I am a pitiful blogger

It is sad that all of this last year's posts fit on the front page of my blog. I miss blogging, though.

I have managed to squeeze some time in to scrap in the last couple of months. I figured if I shared some of those, I might get a few things covered at once.

Basically, my kids are growing. (Faster everyday.)

Chet is still being seen regularly and staying pretty stable.

We had a fun, busy summer!

I still get a kick out of letting the kids and grandkids do silly things.

School has been going well, and I don't have pictures up yet, but we got Matt off to college where he is thriving!

Did I mention my kids are growing up too fast?

We have had a great year with family visiting.

And even though there are always struggles to deal with, we still spend as much time laughing and enjoying life as we can.

So how have you all been?

Simple Saturday

I took Chet and the girls down to Memphis on Thursday, so I will be updating Chet's blog in just a minute.

On Saturday, Crystal (married to Nathan) came over to scrapbook, but we ended up cleaning out my freezer and fridge instead. It wasn't supposed to work out that way, but I ended up scrubbing and cleaning the whole kitchen and got all of my downstairs deep cleaned. It was the first Saturday I have been able to spend at home in a long time, so I don't know what possessed me to spend it cleaning! Perhaps Crystal and my other scrapping friends will come back soon while everything is still sparkly and we can really scrap!

Jessica, Daniel and Brandon came over for dinner last night. Daniel rode on his grampa's shoulders to go watch the boys play Trampoline Dodgeball and then to visit McClacken.

Zachary has been here visiting Matt this week, and he has enjoyed getting to know McClacken.

McClacken has enjoyed chewing on Zachary.

Daniel watched his Uncle Todd and Uncle Kyle playing Trampoline Dodgeball. They played a gentler version than the older boys did.


Daniel also supervised his Uncle Matt and Tyler playing. This was a game we watched from a further distance to avoid being hit by flying volleyballs.


Then we shooed everyone off the tramp and gave him a turn, only he didn't actually play the dodgeball part. He really did like trying to walk on the tramp, though.

Soon afterwards, Sammy discovered that the trampoline was full of all the boys he adores so much, so he jumped up there to get there attention. Everyone needs a little love sometimes.

We have had a full-house this weekend, but it was nice. Now we are all cozied in the living room and watching movies, and I am trying to mentally prepare to return to work and our regularly scheduled weekdays tomorrow. I did get one layout scrapped this weekend while we were at St. Jude, though, so I will share that with you before I sign off again. (I will fix my typo before I print it.)

Scrapping

It only took me a week and a half to get this layout done. (eyeroll) Good thing I had the journaling already blogged, or who knows when it would have been done!

Slow Down

I actually feel this way about all the kids, but these pictures of Kyle seemed to work perfectly with the kit.

It is 3 am-ish and I am sitting in the chair and scrapping on my laptop because my head and throat hurt too much to lie flat. Hopefully this is just a cold that will be gone quickly. Chet is getting sick too, so I dosed him up with some Robitussin earlier and have my fingers crossed it goes away soon. I am going to see if I can get some sleep now. I have been drinking hot tea with sugar and cream (how very English of me, eh Chap?) by the potfuls it seems because it soothes the throat. It also creates caffeine and sugar induced can't-fall-asleep-ism. I hope all of you are sleeping better than I am tonight!

a new layout

I took 1,000 pictures this weekend, no exaggeration. 4gb of them. I took pictures for the soccer teams, two family sittings, Halloween, football, and all my regular daily schtuff. I need to start editing and getting them out to people, but I took the time to make a layout last night. I needed a family layout, and this was the last family picture we had taken. Now I have to get the kids to their dance classes and then get home and put my nose to the digital grindstone.