Wedding day memories

**Edit note--I finally got the album to post. It's still not exactly right, and I'm leaving the individual pages on here also so they'll still be here after I remove the completed album.**

January 22 was our 33rd anniversary. I have very few pictures of our wedding day, and what I have are very poor quality. I've never had much inspiration to scrapbook them, so they've sat for all these years. Since we've had two of our kids get married this last month, and plenty of pictures to take, edit & scrapbook along with the fact that the digital scrapbooking bug has bit me pretty good; I spent the last two days scrapbooking our wedding photos.
I'm really bummed because the scrap-blog site I use has not been working right, and I could not get the whole book to open like it should, so I've finally given up and downloaded the pages & posted them individual. Because of the amount of pages, I'm posting them small. To see them better you can click on each page to enlarge them.

4 of 52-For our Anniversary

We enjoyed a special evening out at Red lobster with our dear friends. Ryan took the kids all to his place for the evening, so we didn't have to feed them before we left either!
I'm not a sea food fan, so I had the maple glazed chicken--It was awesome!
(Also thought you might get a chuckle out of this:)






Since you all know that I'm not a fan of pictures of myself, it's a challenge of it's own to post them. It's even more of a challenge for me to look into the camera screen, trying to do a decent "self picture"! (which is what I did with this first one I posted)
We did enjoy our day, however after enjoying lunch out, I slipped off the curb while getting back into our van, and twisted my ankle. It was so horrible painful I thought I was going to lose my lunch. After I determined that it wasn't broken or sprained, I hobbled thru Walmart to find buttons & elastic to finish up the outfit that I was making for Jessi for her birthday, planning to get it into the mail so she'd have it in time for her party this weekend.
No such luck. The ankle slowed me down enough that I was too late to get it in the mail in time.
Like the 2 yr. old will care...But I did!
Anyway I did manage to get it finished & boxed up, so today off to the p.o. it goes.
Thankfully after several hot soaks, & some good therapy muscle massage stuff, plus being off of it all night, other than a little stiff, it's feeling much better today.
Today...? Another birthday :) My mom's. We girls are off to take her to lunch later. You'd think this was just one big party around here.....

I missed it!

Like many others I have that handy blogger update thingy on my blog now, and I love the time it "saves" me! At a glance I can see who has just updated, without spending time going thru my list of favorites. However, like most things it has it's glitches. My Sister-in-law updated her blog with birthday pictures, and I just saw it today, A WHOLE DAY LATER! HAPPY BIRTHDAY KYLE! So I have problems remembering my own kids/grandkids birthdays, I fail on my son-in-laws, so without reminders, how am I suppose to remember the nieces & nephews??!
I suppose considering the huge population in the blogging world these days, how COULD the updater keep up to the hour with all of them? and when several people update at approximately the same time then obviously they all can't be at the top of the list. Another thing that happens I've noticed is that when you write a post, then don't publish it right away, it must post at the last time you saved it, not the actual post time.
Well, I got a little carried away on my thought there, because what started this was that when I read Lori's post I had this feeling of "wait a minute, WHO'S birthday?" I remember her posting pictures of his fun looking treats before! "WHOA! wait a minute, was that a YEAR ago?? That means I must have been blogging nearly a year now!
So, get on my blog and go back to my first post. I can't believe it. Sept. 15, 2007. I totally missed it! a month & half OVER a year. Here I thought maybe I'd have a blogaversary party! LOL!!
Oh well, it's been a great time. Even tho I do wish more people would leave comments, I'm thrilled with the new acquaintances I've made this way from those who have, I'm so glad that so many have "open" blogs, and it's been fun to read about others lives...sharing the same or different struggles, but walking the same path.
I'm also happy that even tho many don't leave comments, they DO tell me (or others in my family!) that they read my blog. I've really enjoyed being in better contact with extended family & friends I already knew. I LOVE being able to share via blogging with my away from home kids, (even if we do get rather crazy sometimes)And, last but not least, even tho I've tried to keep a diary/journal many times before, but never kept it up, for the first time I actually have a pretty consistent journal--with pictures no less--for over an entire year!

Monday May 12, 2008

Happy Anniversary to our dear friends Dan & Cyndie!!
(our adopted- by the heart- sister!)

Happy Birthday to my sister!! Happy birthday to you, happy birthday to you! Happy birthday dear Gay,
Happy birthday to you!
May 12, 1962. Gay 1 yr. b-day & Me

January 22, 1977....

Roses in the snow! Since I can't take pictures inside, I had to set my roses outside for the picture. Burr! It's really cold here today, but the snow does make a nice contrast!

Sorry, the quality of these photos is not very good...but after all, they're nearly "vintage" :*)