School's In Session!

School is in session and boy, am I glad! Not just for the fact that I get a few mornings a week to myself, but mostly because my girls are loving it! They started a week and a half ago and so far, so good. They've been waking up ready to go and excited for school. Hattie has even gotten up early a couple mornings so we would could have enough time to walk to school. It's also been fun picking up Josie on her preschool days. She talks a mile a minute and has to tell me about everything she did that morning, including what she had for snack (for the record, today she had crackers with cheese AND peanut butter, she was quite proud that she got to have both).

On the first day of school, we did what is tradition every first day of school ... photos on the front porch. 

I loved the way the photos turned out so much, I quickly created scrapbook pages with them using Fancy Pants' Off To School collection. I did a layout for Hattie and one for Josie. Hattie's layout is on the FP blog today for the Product Spotlight on the Off To School Rub-ons. I had fun using several of the rub-ons to create this fun apple shape. Here's a little peek.

You can see the full layout here.

And here is my little cutie, Josie. She is now a preschooler! ... Sniff, sniff! ... Okay, I'm over it. She was one excited little chick and that makes me so happy. No screaming or crying when I left her. She just went right in, hung her bag in her cubby, smiled and blew me a kiss from across the room ... okay, I'll shed one more little tear, just because she was so sweet! ... Sniff!

The chalkboard Josie is holding (Hattie has it in her photos too) was my grandmother's, from her grade-school years. I'm so thankful to have it and plan to use it every year for my girls 1st day of school pics.

So, have you gotten a chance to scrapbook your kids first day of school photos? Well, Fancy Pants is having a Back To School challenge on their blog. The deadline is Friday, so there's still time to enter. Here are the details. The winner gets some of the Off To School products I used on my layouts! And if you need a little more inspiration to get you going, while you are on the FP blog, check out what some of the FP Pocket Chicks created when they took the challenge ... some super cool stuff!