Week In The Life Day 2

Good morning Friends!

First, I wanted to say Thank You Thank You to everyone who sent me sweet birthday wishes.  

You guys make my heart sing!

As promised, I am back to share my Week In The Life Day 2 photos, and since I only have about 20 minutes before the monkeys will need to be fed, I'm going to get right to it!

Friday, July 22

 

6:03 Gotta get out of bed. Grumble, grumble, grumble

6:05-- Why is there sports TV on at 6am?  Am I being punished for something??

6:28 Leave for work-- it's 97*.  

That doesn't bode well for our temps today...

6:35 Gotta put gas in the car, wish it wasn't so flippin' expensive

6:42 Pickin' up donuts for a breakfast treat.  Birthdays are better when they last all weekend....

6:53 Kitty refuses to let me walk across the room to turn the alarm off.  

Gotta pick her up & carry her in order to get to the control panel on time...

7:00 Boot up computer & Facebook while I wait for kids to arrive

7:08 Kate arrives

7:10 Sa'Mya arrives

7:15 Grace arrives

8:00 Wende (Food Program Inspector Extraordinaire) arrives for a visit

8:15 Breakfast of donuts & chocolate milk with monkeys

8:25 Feed baby Gracie-- no vomiting involved

9:00 Put Project Life Photos in album while monkeys take their first nap.

9:17 Wonder why there's always so much crap on my desk???

9:45 Yard guys show.  Kids are fascinated/freaking out.

1:00 Cooper arrives

12:00 Popcorn for lunch

1:00 Turn sprinklers on

2:15 Flip through old scrappy idea books in search of new inspiration (and find some!)

3:00 Organize June Project Life Photos for printing

3:25 Remember that the sprinkler is still running.

Go turn it off.

3:30 Chill on couch watching Lipstick Jungle on Hulu with kitty till kiddos wake up.

5:10 Holy cow!  All kids are gone.  This never happens!

5:25 Hittin the bank on the way home.

5:35 Home!  Loving that this happened on a Friday while Dad was visiting!

6:00 Hangin' out with Dad, waiting for Steve to get home

6:45 Steve is home but not feeling well. (Scaring me a little, frankly) 

He & Dad lay down for a while in hopes that they'll both feel better & we can go out for dinner

(I take advantage of their in-attention to take pictures of them & play with photo apps on my phone)

8:00 Everyone is feeling better- time for dinner 

8:40 Yummies at Cotton Patch Cafe

(I forgot to take a picture of my actual dinner, but this is what I ordered, so I took a picture of the table display instead.)

10:30 Home- full & sleepy

10:53 What's on my nightstand tonight

Time for bed!  Night Everybody!

That was my day.  Not very exciting, but I LOVE that I have it documented.  

Today is my last day of taking WIL photos, but I'll keep posting till all 7 days are up!

Hope you have a great Wednesday!

Week In The Life-- Day 1

Good morning Bloggers!

Have you started your Week In The Life??

As I mentioned in my last post, I started mine on Thursday.

I had planned to share photos with you over the weekend, but my Dad arrived to surprise me for my birthday, so I wasn't able to.

So today, I'm here to show you some of my photos (not all of them, because I've been snapping away like crazy!!!) and hopefully give you some ideas of things from your day that you can photograph.

I plan to add a typed out daily schedule to each day's Introduction page.

Thursday's Schedule:

4:00am-- What the hell is beeping in the living room??  Thankfully, Steve & Eddie will go look & I can go back to sleep......

6:13 Time to drag myself out of bed....

6:35 Leave for work

6:48 Good Morning Kitty

7:05 Grace & Katie Arrive

7:25 Chocolate Milk for Breakfast

8:12 Sa'Mya Arrives

8:20 Check Email with Itunes on Shuffle

9:00  Interview

9:45 Interview still hasn't shown up.  Why do people make appointments & not keep them? Grrrrrr

10:15 Feed Gracie while talking to Becca

10:35 Finish Week In The Life Album cover.  Photograph Album.

11:00 Gracie pukes up her toenails.  Gross

11:10 Baby sleeping now, clothes changed, time to clean out my purse & make sure it didn't get hurled on

(It didn't, thankfully!)

