ENGAGEMENT PICTURES.... MIKE AND EMMA

I was so happy to be able to take some engagement pictures of Mikael Lamb and his fiancee Emma Dudley! They were only in town for the weekend from Calgary so we had to scramble to find some time! Mike's family are close friends of ours so we were excited to hear that he had found this beautiful girl. There was a lot of laughing during this session as you can see...these two sure enjoy being together!

I had fun with these pictures, some have PW actions, and others have Coffee Shop actions on them. I loved the effect of the black and white, sepia and some other filters. Just hoping they like them!!!

PICTURE FRAMED

Congratulations Mike and Emma...thanks for making the time to get together!

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THY MOTHER'S GLASS

Happy Mother's Day to my Mom! It's hard to visit when she's so far away (my Mom, Reina Granger lives in Coldbrook, Nova Scotia) so thank goodness for the phone. I was so grateful to be with her last month at my brother's funeral. Not only can we talk and laugh together but we were able to grieve together. She was heartbroken and in shock...there is nothing harder than losing your child. I have lots of wonderful memories of my mother and how hard working she was....she held our farm together when Dad was out working. Can't say I ever milked a cow, but I know she did!! So this page is for my MOM:

My list of supplies:

Thy Mother's Glass

KPertiet Fairy Dreamer Paper

KPertiet Starglows 2

KPertiet Oversprayed Love

KLewis Just Another Day

Carina Gardiner Daisy Flower

Taylormade Expression Family

Scraplifted from Jana Morton's Cowgirls Page!  http://janamorton.blogspot.ca/2011/10/framing-without-frame.html

Thanks for looking!! 

TOMORROW THE GROOM

As you can see, having fun with Melodie's wedding pictures! I remembered taking this picture of Mitchell years ago and wanted to compare the two....hard to believe the difference in 6 years. He was definitely the cutest groomsman according to his mother 6 years ago at Danielle's wedding and here he is looking tall and handsome at Melodie's wedding.

When I started working on his picture I decided to extract him out to emphasize how tall he has become!  Most of the elements come from a fun kit that I got from the Daily Digi (http://thedailydigi.com/) called "ON THIS DAY" by Christine Chodil. http://thedailydigi.com/christine-chodil-mostly-good/comment-page-1/#comment-38609

DREAMS COME TRUE

I was so happy to have scrapbooking time again now that the wedding of Kevin and Melodie is over. This was a picture of them taken outside the Vancouver BC Temple, of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. As mother of the bride, I didn't have a lot of picture taking time so I am anxiously awaiting the professional ones. I loved these ones though and had a fun time making this page. This will be a wedding present when they get home from their honeymoon.

I'm still using Jana Morton's blending techniques (http://creativepassionclasses.com/workshops/jana-morton/) and this page uses a lot of Katie Pertiet's ArtistrydeBlanco Digital Scrapbooking kit  (http://www.designerdigitals.com/digital-scrapbooking/supplies/product_info.php/products_id/12542).

WEDDING PICTURES... MELODIE AND KEVIN

Starting to post some pictures of the very happy newlyweds! Here are Kevin and Melodie Smith at the Langley Temple right after the wedding. We had professional pictures taken but these are just the ones from my camera...many of them taken by my good friend Jenn Oviatt who showed up. We were so grateful for a beautiful sunny day and you can just see the happiness shining through.

This day was a long time in coming....Kevin and Melodie have a beautiful love story of friendship, patience and love in waiting!

Mr. and Mrs. Smith...

Married for time and all eternity in the Vancouver, BC Temple of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter- Day Saints.

The Mathieson and James families....getting bigger with every marriage!

Melodie and siblings...Mitchell, Rebecca, Danielle and Vanessa!

The Mathieson family...and the Smiths!

Melodie and Kevin with parents....

Proud Papa...

The huge Smith clan...this reminds me of the huge Pierson clan last year!!!

Kevin and siblings...can you tell they have fun together! Steven, Angela, Leah, Trevor and Emily. Kevin is the youngest and last one married.

 The Smith family!

All the kids that were there...Everett is being persuaded by Zac! As you can imagine this was a hard picture to get...

More pictures to come, but I thought I better get started. I'm looking forward to scrapbooking them...in the quiet weeks to come!

Bill White

I haven't been able to blog about it ...it's been so hard to just talk about it and next week will be even harder. I found out this last Wednesday morning that my brother Billy died. Just like that over night, he had a heart attack and his boss found him on the floor the next morning when he went looking for Bill  because he didn't show up for work.

Mom called to tell me and she was completely distraught and I knew it was bad. It doesn't seem real, every time I think about it or talk about it...it's hard not to cry. The funeral is next Tuesday and I fly out Monday morning to Moncton, NB to be with my family. I am so grateful I can go...it's so far but I would always regret if I wasn't there. It's been hard to write but I was finally able to write some thoughts today and look at some pictures. There are so many regrets when someone dies suddenly, these are mine....

