I love my creative friends

I just have to say thank you to Lisa (and Amy) for being so brilliant and creating this spread. Sometimes my brain just doesn't function and that is when "scraplifting" comes into play. I had done all of Ava's "month" pages from 5 mo. to 12 mo. except this one. I just didn't love the pictures and so had no motivation to scrap it. But now, thanks to Lisa and Amy, I love this spread. And I now love the pictures too. Thanks my creative friends! What would I ever do without you?

Brothers

So what do you do with all the "random" pictures you take? Well, I decided that I would just do one spread of my favorites. These were from our time in Hawaii, 2002-2003. I think that these pictures paint a very clear picture about how life was when we lived out there. Obviously I had total and complete control of the situation.

I liked it so much that I will probably do something like this for every year. Not only of the kids together but one spread for each child. Sometimes there just aren't enough to do an entire spread...but I think this way you will get a snap shot of them for the year. So, we'll see how it goes. I do have plenty of random pictures that need something done with them.

Ava - just born

One of those pages that is SO important that I never want to do it. I'm happy to have it done, and to like it. Amazing. Simple and sweet. We didn't have the best pictures from the hospital - so not bad considering the pool I was choosing from.

Ava - One year old

This was one where the finished product actually matched the picture in my head. I think this is one of my new favorites. So girly, so simple.

Ava - 11 months old

Can I just say how much I LOVE using flowers. It is so exciting to be able to do a "girly" page. I used to look at Lisa's pages and think "well, of course these are beautiful, these are girl pages!" and then I would go home to ALL of my boy pages. Well, now it is my turn to have girl pages and I love it.

Ava - 10 months old

Not sure...need some input here. I like it, but does it need something on the page with just the one picture? Two smaller pictures running down the left side of the page?

Ava - 7 months old

Just plain and simple. I was struggling that the page was too boring and then I decided to cut out the little section between where the flowers overlap on the patterened paper and let the darker cardstock show through. It was just what it needed for me to be happy.