Saturday's Akron Marathon

Well, the 2008 Akron Marathon is history. Mike finished (yeah!) with a time of about 5:50. It was a great day. Sam and I were able to go and cheer Mike on along with Mike's sister Jen and her two girls, Lydia and Abigail.

They haven't put the race photos online yet, but when they do I will post them here.
But here is the start. There were over 10,000 runners!

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What I've done this week

So about 10 days ago my 30-day trial of Photoshop ended. I was missing it terribly! Last Sunday I found a really good deal on it at Amazon and I just happened to have a couple gift certificates. It also had free shipping which was good, but that meant it came on the slow boat from China and I didn't get it until this Monday. So finally I've been able to get back to some scrapbooking! This is a page I did with Grace's Spring school picture from last year.



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I also used Photoshop to make a new header for the blog. Yeah!! I've been wanting to do that for a long time. I hope my faithful reader(s) like it! LOL!

Tomorrow is the big Akron Marathon and Mike will be running! It is always exciting.....and a little nerve-wracking too. I'm always afraid he's going to get sick or hurt. but I know the Lord will protect him. I am always so proud of Mike for taking on this challenge.

So that's what our weekend will hold. Hope yours is a good one!!!

Diggin' out the old photos.....

and found these from 2006 to scrap.



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Yesterday stuff....

Yesterday, my sister Sally and niece Shelby took Grace out for a belated birthday lunch. Grace got to pick the restaurant (Cracker Barrel) and pick out a gift too (a new Webkinz Bluejay). Sal took this photo of the girls at lunch and I think it is so cute. Shelby and Grace are in some ways very different and some ways very much alike. But they are good friends!

Our House

I did this page today for a challenge at ScrapMatters. You had to scrap something about your home. When I saw this background paper, I knew that I would use it for a photo of our house someday. I vividly remember the first time we looked at this house. It was May 2003.....on my birthday, in fact. When we got out of our car, the scent from the pine trees in the backyard was glorious! This is our "Miracle House." It took a LONG time for it to become ours. We made an offer and said, "It will be a miracle if we get this house!" The sellers laughed at that first offer. After a couple more offers and a lot of red tape, it finally became ours. We moved in October 2003.





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Okay....so I just think this is cute!

I drug these photos out from 2006.....thought this turned out cute! Don't the kids look little? Awwwww!!!!

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And here's Noah.....

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