Two a Day...

...keeps the doctor away! Or at least boredom, chores, and grazing in the kitchen!

One more for the road...

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Just for Fun!

Kelly's Korner gets a face lift!

Do you like the new blog layout? Hehe! It makes me giddy! I realized that creating blog headers and stuff was just like digital scrapbooking... just a different size! So this was my artistic fun for the evening. :)

Credits: Papers and Elements from Digital Scrapbook Memories, CDs: The Garden and Family Ties. Software: Adobe Photoshop Elements 6.0. Font: "Sexy" (I didn't name it...)

New Pages

Haven, 2004

I'm really proud of these two pages. I did a bunch of techniques on them. The layout is scraplifted from a layout a bunch of people have on the forum. But I made it myself instead of spending the $4 to download it. I learned how to make the stitching look wonky and more "realistic." It's so funny... in paper scrapbooking you would want to make your stitching straight and make your pictures lay down flat. But in digital scrapbooking you want things to NOT be perfect so they look more real!

I made the drop shadows on those photos to make them look like the corners are raised. Again, figured it out myself so I didn't have to pay the $3 to download one. Also figured out the EASY way to recolor elements tonight! Oh man! I was doing it the hard way, messing with the hue/saturation. Turns out you can just push a button and "recolor" any color you want! Yay!!! Also proud of those little chalk swirls. They started out black and I made them look like chalk.

These were just really fun to work on. I actually spent two evenings working on them! Jess asked if we had pictures that just made us happy to look at them... I have scrapbooking pages that just make me happy. These are on the list! :)

Why you shouldn't blog when you're angry...

Is every day going to be like this????!!!!!???? Haven JUST finished her homework. It's 10:30 pm!!! So it went down like this:
2:30 Haven's out of school
Sits down in my office to do homework.
Needs help on everything.
6:00 leave work. Had to stay late because we're doing end of month paperwork.
Trip to grocery store because we're out of everything.
7:00 home. Cook dinner for the starving masses living in my house. Haven working on homework.
8:30 Ethan to bed, finally some peace.
9:00 Rob home, tag team homework help.
10:30 finally finished.
Absolutely ridiculous. Plus I had to help her spell every word because the English language is so hideous! At one point we both shouted how stupid English is and I told Haven we should go back to German school! ARGH!

I suppose all of you who have been in the American system with your kids all this time probably are laughing at my anguish. But I have been spoiled for the last six years with German school! Out at 12:30, after school care till 3:00, NO homework in the afternoons because it's all done in the after school program! But even still, she's never had THIS much homework! If she went to SAS after school she'd spend the whole three hours doing nothing but homework!

Ok, I think I've ranted enough to cool off. If tomorrow is like this again I'm going to have a tantrum and be one of "those" parents...

Europa Park

We took the youth group to Europa Park on Saturday and had a fun day. Haven spent the morning hanging out with the teens and it was just me, Rob, and Ethan. Then Haven joined us in the afternoon when the teens had had enough Haven! :) It was neat going there with Ethan because the last time we were there Haven was four! (or maybe five/six-ish...) Anyway, it was fun seeing Ethan enjoy the rides that Haven rode years ago! And it was fun to see Haven enjoying the "big kid" rides! She said if she rode anymore roller coasters she would need an inhaler! Haha!