MELODIE IN PERU

I had so much fun with this page and it was much easier to put together than I thought! I used the contact sheet option in PS CS3 to make a picture grid and then made it into a wall. This was lesson 4 in Jana Morton's Blueprints: Angles of Photoshop. I knew it would work really well with all of the pictures we took in Peru.

This page brings back so many memories of our trip to Peru to bring back Melodie from her mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. Thank goodness we had her as an interpreter or we would have been so lost although Don did quite well! He really practised his Spanish before we left. It was definitely the adventure of a life time! We learned so much and met so many wonderful people. It was pretty amazing to experience just a little of what "Hermana Mathieson" went through in the 18 months she was gone!

Time goes so fast, crazy to think that she is now home and happily married to her sweetheart Kevin Smith. We are so grateful for the work she did but so happy to have her home!!

WEDDING INVITATIONS

SMITHS

Just realized that I've never posted Kevin and Melodie's wedding invitations! I think it's because I wanted people to get it in the mail first before they saw it on my blog! I had fun designing these but I learned that I will never print it off myself again. It was so much work, took so much ink and I wrecked quite a few of them! So I'm okay with the designing but no more printing! Plus I don't think I will add full colour to the middle again, as much as I like it, it really takes too much ink. The font here is Zapfino.

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!

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!!