Project Life: Weeks 7-10

The first in my AH! I GOTTA CATCH UP blog posts.  Welcome.  I'm taking the next four days to completely catch up on my Project Life posts.  The album is caught up, just not my sharing.  Here are weeks 7 through 10:

Week 7

This was Valentine's Week.  My Valentine was away, but we still enjoyed it - aka Starbucks and Thin Mints helped comfort me.

I helped throw a surprise baby shower for my good friend Kristi.  Loved the peacock theme!  And hello - snow in both Afghanistan AND Tucson this week.  Crazy!

I'm getting a slight addiction to doilies.  Been using them a lot lately.  I cut this heart-shaped one into three pieces and sprayed it with mist to color it.  Love the way it turned out!

Week 8

This week starts our time in Florida.  There is an insert of a program from Spam-A-Lot I went to see with my mom and sister (best.ever.).  Please excuse my toes, PhotoShop hated me while editing pictures....

The I Love You was written by my niece and she gave it to me.  Love!  This was also the week that riots started over at the base where Josh was at the time.  Super scary.

Lots went on this week, including Caylan's first trip to the ER.  Broke my heart.

Week 9 

Lots of fun hanging out with our family this week.

We had a joint birthday party for Caylan (4) and her cousin Jimmy (5).  I love the picture of them hugging in the shopping cart....LOVE!

I added two inserts this week of where and what we ate while in Florida.  I always have to hit my favorite spots and added a couple new ones this time!  I used a We R Memory Keepers 4x6 slotted spread.

For the second insert, I snagged a menu from my new favorite place - Tucker Duke's Lunchbox.  I'm friends with the owner and I'm not kidding you - THE BEST BURGERS I'VE EVER HAD!  And I'm a burger girl, so that means a lot.

Week 10

More family fun in Florida.

I'll be back tomorrow with weeks 11 through 14.

I hope everyone has a safe and relaxing Memorial Day and please remember what it's all about: honoring the men and women who have, do and will continue to fight for us to keep us safe and protected.  Being a military wife, I understand the hardships that come with this career field and I'm honored to be a part of it, and so proud of my husband, who sacrifices his conveniences and comforts to help protect others.

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Hello!  Holy 3 Months Later, Batman!  Sorry I've been so MIA lately.  After our trip home to Florida, it was a whirlwind of getting back on schedule, my husband returning from his deployment, lots of family time, etc, etc, etc.....

We are currently planning ANOTHER trip - my husband and I are heading here:

Oh yes, that's right!  We're taking our second honeymoon/10 years of marriage celebration trip to the Atlantis Resort in the Bahamas (thank you awesome tax return)!  My wonderful mother-in-law is coming in this week to stay at our house with our girls and dogs and I couldn't be any more grateful.  How do you repay someone for something like that?  We are looking forward to 8 days alone, relaxing, and enjoying each other.  We really need to get away, refocus and come back refreshed so we can enjoy our family that much more.

In the meantime, I AM caught up on Project Life and I have the pictures taken.  I will take this week to post a couple of weeks at a time so that you don't have to spend an entire morning if you want to catch up on it.  ;)

I have some goals lined up to focus on when we get back from our vacation and blogging more often is on the top of that list.  So stay tuned - I'm back!

Leaving on a jet plane....

....with two kids....alone....please pray for me!  We're heading out to visit my family this week.  We'll be gone until mid-March, so I won't be blogging much.  I'm taking some PL planning sheets with me so I won't get behind or lose ideas.  When I get back it will be a mad PL marathon!  I hope everyone enjoys the rest of February and into March.  I'll be relaxing and watching my girls enjoy their grandparents!

P.S.  Currently obsessed with this song:

Project Life 2012 - Week 6

Wow- week 6 already?  Where did these weeks go???  Here's what our week looked like:

I had one insert this week, which is the envelope from the card that my husband sent me.  *I put a little  card over our home address there.

This week, my older daughter went bowling for the first time - and won!  

I really wanted to include a funny Caylan quote about her dad.  Where does she come up with this stuff?

I included a copy of a letter from Josh's squadron approving me to be a Key Spouse and also included some journaling about it.  *Another card used to cover our home address.

Josh sent me some pictures from overseas and I'm SO happy he did!  I love being able to include him even if he's not here.

Josh sent us some Valentine's presents - a bracelet for Caylan and an iPod shuffle for me.  I also included a note from Josh's dad that came with some books they sent for the girls.  And, included that Adele swept the Grammy's this year - Love her!

