Delayed Project Life & Our Trip to the Georgia Aquarium

Hi all!  No Project Life for Jan. 30-Feb. 5 today; my family and I got back Sunday from a trip to the Georgia Aquarium.  It. Was. Awesome!  We're in North Carolina, so it wasn't too long of a flight for us.  I definitely recommend the trip; there's so much to do in Atlanta, and a LOT of it is around the Aquarium.

I've just finished sorting through all of the photos that I took and ordering a photo book from Shutterfly.  I had over 115 pictures from our day-and-a-half vacation adventure.  There's no way to scrapbook all of those, but I wanted them all together, so a photo book it was!  I've previously done a photo book of my mom's wedding that I gave to her and her husband as a Christmas present, and Shutterfly makes the process rediculously easy.  Now I won't lie...the perfectionist that I am-it took me almost 5 hours to customize my book exactly the way I wanted it, but I happy with how it looks, and I can't wait to get it in the mail!  I'll share with you when I get it, but from past experience with their photo books and having ordered hundreds of prints from them, and having dealt with their Customer Service, I totally recommend them!

I'm hoping to get Project Life up tomorrow, but I have a busy couple of weeks coming up: Liam's turning 2 this coming Saturday (which means lots of party planning) and Jacob will turn 1 the Saturday after...so lots of picture taking and one tired momma = trying hard not to get behind on lots of things!

Thanks for reading, and check back soon!

Mission Work

My mother-in-law is in Kenya, Africa working with a local church to teach locals how to purify their water to make it safe to drink.  It was her first trip overseas, and the trip will last 10 days.
This is a picture of her at one of the local villages, with school children that her group delivered pen-pal letters to.  The pen-pal program is set-up through the school of the church who organized the trip, and letters are exchanged with each Mission trip.  She said the conditions were just awful, but the children were her bright spot; they're so loving and excited to meet new people.  The children speak English, but some of the things in the pen-pal letters had to be explained, like 'I like to eat hot dogs' does not mean real dogs.
I'm so proud of my mother-in-law, and I hope you will keep her in your prayers.
If you're interested in going on a Mission trip, local churches in your area are the best place to start inquiring.  You don't necessarily have to be a member of that church to participate, but the church will have more information for you.