Summer and Fall 2012

The New Year is upon us and I have loved spending lazy Christmas break days catching up on my scrapbooking.

Summer Pt 2.
{July}

{August}
I love watching my kids play superheros and this Christmas they got their own real capes. So I foresee more comic book pages!

Potty Training MW kicked off this summer. I am pleased to say we are nearly there. He isn't even 2 yet and he tinkles in the potty like a pro. Now for the big business...well that is another story. But very few diapers for this mommy! I feel lucky to say I have only had to do 4 years of diapers for 2 kids!

{October}

Our annual trip to the Pumpkin Patch

Halloween 2012

Summer 2012 Pt 1

Now that I don't have a baby to scrapbook every single milestone any more this scrapbook thing has gotten a bit easier. HA! At this point I am pretty much desperately trying to get caught up with summer pages. I get in the cycles of scrap scrap scrap and then I don't forever...goal is to get summer done before fall and Christmas hit.

{July 2012}

This page was inspired by THIS page and THIS blog post. The moment I saw it I knew I had to "copy" it. The blog post was probably the most poignant mommy post I have ever read. It is something that still sticks with me today. This mommy business is hella hard most days, but man when you slow down every now and again and just soak in a moment with your kids, you tend to remember why you had kids in the first place. I am always on the look out for those Kairos moments daily.

These two babies are my world and I thank God I get to be here and be there mommy.

{Summer Highlights 2012}

Seems like the only thing we did this summer was swim! Guess that is a given when it is over 103* nearly every day. And don't rub your eyes these are the same pages just with each kid's pictures interchanged. Two pages in 1 hour. Done.  :)

Spring 2012

{February 2012}





{Mar 2012}

{May 2012}

So I never really got around to scrapping MW's nursery...thought I better do something before I change it all this summer. HA!

So dare I say it I am pretty much all caught up for 2012, besides a few family things. Guess that leaves more time to watch Gilmore Girls re-runs. ;)

Scrapbook 2012 Pt1

Hello! Welcome to my new scrapbooking blog!
Why the change you ask?
Well, 1. because it will take up less MB on my other blog and
2. it can serve as place to answer questions that come up regarding scrapbooking.

I will eventually start moving have moved over past posts from my personal blog.

And now without further ado
{2012 Pt.1}
{Jan 2012}

{Feb 2012}

{Mar 2012}

{Apr 2012}

You may notice these pages are the same...I have said it before, but one of the wonderful things about digi scrapbooking is you can make a few minor changes in photos and elements and viola two pages suited for each kid!

Scrapbook Pages 2011

 I am slowly getting caught back up again. I swear to myself every time I get "caught" up to stay that way, but something always seems to pop up like facebook. HA! To keep me from doing it. :)

 Here are the pages from the end of the year for our Family Scrapbook. The beauty of digi scrapping is I can print these pages 3x and get them in everybody's books. Easy peasy lemon squeezy. :)

{Christmas 2011}
I have SO many pictures from Christmas and all we did leading up to it. A good scrapbooker probably would have taken the time to scrap each "event." Me not so much. I love collages and just "threw" them all in one big Christmas Tradition Page

Santa!!

Christmas Eve--where I sucked it up big time, and left our camera at my MIL!!! Grrrr... And had to use our video camera to take pictures. Better than nothing? Maybe. ;)
A friend of mine, who rocks at photography, told me black and white is more forgiving of crappy pictures, so we shall see how this comes back from the printers...

Family Christmas Festivities. Haven't decided about this page yet...something different that is for sure.

Daddy's 30th Birthday. Dec 2010

Year in Review of Lo and MW. There were just too many adorable photos of them together to do just one brother and sister page, so once again the collage effect won out! Another perk of digi scrapping is I made Lo's page more girly for her and with a few clicks of the keyboard I popped in more boyish papers for Micah and viola in 3 extra minutes two pages.

I just love these two together, more than I ever thought I would. I know that sounds weird, but I just didn't know how the whole bro/sis thing would be. And boy do they love each other. I hope they will always be friends.

I still have a few pages from fall to catch up on and then I can finally start on 2012! I know you are all just thrilled for me. Thank you. ;)

Micah' First Year Scrapbook (10-12m)

Micah's first year scrapbook is nearly complete! I can't believe we have gone a whole year already. He has changed and grown so much. I love having these memories to look at whenever I want.

{month 10}

I need to go back and fix that journaling! Yuck. Too busy...

{month 11}



{month 12: First Birthday.}
Once I get his One Year Pics taken then I can complete chapter ONE of Micah Bear. My friend Ginger and I are having a heck of a time getting a moment where her family and mine are well to do his pics. Fingers crossed for next week!!!

And today we are getting ready to celebrate Lo Lo sissy's 3rd Birthday!! Can't believe it. Party post to come. Stay tuned. :)