So I heard about a scrapbook challenge where you scrapbook a year's worth of photos as the year progresses. You can do a layout a day, a week, or even a month. I thought this would be a great way to document the year for Sam, so he can see what Clayton and I are up to while he's gone. There's no way I could keep up with a layout a day, but I figure I could at least do one or two a month.

Here's September's layout.

Another Shabby Princess challenge. Here's the gallery of everyon'e entries.

I've always loved scrapbooking Clayton's pics both traditionally and digitally. Just recently I started entering some digital scrapbooking challenges. Here's my latest entry. The template was given and I used Shabby Princess papers and embellishments to make it my own. Clayton absolutely devoured this watermelon.

You can view all the entries here.

We had a perfect day today at the park. We took a bike ride, had a picnic, played on the playground and walked through the MK Nature Center and looked at the fish. To top the day off just as we were leaving we saw a family of deer barely ten feet away.

Clayton tried to follow the deer as they left. It was such a beautiful scene.

Well in just a few short weeks Clayton will be turning 2! I can't believe how quickly time has gone by. He's growing so fast, and learning so much. He's very chatty these days, and loves to make all the animal sounds which he's getting very good at.

Clayton's cousin Connor stayed the night with us a while back. They had such a blast! I've posted an album I created with pictures from that weekend up above. Watching these two grow up together is going to be a lot of fun.

Clayton is growing up so fast! Today we were driving in the car and he sneezed, and needed his nose wiped. I handed him a Kleenex, he promptly blew his nose with it and then handed it back to me like it was no big deal. I can't believe how big he's getting. It made me a little sad that he didn't even need my help anymore.