Summer Catch-Up

My Muse finally struck again and I have been able to knock out a few pages lately. WAY behind on P365, wonder if I should give that up?!?! Feeling like a lost cause at this point...but these are some of my best pages to date!

{Capturing Leighton's Biggest moment. Asking Jesus into her heart and life!!!}

{July}

MW 2.5

Lo 4.5

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.  :)

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. :) 

Micah's Scrapbook

While in the hospital I started trying to figure out how to do a blog book. I don't need anything fancy, just really want my blogs in printed form just to have as a back-up copy in case "big brother" aka Google ever crashes. I had to laugh when I stumbled across my first ever blog post. In it I say how this was going to be my digital scrapbook because "who knows when I will ever actually scrapbook our lives!" At the time I didn't know about digital scrapbooking, I thought there only was paper. Now here I am nearly two years later and fairly caught up. I know lots of you want to do this and I just want to say you can, it isn't as hard as you may think. Believe me I am illiterate when it comes to computers; just ask my husband when I call him in the middle of the day for "tech support."

Back to Micah's Album:

{7 months}

{8 months}
{9 months}

Family Album:

Leighton's Scrapbook: caught up for the moment

Well my final push to get everyone's scrapbook caught up before month's end is coming to fruition. Yay! Of course as all good scrappers know you only ever caught up for the moment, if it is even possible. I just have a few pages left for our family album, but those seem less important than the kids' albums for whatever reason. But know that I am "caught up" I hope to stay that way and do the pages as they happen as opposed to waiting 6+ months. HA! We shall see.

Here is a look at Lo's through {almost} all of September.

{July}

{August}
{September}

Micah's Scrapbook {pt2}

After posting pt 1 of Micah's scrapbook, I found the motivation to get his scrapbook caught up. Now if I can keep it that way and get Lo's caught up I will be golden.

As always click photos to view larger.

{Newborns}: all photo taken by Ginger Skillen Photography.


{Month 4}

{Month 5}

{Month 6}