In preparation for the new school year, I decided to give our blog a much needed overhaul. The old layout simply wasn't working for me anymore, so I decided to brush up on my HTML/XML skills, experiment with digital scapbooking and tackle a new design. For the most part, I'm quite pleased with the results and hope that it will allow for easier updates throughout the year. The graphics used were from free digital scrapbooking sets found at Shabby Princess.

My number one pet peeve (and it's huge!) is that all of our rounded photos have a white background, which means they stand out rather unattractively now. I briefly debated removing and correcting all of the pictures, but that would have been a massive undertaking that I wasn't quite up for, so they remain. Eventually as new pictures are added, the old pictures won't be so prominent, but for now they bug me tremendously!