SCY: Happy 8th birthday!

I made this card for my medium daughter's birthday last week. Thanks, Sketches: Creatively Yours, for the inspiration!

SCY: In a Flash

Ali has a new sketch up at Sketches: Creatively Yours!

Journaling: We should call you Lightning. You finished the Short Pump Race in 3rd place out of about 100 girls your age. You are excited to do cross-country next year at school. Obviously, you are going to excel! Your time for the mile was 8:01. Go Bella!

 

Obviously my color inspiration was the green in the peacock. :)

SCY: Mothers Tea

Ali has a new sketch up at Sketches: Creatively Yours!

I made this layout based on a tea at my son's school last spring. It was a lovely morning!

Journaling:

You worked so hard for a month on writing stories, drawing pictures, and reading poetry to get ready for the Mother's Tea in Mrs. Carlton's 3rd grade language arts. The morning was amazing! I am so lucky to be your mom!

SCY: Mother Nature

I didn't drop off the face of the Earth, but I think my scrapping mojo did. I'm hopeful that this will kick-start it though...

I'm back on the DT at Sketches: Creatively Yours!

I'm so excited to be back with Ali. Her work is amazing, just as her personality.

Please visit to see what the other designers did when you have time!

Here is my most recent layout:

Journaling:
You slept through it all, but at 1:51pm on August 23, we had an earthquake. B was on the computer playing on the American Girl website, and Z and I were playing Brain Quest. I initially thought it was a truck or motorcycle next door or a train out back, until Z asked what that noise was. I never before imagined an earthquake as being loud, but it definitely had a dull roar to it. After I few seconds, I said, “I think it’s an earthquake,” and B screamed. I didn’t think until afterwards that we should have headed to the downstairs bathroom, but we huddled together in the living room until it passed. It probably lasted 30-40 seconds, but I was grateful once I could tell it was subsiding. Daddy was at work and went outside after the plants and shelves started shaking. I can’t imagine living somewhere that this occurs often. Ridiculously, I once said that I wished I could be in a small earthquake just to know what it felt like… I hope that’s the only one that ever finds me. While it wasn’t terrifying, it definitely disturbed the big kids because there were lots of questions for the rest of the day about how earthquakes happen. Just days after the earthquake, Hurricane Irene went through, and we lost power for almost 2 full days… played LOTS of games on Saturday, lit candles, and made shadow puppets.

LYM: Headlines

My last layout for last year's copy of Log Your Memory...



Title: The Year You Were Born

Journaling:
Barack Obama was inaugurated as the 44th president of the United States.

NASA discovered water on the Moon.

Michael Jackson, the King of Pop, died at age 50.

US Airways jetliner made an emergency landing on the Hudson River, and everyone aboard survived.

Swine flu sickened millions of people.

The Pittsburgh Steelers won the Super Bowl and the New York Yankees won the World Series (horrible sports year for Daddy!).

National Averages:
House price: $258,000
Price of a gallon of gas: $2.57
Price of a gallon of milk: $3.80

Supplies: Scrapdango May 2011 Sugar kit (patterned paper: Crate Paper; embellishments: Bo Bunny, Bella Blvd., My Mind’s Eye)

LYM: Transportation 2

Each LYM designer had one layout featured in the book and accompanying ideas for three other topics. This was my featured layout...

My family loves to travel... near or far; happy or whiny; by plane, train, or car.

Years ago, I read an article where Tim Russert talked about traveling the world with his son, showing him different areas of the country, how people could be different but were really still the same. It resonated with me, and my husband and I set a goal for our kids to see all 50 states before they start college.

We live on the East Coast, so we've covered a lot already.... my oldest two kids have about 30 states each on their tally. We analyze maps and routes and activities to make the most of each of our trips. No lazy beach bums in this house (although, I really do think that sounds like heaven)!

We're a family on a mission!



(here's a pic of my two big kids in Times Square on our most recent trip.)

Happy travels!

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Title: Around the World

Journaling: We've made it a priority to expose you kids to as many different areas pf the country (and the world) as possible. We'll never get to go around the world, but the goal is for you to see that the world is full of love and excitement and learning. All people are basically the same- worth getting to know. That's what I hope you learn from our travels!

Supplies: Basic Grey, Tim Holtz, (lots of scrap paper!); stickers: K & Company

Heather is a SAHM of three beautiful, though not always well-behaved, children. She has been scrapping since before adhesive was invented and is a DT member at Sketches: Creatively Yours. Please visit her blog at http://scrappingmomof3.blogspot.com.

LYM: Transporation 4

Another from the 2012 edition of Log Your Memory...



We changed it up this time by taking trains for the entire vacation… no cars, no planes. Knowing that traffic is terrible between here and New York City, we dreaded driving. The mandatory bathroom and meal breaks plus slow-moving highways, tolls, parking, and gas expenses forced us to think outside the box. Amtrak gave the kids more leg room, the ability to walk around, and a café car. Our total round-trip Amtrak expenses for the trip were just over $400… for all of us (and my mom) together… only slightly more than if we drove.
With the exception of the boat to the Statue of Liberty, it was all trains- light-rail, subway, or commuter train. Though it might have been easier at certain points to take a cab, we stayed on the train-plan, and it worked beautifully. The kids were pros at standing on the subways before we left and even knew which trains to look for when we needed to transfer. If only we could ditch our car at home and take a train everywhere!

Supplies:
Scrapdango August 2011 Sugar kit (manufacturers: Authentique, Teresa Collins), Little Yellow Bicycle, Heidi Grace, Jenni Bowlin, Bazzill: http://www.scrapdango.com