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At the crop Trish gave us cute little favors each day.  One of the days she gave us these adorable photo cubes that she got from Targets $1 spot.  
 
during the crop one of the girls put hers together and inspired a bunch of us with her ideas.  Once I got home I decided to play with mine and can't wait to make them for gifts!
    
My other Target find was this adorable notebook which I...

Here we are...
13 layouts that I completed at the crop!  I actually completed 14, but for the sake of Thursday Thirteen, I posted 13 of them.  I still need to add some embellishments or journaling but I'm quite pleased with what I accomplished!
I can never journal when I'm at a crop - I need alone time to think
           
You can find more Thursday Thirteen here

While I haven't been keeping up with Shimelle's class as well as I would have liked, I have been keeping up with the blogs of other classmates and I found what they were working on was "this time last year" blog posts, so here is mine.
We went to our last Kent football game.  Jane, Deb and Gordon and the kids came out and it was a horrible snow storm.
Here is the original post
Here's some pictures...

Here is one of the many things I accomplished this weekend at the crop...
My December Daily!
 
I didn't complete the cover until I came home
 
There are so many to choose from.  I've done Shimelle's for many years and LOVE IT!  And in 2007 we took the class with Melodee Langworthy.  As long as you enjoy the holiday season and document along the way then it doesn't matter which idea you use.
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I have time to take pictures of projects and post about my weekend!

how appropriate!
How can you describe a weekend with a bunch of friends..... PRICELESS!

locked myself out getting this picture!

But add to that accomplishing many things like:
My December daily - ready to gotags for a Christmas mini, done!lots of pages, done!laughing about everythingmaking new friendssharing your...

You know I'm always making or thinking of making mini albums.  They are truly one of my favorite creative things to make for a gift or to capture a moment in time.
Being a lover of all things mini I have found my share of sites that are ALL about mini albums.  One I have frequented for quite some time is Creative Mini Albums 
And come to find out one of my favorite mini's was featured on their...

 
Thirteen movie quotes from Forrest Gump
1. My name's Forrest Gump. People call me Forrest Gump
2.  Stupid is as stupid does
3.  Why don't you love me Jenny?
4. Mama always said, dying was a part of life
5. I gotta find Bubba! 
6. Me and Jenny goes together like peas and carrots
7. My Mama always said you've got to put the past behind you before you can move on
8. That's all I have...

I haven't talked about my father too often.  In fact I think I've only written about him here about how he wrote Ryan's eulogy and a few other times.

I think of him often and hate that my kids will never know the man I knew as my father. Chelsea was 8 and Zach 4 when we lost him.  He was only 53...
As a kid I found my fair share of trouble.  Probably between all the kids my brother Joe and...

 on Saturday at 5:30 am - Chelsea, Ben and I went up to the gym
 After spending the day in Mount Union we met up with friends at Molly McGees for a fund raiser Saturday night.  It was one long, busy and fun day!  
 
Ron, Lisa and Buddah
 
Ron and Joel look like they should be related and 
Terry always so happy for pictures!

the only shot of us 3 girls and its blurry! 
We don't...

Saturday was family day at Mount Union and what a beautiful day we had!  The sun was shinning the temperature was perfect and we had a blast!
Once we got our tickets for the football game and lunch we got in line to take a funny picture and get a t-shirt made.  I didn't get a picture of our shirts, yet...

Unfortunately family day fell on the same day as my mom's craft show, but Jane was able...