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Was the first thing Joel and I thought of when Zach told us he was going to do yellow and black on his braces.  I guess we aren't much of a sports family because it didn't even register that those are Steelers colors.

I'm glad that he is having fun with his braces, well as much fun as you can have with braces!
After the dentist yesterday he wanted Taco Bell, so I gave in.  I'm not a fan of any...

Education is a process that changes the learner... 
And so these changes began at the end of the school year in May when so many things were changing in Chelsea's life.  Among those changes were her major, so we decided to research some other colleges to see if any would have a better fit.
 
Many colleges were a good fit for the major, but some were a bit more travel than any of us would have...

Recently I made the trip to Ikea with Val and the kids where I picked up mostly things for Chels dorm and Val picked up for Austin's apartment.  I did also get a couple things for myself and looks like I'm going to need to get some more....
these rail shelves for my punches were $1.99!
And on Sunday Joel got them hung up for me.  I ended up re arranging that section of the basement to include...

With only a few weeks till school begins I thought I would put together the ABC's of our summer.  This year we really did a lot of fun things together as a family and I am so grateful for all the fun times we shared!
A - Animals 

B - Beach

C - Chicago

D- Deer

E - Egg whites

F - Fireworks

G - Gifts

H - Hilton Head

I - Ice Cream

J - Jury Duty

K- Kit club

L...

Here's the mini book I made that was inspired by the Maya Road album, October afternoon rub ons and of course the Scenic Route paper.
Recently I had made a mini about myself so I decided to make this one about Chelsea. I love how you can create a mini book with inspiration from a group of pictures or from a group of thoughts.  This one began with the rub ons and went from there.
 Now I just need...

and Anniversary to Lisa and Terry...
Last night we went to dinner with family and friends to celebrate Ben's birthday and Lisa and Terry's anniversary.  
Lisa says you never know how long you're going to have someone in your life, so you should always celebrate it when possible and I couldn't agree more.  That is how our birthday traditions began when we celebrated Ryan's last birthday by going...

 
And...here we go!
1. Hilton Head Island is my favorite summertime getaway.
2. My favorite John Hughes movies is Ferris Bueller's Day off.
3. Scrapbook paper is something I love to touch, I know, really...
4. The full moon can be creepy.
5. Time for my morning coffee right now.
6. When daylight fades we know winter is approaching. 
7. And as for the weekend, tonight...

Made another mini over the past few days.  Part of that list I made the other day when I looked at my stash and said I need to get creating!

I will post more pictures later...
Left early this morning to visit Trish and do some shopping at her garage sale and then it was off to Ikea with Val and the kids.

I've never been to an Ikea before, but let me just say.... I will be back!

You could...

It's very hard to have a simple, uncomplicated good time with a narcissist. Except for odd spells of heady euphoria unrelated to anything you can see, their affective range is mediocre-fake-normal to hell-on-Earth. They will sometimes lie low and be quiet, actually passive and dependent -- this is as good as it gets with narcissists. They are incapable of loving conduct towards anyone or anything,...

Things to do in the next 4 days
 Finish another mini I put together after going through my scraproom and realizing I need to start using all this stuff!
 do some shopping at Ikea
 Hit up Trish's garage sale
 Finish cleaning my scraproom
 Put together projects to do for gifts
 clean kitchen counters (how does this stuff pile up?)
 Shinto for dinner! yeah!!
 Finish reading one...