Reflections

I have been scrapping like crazy and I have finished from Christmas thru March. My Easter pics were fun to scrap! It's good to just sit there, putting my creativity out there for my family and friends to see. It's also good to look back, and see all the exciting things we've already done this year. I was copying a letter I'd written to my daughter into her album and it was funny how much things have changed in a year. In the letter, I wrote how I sometimes regret not giving her a sibling! Funny, because now I am pregnant! I'm so happy that I have family pictures of us from every year. Although I'm sometimes tempted to forgo the pictures because I know that I will encounter some complaints from my husband who every year tells me he doesn't have anything to wear and asks me just to call and reschedule. (which I won't do!) I'm already thinking ahead to this year's family picture. We always get it around Christmas, and this year, my belly should be pretty big at that time. I'm not planning what I'll wear, but I am thinking of the shot I have of my husband and I with my big belly showing which was taken just before my daughter was born. It will be neat to have the same kind of picture, just with my daughter in it this time!
Summer is over, and we have one week left before school and all of the craziness of a too full fall schedule start. I'm using my daughter's school desk to scrapbook on, so I feel like I have only one short week left to get all caught up on my spring pictures before packing everything away. It's been a great summer, that went too fast as always. I still have to order a lot of pictures before I can even start scrapping the summer, but I'm sure that as I get to that, it will be nice to remember the warm summer sun, being pregnant, wearing shorts and needing to pull my long hair up in the heat.
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" I look like a bride!"

Sometimes, you just have to be in the right place at the right time! I was with my cousin as she got ready for her wedding, and when her mom put her veil on, she saw herself in the mirror, and it just hit her! She gave this pretty and excited smile, and scrunched her shoulders up. See that face? It's pure joy! I have lots of pictures from the wedding, but this pic, taken in the bathroom before the ceremony officially started, is my favorite.
Hey, guess what?! This weekend, I spent some time laying out pages in my power layout box. I planned out from Christmas through Easter 2008. I also was able to go to a crop on Sunday. (This crop is in a new location, right in my hometown, so even though I had to drive since I couldn't very well lug all my things there, it took me just minutes to get home!) I was able to complete 10 pages there, not much for 5 hours work, but at least it has gotten me started. I'm excited and now have plans to have a scrapbooking desk for myself in our new office. (Our office isn't built yet, but I have my dreams!)
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Her first look at Disneyland!

When we walked up and saw Disneyland, I was somehow able to get this perfect picture of my daughter's face in absolute bliss as she saw the park for the first time. We had a great vacation in CA! I took over 500 pictures of our time with family and sightseeing as well as the wedding we attended. (The real reason for our trip!) My daughter now wants to live at Disneyland. Since my husband and I haven't been to Disneyland since our visit 8 years ago, we had never seen California Adventure, and we really enjoyed our time there. We found the parks to be more detailed and different in little ways than the same rides they have in Disney World. We liked the little differences, since we have gotten very used to things at WDW. It was nice to notice the extras. For the most part, we found these differences in the rides, fireworks and parades to be for the better! We do think that the haunted mansion and tower of terror are better in Florida, however. Another difference was the weather! We never saw a cloud in the sky! It was very hot, in fact, you had to work to keep hydrated. The people in California do not impress me. I'm sorry, but it was my experience that had me thinking of them as rude. They shove right past you, knocking into you, without even an "excuse me" or an apology! They curse, push and even the castmembers would ignore you at times. I left CA thinking I wouldn't want to live there. They can have all that nice weather; I'll stay near the nicer beaches and have seasons, thank you very much!

Tip of the Day: When I got to Disney, I asked a photgrapher to take our picture. Thankfully, he told me that my camera was on the wrong setting, and Will was able to fix it so that all of my pictures at Disneyland would be taken as clearly as possible. I noticed that my camera would change settings often, I guess because I was taking it in and out of the camera bag a lot and buttons were getting bumped. Check the setting really quickly when you pull out your camera.

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