Happy Wednesday

It's a gorgeous very early Wednesday morning (4:47am, to be precise). I'm going to go for a run in a minute but waiting for a little more light. I'm really dreading the winter and getting back on the treadmill for my long runs. Ugh...so I guess I'll enjoy it while I can.

Last night we spent a little time outsite with a few neighbors and my good friend Susie showed me a thank you card she made for her mother-in-law using Storybook Creator Plus. It was beautiful. I asked her to send it to me to share. She's not a "scrapbooker" but she said it was so easy and it looks awesome. I told her it was really nice to see a different side to the tools, it's doesn't always have to be "kiddie". Here it is:

When I got home, another friend had made me a personal Thank you also using SBC for lending her our "bumbo". It was adorable and I loved that it was made just for me! I might scan that one in for you to see.

Well I'm off to run...have a great day!

Happy Birthday Laney Cegielski

Summer days are so fun when filled with friends and family. My good friend Mandy Birdwell photographed my whole family today. Mandy does an amazing job and is an amazing friend! I'll post her blog on my favorite sites. August 24th marks 40 years of marriage for my parents. They wanted some updated photos. My mom has asked me to assemble a scrapbook for them of the past 40 years in summary. It's been a large, but fun task to take on. I'm about 80% done. So you know what I'll be doing in my free time.

After the pictures we drove to Wisconsin for an outdoor 1st birthday party for my neice Laney. She is a cutie!

Dan's (my husband) job was just reduced to 4 days a week for at least 3 months. It will be a bit of a financial strain but we staying positive in the fact that he didn't get laid off and now gets 1 day a week home to spend with the kids. I'm hoping to keep Fridays off still too.

I received my first page to share created by Angel Leckner using StoryBook Creator Plus. She has a 3 year old girl and 1 year old twin girls. Talk about busy!! But she's loving how quick and easy it is. She also completed a storybook of a trip to visit her mom with her 3 year old this spring. She shared the book with me and it's incredible, especially how much she journaled. She ordered one for her daughter and for her mom. Her mom loved it so much she had the "good tears". I love to hear those stories. Here's one of the pages she shared with me.

Welcome to my blog!

I've been meaning to do this for a long time. A great place to share all the many things that my and my family have going on right now. I am a Creative Memories Consultant, focusing in Digital Scrapbooking. It's a fun, easy, quick way to preserve your memories. Contact me if you're interested in learning more about this! I'd love to get you started too.

Here's an invite to Jack's 6th birthday party coming up in August. Just a sample of the many, many things that you can do with this. I'm going to challenge all of my digital clients to send me their favorite pages. I'll be sharing them here.