In the Wilderness Freebies!

This week, I've been scrappin' some camping and outdoor pages.

Here's my cute son with marshmallow mouth!  He LOVES camping for the marshmallows!!

Made using Campfire Song by Colie's Corner

And this year, we took our son to Yellowstone for the first time!  He loved it.

At the Bear and Wolf Discovery Center, he got to hide the bears' food throughout their enclosure.

Made using Kellybell's newest kit In the Wilderness!

My Favorite Moment in Disneyland

For my favorite moment in Disneyland, I chose to scrap a photo of my son and I that our good friends took of us in 2006.  It's just a random photo, you can't even see any part of Disneyland really.  But it has come to be my most cherished photo taken there.  It's my son giving me a big smooch :)  It was a hard time for me - Chloee had just died about 3 months earlier.  This picture reminds me of why I am still alive today.  It is because of my son and that I love him just as much as I loved my girls.  So I choose to live even though a part of me has died each time my daughters died.  And as he gets older, it seems like the kisses get a little shorter and less frequent.  So I cherish them even more!

These pages were made using Kellybell's kit Where it All Began. 

Happy Birthday in Heaven Angel Chloee

It's Chloee's 5th Birthday today.

Happy Birthday in Heaven Baby Girl!  I love you and I miss you every second.  I just want you here with us...  I want to know what you are like at 5 years old.

This year, we got a princess birthday cake with a frame on top and took it to her grave to have her balloon release and birthday memorial.  We did a nail polish drive for Utah Share - an organization who helps families whose babies have died.  They give the nail polish so that parents can paint their baby's nails as a final gesture of love and to lighten the color post-mortem.  We collected a whole bunch of them that will go to help other grieving families :)

I spent the day enjoying my living son and making a digital scrapbooking kit in memory of my little princess!

It's called Princess Chloee and here it is with the page I did for her Princess birthday cake:

  

We Love you Chloee!!!

You've been Punked, no you've been Goofed!

It's my daughter's birthday today and I've been thinking a lot about why I scrapbook and what it means to me.  My siggie says, "Life is about Love and Scrappin' is my documentation of that Love."  I am feeling like I need to focus in on that thought more - specifically scrapping the really important and meaningful things in life.  Yesterday, I did these pages for my hubby's birthday of a special moment of him at Disneyland.

You've been punked, no!!!! You've been goofed!  I will never forget the time we were at Disneyland in toontown getting Goofy's autograph for Tyson's hat when Goofy pulled a prank on you! You tried to get the pen back and he played the "try to get the pen" game!  It was so hilarious to see Goofy giving a Dad a hard time.  That's the best thing about disneyland it doesn't matter how old you are!  You still feel like a kid.  And we have this moment with Goofy to prove it!

Made using Using Natalie's new kit out tomorrow "Well Whattya Know"

Disneyland Autographs with Daddy!

These Disneyland autograph pages are a sweet little tribute to my hubby - the best Daddy ever!

Saturday is his birthday - our daughter Chloee's is the next day.  She should be turning 5 years old.  What a way to ruin his birthday for the rest of his life.  This year we have to do Chloee's birthday on the weekend so family can come up to her grave for her memorial birthday party and that means my hubby will spend his birthday doing his daughter's birthday memorial.  I feel so bad for him, but he just says to me, "The kids are more important than me" anytime I bring it up.

He truly is the best Dad ever.  He held my daughters while they were sick and gave Bree shots when her seizures wouldn't stop.  He was there when we buried them, closed the caskets, helped me plan funerals, picked out and carried the caskets, helped design the headstones, decorated with countless grave decorations and did some of the hard things that I just couldn't do.  He is my sweetheart and the love of my life and the person who told me that I needed to choose to live again after Bree died.

He designed special tattoos to get on his heart in memory of our daughters.

And that's not even any of the things he does for our living son! 

My hubby and son do everything together :)  From playing soccer to making crafts to playing PlayStation - he is my son's hero and idol.  It doesn't matter what it is, he's there.  From waking up for a 9am soccer game (he works nights), to little things like teaching him to tie his shoes or teaching him his phone number and doing homework with him.  Things like at Disneyland, when my son is always too shy to go up to the characters, he's always there for him.

