Nigel moves from elementary to middle school this year!! To celebrate that transition there's a camping trip at the end of the fifth grade school year. It seems to be a common thing. I'm sure many of you have gone through the same thing. I got to chaperone. I spent four days with these...

Train ride into the city for and adult and 2 children... $24 Dinner at one of the best Dim Sum joints in the city... $60 Watching Nigel and his friend trying to work out the physics of operating chopsticks... Priceless! I used: Anna's: AsianScripts#1, MagicFlares#1, GoldLeaves#3 Lynne...

It started out simply enough, with Nigel saying he felt like having Chinese for dinner. I'd been wanting to try this Dim Sum place in ChinaTown for a while now. So after a 35 minute train ride we were in the middle of Philadelphia's ChinaTown. After dinner we went for a walk to try and walk...

More from our Williamsburg trip. A roller coaster legend!! I used: Anna's Beach Template #1 Joanne Brisbois Journaling bits and pieces Mr Whiskers Ocean kit

What a privilege to live so close to a major city with all of it's cultural and ethnic diversity!! I'm constantly taking advantage of it and making sure Nigel shares in the experience. We used to go to the Lion Dance Parade every year until I started having to work during it :( This was our...

So... it's my birthday...and my choice to decide on where the birthday dinner will take place. In years gone by I would choose a restaurant that would appeal to the masses...Appelbees, Outback, Carrabas..etc...but as you get older you start to feel lke .. "f this ...I wanna eat where I...

I can't really tell you how to envision your memories, I can only tell you what I would have done given the elements/ photos provided. I love the structural elements you've placed below the coaster in the lower right portion of the page, but for me they're not interesting enough to stand on...

first post in a while. I love winter... but something about it just seems to kill my creative impulse (probably some sort of mild seasonal depression thing). We love to hit the mountain every winter... (I know Anna's thinkin..."You call that a mountain"?.... That's what passes for a...

Nice! The subdued palette really captures the atmosphere

These challenges are really cool. I can't believe I never participated before. I found and was looking through an old photo CD (Nigel was only 16 mnths. He's 10 now)! When I saw a series of photos from the petting zoo I immediately thought about the Beach Boys Pet Sounds album (one of the...

I Used: Dido Designs Snowball Paper Pack Circle of Friends Template by BlueFlowerArt Anna Aspnes: ScriptTease Adventure Frames MultiMedia Flowers PhotoGlows 1 Torn and Tattered 1 APP Lush and Escape Palvinka Designs Haunted Avenue Kit Rucola Designs Backyard Bugs Kit

My first challenge submission. I used Anna Aspnes, ScribbleBlooms#1 and DrippedWaterColors#1

Philadelphia's Fourth of July celebration. So lucky to have one of the world's premiere musical organizations right in our back yard!! I had season tickets for the orchestra for about twenty years but this was Nigel's first time seeing them. The orchestra is constantly involved in events like...

Awesome. Love that Heaney poem and the visuals you've provided are the perfect compliment.