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Today was our first day with no school. sigh...I love having the kids home. They have so much energy! I don't usually get much house work done when they are all here, but we get to do stuff together! Today we went and saw Shrek the Third. It was okay. I honestly only go to see those so I can see Puss in Boots. He is the cutest thing. The donkey is a bit irritating and Shrek, well...he IS an ogre.... We had a fun time tho.
The weather here has been awesome. I think we may have to pay for the great season when the hurricane season starts. I guess we better enjoy it while we can!
I am sharing another page I did last week. It is hard for me to get good pictures of scrap book pages because they are so large. This really looks better in person. I used the Encarte patterened paper from SU for the background. You can actually see both sides of the paper because I cut a large triangular shape out of it and flipped it for the the middle section. I stuck all three pieces to a sheet of white cardstock. Along the 'seams' of the paper I stuck a ton of Prima flowers. They not only covered up the seam but added to the "wedding" feel of the page. This page may look a bit incomplete but that is because I left a lot of room for the journaling. I especially like this page because the large picture is actually an enlargement of a small snapshot I received. I was able to crop it down, change the direction of the layout and enlarge it. Isn't it amazing what we can do with our pictures these days? I love it!!

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