On a Roll

I was able to knock out three pages in one day! I don't know the last time I did that! These are all pictures from 2009. When I was looking through my folders yesterday, I had to do a double take at the dates of the folders. 2009? Really? I haven't finished 2009 pictures yet? Then I remembered the cold, hard truth. *sigh* Sometimes I feel so far behind. It can be hard not to get discouraged about it. On the bright side, at least my kids aren't 20 and I'm just now scrap booking. There have been a lot of pages done between 2009 and 2011 pictures, but just the idea of still having pictures from 2009 to scrap almost makes me tired. But I'm still working at it!

[Credits for Adventure-ous You]

I scraplifted and flipped a layout by Ali Edwards for this page. I know a lot of people are able to scrap pages with just one picture, but I'm so used to piling pictures on pages and when it came down to one picture, I almost didn't know what to do. So I got out a few old CK magazines and came across a layout that I thought would work great for this picture.

[Credits for Rub a Dub Dub]

Layout Featured

Good Afternoon! I was uploading some layouts to DigiShopTalk and noticed I had quite a few comments on one of my layouts. I do not remember getting email notifications about the comments, so I was really surprised. What surprised me the most was one comment saying that my layout was featured on the Gallery Standouts blog on February 16! I didn't even know of such a blog! It's very humbling to have my page selected for such a thing. The site is flooded with layouts and I'm shocked that mine was even looked it. If you'd like to take a peek (including great comments towards the element's designer), click here!!!

History + Rockford Vaca

Yesterday I went to the township to "protest" (don't worry, I was kind) the raising of our taxes. When the man pulled our file, I saw this picture stapled to the front. I said, "That is NOT my house" but I knew it was our property. I also knew that a trailer used to be here before our current house was. Inside the folder was a picture of our current house and garage. The man said I could have the picture of the old one so I jumped at the chance to have it! I love the history of things so this was a little treasure.

For those that don't know, our driveway used to be part of the Grand Truck Railway (I found out the official name of the railway yesterday while going through paperwork). When the previous owners bought this piece of land, they did not own the railway. The bought it from our neighbors years ago. Before that, the driveway was on the east side of the house. For those that have been here, you'll notice that the two trees that are on the east side of our property hadn't been planted yet. In 1994/95, the previous owners removed the above trailer and pole barn and had our current house put here and then built the garage in 2004.

I'm so happy to have this picture as it's a piece of history of the land we live on.

For the last week or more, I've been working on the pictures and pages of our trip to Rockford last year. I wanted to post them altogether so that is why I waited. It's kind of crazy to think that I made 6 pages of our trip, but I couldn't help it. I so enjoy including as many pictures as possible. I feel like I'm leaving part of the story out if I leave certain pictures "behind".

Last 3 Rockford Pages

Summertime Kit

Love Hearts Kit + Talk Bubbles Kit

Go!Go!Go! Kit + Flags and Ribbons No.1