365 Week 3

The middle photo was taken on a day when I decided to clean out all the closets in the house. What a huge job that turned out to be!! Well during the middle of it all I hear my 3 year old yell out " I gotta pee." I turned around and there he was running to the bathroom with his pants pulled down. I'm so glad that I had a camera right next to me to catch this crazy moment in our life.

365 Week 2

Week 1 LO

So... here is my first completed LO for my 2012 Life album. This year for 365 I decided to try out Weeds and Wildflowers Everyday {Life} QP templates made just for 365 pages.  The pages are very clean and simple with 1 element and 1 WA on each page. They are designed to put the focus on your photos and journaling. You can purchase the entire year's worth of pages or just one month at a time. You can check out the pages here: http://weedsandwildflowersdesign.com/shoppe/ 

*The shoppe is also giving a way some really cute freebies, so be sure to pick them up!

Day 6

Day 3

This is a photo of my son's remote control shark.  It was the only thing that he wanted for Christmas and he loves it! 

365 Day 2

A New Year!

Hope you all had a fantastic Christmas and are looking forward to the next year.  I know that I am sure excited.  Since it;s the beginning of a new year, it's a chance to start a new 365 book. I didn't complete last years book. I became to obsessed with making sure that each of my children were equally represented in each months photos. With 5  children, , that just didn't work out too well. I became frustrated and just quit. This year I have resolved to just use my fav picture of the day and if I happen to 6 in a row of the same child, so be it! I not only want to be able to enjoy this book later on, I want to enjoy making it. So that means enjoying the art of photography too.

For example, here are two photos both taken on Jan 1. Last year I would have chosen this one because it had 4 of my 5 children in it.

This year however, I'm going to use a picture that I like better. It is my youngest son sitting on his uncle's lap eating cake.

Project 365

I just finished two weeks worth of pages for my 2011 365 Book.  What is a 365 Book? Basically you take a photo a day for an entire year and put all the photos into one album. You document every day creating a Year in Review scrapbook. I thought about trying 365 last year, but just didn't. Now I regret that I didn't create one. I think it would be very cool to have a completely done 2011 album at this time next year. What an awesome thing for my family to look back on, a year of our everyday life captured in one place … the good, the bad, and the ugly. Believe me, there is LOTS of ugly! Dirty dishes, mountains of laundry, 2 very misbehaved dogs, 5 wild kids, a herd of dairy goats… ! But I think doing this project would at least keep me in semi-scrapping mode throughout the year, whereas currently I only seem to scrap when I have a project due. 365 would force me to at least be taking some pics and jotting a few details down on a regular basis. Maybe it will help me remember all the joys we celebrate in our daily lives.  One things for sure, I can't wait to see what this year has in store for us!

My pages were made with the January Collab kit from GDS.  My font for the word "January" is Papyrus and the font for my journaling is ITC Kristen.  You can pick up the Kristen font for free over at DaFont. http://www.dafont.com/