Disney Photos!

Yahoo, I have finished scrapbooking all my Disney Photos. I still have to do the Santa Monica ones but at least these are done. What fun it was too...

My grid stage!

I am so far behind in scrapbooking but feeling a little uninspired. Not sure why as I have so many wonderful photos to scrap. i am just getting to Xmas though and it is so hard to scrap Xmas in May- what with birds chirping, flowers smelling lovely and weeds waiting to be dug up! I am trying to just put photos on paper and then move on. So it seems I am at my grid stage- I like grids as you can fit lots of photos on a page. I need to be done 2007 so I can start in on this years photos!

I need a holiday

I am so amazed at how fast holidays fly by. We went away for 4 days over spring break and it flew by, but we knew we had a 10 day holiday coming up in April. We were so looking forward to it- and it was a fantastic holiday! But now it is over! I can't stand that we look forward to holidays for months in advance and then poof they are over. Anyway Cali was amazing - the weather was great there were many memories to be had, The girls LOVED Disneyland and 5 days was perfect. Then 5 days in Santa Monica was great, relaxing and awesome. Oh- I need a vacation.

Violin

My DD has taken up violin- her choice. I cannot believe how good she is. She has been playing since Sept 07 and I was fully prepared for the squeaking and awful sounds that might come form learning a new instrument. Much to my surprise there is the odd squeak, but she is amazing. She had her first recital on Valentines Day and I thought for sure she would be nervous- no way. She played the song and it was perfect!

Memories of summer

I am still scrapping memories of last summer and am really looking forward to this summer. It has been a very rainy winter and I am not usually one to complain about the rain- but oh my gosh-enough! We have booked our holiday to Anaheim (wink, wink) for April- but that seems like an eternity away. I am trying to catch up on all my photos so that when I take 1000 photos in DL I will be able to come home and scrap them right away. I hate nothing more than waiting 6 months to scrap stuff and then I have forgotten all the great thinks I was going to write about! So I am in August 2007 right now. I discovered MAC books too- which are the greatest books- I love them- if you have a mac and iphoto it is the easiest thing to scrap- chose a book - flow your photos and 5 days later a coffee table book is delivered to your door- WOW! Anyway here are some pages from last summer of Galiano Isalnd- what a great place to go.

It's been a while

Well I have not posted in a while. Life gets so crazy at the end of the summer and back to school. Being on the PAC at Dani's school keeps me busy for the first 2 months of school as I have to look over all the health and safetly forms- what a task. Then soccer starts and all the girls other activities. Somewhere in there my offices moved- which was a great thing as they are now a block away from my house!!!! I have been teaching some intro to scrap classes and generally just a busy bee. I am so behind in my scrapping I am trying to catch up but I have been doing all sorts of other fun projects and here I am. In Novemeber a birthday for Dani looming and photos from June still not scrapped!!! So here are a few pages I did for a competition that was on one of the sites I frequent.

Summer's Over?

I cannot believe that summer is almost over. Mind you the weather the last few weeks has been anything but fall like. Well, last week was back to school- Dani is now in grade 2!!!! It was back to school and then do nothing for the first week- my how times have changed since I went to school. But, by Monday she had her class and they were all settled in by the open house tonight. My baby is getting so big {sigh}. This week with all the activities back on it was like the break of summer never happened- I cannot believe how fast time flies!

Now that Maui is done!!

Wow, now that I have created, and printed all 55 Maui pages I am so far behind in my scrapbooking. This is probably because I have to take photos at every waking moment. Frank always laments that we don't do enough family activities-well you only have to look at my photos to know that is not true. I thought that we had a not too busy summer until I browsed through the almost 1000 photos I have taken so far!!! Damn that is a lot of memories. I am still scrapping last Xmas- so somebody stop me from taking anymore photos. Nah- not gonna happen. But the photos aside we have had a great summer- what with 4 family getaways and tons of local activities. I cannot believe that the kids go back to school in a week- wow. I think it is time though- my girls are at each others throats! Ahh the lazy (???) days of summer.

Maui finished!

Finally I have finished scrapbooking my Maui photos! That took forever... Now I am only 7 months behind in scrapbooking- I really have to learn to take less photos :)

Galiano Island

We have had some very busy days these past few weeks. We were in Oregon week before last which was stunning. This past weekend we visited Galiano Island with friends. Wow, talk about beauty in your back yard. A mere 50 min ferry ride and you are in this little paradise. Of course it helped that the weather was co-operative. We had a great stay- we rented a cottage in Bodega Ridge and it was awesome. We got in a great bike ride to Dionisi0 point park (these starfish were everywhere!) The kids had so much fun exploring the tidal pools and seeing who could find the most starfish, crabs and clams. This is a great place and we will go back soon!

