Blog Challenges

Ok, I'm in a contest on my scrapbook friends message board. To earn some points I have to complete some blog challenges. So here goes....


Challenge #10 Ten Things I love


1. My Husband


2. My Kids


3. Photography


4. Gardening


5. Scrapbooking


6. Reading


7. Vacation


8. Sunshine


9. Summer


10. Not having to cook dinner



Challenge #11 Things I love to hate


1. Being Cold


2. Grumpy People


3. Kids fighting in the backseat


4. The remote control in my husbands hands


5. Being Cold, oh, did I say that already?





Challenge #12 Post a New Photo



This is my sister and her husband at the anual Chili Cook-Off in her hometown.



















Challenge #13 Post a scrapbook layout

Here are my handsome boys.





















Challenge #14 Share something Romantic
Well, uh, hmmmm, ok, here's one.
For my 15th wedding anniversary my husband planned a cruise for the two of us to the Bahama's without me knowing anything about it. He arranged for his parents to come up and watch the kids for us, he rescheduled the appointments I had on the calendar and everything. I was truly surprised!

Making Valentines

Isaiah needed Valentine's for school. We made them from scratch last year and had so much fun we decided to do it again! So I found some cute stamps that could work for Valentines cards in my craft bin and we set off to work!
The finished product. We attached some Twizzlers to the backs of them. Yum!

Lesson 2 Homework

A great big THANKS to my scrapbook friends who came to visit this weekend. They gave my kids a break and let me use them as the subjects of this weeks homework!

Homework

This is fun homework. I have decided to improve my photography skills and take a class. I will be posting some of my homework here for you all to see.

Basketball Fever

Here are a variety of photos from this winters basketball games. Evan and Isaiah are both #3.

Dad watches the games from the front row.


Look at Evan jump for that rebound!

Scrappin' with Stephanie

Spent the day in Owensboro KY with Stephanie scrappin' at her LSS. We had a good day. I think we talked more than we scrapped, but you'll have that. hehe We went to lunch at the local Mexican resturant. Below is a photo of our dessert! It was yummy.

Stephanie and I at lunch....we forgot to get a pic of us scrappin' :(
Here's a little bit of the Ohio River from downtown Owensboro, it was such a beautiful day!

It's our goal to do this once a month! It's so nice having a scrappin' buddy so close.

Saving Photos to DVD vs CD

Katie's Blog Challenge #9 Do something new and post about it.

Ok, I did something new. It was not a super-fantastic wow kinda thing, but here's what I did. I figured out how to save my photos on a dvd instead of a cd.

I loaded the Windows Media Center program that was pre-installed on my computer and through it I was able to write to a dvd. Wow!!! I was so excited to see how many photos that could fit on a dvd. I used to have anywhere between 2 and 4 cds per month of photos, and now I can save the whole month to one dvd. Life is now more organized, yeah, I love being organized!!!

Now, you might be thinking, "Is there a difference between saving to a cd vs saving to a dvd?" So far the research I've done is saying the only difference is that dvd's hold 6 times more photos than cd's. These are data only files, not slide shows, so I will not be able to view them in my dvd player, just on the computer like a photo cd.

So that's my something new this week. I hope it helped someone!