scrappy doo.

here’s a few layouts I managed to complete last month.

as per usual, click on the layout for a full list of credits!

can you guess which one is my absolute favorite?

I will give you a clue:  it is the one that took me the most time to complete.

meanwhile, at the pitcher house..

I have some pretty awesome intentions.  like, they are unfathomably incredible.

but, the road to hell is paved with good intentions.

yup.

I had dreams of the many things I would accomplish when the girls were back in school.

all the time I would have.

all the blogging and recording and picture editing I would catch up on….

not so much.

here is a bit of what has been going on whilst I have been truant:

merrill turned 33.

he didn’t want cake, but “crunchies” (our version of no bake cookies) instead.

(and it was nice to not have a large, delicious cake, sitting around, tempting me to eat it all, for every snack and every meal for the next 3 days…)

the girls started school.

*sniff*

we went to the brigham city temple open house.

we have been reading…  a lot still.

and we went to lake powell…

we rather enjoyed that.

now soccer season is upon us, and two of the three girlies are enjoying it.

currently, I am depressed.

(seriously.)

merrill has left me for two weeks.

left me for alaska.

I love the guy just a bit and miss him terribly.

if he brings me home some halibut, it might not be so bad in the end.

meanwhile, being a single parent has it’s sucky moments.

but mostly, I just miss him.

schenck family

this is my sweet friend’s family.

they recently found out that their mother, who has been cancer free for 15 years, has it again.

it was my pleasure to capture these images of their family for them.

meet amelia.

my sweet friend annie has welcomed a beautiful new daughter into the world.

(I am a little sweet on her..  her cheeks remind me of a newborn peyton’s.)

I can’t get over how pretty she is!

and it’s not like she hasn’t made adorable babies before…

luke

where has time gone?

he was just a baby too…

and he is still so stinking cute.

miss liana turned 1.

here’s a not so long ago baby turning one!!!
I will not start in on how it wasn’t that long ago..  but she was just a baby.

poll family

these kids aren’t strangers to me.

this is one of my favorite cousins, his darling wife, and adorable daughter.

(I am well aware that all of my cousins are my favorites…)

maylee isn’t a stranger to you, either.

(remember?  and this?  this is her too.  aaand here.)

and what’s more?  these kids are welcoming a darling baby boy.

(sure to be, he will be a poll after all.)