This was a good week and I had to pair down what to include.  I cut some of  the smaller stuff that can be included at a later time.  This week came together quickly because a lot of it was already done for me!  I'll post week 7 on Monday, then I'll be traveling to visit family for three weeks....aka not scrapbooking.  BUT I'm taking my Project Life planning sheets and collecting memorabilia and making notes for what to include when we get home.  Hope everyone has a great rest of the week and weekend!

P.S.  SO excited that this started back up - but hubby won't let me watch until he gets back....boo.

Project Life 2012 - Weeks 4-5

I spent this weekend catching up!  Most of it was done on Saturday night.  I flipped on SNL (hello, Channing Tatum) and got to work.  Here are weeks 4 and 5:

Week 4

Lots of journaling this week.

Loved including a text message between a friend and I about going out for dinner (her husband is deployed with mine).

Lost focus on my weight loss efforts and wanted to document it.

Found some Apple stickers that we got with a purchase a long time ago.  I'm glad I hung on to them!

Week 5

As I created this layout, I realized it was a week of birthdays!  We celebrated 4 birthdays this week!

I took a picture of my planner for this week because it was INCREDIBLY busy.

Stole Amy Tan's idea for documenting my dog's birthday.

The "Great Gift" journal spot is from Smash.

Downloaded the Superbowl image online.

So that's weeks 4 and 5.  I'm so loving this project.  The only thing I'm struggling with right now is working on my full layouts...they're being neglected.  I really want to carve out some time this week to do some full layouts, especially on Layla's first year album.  That will be a focus this week.

My husband...

...is amazing!  I told him what was wrong with the computer and he did research and figured out how to fix it.  Then, spent two hours on the phone with me walking me through the steps.  And now it's all fixed and we didn't lose anything!  Yay!  That being said, I'm working on my Project Life and I'll post the next two weeks in one post Monday or Tuesday of next week.  Gotta play a little catch up.  Thanks for being patient and have an amazing weekend!

*We're still going to replace it with a Mac sometime this year, just waiting until we don't have to refinance our house to buy it.  :)

Don't Mess with My Technology

I'm blogging from my iPhone right now. My computer decided it doesn't like me anymore and crashed. Something got on it and it's unusable. So that means all my pictures are not accessible, which is putting my scrapbooking on hold. The silver lining is that we might be getting a Mac desktop that I've been begging for. So while it's annoying and I'm freaking out about not having a computer, we finally get to upgrade our desktop. So I'll be absent until we actually do get one, we're in the research stage right now. I'm keeping diligent notes on my PL weeks and doing what I can without pictures so I don't get too far behind. Hope you all have a great week and thanks for being patient!

Project Life 2012 - Week 3

This week was a little difficult.  I didn't have a lot of pictures to share.  I just rolled with it and ended up doing A LOT of journaling, which I'm ok with.  I didn't have a ton of pictures, but I did have a lot of stories, so I focused on telling them.

The biggest thing for me this week was going to a Tool concert.  It was AMAZING!  

I got a copy of the setlist from the concert and stamped out the songs they played in  order.

I saw an image from MaryAnn Perry's PL where she printed pictures of movie posters so she would remember the movie years from now.  Love that tip!

Caylan and I jumped in a photobooth at the mall.  That was fun!

I'm so loving this project!  I love treating each little slot like it's own mini layout.  I love looking back on our weeks and seeing what memories we made!

Project Life 2012 - Week 2

I thought that I would be struggling to find things to put into my Project Life album each week.  So far it's been really easy to pick and choose what I want to include and what can wait.  Granted, it's only the second week, but it's been easy.  I know there will come some weeks when I don't have much to share.  I plan to start a list of things I can use during those weeks to fill in gaps when I need to.  Stories that don't necessarily need to go with a certain week.  Here's my second week:

I used one insert - an 8.5 x 11 of a picture my daughter colored.  I added her name and date on the bottom of the picture.

For the far left center - I used a 3x4 grid journal card and lightly sprayed it with the color spray paint I used on my project.

The two empty slots on the center right are going to hold a metro ticket that Josh used in StL and his ticket stub for the Arch.  As soon as he mails those to me, I'll put them in.

The center square with the tag talks about mailing Josh our first package.  I included the date stamp from the Post Office from the customs form.

I am really enjoying this process and love sharing all the little things that we don't normally think about on a regular basis.  I know Caylan will laugh when she looks back and sees that she wanted to put Christmas cookie sprinkles on her pizza....and I let her!