My down time...

I have enjoyed my morning scrapping. I took an hour for myself to get some pictures done of our trip to Myrtle Beach. I had already completed Micah's and our pages, which you can see in a previous blog, so today I worked on the boys. Here is what I came up with.

This is Andrew's page...enjoying running on the beach. That's something that you don't get to do everyday, especially living in Arkansas, so never mind that it is 60 degrees and the water temperature was 52 degrees,

just enjoy your time, Fred.

As seen in the middle picture, Joshua had to try out the water too.

In both of these pages I used water color technique and spritzer tool from Stampin' UP! I water colored the sand and water then sprayed on the sand with the spritzer tool. On Andrew's page, I needed to soften up the transition between the water and sand so I used Vellum as waves to separate the two. The Life's a Breeze stamp set is used for the heading and sailboat along with the Small Tag punch for the journaling. The Spiral punch was used to accent Joshua's page heading and the Curly Label Punch for the journaling. Used a few embellishments from Wal-Mart and there you have it.

Simple pages.

More vacation pictures

I know, I know...more pictures of the aquarium.

Fred posing with the mouth of a shark...

Hummmmm, wonder what he is thinking about.

Josh and Jess in the mouth of a sea serpent...

My kiddos...

You had to be here to appreciate this picture. In the clam tank was a blow up fish. I don't think that is the technical term for the creature, but any way, Madison was trying real hard to get this fish to blow up. She and Kyle were banging on the tank, waving their hands and it appeared that the fish would just stare at them, wondering what they were. No, it never blew up...darn.

Doesn't Mike look great! He is a whole person smaller than he was this time last year. He has now lost over 100 lbs., and the pounds are still dropping.

Pictures inside the clams mouth...

Fred looks like he's hurting or something...

Kyle and MadisonJessie is attempting to kiss the fish...wonder if it made Joshua jealous. How cute.

Michael took this picture holding the camera out with his arms...I thought it turned out pretty cool...good job baby.

Here are my pride and joys again.

Ahhhh, God's creation is so fascinating, especially the parts that we don't see everyday.

I don't have a clue what this is...it was stuck to the glass wall...cool huh?

If you are ever given the opportunity to go to a

Ripley's Aquarium, try it out. We really enjoyed it.

Now I am off to get ready for a garage sale tomorrow...I am selling my mom's stuff. It is a bitter sweet time. Bitter to see it go and sweet to get rid of it. I have never seen so much stuff in all my life. Well you can imaging...64 years of stuff collected.

Until the next post.

Yeah!!!! I got to scrapbook today...

Pretty exciting day for me; Joshua has a college recruiter calling our home for a three way conference call Sunday for an interview to play baseball. Pretty cool, huh? Even if he doesn't get to go, it's still pretty cool to be approached and talk to. Keep your fingers crossed for him.

Finally got to scrapbook some of our Spring Break trip. I used white card stock, sprinkled Brilliant Blue for the background, used my new Circle cutter from Stampin' UP! and here it is...

Beach pictures are alot of fun to play with. It's a good thing because I have many more to do. Off to a ballgame, an unscheduled one by the way, to watch Josh play ball.

Have a blessed day.

More pictures from Spring Break...

Unfortunately, I have lost my SD card so the only pictures of the ocean I have are of what Micah took. Hopefully I will get more because some of them are good for framing. But here goes anyway...

Joshua and Jessie walking on the beach...
Micah enjoying the cold water, I suppose...she does have pretty feet.

Joshua and Jessie again...she took a lot of pictures of them,

Our family

Who knows? Andrew, Kyle, Joshua's best friend, and Joshua on the beach. Do you wonder what they are pointing at? NOTHING...

My babies...Joshua's senior year, Micah turned "Sweet Sixteen" and Andrews along for the ride. He had a great time spending time with his good friend, Dylon. I don't know if we have pictures or not, but those two boys spent every minute they could at Magi Quest.

I love this man. Can't believe how our children have grown so fast right before our eyes. I am very proud of my family and love showing them off to you.

Send more pictures later as I get them.

Long time, no see...

I know I haven't been around in a while. It's harder now to find time to set down at the computer, or maybe I should say I feel guilty if I do because there is still so much to take care of since my mothers death. But today, good-bye guilt. I have cleaned one room in my house, took a friend to the doctor in Jonesboro, met Mike for lunch, went to Wal-Mart and braved the hard rain storm. I think I desire a moment to set and relax and show you a few pictures of our vacation. This is me and my man!!!

We went to Myrtle Beach, SC this spring break with Joshua's baseball team to play some ball. Now before you get jealous...the tempature never got above 71 and the ocean tempature was 56. So we just played in the sand. Watched baseball, shopped, eat real good, and spent time with some friends that joined us this year...Shannon and Misty. Micah received the special treatment this year on this vacation, I guess maybe because it was her 16th birthday and lack of room in our vehicle...so Shannon and Misty adopted her for the week. She rode to S.C. with them and here are a few pictures of there first stop...Stone Mountain.

Misty and Micah

View from the sky tram they rode over the mountain

Micah and Misty in front of the beautiful mountain.

Ok, my computer crashed when we got back and now it is really messed up. I cannot add anymore pictures to this blog so I guess I will have to send more later...