Our 2009 Disney Trip-Day 1

We arrived at the Orlando airport and took the shuttle to the Disney Magical Express counter.



After checking into our hotel and having lunch, we headed over to Epcot.



Once we picked up FastPasses for Soarin’, we headed over to The Seas with Nemo and Friends pavilion.



Then we explored the Imagination pavilion.





Using our imagination made us kind of hungry, so we took an ice cream break.



Then we met some locals:











After dinner in the Canadian pavilion, we watched IllumiNations.

73rd layout of 2009-First Day

I made this layout for a Back to School challenge on Scrapping the Magic using the Johnny Appleseed kit (9/08) from Coordinates Collections.

40 blessing at 40-#3: Scrapbooking

I have started doing daily cards of my 40 blessings on my other blog and today I made some Christmas gifts using my scrapbooking supplies. It has been several weeks since I used them and it felt good to be creative.

40 blessings at 40

I working on a "40 blessings at 40" layout and thought I would post each blessing here as I collect them for the layout.

Blessing #1 & 2: My sisters

My family makes me feel special at 40

My eldest sister left this sign at my house on Saturday before she moved to Florida.



I woke up this morning and my husband replaced our flag outside with this:



Then my other sister had these delivered today:

1st Day of 1st Grade

Since we had just gotten back from vacation the night before, Nik wasn't quite "up and at 'em" that morning.








He likes his new teacher and so far has been enjoying his class.

Tee Ball Mini Album

I just finished Nik's teeball book:























Some of my supplies: Hot Off the Press Busy Scrapper's Solution-For Boys to Men, the Cody collection from Love Elsie, The Giggle Kids line from Making Memories and the My Favorite Blue Alpha Block 8 x 8 tablet from Deja Views.