catching up... part 1

I've titled this part one, because I'm pretty sure I have too many pages to include in just one post.  I don't know where the time has gone!  When I started this book, my plan was to have it done and printed in time to take it to Bearski with us over Memorial Day.  Well.... given that Memorial Day weekend is NEXT weekend... I just don't see it happening.  Unless I really get moving on it over the weekend.  So, since I'm so far behind on posting, I'm just posting pages with no credits.  If you want to know where I got something, just let me know and I'll be glad to pass that info along!

Here we go...

Project Life: Week 19

Ack!  I just realized that I never posted this week's pages!  This week has been a little crazy and off our normal schedule, so things got a little out of whack.  I was still on track with getting my pages done, just totally forgot about blogging them!  We're getting to that fun part of the year with all of the end of the school year happenings!  Gives me lots of fodder for PL pages, I just need to see how I do with keeping it all reigned in.  I've decided now that I really want to try to keep this year in one Shutterfly book instead of splitting it in two.  But that means not getting overboard with adding extra pages, since I think 120 is the max I can have (need to confirm that).  I'm going to be cutting it EXTREMELY close.

 Supplies:
Template by Amy Jaz Designs
G card - big bold letters by Emily Merritt
circle it no. 1 by Emily Merritt
4x6 collages by Designs by Lili

Supplies:
Template by Amy Jaz Designs
what a week card - true statement cards no. 2 by Emily Merritt
camera card - spring break cards by Emily Merritt
week card - this week cards by Emily Merritt
I Love This - expression bubbles by Emily Merritt
4x6 collages by Designs by Lili

All available at The Lilypad!

Project Life: Week 18

This was a really fun week to put together!  Sometimes I seem to go on photo overload and have tons of photos with very little embellishments... this time I felt like I had a good mix of both!

Supplies:
Template by Amy Jaz Designs
Title card - Titled Templates by Amy Jaz Designs
3x4 templates and 4x6 collages by Designs by Lili
Journal Card - one hundred percent by Emily Merritt
Thumps Up - thumbs way up by Emily Merritt
circle it no. 2 by Emily Merritt

Supplies:
Template by Amy Jaz Designs
3x4 template and 4x6 collages by Designs by Lili
This Rocks card - ahoy by Emily Merritt
Heart card - headed that way (recolored) by Emily Merritt
Epic card - make today amazing (recolored) by Emily Merritt
Happy Day card - true statement cards no. 2 (recolored) by Emily Merritt

I almost always center my supplies list, but today it appears that I am incapable of doing so!  Strange.  Oh well.... everything available at The Lilypad!

Silver Dollar City...

On our last full day in MO... we made our annual spring break trek to Silver Dollar City.

The kids were very excited to try out the new roller coaster, Outlaw Run, but wanted to warm up on Powder Keg first...

They headed straight to Outlaw Run from here and LOVED it!  I'm not sure why, but the only photos I took were with my phone, not my big camera.  I included them in my PL pages a few weeks back, but I'm not going to repost them here.

It was a great day with minimal lines...

Thunderation is an old favorite as it was the one of the first real roller coasters for them...

See... very short lines...

They used to let them stay on and ride again if no one was in line, but this time they had to get off and go around again. 

The mere sight of the barn swing makes me nauseous.  There's no way you would get me on there.... not because it looks scary, but because I'm pretty sure I would get sick :-(  Alex had never ridden it, until last summer when they went to SDC on a field trip with camp.  His cabin rode it together and this time he wanted to try it alone...

 Once was enough for him... lol!

After riding all of the dry rides a few times, they asked if they could get ponchos and ride the wet ones.  It was one of those in between spring weather days.. warm enough to be pleasant but not warm enough that you would want to get wet.  Which meant the water rides had absolutely no lines.

It was worth the $5 each to be able to comfortably ride a bunch more stuff!

The Great American Plunge...

No clue what this ride was called...

The Lost River...

After the wet stuff, they decided to go back to riding roller coasters.  Clara wanted to try Wildfire... so the three of us all rode it together.  Then she wanted to go again with her brother...

 Thank goodness for Clara's bright pink jacket and shoes... it makes her easier to spot!

Finally, we trekked over to the Grand Exposition for a ride on one of Clara's long time favorites... the swings...

We had a really good day!  I have to go back and officially count, but this may have been something like our kids' 10 year in a row of going to SDC!

the spring...

After the museums, we decided to go check out Stone Mill Spring...

The kids decided to see how cold the water was...

And then Alex ventured downstream a bit...

and had a bit of a "Lord of the Rings" moment...

He looks a little Gollum-ish here, no?  :-)