Fall Decor

My favorite season is fall! I love it when the weather starts getting cooler and all the leaves start changing colors! It’s just beautiful. I love decorating the house with fall colors too! I don’t have too many decorations, but love it when I open the fall box and finding new places for it all. Today I sat down and made some new decor. Do you remember my butterflies? Well I took them out and replaced them with pumpkins!

Super cute right!? Shannon taught me how to make them using an oval punch and cardstock!

So Happy Fall! I hope you enjoy decorating your homes too! :)

Sweet Peach – September Reveal

The idea gallery is up for the September kits! This month I got to work with the Juicy Themed kit!

This kit is called “A Little More Country” and full of Paper Trunk and Jenni Bowlin! Perfect!

You already saw this layout I made with the sketch this month.

Here are a couple more! I LOVE this picture of Tyler!

The papers were perfect for this picture of us at Tate Farms last year.

I made a couple cards too.

Don’t you just love those vintage bottle caps!

Make sure you visit Sweet Peach Crop Shop to get your kit!

Kalen’s Picture Day

Today was yearbook picture day for Bright Lights. Kalen was so excited to get her picture made! She was a little unsure when she didn’t recognize the man behind the camera, but she did good. No crying! She didn’t really smile though. We turned in our family page too. We have so many Bright Light families this year, we had to cut our page in half. I choose to keep it super simple!

Since Kalen was all cute and dressed up I decided to bring along my camera and snap a few photos in the prayer garden.

It was SO easy getting her to pose for pictures! I guess that is the difference between boys and girls.

Such a little model!

Looking at these pictures I just can’t believe how big she is getting! My little girl is growing up WAY too fast!

We have been getting a lot of comments on how long Kalen’s hair is getting.

I just love it and can’t imagine cutting it! Maybe we will just keep it this length and trim it.

We got so many good pictures I’m having a hard time picking my favorite!

Can’t forget the head tilt! Ha!

One in the Gazebo, or as Kalen calls it the “Nemo.”

And one on the lamp post.

Kalen saw the flowers when we were walking back to the car and she said “Picture with flower!” So we had to get her picture made with the flowers.

I think we were there for a whole 10 minutes and got all those great pictures! Now if I could just get a few of Tyler! :)

Grandparent’s Day

Last Friday was Grandparent’s Day at Tyler’s school! He was SO excited when Grandpa Bob and Grandma Angie showed up!

Mrs. Cox had a special circle time and all the grandparent’s got to see a typical morning at school.

Tyler made something special and gave it to Grandpa & Grandma that morning.

They also got spoiled with cookies and juice!

Too funny!

Tyler enjoyed showing off his school!

I am really glad that Grandma Angie took all these pictures! Next time she will have to get one of herself though! :)

Tyler wishes his other Grandparent’s could’ve been there too!

Happy Grandparent’s Day to all of you!

September Sketch and Online Crop!

The September sketch is up at Sweet Peach Crop Shop! I have really enjoyed working with Liz’s sketches and this one is just so fun! I love the banners!

Here is the layout I created using the September Juicy Themed Kit!

If you’d like to take part in the sketch challenge you have until Monday, October 4th. Not a subscriber yet? It’s okay, you can use any product (although the featured kit has banners in it and would be perfect!!) Go to the Sweet Peach blog to enter and check out the RAK of Tim Holtz goodies! :)

Now onto the Crop. Sweet Peach is hosting a week long crop right on their blog! Every day there will be a new challenge. It may be a technique, a project, sketch, or layout to lift! The first challenge is already up. So head over there today to get started! There will be prizes for each challenge and a Grand Prize too!!! (I hear it’s a Sweet Peach kit) Yay!!! You will have until Sunday night to enter your layouts! So click on the crop button above and get started today! :)

A Cubbie and a Puggle

Awana started up again at church.

 

Tyler is a Cubbie again and working hard to learn his new verses (with the reference) this year! He is doing great and I am always amazed at how fast he learns them. I’m so proud of him!

 

Kalen got to join the Puggles this year and she LOVES it! She gets so excited when she sees her little Puggle shirt. Right now she is learning that “God made everything!” She loves doing the little crafts too, she brings it home, puts it on the fridge, and says, “I made that!” So cute!

Here is my Cubbie and little Puggle all ready for their first night!

Been Gone Too Long

Has it really been almost a month since I updated? We have been crazy busy around here! With school, friends and family visiting, church activities starting up again I guess I have just let the blog fall behind. I have taken pictures, but still need to get them off the camera and onto the computer.

I do have a few simple layouts to share though.

I completed these next two in one afternoon! Yay! I usually only have time to get 1 layout done during naptime.

   In other scrappy news I received the Juicy Themed Kit from Sweet Peach this month! Can’t wait to show you what I’ve been working on!

Sweet Peach - August Reveal

The August kit for Sweet Peach Crop Shop is just beautiful! I was asked to be the Guest Designer for this month and received the Sweet Featured kit (and the paper add on):

I love the Scribble Scrabble papers and all the different embellishments that come with this kit, especially those gardenias! So pretty!

I knew this kit would be perfect for some pictures I had of Kalen. These were taken last summer eating her first watermelon, precious!

Tyler and Kalen having a rare moment between the 2 of them. :)

Oh that lace! Just love it! Of course I had to ruffle it :)

This last one I used Liz’s August sketch!I just love the layered scallop border! I know I will be doing that more often!

You still have time to enter the sketch challenge! Go to the Sweet Peach blog to submit your layout!

I also made a quick card.

Be sure to head over to Sweet Peach Crop Shop and get your hands on a kit today! I know you will love it as much as I did!

First Day of Pre-K!!

Well Tyler had his first day of Pre-K today! He will be going Monday, Wednesday, and Friday’s for 3 hours in the morning. It helps that school is at a familiar place, church! Here is my little man all ready for school!

I was a little sad getting him all ready to go. Tyler prayed for me last night at dinner and said “Jesus, help mommy to not be sad when I go to school.” So sweet! I think his prayers helped, because I did okay. :) He was such a big boy going into his room. I told him I had to get one picture of him with his teacher, and he didn’t complain one bit!

His teacher is Mrs. Cox and I have heard so many wonderful things about her from many, many people! I know both Tyler and I are going to love her!

So after dropping him off Kalen and I came home and Kalen kept asking me, “Do mommy? Do?” and “Tyler go?” We didn’t know quite what to do with out Tyler around! We did get some cleaning done though and it was much MUCH quieter in the house.

So Tyler’s 1st day went well! He got to be the helper and a line leader! He was SUPER excited about that :) I kept asking him if he learned anything and he said, “Ummm…I don’t know.” Maybe today was just a fun day! :) School wore him out though, he took a 2 hour nap! Hopefully that will happen every afternoon after school! :)

Staying Simple

For the last 2 weeks of Scrap Camp, I kept it simple! Most of the pages I do are pretty simple, and I like to think of it as my style :) So I stayed true to that with these last couple layouts.

I took a “weekend pass” for week #6, since it was right near Mike’s surgery and just after we came back from vacation. So I got right back in for week #7 – Campfire Songs. You had to have horizontal layers, music notes, and photos that give you a warm feeling. I just love these pictures of Kalen and her daddy!

I made it though that round and we are on the last week. Week #8 – Under the Stars. You had to have a dark background, emboss, and use stars. I decided to use a picture of Tyler that I have had in my photo box for a long time! It was just perfect for this challenge though!

Super simple, right? I love it though! I am so surprised that I made it all the way through this challenge! It has been so much fun and I am sad that it will be ending. I’m sure Scrap Friendzy will come up with another great event soon!