Goal Met!

As of this moment, I have achieved my scrapbooking goal of being "caught up" to two years behind in the family album! Of course, I had initially wanted to reach this goal a month ago, but better late than never, I suppose. I scrapped Halloween 2010 today, so I made it just under the wire.

In other news, I finally finished reading Les Miserables! I can't believe it took me ten weeks to read to read one book (okay, with four or five other books interspersed). I have stuck to reading lighter fare since finishing it. I will try to take a break from some more intensive reading for a little while to make some headway on the 2010 scrapbook.

After I scanned the batch of pages below, I went ahead and laid out the rest of the pages for the 2010 album. I can see the light at the end of it now. I think I only have nine layouts left to complete the album, so if I can keep some motivation up, I can get it finished in a week or two (and hopefully not four or five or more...). I already decided that the next project will be going back to the boys' albums. I realized that theirs are now officially a year behind. I need to get theirs caught up, since I use them to jog my memory when I get around to mine.

I'd also like to get started on my 2011 Disney Cruise album. I'm telling myself that won't be as major of an undertaking as the 2010 Disney World album was. For one, I have the experience of a "big" project under my belt. Also, more importantly, I didn't take as many pictures on the cruise as I did at The World, so there is less to work with. What brought this on is I'm fantasizing about another Disney cruise. Actually, I keep debating between a cruise and Disney World. It's still fantasy at this point, but even in my fantasies I know that both is not an option!

Here are the pages I've thrown together over the last month. I keep saying I need to post them more frequently instead of in large batches, but I never seem to manage it. If the next post isn't for another month, I hope it will be the last of the 2010 pages.

Papers: Bazzill, Paper Studio
Cricut Cartridge: Opposites Attract

Papers: DCWV
Tags, Stickers: Making Memories
Ribbon: Offray
Punch: EK Success

Papers: DCWV
Punch: Fiskars
Balloon: Karen Foster

Papers: DCWV
Cricut Cartridge: All Mixed Up

Papers: Provo Craft, DCWV
Cricut Cartridge: George and Basic Shapes
Punches: Fiskars, EK Success
Stamps: PSX
Sticker: SRM

Papers: DCWV (including some OLD stuff)
Cricut Cartridge: Alphalicious

Papers: DCWV

Cherry Pie and Disney Scrapbooks

Birthday Season is over for another year in our house. We now officially have a nine-year-old and a six-year-old, with the six-year-old celebrating his birthday on 10-10-10. My family was in town for the weekend, so it was a whirlwind of activity. They actually left on Sunday morning, so my in-laws (who are local) took us out to dinner to celebrate. The birthday boy wanted to go to IHOP for dinner, so IHOP it was. Really, who can say no to breakfast for dinner anyway? What was more unusual is that he requested a cherry pie for his birthday "cake." He was so excited about the pie prospect, but admitted to me the next day that he really didn't like it much. As it turned out, it was the first time he had ever had cherry pie, which I suspected and was why I was surprised that's what he chose. I have to give him props for trying something new, though, and on his birthday no less.

With Birthday Season over, I am going to try and get back into scrapbooking mode. Recently, I've been working on my son's Disney World pages from our first trip this past April. Here's what I came up with for his Magic Kingdom layout:

Next I need to do my older son's pages. The trouble is, by working on this Disney stuff, I have caught the bug for another trip already. This morning, while the youngest was at school, I wasted what could have been valuable scrapbooking time researching 2011 rates for a repeat spring break Disney trip. My husband, who works at home on Tuesdays, was no doubt irritated at my research, getting excited for a trip that will likely not occur.

For now, I need to steer clear of vacation planning and simply get back to scrapping the vacation photos. And who knows? Maybe I'll need to clear the Disney 2010 photos out of the way to make room for the 2011 ones? I won't hold my breath...