Project Life catch up Weeks 19 & 20...

Hi there! How was your Memorial Day Weekend??

I have to say that we really enjoyed and took advantage of ours. We did a little bit of everything- we relaxed, lounged, visited old friends, then we worked hard around the house, got quite of few things taken care of, saw lots of family, enjoyed lots of music and even some little league baseball.  My hubby was enjoying this weekend so much, he kept wanting to freeze time...no, he really did! But how? Impossible of course, but his childlike disappointment was heartbreaking. (I wish I could do that for you Babe!)  It was just a really nice weekend and we're always so grateful when they're that nice, and we're looking forward to the next one.

For now- we're on Week 22, but I will be bringing you up to speed on my Project Life's weeks 19 and 20 today.

Week 19- As I had mentioned in my previous PL post, weeks 18 and 19 ended up being one page layouts. Not a lot of pictures, but not a lot of stress...just the way I like it.  I am really enjoying making my weekly title cards by combining text on a picture that I'm not always sure how to include but want to get into my page somehow.

• This week included the boys 2nd week of TaeKwonDo and earning a few stripes. They were soo excited.
• I received my pretty Autism necklace I had ordered in the mail and I'm wearing it for my Danny.
• I registered for the Culver City 5/10K for Autism (check out my site here for more info or to donate)
• Mikey had a Gold Mining field trip at Riley's Farm
• Chris & I watched Silver Linings Playbook and we loved it! Super powerful and inspiring! Hence I had to include that picture as my title page this week!
• And we ended the week with a nice Mothers Day with my boys and spent time with both my Mom and MIL. 

 Week 20-  This week proved to be A LOT more photo driven than the weeks past, and I enjoyed it. Aside from using my new camera, I felt like I was actually more mindful this week about what I was taking pictures of and everything seemed picture worthy even including a new kitchen gadget that gave me some new organizational control of my drawers. Go figure!

 This Week included:

• A heat wave and some great water play for the boys,
• Starting my 5K training with the help of some phone apps and internet schedules
• I tried out a Banana Chocolate Chip bread recipe that turned out fabulous.
• Got my camera upgrade in the mail (soo excited) and tried it out the rest of the week on anything I could including some of Mikey's beautiful artwork and the rest of the week's pictures.
• Finally feeling the vibe and made Mikey's costumes for his drama production of the Lion King and I was excited to see how it came out.

This week's pictures worked out for me as it seemed like each of the boys got their chance to shine this week.

• Danny is really showing some nice talent in TaeKwonDo and the pictures I took really depict a focus I've never seen in him which makes me more excited than you could possibly understand. He is really enjoying this and that is awesome for us to see.
• Mikey had his Annual Project about Math Skills at school to present and it always amazes me to see just how much he get out of doing these projects. I love that it hones in on his presentation skills and he is always so good at this. I can see just how he will carry these skills out later in life.
• Christian had his final Cleveland High School Baseball game and we took advantage to take as many pictures of him in action as possible. We're not sure if he'll be playing baseball next year...High school baseball is just another beast all together and unfortunately,we can't say its been too positive an experience either for any of us, but more importantly for Chris so he might be moving on to something else. Jerry loves baseball so it was kind of hard, but it was important for me that he get to see his son play his final two games of the season. Christian will always be our little slugger though!

So that's it! I think I'm in a good spot now with catching you guys up, but I don't want to jinx myself. School is almost out so the next couple of weeks are going to be pretty busy so we'll see how it goes.

I'll be sharing my post on The Mom Creative  and from my corner to yours...Thanks for stopping by!

Currently...

Wednesday, May 22nd

 I am...

Sensing- that feeling that the school year is coming to an end and summer vacation is close at hand

Excited- because that means going back to the beach :)

Hoping- that Chris and Danny are having a good time on their respective field trips today

Looking back- at the money I've saved this week by using my coupons again! Love shopping smart!

Finished- cleaning up around my house, prepping dinner and feeling organized

Drinking- a Diet Peach Snapple...yumm

Watching-   Last night's episode of So You Think You Can Dance...this show just makes me HAPPY!

