Scrapbooking Continued...

I just wanted to add the page I designed to go into my journal.

I have a little frame so I can add a picture of the day, and I put four stars at the top so I can rank how my day was too. I took that idea from an iPhone App called Gratitude Journal.

I just printed this design onto loose leaf college ruled paper. It turned out really good.

Scrapbooking

A really good friend of mine has been talking about digital scrapbooking for awhile now, and I've been wanting to try it out. She uses Photoshop, I think, so I downloaded an older version copy I had and tried to figure some stuff out, and basically have no clue. It's a total mystery, and I hate it lol. Travis finally showed me how to insert pictures to a background, but I could not figure out how to resize them once I got them on my page. That poses a problem. So I said heck with it for awhile and used my Print Shop program that I love, but it only to my knowledge does pages that are 8 1/2 x 11, not the typical 12x12 scrapbook page. Bummer. Anyways until I can figure this mess out, I made a journal cover for a 3 ring binder that I got this evening to start journaling.

I downloaded this scrapbook kit called "Happy Go Lucky" from The Shabby Princess. I totally love how my page turned out. I am going to go now so I can design pages for my journal. I'm really excited about this whole digital scrapbooking thing. It is alot of fun, and plus it is alot cheaper than buying all the supplies and saves it alot of time! Let's just hope I'll have time to work on some pages. ;-)

I Am Loved

Lately Dalen has wanted me to hold and cuddle with him more. I am
loving it because he was not one to want held much. I am starting to
see that he loves me and it's the best thing in the world!

Lunch With Friends

Today Dalen and I had lunch with our friends, Anna & Owen, and Angie & Rylan. I totally forgot about taking pictures until after Angie & Rylan left, sorry guys. We all had a great time and ate great food. Maybe the food was too good lol. I told everyone that I was only going to eat half of a dinner roll, but I ended up eating the whole thing. Oh well. Dalen and I really had a great time with our friends. We hope to do this more often.

Owen (left) & Dalen (right)

Playdough Playtime!

I made some homemade playdough the other afternoon for Dalen. I'm not
sure he liked it very well, but he did like the cookie cutters. Mostly
he would grab at the playdough with a disgusted look on his face. I
had fun anyway ;-)

Here's the recipe I used if anyone's interested.

1 cup salt
2 cups all purpose flour
4 tsp cream of tartar
2 tbl cooking oil
Food coloring
2 cups water

Mix dry ingriedents in saucepan, add water, food coloring, & oil, cook
over medium heat, stirring constantly until mixture pulls away from
sides of pan.
Dump onto table and kneed smooth, (mixture doesn't need to cook long,
about 4-5 minutes).

Boring!

Today is not going to be very much fun. Travis has a lot of homework
to do so we won't get to be out and about much. We did just eat at
Taco Bell...It was actually clean for a change. Now I'm just waiting
on him to get a movie from Blockbuster for his film class.

This past week has been just crazy. I had a lot of fun at Bible
School, but I am glad it's over. One of my students was a little
terror, and one night another one went up and peed behind a tree. It
was quite interesting.

I wish I had a bunch of money to go shopping today.

Hope everyone has a great Saturday!

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Hey Y'all!

I feel like I don't have much going on, but really it's not true. To update everyone, I did decide to drop my classes. It was just too much to take on right now.

This week I've helping with our church's Bible School. The theme is called "Jerusalem Marketplace." I am one of the Tribal Leaders who is teaching a group of kids and taking them around the "marketplace" to make jewelery, make bags of spices, and to the wood shop where they make traditional Jewish toys. They are also learning games that the Jewish children played during Bible times. There is a skit performed each night leading up to the final night when we get to see Jesus. The kids are all excited to see him. I asked one last night what they thought it would be like to see Jesus and he said, "Awesome!" I thought that was so cool. I have never been a teacher of anything before, so I've been nervous, but I think I'll be able to pull it off. We even dressed Dalen up in a Jewish outfit, it was cute.

I got his 9 month pictures back yesterday. I think they turned out really good.





He really is growing up too fast. He is crawling pretty well now, and pulling himself up on everything. Next think I know he'll be walking, or running, with me chasing behind lol. I can't believe how mischievous he is! Well, we are his parents.

I'm not sure if I posted it before, but a few weeks ago he weighed 22 1/2 lbs. and was 27 1/4 in. long.

Travis only has 4 weeks of school left after this week!!!!! The job outlook is not looking so good right now, but something will come up.

Last week I was sick with bronchitis. It really sucked!

We took Dalen to his friend, Grant's 1st birthday party on the 4th. I wanted to share this picture...I think the picture says it all.


I hope everyone is enjoying their summer! Maybe next week things will settle down and I'll be able to chill out with Dalen more and we can play in the pool :-)