The tabs across the page here at the top are separate pages. Finland-Sweden trip is a link to my journal blog I kept during my trip there. Farm sweet Farm is pictures of the house, ect that we spent 2 1/2 years in-our first taste of "country living" during our married years. (And are just leaving) This is a work in progress for my scrapbook. House to Home page is the picture journal of making our "new" house in the West part of the state into our home (On-going current)
**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.
One of my projects was to make a scrapbook from the pictures I used in Carin's "mom's in the photo" challenge from last year. I took a few liberties changing things around a bit, and also added a couple additional pages. I want to thank Carin again for a wonderful and very fun challenge, I honestly didn't think I could do it. In looking back on my photos including me, I went quite a bit over the "required" one a week!
And you still don't get a good one. All I wanted was a picture with us and all 5 of our grandkids together. Unfortunately for me, this was only my priority, no one elses.
Sometimes it's really not the nicest thing to have so many others who carry cameras and like to take pictures. It means scenarios like this:
Me: I need to make sure I have my camera with me. Them: Don't bother mom, everyone has theirs & there will be lots of pictures.
Right. Um huh! I have issues with that one, because the truth is, people take pictures of what THEY want, WHEN they want it. Then when the occasion is all over if I gave in and counted on someone else taking all the pictures, then the conversation goes something like this:
Me: So where are pictures of the "_____" Them: oh, I didn't take any of that! Or: Why would you want pictures of it? Or: I didn't think that mattered Or: They weren't around, so I figured we could get pictures later (we all know later dosen't happen...) Or: I figured someone else was getting pictures of that. Or: ____________
"whine, whine..."
O.K. You get the idea. Of course the other problem with not taking pictures yourself is that you have to wait on the other people to share. Then not only am I impatiently waiting, but I have to deal with others who are impatiently waiting also & can't figure out why "I" don't have any to share yet.
"whine, whine..."
Obviously I'm not going to put a big picture of these on my wall--
Then again...on second thought It's my life. Why not? You don't get much more real than this! My life isn't Perfect and neither are the pictures!
52 WEEKS OF PHOTOS WITH ME IN THEM--I DID IT! Now I probably have more pictures of me taken in this last year than in who knows how many years before that! I know that some weeks I didn't have a new one and posted an "oldie" but then some weeks I had more than one photo with me in it also! I have to admit that along with becoming more conscious of trying to be in photos with my kids, it's also had the effect of making me quite conscious (and irritated at myself) when I miss an opportunity. That's what really gets me....! One week from today is our daughters wedding, and I will have more photos with me in it. Since there is one more Thursday in the month, and considering the occasion I will have a bonus "52 weeks" post. I also plan to do something fun for a "grand finale" of my 2009 - 52 weeks posts, so watch for that in January (I hope!)
Here's a few more from our last day up in ND. I really meant to post these with the first ones, but ran out of time so I thought I'd post them later and then forgot :(
Kyrie & Jessi in their matching dresses that I had Great G'ma Cilla make for them
Grammie with 4 of my grand-sweeties, Kyrie, (5) Barrett, (5 days) Jessi (3 in Jan) & Trey (3 in Feb)
The group of us after Sunday a.m. meeting before we left for home. Front, Kyrie, Trey & Jessi Back, Meshayla, Lynisha, Me, Dalyana with Barrett, and Wade. ****************************************
Last week (Friday eve) our friends Dan and Cyndie hosted a couples shower for Relyssa and Mark. We had a potluck supper and a wonderful evening. Here's some pictures from it.
Mark & Relyssa, with his parents on the left, and us on the right.
Opening gifts
A quilt from Marks grandparents
Relyssa & Mark
Our lovely hosts, (and my "Sistah")--Cyndie & Dan
One more picture of girl-friends. Relyssa won't be here for Lorene's birthday this year (If you remember THIS post...) *************************************************************
On Monday night this week, Kara's class had their D.A.R.E. Presentation & Graduation. Her essay was one of two picked to be read.
The class preformed a song for us. (This is the 4th and 5th grade classes in her school)
Kara receiving her certificate from the deputy who taught the class.
Mom and Kara at home afterward. Oh my, I can hardly believe she's a 5th grader and not only that, but 1/2 way on her way to being a 6th grader already!
That's all for this week folks! Have a wonderful Christmas & New Years holiday!
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