Living the Life

Time to catch up...

I really can't believe that it has been so long since I wrote a blog post.  It has been a busy past couple of months, time just seems to go way to fast. I have been really enjoying documenting our life for 2013 using Project life. I am very happy to say that I am current as soon as I finish putting last week in the book. It is not always easy to remember to take the photos and sometimes it seems that we lead a very dull life, but we are happy and enjoy what we do so that is a good thing. I have discovered that using PL I am journaling more and including more "everday" in my album. This is a good thing! Without further ado, I want to share all of the album so far. Please excuse the photos as they have some glare on them. I have not figured out how to take good photos of the pages without getting the glare off the pages.

Week 3

One of the things that I included this week was a candybar wrapper. I needed one more thing to fill the spot and thought why not put this wrapper in, it is my favorite candybar.  Another item I put in was a little drawing the my grand-daughter Danika drew for me. Previously when they give me things I save them but do not know what to do with them. Now I can fit them in the album. I love that feature of Project Life.

week 4

week 5 (part 1)

week 5 (part 2)

This was a very eventful week. My Dad celebrated his 80th birthday. I had taken quite a few photos of his family birthday party and wanted to put them all in. I created 2-8x10 collages and slipped them in an 8x10 sleeve and them positioned it between the 2 12x12 pages. This is enabled me to be able to include all of the photos that I wanted to and really document the week.

week 6 (part 1)

week 6 (part 2)

We went to visit Renae and her family in Gillette this week. We had not seen them since October so we were very happy to see the grandkids and Renae and Del. Hayleigh went to preschool and made a valentine card, when we picked her up she had to give it to "Rema" thats what she calls me. I saved it and now it is in my album. I had to trim it a little bit and then it fit perfectly into a 5x7 sleeve.

week 7 (part 1)

week 7 (part 2)

week 7 (part 3)

My sister got engaged on February 13 and her fiance had me photograph the whole event so needless to say I had alot of photos fro the week. It was also Kaya's birthday party so it was a busy photo week.

week 8

Ooops, I still need to put my pie recpie in. I better get on that. LOL

week 9

week 10 (part 1)

week 10 (part 2)

We had a very wild and weird storm. It went from sunny and almost 55 degrees to a blizzard dropping 3 inches of snow in 20 minutes. Wild and Crazy!! We also received a card in the mail from our grandson Sean, who lives in Washington. He sent us his soccer photo and a card that he wrote his name in and drew us a picture. I put it right in the album. Have I said how much I love Project Life?

Well time to go and put week 11 in the album.

 

I just wanted to share this:

Isn't this so funny? Bella looks like she is trying to bite Roxie's tail!! Those two just love each other so much. they are always together, playing or sleeping.

I love my dogs!!

Color Palettes are back!

One of the things that I used to love doing on my blog was to create Color Palettes using photos that I have taken.  I have not done any for quite a while, but today I decided that it was time to bring them back.  Here is the newest one I have created.

Isn't that a beautiful combination of colors? I can just see using it  to create a scrapbook page, or a little girls room. 

I am working on ideas for other features her on the blog. If you have any ideas please let me know. My goal is to have at least 4 or 5 posts during the week.  The Color Palettes will be a weekly post as well as my project life.

Thanks for looking!!

January ~ Week 2

First of all let me say that I am loving Project Life!! It feels so good to have the first 2 weeks of this year documented. I have not taken a photo everyday, but feel that I have captured the highlights each week. The one thing that I am noticing is that I am finding more joy in the everyday and I think that is a good thing.

I have never been very good at journaling in my scrapbooks other than the who, what, when and where so this is a chance to include some thoughts from just normal days and weeks. I even included the recipe for Potato Soup on the photo of the soup. How awesome is that? I would not have thought to do that before.

I even added some extra details and embellishments to my pages this week.

There you have it my Project Life Week 2.

I hope you have a great week!!

 

Moving forward

I have spent the last week, recouperating from surgery and trying to get over the flu. The surgery recovery is going well, my shoulder is feeling much better and I am getting more movement everyday. The flu is another story. On December 30, I started running a fever and when it reached 103 degrees, I called my Doctor and told him that I was running the fever. My incisions looked good so there was not much chance of infection. He suggested that I go to the walkin clinic and get checked out. After waiting almost 2 hours I was seen by a Nurse practitioner and they did a test and waaa laaaa, I have the flu. I got the flu shot, but either my serum was not good or I have the flu that the shot did not protect me against.

Today is my 8th day of running a fever. I have been drinking, water, hot tea, orange juice and soda. I feel like I am going to float away. I sure hope that this bug goes away soon.

Enough about feeling puny!

Last summer I made the decision that I was going to try a different way of Scrapbooking. It is called Project Life. I have always loved scrapbooking, but I tend to get too caught up in the creation of the pages themselves and then I don't get all of the daily life memories recorded. I feel that Project life will allow me to document our life a little more thouroughly. I was hesitant to start because it is just Tony and I and our pets here everyday. I thought that it would be boring. I researched lots of layouts and ways that others were doing documenting their Project Life. After doing so I decided that I needed to do this for at least one year and see if I like it.

