Back to school 2011

Last week our kids started a new school year. I don't want to start complaining again how fast this summer zoomed... but I do want to agree with a saying, my sister told me, that life is like a toilet paper, towards the end it goes by faster. Same with the summer. It feels like there was no August...

Anyway, like any other new school year, this one began with some photos. I love to see how my girls change every year. Here are their photos on the first day of school this year:

My sweet eighth grader and sixth grader...

And here they are on the same spot just three years ago:

What a difference three years make! I wish I could have them at this age a little longer... And here are some more photos from Alena's first day:

And a few more Suzanna's first day (couldn't photograph them two together, since they leave one hour apart):

Last year Suzanna won two of the drawing contests! And now both, their yearbook and a student handout book have her drawings on the cover. Congratulations sweetie!

And one more thing for today is a layout I made weeks ago, that was also waiting for journaling to be printed. By the way, Liana realized that it took me way to long to write journaling and she decided to add some of her own, right onto the page with a green permanent marker. How exciting. But I got lucky. My orange journaling spot perfectly covered it. (I just had to scraplift one of Marie-Laure pages)

I just love my quote stamp set. It's so easy to add a little something to the page with a stamp.

Here is another one. Dresses up an empty line perfectly.

And I do like that notebook border punch too:

Best wishes to all of you who had to go back to school this year!

Check previous post for the video. Thanks.