Some Scrappy Goodness!

But, first, here are a few things I learned yesterday:

~ You should never ride a ride with a name like "Mind Spinner" AFTER riding two rides called The Scrambler and The Hurricane. McKenna assured me that the aformentioned ride wasn't bad, but then...it turned my stomach into a tornado. It made me SO sick!!! It literally took me 40 minutes to recover! (We wet last nignt to the local theme park where we have season passes. It was really nice, because Gary got to go with us, the wind was blowing ever so lightly and it actually felt good outisde, and we had a really yummy funnel cake...but the ride--NOT so good!)

~ Children will ignore you for a solid hour, but when you have to talk to someone important on the telephone (in this case, it was a source for an article I had to get done) they will find that exact moment to come yell in your face, get giggle fits, and poke you repeatedly on the arm!

~ Sydney can say the darnedest things (as if you guys didn't know this already! lol). My favorite quote of the day was when we left the bathroom at the theme park and I said, "Well, we're done. Let's go find the guys" (meaning Gary, McKenna, and Delaney). Sydney answered me, "Nope. Let's go find the two girls and the guy." I stand corrected!

~ Sisters can be irritating one moment (picking at each other repeatedly in the car, doing things that they know bothers the other!) and then so sweet the next (McK asking Sydney to come have a bubble bath; all the girls watching movies and wrestling together).

~ I have the coolest blog friends who gave me some wonderful reading recommendations! I loved all of your comments yesterday on my reading blog and now I have all sorts of books I want to check out. There is very little I like more than discovering new books and authors, so I'm very excited about this!

~ Did I mention that funnel cakes are really yummy? (Especially when they're hot out of the oil and covered in a blizzard of confectioner's sugar.)

Okay...now on to my Scrappy Goodness!!!

I decided that I would chronicle my list of 20 things I want to do this Summer (which I posted about last Friday, if you want to go read it) in a scrapbook. It will be an 8.5 x 11 book and will include photos of the activities we do and the things I accomplish (or won't have pictures, if that fits in better). I think it will be a cool place and way to document my summer.

This is the title page I made for it, with each of my 20 items listed out. (I also submitted this as my Scrapjack challenge for this week--which was to do a photo-less layout.)



And then I FINALLY got around to doing a page that I've wanted to do for quite a while. But I guess I knew I wanted it to be a special one, so I took my time to get around to it! (Do you ever do that?) I don't know if you'll remember, but back in March we went to Florida for a family reunion with Gary's maternal grandmother's side of the family. While there, we visited the old family homestead and I took this picture of Delaney with Gary on the front porch. I took the picture with these other two pictures in mind--I knew that I had photos of Gary as a little boy with his Mamaw and Daddy Bill in the same location. I knew that I would want to do a scrapbook page connecting the generations. And finally I did...



The journaling on it says, in part (on the two diferent tags) :

"What I learned:
1. to treasure moments
2 appreciate the past
3 . scrap old photos
4. go places
5. love my family
6. realize the connections"

I really believe that pages like this will be some of the ones I treasure the most as time goes by!

Now, on to today...
we're meeting my parents for lunch at Cracker Barrel (yumm...I'm getting me some catfish and dumplings! I can taste them already!) and then I 've got to get some assignments done (have I told you yet that I'm a procrastinaor? I like to wait until the last minute and they're both due tomorrow. So I gotta get to work!)

See you all again soon!