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Hi. I'm Amanda...a happy wife and mom to three awesome guys. We've lived here in Fort Collins for more than 20 years and are proud to call it home. Before moving to CO, I worked at a city attorney's office, making use of my law and Master's degrees from Duke. After settling in Fort Collins, I homeschooled my three (now teenage and older) sons and was delighted to experience music classes, soccer, karate, swim team, archery, Science Olympiad, First Lego League, parkour, and climbing (not all at the same time!). From 2005-10, I was also a contributing editor for a national scrapbooking magazine, authoring a book and a couple of monthly columns. From 2009-10, I founded and ran the Good Grief Blog. I enjoy learning new things, spending time with my family, volunteering with The Matthews House, traveling and indoor rock climbing.

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Sunday
Jun072009

Birthday layouts...

Woohoo! Today is my birthday! :) Many thanks to all who helped me celebrate yesterday at The Treasure Box (ladies, you all rock!) and to those who have sent birthday wishes via mail, email and Facebook. I feel so loved. :)

As I sit here this morning, thinking about years past, I thought I'd share a few layouts I've done about or around my birthday:


I think this is one of the first layouts I did about my own present life. (2006 was the year I finally started making layouts that included me and not just family stuff, lol.) I still love the techniques used here. And those things still make me happy. :)

The following year, my birthday gift was going to CKU-Anaheim, so we didn't really do anything special to celebrate. I did, though, take a lot of pictures right around then and have made a number of layouts from that weekend. Here's one (and, yes, I only recently finished this one that had been in my to do pile for ages, lol):


And last year was a good one:

I already have some plans for this year's birthday layout but probably won't finish that for a week or so (have some other assignments that need to get tackled first). As for the day itself, Nathan has something up his sleeve but I haven't been able to tickle it out of the boys yet. ;) So, I'll have to report back later...

Reader Comments (1)

Awesome pages Amanda and so glad your birthday was wonderful! Had fun Saturday!! See you soon!

June 8, 2009 | Unregistered CommenterDebbie

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