Look Mom .. No Training Wheels

My little boy isn't so little anymore. He came to us yesterday and asked if we would take the training wheels off of his bike and teach him how to ride like the big kids. he is 5 1/2 years old and we figured it was a good time. He's not all that tall, kind of short actually, but he tries. He has a 16 inch bicycle and his feet barely reach the ground with his seat on the lowest level. While I was searching for the kickstand to put on his bike his Dad took the training wheels off and started to teach him. I did my part and helped him learn a bit as well ... but I needed to take pictures, so I left most of the training up to Daddy. It didn't take him that long to figure out the balance part, but he needs a LOT of work on the steering and the speed control. He likes to go WAY TOO FAST! This makes him run into things and fall over. He ran into a big truck (the bumper) and hit the curb quite a few times. He needed quite a bit of room to ride, so most of his training was done in the street. Luckily there is a circle at the end of our street and it isn't busy at all. He's doing great .. I am SO proud of him. He's a Big Boy now.
For these layouts I used the June Sports Spectacular Mega Kit from SOTB. Fonts are Marydale and Dirty Fingers.

Look Mom .. No Training Wheels

Created this today, after taking a TON of photos of Andrew learning how to ride his bike like a big kid. For this layout I used the June Sports Spectacular kit from SOTB, the Cycling section in particular, created by Trish Richhart. The Font I used is Dirty Finger.

Still Around .. New Layout

I'm still around, honest. Things have been so crazy this summer, with the move and all. I've been scrapping, just haven't been posting here .. I know, shame on me.

I am currently on 3 creative teams. I work mainly with designers at Digitals .. and my goal is to complete all of the challenges there each month. I also do the Rockin Recipe Roundup Crop at SOTB each week.

I have completed a ton of layouts since I last posted here. They can all be seen on my fotki site. I will start posting more here as I get them done. Here is one that I did up this morning.

The kit I used is Games People Play, by Jamie Conn, available at digitals. The alpha is by Alisha Hess and is called a Clear Bubble Alpha, no longer available. The fonts are Kristen ITC and Gracey's Curse.
I took these photos yesterday at our neighbor's 6th Birthday party. I hope they like the layout. We just moved here a month ago and Wesley is pretty much the only other boy in our building for my children to play with. They don't mind playing with the girls, but having boys around is nice too. Everyone had a great time at the birthday party. The cake was frozen when his mom picked it up at the store, but it was fine when it was time to eat it .. the ice cream on the other hand, had melted .. the kids didn't seem to mind though.