Sibling Rivalry & The Waiting Game

These are my three sons. I know, I know ... I always post pictures of my daughter here but today it's the boys' turn! LOL! Anyway, left to right, that's Austin (age 8), Nick (9) and Mackenzie (6). Nick and Austin have always been the best of friends because they are only 14 months apart. And lately, Mackenzie has joined their little group. They are big Playstation buddies. However, yesterday I saw the first signs of sibling rivalry. At our elementary school, jump roping is a big deal. They have an "Hour Power Team" for kids who can jump continuously for an hour. (See this layout for the first time Austin made the team.) Austin was the jumping champion of the entire school last year by making the team ELEVEN times! Nick got close a few times but never made it ... and even Mackenzie had 51 minutes. Anyway, jumping has started again and this week was the first time kids were allowed to try for the hour. Well, yesterday, NICK became the first child in the school to make the Hour Power Team. Austin was not happy about that at all because he wanted to be first. Oh the tears that followed! I believe this could be the start of some serious sibling rivalry this year and I think Mackenzie may even get in on the action!

WAITING ...

Well, the Scrap Artist Apprentice contest is officially over this morning and winners will be announced this afternoon. I am excited to see which five will make it although all of the entries were amazing! I will leave my FREEBIE link active until the winners are announced and you have until tonight to post your ROOTS layouts and receive the posting bonus. (See yesterday's post for details). Check out the layout on the right that my good friend Mishou created with one of the freebie frames. I just love it! (Click on the layout to see all of the credits because she used a lot of stuff that I did not create.)

I also wanted to post more of the ROOTS layouts I spotted in the Scrap Artist gallery yesterday. Thank you to acamp58, cconley777, Digikaren, Jenny A, katg1006, liannallama, nightowl, Rikki, Scrappy Sandi, sneezyone and sznana for posting these beautiful layouts!

Click on the thumbnail to go to the actual post at Scrap Artist.