Tonight I surfed over to songbirdavenue.com and picked up the November 2008 kit.

I love this kit!

There’s a ton to work with and though here you see mostly blue, there’s a lot of girlie pink, too. I love that it’s so versatile.

So anyway, just thought I’d make a little post here. My blog has been quite neglected lately but I promise, updates coming soon. :) In the meantime, though, I hope y’all like my layout. I haven’t had a chance to do much scrapbooking lately so it was nice to sit down and do something even if I didn’t really get to work on it until after everyone else was asleep. It really is kind of relaxing and therapeutic. I guess that’s why, in part, I like it.

The left photo, though, was shot in black and white film and the second, of course, in color film. I wonder if I should have turned the other photo black and white to match but I like the color version. Both of those photos are some of my favorites from that year. And I just realized I dated the page wrong so I guess I’m off to fix that before bed! It was 2003, not 2004. Duh, Val!! That’s what happens, though when your photos get somehow organized in the wrong folder and though you move them to the proper folder, you have it in your head the wrong date. :)

Apparently when I get frustrated, I say, “UN-believable!” A lot of stress placed on the “un” of course!

Elijah hates this, though. He hates it when I say it and often responds with a yell of “WHAT!?” or some sort of other complaint like “UGH!” But it often works and gets him motivated. So, yeah, I’ve been known to use it quite a bit.

A couple of Sundays ago, the boys were, of course, being difficult and slow in getting ready to leave for church. I was getting pretty frustrated because, you know, I hate being late! (Not to mention I have jobs to do for which I can’t be late!)

So Steve was in the bathroom shaving and I’d finally gotten Elijah dressed and I sat back in the recliner and sighed. Elijah said, “what?”

I said, “oh, nothing, just waiting for Daddy.”

He got up from the couch, leaned towards me and said, “I’ll “unbelieveable” him.”

Then he walked (with determined purpose) over to the bathroom door and yelled, “Daddy!! UN-BELIEVABLE!!!”

His job finished, he went and sat back on the couch.

Crazy kid.

I’m not going to talk (except maybe for a few comments here and there), I just want to post some videos my friend sent me. If you disagree, that’s fine. I’m not here to argue. I disagree with a lot of my friends on stuff and that doesn’t change how I feel about them [my friends]. There are just some issues I feel strongly about.

CHIMPS! I’m working with CHIMPS!
And Michelle is apparently the biggest one of all. WTH
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lol, we, or rather, Sarah, found something fun the other day!

We went out to Pickle Springs Natural Area like we try to do at least once every year though it’s been two years since we were last there. It’s really a nice place. It’s a two mile trail through the woods, valleys, over hills, over creeks, etc.

At just about the halfway mark, so one mile in, Sarah says to me, “hey, do you see that square in the tree? The box?” It took me a bit but I finally saw what she was pointing out and I said she should go get it (it was off trail a bit). We just happened to meet an older couple coming from the other way there, so they were intrigued, too. Sarah brought it over and we all sort of looked at it for a bit. No one was willing to open it, ha, so I unlatched it. As soon as it was open, I knew what it was, it was for geocaching!
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