FUN RUN

I just ran my very first 5K. And just to let you know I'm not a runner. I'm a FAST walker but not a runner. My husband and I decided to try it out. Two of my sisters were running it so I thought I'd give it a try too. I usually walk 5-7 miles 4-5 days a week so I thought I'd be OK. I'm excited to say I came in 2nd place in my age group (there probably wasn't very many in that group Ha, Ha!) One of my sisters came in 3rd place in her age group too. We had fun and they gave out a ton of prizes. Maybe next year we will get our kids in on this one. My sister took most of the pics so I will have to wait to post more of those.

So overall I thought it was fun and a good way to spend a Saturday morning.

Primary Fun.

Well every Saturday night I sit at my computer and get my stuff ready for singing time with our Primary kids on Sunday. I make a ton of visuals and try to make it fun. We are learning one song called Follow the Prophet (it has 9 verses-holy cow) We have learned it almost perfect so as a reward to sing it perfectly I got a huge box of rope licorice and tied it together to form a long rope or rod (hold to the rod) and as they walk around and sing they will hold signs that have prophets names, so as to follow the prophets. Then afterwards I will cut off a piece of the licorice for each child. I try to make it fun while they are learning too.

My friend from Texas who is a digital scrapbook designer, Krystal Hartley just made a kit that is perfect for primary. I made this cute header with the kit.  So if you are needing some fun graphics go check her out at The Sweet Shoppe. The direct link to this kit is here "BigKidsChurch" 

Teacher scrapbook DONE!

Red Butte Garden done with Meredith Cardall's kit Wild Dandilions

Walking Field Trip done with Meredith's Giving Thanks kit

last page done with Meredith's mini kit Apple Basket

Well I am finished all except for printing it out as my printer decided to run out of colored ink as I was printing them. Dang- wasted 6 photo papers. Well off to Costco to get more ink so I can be Totally and Completely DONE! I used Meredith Cardall's kits for the whole book. Love her. The title page is below this post and there is another post with lots of orange pages below that are also part of the book.

Teacher gift

Well I started a scrapbook as a teacher gift for my son's second grade teacher. We have three weeks left so I need to get in gear. Here is the first page. I'll post the others as I get them done. I used one of the newest kits from Meredith Cardall called Beach Cottage. It's a colab kit at Elemental Scraps. I'm going to use it to scrap a bunch of my beachy San Diego pics too.

Home again, home again, jiggity jig

 

the family at Sea World

 Mission Beach- our condo was on the bay side- very nice!

some local shopping

Shamu of course

perfect shot

scary fish

Sydney doing some light reading/ Diva Style!

Nick got buried at the beach

 

Josh relaxing

tiger at the Zoo

Zoo

Lion at the Wild Animal Park

love those giraffes

overlooking the savannah at the Wild Animal Park

kids on the boat we took around the bay  

and some of the beautiful plant we saw all around us.

We had a fabulous time in San Diego.We saw the sites, got some sun, walked the sand. Too bad we had to come back to the real world. I took tons and tons of pics but just put a very few here. I guess I'll have to do some scrapping and use them all up.

California Dreaming

Well we are heading out for San Diego for a family vacation and I am so excited. It was a last minute decision and we really don't have the money but we do need the time away from the responsibilies of work and school so we are doing it. We rented a condo on the beach and then we are all ready to hit the Zoo, SeaWorld and the Wild animal park with a lot of just laying on the beach thrown in.

Hopefully I'll take a lot of great pics (hint, this pic is off the internet not my work but we can pretend it's mine K.) 

I did it-a couple pages that is!

I decided to make a little 8X8 book for my son's teacher and I actually made some pages using the newest ki by Meredith Cardall called Brighton Lane at Faith Sisters. http://faithsisters.com/shop/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=4756