Travels Documented

When we got home from Europe, I decided to document our travels so we can see where we've been. I bought a huge map for our wall, mounted it on corkboard (so our wall doesn't get tacked up) and bought colourful pins. 

It's colour coordinated to show where we've each been or where we've been together. 

A few close ups:

It's fun. I like it, but it just goes to show how many places in this world there are to explore. We've travelled quite a bit, but there's plenty of room for more tacs!

Last Look

One last post about my pregnancy journal. 

It doesn't show up in this picture, unless you click on it, but there's a title, under the journaling spot. This is the welcome gift that Gracie picked out for Emma.

These are the pages with the money shots, the actual baby! Welcome Emma!

See Emma in the hospital bassinet in the foreground of this photo? My artistic husband took this one. Cute.

Cutie.

And, a little decoration for the back cover, so often neglected... 

Hope you liked this. I think my pregnancy journals will be two of my most special keepsakes.

More Pregnancy Journal

Here are a few more pages from my pregnancy journal. 

Quick and simple glimpse at what these important nine months were like.

Thanks to our trip, I had lots of pictures of my belly this time. I only had a few when I was pregnant with Gracie. 

 See the doily on the page below?? They were a gift from a good friend, and I love them. If you look, they're all over all of my projects. 

Dad's thoughts.

My thoughts.

And Gracie's.

Some of my favourite Gracie quotes from the pregnancy. For such a confusing concept, she just accepted it and rolled with all of the new information she was getting, but there were a few funny questions along the way.

Pregnancy Journal

This is my favourite project I've done lately. It has nothing to do with the product or the design, but the subject (although I do love these subdued colours...) 

This is the pregnancy journal I made to capture my months of pregnancy with Emma.

 I've been using my Cricut Design Studio to cut out titles and shapes lately and I really enjoy it. It makes your Cricut more useable and you can almost achieve the look of a Silhouette without buying another machine. I cut out 'love' on the above page.

I love 3-D ultrasound pictures. It's amazing and almost scary to me, to see such a 'real' picture of your baby like this.

 I wrote down a lot of things in here, that I wished I'd written in Gracie's. Things that you think you'll never forget, but sometimes, the details get a little fuzzy.

 I used some old lines of paper, one from We R Memory Keepers, and one from American Crafts for this album, and lots of embellishments from all over, Bo Bunny, My Little Shoebox, Fancy Pants, Kaisercraft, Simple Stories, Basic Grey, etc.  All odds and ends that I collected to keep the colour scheme simple and unified.

I love how it turned out and I love the memories stored in here. I'll share more pictures soon. As usual, my mini albums are actually quite big ;)

Special People

We're so lucky to have so many special people in our lives. The other weekend, we got to visit my Great Uncle Charlie, who recently received the Queen's Diamond Jubilee Medal for service to country. 

Here's a link to a write up about him receiving this honour.

How lucky are my girls to have such an amazing Great, Great Uncle??

Lucky Momma

Just check out these lovely faces!

Enjoying the Beautiful Weather

What nice weather we've been having lately!

I got my new infant seat for my stroller, so I've been taking the girls out to enjoy the fresh air as much as possible. 

Emma has learned to fall asleep as soon as I set her in there. This time, she fell asleep on the floor, because I had to set her down to get Gracie different mitts....

My running companions.

Still snoozing when we got home over an hour later.

And still sleeping when we went inside...

And sleeping in her crib for another hour after. Loving the fresh air!