Project Life 2016: Week 19

Despite the pretty pink flowers in the photo below, it SNOWED later in the week. Sunday to be exact. We woke up to quite a bit of snow in the air. And it snowed all day, but it didn't stick. Snow in the middle of May! I didn't take a picture, but took note.

Project Life 2016: Week 18

Lately I haven't been finishing a full spread in one sitting. It's been taking a couple of days. One day I get the pictures and maybe some paper in place and the next day I work on it, I finish it. I'm hoping during the summer months of easier days, I will be able to start working on 2011.

Project Life 2016: Week 17

We spent a good amount of time outside this week and one day included a slithering adventure!

Project Life 2016: Week 16

During this week, I went to my sixth Original Women's Conference in Rockford, IL. In years past, I was normally trying to get good pictures but then ended up not liking the quality. So I think beginning last year, I wised up. I enjoyed the conference, took pictures with my people, and then took screen shots from Instagram of key conference moments. I made sure to show that it wasn't me who took the photos and give credit to whom credit is due. ;) Plus it also documents bits of social media that I'm OK with. And there you have it - week 16.

Project Life 2016: Week 15

We are loving the warmer weather of spring where we don't have to bundle up and have on as many layers of clothing. As pictured below, the kids are loving their new outside play dishes and kitchen utensils.

Project Life 2016: Week 14

I played around with some different photo sizes but none of them were "speaking" to me. So I settled with a tried and true, clean line look. I always seem to gravitate back to that which is totally fine by me.

Project Life 2016: Week 13

After I completed this spread and was ready to post it, I realized there were two photos I wanted to include. I forgot about them because of how this spread is divided by two months - March and April. I keep all of my photos grouped by month as well. But as I thought about how I already had my spread complete, I would leave it be. It was ok that another snowy picture wasn't included - even though it could have been the last. Sometimes it's hard for me to let that go because of the need I feel to include a little bit of everything that happened in a week. But, I'm moving on! 

Isn't that caterpillar picture so cool?!

Project Life 2016: Week 12

This was another week with not many photos to show. However, when that happens, I'm able to enlarge pictures. I like doing that and it's a rare treat.

Project Life 2016: Week 11

For a few weeks (starting around week 11) I started getting out of the habit of paying attention to taking photos. By the end of a week, I would realize I didn't have much to show for that week. I'm not sure how I fell out of it, but I'm working to get back to being more "with it". There's a balance that's needed for being in the moment and cherishing that yet also trying to document it.

Project Life 2016: Week 10

I think we are finally done with snow for now - April 12. It's been crazy. Snow, melts, rain, snow, melts, rain. But it's suppose to start warming up now. We normally like snow however we are ready for a steady spring.

Project Life 2016: Week 9

• Ten year old pictures ... three months late. Oops. 
• I normally have a bowl of peanut M&Ms and get weirdly excited when new colors come out for the changing seasons - like these spring time colors. 
• Oh, and I turned 33.

Project Life 2016: Week 8

Winter Storm Petros, donuts, basketball, and family time round out this week. 

Project Life 2016: Week 7

I almost had this spread done when I was looking through my DayOne app where I record our daily happenings and any pictures that go along when I spotted a picture I hadn't included. Somehow it wasn't even in that month's folder on my computer. It's the photo of the kids in the pines with the "week seven" stamp on it. I'm not sure how that picture got missed when transferring photos from my phone to the computer, but I'm sure glad I caught it and was able to save it from my app to be used in this spread. Technology is amazing in more ways than one! I love that photo because it's now the only one that shows the kid's "snowcakes" before the warm weather melted all of them.

One of my favorite colors is green. I had a red heart paper that I was thinking about one day and thought that I should make the hearts green just for fun. So in this spread, I did that. I really like being able to change the color in something to go with what I have in mind. I'm hoping to incorporate more green in my spreads. 

Project Life 2016: Week 6

The cast of the old and new Star Wars came to visit this week! Who is who?!

One of my new favorite pictures is the big one of the kids playing in the pines. ♥♥♥

Project Life 2016: Week 5

Golfing in February, snow, kids drinking beer... (what?)

Project Life 2016: Week 4

Lately I haven't been able to carve out as much scrapbooking time as I would like or as much as I'm used to doing. My schedule has been off and I'm hoping to get it back to what works well for all of us.

I'm really liking the colors in this spread. I've been picking up some fun quotes through different people and sites I follow on Instagram regarding family, homeschooling, etc. I'm looking forward to including more of those quotes in the spreads to come. I like having one quote per spread as it gives you a little nugget to consider.

Project Life 2016: Week 3

Normally my spreads have a decent amount of color but this one is pretty basic. For now, it'll stay as is. I haven't been this far behind in a current year of Project Life and I'm hoping to change that soon. ;) I truly enjoy working on it.