12:30 Birthday Wishes from Facebook friends!  <3 <3 <3

1:00 Lunch time!  Baked mac & cheese-- Gram's recipe!

2:00 Nap time.  I love nap time.

2:10 Angry Birds on Iphone.

3:00 Gracie goes home.  

3:30 Upload photos to Picassa-edit.

4:00 Blog WIL album

4:40 Fold & Put away laundry.  Kitty helps with the kitchen towels...

5:00 Katie goes home

5:10 Sa'Mya goes home

6:00 Cooper goes home.

6:05 Clean up the daycare

6:20 Singing in the car on the way to Zumba

6:30 Zumba!!

7:15 Rec Center air freshener tries to kill me

7:40 Home for a Surprise!

8:15 Time to open Birthday Presents!!

9:10 Late dinner-- Chef Chu. Yummmmmmy!

10:36 Time for bed.  Happy Happy day!

I was worried that it would be really hard to keep up with this project, but my Iphone has made it much much easier. 

I've been really enjoying the process so far.

I'll be back soon to post another day's schedule & photos.

I hope you're having as much fun with this as I am-- make sure to leave me links in the comment section. 

I would love to see what you're photographing!!

A Week In The Life

Hello bloggers!

With CHA in full swing this weekend, we've all got our minds on new products and all the latest tools.

And who wouldn't be excited??

One of the best things about scrapping is all of the way-cool toys.

I'm looking forward to seeing the new releases!!

With all the fun new goodies coming out, I think it's the perfect time to remind ourselves exactly why we started scrapping to begin with.

To tell our stories.

Today, I started my first Week In The Life Project.

You can get all the details here at  Ali Edwards Blog.

(Ali is starting her Week In The Life on Monday, and you can follow her day-by-day on her blog.

But since today is my 35th birthday and it's making me feel especially ancient, I decided that today was the best day to start mine. 

Scrapping is always a good distraction from the neurotic voices in my head.)

Make sure you check out her blog.

She's got some great advice for newbies and some fantastic printables.

I have my album all put together, so all I have to do is take the photos & write my notes!

Here is my album:

(Let me apologize now for the quality of the photos.   I took them at work, without a great light source and with way too much junk in the background & waaaay too many small people standing next to me screeching "CHEEEEEESE" at the top of their lungs.)

I think I'm going to have to Stickle the "J".  

It needs a little more girl, I think.

I followed Ali's 2008 album plan of an Intro To The Day page, a 2 sided baseball card page protector and a page for a photo collage.

The supplies were all stuff from my stash.  

I covered chipboard with patterned paper from a cute MAMBI summer stack that I picked up at GASC for $5.  

I use the baseball card page protectors to store small unmounted stamps in binders, so I snagged them out of the closet.  (You can find them at Office Depot.)

I used Creative Memories alpha stickers that I've had since 2006 for the days of the week titles & a Hero Arts stamp for the dates.

I picked up the journaling cards from a Designer Digitals link on Ali's blog & printed enough for the whole week.

(I actually bought 2 different sets of Ali's journaling cards & plan to mix & match them through the album. They are the only thing I bought for this album.)

Finally, I punched & bound the whole thing with my Bind It All.

Super-easy, afternoon project.
(If you actually have a whole afternoon to do it-- it took me 3 days because I was snatching a few minutes here & there while my daycare monkeys napped.)

So far, I've gotten some interesting photos:

*The clock, when I finally rolled out of bed this morning

*The temperature in my car as I was leaving for work

*The stubborn crepe myrtles in front of the daycare that refuse to die

*The so-not-healthy mac & cheese that I had for lunch

*My Facebook wall with birthday wishes from my friends <3 <3 <3

*Me, covered in gallons & gallons of baby vomit

*The huge mess on my desk

*The TV showing "Say Yes To The Dress" (my reality TV indulgence during naptime)

*Kitty laying in the middle of my pile of clean laundry

I'm going to try to get something at Zumba tonight.

We'll see!

I'll post some of my pics tomorrow!

Have a great day!