Wednesday, June 29, 2016

Joel's Baby Journal: Week 14

Hello!

Have you read the book The Fringe Hours?  It's one of my favorite books I've read about managing our time.  It's about using little spurts of time to do the things you enjoy (like scrapbooking or any hobby).  If we look at the whole entire project, we may feel overwhelmed, but if you can break the project down into little parts, you can more easily get things done.  It's 5 minutes here, 15 minutes there, and just breaking a project down into lots of little parts until you've completed it.  I've done that sort of thing for a long time and I've been able to get a lot of stuff done, which I'm very thankful for.  I find it's VERY important for me to be creative or to do something I really enjoy, like reading.  But if I don't find a few minutes here and there, I would never do those things.  I've done this with sewing, quilting, knitting, crocheting, scrapbooking, etc.  Sometimes it means spending 10 minutes transferring photos from my camera, or editing those photos, or searching for my next book, or casting the yarn onto my knitting needles.

Week 14:


Tuesday, June 28, 2016

Joel's Baby Journal: Week 13

Hello!

Can you believe all of the posts?  I know...I can't either!  I'm excited because I've been able to carve out some time to work on Joel's baby journal and Project Life.  I was just talking with a friend about how I used to love staying up late to scrapbook.  Maybe one day I will get to do that again.  Right now it's important to get some good sleep.  Whew!

Here's Week 13:


Monday, June 27, 2016

Joel's Baby Journal: Week 12

Hello!

This page has my heart.  I love this color combination.  And I will probably always remember this page because when I was working on it I was trying to breathe (because I had a cold).

Hope you are having a great start to your week!

Week 12:


Friday, June 24, 2016

Joel's Baby Journal: Week 11

Hello!

More photos!  Yay!  (see previous post)

Week 11:


Thursday, June 23, 2016

Joel's Baby Journal: Week 10

Hello!

I'm not impressed that there was only ONE photo of Joel for Week 10, but I am impressed with myself because, look, there's journaling AND the page is actually done.  I don't have a ton of time these days to work on these kinds of things, so I'm happy that at least something was done.  Whew!

And already, I'm seeing how time is flying because as I'm typing this, Joel is 19 weeks + 3 days old.  And wow, he's changed so much!

Week 10:


Wednesday, June 22, 2016

Project Life 2016: May

Hello!

I thought it was time to take a break from posting Joel's baby journal pages and post a Project Life spread.  There were LOTS of photos to choose from for May, and then I realized that I left some out (oops!), but that will have to be a different layout since the photos are from Jeralyn's ballet performance.

Here is May:




Tuesday, June 21, 2016

Joel's Baby Journal: Week 9

Hello!

I was just telling Quent yesterday that I don't know if I could tell who was who if I had a side by side picture of Joshua and Joel.  There are honestly photos where I am like, "Who is this?" Ha!  Good thing our digital photos are dated, right?  There are differences in them, but it does feel like I had twin boys two years apart.

Here is Week 9:


Monday, June 20, 2016

Joel's Baby Journal: Week 8

Hello!

I sort of (okay, I REALLY) cheated on Week 8.  And wow, where are the photos for this page?  Oops!  So how did I cheat?  I totally didn't change much as compared to Joshua's baby journal page.  It is what it is.  Sometimes you just have to pop in the photos and move along.  Right?

Week 8:


Friday, June 17, 2016

Joel's Baby Journal: Week 7

Hello!

I just love this little guy!  He's SO sweet!  And he's so calm (for the most part).  The mellow little man of my heart!  I love watching him grow through these photos.

Week 7:


Thursday, June 16, 2016

Joel's Baby Journal: Week 6

Hello!

Three days of posts in a row!  Whoa!  Let's see if I can keep this going...at least for a few days.

I needed some new inspiration...so I bought a couple of fun new digital kits.   Yay!

And I'm so glad I took pictures with my phone because otherwise there would probably be no photos for this week.  Yikes!

Week 6:


Wednesday, June 15, 2016

Joel's Baby Journal: Week 5

Hello!

One of there reasons why I like doing the weekly baby journal is because there are SO many changes in the first year.  And as the little element says on this page, it really does go by 'in the blink of an eye'.  And it goes by so fast that sometimes I forget to take photos.  And that's why there's only 3 photos on this page.  Oops!


Tuesday, June 14, 2016

Joel's Baby Journal: Week 4

Hello!

Funny story: when I went to post this page, I realized that one of the photos was actually of Josh, not Joel.  Oops!  I guess that's what happens when your kids look alike and you are using templates.  Ha!

Anyway, here's Week 4: