Cheese!

I didn't mean to let a whole week go by without updating the blog. I just haven't really had anything exciting to share. I know the family gets ancy when several days go by without new pics of Natalie, so I've got some new ones to share that I took yesterday. The first one just cracks me up because she has such a cheesy grin. That one lone tooth is shining!


This one below shows you how close she is to crawling. (This one's for you Keather! I couldn't get over how similar it is to the pic you last posted of Eliz doing the spider crawl.)
I really thought she's be crawling by now, but she sure knows how to scoot. And I'm beginning to think she may just go straight to walking, as much as she likes to stand up.



That's about it. I haven't done any scrap pages in a few days. I always seem to be in the mood to scrap during the day, which is next to impossible with a 9 month old. After she goes to bed, the mood leaves me. Instead I've been reading a lot, which has been nice. After all the hoopla over this last Harry Potter book, I decided I'd read them. I finished book 1 over the weekend and stared The Chamber of Secrets last night. I just hope I can get through them all before I accidentally run across the ending. Now that everyone's had a few days to read the last book, spoilers will be popping up!

And a big thanks to Bethany for declaring me:

A girl and her dad..

The picture in this layout is one of my absolute favorites. I think it is now my favorite layout to date. One Little Word's latest challenge is the word "simplicity". There's some small journaling under simplicity that says, "pure. unconditional. eternal." Just thinking about how much John adores our girl brings tears to my eyes.

Below is today..playing in the floor. And as you can see our dog had to get in on the action. I love my family!

Picture of the Day

I just can't get enough of those big eyes. Looks like she has big nostrils in this one too. lol

Weekend Scrapping

I know I've said it before, but I just love all the scrapping challenge blogs that are out there. They help me so much with ideas and keep me motivated to get pages done. Every single page I did over the weekend was for a challenge. So, here they are.

One Little Word: Latest word was "new". Natalie has a new tooth, so this was the most obvious thing I thought of for this.

Scrapjacked: The target layout had a picture that was cut out. I liked the way this turned out, it looks like she is sitting on the ribbon on the page.
The Goodie Box: This months challenge was to create a summer layout. These are the pictures from Natalie's first time in the pool.

PencilLines: They provide a weekly sketch for you to follow. One of my favorite scrapbookers, Stephanie Howell, was the designer for last week.

Unpubbed: This particular challenge blog reveals a "famer" and they challenge you to create a layout based on one of the famer's favorites.
We went swimming today at my Brother-in-laws. Their apartments have a nice big pool. With it being a weekday, there was no one there and it was really nice having the pool to ourselves. This was the first time that John got to go with us and see Natalie in the pool. That's my nephew, Taylor in the 4th pic.




I just love summer!

Playing Catch-up

This past week has just absolutely flown. I have no idea where the last 6 days went. What have I been up to? Well, for one thing I spent most of my spare time watching this. On a whim, last Saturday night, I decided I would watch the first couple episodes and see if it was worth all the buzz. I'd never watched before, and let's just say that over the course of four nights I was up until 1am watching Heroes! I watched all 23 episodes in 4 nights. Now I'm anxiously awaiting the season premier along with all the other Heroes fans. If you like suspenseful, surprising and twisting plots, this show is for you. The only bad thing about watching 4 or 5 episodes in a row until 1 in the morning is, because they are so suspenseful, it'd take me a while to go to sleep and then I'd dream about it all night!

So because I spent my evenings doing that, I haven't done any scrapbooking in almost a week. Which is very unusual! Tomorrow night is our monthly crop with the gals. I have a big to do list and hope to have lots pf pages to share with you first part of next week.

We had a fun 4th! I didn't do to well taking pictures. I've been somewhat disheartened with my camera lately. The flash just seems to wash everyone out and without it, pictures always seem to be so blurry or too dark. We spent the afternoon at my Aunt and Uncles and enjoyed some good smoked ribs and chicken. This is one of the better pictures. Natalie with her Grandmom!
Later in the day we went and spent some time with John's side of the family. Thanks Alan for taking some really good pictures and thanks Kelli, for emailing them to me!

Natalie with Pa-Pa, playing patty cake with Kelli, and my favorite of the bunch.. Just look at those lashes! I have a feeling my little girl's gonna be a heart breaker. And I'm sure John will have quite an assortment of sticks to keep the boys away! :)

Friday Fun

I wish so bad I had turned our overhead light on so that you could see this better. But some priceless video of Natalie..