I have enjoyed the first week and am happy to say that I have 2013 Week 1 in the album and documented. It may be boring for some to read, but I like it. When we look back we will remember what we did the first week of the Year.

I am using the Cobalt Edition for this year. I purchased it from Amazon.com. There are quite a few different Editions so you should be able to find one that you like.

This is the first page of my 2013 album. I was not sure how to start, so I decided to start with saying goodbye to 2012. I included a photo of Tony and one of myself and listed out the highlights of the pas year. I included a piece of patterned paper that matched the edition I am using and will maybe add something to that but, I may just leave it as it is.

The next 2 pages are my fisrt week of the year. I am thinking already that I really like this way of documenting our life.

One of the things that I want to do every week is document the weather and my weight. I have been doing Weight Watchers since October and have lost 25 pounds, so by including my weight each week it will help to keep me on track. I use my iphone for the weather photo.

So there you have it. My Project Life for 2013. I am really thinking that I will like it and even tho I have been sick for the first week it was doable. It will be fun to see how it progresses.

Thanks for looking and if you are doing project life leave me a comment I would love to check yours out.

 

December Daily

For the last few years, I have wanted to participate in December Daily. I always have the best intentions of completing it, but to no avail I never get it accomplished. I am not sure why that is other than I get caught up in the moment and my brain runs wild with ideas and I just don't complete it.

I have for the past 2 years gotten everything ready, designed and made the album and taken the photos. I have 2 years of December Daily in ziploc bags not completed. Am I going to attempt it this year? I am once again contimplating it, but have not decided yet. I will most likely go ahead and try again this year. I have so many ideas running around in my head, but have yet to settle on anything that I love. December starts on Saturday, so I guess if I am going to do it I had better get busy and figure it out.

I do have my Christmas cards all completed and am so proud of myself that I actually made 30 handmade cards!! This is another thing I have always wanted to do. I love the way they turned out.

The photo that I always include in my cards is done and I picked them up from Costco tonight. Now all I have to do is write the Christmas letter, put it all in the envelopes and get them addressed and out in the mail.

Here is the photo portion of the card:

I will share the Christmas cards at another time. It is time for me to get to bed as I have to be to work at 7 AM tomorrow.

Have a wonderful evening!!

 

How did it get to be the end of November?

Really, how did 2012 fly by so fast?

There was some snowfall here in Billings today and Tony and I went out and took some photos. We went to Riverfront Park. I love it there. After we came home we took the dogs out and let them play in the snow.

David and Lesli

Lesli (a fraction of who she was)

Me (I really like this photo of me)

Tony and I

Bella (almost 4 months)

Roxie and Bella

the dogs playing with a ball in the snow

I will be posting more soon. Just getting back into the swing of things. I miss my blog and thought it was time to make a comeback!!

Chris

Week in the Life-Day 5 and 6

Ok, I know I missed a day here on the blog, but I did take the photos for the day. So here we go, Day 5 first.

self portrait, ready for work...

Judy, working away

beautiful sunflower

city bus that goes by our house

rain on the leaves of the vines outside the front door

robin watching it's nest

So glad that it is Friday!! I am ready for the weekend.

 

Day 6

Yay it's Saturday!! I got to sleep in this morning, then we ate breakfast, went to do some shopping. I went to a baby shower and then home. The rest of the day was just spent with Tony, enjoying each others company. We watched Captain America and are now ready to go and see The Avengers.

horse outside of Lesli's house

driving past Metra

rain on the windsheild of my trailblazer

my beautiful bleeding hearts

evening snack

Captain America...

One more day of the weekend and then it is back to the grind!

Week in the Life-Day 4

Day 4-where has time gone this week?

Actually I am glad that tomorrow is Friday and it will be time for the weekend. Today was rather stressful and busy, to be honest, I only took 1 picture!

the little bird that kept flying into my window at work

I am happy with just this picture. Life is not about taking 100's of photos every day. It is about living your life and recording it along the way. It is about working to live, not living to work.

After a long day at work I came home exhausted, both mentally and physically. Tony took me out to dinner at The Olive Garden. It was such a relaxing enjoyable evening.

Observations for today:

Enjoy your life, make time for the things that are really important and let go of those that aren't.

Overheard today:

Rumblings of change...

Favorite Moment today:

Climbing into bed to read my Nook Color

Have a great Friday tomorrow!!

 

Week in the Life-Day 3

Today was a very trying and stressful day. There have been so many changes in my job in the last 6 months, and most of them have not been good. I will not dwell on all of the stresses and changes. I will get to the best part of my day, the relaxing and enoyable part that comes after 5PM.

Talon comes to spend time with us one or two times a week and we love every minute of it.

playtime with Roxie

throwing the ball for Roxie

checking out the sprinkler

the best gift ever, a flower from a little boy who tells you he loves you

one of my favorite spring flowers: lilacs

storm clouds

Observations today: 

those that make the most money do the least as far as production

Overheard today:

thunder and rain

Gratitude for today:

so glad for sunsine, rain and grandsons!!

Favorite Moment today:

Talon giving me a beautiful flower (dandelion) and telling me he loves me!

Two more days of work this week and then it is the weekend. Truly I live for the evenings and weekends. Enjoy your evening!