The Last Days of Summer

Today I had to run some errands so I dragged the kids around with me all over town to get it all done. As a reward for not melting down and being good troopers I took them to Yogurtland for a sweet treat before we came home.  I'm trying to enjoy these last days of summer before school starts on Monday.  

December Daily

I got my December Daily supplies in the mail today.  I am so excited! For those of you who don't know what a December Daily is let me try to explain it.  It is a mini album for the month of December.  You make a mini album with enough pages to add a photo (or more) a day and some journaling to keep track of all the fun things, traditions, and activities that you and your family do during the month of December. I saw lots of scrapbookers blogging about it last year and decided that I would try it this year. Ali Edwards has a great post on her blog about her 2010 December Daily album. I will use it as a guide to get mine assembled. I am excited about doing it but I know it will be a challenge.  I think if I make an effort to get my photos printed each week I can keep track of everything and not get behind.  I'm going to get the album put together this weekend so it's ready when December gets here. I will keep you posted on my progress! Wish me luck!

Girls Weekend

This past weekend I was able to get out of town with some of my very best girlfriends.  We planned this trip earlier in the summer and I was counting down the days until we were on the road to our beach weekend.  We planned on resting, relaxing, and having some crazy fun.  These ladies are very dear to me.  I have known each of them for many years and been there for each other through just about everything.  When we get together we laugh, get silly, pig out on junk food,  and have the best times ever.  I was happy to have this time with them.  We were already planning our next trip even before this one was over.

Felicia and Maria ready to go.

Me and Mandy all ready too!

 Day 1: lunch time

time to unwind and relax 

Day 2: lunch, again

we met some nice gentlemen after lunch who were kind enough to take some pictures with us

time for some shopping

Starbucks!!!

 homemade "dirt" tacos. YUM!!!!

a friendly game of Spoons, Mandy and Maria got a little carried away. lol!!!

As you can see we had the best time! I love my girls!!

Some thrifty finds

I have been crazy busy over here.  The last 2 weeks of July were a blur with everything that we had going on.  There was Vacation Bible School, Isabella's birthday party, Mr. G going to Texas for the third time this summer, and all of our regular everyday stuff.  So when I had a chance to get out of the house all alone to run errands I decided to do some thrifting.  I have always loved second hand stores.  I would even say that 98% of my clothing in college came from second hand and vintage stores.  On this particular trip I was so happy to find these treasures.   A blue mason jar (seriously in LOVE with blue mason jars), 3 more mason jars ( I want to turn the one with a lid into a soap dispenser), a tray (I am going to paint it and make a magnetic board out of it), and some milk glass ( I will use these to hold jewelry and scrapbook supplies).  I am so happy with my thrifty treasures!  I love a successful shopping trip. 

New Obsession

I have a ton of old Readers Digest books lying around the garage. I think the covers are just beautiful but I don't really have anywhere to display them so I wanted to find another use for them. I decided to cut off the covers and used them to make a mini album. I just used an exacto knife to cut them away from the book spine. It was really easy. I used my Crop-a-dile to punch holes in each cover. I added tons of cute paper and overlays to it. I loved the way it turned out. I am officially obsessed with using the book covers for mini albums. I can't wait to make another one! Are you currently obsessed with anything?

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Making Jam

Today my mother in law came over and made peach jam with the kids. They had a great time getting their hands dirty and being involved in the whole process. I can't wait to try it tomorrow morning. It's going to be yummy!

School shopping

We did some school shopping yesterday. We got some uniform skirts and shorts, shoes, school supplies and the all important messenger bag. We searched far and wide for the perfect bag. It was not an easy job let me tell you. I was about to give up until at our last stop we saw it. It was bright and shiny and calling out to Isabella. Yay!! I have one happy third grader. We will tackle to rest of our school shopping later this week. I'm hoping to get it all done this week. Are you all done school shopping? What perfect item are you on the hunt for?