project life. week 3. jan 15-21.

week 3.

here we go:

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Saturday it snowed & on Sunday the kids finally had some measurable snow to play in & I caught Collin & Lydia out playing in our driveway. We also worked at finally getting our Christmas decorations put away. It was up for over 2 months. It was time. Monday Evan & Lydia didn't have school, so we went on a morning trip to a few stores & then I treated them to lunch. Evan has been asking for a long time to go to Wendy's.  Lydia was most excited about the TruMoo chocolate milk. The girl is a commercial junkie. I saved part of the packaging that Evan's burger came in & sewed it on the card.  The same day I caught a photo of the sun streaming through the clouds when we were leaving to pick Collin up at school & added the quote from Lydia. Also caught a pic of the girl & her new favorite trick of riding the rail, the love of her life, Froggy, a card with a quick overview of the week & pieces of a states test Evan took & a note from his teacher about the tests.  We've been in non-stop study mode for states & capitols tests.

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Thursday was a busy day. Lydia had a dentist appt first thing in the morning {no cavities}.  Right next door to our dentist is Target {with Starbucks inside}. We had a while before we had to be anywhere, so we checked out toys, clothes, whatever & I enjoyed some Starbucks too.  Then we were off to Evan's school for his Invention Convention.  They start before Christmas break on planning & inventing, so it was great to finally see it all come together.  He created a revolving closet {the model is a mini version} & everyone seemed to have good things to say about it. I loved his "commercial" line "It's like a deposit for your clothes" so I included that on a label.  Other things were a picture of Lydia doing her homework before school one morning {she insists that she do it herself now}, a piece of her homework that was in her backpack {the week before was L week, which she's been waiting for all year}, a pic I took while playing scrabble with Evan & his chosen first word, which I put on the folded up paper we used to keep score.  Friday night Lydia decided she wanted a sleepover at my sister's house, so I took a pic of us leaving to take her there, along with her haul, which, of course, included her huge frog & a text conversation with my sister.  I also made sure I got my sister to take some pics of Lydia while she was there & she sent me the sweet photo of her sleeping {with a photo of grandma & grandpa that she brought along}. Saturday night Dan & I had a much needed date night.

& a few inserts. Lydia's photocopier art from school.

& a letter Lydia wrote to Dan {via my sister when she had a sleepover} so cute. the next insert is the scoring for Evan's invention from the judges.

& I flipped the written comments from the judges & put it on the other side.

so week 3 done. week 4 is already in the works.  I had week 3 about 95% done since Sunday, but trying to catch up on design work & kids' homework definitely slowed things up this week.  I also think I need to change the way I photograph my pages... any hints for me?

{robyn}