My favorite scrapbook pages

Only a select few of you will want to see all of these photos. For the rest . . . don't even bother scrolling down. :) lol
Please note: I am a great copycat. I come up with very few of my own ideas. I can't take credit for many of these layouts, but I CAN take credit for the really cute kids pictured on each page.
Also, I am very behind on my books, which will explain the absence of Liv's pages. :) LOVE this page - all from scratch. I made the curtains out of velum, and you can actually "lift" them up to see the window better



nothing special about the layout, just thought i would share some joshie pics.

love the page - it soo fits josh! "A Joshiesaurus is . . ."

if you are able to read the journaling . . . that is my joshie!

just thought the photo was too cute not to share. :) got the letters for the title from HN's sizzix!! Man, I miss that thing. :)

love the page - - now to add the photos!

got the idea from creative memories. i used velum for the letters spelling "ICE"

love the stickers on the side bar.

Dino-mite Uncle was a great title for Uncle Matt - what a stud he is. :)

this one took a while - c built a tower out of videos . . . the page is covered in little construction stickers. it took a while to do, but i think it turned out nicely.






i have always liked clean lines, and thought this page "fit" together nicely





what good brothers they are :) i used two-tones circles at the top of the page




the paper behind this page looks like a terry cloth towel - very cool.

like the right page - idea came from creative memories

left page shows what Aunt Nanny can do with my boys and markers - if you zoom in to Calvin's back you will see that Jan wrote the word "turd" on there. Hmmm.

i had no idea how to jazz up those photos - no real theme and no stickers to add, so i punched a bunch of dots and there ya go.

love the stickers - used CM square punch to make the little box frames

this one is one of my mostest favorite pages - doesn't even need journaling

My first "real" page done - Josh's first girl scout cookie






each year on Labor Day our stake hosts "Family Day at the temple - the temple opens on Monday just for our stake. That way we can "labor" for our families. It is awesome! i had to do a page for each boy's book, and these are the two formats i came up with for the same photos this is a different year - my favorite photo is on the right page, top left. the sun's rays were just perfect as the boys walked up together

This page isn't really that great, but the idea behind the activity IS! I boiled several boxes of spaghetti noodles in colored water and put them all in a small swimming pool. Added a slide and some kids, and we had a great time!!

we spent thanksgiving at the fire station that year

calvin's first fishing trip. greg still needs to journal that page.

Festival Days!

Our city's annual festival happened recently! Yay - we always love it. We didn't go to the parade this year, but had a good time (free time) just the same.

You see that Josh had no problem doing flips on the bungy . . . he even had a cheering squad. Some people were standing outside the fence cheering him on and giving him tips. They were cute - no idea who they were.

Calvin, on the other hand . . . . had a cheering squad; his brother and cousin. "Do a FLIP!!" they yelled. Calvin said that he could feel the "throw up" in this throat and tried to keep it down the best he could. He didn't think the bungy was as fun as Josh did. ha ha. Poor kid!

STRAWBERRY TIME!!

So, Greg picks 5 gallons of strawberries so that I will have something to can.
I, in turn, tell my dear "old" friend that she will learn to make strawberry jelly this year (actually, I told her that she would learn to make it last year but we were too busy having babies to make jelly). :)

It becomes a family affair.
Here's the breakdown of responsibility:
The moms wash and stem the berries
The children get the juice out of the berries (amid "boyish" comments about the juice looking gruesome)
The moms cook the jelly and fill the jars
The dads screw the lids onto the jars and moved them to the table to cool

Four batches of jelly later but still more juice to go, we call it a night.

This is the good life, people!
Now, this is no special jelly recipe, but I think I will enter the jelly into the county fair this year. I don't expect to win by any stretch of the imagintation, but at least I can say that I entered the county fair! lol.

Our latest celebrities!

Well, not really . . . but since Josh and Greg were each on a magazine, I thought I would add Liv and Calvin to the family fame. :)
I would have made Liv's face appear on a BABY magazine, but they didn't have one available - it was either "Bride" or "Hip Hop" . . . hmmm. ;)

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Another Fire

This is a great photo of the flames.

