My Challenge.....

There is a wonderful challenge going on over at The Sunshine Blog and here is my layout.



We had to come up with 14 different facts about ourselves. I found that pretty hard. Ask me to come up with 14 things about Guy or the kids and it would have been easy. But, it was hard to come up with them for myself - let alone just finding a picture of me. I finally finished it... and it was pretty fun to do.

Crazy!

I just got a call from my mom this afternoon letting me know about my Grandpa who lives in Preston. He has a bloodclot in his leg and has decided not to have surgery for it. Consequently, anything could happen at any time. So... everyone in my family (from Seattle) has been rushing to make plans to get here to see him. It sounds like all three of my brothers will be able to make it and my parents just booked a flight. I'm glad that we are all going to be able to be together for Easter and to be around my grandparents. My grandpa is a great man and I hate that his health is failing and that he hasn't been able to feel good for a while. I am going to try and post some pictures of my kids with him. They just ADORE their Grandpa Eliot. Austin just loves that he is named after him!!! (Austin Eliot) It will definitely be awful when he passes away to tell my kids. It will be so hard for them, they have never had the experience of anyone close to them dying - not even a pet! Anyway, hopefully, the clot in his leg won't break loose and he will be okay for a while. I feel so bad that we live so close and haven't made the short drive to Preston for a long time. It will be good to see everyone though - and now I must go so I can clean house for my parents!!!!

Old Times!!!

My mom just got a bunch of photos of my "growing up years" scanned in and I thought that I would make a page with one of my favorite pictures. Boy, how we loved those Cabbage Patch Kid dolls!!! These were my great neighborhood friends growing up and I can't wait to make more pages with some of these pictures - we've got some good ones!

Two in One! and funny Kaylee

I made this scrapbook page today!



It was a lot of fun to do. I'm going to make a page to go opposite of it with pictures of all three kids together that says "but, mostly, they're just the same!"

This was a conversation between Kaylee and I when I was sitting at the computer with this page almost done.

Kaylee: I don't like it.
Me: How come?
Kaylee: Because there's Jaden and Austin on it. I like just me!
Me: Don't you think it's nice to have all of you guys on it?
Kaylee: No, I like just me. (stated very matter-of-factly!)