Lion King and Scrapbooking

Last night my Mom and Jon took Hadley and me to see the Lion King. Words cannot express how great it was and how much we all enjoyed it…especially Hadley! Hadley has an amazing love for live performances. She really appreciates them and takes it all in…much more than most teenagers and even some adults even can! There is certainly no money wasted in taking Hadley to a live performance! She actually cried (tears and all) when the Lion King was over last night. She just doesn’t like for the performances to end and it releases a bunch of emotions in her! Every time we take her to a live performance she is so concerned that it is going to be over…and of course eventually it is! Poor thing! She was too tired to tell Scott any stories about it last night, but I can’t wait to hear what she tells him tonight! We were in row G right in the center, so she had the perfect seat to take it all in! I know I will be amazed with all the small details she will remember! I will be sure to pass along some of the stories! They are sure to be cute! Thanks Gam and Grampa for taking us! We love you!


On Saturday day/night I scrapbooked with all of my scrapbooking girlfriends! We had a great time as usual and always end up doing more chatting than cropping, but owell…that is what it is all about! I thought I might as well post some pictures of some of my recent pages so that you all can know that I really DO scrapbook and that it isn’t something I just talk about! HA!! I took these pics really quick and they turned out really bad, but I don’t want to take them again, so these will have to do! These are all from Seville’s book, so that is why Hadley is in them very little! Hadley had almost three years of me scrapbooking exclusively for her, so I am trying to even things out a bit and make sure Seville at least has a book of her first year! Here are some recent pages I have done in chronological order:

"Mother's Day Trip"...May 2007 to St. Louis, Missouri!

"Sisters"...on the left in their first pair of matching jammies!

"Blue Eyes"...this was one of my favorite outfits on BOTH girls! I loved the way it made their blue eyes pop even more than normal!

"Summer at the Lake"...hwo do you like the picture of alien Seville?

"4 Months"

"Five Months"...caption says"Gam's 60th birthday, trips to the lake, breathing treatments, favorite fingers and sitting up!" I am so bad about journaling because I don't like the way my handwriting looks on the page and I never have time to go back and use the computer. I guess that is what this blog is for!

"Omaha: October 2007"...This is the trip we took with the Imboden's this time last year! We had such a blast and can't wait to go next year. It was such a great fall trip!

"Punkin Patch"...this was last year and we actually were there with the found my favorite picture of Seville and Gracyn amongst a sea of pumpkins and it was hiding under my page and now there is no where to put it. This page was a Kristi/Kenna collaboration from Saturday night. We decided to save time and come up with the idea together, so you might see these exact pages on her blog as well. I free handed the border on the left (major accomplishment for me because free handing things is very outside of my box) and Kristi had the idea for the tree on the right. Good thing we were able to find a stencil in the store! The bats and letters are made from black felt!

I will try to post some more pages another time, but that is all for now! I still have a bunch more random updates, so stay tuned for those at some point!