we are still alive

so first off thanks for Allison for the encouragement to get posting again! I have been very busy lately!!!!!! One of the things that have taken up a lot of my time is a digital scrapbook contest. It has been so so so much fun! It was like the amazing race... we had a couple of stops at different web sites each week for six weeks and we had to make a scrapbook page according to their requirements. Some of the challenges were pretty easy but some of them made me go way out of my normal realm of style! I have loved being stretched to the max at times, but Matt has been very jealous of my computer as of late. So with the race winding down this week Matt is really excited and I am ready to take a break too.
Here are a couple of the pages that I have made, I hope you like them!

this layout we had to do in "altered art" style... it was tough to do in digital for me... I like to do these kinds of things in a more hands on way, but it was fun to try!

This one had to have so many of all different types of elements... so 6 pictures, 5 frames 8 flowers... all from one designer. It took along time to gather everything and then put it just right onto the paper, luckily it was supposed to be done in "hodge podge" style, which is supposed to be messy!

We had to do a page about our most memorable trip. I had a few trips to pick from but I chose the weekend get away Matt and I had in Park City. The pictures had to be in black and white and include some song lyrics in the journaling. I had a fun time with this page but there are some things I would change now that I am looking at it again.

This page had to be all about me... I took a silly approach for the journaling, but I love the look of the page!

This was the first challenge and we had to make the page at least one half our favorite color, use our favorite embellishment at least 3 times and put pictures of our favorite things to scrapbook about. It was fun to try to and figure out how to put my boys on a page that is purple with big swirls on it. But it turned out cute. I think I will change the journaling to "I'm too sexy for my shirt, too sexy..."

As for Matt and the kids, they are all doing great! The boys are getting bigger everyday and A can talk so well it surprises us over and over again! Matt is working hard at work and on the house, both are moving along well. The kids are really anxious to get outside all the time, but most of the time it is still pretty cold! But we get out as much as we can. I hope everyone is well!