We took a crack at cleaning out the garage today, but we both tired out early. N had fun playing with all the toys as we pulled them out though.

More pics from our walk

Here are some more pictures from our walk this morning.
I couldn't believe N walked almost the whole way on his own, his little legs must be tired now!!

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We took the kids for a walk on Trinidad head this morning. I love this picture of Matthew and M at the very top.

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I'm starting to think this project is going to have a lot more pictures of N than the other two. Oh well, he's the only one home with me most of the day, and it's not like any of them are lacking in pictures of themselves.
This is from bath time today. He likes to put his ducks on the edge and then make them jump off into the water. :)

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Funny little side note, I'm writing this post while listening to the song I named my blog after. :)

Anyway... Day 5, this is getting hard already. I took this while picking the kids up from school, this was right after M came out of her classroom.

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Laundry, lots of laundry. But it's all folded and put away, which is better than normal. :)

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I promise not to post pictures of my kids every day for a year, but I'm trying to focus on taking pictures that capturer life, right now, and this totally does. I make him PB&J almost every day for lunch, at his request. :)

Start of the week stuff

Okay, back to it, for real this time.
We don't have much going on this month, which is a nice break between the holidays and the birthday madness that's coming next month, but I figured I'd better start meal planning again at least.
No to-do's this week, just the usual post-holiday house stuff and day to day stuff.

Menu:
Monday- pasta with sausage and peppers
Tuesday- white ziti with chicken and artichokes
Wednesday- leftovers from Monday
Thursday- leftovers from Tuesday
Friday- chili cornbread casserole
Saturday- breakfast
Sunday- pizza from Costco

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Today actually turned out a lot nicer than it looked like it was going to be. Matthew and I took the boys to the park while M had a girls day with her BFF. N loved the slide and was so proud of himself going down it by himself. He's getting so big!

Project 365

I've decided to attempt p365 this year. I just loaded the blogger app on my phone, so hopefully that will make it easier to keep up with this. I'm guessing most pictures will be from my phone because it's easy, but I might post "good" pictures sometimes too. :)

Here is my first picture, I don't have one for today yet.

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This is my favorite thing about January around her. It seems like every year we get a couple of really nice days mixed in with the cold. Yesterday was one of those days. Maybe not quite warm enough for shorts like my crazy girl thought, but still a beautiful day. I'm glad we got out and enjoyed it, because today we're back to cold and maybe some rain.