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I am a page away from finishing our California Trip. I'm so excited. I thought I would never finish and at times as I would scroll through the three hundred pictures my mind would quickly start to feel overwhelmed and I would keep telling myself. It's okay Sadie you can only do one page at a time-just focus on a moment at a time. Finally I was scrolling through and realized that I had done all the pictures. I did it. I feel pretty awesome. The last page is an easy four picture page for which I already have the layout envisioned in my head, so if tonight after I finish shredding and slicing zucchini for our food storage then, only then will I be able to finish the page. Boring talk that I've just given you. I'm happily nesting away here in my house with the bright beautiful sunshine on a perfect fall day. Isaak and I bottled some tomatoes earlier today. Our food storage is really benefiting from this nesting behavior of mine. Isaak helped me skin the tomatoes and no I didn't let him use a knife. He just slipped the skins off of the tomato. I called it getting the tomato naked and Isaak kept asking, "Mommy is this one naked yet?" as he would pull one from the tomato-y water. I got a lot dirtier than I would have had I done it myself, but I knew Isaak would love peeling off the skins, which he did. Which reminds me I should probably shower and change my clothes real quick-I'm dirty and stinky since I taught NIA this morning. Just a couple of pages that I'm pretty proud of.

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The Studes said…
looks like you guys had a ton of fun! wish we would see you more.
September 9, 2011 at 12:13 AM
DottieLou said…
those pages are amazing ... I better see them in the fair next year
September 9, 2011 at 10:20 AM
Valarie said…
You should put them in the fair - especially the beach one
September 12, 2011 at 9:05 AM
EA said…
You're such a good example! I want to be a great emergency-prepared wifey too. Glad you are getting caught up with your pictures! We miss you guys, but we are coming home to visit in December for a whole month! Yipee. See you soon!
September 16, 2011 at 8:18 AM
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