While doing LOAD, I kept coming across photos that I thought would make a good story. Or that I’d been meaning to do a page about for awhile, and hadn’t done. Case in point:

I bought these paper and stickers with this particular page in mind. He’s about 2 in these photos. He’s 8 now. No time like the present!
At any rate, as a result of finding and pulling all these pictures my work area on my desk was getting smaller and smaller. So, I attempted more digi with the Port Au Prince kit from Songbird Cafe:

And then the freebie kit that Sweet Shoppe gave away in Ella Publishing’s website. Oh, and if you’re looking for inspiration and information along the lines of what Simple Scrapbooks magazine was providing, check out Ella. They sell ebooks aimed at the scrapbooking community.

Another template and digi papers and embellishments from Songbird Cafe and Sweet Shoppe. I scanned some pictures of my mother-in-law and went crazy with the paint overlays from Port Au Prince.

And Cathy Zielske had a free template on her website. Which I took full advantedge of. I love free!

Then I got my desk cleaned up, and put together this page: I love the big picture from the U2 concert. and I had fun decorating the grungeboard hinge to look a bit like a guitar.

And then I got started on Ethan’s baby book. I know, I know. He’s 8! But there is no should in scrapbooking, or at least I don’t believe that there is, and now is when I’m ready to tackle the baby book.

I tried to keep it simple, and bright. I really don’t like pastels for baby pictures. I like happy colors, not wimpy colors. And my kids really weren’t super quiet as babies. I still remember the evenings of Jonathan swinging the kids around in the car seat to calm them when they were fussy.

He didn’t start out chunky, but look at him later:

Lots of chins and drool! that’s my boy!

The prompt from Lain concerned group photos, and it reminded me of this photo, one of my grandparents all time favorites:

The other comment Grandpa always made was, everyone is smiling, even the dog. Who I cut off to fit the photo onto the page. That was a Jessica Sprague template that I rotated to fit the orientation of the photo.
And then on Saturday, I powered through the rest of Ethan’s baby book. I just have to add some journaling spots, and it will be all done. I’ll work on that in the copious free time I have;)

And then, for my last day of LOAD for February, I worked on a few pages from my Everyone Can Write A Little class that I took from Cathy Zielske last year. I’ve got a bunch of tweets and status updates chosen, and I’ll add to the book as I have time. Then next year, I’ll do the same for 2010, and then for 2011. Nothing like planning ahead, right?

So that’s all I’ve got for the moment. I hope you enjoyed these. I loved adding these moments to my story. Are you telling your story yet?