Hehe, I be you didn't know I am 251 years old! Actually I was 26 (and forever will be) but my cutest-ever kids used a 2,5 and a 1 candle... somehow the math adds up :) And I know you wish you got a HOME-MADE piñata for your birthday!
That layout is perfect for events with lots-o-pictures, like bad hair days, Christmas and piñatas! You can really pack the 3"x3" photos on there!
The second layout is the kind of layout I do when I'm flipping through photo albums (as opposed to scrapbooks) and feeling sad about how the time with my babies has gone so darn fast! No matter what period in my life I am in, it always seems like I'm so busy... but then 5 years later looking back I wish I could go back to when I had nothing but time.
(I would be EXTREMELY ungrateful if I did not take the time to mention that right now, my life is bliss... I get to hug and kiss my monkeys all day, cook dinner, do dishes and scrapbook with no pressing deadlines and creative mountains to climb. I won't have to look back at this time and wish I'd done things differently so I could have been there for my kids... not that I won't want to go back and do it all over again, but I won't regret not being there.)
My kids are romping carefree in the yard. No school, errands, or laundry to do...okay there was laundry... but that isn't what comes to mind when I look at these pictures. I remember Josh's Fuzzy little head and Amelias dirty knees. I can smell the yard in the warm summer sun... and how frustrated I was that it was such a mess... but geez, at least my kids HAD a yard!
Isn't it funny/ironic/frustrating to know how good we've had it and didn't even know it... alright... I still wouldn't want the fixer upper house... but the yard I could totally live with! We had peach, cherry, apple and plum trees, not to mention grape arbors and bazillions of roses.
If I knew then what I know now...
Awwww....great layouts - added to my scraplift file!!
Posted by: Jenn Lynn | 03/11/2010 at 08:37 PM
I love that you post sketches with your layouts!
It IS wonderful that you can be home with your kids and no outside deadlines and pressure. Funny how that can take us years to realize . . . but it is nice to look back and learn from the past to make now and the future better :)
Posted by: MelanieJ | 03/11/2010 at 09:43 PM
What a lovely post ... It really does go by so fast.
Really enjoying your blog.
Posted by: Moi | 03/12/2010 at 06:31 AM
Thank you so much for these sketches! They are awesome, and so are your layouts!
Posted by: Heather | 03/12/2010 at 01:45 PM