no longer for everyone

I went to update the blog a few minutes ago and noticed several pageviews for today which is out of the ordinary, so I clicked on one of the sites that had supposedly been viewing.  I'll just say I wasn't prepared for what I saw and this blog will no longer be open to anyone who wants to view it.  I tried to send invites to anyone who I thought read it regularly (well, when it has something to read, which is not very often lately), but if you didn't get one it's most likely because I either didn't have your email or I didn't know you were a reader.  Just let me know and I'll think about adding you to the club :)

happy birthday B

Today is Brian's birthday.

We gave him 3 birthday pancakes with 3 candles.

They represent the last year of his 30s.

He doesn't like when I say that.

He happened to have the day off work today, so I was excited to spend the day together.

Love you baby!

a photo for friday

Pretty much sums up our day yesterday.

And today.

Without the falling snow.

The boys are now making snow houses, Minecraft style, in the huge 

snowpile left in our cul-de-sac by the snowplows.

They love when that happens!

We got about 6 inches yesterday which equaled another 4 day weekend

for the boys.

Guess who is pretty happy about that?

a photo for friday

Brian calls this look something like "Sith Lord Contemplates Dinner".

I call it "Boy Complains About Dinner Again"

At least he ate his carrots.

And now he is saying he doesn't feel good.

He even gave up playing XBOX with a friend.

So now I'm a bit worried.

Project Life: Week 3

Week three.

I like this one the best so far, I think.  

I'm beginning to wonder if I will get tired of using mainly this Seafoam kit, but I'm definitely still liking it.  I like that it's pretty neutral so that you can add other things in.  And I'm learning more and more each week so things are beginning to go faster and I feel like I can do more creative things.  

Week 3, left side

 When I first started doing this week I was disappointed that I didn't have a lot of photos again.  But when I started plugging them in, I realized that it was really just the right amount to have a good amount of journaling also.

Week 3, right side:

 I got a new template from Jessica Sprague's site this past weekend while they were on sale - love that!! I chose this one because it accommodates instagrams really well.  I thought I would go ahead and try it out since I had a few of those beloved squares for this week, and I like how it turned out. 

I feel like I'm getting into a groove with this and hoping that will continue.  Life is getting pretty busy for us - when is it not, really?  I find it difficult to carve out time to do this, but I do because I am just really enjoying it.  I love that it's an instant gratification item also.  I can share with you as soon as I finish!

Project Life: Week 2

Week Two!

Week 2 left side:

 All of the pictures on this side were from the day we spent at my Uncle Bruce's and Aunt Jane's.  We were all finally able to get together to celebrate Christmas (well, almost everyone - it's hard to get everyone together anymore!).  

Week 2, right side:

And all of these pictures were from the weekend also.  And mostly from my grandma's 90th birthday celebration.  And the journal card on the right side does not look like that in real life.  Sometimes there are things that you just don't want to share with the world wide web.  This was one of them.  That just made you incredibly curious, didn't it?

Project Life: Week 1

I know I mentioned earlier that I was going to try to do Project Life digitally this year, so I wanted to share what I have so far.

I'm not sure if I will share each layout or not, but hopefully these will show up well on the monitor and you can get a glimpse at what we've been doing.

Honestly I think I enjoy this more than the traditional paper and glue scrapping.  It's so much easier for me to find what I want to use and I can re-use things over and over again.  I've had so much fun doing this and hope to get better as the year goes on.

This is Week One.

For some reason I didn't have a lot of photos for this week.  I've noticed that some weeks have very little photos as I've been doing this.  I need to get the camera out more and be more intentional I guess.  Although that can be a blessing and a curse because the more pictures I have, the more time it takes to upload them and organize and edit.  Maybe I'm fine with just a few pictures :)

The left side of week one:

The right side of week one