Our 8th Anniversary

I can’t believe that we have been married for 8 years now! It has gone by so fast! This morning I was looking at some pictures from our wedding day and it brought back so many good memories. I thought I’d share a few of them. (Now these are all scanned, digital cameras were just coming out back then…HA!)The wedding party. This last one is my favorite from the day!!I have been blessed with a wonderful husband who is truly my best friend!

I love you baby, Happy Anniversary!

Becoming Crafty

A couple weeks ago I found a sewing machine at a Thrift store for SUPER cheap! I was so excited! I have been wanting one for a little while so I could do some sewing on my scrapbook pages. The only sewing I have done is in Home Ec in 6th grade and maybe once on my mom’s machine. I just have to say for learning to sew, the internet and YouTube is awesome! I learned how to thread it, set the tension, and get the bobbin all set and threaded too.

So I’ve been playing with it lately. I found a tutorial to make a camera strap cover and the second one I made came out great! I used the sewing machine to put some stitching on a layout too! (My friend, Leah, put up a tutorial on how to make those cute paper flowers! Love them!)

So now I have a bunch of ideas on what to do with my new sewing machine! If you have any tips, or easy projects for this newbie, let me know!

Dinner Drama

We have been having a lot of drama during dinnertime lately. Kalen just does not want to eat much, she mainly just wants the roll or bread. So our dinners have been accompanied by a lot of whining and crying. Well one night, after I had been trying to get her to eat with no luck, Tyler tried. At first I started to tell him to just go back to his seat, but then she ate what he was feeding her! WHAT!?!?!Oh, I see, you’ll eat when your brother feeds you, huh?? LITTLE STINKER!! Then Kalen started to feed Tyler. Mike and I were cracking up.So now when Kalen doesn’t want to eat something, Tyler quickly pops up and says, “I will do it, I will feed her!” And sometimes it works!

Remembering Great Grandma

My Great Grandmother passed away this morning. She was 100 years old.I am so glad that we were able to visit her often in these past couple years.

This was on her 99th Birthday celebration.I’m thankful that she got to know Tyler and Kalen, her Great Great Grandchildren.   And thankful that even as she aged, you could always talk to her, and she always remembered who you were.She was an amazing woman, and I’ll treasure the times that we spent together!We love you Grandma and we will miss you!!!

Some Layouts

I did another digital layout the other day. I think I will print this one 8x8. And a few more “regular” layouts. I used Sketch #38 from 52 Sketches on this next one of Kalen. It was perfect for these pictures!I love these shaped pages! I have to try to do more of them! Here is a close up of the flowers. I hope everyone has had a good start to their week. After many days of rain and gloomy “grey” weather, it is finally sunny again! I have all the windows open and there is a nice crisp breeze coming in the house! I love it and am SO ready for Fall!!

Kalen’s Turn

Kalen finally got her turn on the lawnmower today. Tyler loves to drive the lawnmower after Daddy is all done cutting the grass (when the blades aren’t on anymore). Today Kalen got to ride too!It was cute, Tyler liked driving her around.

For the Grandma’s

Did you know that this past Sunday was Grandparent’s day? I decided to use that as inspiration and made a couple scrapbook pages.

Here is one with Grandma Jan. I used a sketch from 52 Sketches for this one with Grandma Taylor.Happy belated Grandparent’s Day to you both (and to the Grandpa’s too)!

My first digital page

Well, I finally did it. I opened up Photoshop and figured out how to scrap digitally. I have been wanting to try it forever! It took me a long time, but I really love the results. My eyes are still hurting from looking at the computer screen all afternoon yesterday.I made a family page for this years Bright Lights yearbook. Bright Lights is a home school, preschool program that is affiliated with our church. Since Tyler is not going to preschool, we have decided to do this. They offer field trips and play dates for the kids and we have really enjoyed it!

I don’t think I will be getting rid of my paper scrapbooking any time soon, but I’m sure I will be trying this out a little more often.

Go Blue!!

We are all pretty excited that football season is starting!! We are trying to teach Kalen early to say, “GO BLUE!!”and, “TOUCHDOWN!!!”Hope everyone has a great football Saturday, and a good long weekend!

Some Recent Pages

I was able to get a little scrap time in the other day. Love these pictures of Tyler feeding the ducks from last fall.I joined in on the last challenge over at Scrap Whisper’s. It started with one layout to scraplift and went down from person to person. I was the last person to get the layout and this is what I came up with. This next one is a sketch from 52 Sketches 52 Weeks.Here are a few pages I did while I was at my Mom’s in July. I used a Paper Posies kit, which I loved, and it kept things simple for me! I did one layout for Tyler’s 2nd birthday and then used a divided page protector for the rest of the pictures.Now I think that I have caught you up on all my scrappy pages!

Looking back through these I realize that they mostly about Tyler!!! I better get printing some pictures of Kalen PRONTO!