Strawberries

I love these bright pictures - especially the big, bottom picture. It just makes me want to eat strawberries! I can almost taste them and their juiciness! As much as I try to enjoy each season, I am looking forward to spring and summer and being outside and doing such things as picking berries.

New Playlist

I added a new playlist tonight called "Mix It Up" which is a whole mix on genres from all different time periods. Right now I have it set to auto-start upon opening my blog, but if you'd like to listen to my Christian music playlist, that is still on here at the bottom of the page. I think it's fun having different playlists to choose from depending on the mood I'm in. Happy listening!

*I was SO happy to find "Ladybug Picnic" by Elizabeth Mitchell! I loved when that song was played on Sesame Street. The little things in life...*

Softball Double

I have never created a digital two page layout and I knew I wanted and needed to for these pictures and stories that accompany. I sort of created it in a 12x24 layout and drag and dropped things into my final 12x12 pages. It was kind of crazy sizing things and moving stuff around, but it all worked out. I was really happy to have Brandon tell some of his stories! He was telling me that when he was writing, he remembered things that he had forgotten with the changing of seasons and life. I'm glad he sat down to reminisce about this softball season.

I was a little leery of using flourishes on a "man" page, but I think it worked out pretty good. I asked Brandon if he thought it was girly and he said he didn't really notice them but didn't think they were girly. I later mentioned that he might want to reword something and I gave him an example and he said, "Now correcting me on this and wanting me to word it your way is like those things (flourishes/girly)." We both laughed.

I think I'm going to make some Indian tea now and work on another page! Happy Friday and enjoy your weekend! We're off to the circus tomorrow!

Cookie Monsters

Yesterday I tried about five times to post this and kept running into Blogger issues. It looks like they are cleared up now. I got tired of typing things out only to have my post denied.

These pictures were fun to scrap and as my journal says, I "narrowed" the number of pictures down to nine.

Yesterday I was thinking - again - about how thankful I am to be able to document our life stories and accompany them by photos. My parents took a good number of pictures, but I bet if I asked for stories, the smaller details would be mostly forgotten. I want to remember as much as I can.

So I encourage you: scrap away, my friends, scrap away!

Monday Pages

I saw this template on ListGirl and thought it would be fun to do with my own pictures from 2009. I made two calendars for our parents for Christmas using pictures from 2009 but didn't have any of my own to showcase for the year. So this was my perfect opportunity. It took a few days to put together because of having to stop many times. It was fun and I'm glad I did it.

This page I created today. I don't normally use journal cards. I like them but feel like I don't know how to use them. I'm hoping this journal card fits in a looks good with everything else. Normally in my pages, all of my papers are "matchy matchy" but I like using papers that don't match color for color. These colors - yellow, green and blue - are all in the same palate, so they work for me!

This past weekend I had my cousins over for a couple of nights. Both nights they sat down and were looking through my old scrapbooks. I looked through the books as they did and realized - again - how simple is "me"/my style. I noticed how pictures and the stories that accompany them were and what still are my main focus.

Now I'm off to making some cheesy broccoli soup!

Park

I think I like this page. I decided to go with somewhat of a school theme because of kids but also because of the memories I have of going there as a kid in school.

Dairy Store

I think these are fun pictures and I love all the colors in them. I really like the blue and green combo. It feels so fresh and clean!