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Tuesday, January 27, 2009

week 5, page 1


Still plugging along w/ this awesome project and treasuring every minute that I'm capturing each day!

27 January 2009


27 January 2009

Gracie is the greatest a imitating what we do! So whenever I grab my camera, she has to get my phone and act like she's taking a photo, too, because she knows that my camera can take pictures. I just love this photo of me and Gracie, because it's just plain, silly!

Monday, January 26, 2009

26 January 2009

26 January 2009

Gracie and Mommy had a bowl of edamame today. It is one of our families favorite snacks! It is so good sprinkled with some kosher salt. We all can sit and eat it just like popcorn! YUM!

25 January 2009



25 January 2009

We woke up this morning to a magical world of white! 3 to 4 inches of fresh snow had our little part of the world under a beautiful blanket of snow.

Saturday, January 24, 2009

week 4, page 2

24 January 2009

24 January 2009

It's movie night! Joe picked up a couple of movies and we are going to watch them later tonight, after Gracie goes to bed. We love watching movies on our new projection TV!

23 January 2009

23 January 2009

One of our best finds after moving into our new house......La Casa Pizza. We absolutely love this pizza and it is always a special treat when we have it for dinner on the weekends!

Thursday, January 22, 2009

22 January 2009

22 January 2009

Gracie has discovered how much fun it is to play underneath the dinner table! She takes her toys and snacks under there and plays. Too cute!

21 January 2009

21 January 2009

Poor Joe! Now he has my cold and it turned into a sinus infection! 3 down.......3 to go!

Wednesday, January 21, 2009

self-portrait challenge LO


At the Weeds and Wildflowers Design forum there is a challenge to scrap a self-portrait so here's mine! I don't know what I think of the photo......I'm not used to being in any of the photos so it seems odd to have a layout w/ just a photo of me in it. But that was one of the big reasons for this challenge. Most of us are always behind the camera and never in the photos! I think this will be a great addition to my 365 because everyone will now know who was the one taking all of the photos for this project!

Tuesday, January 20, 2009

week 4, page 1

Wow! It feels great to be totally caught up w/ this project!

20 January 2009


20 January 2009

Today the 44th President of the United States was sworn into office and history was made.

(I'm not sure which photo I'm going to use! I like them both.......)

week 2, page 2

Oops! Almost forgot this one! This is week 2, page 2!

Monday, January 19, 2009

week 3, page 1


Looking at this now I just realized that I forgot to delete the template from this one! Oops! Will change that! lol

week 3, page 2


Yeah! I'm officially caught up!

19 January 2009

19 January 2009

Gracie got the biggest kick out of my putting her tights on her head today! She danced all around the living room and laughed and laughed. What a silly girl!

Sunday, January 18, 2009

18 January 2009

18 January 2009

Yeah! Play-offs were today and now we know who's going to the Super Bowl!

17 January 2009

17 January 2009

Our neighborhood movie theater has closed it doors for good. We are so sad! No more walks in the summer to go see a show!

16 January 2009

16 January 2009

Abby had two of her best buds spend the night and they had a blast being goofy girls!

Saturday, January 17, 2009

week 2, page 1


No soapbox speech w/ this one as to why I'm doing this....lol Just my latest layout!

God Bless,
di

Our Life in Photos- Dedication Page

I really wanted to have a dedication page for my project, so this is what I came up with today. I wanted people to know why I'm doing this. It's to honor the little things that make our days special. It's always those simple things that you remember when you're older and you think to yourself, "Oh! I remember doing that!". Keeping that in the back of my mind is helping me stay focused w/ this project.

It has been an absolute joy for me to take a photo a day of our seemingly boring life. When I first starting thinking about doing this I wondered if I was going to have something different to take a photo of each day. My days seem so much the same, how could anything special happen each day that would merit photo documentation? lol I get up every morning, fix Gracie and me breakfast, play with her all day, change a lot of diapers, fix lunch, play some more, hopefully get a nap in for Gracie, get in the car and pick up the kids from school, come home, start dinner, eat dinner, clean up, laundry, laundry, laundry scattered throughout all of that and then go to bed........Get up in the morning and repeat! But, my life isn't the same every day. Well, it is, but hidden among all of that boring stuff that I have to do every day are little blessings that make each day special. This project is helping me look for those blessings and to thank God for each and every one of them. Because those are the things that get me through the day and make each day precious!

God Bless,
di

Friday, January 16, 2009

week 1, page 2 layout


Yeah! I have my first week of my 365 done! Things are going pretty well as I learn little by little how to use PSE. I'm so new at this but I am very happy with how my layouts are turning out.

God Bless!
di

Thursday, January 15, 2009

week 1- page 1 layout


Here we go! My first layout for my 365! Everything is from the Weeds and Wildflowers Life 365 collection. I'm having a lot of fun with it and learning bit by bit as I play more with PSE.

God Bless!
di

15 January 2009

15 January 2009

You know it's cold when you step outside for 2 seconds and your nose hairs freeze! Burr!

Wednesday, January 14, 2009

14 January 2009


14 January 2009

I spent the day trying to get myself motivated to get more organized. There's so much to do each day & I'm just not getting it done. I really need to manage my time better so that I can be the best homemaker & mom that I can be!

13 January 2009

13 January 2009

We woke up to some curious, little paw prints on our front porch this morning. I'm guessing that this isn't our squirrel that lives in the tree in our front yard! Maybe a raccoon? Who knows!

