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

 

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 :)

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!!

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

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

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

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!

Disneyland - we love Turtle Talk with Crush!

We love to go talk with Crush from the movie Finding Nemo while we're at Disneyland's California Adventure!  So when Jamie Dell Scraps came out with her new kit Turtletastic I scrapped a page about it!

A Crush on a Mouse - a Disney Digital Scrapbook Page

A Crush on a Mouse!
When Tyson first met Minnie, he was smitten!  He was about 2 years old - maybe not quite.  We went to Disneyland for the second time with our friends and while at ToonTown decided to go visit Minnie at her house.  I remember he ran right to her and hugged her for the longest time!  Minnie was so surprised and happy that she went with him to her couch inside her house and talked with him and sat there with him for quite awhile!  It was the most memorable moment I've ever had at Disneyland!  So we say his first real crush was Minnie Mouse...  Now he's 6 and so over it :) sigh....
This was my page for a challenge over at Mousescrappers.com - check it out here!

Made using Kellybell's newest kit I Love that Mouse - find it at kellybellkits.blogspot.com  She has the CUTEST Disney Digital Scrapbooking stuff out there!

Disneyland Scrapbook Page - Lilo Ohana Means Family

This cute page of my boy and Lilo was taken at Disneyland's California Adventure during Mickey's Halloween Party.  I don't think he was that thrilled to meet her!!  But it made Mom happy anyway!

I used Jamie Dell Scraps new kit  Boogie Beach Bash

Disney Digital Scrapbooking Pages - CARS!

Some fun pages of my boy with his favorite Cars at Disneyland's California Adventure!
These pages were done for the template challenge I'm hosting this week over at MouseScrappers.com!  Head over there and check it out.

Lightning McQueen page credits: Melissa Daniel Designs kit StuntMan at PolkaDotPlum
Mater page credits: Britt-ish Designs kit Motor Mania (recolored and modified by me)

Disney Scrapbooking Pages at Neverland Pool

My whole side of the family went to Disneyland 2 years ago.  It was so much fun!  My parents stayed at the Disneyland Hotel (we're too cheap to stay there!!!! lol) so we'd never been able to use the Neverland Pool before.  We were super excited to swim there and I love these pages of the family there.

I used Kellybell's new kit Kiss the Girl

Princess Pages!

Each week, they have Disney digital scrapbooking challenges over at MouseScrappers.com, a Disney fan and scrapbooking site.  They are super fun and have great prize packages for those that complete a challenge.  Check it out here

This week, the challenge was to create a Disney scrapbooking page with pastel colors.  Of course, I thought of doing a princess page with a princess fairy kit I was working on for JKCreations and even though I don't have any pics of my girls with any of the princesses - I decided to do a few Disney Princess inspired pages for them anyway!

The Cinderella page is for my Chloee.  It says, "A Dream is a Wish your heart makes.... I made a wish and you came true."  We love you Chloee!

The Tinkerbell page is for my Bree-Elle.  I found the perfect quote for it... "And in the end, Peter Pan stole Tinkerbell's wings so she would never leave."  How we wish we could have stolen her wings and kept her here with us forever...  Miss you Bree

Credits: Skyla by JKCreations

Toy Story Mania Disneyland Digital Scrapbooking Pages!

Here are some super fun Disneyland Toy Story Mania pages!  These are just so dang cute.  I love him in his glasses!  so fun!  We just loved this ride that's new to Disneyland's California Adventure park.  It's like a virtual carnival game ride.

Credits: MandaBean's You've got a friend in me kit and Photocowgirl's Extreme Cluster templates (for the red striped page only)

Disney First Aid and Doctor Mickey Pages:)

Some pages about when he went to the first aid station at Disneyland's California Adventure.  He was playing in the water and fell and skinned his knee.  On the up side, he got over it real quick - being at Disneyland!  And Jake loved going behind the scenes!!

 

Credits: 9 Out Of 10 Doctors Agree by Libby Weifenbach
Mickey glitter heads by kat Designed
Magical Disney Moment circle by Britt-ish Designs

Some Car Disneyland Scrap Pages of T and Daddy

Aren't these pages super cute? I just love the "Who's Driving this thing?" page of the boys at Disneyland's Car Toon Spin! And the Autopia page is super fun too. It's nice to scrap some happy memories...

Credits: Dielle's Designs Out for a Drive