The Race Has Begun

The kids are back to school (two weeks now) and the constant running has begun.



Now that all of the kids are old enough, they each have their list of activities. It all began this year with soccer. Even Sarah, all dressed in her gymnastics gear, had to get out there for pre-season warm-ups. She didn't initially want to play but seems to be loving it now.





In addition to soccer, Noah has baseball, ice hockey, and hebrew. Hannah has gymnastics and Hebrew. Sarah has gymnastics and dance. I have yet to take pics at those activities. I thought I would give the kids a chance to bond with their teams prior to me embarassing them with all of the picture taking. As it is, Sarah has already informed me that I am not allowed to cheer for her at soccer! She is 4 and embarassed of me already!!

Falling Leaves

I didn't get much scrapping done over the long holiday weekend. We spent most of the time running last minute school and sport errands....lunch box snacks, new ice skates, etc. We have a jam packed fall with all of the kids activities!! However, I managed to put this one together while cooking dinner last night. I used an old picture of Noah playing in the leaves when he was only 3. I do so love fall!!!

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.....