sweet vintage

Ella is so lucky to have a friend who's mom likes to throw creative parties...just for fun! My kinda girl!!

camping

We had a great first summer of camping. Thanks Sporty's! See you again next year!

dreamy

Where you go, I go.

I'm so lucky to be married to my best friend. Seriously.

my 2 sunshine boys

These 2 gemini boys are so full of love and sunshine. They are incredible and I am so lucky to have them in my life!

snowshoe sweethearts

A new adventure for our family this year was snowshoeing. Looking forward to doing this again this coming winter!

Snowshoes have come a long way. Those big wooden ones I used in school weren't as easy, from what I can remember...and no, it wasn't THAT long ago!!

***page inspired by Kelly Purkey's "philly friends"

huh?

Where did those 30C temperatures from last September long weekend go??? Sure didn't get near that hot this year!!!

superstar

Nash has an amazing sense of adventure, he'll try absolutely anything....except when it comes to food...

fun page

This page was downright fun. Right from painting the orange border and stamping white snowflakes over the orange paint, to freehand cutting goofy circles to layer on top of each other, to distressing edges, to my favourite quick date stamp, to those glossy black sticker alphas, to writing directly on my photo with a permanent marker....and on wavy lines at that! Even the colours are fun!

***my fun inspiration: Elsie Flannigan :)

all done

No more Nursery School!! No more paying for her education!! ....ok, until University...when paying for a year of nursery school might not even cover her textbooks in university....let's not think about that right now...KINDERGARTEN HERE WE COME!!!

can you do it?

Can you make the vulcan greeting with your fingers?

My hand naturally goes that way, I must have some vulcan in me.

We had a fun pit stop in Vulcan, Alberta last year. It was a fun surprise for my Trekkie husband.

Gotta Love September!!

September.

My favourite time of the year.

Back to school supplies.

Time to get things done around the house.

My birthday.

Fall colours.

Fall clothes.

Fall pictures.

I like Fall.

We didn't get much of it last year. Summer went late and then winter started. I get the feeling we're gonna have more fall this year. It's feelin a bit chilly already.

imagination movers

These kids make me so happy.

I love the way that they can play and play and play together. Many days it doesn't even cross our minds to invite friends over because we have so much fun playing together ourselves!

spritz spritz

How fun is it to play with mists?!! LOTS!!!!!

This layout was inspired by Lisa Truesdell's "Exploring Color" that was in Kelly Purkey's 1st Sketchbook class.

Wish I had made the circle behind the photos bigger, but other than that, I *heart* it :)

best school day

These are one of the best school days ever! Easy on the parents and kids in the morning, one less thing to do before walking out the door, and super comfortable and fun for the kids all day long. The boys loved it!

***Thanks Kerri for doing the stars and then deciding she doesn't like the paper and giving it to me ;)

fluffy clouds

mmmmm, fluffy clouds.....I hand cut these clouds, usually they don't work out the way I want them to, but I really like these ones....with a little bit of dry brush paint around the edges.

stampin

Another thing I don't do very often is stampin my own patterned paper. Not really a huge fan of that.

This is a lift from Elsie Flannigan, from her recipe box layouts.

LOVED doing the doodling around the strip of 4 photos on the bottom!

Of all my kids, Nash definitely likes getting his picture taken the most :)

transparent

I've never used transparencies very much, so this is a pretty basic go at it.

These colours are so Mason. Lots of red, orange, and yellow.

snow friend

I love how the colours came together for this one!

***inspired by Marcy Penner from My Scrap Shoppe

Perks

Perks of having a bakeshop....you would think would be chocolate covered donuts....ok, they are.

But another perk is all these great labels rolls!!

veronica

Too funny :)

I am so much more about scrapbooking moments and things the kids say, than about the big events. There is not the same pressure to make it perfect or amazing, in my mind, I guess? ....and it's just FUN!

it's a love thing

These 2 have declared they are BFFs. Best Friends Forever. ...or as Ella says, "BFFs forever, right Nash?"

I overheard them arguing the other day and then one of them said, "WAIT! Remember? BFFs!!". And then they started getting along again :) I'll have to remember to pull that one out myself sometime!

***Oh! And this layout was inspired by Susi at My Scrap Shoppe:

flashback

This year, Mason is off to Grade 5. Time sure flew by this year, but we're excited for what lies ahead of us with all 3 kids now attending the same school!