The Wedding Scrapbook - Part 3

Today's BEFORE pictures are Friday's AFTER pictures...

I won't bore you with posting all of them

THE TOOLS

Forgot the splash of yellow but here is a picture of my little guy up to bat at his baseball tournament last night...if you look close you'll see he's sporting a lovely splash of yellow on the back of his jersey.


THE PROCEDURE
The little boy's tournament was almost an hour away, and he had to be there an hour early so I loaded up all my supplies and did my project at the ball field both before and during the game...

I started by penciling in lines with a ruler

(I can't write in a straight line to save my life)

then I journaled all the pages.


AFTER...

I didn't take pictures of all the pages but I did journal them.

I promise.

Now I need to take a trip to the scrapbook store for supplies to finish up the book.

D says A wise parent will make it a practice to be present whenever a child is performing on a program...or in this family, whenever a child is playing baseball, softball, basketball and ESPECIALLY football!

Journals

BEFORE...

In order to scrapbook I need to refer to my old journals for dates and details.

I also am putting together a little family history project which requires me to refer to them quite a bit as well.

In order to save time hunting through the journals I decided to number and label them.

THE TOOLS
Actually those Snickers are one of the tools I'll be using to make this amazing Snickers/Oreo pie recipe my cousin Jenny gave me!

THE PROCEDURE
This is my very first ever journal given to me by Virginia Christensen when we were in the 7th grade. I've been journaling (for the most part) ever since.

I organized them by dates and then numbered them.

I have 16 journals to date.

I start #17 tomorrow.

This project could have been a quick one but I kept stopping to read...

There was a time when I wrote down 5 things I was thankful for.

On January 21, 1997 the 3rd thing I wrote was--

I was thankful for a friend like Lisa Rooklidge
(Lisa, if you're reading this, I thought you might like to know that :)

AFTER...

I decided to deviate from the norm and quote from one of D's other books...

A House of Order

(Love this book, by the way!)

She says I have been keeping a journal since I was 18. I've reached the point now where I could hardly live without it. We have to live well in order to be able to report well. My journal helps me avoid the pileup in my life; it relieves stress and tension. I prefer putting the pressure on paper rather than on my mind...Above all a journal enables me to see the hand of the Lord in all things I might have missed the first time around.

D-- I agree whole heartedly!
Looking forward to the rest of today...trying a new meatloaf recipe from the mother-in-law, going to my neighbors to make cards (a project I've wanted to do for over a year now), and last minute shopping for my birthday girl who turns 14 Friday.