Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas

I used a great sketch from Sketch~N~Scrap.

Maestro

In Cub Scouts, we are at an age where the boys need to help lead meetings.  So my son picked the Maestro Achievement.  We went to see the local orchestra perform.  He also help me put together packages for each boy to pick out and assemble an instrument.  Then they all got to play some songs together with there new instruments.  A lot of work but a lot of fun!!!

Challenges: Scrapbook.com - September Scrap With Your Scraps and Sketches In Thyme

Little Things

My aunt and uncle drove 2,000 miles to come visit us.  My grandmother loves to give us random little things and because they drove they could bring us all kinda of things from back home. I love it!  I miss it!  It's not the stuff, at all, its the fact is she sees things in her home or in public and pick it up and offers it to us.  I have so many memories of this. This photo is the joy of my daughter experiencing some of these little things that she hasn't gotten since we left California, at that time, 4 years ago. 

Challenges:  Sketch~N~Scrap and Scrapbook.com - Sticker Challenge

Christmas Concert

Christmas concert for the middle school band.  This was my daughters first concert.  It was a fun experience for her and for us. 

Challenges: Use Your Stuff, Lasting Memories Layout Challenges and Scrapbook.com

Root Beer

We went out to dinner and I let my kiddos have an old fashion root beer in glass bottles.  Mind blowing experience!!  They loved it so much we brought the bottle home, washed them out and they are keeping them on shelves in their rooms. 

Challenges: Sketches In Thyme - Sketch #386 and Scrapbook.com - August JOURNALING Challenge

Cub and Family

Each year we get to attend Cub and Family which is a whole weekend camping, shooting bb guns, shooting arrows, camp fires and so much more.  All siblings get to attend in the activities too. Makes for a fun and adventures weekend. 

Challenge: Sketch~N~Scrap

Cross Country

These are from his two cross country meets for his elementary school.

I used this great sketch from Sketches In Thyme.  Sometimes I like to create my own and sometimes its nice having a starting point.