Liv's laughter part 2

She really is quick to laugh . . . thanks for sharing with us!

And it came to pass . . .

That I found my camera cord!!
Now, let's get this started . . .

100 ACCELERATED READER POINTS!!

He finally made it!!! Whew! He got a bookbag at 50 points and a T-shirt at 100. I don't think he will earn much more before the school year ends, but we don't mind - - we are very excited about this. Even his teacher from last year (actually 1st and 2nd grade were with the same teacher and class) found him in the hall to congratulate him! They broadcast the news of AR "winners" over the morning news via TV, so the whole school saw him. Yeah, yeah, I am bragging I know. :)

LIVA-LOU and JOSHA-POO

Don't ask me, but that is what Greg calls the two of them. We finally let Liv venture into the food-storage and play room area recently. Josh was showing her the food from their play kitchen. btw: This is the most awesomest kitchen ever! We have had it for a few years (Santa) and it is still just as good as when it arrived. I have little doubt that my grandkids will even be playing on it.

Oh, and the play room and food storage are not together - - that would be dangerous. :) The food is behind Liv (you can see our empty water drum in the background) and Josh is coming out of the playroom.

SPRING BREAK FUN

We took the boys bowling (for free) but made up for the freebie by going to Medieval Times Restaurant. Kids ate free during Spring Break, but we still dropped a load of cash that we would NEVER usually spend on food (tax season does bring perks. lol) **We opted for Medieval Times over Six Flags this year.

We had sooo much fun! We cheered for "our knight" and boo-ed the rest. The boys were so in to the whole thing, that it made the night just perfect. We ate with our fingers and no one seemed to care that half our food was hanging out of our mouths while we cheered and yelled (their food was hanging just the same as ours!).

The only "downside" according to Greg was this: the knights would throw roses into the audience to young ladies as they saw them. Our knight pointed to Liv and threw her a rose . . . the old lady next to Greg jumped over him to grab the thing . Greg wasn't a bit happy, but I figured the lady probably got more use out of it than Olivia would have. :)

DOGWOODS

So, I recently discovered the Dogwood trees that we planted in our yard a few years ago. They smell sooo pretty! Spring is here!

FLAG CEREMONY

Calvin neede to participate in an outdoor flag ceremony for scouts. We talked with the school and they let him help the safety patrol one afternoon. Can you see how excited he was to carry the flag inside?! :)

Yes, yes - we take cub scouts very seriously. :)

KBB, do you recognize that shirt?? ;)

(How do you like my attempt to disguise the young safety patrol next to Calvin?)

FISHING

Greg took the boys fishing twice last week. Once at the park and once at "Mr. Dudley's house". Mr. Dudley is a wonderful little old man in a wheel chair who loves our family and we sure love him. He helped Greg fix a Go-Kart for the boys one year, and then asked for it back so he could tinker with it some more. . . he returned it with a new engine and a two-seater deal! It is so much fun. This is why having land (1 1/5 acres) is worth the work. lol.

Anyway, Mr. Dudley has a lake in his yard and also seems to have fish as well. Calvin wouldn't touch his fish, nor would he bait his own hook, but had no problem watching Greg filet the fish later at home. Me? I had to walk out of the room while Greg did his thing. :(

Liv and Daddy
Liv's famous tongue!! Dad is plugged into his iPod . . . sometimes I can hear him singing as he cuts the grass. I don't think he knows I can hear him. lol.

MORE POSTS COMING SOON!

Soooo, I have some good pics to post . . .
AND, I would post them right now . . .
but I can't find my camera cord.

For those who keep up with my day-to-day life, you will know that I have also misplaced my cell phone. Last week I lost my wallet (only to find it at Kroger . . . thank goodness!!), and I think that this week I will lose my mind.

As an aside to T. Jay and Crystal . . . at least I didn't lock my keys in my car! lol. ;)

Sooo, I will have more to post when I locate the technology I need to do so.

For those who might be tuning into our blog for the first time and need a bit of history (you know, the whole "What have you been doing all these years?"), check out our first post http://ourpemberly.blogspot.com/2007/10/okay-so-this-is-my-first-blog-post.html