Dreaming- about how I should have been a dancer...Could it still happen? One day? ;)

Practicing- my photography with my new 40D Canon camera and getting excited about my results

Planning-  my Project Life pages for this week

Feeling-   grateful, energized and motivated about soo much in my life

Physically-  feeling really good with the 5k training I'm doing and going strong

Emotionally-   accepting that those who are choosing not be in my and my family's life (for absurd reasons) are the only ones loosing out

Reminding-  myself  that politics should never have anything to do with loving your family over everything! Common sense, right?

Letting go- and letting God 

Smiling- because I deserve to!


From my corner to yours...Happy Hump Day!!

Project Life Catch up- Weeks 16, 17 & 18

Well hello there everybody! Its been a while, but I am coming to you today to finally bring you up to date with my Project Life weeks 16 - 18. And it isn't that I haven't been religiously keeping up with my pages on a weekly basis because I have. Its just the small issue of sharing them with you on a timely basis that's the problem, as I am now in the middle of Week 21. Omg..is it possible we are almost half way through the year already??? Geez!

Anyway, here we go...

Week 16- This week continues Mikey's recovery from his eye. The picture on the left side was how he woke up on the Monday after, and the picture on the right page is his eye by Friday morning. What a huge difference a few days makes. Either way we were happy to see the swelling go down and his eye healing properly.  Come the weekend we had a visit with Jellybean, Danny and I enjoyed  a walk/run together, we went to see '42' with the cousins and the Titos, and finished of the beautiful Sunday afternoon with them at the park to end the week.

This week however was one of those historical weeks that I found impelling enough to include in our book even it was just a mention.  It was a crazy week in the news with the Boston Bombings, the Texas Explosion, and then the final capture of the Boston Bombers. No need to rehash any of that for you, but I wanted to document these times once again for the boys so they can remember where we were in our lives when these things happen.



Week 17- This week started a chain of eventful days, for me in particular, and they became the concentration of this week's pages. I started off the week doing some closet spring cleaning and got organized...amazing feeling. Thursday, was the surprise lunch Jessica had planned for me along with Maribel at Warner Bros. Studios which was just sweet and amazing all around.

Due to all the pictures, I had to add an insert so I took an 8x10 page protector and sewed it down with my sewing machine to perfectly enclose the 5x7 title picture I had printed up.

As I was getting this post done, however, I realized that I had accidentally doubled up on Week 16, So as you can probably see, I had to digitally enhance this picture and correct the number to make it Week 17. No big deal, I will get that page corrected on paper soon too, but I 'm glad I caught that now or else I would have been a week off by the end of the year. Phew!

The back side of the insert, I used to add pictures of our first adventure of babysitting Jellybean for Serg and Casandra. I also made a 5x7 collage to match the title page, and it worked out nicely. The right page is all about my week's next adventure of Betty and I meeting Becky Higgins along with the PL journal card she signed for me. Too much fun, and such a worthwhile trip to see her! See more about that night here.


Week 18-  This week included the last of the out of the ordinary events that took place for me over these last two weeks. Jerry happened to get tickets through work for us to go see Dancing With the Stars but didn't end up being able to go because of work. So I went with a dear friend, Geeta Brown who was able to escape with me early enough on Tuesday afternoon to get gussied up and go through the all the shenanigans of being part of a live audience for this great show. I love dancing and so this show happens to be one of my favorites, and the chance to go see it live was just so great. To see these dancers live was surreal and just amazing!!! AND as an added bonus we got to see Michael Buble perform!! What a treat...I love him!

Anyway, I would love a chance to dance on this show one day, and its on my dream bucket list to do so one day. How, when or why? I  really don't know, but I can dream can't I?

The  big difference with this week's page is that I only did the one page layout instead of two sides. Other than this DWTS event, I really didn't take a lot of pictures this week. It was one of those weeks where I just didn't pull out the camera phone much. So instead of stressing and trying to fill up a whole other page with just words I made the decision to leave it as one page and I'm happy I did. Its all about No Stress!

It happens to work out that Week 19 (which I'll be sharing next week) ended up being similar in that its just one side too. So I was able to get 2 weeks side by side. I love when things work out that way!!

So that's my wrap up for these weeks...see, not to painful, Lol. I've got a few more to catch you up on next week if you don't mind, but I'm done for now.

Thank you again for stopping by to check it out, and I am sharing these on The Mom Creative. 

From my corner to yours...I truly hope you all have a great weekend!!