Project Joy - Week 6!

Project Joy Week 6!

Journaling:
1. Symba, our cat that has always hated kids, will now wait for Kalyssa to come to bed, settle in, and then he patty-paws her and sleeps on her for at least half an hour or more! I honestly never thought I’d see the day! 2. Kaden, completely out of the blue, declared it “American Flag Day.” He found all the flags we had and posted them all over the house!  3 & 4. Kalyssa decided she wanted to try chopsticks so we went to Chinese after church. Now she uses them to eat most anything, including french fries. 5. Kalyssa also decided she needed to learn how to play chess. Thankfuly Daddy had some memory from playing it as a kid. 6 & 7. I was blessed to be able to observe Kalyssa in her Sunday School room. They have way more fun than us adults do! And they learn a lot too!

I pray you are finding the JOY in your every day lives!

Project Joy - Week 5!

Project Joy - Week 5!

Left side journaling:

This week started out with Kalyssa going to Urgent Care with an ear infection. Thank God it wasn't strep again. The little trooper still wanted to go on our planned trip to Phoenix to see the Monster Jam! So glad we did. She did great and we had so much fun! But it did result in two days off of school, tons of make-up homework and lots of hot chocolate with marshmallows. And then there's the breakfast of champions - OJ, ham bites, yogurt with granola and Amoxicillin. Yum-O!

Right side journaling:

The kids love to play on my old laptop. They know just how to get to the Playhouse Disney website and they usually do a pretty good job about taking turns. I spent a little money this week. I bought a new pair of running shoes and a Garmin GPS watch (I've named him Max, as is tradition with my running friends), and I registered to run in the San Diego Rock 'n' Roll half marathon in June. Training starts next week, and yes, I'm crazy but only half crazy since I'm not running in the full marathon! Then there the Friday night Fish Fry where the kids eat okay and dance all night. We always have a great time there! So there was lots of JOY in our week, even amongst the illness. It's everywhere ... just look in your cup of Coco!

Happy Valentine's Day!!

I know I have a couple of weeks of Project Joy to work on (they are coming, hopefully sometime this week) but I just wanted to wish you all a Happy Valentine's Day! And share a little layout of "Me and My Valentines" that was in todays Scrap Girls Newsletter.

I pray you have a "LOVE"-ly day!!



P.S. To my sweet hubby .... thank you for all that you do for us! You protect us, love us, make sure we are safe and secure and that we will be able to survive in most any emergency (with many comforts), you grocery shop and make sure my car is clean and fueled. These are only a few of the MANY things you do for us and we love, adore and appreciate you more than you could ever know! We love you!!!

Project Joy - Week 4!

Project Joy - Week 4!

Journaling:
1. Playing in Del Taco play area. 2. Morning snuggles with Mama! (This brings me JOY every day!) 3. The nightly horseback ride to bed. 4. Special movie night sleepover in the livingroom. 5. Kalyssa had an eye appt. (All is going well!) 6. Cornbread is messy stuff! Dad got out the vacuum! 7. Playing Puzzle Buzz. 8. My current stack of reading. 9. Kalyssa learning how to wash dishes. (It will be a truly JOYful day when this is no longer my chore!) 10. Our adorable kids all dressed up for church. 11. Daddy made roads, complete with stop signs in the backyard! Daddy is COOL! 12. God knew I would need some JOY after my 2 mile run so he left me a shadow on Mom's garage door! How cool is that?! 13. I had a Pampered Chef party. Lots of fun and I got some free stuff too! 14. One morning the kids woke up at the same time, met in my hallway and instantly grabbed onto each other for a great big hug! It brings me so much JOY that they love each other as much as they do!
I'm praying that JOY finds you each and every day!

Project Joy - Week 3!

Project Joy - Week 3!

Journaling:

Joy was everywhere this week! It began on Saturday with me heading down to Phoenix for a girls weekend away. My friends Jessica, Beckie & Lauren all ran in the Rock'n'Roll 1/2 marathon on Sunday so we made a weekend of it and had a blast! Lots of eating, hot tubbing and talking going on! They did amazing in their race and I had fun being their driver/photographer. During the week the kids discovered that boxes are lots of fun! Kalyssa had a great week with a fantastic report card and she learned how to play Battleship! That girl picked it up in no time even though it's for ages 8+! She continues to amaze me!

Project Joy - Week 2!

Project Joy 365 - Week 2:
I think I've decided to make double page spreads for my weekly layouts. I just take too many pictures! :o) There may be some single page layouts for a few weeks in the year but this week was packed full of fun so it really needed a two pager!

Here what the pages look like together ...

Here's the left side ...

And here's the right side ...

Journaling reads:

1-4: KC and I had a "Date Night" out to see the Globetrotters! Check one off of the old bucket list! 5: Kaden got a cute new haircut. 6: Kaden got his picture taken so Kalyssa had to too! 7: Daddy gave Kalyssa a manicure. 8: How tall? Kalyssa is 3' 8" and Kaden is 3' 4". 9 & 10: Travel and snow delayed the arrival of these special "toys" but that didn't diminish the excitement the slightest bit! 11: Mmmm, steak dinner with Aunt Wendy & Uncle Tom! 12: A bubble bath (in the big tub) was in order after a long day driving jeeps in the mud. 13 & 14: The kids wanted to try out Mama's new camera. They both did a pretty good job, especially considering Kaden can barely hold it!

(By the way, the numbers correspond to the photos, not the date in which they were taken.)

2011 - Week 1!

Hello All! I'm going to try something new this year. As you might have noticed, I've been a bit eratic with my blogging. I'm going to try really hard to remedy that this year! (Don't laugh ... I really am!) Here's how I plan on doing it ...

My good friend Christy has started a project. It's sort of a 365 (take a picture a day) type of thing mixed with the effort in finding the JOY in her every day life. She's calling it "Project Joy 365" and I've joined her. Basically I will be documenting our everyday life. I may not take a picture a day but there will be pictures from each week. I plan to do a very simple (definitely not creative team worthy) layout so by the end of the year I will have a full album with 52 pages. The pictures might not be the best pictures in the world but they will be true to our lives and what we do. The journaling will give a little explanation of the pictures and I will attempt to always include something that brought me JOY that week. I'm also hoping that I can keep up with these simple layouts and share them weekly with all of you. Feel free to nag me if I seem to be getting too far behind. :-)

Without further ado ... here is the first installment of my Project Joy 365.

Journaling:

We welcomed the new year in with a fabulous display of fireworks that we watched from our dining room window. On January 1st we remembered our sweet Kelsey (it's been two years now), I added Power 90 to my running in hopes that it will help heal my I.T. band, we painted pictures and Mema helped us paint the tea set Auntie Debbie gave Kalyssa for Christmas, and we played games (Sorry and Shrek Operation were this week's favorites.) Kalyssa went to school for the first time with snow on the ground and she came down with strep throat and missed two days. There was lots of JOY this week too with lots of snuggles and two dry days for Kaden!