More family

These 10 degree, grey days find me in my scrapbook room in my jammies and robe.

Family

One of my son in law's was overheard saying:"Your family takes way too many pictures." He's probably right...but they are just too cute! Here are the first pages of my fall family pictures.

Daughter #1 and her family

Daughter #2 and her family

Daughter #3 and her family

Grandson of the day

I do enjoy my beautiful granddaughters!

So happy to have some new photos of Princess J. I hope you all you young ladies will enjoy your youthful beauty and not concentrate on your few little flaws. That is one thing I regret about the way I viewed myself in the past. I look back at some of my old photos and think: "Well, I didn't look so bad. Not perfect, but not as bad as I thought!" It has been a lazy week for us, as my dear husband caught a cold after his "Procedure" and has been spending a lot of time sleeping. On my days off, since it was so boring around here, I just read and fell asleep, woke up, read, and fell back asleep! I think he is better today...hope so!

More Mo

I have been working on my Colorado album and have several pages done, but my slow editing has resulted in a pause in that project while I am waiting on another shipment from Shutterfly. Today I started Mo Ranch pages in my grand children's albums and this is the first ones; for C. I seem to do my easiest and fastest work when I find a sketch I have never tried before and make my photos fit. That really is a good MO when I have a lot of photos for one event to choose among like this one. Only 9 more to go!

A good book and out of photos

Several weeks ago, I uploaded a new book by one of my favorite authors, Chris Bohjalean to my MP3 player. You can see it over there on my shelf. After starting it 3 times, I gave up listening and went to the library to get the real thing. Chris starts his story in the winter of 1945, then goes back to the winter of 1944, and then back to 1945 and not being able to go back and review, kept me confused. I read it last night and it was very well written and made me feel very grateful for my country and the time in history when I was born, as well as appreciate the horrible suffering in Europe during the war.

In January 1945, in the waning months of World War II, a family and a Scottish prisoner of war, who was brought from the stalag to her family’s farm as forced labor, walk away from their aristocratic lifestyle on a sugar beet farm in Prussia to reach the British and American lines in Germany and escape the merciless Russian army who are very angry at the Germans for the atrocities committed to their country and are bent on getting revenge. Along the way they meet a German soldier, who the pair know as Manfred–who is, in reality, Uri Singer, a Jew from Germany who managed to escape a train bound for Auschwitz. As they work their way west, they encounter a countryside ravaged by war and meet a young lady who is a French POW. I really didn't even know where Prussia was on the map...I thought it was part of Germany, but it was between Poland and Russia. It was once part of Germany, but in WWI, it became part of Poland, and the Germans wanted it back.

It finally happened. I ran out of pictures to scrapbook. I made some cards this week. I went through my scrap paper and made some "card kits" to use in the future and I ordered 10 copies of these photos to put in each of my grandchildren's books. Here is the first set:

Scrapbooking and Grandaughters

I've actually completed some pages the last few days after spending a month on Shutterfly making the ordination book and then getting all my photos ready to be printed from the trip to Florida. Sometimes I miss the bad old days when we just dropped the roll of film off and whatever was on there was what we got. Just kidding....see that big flower left of pretty grandaughter's face? Originally, there was a bare rosebush all in her face and hair. That took a while to prune! You've seen the hugging cousins photo before.