Week of July 5 - 11

This week was the start of our second session of swim lessons.  Overall swim lessons consumed our lives.  We spent all morning either getting ready for swim lessons or being at swim lessons.  While I'm grateful my kids are learning this skill, I will say that these are rough days.  It is exhausting to get everyone ready and there, and then entertain them while they are not swimming.  Which for Max and Bree was the whole two hour block of time.  Any way, how about some pictures...

 July 6th --

I walked in this morning to find my little man doing this in his crib.  Eeps!  When did he get so big that he can pull himself up on his crib?  Guess it is time to lower his mattress.

 

July 9th --

Seriously this kid is growing too fast!  I looked over today and max had pulled himself up to the table.  I may have shed a few tears...not of joy either.  I'm happy this little guy is progressing in his physical abilities though because there has been a bit of concern about that subject.

Mustache anyone? Why yes, we may have been a tad bit bored at swim lessons this day. :D

July 11 --

Just bug bites is what the doctor said a couple weeks ago.  So tell me this.  Why would a bug bit him in the EXACT same place a few weeks later?  Maybe the doctors will believe me now that something is amiss.

I haven't had a ton of scrapping time.  But when I do get time to make things it is a huge stress relief for me.  This was a card I made for one of my LilyPad assignments.  It is hard to tell from the picture but those palm trees are actually dimensional and sit higher than the card.

December Projects

I was super busy this month creating layouts for my family's calendar. 

Between getting the calendar done I also had to do some projects for my Creative Teams.  Finding time to do that in between Chrsitmas activities was hard, but I got it done!

Merry Christmas Card

 

Origami Gift Boxes

 

UR Awesome Card 

 It's Great to be 8 card

November Projects

I was super busy this month.  Right before having Bree I got asked to be on The LilyPad creative team.  I do hybrid projects for them and i also blog a couple times a month.  They agreed to let me have time off to have Bree and this month I would get cracking on my assignments.  I'm really enjoying it so far and it hasn't been too stressful, which is the most important thing! If you want to see a list of products that I use for any of these projects you can see them in my GALLERY.


We are thankful for binder...
{This houses are daily thankful slips that we do in November}

You are the Apple of My Eye card

 

Car Card for my nephew's 16th birthday!

 

Merry Christmas Card

Money Envelopes for my wallet

February Calendar page for my family's Christmas present

Welcome Little One! card

 

January's Creativity

Because of being sick part of the month, I didn't do as many layouts as normal.  I still got a few done, but not as many as I was expecting.

First time creating a year in review layout.  Hopefully going to carry out this tradition from here on out.

 Totally excited to start working on pages from my trip to DC back in 2001!

A page for my brother.

 So excited about this card!  It received a GSO on the Me So Scrappy blog.

Creativity for November & December

Sooooo....remember when I quit most of my scrapbooking teams back in July because I was just under too much pressure?  I guess I couldn't stay away from them.  I rejoined one I quit, and I picked up a completely different one.  I'm now on three teams, with two guest spots coming up in the following year.  I've been very paticular about not letting these teams stress me out.  So far so good.  The other day I was looking through my first blog book and realized I really enjoyed seeing my layouts and creations in there.  I haven't been doing that lately, and I want to get back into the habit.  These all should be clickable if you want to blow them up.

 

November Layouts and Crafts

Last month I had the great opportunity to work as a Hybrid {paper and digital combined} Creative Team Member for a online scrapbook store.  It was a bit stressful but a TON of fun too.  Most of the following crafts and layouts were for this assignment, but a few I did for fun as well!  Enjoy!