Busy Busy Busy

Wow...it's the last day of June and I haven't posted hardly at all this month. Guess I have been busier than I thought. I am back working in the hearing aid department so I have a couple of day shifts a week so that has added to my plate...in a good way I might add....Jason has also started Golden West College. He's taking an automotive class for the summer so I have had to play taxi driver for him as he doesn't have a license yet. He's loving the class and I am excited that he is excited. We saw Jeremy's "hump" day come and go.....so it's all down hill from here Baybee!! I think he has something like 350 days left til we pick him up next June! I'm so looking forward to that!

Cliff and I spoke in church on Sunday.....not only did we speak.....we survived speaking! lol We spoke on Genealogy and Family History....I did the family history part and managed to weave some scrapbooking into it....in a way that made sense to people tho. I had people comment afterwards that they thought I had done a good job...some said they had never really thought about scrapping as a family history so I was glad that perhaps I had given a few people something to think about. Cliff did a good job too....I don't know why he thinks he does such a bad job....he had the audience laughing more than I did.

Remember that box of photos I found in the garage? Well while Linda was here visiting we scanned a bunch of them and I decided last night that I would scrap this one. I'm guessing gramma must have been about 6 or 7 which makes the photo over 100 years old. Since July 4th is coming up on us this week I thought it was the perfect one to scrap.

Well I'm off to play taxi service once again....so I guess this will have to do for this post. See Ya!

I just got the word.....

About this totally cool FREE class that Jessica Sprague is offering ....I am just learning Photoshop Elements and think this will be an awesome way to learn something new....go and check it out everyone!

A Busy Month

Wow my last post was from May 7th...guess I have been a bit busy. First there was Mother's Day....I had an awesome one. Talked to my missionary son for almost 45 minutes! It was so good to hear from him. Then I had an amazing dinner prepared by my wonderful husband and younger son....It was just a wonderful day! The following weekend my sister arrived for a visit. I took a couple of vacation days along with my regular days off so we had 5 days to play! We went to Disneyland and CA Adventure, hung out here at home and scrapped....did a little shopping and had a general good time being together. Now here it is Memorial Day. I'm so glad Costco is closed and I didn't have to work. I was able to attend a fundraising event for a very sweet little 4 year old girl named Avery who is battling leukemia. Jason played in a dodge ball tournament while we were there....we had awesome food and just a general great time. There were lots of my Costco co-workers there too. Here are a few photos from today. Some I took, some my friend Janet took.
This post wouldn't be complete without some photos of my wonderful friends and co-workers at Costco....so here are some for you guys!

Last but not least here are a couple of photos of Jason and his friend David playing dodgeball...they did quite well

How did my little boy get so darn tall? I look like a midget standing next to him

Just Some Layouts

Here are a few layouts I have done recently. I love the one of my grandmother and her friends. It is based on a layout I saw on http://www.badgirlkits.com/ I have felt such a closeness to her since I recently found those albums full of her old pictures...I feel like perhaps we are more alike that I ever thought. I truly feel that she was a "scrapper" in her day. The layout of Jeremy I did for an online crop challenge over at http://www.scraplove.com/ It was a good story to tell...and of course any time I scrap photos of my missionary son it makes me smile. NOTE: of course I should have spelled the title correctly...lol Note to self...must fix the title on this one! The layout of Jason and me from 1993 was a real eye opener for me. For all the countless hours I spent holding him as an infant and a child I have NO photos except for this one....so sad I wasn't a scrapper back then...I might have tried to get in the photos more often. The layout with the three photos of Jason on it...was one of those layouts that once I read the quote I knew I had to do the layout with photos of him. It's simple but the quote speaks volumns to me. The My World layout was fun to do. It's a http://www.pagemaps.com/ sketch....love the results. The funny thing was that it wasn't until someone commented on the fact that the pattern paper matched my outfit that I even realized that I had done it. It just made me laugh and also made me realize how much I do stuff by instinct and don't even realize it

I did this layout for a challenge over at http://www.scrapbookdeals4u.com/ I love all the fun photos of Linda and Me...She really is a wonderful sister...I'm so grateful for her.

Well there you have just some random layouts and random thoughts for a Thursday morning.

Just 5 Days....

Til I get to talk to my Missionary Son! YAY! This could be the BEST Mother's Day Ever!

It's Right Around the Corner

I can't believe that tomorrow is May 1st. I will be teaching at the Scrapbook Garden in Huntington Beach on the 9th....finally I can show you all my creation. I am thrilled with the way it turned out. Thanks so much to my online friend Jenny for giving me the inspiration. The class isn't quite full yet so if any of you local girls want to take the class give The Scrapbook Garden a call.

A Real Find

I was out in the garage the other day and came across a box of OLD photos and I mean seriously OLD! It was so cool. Some were back from the early 1900's others were from the late 1800's and then there were the ones from the 1950's a whole book of photos of my grandfathers neon sign business including some of the signs he made for businesses in San Jose. I have been looking for this album for over 10 years. I thought for sure it had gotten thrown away in the move. In among the photos was a St Helena Star newspaper from 1926 with my grandparents wedding announcement in it. I think I got as much fun out of reading the ads as I did the discription of Gramma's dress "The bride wore a "frock" of white beaded georgette crepe made with full skirt and simple bodice." Then they went on to say, "The Rundle home was beautifully decorated, pink gladiolas, roses and maiden hair fern being used in profusion." I can't remember when the last time it was I used the word "profusion". It was a great find...now I have my work cut out for me....I need to scan all of these photos....that is going to keep me busy for a long time.

This is my grandmother with her brother and sister and her parents...dont know the guy on the far right

This is my Mom with my Grandma and Great Grandma

This is a photo of my grandfather. I am thinking he must be about 2 which would mean this photo was taken about 1898!

I am so definitely going to be scrapping some of these awesome photos.