Exhausted!

I am so tired- this weather takes it out of you. I cannot believe what a busy weekend we had. Little miss Delaney turned 4!!! Wow- where has the time gone. What a great birthday weekend she had- with a family party on Saturday, followed by a kids party on Sunday. I was so busy baking all the cakes and making all the food. By Sunday night I was done- but no I thought it would be nice to put together the bed that we had bought her so that she had it for the morning. Did I mention that it was an IKE@ bed!!! 5 hours later (and still not done) I had to go to bed- I was was beyond tired. Then I woke up Monday to continue the giant jigsaw! After all that the matress we bought didn't fit (oh wait- read the small print- it takes 3 days for it to recover from it's wrapped up state- it now fits- thanks heavens!) After all of that I spent the rest of Monday sorting through her toys and getting rid of all the junk my girls collect! Does it ever end???

A walk in the Park

FINALLY- we got to go on a "hike" with the girls. We have been dying to try a little hike without Delaney crying-"pick me up!!" So on Canada day we took a walk in Minnekhada Park- it was great. We saw so many great sites. There were birds everywhere and I don't think that the girls even noticed that they were walking! When we got to the lodge it was open and we got to go inside- what a great piece of history in our back yard. We are so looking forward to more hikes...

Baby Finley

Yahoo! My new nephew is here. He arrived after 3 hours of labour on Friday afternoon and I am so happy. He is perfect. Willa got to spend the whole of Friday and Saturday with us too- which was great. She has no idea what is in store for her and she wasn't too impressed by baby Finley at the hospital.
We are happy though- there grows the family!

In the Pink!

I am a bit late with the pink week!
These are photos from our weekend on the Sunshine Coast with friends and family. What a great house to get away to. The kids always have so much fun together, it hard to think that they have all know each other for their whole lives! They don't see each other as often as we would like, but when the kids do get together it is like they were never apart.

Cute as a button

My nephew is as cute as a button and I realise that I don't take enough photos of the girls and their cousins. So that is my goal this month. As there is a new baby boy due in the next few weeks it seems like a great month for cousin photos. That is my goal and we will try and stick to it.
I realise as I scrap that I take photos of the same events and the costumes, weather, age and sometimes locations change from year to year. BUT overall the same photos. I have to step out of that box and start taking photos of the little everyday things that in a few years will not be everyday. For example the girls love all their stuffy animals and play for hours on end with them- I need to snap some of those moments. Or the fact that miss Delaney NEVER wears what I put out for her each day and proceeds to dress herself in the worst possible combinations. She needs a badge- I dressed myself today! Anyway watch this blog for cousin photos!

Birthday Parties

My girls get invited to so many parties- it is hard to capture them all. But this princess party that they went to was awesome. It was beautiful and they had so much fun. Seeing them drinking chocolate milk out of their mini teacups was adorable. Since then Delaney has been to another princess party here and loved it equally as much. What a great idea. I know when we were kids we were just happy to have friends over and a cake. Nowadays parties are so extravagant, but I like the idea of paying someone else to host my kids parties- it sure makes cleaning up an easy task.

I miss Maui!

It seems like forever ago that we were in Maui. I miss it already- and want to go back soon. It was such a great holiday and such a great place to go with kids. We are maybe going to Anaheim next year which would be great- but that seems like an eternity away. I will have to live vicariously through these photos!

The Aquarium

We had so much fun at the Aquarium. This was lst November, but it has become a family institution for us. We were lucky enough to get a year pass as Xmas gifts- so we go as often as we can. I can never seem to take enough photos. I cannot wait to go there with the new camera.

Halloween!!!!!!

I know what a weird thing to be thinking of in the middle of May! But that is where I am at the scrapping of my stuff. The worst part is that I have a Xmas and a snowfall to go through too! I am dying to scrap some summer photos- like the ones I took today at Dani's sports day. But alas, if I do not stay on the straight and narrow and do the photos I have to do, I will get all caught up in in wonderful summer colours and have no time for orange and red! So here is a lovely Halloween layout to look at. I created the background paper all by myself. The photos were the most aweful ones I have ever taken inside. I am so thankful that I have a new Digital camera that takes fantastic indoor shots as I am sick of dull, blurred indoor photos.

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