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Did you do it this year?  Either the project 365 or the Project Life from Becky Higgins?  I got one for myself this year and for my sister.  She is loving it and filling out those cards daily.  I'm finding it like another chore.  
I like doing the picture part and for the most part get a picture every day, but now I'm having a tough time writing about my day.  Trying to keep up with the...

Chelsea always got the talk from her father... "watch for deer" whenever leaving the house, so often she joked about it because she said according to dad its always deer season.
On Friday night after coming home to work a shift at Giant Eagle she headed back to college.  At almost 10pm when things were quieting down at home and I was ready to grab my kindle and do some reading the phone rang...
It...

Yep, we still do it!
It's an evening of family fun and this time Joel picked up the camera!




he did pretty good capturing the event, a fun night for sure!

All I wanted was everyone to safely carve their pumpkins since images of my sister cutting her fingers almost off years ago kept flashing in my mind...


Zach the artist had another idea of carving pumpkins!

G is for Ghosts    

a ceramic ghost I painted many years ago!

F is for Frankenstein

one of my favorite decorations my girlfriend made years ago!

I don't think my husband and I have taken any trips alone since the kids were little, and so when we were on our way home from our Lake Chautauqua trip and passed Presque Isle we started talking about this being our little getaway. Joel knew the company who had helped build a hotel nearby and we had recently heard about the new casino so within days of our return from our Labor Day weekend I booked...

F is for fall colors....

Jill and I are at it again with Team Up Thursday.  
This weeks photo theme was FUN and I love how Jill captured the fun with her son!  My picture is of my girlfriends daughter during homecoming pictures, it makes me smile every time I look at it and see how much fun she was having!
You can find more team up thursday here
 
 

from the Saturday crop I attended...

How to document a day that stands out on the calendar?  I woke up today thinking I want to make it count, I want to accomplish something, I want this day to stand out.
and then I went to the farm up the street and spent some time with the sweetest farmer I know.  It seems most days you will find him outdoors, most of those times he's wearing a plaid shirt of some sort, and sometimes you will even...