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With only a few weeks till school begins I thought I would put together the ABC's of our summer.  This year we really did a lot of fun things together as a family and I am so grateful for all the fun times we shared!
A - Animals 

B - Beach

C - Chicago

D- Deer

E - Egg whites

F - Fireworks

G - Gifts

H - Hilton Head

I - Ice Cream

J - Jury Duty

K- Kit club

L...

Here's the mini book I made that was inspired by the Maya Road album, October afternoon rub ons and of course the Scenic Route paper.
Recently I had made a mini about myself so I decided to make this one about Chelsea. I love how you can create a mini book with inspiration from a group of pictures or from a group of thoughts.  This one began with the rub ons and went from there.
 Now I just need...

and Anniversary to Lisa and Terry...
Last night we went to dinner with family and friends to celebrate Ben's birthday and Lisa and Terry's anniversary.  
Lisa says you never know how long you're going to have someone in your life, so you should always celebrate it when possible and I couldn't agree more.  That is how our birthday traditions began when we celebrated Ryan's last birthday by going...

 
And...here we go!
1. Hilton Head Island is my favorite summertime getaway.
2. My favorite John Hughes movies is Ferris Bueller's Day off.
3. Scrapbook paper is something I love to touch, I know, really...
4. The full moon can be creepy.
5. Time for my morning coffee right now.
6. When daylight fades we know winter is approaching. 
7. And as for the weekend, tonight...

Made another mini over the past few days.  Part of that list I made the other day when I looked at my stash and said I need to get creating!

I will post more pictures later...
Left early this morning to visit Trish and do some shopping at her garage sale and then it was off to Ikea with Val and the kids.

I've never been to an Ikea before, but let me just say.... I will be back!

You could...

It's very hard to have a simple, uncomplicated good time with a narcissist. Except for odd spells of heady euphoria unrelated to anything you can see, their affective range is mediocre-fake-normal to hell-on-Earth. They will sometimes lie low and be quiet, actually passive and dependent -- this is as good as it gets with narcissists. They are incapable of loving conduct towards anyone or anything,...

Things to do in the next 4 days
 Finish another mini I put together after going through my scraproom and realizing I need to start using all this stuff!
 do some shopping at Ikea
 Hit up Trish's garage sale
 Finish cleaning my scraproom
 Put together projects to do for gifts
 clean kitchen counters (how does this stuff pile up?)
 Shinto for dinner! yeah!!
 Finish reading one...

My first time being called for jury duty and I wasn't sure what to expect, but I was up for the adventure!
The day began when I arrived at court at 8:30 am, went through security, signed in and received my $10.  I then was told to go into the court room and sit in the one of the last three rows.  After a few moments the bailiff came in and let us know the procedure of how things would be happening,...

Well as of tonight it wasn't cancelled so tomorrow morning I have jury duty

It's Monday and back to our routine of summer after spending the weekend in Chicago.  Tomorrow I have jury duty, it is my first time going so I'm kind of excited about it.
Some of my favorite pictures from our weekend in Chicago

Seeing the Blue Man Group

Pizza at Giordano's

Navy Pier

Finding the beach in Chicago!

The Bean at Millennium Park (after it was just washed)
Did you...