HAPPINESS IS...

I've been wanting to scrap these cute pocketbooth pictures I've been taking on my Iphone. "Pocketbooth" is a super fun app that acts like a photo booth. It takes 4 rapid pictures in a row and has several settings that you can use. You have to warn your models because everyone thinks you are giving them 4 seconds when you count down but you are actually taking their picture 4 times! It can be kind of funny because I usually have to do it a couple of times for them to catch on.

Mel and Kevin had fun making goofy faces and when I found this other one, I knew it would match this pocketbooth set. I decided to make a totally artsy page and used Lynn Grieveson's Madras scrapbooking to embellish it. We are looking forward to this wedding because as you can see, Kevin is as crazy as our Melodie and life is never dull with these two around!!

Happiness truly is... marrying your best friend!!

MISSIONARY HOME

 I was happy to be at the airport when Elder David Armstrong came home from the Ukraine after serving a 2 year mission. His family were waiting anxiously to see the plane touch down and then it was hugs and tears of joy. Having been through this with Melodie a few months ago...I know there is such a feeling of relief, love, joy and amazement as you see this beloved son or daughter come home.

They will have experienced things you can never imagine and it's probably best that you don't know some of it. They will have been through rejection, heartache and lonesomeness but they will have survived to become a stronger person. They will have grown in character, in perseverance, in knowledge and in love. They will have learned to love the people in the country they have served in and will miss them dearly. They will have become disciples of Christ, because they will have taught about Him, prayed to Him and turned their lives over to Him many, many times. They are...missionaries of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.

Elder Armstrong home from the Ukraine!

A very happy Mom and family!

 A little sister who is not so little anymore.

So happy to have their David home safe and sound although a little thinner.

Can still pick up his best friends off the floor!

Wonder what these three will be up to now? Sorry no rooming together says Vanessa!

The welcoming home committee at the airport!

Elder David Armstrong ... welcome home!

I SHOT THAT

Thought I would include a few more pictures that I've been taking with my Iphone for my IShotThat class. I've been learning how to use different apps and it sure opens your world to what your camera can do with pictures! There are all kinds of different filters, borders and edits you can use to really make your pictures pop!

Rebecca's favourite place to eat.

Family game night....

Mitchell is so happy to be able to take peanut butter sandwiches to school again now that he is in middle school! And that's what this is: "a peanut butter sandwich", no jam, no butter just dry old bread with peanut butter! If I try to sneak anything else in it to make it more palatable he calls me on it and won't eat it!!

Okay this is what Rebecca does in Seminary, using pretzels! What's worse is that her mother has to whip out her phone and take pictures of it! I think my Seminary kids think I'm a little whacked and they're right when it comes to pictures....

Had to take a picture of this cute card I made at a Stamping Up class. Nice to just get my hands on paper sometimes.....and sorry none of you are going to get this because I just make these  and can't bear to part with them! 

So there you go....having fun with my Iphone! Will keep you updated....

BASKETBALL with REBECCA

This page took me a long time...probably the most difficult from Jana Morton's Creative Composite class. I had to redo the sequence pictures over and over because I wasn't liking how they matched up but after leaving it for a few weeks and coming back to it, I like it better now!

The title comes from Katie Pertiet at Designer Digitals where it's a type inspiration challenge and I was happy to use it on my page.

Rebecca loved basketball and faithfully made it to every practice and game that she could. We could see real improvement from last year and noticed that she was playing better and working harder. She loved her coaches Rachel and Mac even though they were pretty tough and appreciated their willingness to put so much time into making their team better. We're glad that Rebecca loves sports, we know that she is learning a lot from the teams she plays on.

FEBRUARY COLLAGES

Finally finished my February month in photos! This collage is thanks to Rebecca Cooper's month in photos on her blog, Simple As That and I'm happy to go simple and have them all in one glance. I used my February Round Up pictures and it made it so easy. I'm liking Aperture for that reason, as soon as I download my pictures I rate them. Then I know which ones to use and can access them quickly. We had some fun moments in February but I have to admit, I am looking forward to some non-snow pictures coming up!!

February Collage with some of my favourite pictures!

My second page with my February moments....

BOWLING FUN

We had a great time bowling last Monday night, it has been such a long time since we went! It's hard to get the form right when you don't go very often but the kids solved that problem in the second game by devising all kinds of crazy ways to bowl, on your stomach, with your left hand, through your legs, etc. Can't say I was real fond of it, hard enough to bowl regularly but they sure had a blast. I used my Photoshop CS3 on these pictures and put some actions on them from Pioneer Woman's free set. I love how they brighten and change the pictures!

Had fun with this pose!!

Everett had a blast...throwing balls all over,  just too bad you have to take turns.

Mitchell putting up with annoying sisters!