Project Life- Catch up on Weeks 11, 12 and 13

Wow!! Three weeks behind on this project. I knew it would eventually happen, when life just caught up with me and I just couldn’t get to everything going on around me. But I am trying really hard to get back in gear. 

One of the reasons why I even dared to post my Project Life weekly pages to begin with, was to  make me accountable to get them done! If not, it would be way too easy to just not work on them, so I am going to keep to it as best as I can. 

Having said that though, I don’t want to bore anyone with a super long post describing each of the last 3 weeks.  I’m going to try to quickly just show the layouts for each week and touch on something different that I did for each one.

Week 11

This week was full of some fun things including a Bachelor Viewing party, another b-day lunch, the picking of a New Pope, a photo shoot of sweet baby Zion, a Runyon hike with the BFF, Mikey's Mission Museum presentation, and Jerry's gig. It also includes an 8x10 insert with a collage of pictures and a single favorite 8x10 picture from our visit to the Getty.  I didn’t do much decorating, but I did use some washi tape, and and Ali Edward skill of writing straight on my pictures for a cool change and I really liked that. I also decided to journal using Word and then print it on card stock to be able to fit more in and still make it look neat.

Left side with insert

Also, If you look closely at the insert, you'll notice that I actually used my sewing machine to sew all the way around the picture using a cute star stitch. I've been wanting to do something like this for a while and I finally got my chance.

Right side with back side of insert

Week 12

March was proving to be an unexpectedly busy month.  This week was the last week before spring break, Jerry took me to my last b-day lunch for the year, Mikey found a new interest in hammers, nails and wood, and we had another birthday in our family. Christian turned 16 years old!!  And on Palm Sunday no less so it was a special day to say the least! He was woken up to the surprise of getting his own computer, and his reaction was priceless. He’s a good kid, and he’s been needing one and he’s not that far from college so we figured it be a good age to get him his own.  We had a family get together, with his favorite Chinese food for dinner, and it was a nice way to end the week and a great start to his Spring Break.

Spring Break was here and this year we were determined to make it count and have fun! It was nice to have the boys home, but we had a full week planned. It turned out to be College Tour week for our family (blog post is coming!). Christian had a full day out with his Upward Bound group on Tuesday to tour the campuses of Loyola Marymount and Pepperdine. Then from Wednesday - Friday, we went on the road with our dear friends, The Halaby’s to do our own College tour up northern California .  We visited UCSB, Cal Poly SLO and Stanford on Friday, and we made a pit stop at Pismo Beach.  This week I used collages of pictures we took of each school, and I am going to let Christian do most of the journaling to get his perspective/thoughts/comments about each school so he can look back on his own comparison when he actually decides where he wants to go later.

 Gosh it feels sooo good to be caught up!!! 

And that ladies and gentlemen, are the last 3 weeks of March pretty much in a nutshell! It was an exciting month, and April is just beginning so I'm hoping to get back on schedule for weekly posts...fingers crossed.


Either way, I'm heading over to The Mom Creative to catch up with the others as well.

From my corner to yours...Happy Wednesday!

A trip to the Getty...

So, its the beginning of April, the beginning of spring, and Easter is already behind us! Wow! But Spring means a fresh start and new beginnings. So having said that, I will be taking this new month to start over, and give my time schedule a clean slate.

But before I do that, I need to catch up on a few outings I've been wanting to share before it gets too late.  A couple of Saturdays ago Chris announced that he needed to do an extra credit report that entailed going to the Getty Museum. What??!! Of course, at the last minute and on a super busy day, but with Jerry working late anyway, we got the trip to work in just perfectly, and I was able to spend a beautiful Saturday afternoon with the boys at a beautiful museum.

 

The boys took these maps and figured out where they wanted to go. Mikey had been to the Getty before on a school field trip so he actually led us around.

Since Jerry couldn't make it and being that he's always looking for the teachable moment, he gave the boys an assignment of gathering information about any two pieces of art and to give him a report when they got back since he couldn't make it.  Danny picked the one of the left and Mikey picked the painting on right to report on. They took notes and totally gave Jerry a run down on the story behind each piece.

I loved the architecture and the abstract look of all of it..even the stairs!

This place was a land mine for picture taking practice (manual mode for me), 

and I wasn't the only one out there taking in every angle possible.

Johanne Vermeer- Woman in Blue Reading a letter

The museum had soo much to look at and of course each kid had his favorite thing, but it was all fascinating. I loved watching their reactions and hearing their comments. Mikey is always the most expressive and especially about art since its his favorite thing. He was talking 'texture' and 'rich colors', and 'just amazing' here and there. It was too cute. Chris just had a more mature look at art and had his favorite piece by Johanne Vermeer which he chose to write about for his extra credit.

And that garden!! 

I loved it and so did Danny. He loved the maze and kept trying to find ways to get to the middle. It was just very peaceful and it was nice to walk around in. And because of the fog, I couldn't help but feel like I was in a different part of the world. Just too cool!

Although it had been sunny in Valley, by the end of the afternoon, the fog had rolled in pretty heavily and so did the cold on this side of the hill, but it made the whole architecture look even 

more stunning and mysterious.

 

We actually didn't stay more than a couple of hours, but we felt like we had done soo much! Mikey and Danny had also taken advantage in the family area and Mikey made himself a mask that he chose to wear on the way home.

Again, I couldn't help but feeling like we had spent the afternoon somewhere very magical together, so we are definitely going back to take Jerry so he can share some of the magic with us.

I hope you enjoyed, and It feels so good to have caught up with you all today!

From my little corner to yours... Thanks for stopping by!