Camille Scraps and My backyard visitors......

On Monday I was terribly bored. I think Camille was too. She wanted to come scrap after she finished mowing the lawn and mowing in this 90+ heat, I thought she deserved to get to scrap!!
She had gathered some photos from Melanie and we began scrapping. I think she did a great job on this one of their Swimming with the Dolphins adventure!


We cut the title for these
 younger photos of a Luau day at the daycare.
So cute!

I did a page of Camille and Melissa taken at the beach.
I love this picture! Sweet.

Swimming is a fun summer past time, especially at Memaw's pool. There are tons of swimming pictures through the years! This paper was from the Summer Days DCWV stack I had gotten for Camille to use. Love it!

And some Halloween! Our alphabet stickers were limited, so I came up with "EEEk Fun!" for the title. (You have to be creative when using letter stickers)
Of course there were no "h's."

Since I have been out back painting a lot lately, I have had more backyard visitors. According to the Common backyard birds of Mississippi we printed from the Internet this little fellow is a Tufted Titmouse. 

Not sure about this visitor, according to my sheet I think he might be a House Finch or Chipping sparrow. You bird-watchers help me out!

I haven't seen many hummingbirds this year but one came
 by to check out the food. 

Another view from our backyard is our neighbor's pear tree. Bob and I have fond childhood memories of over-loaded pear trees. His mom had one in the yard behind the kindergarten and I remember my grandmother, Mama Harris, had to prop up the limbs on her pear trees because they would get so overloaded. We had pear salad, pear pie and every kind of pear dish you could think of!

Thanks for visiting! See you scrappers soon..... see what you're missing!

Another great July class.......

Pam, Judy and Camille came to scrap last night. 
We made lots of pages and some  really awesome techniques were used!

Pam is working on Bill's sports and school photos. This t-ball page is cute! There's those Michael's playing cards, again!

 Camille did some pages for herself and some of Isabella and Brennen. The garden pages are pictures of the raised garden Camille dug, planted and grew out at Melanie's! Great job!
This one Camille did of Isabella dressed as Tinkerbell at Disney. Cute!

Judy scrapped her grand-daughter's performances. 

 

We added a star for an accent to this school
 photo page.

Camille scrapped Brennen's 6th Slime Birthday. Her titles were made using Adobe Photoshop software.  She is great at that. I go take a class on it at Tulane tomorrow. I am sure I will need her help after I get totally confused!

See y'all next week for more scrappin'.

Scrappin' with Judy and Pam

Judy and Pam came to scrap today! I was so happy! Been missing some scrappin'. Judy made the pages above about
a trip she took to visit relatives.
While Pam was on vacation she went to the scrapbook store in Gulf Shores, not that Gigi store, but the one with our friend "Anne". She introduced Pam to Tim Holtz products and all his fun goodies. She brought back some really neat embossing powder and some awesome ribbons! (now y'all know Pam can pick some ribbons and she is great to share with us!! )
This embossing powder made the rust-like embellishments for Judy's pages. So cool!

 

Pam began working on Bill's school pictures. These are really cute. She had some great Lego paper and added some cute ribbon. We also made the ABC and crayon embellishments using chipboard and that rub-on stuff we got at Gigi's.

 

 

Those of you who weren't here missed a great time!
Hope to see you all soon. Be careful on all your traveling and be sure to make lots of pictures!

Oxford, Ole Miss and the Graduates

The Grove was filled with thousands of people to see over 3000 graduates of The University of Mississippi Class of 2012.

Meg and Charlie both earned their Master's Degrees. 
Charlie's in English and Meg's in Anthropology. 

 

 Charlie has been accepted to the Ph.D program at the University of Illinois in Urbana/Champlain.
 They will be moving there in August. New adventures!

Very proud of Charlie and Meg
 Happy Mom and Dad (not pictured)!!

St. Pete and the Graduate!!

 Our trip to visit Betsy and Josh to 
attend her graduation was just wonderful!
On Sunday we visited the Salvadore Dali Museum.It was a extensive collection of over 90 of his works. I know you remember from Art 101 that he was the surrealist who painted the melted clocks and all sorts of strange looking things! If you want to know more about him visit here at Wikipedia. 

Bob with the Dali mask!! Creepy...

 We couldn't take photos inside but they had an area outside with several Dali-like things! This is Josh with the famous handlebar mustache.

 

The wish tree where everyone tied their wrist bands.

Josh and Bets in the wish tree!

 

 

We enjoyed visiting with Bets, Josh and all their pets.   Josh's parents, Bobby and June have moved down to the area and it was great to see them and their new home. We ate some delicious fish we caught on our wedding fishing trip last June. 

The best, and much anticipated part of our trip was Betsy's graduation.It was held at Tropicana Field, the home of the Tampa Rays baseball team.

 I loved having the big screen(although I couldn't get a clear picture of it)

 
Happy parents and a Happy graduate!
Betsy earned her ESE Certification, Florida Special Education Certification.  We are very proud of her and just know she will be a wonderful teacher and a blessing to the children she teaches!

All us proud parents!

 

Thursday Scrap

Pam and Judy came to scrap on Thursday.
 They made some cute pages!

 

Pam told us all about the birthday tea party and scrappin' with Gay and her friend Joan, a scrappin' guru. She taught Pam all sorts of fun tricks. She uses the computer and printer a lot more than we do and comes up with some really cute things.  They have invited us all over to Lake Mitchell for a scrappin' weekend in June. Be looking at your calendars.. sounds fun!