These pages are a tribute to that small act - but it is just one tiny example of what an amazing Father he is :)

Journaling:

Getting autographs has never been an easy thing for you!  You are such a shy boy and even though you love the characters, it is sooo hard to go up and ask for an autograph!  But lucky for you, you have a Daddy who will do anything for you. He always goes up and helps you.  That makes all the difference.  It's just what you need to go meet those characters!  And Mom is always there to get the whole thing on camera!  You are so lucky to have such an amazing Dad.  He really would do anything for you!  I hope you always turn to him for the help that you need!

Made using Kellybell's Sign Here kit

Vacation Pages

I scrapped a couple of vacation pics :) 

This first one is from our most recent trip to LegoLand in Carlsbad, California a few weeks ago.  T was soooo hilarious - he was obsessed with being buried alive!  It is a bit sick and maybe even morbid - but he got it from Mythbusters.  It's one of his favorite shows!  One episode they had Jamie buried alive in a coffin to see how long he could breathe.  T was fascinated by it - I don't know if it had anything to do with the girls being buried or what...  But anyway, he begged his Dad to bury him alive in the sand :)  When he was buried, he just sat there - blissed out :) and stayed there for like 10 minutes.  We even had to itch his nose for him he he!  I just had to scrap that moment!!

The next one is of my hubby and I before we had kids!  We even loved Disney back then and we sure went on a lot more coasters then :)  Now we always have a kid with us and they make us sick half of the time anyway he he!  We're getting oooold.

These pages made using my good friend Natalie's Place Designs kit Under the Boardwalk.

Our Magical Place :)

My friend Heather of Haynay Designs has this amazing Disney scrapbooking kit out called My Magical Place and I couldn't resist doing some Mickey pages of T meeting Mickey in our most magical place - Disneyland!!  He wasn't nearly as smitten with Mickey as he was with meeting Minnie - just really really nervous to meet him!!  He doesn't look that thrilled :) he he

 

Off on Safari at LegoLand

T and I off on safari at LegoLand :)

Using Haynay's Together Forever 3 Photo Cluster Templates and Haynay's collab kit It's a Jungle out There

Around the Pond

I love creating a scene that didn't really exist!  It just opens a whole world of options with my girls being in heaven.  I guess I feel like I can still create something for them even though I will never get new photos of them.  Likewise I love doing it with my little boy too!  My latest page is him at a make believe pond - they're imaginations are just so huge.  I'm sure that when he was "fishing" in real life (at the children's museum), he really felt like he was in a place like the one I've created in this page!

Using Ildi Geist's Down the Pond Page Set

Pinocchio Scrapbook Freebies and Pages

My friend Natalie has a new scrap kit out for Pinocchio!  It's called No Strings Attached and I used it to scrap our Hidden Mickey pages for Pinocchio's ride at Disneyland :)  Jake is obsessed with Hidden Mickeys!

Here are the pages with a hidden Mickey in the glass sailboat case and in the popcorn on the floor of the ride!

Makes me want to go back to Disneyland :)

Orange you the sweetest!!

He just can't eat an orange without first playing with it!  Ok, I'll admit it... I taught him to do it.  I remember doing that as a kid too :)

Orange, you the sweetest little boy!!!

Using Delicious Scraps newest kit SherBerry

Sword in the Stone Scrapbook Pages and Freebie

What kid can walk past the Sword in the Stone at Disneyland and not try to pull it out??!  T loves to try and I hope that he continues to try and never stops believing that he can :)  And a very old pic of Gina when she was little trying to pull it out!

Using Natalie's Place Designs new kit Stormin' the Castle - out soon!!

More pics of Tys in his Mickey hat!

Another page of my cute boy in his Mickey Sorceror hat!

This time using a Harry Potterish Wizarding Magic kit

 

 

Our Little Sorceror

We got this Mickey Sorceror hat and it is just so stinkin' cute on him that I had to do some matching pages for his scrapbook!!  What a cutie!  Our Little Sorceror :)
Using Project B Designs kit Magicabra

Tys a Jester and Bree's Key to my Heart

My friend Kelly has a new kit out and I did some fun pages for my kids with it!

