Catching Up...

..in life and on this little blog.  Sometimes I just let all the little things in life pile up and then I have a day or two of total freak-out.  So then I step back, try to get those little things done, and then I start to feel better.  I am not done catching up, but hopefully in another day or two I can get up and not have the guilt hanging over me.  I hate that!  For some reason BIG projects are so much easier for me to do.  But the little things...yea, well, I just let them go.  Day after day after day.  And then I start the feel the weight.  Ugh.  So much I need to change about myself...

Anyway, I feel like I have missed so much on this blog too.  So much to say, to report.  So please let me indulge you in a little bit of total randomness.

Have you SEEN this?  Can you just say WOW....$1000.  A prize like no other.  I guess I moved to Scrapbook Graphics too early....now I can't participate!  {{insert loud cries here!}}  Oh well.  Can't wait to see everyone's work.  And there will be other prizes during the competition.  Lots of fun goodies, oodles of talents, and  whole bunch of inspiration.  To find out more about it and to register, go HERE.

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I just got some really good news last night!  Scrapbook Pictures is having an INCREDIBLE sale.  Their 8x8's are only $.99!  That is HALF the normal price! I have to admit that I have no printed ANY of my LO's.  Last summer I bought a bunch of albums for them but never printed.  The price just always scared me.  After all, I do scrap a lot :)  But it isn't getting cheaper at the rate I scrap.  So, with this sale I need to get A LOT done.  Probably not all of them, can't afford that, but I will make a dent.  Yea!  I am so excited!

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So, for the past few month of having my Rebel XTi I haven't been that impressed.  My old camera, a high-end point and shoot took really amazing photos (outdoors).  It wasn't a dSLR but it had a great Leica lens.  Anyway, I got my Rebel, and although it has been nice, I wasn't thrilled.  I thought that I just didn't know how to use it.  My pictures were turning out pretty dark.  The auto mode was awful and although I use the AV mode mostly, and know how to make sure my exposure is correct, I was still getting dark pictures.  As I have learned more about my camera I was becoming more and more convinced that maybe something was wrong with my camera, and not me.  I talked to a friend last week and asked her if I could use hers to test it against mine.  Well, she wrote me yesterday to tell me that she has found out that it is a common problem with the XTi. Underexposed photos by about 2/3 a stop.  They can be fixed fairly easily, especially if I shoot in RAW, but seriously, who wants to fix every photo?  So, sad as I am to say it, my little camera is going to have to go back to the Canon factory to get fixed.  People have had luck with Canon adjusting the software that is INSIDE the camera.  Now I am soooo glad that I haven't sold my Panasonic yet.  I would be camera-less.  NOT a situation I want to be in.

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Ready for some LO's?

Jason went to bed early last night and so after a day of working and being on my feet I decided to enjoy a nice long scrapping session.  I caught up on my "Journaling my year" and did some other stuff.  Here is some of it...

Nothing hard or complicated.  Just getting the memories and the stories down. 

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Busy week ahead...

Today: 
Caleb's speech evaluation. 

Jason gets done with work at 4:00 (instead of 6:30).  Maybe a nice family dinner and a trip to the fitness center.

Sunday :

We go HERE

Monday:

Jason's parents come for the week

Tuesday:

Levi's first birthday.  I could cry!

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Well, there is lots more to say but it will have to wait for another day.  Need to keep checking those little things off my list.  Hope that you have a great day!

Comments

[Liz]

Hi. Layouts are great! I think you would so win the QUEEN of the crop seriously!!! Have a wonderful day!!

[leslie]

Once again you rock on getting so many layouts done...thanks for the heads up on the $.99 sale - I haven't printed any of my layouts either (other than the calendar pages I did with your templates and I just had color copies made of those:)....

But hey - don't print the "unedited us" I think there's a typo - famuly:)

Have a great day!

[MandaKay]

Glad you are knocking things off your list!!! I am even more glad you got to sit and scrap! My Thur. and Fri. are ging to be used to knock things off my list (aka - clean) Love all your journaling - wow the last one of being a mom is phenomenal - a great LO with now photos - those can be so tough I think! What a bummer about your camera - I have head so much good about canon so that shocks me! Good luck getting it fixed - that is too much money to not be 100% happy with it!

PS - can't wait to find out if you are coming to MI - that would be great!

[Joy]

LOVE the first LO!!! The photo is soooo precious! And the journaling! Wow, it's like you expressed pretty much what I feel when I watch my DH with any one of my 3 girls. There really is just something special between a Daddy and his daughter.

[Rona]

awesome LOs....my fave has got to be all that journaling about how hard it is to be a Mama. EXACTLY how I feel sometimes! :)

And the one thing that jumped out at me from your post? I canNOT believe you don't have a printed copy of your layouts!!!!! They're too fantastic to just be kept in your computer!!! Ack! A waste, a waste!!! LOL :) But I do hear you about the cost of it all, eh? I try and do mine a little bit at a time so as not to shock dh ( and me) with how much I really HAVE to spend on getting it all into albums. :)

[Debbie Pearson]

I am loving every single one of your layouts. Fantastic journaling. I'm envious of all your family photos since I haven't taken hardly any yet this year (just lazy). I do believe I'll be scraplifting some of your layouts though. They are fabulous my dear. (You need to get these into a printed book like Shutterfly ;)