It's Birthday Time at The Studio!!!!!

Yep, it's Birthday time at The Studio--they are having their 4th annual Birthday Bash and they are throwing a GREAT party.  All kinds of special challenges, a next designer contest and a layout challenge contest for spots on their store CT.  If you participate in the challenges there are also some great giveaways to be gathered, come play some games and participate in a progressive scrap.

I am participating in the Layout Challenge and for week 1 we got to use the kit Autumn's Kiss by Mitsybelle
Isn't is a gorgeous kit.       

Please help decide who makes it thru to the next round, you must be a member of the studio to submit a vote -- Voting begins after midnight tonight Sat 9/4 and ends Tues 9/7 at midnight.  Vote here

Here is the layout that I made with the kit, Autumn's Splendor's        

And here is a preview of all the layouts in the challenge

September Blog Train

............ is here:)  With a beautiful color swatch and fun theme, the next blog train has rolled into town.
The theme is Fall Carnival and the color theme is
Click here to go to the main blogtrain site.
I have made a page with part of the blog train kit by Design by Anita, her portion of the kit is

 Click here to just grab Anita's portion.  My layout is called Round and Round

Back to School

I know, I still need to post vacation pics and that will get done,but wanted to share about Back to School 2010.  I really can't believe it is that time of year already -- now if the weather could just catch up and change to cooler fall temperatures.  We are really tired of high 90's, some 100's and lots of humidity.
This year our Ms. Purple is in 7th grade, still in honors classes -- can't believe that next year she will be a teenager.  Gavin is in 3rd grade and still missing his top two teeth.  This year he is also in an accelerated math class.  Our youngest is at different school this year since he was accepted into the Gifted and Talented program. He has to ride the middle school bus with his sister and then take another bus to his school -- its so early for a 1st grader.  The first week went well for everyone, only one tantrum about homework.  Jaden doesn't have homework until next week, although he did have to put together an "All about Me" box -- what was in it??  He put a Thomas train, a photo book I made him with a Thomas theme  to the backgrounds, a webkinz animal, a baseball, crayons, and a calculator.  There may have been a few more items but can't remember them off the top of my head -- I know he wanted to print out a picture of Mario.
I always take there pictures on the first day and the last day of school to compare.  Here are the first day pics.

Let's hope the rest of the school year goes as smoothly:)

Back from Vacation

We are back from our vacation in Ocean City and I hope I have lots of good pics to scrap with, then we spent the weekend in Roanoke with my in-laws, the kids are staying there another week and we will meet them halfway to pick them up on Sunday.  Will post pics soon.

Birthday Boy

Ok, so I am really behind, since his birthday was the 15th, but better late than never.  On their birthday

the kids always get to pick where they want to go out to dinner, for the third year in a row Gavin had picked
Edo, a Japanese habatch restaurant, they love to watch the food being cooked and on you birthday they either bring a dragon mask to your table and let you try it on, or they take a photo and print it and sign it and you also get a pair of fancy chopsticks in their own drawsting bag.  This year we got the dragon.
Here are some pictures of our fun evening out.

They love to watch the big flame at the beginning when he first lights the table, but their favorite part is the onion volcano, and for the first time this year the kids actually tried to catch a piece of food in their mouths when he flips it to you, sorry there are not pics of that but it was fun!!

And here is a picture of the birthday boy -- after hearing the drums and the staff bringing in a special dessert and singing "Happy Birthday" he got to finally try on the dragon mask!!!

After that was all done and the food was cleared away he finally got to open some presents -- they included a bucket of sidewalk chalk, a catch ball game for outside and at the beach, a dinosaur activity book, and some other scratch off coloring design books.

That is all for now, will be back before we leave for the beach with some reviews and other updates.

Booland Designs is BACK

............ and remember I told you I had joined her team as a blossom,-- well here is her newest release

April Blooms--it can be found at The Digital Scrapbooking Studio or The Studio for short, kit name is linked.  You can also find clusters, styles, and others items for this kit there.

Here are 2 of the layouts that I have made from this kit

and

Bad month for me

Sorry there have been now new posting in such a long time, was sick for most of the month of July and also trying to run around for end of year meeting for school and dance, recital, dance nationals and find the kids a new studio. Am starting to feel better and all of the others is behind me now, so hopefully more blog posts will be showing up soon.