Project Life 2015: Road Trip Title Page

With my one page spread from the last post, I needed another one page spread for the facing page.  Even though we had been "on the road", so to speak, since Thursday, Sunday was the official start to the road trip with my mom and dad.  I decided to separate out this portion with a title page.  Plus, after I laid out the photos I wanted to use for these summary pages, I ended up with an even number.  So I definitely needed this extra page.

Here is my title page with a little tease of what's to come...

(Storyteller Kenner again)

Project Life 2015: A Christmas Story House

On Saturday we started the morning at Cedar Point.  We thought we would spend most of the day there before heading on to Cleveland.  But the kids were about amusement parked out by that time.  We were there Thursday afternoon until closing, Friday from early entry (we stayed on property) to closing (plus we got fast lane passes that day so they rode a ton of rides) and then early entry again on Saturday.  They decided to get in a couple favorites early and then finish up with all of the water rides they had skipped the previous two days.  So, all of that rambling just to say, that we got to Cleveland much earlier than we had anticipated.  With time to kill, we looked up some options for a local attraction to visit and unanimously decided on A Christmas Story House!

We had a lot of fun and were glad we decided to check it out.  And now we have some new things to look for when we watch the movie at Christmas time!

Here is my one page spread (Storyteller Kenner again with some Shelf Elf thrown in)...

Project Life 2015: Cedar Point

This was a fun couple of days!  The kids LOVE roller coasters and Cedar Point has some great ones.  If you look on the last spread I posted, you'll see Alex sitting at a desk.  The first thing he did when we got to the hotel was map out every single roller coaster and the plan to ride them all.  And, by the end of the trip, the kids had accomplished that goal (save one... it was one of the true kiddie coasters though, they rode one of them to recreate an old photo from our first trip there when they were 3 and 5, but decided they were okay with skipping the last one).

I took a ton more photos that will go in our trip album, this is just an overview of our fun for the PL album.

Here are my Cedar Point pages (another spread with Storyteller Kenner)...

Project Life 2015: Week 30, part 1

And finally a spread where both kids are in the same place again!

Alex was home from the mission trip and Clara was just home.  It was a short week at home though, as by Thursday we were on the road again.  This time to Sandusky, Ohio for a few days at Cedar Point (those pages tomorrow).

Here is part one of week 30 (made with Storyteller Kenner)...

Project Life 2015: Justice Journey

Another set of pages completed in "get it done mode".

I had been dragging my feet on these for a while.  Putting together pages for events I wasn't part of and that draw photos from multiple sources is something I tend to put off.  I had photos from Alex, some from the youth group's fb page and some from the youth leader's blog.  Supposedly, there was a drop box account set up for all of the kids to share their photos in, but my son never accepted his invitation to join :-/  I finally gave up and decided that I had enough photos to finish up the pages.

It's really strange to look through Alex's photos and see what he found interesting.  One of the museums they went to had a needlepoint exhibit (photos are on page 2) and he must have taken 20+ photos of the pieces... but very little of anything else the rest of the trip.

Anyway... here are the pages for the Justice Journey...

 

 

 Storyteller Asher collection by Just Jaimee.

Project Life 2015: Week 28, part 2

Well, I guess if you wait long enough between blog posts, you fill in the blanks!

I got motivated this week to finish up all of my skipped pages for book 2.  Mainly due to how my workflow goes.  Once a book is off to print, I back-up all of my PSD files to our cloud and delete them off of my laptop (I like leaving them there until printing in case I notice any typos, but once it's been printed, I've learned to let them go).  I need to start working on some holiday gift photo items and I NEED to reclaim that space on my hard drive in order to get them done.  So now I can!

Pretty simple, I was in "get it done mode".  I love playing with pages when I have the time (and inspiration) but when it comes right down to it, getting it done trumps pretty every time.  :-)

Here is the last of our week 28.  Clara was in Michigan with her grandpa and grandma (and cousin), while Alex was home in Chicago before leaving on the mission trip...

 Made with Storyteller Kenner by Just Jaimee.

Project Life 2015: Week 29...

Moving right along.  Oh wait.  You should probably have some background for this to make sense.  If I would have actually finished the rest of week 28, you would have known that Clara was home from Michigan and Alex had just gotten on a bus to go on the Justice Journey with church.  This is where another one of my skipped weeks comes in... I have Clara's week 29 done, but I haven't even touched Alex's week on the trip.  Sigh... I'd actually forgotten that I still had that week to do as well.  I haven't even rounded up the photos yet.

So, let's focus on what I have gotten done instead :-)  Here's Clara's week 29...

Supplies (links on pinterest)...

Project Life 2015: Week 28...

Okay... so here's the deal.  To keep momentum going with posting, I've been scheduling posts in advance when I get a few extra minutes.  I set up yesterday's post several days ago and, although I had extra time, I didn't set up week 28 because I only had it half done.  I figured that this would motivate me to finish up the other two pages that go with this week so I could keep up my posting momentum.  Um.. well... nope.  I still haven't touched the other two pages.  But I decided to keep up with the posting, so here is half of week 28...

The break makes sense though.  The rest of this week is really just two one page spreads.... one of Alex's week at home and Clara's week at her grandpa and grandma's house.  I WILL get to them... eventually.

Supplies (links on pinterest)...

Project Life 2015: 3rd & 4th of July

Clara and I ended up leaving California a day early so we could make it to Michigan in time for the 3rd of July celebration at Crystal Mountain.  I'm so glad we did!  Alex showed up on the 4th with grandpa and grandma, so we were back together as a family for a couple of days before Clara left with grandpa and grandma for her week with them.  I tell you, there was a lot of coming and going this summer!!

Supplies (links on pinterest)...

Project Life 2015: Week 27 (sort of)...

Can you spot the error?

Yup... this week illustrates one of the dangers of being behind and working out of order... numbering your weeks wrong.  Never fear, the original has been changed and so has the one that I uploaded to my Shutterfly book, I just never got around to changing my "saved for the web" version.  Actually the biggest issue with keeping things straight at this point in time, was having a divided family and trying to keep that organized.  I had two kids in two different states, doing totally different things.  I decided the way I wanted to handle this was for each kid to have their own spread.  Since I felt like I starting a whole new week, I labeled it as such, which is how this ended up being a week ahead.  Clara's spread for week 27 is one of the ones that I skipped.  I need to go back to it, I just haven't mustered up the motivation to order the pictures from her dance nationals (the reason we were in CA) yet.

Supplies (links on pinterest)...

Project Life 2015: Week 26...

From coast to coast.  On Sunday, we flew home from NYC and on Friday, Clara and I were on a plane to California.  I love to fly, so this was a real treat!  (that last sentence should be read with sarcasm)  The rest of this week for Clara and me can be found in this post.

 Supplies (links on pinterest)...

Project Life 2015: Week 25...

This was the week of our first trip of the summer.... our trip to NYC.  I have brief one page summaries for each day, because on my massive to do list is to make a separate NYC album to go along with the travel journal that I've already completed.  I'm hoping it actually comes together, but with some of the holiday gift projects I've got to get started on, I might not get to it until after the first of the year.

 Supplies (links on pinterest)...

Project Life 2015: Week 24...

This week ended up with a lot of pages.  Recitals will do that to you.  Since I've come to grips with the fact that I do no other scrapping, I have a hard time leaving any photos out.  But I'm okay with that.  I'm sure one day I'll appreciate having all of our photos basically in one place.

Supplies (links on pinterest)...