A week in pictures

I like to scrapbook. I am not a fancy, over-the-top scrapbooker that does totally ornate designs and page layouts. I think those are awesome and the people that do them amazing, but with 4 kids that just isn't feasible if I want to get their scrapbooks done before I turn 105, so I take a much more simple approach. About a year and a half ago I heard about Becky Higgins who is an amazingly talented scrapbooker, and she was coming out with a kit called 365. The idea was that you take one picture, just one, every day of the year. Thus at the end of the year you have an album with 365 pictures in it ready to go. It was a premade kit with page protectors designed to hold a week in each layout with cute journaling cards for each day. See above. I was lucky enough to get one and did 365 last year. Becky changed companies and came out with Project Life this year, which is basically the same idea. So I take one picture a day to represent my life, and then put them in the album. I love it. So easy, and my kids love looking through the album with the pictures of current things. So I wanted to share my pictures of the day for this last week.

This is today's. We are laboring hard on Playmobil toys today. We are huge playmobil fans at our house. Starting in the lower left and going clockwise we have the castle, the pink and purple princess fairytale set, garden, truck, seals at the zoo, the zoo, the pirates and their ship, and then a tree house. Today we decided we were going to get them all out and play Playmobil world and go through pieces and make sure the right pieces were in the right places because sometimes (often) they get mixed up. Does that ever happen at your house, things get mixed up and in the wrong place? Never, ever happens here either :)

Sunday: Mr J got his first official suit. All ready for church. During the service he kept moving around then straightening his suit and asking "Did I mess it up mom?" He went out the door saying "I look just like dad!" Love it!

Game on! Miss A had her first volleyball game. She was set and ready to go. In one game she served and made 10 points. Way to go girl!

People keep asking me what I am doing all day with the kids gone. I decided I was going to go through every drawer, closet, and room in the house and de-clutter. We have way too much junk! So this is what I was getting rid of this day. It is nice to do it during the day when everyone is gone so no one can say "Hey, that is mine, don't get rid of that." When I sneak it out they never even know it is gone :)

Miss O had some friends over this past week. They did each other's hair. Very creative and lovely :)

Jamming with dad. Miss O and Ben are getting pretty good at playing their guitars together.

For Christmas Miss O got one of those Knex roller coaster sets. We put it up at Christmas, but then it came down. She got it out again this past week and had races. These aren't real "exciting" things, but they are part of our lives, and I love being able to capture them and share. Hope you enjoy!