First Day of School Idea

How do you commemorate the first day of school? I always take a photo of all 3 of my kids together in the front yard. Last year I also took a picture of them walking away. I always liked to take a picture of them at school too but now that my oldest is in high school, it is a little embarrassing for her to have her mom follow her into class for a photo.

Today a friend posted this idea of facebook:

This is not any child I know. But I liked the idea. I don't think I am willing to buy a chalk board for the photo shoot but my white board might work just fine. I do have to wonder if any of my kids will actually hold up the board since my youngest is almost 12. Our first day of school is in another week. I will start working on the kids and getting them used to the idea.

Back to School Layout

My kids don't go back to school for another month but I am ready. I decided to put together a layout celebrating the kids going off to school last September.

I used the Scholastic Workshop on the Go Scrapbooking Kit (G1049). All workshop on the go kits have a stamp set that you can't buy any other way. This one is no exception. I love the School Xing stamp in this kit. I also used the little letters from the Scholastic My Stickease Assortment (X7159C) and the larger letters are from the Canvas Alphabet set (Z1777).

I loved the pictures of my three kids walking off to their three different schools. This paper went perfectly with it.