Closing in....

It is almost Labor Day...only two days to go. I easily surpassed my 100 layouts goal and am hanging around 133 now. I have quite a few layouts sitting here that just need journaling in order to be called finished. However, I doubt I will find the time or energy this weekend to finish them up so we'll call 133 my final number. Not bad considering I thought it would be terribly difficult to even get to 100!!

Here is one (actually two) of my 133 --- I used the Road Map line from OA and handmade a "caution" tape to go across it. I distressed all of the edges but you can't really tell here since I scanned and cropped the layout.

Celeb

As many of you know, my friend Jing-Jing came to visit this weekend....all the way from Minnesota!! It was wonderful to have her around. We hung out (JJ, Michelle, and I), ate too much, and scrapped a ton! We even went to the scrap convention in Somerset NJ and met Kelly Goree. Kelly was fabulous! It's a good thing she has a sense of humor b/c the 3 of us were a handful to say the least! For those non-scrappers reading this, Kelly is a scrapbook celebrity...you can't pick up a scrap mag without seeing quite a few of her creations!

Here we are with her.....

Have I Shared These?

Same papers...two very different outcomes:

My Reader

Last night, Noah and I went over to B&N to grab his free summer reading book. After reviewing all of his choices, he opted to get "Chocolate Fever". It is a chapter book that is maybe 90 pages or so long. He could have opted for a 'First Reader' sort of book but he wanted this book. Up to this point, my husband and I have read chapter books to him and he reads the "easier" books to us. Once in a while he will read a page or two of a chapter book to us but then we take over. Last night, he decided that he is going to read this entire book himself. I was so proud. He read me the first three pages last night and did a fabulous job. There were a few words he needed help with but since the book is targeted toward 3rd-5th grades (he is just going into 2nd grade), I thought he did a great job. I am an avid reader myself so I love the fact that he is coming into his own and trying to challenge himself. It may take him a month to read this book but what an accomplishment it will be!!