This is a layout I did today of my "beautiful" daughter. Not only is she beautiful on the outside...but she has one of the most beautiful hearts on the inside.
Tuesday, January 29, 2008
50TH POST
It's hard for me to believe, here I am at my first milestone of my blog. The 50th entry!
This is a layout I did today of my "beautiful" daughter. Not only is she beautiful on the outside...but she has one of the most beautiful hearts on the inside.
This is a layout I did today of my "beautiful" daughter. Not only is she beautiful on the outside...but she has one of the most beautiful hearts on the inside.
Saturday, January 26, 2008
Scrapping like a mad woman....
Saturday's Color Challenge was to use Green and Yellow. I found a few of Samuel's pictures from his 7th birthday that he had yellow and green cupcakes, and the layout just came together. I live the birthday kit I was able to use with this one.
Oddball Scrap: Thursday we were challenged to pick up an drink(some say soda, or pop) can and use it for inspiration. I of course chose COKE! Here is the boys are in 2006 when all three of them made "Student of the month" IN THE SAME MONTH! We were so surprised! (*Note Breanna was Student of the month the month after, being a girl she had to have her own month...LOL)
Saturday's Color Challenge was to use Green and Yellow. I found a few of Samuel's pictures from his 7th birthday that he had yellow and green cupcakes, and the layout just came together. I live the birthday kit I was able to use with this one.
Oddball Scrap: Thursday we were challenged to pick up an drink(some say soda, or pop) can and use it for inspiration. I of course chose COKE! Here is the boys are in 2006 when all three of them made "Student of the month" IN THE SAME MONTH! We were so surprised! (*Note Breanna was Student of the month the month after, being a girl she had to have her own month...LOL)
Friday, January 25, 2008
Go Steelers!!!
Yeah so they didn't do so hot this year, what does one expect with a new coach and a revamped team? Bettis is gone...dang it! Here is a "football" challenge I did for Scrapgirls, and it gave me a chance to scrap one of my HallowScream pictures taken at Busch Gardens in 2006, of Norm and I.
Hot off the presses!
Well I finally talked Norm into getting the printer I have been wanting for awhile now...instead of spending big bucks for a 12X12 printer, I settled for a Kodak 5500, that is just released, hot off the assembly line. I have ran into situations where I have to fax things occasionally so we went ahead and got the all-in-one (Copy, Scanner, Printer, Fax)....the biggest selling point is that the ink is much cheaper than the normal ink ($9.99 for the black, and $15 for the color cartridges). I have always preferred scrapbooking on 8.5X10 anyhow...and figure with the money I will be saving on ink, should I want another LARGER print then I can order it online. I have been printing pages like a mad woman this week. The kids are just thrilled to be finally adding the layouts to their scrapbook. Won't be long before I have to make some new albums for them. Breanna's three inch binder is starting to bulge at th seams. Today was a half day of school and the boys chose to stay home with me and Jadan promptly wanted to help me print, and file the layouts in their books. We got much accomplished.
While moving the office around, I ran into a couple of albums I knew where they were but wasn't sure what was inside of them...LOL. I hadn't seen some of these pictures since before our move into the new house, over a year ago. I found a good deal of the boys newborn pictures...call me a happy camper...let the scrapping begin. The next layout is one of the pictures I found of him, that I edited to make the butterfly. I had a sketch crop challenge last night and through the picture in the scanner....and here is what I come up with.
Oh to be young and in love. One never thinks about later down the road having pictures that are professionally done to cherish when you are only eighteen and getting married. Yep, May will be twenty years for Norm and I. I have started going through my wedding pictures and editing a few of them along the way, and hopefully will start scrapping my wedding album before too much longer. Much editing will be needed on some of the pictures...after all who wants a camper in the background?...LOL
I regret not getting professional pictures done...but will make do with the one's that I have...the pictures aren't the important part...it's the relationship and love that continue to grow. We have had our moments, but hand in hand we continue to make it work, and are blessed with children that make it all work our in the wash.
Norm, I love you and hope that the next twenty plus can be filled with laughter, love, and joy.
While moving the office around, I ran into a couple of albums I knew where they were but wasn't sure what was inside of them...LOL. I hadn't seen some of these pictures since before our move into the new house, over a year ago. I found a good deal of the boys newborn pictures...call me a happy camper...let the scrapping begin. The next layout is one of the pictures I found of him, that I edited to make the butterfly. I had a sketch crop challenge last night and through the picture in the scanner....and here is what I come up with.