Here's one of my boy dressing up like a jester at the children's museum with a friend there.  They were having so much fun being silly!

Here's another about my angel Bree-Elle.  She holds the key to my heart - in heaven.  When she died, we bought a special mother and daughter set of bracelets that had a key and a lock on them.  She is buried with hers on and I wore mine for a long time - until it broke at Disneyland.  It spilled all over and I remember these super nice people helping us pick up beads from the ground.  It hurt my heart when it broke and I kept the pieces that we were able to find - but I haven't yet.  I just try to remember that my heart holds the real key to her heart...  Miss you Bree!  Love you.

I used Kellybell's kit The French Quarter

Aloha, Hawaii Pages

We went to Hawaii with my side of the family when Tys was only 6 months old!  I still can't believe we went!!  It seems crazy to me now :) he he

He really didn't even like it.  It was so hot and humid and it was winter back in Utah.  He'd never even experienced summer weather yet!  The sand got in his diaper and the water was too cold... sigh!

I did manage to get some cute pics though!  So 5 and a half years later, I am finally scrappin these!

I used Natalie's newest kit Waikiki

Minnie Mouse Pages

I just canot get over my son's first time meeting Minnie!!  It was the most magical moment.  He ran right to her and gave her a big hug.  Then she took him into her house and sat on the couch with him and spent some time with just him for such a long time!  I sooooo wish I would have had my videocamera at that moment!  Instead, I think I will scrap that moment over and over again :)

Here are my pages using She's My Gal by Natalie's Place Designs

Ultrasound Photo Scrap Pages

I saw this cute kit by Kristie of Snippets, Inc called It's All About the Belly and just had to have it!!!  It is sooooo completely perfect for ultrasound pics so I dug mine out from my piles and piles of photos, that only took like an hour itself!, and scanned them in so I could do a few pages.

I did one for T - he's almost 6 - so I'd say that's a fair amount of time to get around to scrappin his ultrasound pics right??  he he  It is blue and baby boyish and so cute!  The page says "When I saw your picture, I was already totally and completely in love."  And I am still as smitten with my little boy as the day I saw his ultrasound photo :)

And I did one for our baby girl, Chloee.  It was a super hard page for me to do - so emotional.  I was looking at her ultrasound pics and realized that her main ultrasound was done at 5 months old in utero.  And I was just musing about how she lived to be only 5 months old in life.  So I decided to do a page with the theme AT 5 months and how things changed so drastically from those two different times.

Journaling:
At month Five in utero, we had just found out
            that we were having a baby girl.  I cannot say
                how excited we were.  Our hearts were overjoyed,
      bursting with love for you already and we hadn't
   even met you yet, just seen your picture on the
                 screen and felt you moving inside me.  I felt
          nervous because you and Tyson were going to be
   so close together in age - only a year apart but
so excited.  I loved you so much!  We couldn't
        wait for you to come and for all the hopes and dreams
                    we had for you to happen!

At month Five in life, you died.  I could not believe it. 
          What has happened to all of our dreams and
                                                             hopes and wishes for you? 
        Did we really just bury you after your five month
      birthday?  How could this happen?  Why did this
     happen?  We spent so much of your five motnhs of life
           trying to fix you and save you and for what?  To make
                        your life harder and more paintful?
        I felt like life had suddenly, horribly gone wrong.
               We missed you immediately and
                                                           we still do now.

             Five months was not long enough to hold you
                                                                                in my arms.

T telling jokes!

My sister has been putting so many videos of her cute baby Connor on her blog that she inspired me to do some!  This is one of T telling jokes!

Guesting Pages for Graham Like the Cracker

I spent some time last month guesting for the digital scrap designer Jennifer Graham aka Graham Like the Cracker and I wanted to share the pages I made using her cute kits!

I've been trying to do a page for when we wrote the girls' names in the sand for sooooo long now.  Nothing seemed to look right.  So when I got to use her new kit Drift Away, I was inspired to try yet again.  Here's the page I came up with that I actually love now:

Next, I used her kit Mischief Monsters to do a hidden Mickey we found on the Monsters Inc ride in Disneyland's California Adventure park while there with our good friends and fellow Disney maniacs!!! Kari and Alan.

