Busy Summer
Tuesday, August 19, 2008
Been a while since I posted here! That is because it has been a busy summer, and sometimes it seems like it’s hard to stop and catch my breath! What have I been up to? Let’s see if I can sum it up:
The end of June we attended a weekend family regional meeting for Bobby’s work, which was a lot of fun. It was neat to meet other spouses who have been through the tough times of building a business with their husbands (or wives). Talking with them was encouraging, and I got to learn a little more about how the company Bobby works for runs things. We even got to get away as a family one afternoon and go tubing down the Chatahoochee River (did I mention this was in N. Georgia?)!
Then we went straight from there to my parents’ house in Michigan, where we spent the week of the 4th of July. Hotdogs and fireworks were had at my uncle’s house on the lake, and we saw the whole fam (well, my dad’s side anyways)!
Then, the BIG news of the summer: we moved! I know I mentioned moving in a previous post, and I am happy to report that we got all moved in smoothly. The spiders were pretty determined to hang onto the place, but Bobby finally went out and got whatever insecticide takes care of spiders, and doused the basement, and we’ve been relatively spider-free ever since. Also, my sister moved down from Michigan to rent a room in our basement, so it’s nice to have her here. Of course, she got here just in time for the basement to be torn up. There was some pretty serious water seepage in the basement, and our landlord decided to have a drainage system installed and then have that wall waterproofed (thankfully). So the guys came to rip out that wall and in the process, they discovered rotting wood and termites, which prolonged the work. We’re still waiting for the stairs to be replaced.
My web design business has been pretty steady this summer as well, which I’m thankful for. I love designing and developing websites, and the extra source of income is definitely welcome. I also built myself a new blog called Genevieve Says. It’s more editorial than this one, and less scrapbooking-focused. I still plan on posting updates on my life in general and any new scrapbooking layouts, but if you want to read more you can find me over there, too. Of course, all the web designing means I haven’t had as much time for digi-designing or digiscrapping, but I plan on reorganizing my time here shortly so I can get back to those things again. 
I have scrapped three layouts this summer, and here they are:
