Spring Break Higlights

A quick recap of Spring Break.

 It was a little windy but we got a fire and s'mores in. Bill ended up not traveling this week which was really nice.

 A little rodeo fun at the library.

 Grandma J joined us for Strawberry picking, yum! The boys had lots of fun.

 We spent one morning at Armand Bayou Nature Center and then met Daddy for lunch. We also did a nature walk scavenger hunt with friends and met for a frozen yogurt treat this week.

And of course celebrated Pi day! We ate lots of round foods and treats but didn't get actual pie. Try again next year. :) 

Birthday Party

We had a great day for Aiden's Birthday Party.
Our house turned Transformer:

even the food. 

The Birthday Boy was pleased!

Not our usual Winter

The whole country has been getting colder weather, lots of snow and it has reached us too. The boys had a late start to school on Jan. 24th when we woke to lots of icicles. 

The boys loved it!

They had fun knocking them down after a few pictures. 

Then the next week we had school canceled for the day on Tue. the 28th and a late start on the 29th . We saw some flurries in the air during the day and woke up to a little gathering of snow/ice Wed. 

The boys were so excited to play with the ice...something we don't see most years. We also got to Face time with Grandma on our day off and see all the snow in her yard.

PSE play

Yeah for using some of the digital product and know-how I have! This will go in my Project Life album. Just thought it was a fun way to capture gifts from Santa with all three boys.

Grammar-Free Journaling

A class at BPC I took this fall. For this layout I used a graph for my journaling. My pictures of the boys at the different ages really matched up well!

Photo Pocket Panel

I tried adding a photo pocket panel to my layout to get extra pictures in after seeing this layout by Aly Dosdall at BPC and probable why I then took her class.

I had 3 groups of pictures from this first day of school but didn't really want to make 3 separate pages. The added 6x12 was just perfect to get them all together.

 Here's the full layout.

 Left side with panel closed

 Left side with panel open.

Right side.

Multi-Photo Solutions

I signed up for the Multi-Photo Solutions workshop at BPC very last minute but thought that more ideas to get through stacks of photos would be good.  Here's my take on a single page layout using multiple photos. 

I really like the interactive part on the left side of the layout but still need to cut slits in a page protector to make it work. 

And since this is a multi-photo class I also added a couple divided page protectors to add several more pictures from this visit. 

 Since I had all my Fall stuff out I continued with more recent Thanksgiving pictures.

I really liked how this turned out but didn't leave a good space for journaling so I included it in the double page layout that follows. 

And a little sneak at some tricks if your scraps are just a bit short.