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Well it's not an official school science project, but none the less at has become a project for our entire family to watch and I have to say somewhat enjoy.
Do you remember finding tadpoles as a kid.  I remember when my parents were still in the process of bulidng our house in North Royalton and my brother Joe and I collecting baby frogs and finding tadpoles everywhere!  It was fun to see them...

Just clowning around tonight with the family.  I just got the new patio stones so we could put the fire pit on the deck.  Of course I had to light a fire right away!

Love how were all just having fun and how beautiful the sky looks in the background!
Fun family night!

Well the opening of the pool is a definite sign of summer and although this year it didn't happen for us on Memorial Weekend, we got right to it afterwards. 
What a great weekend it was.  With Friday night my class with Trish from Work in Progress which ended up lasting till 2:30am for some of us!  We did a book of favorites which I got to finish up on Saturday.  Now I just need to collect my...

I can't beleive another school year has gone by?  Where has the time gone?  This is the first summer in many years that I won't be working any outside summer jobs besides working at NOES. However, now Chelsea is working more hours during the day that we will have to plan around.
Here is Chel on the first day of school and the last day:

Still need to get Zach's last day of school and technically...

Well I must admit, at first I was a bit skeptical about the whole camping experience.  My first requirements were being up off the ground.  No tent camping for me.  Then to get more specific there needed to be bathroom facilities along with a shower.  So once all these requirements were met, we planned our first weekend out.
I must say the experience was much more fun than anticipated, and although...

Here's another recently completed layout.  Every year I get the kids something little for Valentine's Day.  Not long ago they both got Ipods and love filling them  with music and videos, so what better Valentine gift than an Itunes gift card.

For some reason I've been in the mood to scrap Easter.  Usually once the holiday passes its not until its approach the next year that I get the urge to scrap those pictures.  But this year that is different.  Not sure if its my recent supply of new Easter stickers and embellishments or just receiving my  pictures back from Scrapbookpictures.com.  I've also taken on the BIG PICTURE scrapbooking...

This year is Chelsea's 3rd prom and she's only a junior.  Every year we are sure to get  lots of pictures.  Between the cost of the dress, hair and nails it sure is a large investment for one evening!  Here are some of the pictures captured in our back yard of her and Ben.

This is one of my favorites.  I love how they are framed by the trees.

They had a blast as they usually do

Well I've started my doing it digi class with Renee Pearson at Big Picture Scrapbooking.  So far I'm really liking it and we are only two classes in. 
I have taken another photoshop class and learned a lot.  Now I want to learn more about scrapbooking using photoshop elements. 
Here are some of our first assignments.

What a fun evening we had celebrating Mimi's birthday with a Grey's Anatomy twist.  Rob got everyone scrubs to wear and we added streamers and balloons to decorate.  Along with the pictures I put together which were like GIANT puzzles.  Each section was  pieced together by individual sheets of 8 1/2 X 11 paper! 

It took 5 rolls of tape to adhere all the pieces!
What a fun night it turned...