Valentine's Day!!!

Blake and Kaila were instructed to provide a box for their valentines. Blake's class was awarding prizes for various catagories. He wanted to try for "Most Unique."  He found his little turtles and designed his box to look like an island. He didn't win, but he had a good time creating his box.

Kaila's class didn't award prizes, but she had fun designing her box too.

Here is Kaila and her friends at their Valentine's Day party.

 Here are the magnets that I designed and the kids made for their party.

See all this yummy food that the kids had? Most of it was healthy as per the school's interference with the children's childhood. How the school/state thinks that they can dictate what the kids eat for one meal a day 5x a week and 4 parties a year that will actually make a difference in their well-being is beyond me. Nutrition starts at home. I don't care what anyone says. If your child is overweight - it is up to YOU...the PARENTS to teach them correctly and be consistent. Because ultimately the parent is who pays for the food that the child eats. If you purchase crap...what do you think your child will be eating? It isn't brain surgery. I say let them be kids for Pete's sake! AND leave the parenting up to...oh-I-don't-know...the parents!

Here are a couple layouts that I made last weekend at our scrapday :) I always enjoy my much needed time with the girls.

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Shawn

I had a great night with my buddy Lori Porter scrapping til the wee hours of the morning. Granted I only completed three layouts, but a good time was had...as always.

This first layout was done using a sketch from Pagemaps. This is one of our engagement photos taken way back in 1995. Checkout that 90's hair!

I did this one using a sketch from Nuts About Sketches.

This is another sketch from Pagemaps.

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Shawn

Here are my first layouts for 2012.

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Shawn

Just a sketch, layout and some recent photos.

One of my sketches...

So many years ago were these photos taken...1998.

Three little Brownies...

Brownie Bites - pure peanut butter heaven!

Kaila with her new firearm - BB gun.

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Shawn

Happy New Year!!!!

Here are some layouts for today. These are the last ones I did in 2011.

The sketch for this one is up at Nuts About Sketches.

I used a sketch from Pagemaps for this one.

I used a sketch from Creative Scrappers for this one.

I used a Pagemaps sketch for this one, which was also a challenge over at The Scrapping Spot.

These next two were created using sketches from Creative Scrappers.

I will update more later regarding my New Year's Resolutions and such.

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Shawn

Just a couple layouts to post today...

The sketch for this is up at Nuts About Sketches :)

The exclusive sketch for this is up at The Scrapping Spot.

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Shawn

EXTREMELY picture heavy....

I apologize for my long absence. It's been crazier than ever this year. I honestly can't wait to begin 2012!

I'm going to start out with a some layouts I've done recently. If you'd like to see a larger view, just click on the image.

I used a sketch from Skissadila for this one. This is Kaila and me at her 2nd birthday party which was held three months before her actual birthday.

I used a sketch from Sketch Support for this one. This is Nick on the last day of 3rd Grade :)

I used a sketch from Sketch Support for this one. This is Nick and Nathan working hard.



I used a sketch from Creative Scrappers for this one. This is Blake on his first day of Kindergarten.

I used a sketch from Skissadila for this one. This is Blake pulling a snowboard in June.

I did this layout for layout tag at The Scrapping Spot. This is Charlie last year on his trip to Colorado to elk hunt.

Speaking of hunting, this is what my son, Nick (13 years old) shot on the first day of buck season. He shot this 10 point at about 60 yards with open sights. This photo was taken with a cell phone.

While Nick was playing around in the woods, Blake, Matthew, Kaila and I went to checkout Kraynak's. We met other friends and family there. The kids played with the trains, but became bored quickly with them and wanted to move onto browsing/playing with the toys. After that, we went to Arby's to fill our bellies. We are always starving by 10:00 - LOL! 

My parents came the Friday after Thanksgiving to spend five days with us. The kids were so happy to have them here. I did get some photos of my dad teaching Nick how to wrestle. Wow...was that ever funny. Nick's not as strong as he thinks he is. He was begging for mercy. The kid is 13, about 5' 6" and weighs 158 pounds. He's a beast. I can't wrestle him anymore, because he just about broke my ribs last time. It was a workout let me tell you.

We had our Lahr Family Christmas party on Sunday the 11th. These kids are getting entirely too big.  There's always delicious food, which is hard to resist. We had marinated/smoked chicken, ribs with homemade BBQ sauce, potatoes, rolls, pie, cookies, oreo balls...just to name a few things. YUM!

After we ate it was time for PICTURES!!! I took several and when I say SEVERAL...I mean hundreds :)  You never know when you're going to get a good one. Here are a some of my faves.

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Shawn