new pics to share

Hi everyone! Sorry I haven't updated this in a bit. The kids and I are back at home and attempting to get back into the routine of things. The changes on the house have been both good and bad. While I'm SO thankful to have gotten the housing grant that paid for all these improvements the contractor who performed the work was less than wonderful. So it's hard because I'm happy to have the improvements done but many of them weren't done correctly or as neatly as I would have liked. He was a bit of a careless slob and damaged both the new cupboards as well as the new countertop. :(

Plus the way things were written up in the contract isn't exactly what was done. And unfortunately Jason's being a bit of a butt and has told me to shut up and stop complaining. I wanted to take it up with the contractor and the man who heads the grant program but he told me to bite my tongue. So I did but I'm bitter about it. Not sure why I allow him to control me that way. Guess I'm just a wimp.

Anyway, I hope to put together a before and after mini album of the house projects soon. Julie and Mason are coming to stay with us for a while so I figure I'd probably better start that project AFTER that because I doubt I'll have much time for scrapping with 4 kids here. lol We also recently took what I'm calling a redneck roadtrip and I have pictures from that that I want to get scrapped too. Our July calendar is already filling up quickly so I'm guessing this month is going to fly by too. Never enough time.

I took Jenevieve out to the church camp to take some pictures the other night. I'll share a few of those on here. Trying to think if I've scrapped any new layouts. Hmm...Oh yeah! I have one I did of Jason and the kids that I did and I love how it came out. I used a kit by Kay Eflin called The Men In My Life. Awesome kit to work with! (available at http://www.kbandfriends.com/) Also did one of Jenevieve using a kit by Angela Sharrow called Star Spangled (great 4th of july kit) and one of my templates. Angela's kit is available at http://www.digitalfreebies.com/. I've done a few other layouts as well but nothing spectacular lately. Mostly all been quick, easy layouts.

Tomorrow is the 4th of July parade and Kyle's excited because he'll be riding on a float with the cub scouts. It's so fun seeing his enthusiasm in cub scouts. I hope it continues! Later this month they'll be doing an event where the boys will attend a local baseball game and then that night they get to camp out in the outfield. They'll be showing a drive-in style movie for the boys too. Sounds like fun. :)

Well, I can't think of anything else to report right now. Once I get the layouts of the house and our roadtrip done I'll get them posted on here. Hope you like the pictures of Jenevieve. This is only a small sampling of what I took that night. I haven't even looked at all of them yet! LOL

Have a fun and safe 4th of July!!!!!!!!!!!