Busy, Busy, Busy

It has been a crazy summer. I'm not sure if it is because there are 2- 4 year olds and a 9 month old baby around most of the time; or if it is just an extremely busy summer. It is fun having the kids at the ages that they are though. Patrick has an awesome imagination and often gets upset with McKenzie. Eventhough there is only 6 months in age difference it is amazing to me to see the change in just that short time period. I think we tend to forget that they are learning so fast when they get a little older. It is easy to see the changes in Colin. His changes seem to be so dramatic. Teeth, sitting up, trying to crawl all easy to spot changes.

This summer has been a real eye opener for me with McKenzie. I can see what things that she may be able to do on her own in six months and it gives me hope. Sometimes it seems like she isn't learning anything. No, don't do that; No don't do that over the same things 20 times a day. But there is HOPE!!

Here are some LO's that I have had a little time to work on lately.Journaling:
Christmas of 2007 was the best Christmas ever. I had both my children and a great
husband to spend all day together. We enjoyed opening presents and visiting with
relatives.

Credits:
Lifesong Kreations Credits
Kit Title: Christmas In July Present

SCATTERZ BLOG FREEBIE
Created by DeDe Smith (Designs by DeDe)

This one was a quick challenge that I made for a crop at Digiscrapbookpages.com. It was a chat where we had to make a layout in 2 hours about what our best Christmas. I know it seems odd to think of Christmas in July, but it is a Digital Scrapbooking thing. They have forever been doing Christmas in July. It is probably since the scrapbookers are crafty type people that we like to make our Christmas presents for everyone. This gives a good jump start and helps remind us that it is already 1/2 way through the year. YIKES!! What a scary thought.


These are photos from our camping trip up to Defa's ranch for a campout that included around 400 people!

Journaling reads:
McKenzie & Patrick had a great time camping at Defa’s. They thought it was a lot of fun to run and jump on each other’s laps since we only had one small chair. McKenzie full force and Patrick very gently. What an amazing team these two make.

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Patty's Templates Curves 1 also by Patty Webb
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Scraplifted from radmama_2001's Summertime Memories

I loved all the activity in the children, but boy was it a chore to keep track of 'em. It was sooooo much easier to camp when I was single! Hahahaha....That won't happen again for a while. Oops that sounds like I'm getting divorced, not a chance. I should have said when the kids have grown up and Tim and I can camp on our own again.

They had a great time. Both of them still talk about going camping again or when we were camping. I'm glad to be able to instill in the kids a little about nature. McKenzie was just fascinated with the stars. At first I couldn't figure out why, but then it made sense we can't see the stars from our house since we live in the city. It was great to see the wonder in her face!!

We have been busy camping, going to preschool, playing at the park where there is a lot of water, and we even managed to get a trip into the children's museum again. They spent 3 hours in there and loved every minute! We had to drag them out with a promise of dinner. They will almost always stop to eat lately. I think it is because they go so fast that they burn up all the energy in them.

Ok well enough blabbing for now. Hope everyone is having a good weekend.

CindyLou
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