She is moving all over the place now..not your traditional crawl, but more of a scooting army crawl. I imagine it won't be long until she figures out how to get all the way under the coffee table.

Quick Picture Post

Just a quick post to share some pics for the family. My brother-in-law got married this past weekend. Of all the pictures I took, only a couple of them came out any good! I really would love an SLR camera that doesn't break the bank, so if any of you photo taking people have a suggestion, I'd love to hear what you recommend.

Here's the Bride!

And this is the Groom and his son. This pick was taken as the Bride was coming down the aisle.

And then a few more layouts to share...

Weekend Layouts

Got to play with my SIStv kit this weekend. Here are the layouts I did using the kit.

The one with no picture is for the latest scrapjacked challenge. I've never even thought about doing a page without a picture. At first I thought I would just skip this challenge, but I've participated in every jack since the site began, so after I thought about it, this was a perfect page to journal about some things going on with Natalie right now.





Hope you had a great weekend! Have more weekend update coming, so check back soon!

Weekend Picture Recap

It was a very busy weekend at the Wright Household. Swimming, Birthday parties, and Father's Day. Friday my best friend from High School was in town. Her parents have a pool, so we spent the afternoon swimming. I didn't get a good pic of Natalie in the pool this time. (Keather you'll have to email some of the pics you took!) Her daughter is just about 6 weeks younger than Natalie and they had such a good time playing together.

Then on Saturday we had a birthday party to go to and Natalie drove her very first car!

She was wearing a sweet little Raggedy Ann outfit that was given to her as a gift. We tried to get some pictures of her in it and this was the result. That girl can make some of the funniest faces.
Then on Sunday we had a wonderful Father's Day. Natalie is blessed with the best father one could ask for. Daddy loves his little girl more than he ever thought possible! She's examining a flower in these pics. It may be a honeysuckle.. I'm not sure.

And then here are us girls with my dad and granddad. Natalie's granddad and Great granddad.

And then my personal fave.. It's hard work being a Granddaddy!! In scrappy news, my SISTV kit finally came! Hoping I get a chance to play with it tomorrow.
Hope you're having a great week!

Happy Father's Day

I know the majority of my blog readers are women, but I still wanted to say Happy Father's Day! I hope you and your Father and/or your children's father had a great one!

Nothing to Blog..

I haven't updated since the beginning of the week.. it's been a quiet week at home, so nothing just really exciting to share. I pulled a couple of pictures off my mom's blog to share. I love the candid shots like this.. no posing for the camera..just a moment caught. There's so much that's said in pictures like these. This is Natalie with her granddaddy and her uncle.



I sent in an order for the rest of my May pictures and what all I've taken this month. It was 120 pics. Did I say I was caught up? I had no idea I had taken that many pictures in a month and a half!

Completed a layout today for the latest OLW challenge. There's a story behind this which leads me to my tip for today. ALWAYS..ALWAYS cut out your rubons before putting them on your page. I know this...I've ruined layouts in the past and learned this the hard way. So why did I think I was gonna save time today by not cutting it out?...very big. stupid. mistake. I had to redo the whole page. Reprint the picture and everything. Messed up the surrounding Hambly rubons, which really breaks my heart because we don't have a local store that carries these. I was savoring every square inch of those things. Always cut them out. Always.
I guess I did pretty good to not having anything to say...

Pages and Pictures

As promised, I have some pages to share. Most of these were for challenges and/or contests. I really enjoy participating in these. They help give me ideas and keep me motivated to get a good number of pages done. In fact, I'm almost completely up to date with my pictures. I have a few more pages to do from Easter and a few more from May. This blows my mind.. I never expected to be caught up....ever!

These first two were for Scrapjacked and UnPubbed. The pictures in these were taken at the Opryland Hotel in Nashville On Easter. If you ever get a chance to go there, GO! It is a beautiful Hotel.

These next two are for PencilLines. They are having a Design Team search right now, so I decided to give it a shot. The first is based on a sketch they specified. We also have to submit two others, so I used another one of their sketches for the 2nd one. I've still got to pick out one more layout to send them.


And now I leave you with two of my favorite pictures I took today. Daddy playing in the floor with his little girl and one messy eater. Look at that disgusted look on her face! LOL