Archive for December, 2009

Finally finished it!

When my brother Joe graduated high school in 2003, my graduation present to him was a ginormous scrapbook of all his sports accomplishments in high school. In truth, I had actually given him the first chunk of the album for Christmas in 2001, because there was enough material, and gave him the balance at graduation. I took alllll his football articles and alllll his baseball articles, combined them with photos (being nice to the yearbook lady in high school totally paid off, she gave me a whole CD of photos since I was in college myself during his junior and senior years) and the finished product was actually TWO ginormous scrapbooks.

Well, for those of you playing at home, I have two brothers. And Ted also received his first installment of his album for Christmas in 2005, with junior and senior years still owed to him upon his high school graduation in 2007. That came and went, and I still had a very large bag of newspaper articles that would have intimidated even the most seasoned scrapbooker. But…I finished it. Finally. Nevermind the fact that the kid is headed into his junior year of college. That’s neither here nor there.

But, since he is getting his present later today upon my arrival back on the west coast (assuming that ever happens :/ ), and because I’m confident he never checks my blog, I’m posting the images. Because that sucker is thick and I’m, adding it to the Scraptastic Gallery so it won’t take days to load on one page. Here’s the latest additions:

Ted’s Senior Year (2006-2007)

Ted’s Junior Year (2005-2006)

Oh yea. And Go Indians too.

It is what I do

It’s how I de-stress:

My birthday:

The Girls Weekend in NoLa

Becky’s b-day

Get Meaningful Fridays #23

  • My first attempt at a homemade apple pie. It wasn’t as hard as I thought. But I also have yet to taste it. My house smells good though!
  • The holiday gathering to which I’m going tonight, hence the reason I made the aforementioned apple pie.
  • Christmas movies on TV! With the exception of the commercial interruptions, they get me in the spirit of the season.

NOW I’m in the Christmas spirit!

This made my whole dang night:

Merry Christmas

Merry Christmas! Especially to my brothers who were innocent bystanders in the making of this video.

Get Meaningful Fridays #22

I was a little under the weather Friday so I didn’t get around to posting a Get Meaningful Friday installment so I figured Saturday was better than never. Let us begin, shall we?

  • When friends from the winery come to visit New Orleans. I miss them a lot and I was so excited to see them. Now if we could just arrange a way for us all have morning coffee together like old times…
  • The rain, which is supposed to occur all weekend. I have a lot of scrapbooking to do and this weather makes me uber-productive.
  • Pizza delivered on a Saturday night
  • American Airlines for offering a flight that lands in Sacramento at 6:40pm on Christmas Eve