My Saturday

I've had a busy day today. Brian had to be at school to practice for band at 9:00 this morning. After dropping him off, I headed in to school to take care of some stuff for the Grand Canyon Reader's Award intermediate committee. I intended to head to good ole Wally-world after that but came home instead. After checking my email, I got seriously sidetracked by a bag of pictures I'd taken from my parent's house. I laughed, shared with Sayre, and cried at the pictures I found. Then I decided they needed to be sorted so I could make sure they were in the right spot for future projects. In the pile I found the picture of my parents, brother, sister and me at Kitt Peak in the 70's. It reminded me of the family picture we took when we all took the kids to Kitt Peak in 2005. Of course, I had to find it. Then they were both scanned and sent to Walgreens to print pictures for a project. I made 4 copies that I'll share with Mom and Dad, Dawn and Chris. After that Sayre and I went to lunch at Senor Taco (a long time favorite that finally returned to Kingman). Then it was off to JCPenney's, Hallmark and Wal-mart with Sayre and Heather. We picked up the pictures at Walgreens and then came home. After doing a little surfing on the internet I ended up here updating my blog. I know there's a scrapbook page waiting to be done, I just can't figure out which one it is.

Columbus Day - Today

This is my first blog entry on my own blog. I am taking the Baker's Dozen class through Pima County Library and this was one of the lessons that I needed to work on. I also frequent blogs by Lisa Bearnson, Becky Higgins, Cathy Zielske, Ali Edwards, and Heidi Swapp. I can spend hours there reading about their lives and their scrapbooking. As I sat at the computer today on my extra day off, I decided that it was about time that I created one of my own.



Today I was inspired by Stacy Julian's challenge to take ten pictures of things that mean something to me today or that I was involved in. Then I'm to put them in a mini album that I keep in my purse and look at whenever I see it or take it out. I'll do that for one year and then at this time next year I am to make a scrapbook layout about the experience. I'm not done yet (taking pictures or creating the book), but I have pictures of me reading blogs on the computer, the laundry that is never-ending, and my Year in the Life mini album that is officially caught up. I'm going to look funny going to the gym with my camera, but hey for a scrapbook project I'll do anything!



We had an exciting weekend. It was homecoming at Kingman High School and both kids went to the dance. Sayre went with Austin Bangma. He is the drum major with the band and an all around funny guy. Brian went with Dara Richhart, a girl he's known since elementary school. They all looked great! They had lots of fun at the dance, even though Tricia made the girls cry with her realization that it was their last homecoming! OK, don't say that too much or I'll cry too.

Here are some of the blogs I frequent: www.heidiswapp.com, http://cathyzielske.typepad.com/my-weblog/, and http://aliedwards.typepad.com/_a_/