You Two

I love watching my son and step daughter together. I just had to scrapbook this photo of the two of them!! They have such a special sibling relationship and friendship. M is always watching out for Cam and being so helpful toward him. She treats him just like an older sister would a younger brother. Their relationship is so much better and just MORE than I ever could've imagined it being.

Date Night Scrapbook Pages

(Photos from 2015)

I have been busy in the scrapbook room lately. Trying to scrapbook all of the giant container of photos I've had printed for Project Life and our scrapbook. Since I graduated from school, I have had time to actually scrapbook and it's been awesome!! The page above is from a mini golf date night we had, and the page below is from a date night when we went to a local concert. Not a fantastic photo of it, but I love the layout in person. 

(Photos from 2014.)

One of the things I make sure we do occasionally is go on dates still. I think it's so important to keep "dating" your spouse even after you are married. I absolutely still need that alone time with him even though we have kids 24/7. (I also make time for myself in the scrap room - also important! ;)

Hippo Love

Last year when we went to the zoo Cameron just loved the Hippos! I never expected him to be so obsessed with them, so I had to document it for his scrapbook.

I mostly used the Bella Blvd Zoo Crew Collection Kit to create this page, along with a graph Project Life 3x4 journaling card that I cut down to fit. The alpha is this one from Ali Edwards and the chipboard I had on hand already.

Easter Egg Hunt

Our kids love to hide Easter eggs around the yard. I did a Project Life layout for my friend Tara's class over at Big Picture Classes recently about how they love to hunt for them, and thought I'd share it. :)

To create the spreads, I used papers from the Jade Project Life kit and word art from Ali Edwards. The font I used to journal was CK Becky.

Sometimes I like to do these layouts and just create a regular old layout in this format, rather than a week-based layout. It's all about getting those stories told, after all.

Animal Love

I've been getting back into all aspects of scrapbooking and it feels really good. :) I bought this kit from One Little Bird the other week for another project (more on that soon), but decided I wanted to use it on this page of me and Cam too.

My computer hasn't been running right recently, so J reloaded it yesterday. Man, it feels good to start out with a clean slate. This process really made me go through all of my old stuff and clean it out. I burned a bunch of products I don't use much anymore (baby products and random other stuff) onto CD's. Freed up quite a bit of space on my external hard drive. The rest I finally moved over to my computer so I see it and use it more.

I've also been creating real, paper layouts recently. My soon-to-be step-daughter M wanted to learn how to scrapbook, so I bought her an album and have been helping her put together layouts. She's quite the little scrapbooker. I really enjoy helping her, and it's actually made me sit down and do some layouts myself too. I'll have to show you some soon. Still been working on our 2014 Project Life album. Slowing getting all those weeks done!! I'm working on a layout I really like today so I'll share it soon too.

Other than that, I've been cooking and baking. I've made dinner several times this week since I was off work on staycation. I baked brownies earlier in the week and my hubby-to-be's favorite cookies Snickerdoodles today. I normally am not a good cookie baker, but man, these turned out great!! I got a lot of wedding planning done this past week, as well. Also, I found THE dress last Thursday!!! But that's another post itself... ;)

What have you been up to this weekend?

Friends are good for the soul...

 

In December, I was lucky enough to be able to reconnect with Lillian. We met on Twitter about 4 or 5 years ago. She moved down here, and we were able to get together to scrapbook and get our boys together for play dates. I miss her and was so excited when she told me her and her husband would be in town to visit. We had a lunch date and it was so much fun. Can't wait to see her again sometime! 

This was the first digital scrapbook layout I've done in years (literally!). It felt good to play around with kits again, and made me want to buy some new ones soon.

Products used: "Geocaching" digital template by 2pawsdesigns. "Storyteller" kit by Paislee Press and One Little Bird. Word art from "Thank You Friend" by Ali Edwards for Designers Digitals.