Gettin' Scrappy with It...

(First off, please forgive my really bad Will Smith "gettin' jiggy with it" title allusion. But it just kinda came to me and it worked...I think! LOL

And then to Adriann...I appreciate your comments, but NO I am not preggers. Ha! You simply don't know me well enough to know that I have serious food issues. Not bad or unhealthy issues mind you. It just makes me happy and I'm really bad about eating like I'm eating for two (or three, or four!). In fact, yesterday Gary came home with some groceries and Scout was running around squealing and jumping and being just really overly excited. Gary came downstairs and said to me, "That child is just like you. She loves food too much." LOL)

Okay, now on to my Scrappy creations. I had SO much fun last night working on some scrapbook pages. My first priority is to get my 20 Things to do This Summer album done (since, it seems, that Summer is apparently over with!) So, I did four pages for it last night and here they are...

First off is my page devoted to #8 on the list, which was "Make Homemade Ice Cream." I love this page design, which I actually got from the Unpubbed scrapbook challenge blog this week. So, Unpubbed gals, here is mine for this time...

That page actually has the recipe for the EASIEST homemade ice cream I have ever tried. I got it from Gary's Mom, Clara, and it is FANTASTIC. All you do is mix a carton of extra creamy cool whip, one can of eagle brand condensed milk, and almost 1/2 gallon of milk. Do it up in your ice cream maker like you're supposed to and...voila...yummy!!! (I made chocolate one time just by using chocolate milk.) I also made butterfinger ice cream one time by just crushing up butterfinger candy bars and mixing it in almost at the end. And, when I made plain vanilla I did put a teensy bit of vanilla extract in it too. Man...this makes me want some ice cream now!!

Next is the page I did for #3 on my list, which was "Try two new ethnic restaurants." I just had to capture this memory, which a lot of you might remember from the post I wrote on it when we did it. We tried a really good Thai restaurant, where I loved the coconut soup and Sydney loved the noodles. McKenna didn't like the squid sushi so much, but she tried it! LOL I really enjoyed using the playing card for the number and I also thought the papers and the letters and things here on the page looked "ethnic." (And, nope, we didn't get to our second restaurant we wanted to try. It's a new Indian restaurant in town, but I'm still committed to trying it soon!)

#13 on my list was "Write a Poem" and here is the layout I did for it. It's actually really simple; I just printed my poem out on the computer and then also wrote some notes around it on why writing poetry is cathartic and special to me.

Here is my page for #20, which was "Run Through a Sprinkler." I actually didn't do this one like I was supposed to. It was supposed to be ME that made it through the sprinkler, but instead I captured a picture of Delaney and her friend Erin in the backyard sprinkler. Although sprinkler pictures, it seems, would need bright "summery" colors, I just love this new Basic Grey paper and it seemed to just match the photo perfectly. That--and the cool Rusty Pickle arrows and stars--are all from Scrapbook Mania, my lss. As are pretty much all of the papers on the other layouts too!

And then this page is just a fun page to go in my general scrapbook! I just KNEW I had to use this picture on a page soon. It is my VERY favorite picture of the girls right now...because they just look so happy and tan and healthy, and they are simply enjoying being with each other. They are simply the coolest daughters ever and this picture makes me realize it! (I used some of my new Love, Elsie paper here. Love it!)

I actually just finished scanning some fun pictures of me from elementary and junior high, which are going into the School Days Mini Album for my class next Saturday at Scrapbook Mania. I will pop on and post it--and some other pages I'm working on--either tomorrow afternoon or evening.

I hope all of you have a FANTASTIC Thursday. We are excited because tonight Delaney has a practice game getting ready for the Fall travel softball season. The team we were on last Spring, the Birmingham Thunderbolts Purple, became the Birmingham Mustangs. Our coach (who we love!) started this new group and most of our girls came back with us. We added a new, awesome pitcher (who also happens to be one of Delaney's best friends). We move up to 12-under, though, which will be some changes that we'll have to get used to. Anyway...looking forward to seeing how they play tonight.

I'm gonna try and pop onto some more of your blogs in a bit. I've been missing visiting everyone as much as usual. Just been busy. I'm sure you all know how that is...

Talk to you again soon!!