When I saw her kit Sweet Spontaneity, I knew I had to do a page for Chloee.  It is so Chloee-esque!  Pink and bright and beautiful of course...  She fills our lives with sunshine still.

And likewise for Bree with the kit Purple is my Signature Color because it was!!!  Everything purple reminds us of Bree.  Here's her page with a very precious photo.  My heart is tied to her with heartstrings.

And finally I had to do a page for T with her kit Junior and all things boyish!  Here's my Rambunctious Boy(s) page of T on a go-cart but he was too little to pedal so his Daddy had to push him around the track!  he he

You can find Graham Like the Cracker on her blog here

Disney Scrap Pages

My new friend Natalie has a brand spankin new kit out for Chip and Dale and for all of your nature, outdoorsy pages at Disneyland or Disneyworld.

I just adore my page of T meeting Dale at Goofy's Kitchen in the Disneyland Hotel.  (We go there every time we go to Disneyland because it's so awesome!  Jake loves his peanut butter and jelly pizza there!)
And another page from way long ago when we went to Disneyworld with my whole family - back when we didn't have any kids and we actually had money to fly somewhere...   he he!  Kids are better than money anyway :)

Check out Natalie's kits on her blog here

A Frog Prince and A Purple Heaven

Kellybell Designs has her newest kit out!  It's a Frog Prince kit called On the River made for the movie The Princess and The Frog with Princess Tiana and Prince Naveen.  I wasn't sure what to do with it because I don't have any pics with those characters and my boys weren't too thrilled when I made them go see it (at the DOLLAR MOVIE!!).  But then I remembered that I do have frog pics!  We went to Yellowstone a week ago and T found a frog at the cabin!  So this is the page I made for him chronicling the day he caught a frog :)
Then after seeing the cute stuff in the kit and all of the purpleness... I had to do a page for my Bree-Elle.  It's called A Purple Heaven :)  Love you, BreeBree

Find Kellybell's kit On the River here

Honeymoon Pages

One of the designers I create for, FanFan Rue des Anges has a beautiful new kit out called Exotic Romance!  I just had to scrap some Hawaiian honeymoon pics.  And wow, are we old! 

We've been married 11 years and I'm just scrapping these honeymoon pics :) he he

We went to Hawaii and were blissfully happy then!  I'm glad that we are still as much, if not more, in love now.

Chloee's Birthday in Heaven

Every year we "celebrate" or rather remember with love the girls' birthdays.  Sometimes we go to the cemetery, sometimes we have their birthday at our home.  I'm just getting to scrappin' Chloee's birthday from last September (only a year behind... sigh...)  We went to the cemetery and decorated her grave, let off balloons to heaven, and did a random act of kindness there. 

Happy 4th birthday to my baby girl!

I used Irene Alexeeva's kit Time of Happiness!

It's Summertime!

It's summertime and for my boy that means running through the sprinklers in his wetsuit!!!  Oh my gosh, he brings me so much happiness!  Such a fun and wild boy...can't you tell from these pics??!!

Happy Father's Day to the Best Daddy Ever!

A page for my hubby - who is the best Daddy ever!  Happy Father's Day, babe.  I wanted to do a page for you and Tys - he is your minime and he loves you soooo much.  I hope you are always best friends like you are now!

Credits: Designs by Sarah Bennett kit My Buddy at Scrapmatters

Snow White and Disneyland Digital Scrapbooking Pages

Kellybell has a new kit out this week called Fairest in the Land and I got to do some pages for it!!

I did a page for my sweet baby girl, Chloee, called Fairest one of All!  She's so cute!

And a page of T about when he first rode the Snow White ride at Disneyland - we found out really fast that it was tooooo scary!!  Journaling: When we first took Tyson to Disneyland, we thought we'd go first to Fantasyland and do some of the "kiddie" rides. Boy, were we wrong! We didn't realize how scary of a ride Snow White was! You didn't want to go on any more rides after that. So we left the dark rides and headed over to It's a Small World. Now we always start there!