Oh to be young and in love. One never thinks about later down the road having pictures that are professionally done to cherish when you are only eighteen and getting married. Yep, May will be twenty years for Norm and I. I have started going through my wedding pictures and editing a few of them along the way, and hopefully will start scrapping my wedding album before too much longer. Much editing will be needed on some of the pictures...after all who wants a camper in the background?...LOL
I regret not getting professional pictures done...but will make do with the one's that I have...the pictures aren't the important part...it's the relationship and love that continue to grow. We have had our moments, but hand in hand we continue to make it work, and are blessed with children that make it all work our in the wash.
Norm, I love you and hope that the next twenty plus can be filled with laughter, love, and joy.
Tuesday, January 22, 2008
Boy it's been a long weekend. The kids were out on Friday and again on Monday, and Monday just seemed to drag by. I enjoy my free time and the peace and quiet...and I was missing that. Today (Tuesday) was refreshing!
I got a couple of layouts done in the last couple of days..so here they are:
The most recent one is of Jordan. This one goes from birth to six years old. The pictures were taken at different intervals. The Upper Left of course was before he came home from the hospital, the second one from the top is at six months old, the Third one is just after Norm left on his deployment to the Gulf, The Fourth one was of him painting his Father's Day Plate during his WestPac Cruise. And the last one is his school picture this year. He is truly my miracle baby, two months early and only 3.14 pounds at birth...now to a thriving SIX year old....where has the time gone. They grow up right before your eyes and when you look back, it so hard to know where all the time went. Cherish the moments...
This was my Monday's Challenge: Theme - Favorite song. I chose "My Baby Girl" (artist: Tim McGraw). This is a color picture of Breanna that I turned into sepia tones then threw it in the layout. It is a picture of her at about six months old as well. She and her daddy love Gummy Bears....imagine my surprise when at six months, while teething on gummy bears, she stuck it on her forehead and got the biggest laugh. I can still hear that silly little laugh in the back of my memory. Kids are amazing!
The Picture...LOL
I got a couple of layouts done in the last couple of days..so here they are:
The most recent one is of Jordan. This one goes from birth to six years old. The pictures were taken at different intervals. The Upper Left of course was before he came home from the hospital, the second one from the top is at six months old, the Third one is just after Norm left on his deployment to the Gulf, The Fourth one was of him painting his Father's Day Plate during his WestPac Cruise. And the last one is his school picture this year. He is truly my miracle baby, two months early and only 3.14 pounds at birth...now to a thriving SIX year old....where has the time gone. They grow up right before your eyes and when you look back, it so hard to know where all the time went. Cherish the moments...
This was my Monday's Challenge: Theme - Favorite song. I chose "My Baby Girl" (artist: Tim McGraw). This is a color picture of Breanna that I turned into sepia tones then threw it in the layout. It is a picture of her at about six months old as well. She and her daddy love Gummy Bears....imagine my surprise when at six months, while teething on gummy bears, she stuck it on her forehead and got the biggest laugh. I can still hear that silly little laugh in the back of my memory. Kids are amazing!
The Picture...LOL
Sunday, January 20, 2008
You Are My Sunshine
This is a combined challenge on Scrapgirls using the colors of the "Wizard of Oz" DVD Color, and a picture of Norm I took a few years ago. I made it black and white so it would fit nicely into the layout. This is one of my favorite pictures of him.
Saturday, January 19, 2008
Revamping the blog...I am making some slight tweeks here and there, and it's starting to look more personalized, the way I like it...LOL.
These are a few pictures I snapped of the boys (Breanna's is below) one morning when they were waiting for the bus to come. The kids love to get outside first thing in the morning and run around, explore what sticks have fallen out of the trees, what the squirrels are up to...and just get rid of that last burst of energy they may have from any sugar high's they may have got from breakfast. I would rather them do that then get on the bus and to school and be bouncing off the walls...LOL.
The boys were all playing around the tree next to our driveway and I thought what a perfect photo op, since I hadn't gotten around to doing any "fall" pictures. Various things have kept me from getting their "pile of leaves" pictures...either it was too early and we had no leaves yet, it was too cold, rainy, or what ever reason...so here they are. Jordan was being funny and playing a reigndeer with twigs...I couldn't resist.
These are a few pictures I snapped of the boys (Breanna's is below) one morning when they were waiting for the bus to come. The kids love to get outside first thing in the morning and run around, explore what sticks have fallen out of the trees, what the squirrels are up to...and just get rid of that last burst of energy they may have from any sugar high's they may have got from breakfast. I would rather them do that then get on the bus and to school and be bouncing off the walls...LOL.
The boys were all playing around the tree next to our driveway and I thought what a perfect photo op, since I hadn't gotten around to doing any "fall" pictures. Various things have kept me from getting their "pile of leaves" pictures...either it was too early and we had no leaves yet, it was too cold, rainy, or what ever reason...so here they are. Jordan was being funny and playing a reigndeer with twigs...I couldn't resist.
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