This is using the new kit You Sham(rock) My World that came out today by Geek Chic and Sweet Tomato Designs. I used a template by Kate Designs for the template challenge over at MLAS. These photos are old, but I've always liked them. We were dogsitting Daphne a few years ago and Declan was hanging out with her in the yard.

Just a little sneak peek of the new Geek Chic collab kit coming out tomorrow at Polka Dot Plum!

Our trips our coming up here soon. I am going to have to pull out the summer clothes and see what we've got, I hope! I haven't checked Florida or Tucson weather yet. I'll wait until we are closer to departure. I have the rental car and kennel booked for the Florida trip, and then Scot will be home while we are in Tucson, so no kennel needed. I don't think we'll need a rental car for Tucson, either. We will have laundry facilities in Florida, so I will try, as always to pack light, especially considering luggage charges these days! All four of us will have the biggest carry-ons allowed, so maybe we'll only have to check one bag.

I have been completing some pages, but they can't be posted yet. There are releases coming out on Wednesday and Friday this week, and I'm also hoping to get a page or two done for my new CT!

I did my usual Friday night speed scrap this week. I had to use two photos that were in a sequence. I used a kit called Urban Jungle by RebeccaPSP, and it worked well for the rustic setting of the YMCA.



I was excited to get the news yesterday that I was accepted to a CT for a local Colorado designer, Julie.it.is. She uses such great jewel and earth tones for a lot of her kits, which I find very easy to work with. I can't get into her forum yet to find out all the details, but I love all her kits that I've seen of hers.

I spent the day and evening at a recorder workshop. We played in the morning and part of the afternoon, and then we learned some English country dances so some people played and others danced. I did both, and it was pretty fun, but made for a long day!

Scot is going skiing tomorrow so I will have to think of something fun to do with the kids. They went to a Home Depot workshop this morning and Owen practiced his archery later at home. I can picture him getting into a solitary sport like that rather than a team sport, eventually. He really liked it when we tried it at the YMCA last year. We actually all had a lot fun with it.

Report cards came out on Friday. Both did well although Owen had a couple comments about him getting easily frustrated. Hopefully that is getting better over time. We talk about it a lot, but who knows if it's helping. They also got a packet of the school photos that I didn't order. I don't really want to get two packets of photos a year, and seeing this did not tempt me to order them! Declan was having a bad hair day because I didn't even know it was photo day and didn't fix it much before he left for school. What cracks me up is he has one photo where his eyes are closed, and that's the one they featured, but another version is shown on a couple of them with a nice smile, but it's not the main photo they focused on. Does anyone even look at these before they do them up?? I might scan them before I return the packet since they are kind of funny.

Today was...not a great day at work. We had the crier, the screamer, the whiner, the hitter, and more than one kid for those categories! To top it off, I walked in to see the one kid that gets on my last nerve. I used to get her every Monday night and it was just too much after awhile. I didn't expect to see her with my new Wednesday shift since usually she is in school. I don't know why she was there, but she was for my entire shift. I forgot my purse so I had to go without my usual before-work coffee, so I'm sure that didn't help my frame of mind! Anyway, I am looking forward to a lazy day of nothing tomorrow. I have barely been home this week, so I am already stressed by that. I am a homebody at heart and it's my favorite place to me most of the time!

Scot is working the early shift for the next few days, so he got home earlier than usual. He took the kids swimming while I was at my exercise class, so they were thrilled to not have to be in the treehouse like usual. They ate dinner poolside, so I came home after the class and had a relaxing dinner by myself, with one of my favorites, grilled cheese!

These are my Color Me Happy layouts. The softball one was a challenge at Digital Scrap Cafe to use no background paper. That was different for me!