Scrapbook Friday

I haven't posted my layouts in a while, so here's what I've been working on the last couple weeks.

First up, Britt has a new kit out today, Cars Rule.  Here's my page I scrapped with it:

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And here are a couple pages with more recent pics. 

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I've changed my scrapbooking style up a little bit recently.  It use to be that if I sat down to scrap a page and didn't finish it I probably never would.  But lately I've been taking pictures I love (usually really recent stuff) and popping them into a template.  Then whenever I feel like it I'll open the page and play with it a little bit, and then close it again.  I have several pages that I'm doing that with right now, and it seems to be working for me for now.

My new plan is to scrap as much of this year as I want to, recording memories and getting all those photos onto pages, and get them printed.  I figure if I stick with single pages only then it doesn't matter if I want to add another page in later, I can just move things around.  And I'm not going to force myself to scrap anything that I don't want to, even if I feel like it *should* be in the album (for some reason Easter pictures usually fall into that category for me). I think I should be able to get more done if I'm not hung up on one page that I don't feel motivated to do.  My kids love looking at the few books I've finished, so I really want to get more off the computer and into our home.
Of course, I'm still plugging away on my Disney album as well, but I'd really like to record today's memories also.

We'll see how that goes.  I feel like I'm always changing what my scrapbook plan is, and I'm never finishing anything.  Hopefully this will work to get something off the computer to actually be able to hold in our hands!

Summer!

It's officially summer around here!  We had a whirlwind of a week last week full of field trips, field days, and class parties.  

N had a field trip to the local ice cream shop on Tuesday, and then another one to the farm store on Wednesday.  After his field trip Wednesday we went over to M's 4th & 5th grade picnic at the park too.  

Here's N on his first day of preschool and his last day (which was Wednesday).  Where did my baby's cheeks go?!?  He looks so much older to me!  

Thursday we had field day at the kids school.  Because M is in student council she was doing a game, which I went to help her with.  We had the balloon race, and it was a very windy day.  Made for an interesting game, but the kids all had fun.  After the games we hung out and watched the staff vs. 5th grade softball game.  All I could think about is how my BABY will be playing in that game next year (sniff!). 

Friday was pretty low key.  R wanted me to be there for his "party", but all they did was watch a movie and eat ALL DAY LONG (that may be R's new favorite pastime these days, the boy can EAT!), so I just went in towards the end of the day and hung out for a bit. 

Here are the older two on their first day and last day (Friday):

First day/last day of 4th grade (only one more year of elementary school! ):

First day/last day of 2nd grade:

We made our summer list last week, and started filling in our bubbles as soon as school was out.  We thought instead of just checking things off this year we'd write dates or little notes.  A lot of the stuff on there are things we plan to do more than once, so we thought this would be a fun way to do it.

I'm really looking forward to this summer and all the fun things we have planned.  I'm fully expecting it to fly by, but hopefully we'll be left with lots of good memories.

Can you spot the silly spelling mistake?  That's what happens when 3 kids are all yelling things at the same time. :)

Slacker

Yep, I've been a slacker.  I had this whole post started last week about I don't even remember what.  I was so excited to be done with all our evening commitments and be able to cook dinner again, and then it just didn't happen.  I got a bit of a cold, and we had a few evenings out, and with the end of school and all I ran out of steam.
But, it's summer now, and I need to get back in the swing of things at least somewhat.  I will do a separate post soon with our summer list and some first day/last day pics of the kiddos, but for now I need a menu.

Summer To-Do's: :)
Monday- Crabs camp
Tuesday- Crabs camp, dr apt.
Wednesday- Crabs camp, Crabs game?
Thursday- Crabs camp, errands in town, dinner with dad
Friday- Crabs camp, Crabs game?
Saturday- ?
Sunday- ?


Menu:
Monday- something easy.... pasta or pancakes probably.
Tuesday- slow cooker ham & white beans with cornbread
Wednesday- BLT salad with homemade biscuits
Thursday- dinner with Dad
Friday- crock pot salsa chicken quesadillas with homemade tortillas
Saturday- honey lime tilapia with rice and veggie
Sunday- bbq?

Fun breakfast:
Popsicle of the week:
(will come back and fill those in once the kids pick)

Pics & Start of the Week Stuff

First, here are some recent pics...

M warming up at her softball game yesterday: 

 

Stealing 2nd. She says that's her favorite part about softball (she's also a pretty good first baseman!). :)

Today we went up to my mom's to swim.  

M looking cute when we first got there. 

All 3 of my cuties. 

Jumping in all at once (it only took 2 tries to get this shot!). :)

Okay, moving on to this coming week... Baseball is over, but we're still pretty busy. We do have a few nights open though, so we're getting there. :)

To-Do's:
Monday- grocery shopping, softball game for M (bring snacks)
Tuesday- something...
Wednesday- work in R's class, (maybe a Crab's game?)
Thursday- errands in town, dress rehearsal for M, softball practice for M
Friday- nada (maybe a(nother) Crab's game?)
Saturday- softball tournament for M
Sunday- more softball and dance show for M

Menu:
Monday- salsa chicken burritos
Tuesday- something...
Wednesday- tacos
Thursday- pizza (out)
Friday- sandwiches (maybe switch with Wednesday depending on plans)
Saturday- breakfast
Sunday- homemade pizza