SPRING BEAK baby!!

It's SPRING BREAK!!! YAY! And to start, I went on a date...with Ashley! I used to do this more often, but it's nice to take the girls out alone for some mom and daughter time. Ashley wanted to see the movie, Coraline. This movie is sooooooo cool...cool but also freaky!

I swear I will never look at buttons the same again!! Ashley read the book when she was in 4th grade and she begged me to buy it for her. She has since read it over 17 times (tonight she said 17 but I have a sneaky suspicion that she is under her covers with a flashlight reading it again as I type...)
Anways, GREAT movie, but not one for the little ones. OH and it's in 3-D so you get to wear these cool Steve Erckel looking glasses. 3-D glasses are no longer those flimsy paper frames with blue and red film...nope they are more sophisticated, sleek black-framed things with actual plastic lenses. PLUS the movie industry *knew* that the green people wouldn't like the waste, so they placed recycle boxes outside of the theater so that they can use 'em again. Score one for them. :)

Here's the DARE for the week...it is a little late, but we were barbecuing yesterday evening...it was nearly 70 degrees!! It's a great start to our Spring..kind of ironic that yesterday was the Vernal Equinox, too...maybe it's a sign of things to come! Anyways. The layout. The challenge forced me to scrap on a personal level. I put a twist on the "what if" challenge because I am a firm believer that all things happen for a reason...so there's nothing I would do to go back in time to change...especially my biggest "mistake" ever. To me, it wasn't a mistake...it was destiny.


and my layout...I hope you will play.
Credits:

Metal clip from Xtreme Teen by Kim Hill at CG Essentials
Background paper from A Walk in the Park, Overlay on photo from Dec. freebie, Journal Block and button from With Love, and Recycled Alpha: Graph paper by Leora Sanford at Little Dreamer Designs
Arrows and stitching, New Zealand Naturals by Lauren Reid at Little Dreamer Designs
Font: CK Kollette
Action used on photo is SX-70 by Totally Rad! Actions

Journaling on paper reads: some might think that if i could go back in time and change one thing, that it would be to go back and make better choices growing up, especially during my high school years..they may think that if i went back and changed all of the mistakes i made, i could have saved myself from a lot of heartache, trials and unhappiness. some think that i could have had more of a normal high school experience if only i hadn’t made the choices that i made. what if i hadn’t gone to that party…what if i hadn’t met your dad…what if i hadn’t made that one choice that altered my life forever. what if i had taken the road intended for me…
Journaling in the arrow box reads: i am who i am because i made those choices. yes, i experienced hardships that a teenager should never have to go through, but i have you and i wouldn’t change it for the world.

Symbolism: The picture is symbolic of the two directions that my life could have gone (one easier than the other) and the arrow is symbolic of the direction I *did* take.