Happy Veteran's Day

Such a great day to be an American!! We woke up early and went to our local parade this morning. Allison was marching in the parade and Katie had a good friend from college with her. We had beautiful weather. Here's to you dad on Veteran's Day.

Back from Scrap Expo

I had such a great time with Jodi and her mom. We scrapped until midnight and took a lot of classes. My favorite class is always the Quick Quote class. Here are two layouts I finished this morning.

Here we are scrapping....

Here's the stuff I bought....

Back from Road Trip

We took a road trip to the wine country to visit Katie at college. She picked the perfect place for her to go to school as it is close and she loves it there! That part of California is so beautiful.

10 Things.....

Wow, I haven't scrapped in over a month, and it felt good!! CK had a one hour challenge to use the number 10 on a layout. This was the perfect chance to ask Katie what she feels after one month of college. She emailed me her answers and I got some of her photos off of Facebook, and voila,

Ott to Teach

I know this is my scrap blog, but lately I haven't had one bit of time to scrap, so I thought I'd share a few photos of my classroom. I am loving that I moved up to fourth grade and I have a great class once again. I have 30 kids, which is 4 less than I was supposed to have, so that is great. I saw this idea on Pinterest of course, but I modified it to be a bulletin board.

What a fun and easy project it was! Here is a photo of my classroom the first week. I've had to move them out of groups already because it was so noisy and they weren't all facing the board.

What did I do before these Post It charts?? I love them and the kids love that I keep them up and they can see what we did the day before. I am really loving Writer's Workshop this year!

Thanks to Pinterest....

I saw this idea on Pinterest, so I went to Lowe's to buy the organizer and made my own labels on Printmaster. I still want to cover the sides with something. Now on to label my smaller one.

My Travel Bucket List

Hope and I are hosting the Book of Me challenges on the CK message board. I did this for the Bucket List idea. I printed my bucket list from Pinterest, cut them up, and made the layout.