Sunday, February 20, 2011
Me: The Abridged Version
Tuesday, February 15, 2011
Mt.Baker
Let me give you a quick review of my three lessons so far. Lesson #1: I was excited to learn, sore and maybe concussed by the time we left the mountain and so sore the next morning that I though I wouldn't be able to get out of bed. Literally it was the most pain I've ever caused myself. Lesson #2: I made it through one hour of my two hour lesson. When I came in my knee was swollen and totally bruised and my tailbone (still sore from the week prior when I started) was on fire. Luckily we had a week off due to weather. Lesson #3: I loved it! It was awesome... the snow was great, there was lots of powder, I stopped falling all the time. It was really perfect. I was ready to quit if it didn't go well. Lesson #3 was make it or break it and I'm so glad that I stuck with it for one more week!
Alex's story of snowboarding is a little more straightforward. Lesson #1: He loved it. Lesson #2: He loved it even more. Lesson #3: He loved it even more again. He loves the snow. He has a great attitude and never gives up. Whenever he falls, he just pops right back up. It's awesome.
I'm really glad that we're learning this together and I hope that we can continue to enjoy the mountain for quite a while.
Wednesday, February 9, 2011
Wednesday
I'll be back with more layouts tomorrow because seriously, how can I can compete with that?
Sunday, February 6, 2011
LOAD Day 5 & 6
Here is day 5:
Isn't he just the cutest? Our dear friend Matthew captured that awesome picture of Alex blowing out the candles on his cake and it was screaming to be highlighted!
Day 6:
This photo is pretty awful, but I grabbed a bunch of photos my mom took at her place and created a story. Alex is really very photogenic, so that's about all it takes to make a great page!
Friday, February 4, 2011
LOAD Day 4 ~ ChristmasCard
Today's layout is basically the "gag reel" of my photo shoot of Alex for our Christmas card. I had the idea to wrap him up in lights like a Christmas tree. The execution didn't quite match what I had in my mind, but he had a lot of fun playing with the lights and I had a lot of fun playing with my camera. And, in the end, we ended up with a pretty cute picture for the card!
Thursday, February 3, 2011
LOAD Day 3 ~ This is Our Life
Today's entry was pretty simple. Just a few photos from our everyday life back in the fall of 2009. I really love to have photos like this included in our scrapbooks to remind us just how things were in real life!
Wednesday, February 2, 2011
LOAD Day 2 ~ Family & Friends
Day two of Layout-A-Day (LOAD) finds me using this fun, huge photo that was taken at Alex's surprise birthday party this year. Here's the back story:
Alex had been asking and asking for a surprise birthday party. We tried to explain that if he knew it was coming that it wouldn't be a surprise, but he wasn't to be deterred. So, while we continued to plan a fun party with his friends at the Skagit Children's Museum, we were also planning a family party, only this one was to be a surprise!
We totally pulled it off! When we pulled up to Mom's house, we explained that she was having some friends over so we could only visit for a second. When everyone shouted SURPRISE!! it was perfect! He was definitely surprised.
He'd been playing with his camera all week and, when everyone started to disperse to take a little of the pressure off of him after the surprise, he had me call everyone back together so that we could take a family photo. I love that he wanted to do that! Clearly my love for the photo is rubbing off.
Tuesday, February 1, 2011
LOAD - Day 1
Layout complete for day one! I got this idea on a blog I like to read, Life is in the Details. I love the idea of capturing a year like this on one page. I feel like I captured some of Alex's best looks and funny faces.