Summer almost over?

Wow can you believe it? Next weekend is Labor Day weekend, the unofficial end of summer. Its the last weekend of August. Then school starts that week. My oldest granddaughter will be starting kindergarten and my youngest daughter will be going into her senior year of high school. Oh how time goes by so quickly. Thats why its so important to take pictures. So you can capture moments and I just love digital camera's. It allows me to take picture after picture and I am sure to get at least one good one. lol. I am so glad that my granddaughter starts on the 2nd and my daughter on the 3rd. Since my daughter started school I have always taken her on the first day but I also wanted to be there when my granddaughter started on her first day. Now I can do both. So I have 2 new layouts to show. I know that the disney one is very busy but I just wanted to get all the characters she saw (well I didn't get them all). My favorite in this picture is grumpy. I was so lucky my daughter got that shot. The kit I used is Giving Love by Ashalee Wall.


Blocks

Disney


Well thats all folks! lol

Our first college visit

On Friday Kelly and I went to our first college information session at FIT (Fashion Institute of Technology). I really was very impressed and truthfully I would love it if she could make it into this college. It seems like it is everything she is looking for and boy the price is right. But it is really hard to get into. They said they get around 16,000 applications but only take about 1500. The day we went to visit, there was standing room only in the information session and there were people from china and canada there too. So we have more schools to look at and maybe we will be able to find another that fits so well. After the information session we made a day of it in the city. We didn't get out of the information session until around 2 or so and then we took the subway up to radio city music hall. We had lunch around there and then we walked to rockerfeller center. Right around rockerfeller center they had a nitendo world store which we went into just for the fun of it. We didn't get the bus going home until about 7 or so and didn't get home until 8 oclock that night. Boy I have to tell you, my back and knees were hurting for 2 days. My back is just now starting to feel better. Well, anyway I did some more scrapping as I had some pictures of my oldest granddaughters 3rd birthday to scrap to almost complete the book I am making of her baby years. The kit I used for these 2 layoouts is Birthday Girl Mega Kit by Skrapper Digitals of Stone Accents Studio. This book is almost finished, I have 97 pages. I am making 100. So three more layouts to do and then on to my next project...

What's Next

OK, Kelly has finished her drivers ed and she passed. I just have to go Thursday and get her certificate. Then we will be able to schedule her road test. She won't be 17 until the end of September but I hear that the waiting list for road test are really long. Anyway we have been looking at colleges online and hopefully we can get a few visits in before the summer is over. But there is so much going on between her art classes twice a week and her job. Plus we have an appointment to have her senior pictures taken. In between all this, I have a few layouts to show. For these two layouts, I used Sweet-Made's Clean Cut Collection (the collection starts at bottom of the page). I just love all of those beautiful mattes, especially the heart and lace border ones.


Elmo
Take out

New Layouts

For the following layouts I used a combination of "Butterfly Garden" and a "Commercial Use Grab Bag" both by Ellen Massey of Stone Accents Studio. For the layout titled "Grandpa", I only used the Butterfly Garden Kit, and there are 2 layouts that are the same with a different picture in it. The first one I made I used a picture of Emma, but I had used that picture before in a different layout so I changed it an put a picture or should I say cut out of Danielle. I really like the first one I made better but since I had used it before I made the second one.


Family Ties

Grandpa

Butterfly

Butterflies