Yes my dear daughter, I am finally posting something here!!
Ashley set this scrapbook blog up for me when she started her scrapbooking blog. I have to live on the computer for my work...and now I am teaching all new subject matter this year with 5 differents preps...so not much free-time at the moment.
I am still working on trying to take half-way decent pictures of pages I create.
Needless to say, I haven't quite figured it out yet.
I am posting a few more of the pages that photographed ok...that were completed for my son Colt's scrapbook I made him.
I was happy that I met the goal of having the book done so I could personally give it to him when we went to DC to visit him prior to school starting the beginning of August. I think there were 53 different layouts done in the book...yes, you could say I got carried away.
The great thing was the look on his face as he went through the book. It made my day:)
Ashley and Chris were my motivators and teasers as I stayed in the "dungeon" to get it done.
There were many challenges in doing this book...
Photographs from before digital even existed ...without negatives, pictures that had the date/time embedded on the photo, polaroid pics, ...and the challenge list goes on.
Needless to say, trying to include pages/pictures of various events, times through 27 years was a challenge...and attempting to meet a goal/challenge to have it done.
So...here are a few more pages that were included in the book that the picture of the layout turned out enough to see.
I will post them through picassa to here...
Bye for now:) Back to the lesson planning!
Clint and I were not able to attend Colt's Captain pinning since it was out of state. Thankfully, Colt's friend Patrick was able to email us a few pictures of the moment. I happened to have an embroidered label taken off of an old jacket so utilized this on the layout. This was one of the layouts I scrambled to add at days end prior to leaving to see Colt and present him with the album. Glad it was included for the memories:)
Dynamite pretty much fits for a layout in Colt's album. The goal on the layout was to capture the transitions. Ashley and Chris's wedding was such a special moment and memory in our family's life! Clint and I are so blessed with our children!!!
portray his lifestyle and activities. When he saw the Fiesta Island it was "oh...thanks mom" but then realized how being clipped and injured at this triathlon did impact him...ahh...the memories. The mud run in the picture below pretty much sums up how Colt participates in an event...to participate fully in all aspects of the event.
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This layout was put in the book after Colt's birth layout. It was a collection of pics to capture moments through all the years up to shortly before giving him the book. The pics are those not included anywhere else in the book and to me express not only moments in Colt's life but parts of Colt's personality that are captured in his face, etc. I love how you can view one layout which captures a variety of all the years. 
layout was another specific challenge. For one, the pics were not taken on a digital camera....but 27 years ago! There were also dates on some of the pics. So, the page was created from trying to capture moments of the day. What was special to include on the opposite page (not so much for a layout...but the journaling) was the message my husband and I wrote shortly after our son was born in a baby book. I was able to copy these pages and include them for our son to read. I had his baby book stored away with other keepsake items. Oh my gosh...how the sentiments we wrote then regarding our dreams for Colt have come to be! How special it was to read and reflect after all this time!!
