Family Reunion

This is a view from the deck of the cabin where we were at. This is Lake Billy Chinook in Eastern Oregon, the lake is a lot larger than this. It has 3 sections and is huge. The mountain is Mount Hood.

Same view as above, but this was a gorgeous sunset the first night we were there. Everything had a rosy pink tinge to it, absolutely beautiful.

This is down at the lake, Mike's Uncle has boats for everyone to use. This is most of the teenagers that were there, soaking up the sun and swimming. A few adults too. The water did feel good, it was very hot and the resort is off the grid, so no A/C all weekend. I even went moonlight swimming one night to cool off.

Heather and her favorite second cousin. They really enjoyed seeing each other, it had been 2 years since the last family reunion.
We had a great time visiting with everyone. We found out that another branch of family will be having a reunion in Portland the same weekend we will be there, so we will be going to that one also. Should be fun.

This month has been extremely busy. We still have a retirement party to go to on Friday, and somehow I "volunteered" to take pictures. Then on Monday, we will be going to Britt (a local concert series) and seeing Carrie Underwood. We have free tickets for all three of us. Really looking forward to that.

Looks like August is going to be just as busy. We will be on vacation and then 2 weeks later a camping trip with our Mustang Club. And somewhere in there our neighbor's daughter is getting married. WHEW! I'm already tired just typing it all. LOL

Stay tuned for more summer pictures!

Chelsea's Blog Challenge from Create My Keepsake

1. Tell Me Why your blog is named what it is. I was playing around with titles, and came up with this one. Did an unscientific survey and most everyone liked it. I figure that my scrapbooks are being done "One Page at a Time"

2. Tell me one person you admire as a scrapper/artist and why. My scrappy friend Tanya. I just love her style, and she is also a very sweet and caring person. Here's a link to her blog. http://princess-tanya-is-in.blogspot.com/

3. What is one thing you've never tried on a layout or project that you'd like to try? Haven't tried using directional embellishments, I am going to be trying this sometime this week. I have a contest that I'm doing that we need to use arrows on the layout.

4. What is your favorite time of year to scrap and why? I don't have a favorite time, I like to scrap any time.

5. List 2 other people's scrappy blogs that you enjoy reading and post a link to them!! My scrappy friend Cami http://ndmomblessedbythesweetestlilgirleva.blogspot.com/ Another scrappy friend, Dawn http://dawnslifeandscrapblog.blogspot.com/ I have about 15 blogs that I visit on a weekly basis. So it is hard to narrow it down to only 2.

Here is a layout I did for a faithbooking challenge at From Here 2 Scrapternity. The challenge was to use song lyrics that have meaning to you. The first time I heard this song, I fell in love with it. The message in it is great, it always makes me stop and think every time I hear it.

Here are the lyrics to the song, since it is hard to read on my layout.

I Can Only Imagine – Mercy Me

I can only imagine
What it will be like
When I walk By Your side
I can only imagine
What my eyes will see
When Your face Is before me
I can only imagine

Surrounded by Your glory,
what will my heart feel
Will I dance for You Jesus
or in awe of You be still
Will I stand in Your presence
or to my knees will I fall
Will I sing hallelujah,
will I be able to speak at all
I can only imagine
I can only imagine

When that day comes
And I find myself Standing in the Son
I can only imagine
When all I will do Is forever
Forever worship You
I can only imagine

Here is another project I did this weekend. I found the wooden saying at Michael's for $1.00. I just cut out the Basic Grey paper and voila! A cute saying for my kitchen.

Christmas in July

Saturday I spent most of the day working on class projects from a cyber crop at Create My Keepsake. I had a great time. There were 7 projects and I completed them all. I will be making more of these projects. They were fun and pretty easy too. Great gift ideas. Below are all my projects for the day. Oh and there will be drawings for prizes at the end of the day. How great is that, complete some fun projects and maybe win a prize. Thanks Rebecca and all the designers at CMK for such a fun day!!!!


Get Poppin: A quick and easy snack or small gift box.

Light up the Holidays: A glass jar candle with a rub on and some ribbon. From plain to elegant in minutes. Great gift idea!

Ornament Extravaganza: Ornament frames that I made from chipboard. These will be small gifts for the grandparents, and one for my tree.

Spell it Out: Altered letters that I purchased at Michaels. This is my favorite project of the day. I love how it turned out. Now I want to alter more letters! I have been intimidated by this type of project. Now I feel much more confident. Can't wait to try altering other stuff using this technique.

Christmas Cookies: An old butter cookie tin that is altered into a new and fun cookie tin to fill for Christmas. This is a great way to make a personalized gift that looks great and doesn't cost you a fortune. This will make a great gift for my co-workers.

Well, since I can't get this picture to load, click here to see it at CMK.
Box it Up: I found the pattern for this gable box online. I like how it turned out. This will be perfect for little gifts.

You've been Tagged: Just a quick tag. It turned out nothing like the example. I have a hard time with tags. Need to work on making them more interesting.

Creating Pages Week 3 Entry

Click here for a link to my week 3 entry for the Creating Pages 8 week contest.

New Glasses

I took Heather to get her eyes checked last week, and they said she needed glasses for seeing things in the distance. (Contacts won't correct her vision as well as the glasses, so they weren't an option.) We went yesterday to pick them up.

I think she looks really cute and more grown up in them. She isn't too sure about them yet. Like a true scrapbooker I had to take pictures of her in the new glasses right away. Below are a couple of them.

Layouts

A couple of layouts I did recently. The first one is my daughter (she is on the left) and her friend this year, and the second one is my daughter at age 4. It is fun to do some of her older pictures, at least she always smiled then. Now it is hard to get a smile out of her.



Click here to see my layout for week 2 of Creating Pages Summer Series. This week's challenge was "lumpy and bumpy".