week in the life-almost complete

Slow and steady wins the race, right?! It's nearly the end of August and I am almost finished with my documentation that began at the end of July.

All the weekdays are done. My next goal is to do a single page for each of us {including the dog} so two of those are done, 3 to go. And then with my remaining, can't stand not to use photos, I am going to do a few collage pages with brief notations.

Excuse the look of this post. While uploading multiple photo using the Picasa/Blogger combo, things went wonky.

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FREE Quickpages from CatScrap

It's a very good time to join in at CatScrap as their 5 year Birthday Celebration winds down. Above are just a handful of the free quickpages available during the blog hop. Sales, contests and challenges are still in progress. I still need to do a few week in the life pages before I call that project done and then I plan to drop a few photos into these templates and get a few more milestones and memories recorded lickety split.

The past four days have been blah for me. Not sure if I am fighting a cold or sinus infection or if I am just being greatly affected by the Midwest humidity and weather flucuations. I do know that the only place I really want to be is inside in the AC. Not an easy task with soccer practices. football scrimmages requring cheerleaders, the school festival this weekend...

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trying to bring back meal plan monday...

...food made mostly at home that includes a fruit or veggie!

Monday: Grilled chicken (marinated in Italian dressing), Bob Evans potatoes and steamed broccoli
Tuesday: Carry Out from Skyline Chili 
Wednesday: Burgers and/or Beef BBQ
Thursday: Pizza after Soccer practice
Friday: Hot Dogs and Grilled Sausage

I wanted to do better and eat more at home but I have to go with what the schedule dictates. With school starting next week and the sports + activities already underway, it is about to get complicated :) 


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the posting drought

I am pretty sure 10 days is my longest stretch with out a blog post. The past two weeks have been extremely busy but in such a very good, fun and family way. Last Friday, we left on a week long adventure. Stop 1: High Point to visit Dave's brother, his wife and their sons.

Rise and shine on Saturday morning and we were off to the beach for 3 nights (after a wonderful breakfast courtesy of our hosts).

This was our second visit to Ocean Isle Beach and it was just as great as last year. Olivia wants to make it our "every year vacation place". If the bank account agrees, I am in!

On Tuesday we took off for Columbia, SC. Note to self: do not select the shortest route on the GPS. Three hours into the trip when your husband realizes that and explains to you the difference between shortest and quickest you will be sorry. And you will wish you could get back the hour or so spent needlessly in the car, in the heat, with your two kids...you get the picture.

No matter, it was worth it because Wednesday morning led to our reunion with PVT Fischvogt.

The soldiers came out of the woods like this.

And then we got down to the business of hugging and oohing and aahing over our handsome soldier! We spent Wednesday on the base because Tyler was not allowed to leave. Without going into great detail, that was mostly a disorganized mess. But we were with Ty so that was good.

On Thursday, we headed back to Ft. Jackson at O' Dark Thirty for the official graduation. Afterward, Tyler and his friend Garcia were able to spend the rest of the day and night with us. Sort of. They had to be back on base at 4:30am.

I am so proud of Tyler. Attending his graduation and this experience ranks up there with one of the best for me. And I feel like it was a priceless opportunity for my girls.

So that's where I have been for the past 10 or so days :) Pin It

week in the life: tues wed + bonus page

One of the products I was most excited to use were these Summer Tallies from CatScrap. In fact, they gave me the idea to record the mileage for the week.

My basic pages...one for each day of the week. I am getting quicker at putting these together. My goal is to complete these and then fill in from there. SO happy to have these photos and documentation. Had I been home, I would have filled out the journal pages for each day a lot more fully but using the pictures as prompts, so far I have been able to remember and recapture pretty much. Again, the week in the life project is the brainchild of Ali Edwards. Visit her.

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