Laura Vegas

i was sooooo close to having a new digital layout to share with you. there are just two things left to do on it, but those are two things that seem to be taking me forever to finish. soon, i promise. will you settle for a paper layout 😉

this is another one of my layouts that i created for my bella blvd submission, using their man of the house collection. it only made sense to do a layout about the man of our house, joe. i know i have used both of these photos on other layouts, individually. but that's no reason i can't use them again, and this time together. the colors that the girls and i were wearing in our family photo didn't quite match the colors of the papers, so i changed our family photo to black and white. i like mixing color pics with black and white pics every now and then. in fact, my good friend and a brilliant scrapper erin clarkson, did a blog post about this technique HERE.

i am totally aware and grateful that i got a good man for myself. he really does work hard for this family and to provide for us and take care of us. he works 6 days a week. 5 days at his day job. which is really a night job, since he works nights. he gets what sleep he can, and then is out helping coaching both the girls soccer teams. he only signed up to be an assistant coach for alyssa's team. but seeing that sarah's team didn't have the help they needed, he stepped up and is doing all he can to be their assistant coach too. and he spends another day out umpiring baseball games to bring in some extra money. and that's just right now. when baseball season is in full swing, he umpires like crazy, taking all the games he can get. right now, it's just games on sundays. and on his one day off, he does his share around the house. i give him props, since he does a huge amount of the housework. one of the things that he's taken over is the floors. vaccuming, sweeping, mopping. and he constantly complains about all the hair that he finds, which isn't unusual in a house with 3 long haired girls. lol! but he puts up with it. and we thank him for it 🙂

supplies: 
man of the house distinguished paper by bella blvd, man of the house billboards paper by bella blvd, man of the house bits of bella paper by bella blvd, man of the house alphabet and bits stickers by bella blvd, quickutz polka dots embossing folder, making memories metal star, making memories pewter mini brads