some layouts

Just some layouts I have done the past couple of days. If you want to see more, go to http://www.outonalimbscrapbooking.com/gallery.html Kate

spooky

"spooky", that is what Millie says everytime she sees anything that has to do with Halloween, if she sees something and wants to show me, she will say "spooky, mama, spooky" it's so fun to see everything through her eyes. Like the other day when is was snowing, she kept saying "kooah, kooah mama kooah" which means cool, mama, cool! Jeff and I think that everything that comes out of her mouth is the funniest thing we've ever heard, thats the fun part about this age, it kinda balances out all of her temper tantrums. Tomorrow I get to take Millie and Owen to Gracie's Halloween parade, and try to get both of them to sit still for millions of kids to walk by just so Gracie can try and look for me in the crowd (and not find me) while I'm frantically waving my one hand with a camera in it & trying to take a picture, with a screaming Millie on my hip and an ADHD 5 year old doing who knows what, then fight the millions of parents in the too small parking lot to see who can leave the fastest. oh the joys. Happy Halloween!

pottery barn life...

I want my life to be like a pottery barn catalog. Everything is just so, all the rooms are spacious enough to fit many pieces of furniture, all the childrens hair is perfectly placed, no one is crying, whining, or asking me for something. Everything is clean, no dirty dishes, no dog hair. I have strived for this for some time not realizing that behind the scenes the kids are crying, the snow is fake, the houses are probably on a sound stage, and the photographer is a pro. You see we just moved into a new house that would bring me closer to this dream, and as I look around, there are toys everywhere, there are dirty dishes in the sink, a dirty diaper on the stairs, you can see footprints on my floor. I thought my new life in my new house would be different, but its not and I'm ok because I had a few seconds of real happiness today, you know the kind that comes and goes in seconds, but in those seconds you think, I'm happy, I have a good life and thats better than a fake catalog.