April 22-30

April 15 - 21

April 8 - 14

April 1-7

fyi... wordart is going to be changed on this layout. It's just not sitting well with me.

April has been somewhat frustrating for me. Lots of frustration at work that just seems to have carried over into real life. It doesn't feel like I've accomplished much. Oh well, I've started on my April POTD layouts. I'm also going to attempt to teach some ward members how to digi scrap and so I completed the layout that we will be doing for that.

March 22 - 31

March 15 - 21

March 8-14

POTD March 1-7

Releasing the floodgates of emotion

This made me laugh so I had to write it down so I don't forget it.

John is a pretty funny guy - after any type of social outing, i.e. party, temple trip etc. he LOVES to talk & talk & talk. I generally learn quite a bit about the goings on of the youth in the ward during this 'decompression', which is what we call it. Tonight I picked him up after a temple trip & he was quiet driving home. I inquired as to the silence & his response was he hadn't 'compressed' so he didn't need to 'decompress'. I asked exactly what that meant ... and this was his definition of decompression....

"Releasing the floodgates of emotion" - I kid you not! I started laughing so hard & he just started laughing & said he was just improvising... yea right!

Releasing the floodgates of emotion!!

I've finished out my February layouts.

Going back to work on January's layouts.

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More Feb POTD layouts

Feb POTD Layout

I've been playing around for a few days & enjoying getting back into digi mode. I've finally come up with my plan for scrapping my daily photos. I finished the first 4 pages for February.

PODT 2/8 - 2/11

This has been such an interesting project - at least for me. While life is somewhat mundane - I go to work in the morning - I come home at night. We do homework, watch some news, fix dinner & clean up & off to slumberland before starting all over again. I suppose what I've tried to do is to take pictures of things that are common for me today - places we go today (gas station, cafe at work)

8: Front of house during snowstorm

9: Gas prices when I filled my car with gas today. (No, I didn't buy the Doritos and yes, that is a pile of snow just under the sign!)

10: Substituted for Activity Days - each girl got a cute mailbox & then we made Scratch Off valentines (cute idea) for each member of their families. I had such good intentions of taking their pictures while they were working on them, but when I finally remembered to take a picture after cleaning up - these were the only 3 left, along with Sister Oku.

11: 4th floor of the building I work in. GREAT sandwiches are made here. The food is a bit gourmet for me so on those days when I don't have a frozen lunch I have a sandwich. 1/2 ham sandwich on whole grain bread, provolone cheese, tomato, cucumber & just a touch of mayo. I'm in such a rut.

Here's a link to the Valentines we made. I didn't want to do lottery tickets, so I just made them that shape & let the girls decorate them the way they wanted. They LOVED the novelty of writing a message under a heart that had to be scratched off.

Valentines

POTD 1/30 - 2/7

I am also doing 2 page digi layouts for each week, but since I'm a bit behind on those, I'm using this space to keep track of the pictures...

30: Swimming

31: Helping clean up after 5th Sunday soup at the church

February 1: A snowy commute

2: Ben says "No" with an amazing Minnesota accent. This is capturing his face when he says it.

3: Hawaiian Haystacks for dinner

4: Our house number (will crop this for the layout :) )

5: Missing picture :(

6: Shopping at Target

7: Pizza for dinner

POTD 1/22 - 1/29

Jan 22: What a motley crew... ready for winter camping & the Klondike Derby. The only problem? It RAINED & RAINED & RAINED. What happened to winter in Minnesota? Oh well, they had fun which is the important part.

Jan 23: Picture from our living room window. A dreary day for sure. They're busy building another building right next to us.

Jan 24: John gave a talk in Church today on "An Attitude of Gratitude". He did an AMAZING job.

Jan 25: Ben being goofy... you'd have to see it to truly understand.

Jan 26: Hmmm, what to say?

Jan 27: My first every hybrid project. It turned out so CUTE!!! I had a free template I downloaded & used the mailbox from the $1 spot at Target.

Jan 28: I don't know if I want to explain this picture...

Jan 29: Lego's are the toy of choice today...