an interesting week...

on wednesday (our national holiday) i had lunch with some gals that i went to high school with and haven't seen in let's see, some 43 years! there was a school re-union, i believe it was about 10 years after we all left high school, but i didn't go, and then there was a class of '66 (our graduating year) re-union when we were all turning 50, but i didn't go to that one either. so this year we are all turning 60 and i finally caved and went and am very happy that i did. we had a great time reminiscing and telling some funny secrets of our years at john xxiii and asking what ever happened to so and so and where is he or she now and what are they doing? i was a little nervous about going because they were not the girls that i was most chummy with, because they were in the other class, but you would have thought so if you saw my welcome. it was as though we have been friends for all these years. and for 60 years old, we are like fine wine, we all aged pretty darned good, even though i do say so myself!!! i plan to do a layout about it, so hopefully they all won't mind if i post it and you can see for yourselves.

when i got home laura, don and justin were here for a swim so that was a nice home coming!

yesterday justin was here and we spent the day in the pool just to stay cool and tonight i get to see elki & zoe because it's lisa's birthday, so dom is taking her to a birthday dinner while i babysit.

what could be better than that, to see all my family this week and some really old friends too!

the weekend is over and...

i managed to finish 2 layouts friday night before elki came to sleep over at her 'nana's' on saturday! she has been asking for a long time, but when we tried it before, she always ended up going home because she wanted her 'maman'! we had a great time together, swimming, reading stories on the swing and painting her finger and toenails.

this first layout i started sometime during the week, so it was just a matter of sticking it down. elki got ahold of my camera a few weeks ago and went around her backyard taking photos of everything and so i of course, thought it would be a great subject for a layout!




and this one is don's loves at his age right now and came together quite quickly since i am doing them basically the same way!

continuing with 2 more 'age loves' layouts

i just made it under the wire with lisa's, since her birthday is in a week! as i said before, i found her list in a book i borrowed when we went to florida, so she started me on this 'love' lists at their present ages. i used 5 x 7's on both of them, so that i could use them for the a.c. blog challenge this week too!

here is laura's and now i only have the 2 son-in-laws to do!

i had lunch with my sister-in-law on a monday a couple of weeks ago and she said 'out on monday, out the rest of the week'! i had never heard that before but man oh man it happened that week and this week is shaping up to be the same, too funny!

here is another christmas layout, doesn't look like it eh? it started out being for a call, but i trashed that idea and just made it for the heck of it, because i could not follow the requirements for the call.

well i think i'm done with my christmas layouts now, moving on!!!

a series of layouts

i've been working on these for a few weeks and i plan to make everyone in the family one, but i'm missing a few photos to continue!

while i was in florida reading a book that lisa had lent me, i came across a little piece of paper with her loves at her age right now and i thought that this would make a great page, so there will be more along the way, these are just the ones i've finished so far. of course zoe can't talk yet, although she thinks that she can, so i've listed some of the words that she says at the moment!

weekend layouts

since it was such a crappy saturday and reg went to play golf in the rain, i ended up scrapping my day away and ended up with 2 completely different layouts.

this first one of elki, the artist, being so serious and oblivious to her photo being taken, came together quite quickly, and i even used up some of the old mme borders which i have had so much trouble using in the past because of their cream color!

and then i did this clean and simple one, go figure!!!