Scrapbook pages

I think scrapbooks are beautiful!  I admire anyone who loves to do them.  I, however, get impatient with the time it takes, as well as all the stuff I have to lug in here from the closet, spread it all out, and then trying to organize pictures.  I have a hard time deciding what to do with them, since once you cut, it's final.
I started blogging about a year and a half ago.  A little over a year ago, I finally got a digital camera from my bf Sharon!  =)  I was so pleased that I could immediately put photos right on the computer, and wouldn't have to get them developed then leave them in the envelope for weeks while I decide what to do w/ them.  They can really pile up that way!
Blogging is so much easier for me, and it's kind of like my scrapbook, but I put all kinds of things on here.  I can edit, rearrange, tweak anyway I like, even months or years later!  =)  It's also cheaper!
This morning I was thinking of those few scrapbook pages I had done... a long time back.  I decided to make pictures of them and post them so I'd have them foreverrrr!

Well, as long as Google provides Blogger!  =)

This is Bethany about 3½ years ago.  This was one of the last pages I did, right after I got my "wavy cutter" which I LOVE!  Yes, I have several scrapbooking tools that are going unused!!!  =(
All the kids love to go fishing, even the girls.  Bethany was 9 in these pics.

All these were made quite some time after the pictures had been taken.  Except for the bottom one, these pages were made about 2 years ago.  Thankful for my mother-in-law who always writes the dates on backs of pictures she gives me!!!  =)

JohnDavid started karate over 5½ years ago in November of '04, and he was really good!  I must brag a little.  He skipped yellow belt and went from white to orange in 6 weeks.  =)  He was 7 years old then.  These pics are from 8 to 9 years old.  He took karate for about 4 years. 

While looking for pics to scrapbook, I came across these and realized they'd make a great page!  =)
Yes, I found more later, but couldn't add them to the page then.
Guess that's why I like blogging.

This was my very first scrapbook page, made at a scrapbooking store.  All little girls love to help Mom cook and bake.  In the pic on the right, she really did take a bite of that cake!  It was one of those friendship cakes that you pass along, and have to do something to the batter every day until ready for baking.
She was peeling potatoes w/ a plastic knife.

The girls have also made a few scrapbooking pages.  One day I'll take pics, crop, edit, and post them.  =)