Monday, January 12, 2009

free download from Becky Higgins blog

Be sure to go to Becky Higgins blog and download her free journal cards! They are super cute and can be used for any layout you do, 365 related or not! Thanks Becky!

Click here to go to her blog and page where you can download these journal cards

God Bless,
di

12 January 2009


12 January 2009

buuurrrrr.....We got hit with a bad, winter storm this afternoon and it was like a blizzard outside!

first page ideas

Here are a couple of ideas that I have read from various places on-line on what you can put on your first page, if you are starting with January 1st.......a lot of people are starting with Sunday, December 28th because it is what Becky Higgins suggested you do so that you start scrapping w/ a full week, instead of starting on a Thursday, January 1st.

  • New Year's resolutions
  • Goals for the year
  • A family photo
  • A single photo of each member of the family, pets, etc.
I'll add more as I find them!

God Bless!
di

organizing my photos for this project

I thought that I'd share real fast how I'm keeping my photos organized for this project. I have a digital camera so every day I upload my daily photo to my computer. I have my folders set up like this:

  • My Pictures folder
  • in My Pictures I have a "Project 365" folder
  • in the "Project 365" folder I have a "January" folder
  • in the January folder I have "365" folder and a "Blog" folder- this is where I have the photos saved.
I will have a folder in the "Project 365" for every month and in each month I will have a "365" folder and a "Blog" folder. In the "365" folder I have the edited photo from each day labeled by the day of the month and day of the week (Jan1, Jan2, etc.) and in the "Blog" folder each photo is labeled: Jan1_72, Jan2_72, etc. I did it this way because I have resized all of the photos that I'm posting on my blog to 72 pixels for better web viewing and also sized them down to 5x7 inches to help keep the file sizes down.

So that's how I have things on my computer and it seems to be working well for me. I also have the each photo saved in a corresponding folder for the month/year under the My Pictures folder as well.

I hope this explains (as well as I can) how I have my photos organized on my computer for this project!

God Bless!
di

11 January 2009


11 January 2009

I spent most of today trying to decide how to do my 365 album....traditional scrapping w/ paper or digital. After finding this super cute set especially for doing a 365 album on-line at Weeds and Wildflowers Designs, I decided to go digital!

10 January 2009


10 January 2009

We finally made it out to our new Books-a-Million tonight! We loved this bookstore in N. Little Rock when we were stationed at Little Rock AFB and used to go there almost every week! Gracie sure had fun looking at all of the magazines with Daddy!

9 January 2009


9 January 2009

After a treacherous drive on the interstate in high, gusting winds to pick the kids up from school one day, I noticed this warning in our recently purchased SUV. This was not too comforting of a thought on our way home!

8 January 2009


8 January 2009

Poor Gracie! She looked so pitiful today! She has such a bad head cold. Her little eyes were watering, her nose was running, she was sneezing like crazy and had a horrible cough. What a trooper!

Thursday, January 8, 2009

7 January 2009

7 January 2009

uuummmm.....curry. Cauliflower curry as a side with tonight's dinner of veggie curry. Homemade and delicious! Joe and I love Indian food.....can't say so much for the kids!

Tuesday, January 6, 2009

6 January 2009

6 January 2009-

Epiphany of the Lord

And going into the house they saw the child with Mary his mother, and the fell down and worshiped him. - Matthew 2:11

5 January 2009

5 January 2009

Abby and Gracie on Gracie's big (um, little) comfy couch! Abby had a fun evening playing with Gracie in the living room.

4 January 2009



Catching up......been sick these past couple of days with a horrible head cold........yuck....hence the
photo for the day. lol

4 January 2009

sniff. sniff. sniff. sniff. sniff. aaaahh-choooo! (blowing nose) sniff. sniff. sniff. sniff. - repeat every 5 minutes. Poor Mom!

Saturday, January 3, 2009

3 January 2009

3 January 2009

Wrinkly tub toes. How cute is this?

2 January 2009

2 January 2009

This is how we felt our entire drive home from Denver......we were nowhere!

1 January 2009

1 January 2009

Going up Pikes Peak on a Cog Train. 13,000 feet up was as far as we could go. It was too windy to go to the summit. Maybe next time!

31 December 2008


31 December 2008

We toured Broncos Stadium today! I think that I was the most excited out of everyone to be there! What a treat to go stand by the field!

30 December 2008


30 December 2008

On the road to Colorado across the frozen tundra. Wow, was it ever windy!

29 December 2008


29 December 2008

I was so proud of our tree this year! It was fun picking out all new ornaments in a totally different color scheme. It looked so beautiful from outside!

28 December 2008



28 December 2008

We had to go buy some duffel bags for the kids to pack their things in for our trip to Colorado and that required a trip to the sporting goods store and outdoor mall. I just love these huge ornaments that they had outside everywhere! Gracie got a kick out of them, too!

a place for my Project 365

So all of the big hype right now is Becky Higgins' Project 365 and I just had to join in on the fun. I do not have her kit.......it's sold out and I'm trying to decide if I really need it or if I can swing it on my own. Either way, I needed a place to help me keep track of my daily journaling and photos, so I decided to keep it here on a blog. Hang on and enjoy the ride with me through my crazy life!

p.s. I am starting with December 28 so that I will have a whole week for my first and remaining pages!


God Bless,
di