Are we traitors?

This past weekend was fantastic! While I had *every* intention of cleaning the house and actually get some scrapbooking in (sorry SG ladies!!!), my plans turned out a little differently. Todd called me from work Friday night while I was organizing my new scrapbook table and asked me if I wanted to go to the MU football game tomorrow. My initial thought was okayyyy... considering we aren't really MU fans to begin with. However, when he told me the tickets were free and were 10 rows up from the 20 yard line, I reconsidered. His boss has season tickets and was unable to use his seats on Saturday. So, Todd, two of his buddies from work, and me set off for Columbia early Saturday morning. Since neither Todd nor I had anything MU to wear, Todd ended up wearing a plain black shirt over his Nebraska shirt (of course), while I just wore a Kickapoo shirt with my gold KHS pullover. We blended in quite nicely I must say!

The football game was totally cool, and I took like 80 pictures that day. I couldn't help it! We were just so close and I knew I had to get some good shots every now and then. Turns out, I have 22 from that 80 that turned out very cool. I know that does not sound like alot, and I could print more than that, but Todd doesn't want the MU game scrapbook pages to be bigger and better than our Nebraska pages. Go figure!! Below are some of the better pics that turned out. I couldn't get any pictures of MU actually scoring because by the time the player got into the endzone, everyone was standing and waving their towels. In two pics, all I ended up with was a woman's arm or a white towel! By the way, MU beat Iowa State 42-28--a great way to end the day!

What's new?

The Christmas season has "officially" began for me. Mom and I went shopping down in Branson, and while she bought several things for family members, I only ended up with one thing for Todd. He is so hard to buy for because most of his Christmas wishes must be bought online! I did tell Mom that I wanted a new scrapbook table and chair--Kodi, did you and Jennifer get yours at Sam's? We are going on Friday after school to look and see what they have.

Last weekend was the first speech tournament of the season for us at school. In fact, it was the first tournament in our area, plus it was held at our school! I ran around on both Friday and Saturday, trying to help out the kids as much as possible. The traveling season begins the first weekend of November, so I am free until then. After that, I am gone most weekends until March. I think we are going to 9 or 10 tournaments this year before district and state competition in March and April. What I am REALLY looking forward to is Nationals. I truly hope we have enough kids qualify because that means I would get a FREE trip to VEGAS!!! Vegas, baby!! Can you imagine me and one other adult taking 6-7 high school kids to Vegas? If it is the same as two years ago in Dallas, I would just be the chauffeur. Drop off the kids, have the days free to sightsee, then pick up the kids in the evening. Fun for me!! Let's keep our fingers crossed some of the kids make it--I may have to bribe them to do well!!

Scrapbooking weekend

It seems since school has begun I don't have the 1) time or 2) energy to keep up with my blogging. I don't have the energy to keep up with anything at home much less spend time on my blog. However, I did find time on Sunday to straighten and organize my scrapbooking area. I really want a room that I can just dedicate to my scrapping, but that's a dream in another world right now. In the meantime, I have a space set up in our small office--card table, bookshelf, and closet. I organized all of my paper in their carriers, but I really want some stacking shelves I can keep my paper in. It would seem so much easier to find that way! I organized my pens and anything else that had just been sitting on the table since the last time I scrapped a few months ago. I even organized our Disney pictures from this summer! I am going to try to make an ABC album, so instead of organizing by chronology, which every other album I have ever created is like, I made categories. I have an "Are we there yet?" theme to a "Zipping around the world" theme, plus MANY MANY more in between. I do have more than one page for each letter. In fact I have several Ms and Ts. I think I may try my first hand at chipboard for the beginning page of each letter, then let the other same letter pages fall behind that main page. Does that make sense? I definitely want to get started soon, but I may wait until the speech tourney is over this weekend. My next two weekends are busy, so it may get pushed back to the end of this month. On a positive scrapbooking side, Todd and I did get his racing album journaled in this weekend. He went to the races back in June!

Two weekends ago I took some senior pictures of a former student and his friend. We went out to Sequiota Park and took more "natural" shots there, then headed over to the Maple Park (??) Cemetary on the corner of Grand and Campbell. We ended up downtown and shot some nice urban pictures. I think that most of the pics turned out really nice and the boys liked what I did with Photoshop. I told them to tell all of their friends and advertise for me!! Maybe I can drum up some business for next summer. I think it is a little late for this year!! Here are some of my favorite shots from that weekend--their faces are blurred because they are students at my school and I don't want to run the risk of putting them on the internet!