Thanksgiving

Credits: Paper - Amanda Coudriet; Cardboard Strip, Tags, Bow, Flower, Frame - Sharia Braxton; Numbers - Kimb's designs; Dominican Small Caps Font

Credits: Paper, Paint Swatch - Amanda Coudriet; Cardboard Strips, Tag, Bow, Flower, Rick Rack - Sharia Braxton; Numbers - Kimb's designs; WordArt - Scrapbook Flair;

This year we had some out-of-town visitors for Thanksgiving. My Aunt Paula and Uncle Butch came in from Houston, and my brother's wife, Bonnie and their two kids, Joseph and Laura, were all here also. My brother had to work today and should be here tonight. It was a wonderful dinner as usual. My parents made the turkey and cornbread dressing and the rest of us made the rest of the stuff!! We will all be getting together again tomorrow at our house for a winter cookout.

The best thing this year was getting together with family that we had not seen for awhile.

The other person missing besides my brother Jeffrey was Jeremy. He actually had to work over 12 hours yesterday and the same today - but he is excited about getting double time because he is starting school this spring and wants to save up as much money as possible before then.

Joel-In-The-Box

Credits: Paper - Summer Blooms Kit by Kelly Miller; Frame by Katie Pertiet; Fiber by A-liya; Tag by Lenas Scrap Design; Comic Sans MS Font

I'm not sure what it was with boxes and laundry baskets but all of our kids really loved playing in them. Here is Joel playing in a box we used to keep in the living room for toys. He spent hours playing in it. What a look of pure joy on his face!

Cool Kids

Credits: Torn Memories Kit by Lauren Bavin; Sam's Handwriting Font

This is another picture I scanned at Lee's mother's house last summer. I love the 'cool' sunglasses that Lee, his brother Mark, and his sister Judy are wearing. Notice that the lady in the car also has her sunglasses on. I think she is Lee's Grandmother...

Jeremy and James

Credits: Tag, Star Brad - Raspberry Road Designs, Stamp Frames - Gloria Val Verde; Paper, Ribbon - Creative Scrap Treasures; Overlay - Lauren Bavin; OctemberScript Font.

Jeremy and our neighbor James, became good friends almost immediately when the Dunns moved into the neighborhood. They were pretty much inseparable. Jeannie, Mark, James, Jessica, and Jackie lived just down the street for several years until they moved to the Austin area. James is now in the Marines, I believe!

3 Brothers

Credits: Paper, Letter Blocks- Creative Victorian; Frame - Sweet Surrender kit by Sherry Ferguson; Labels - Amy W. Designs; Alpha - Lisa Whitney; Bradley Hand ITC Font

This is a picture that Lee's brother Kevin sent me last year. I had forgotten all about it until I found it on my flash drive the other day. The only one of the brothers who really has much hair left these days is Mark - and he still has a lot!

Jenna's a teenager

Credits: Papers, Balloons - Rainbowkitty at Fluorescent Jelly Beans; Tag - Atomic Cupcake; Alpha - Scrapbook Max; Tropicali Script BTN Bamboo, Scriptina and Arial Fonts

I can't believe my baby girl just turned 13 years old. They really do grow up too fast. She is such a sweetheart!!

Another Roll of old film!

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Credits: Paper, Journal Block, Buttons, Word Art - RPenn at Shabby Princess; Tag - Atomic Cupcake; Frames - ToyBox Designs; Heart Flourish - Heather Watson; Marcell Script, Attic, and Arial Fonts

I had been looking for an old bag that had some old camera lenses in it for awhile. Saturday, while looking for something else, there it was - hanging on the wall hooks with all my other camera stuff! Go figure! Anyway, inside the bag were two rolls of film. One of them was blank, but the other had these photos plus some of Jeremy as a baby! Cool Stuff!

Hungry Horse Montana

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Credits: Tag, fiber, tabs, Grungy overlay by Atomic Cupcake; Offshore Banking Business, OctemberScript, and Arial fonts, Scrapbook Max software. History from www.hungryhorse-montana.com

I had planned on doing this page awhile back but I was extremely disappointed that I could only find one picture of me on this horse statue. Yesterday, while looking for pictures of the kids, I found my grandmother's old slide viewer and in the case were more pictures of the 'hungry horse'. I was totally thrilled, as you can imagine. I used to love our trip to Hungry Horse - we always stopped there on the way to Glacier Park - and I always wanted to get a picture on the horse. We quit going to Montana in 1972 when my grandmother sold her place. But we went back on a 'fun' trip in 1980 - of course we had to go by and get a picture on "Old Jerry"! I wonder if it is still there. I searched for Hungry Horse images on the web but did not find any. But the Hungry Horse website says that there are 'statuesque' reminders of the hungry horses, so maybe they are still around! They used to refer to the town as the Dam Town and the store was the Dam Store. I thought that was cool because I could actually say it without getting in trouble!

Halloweens

I know I have more halloween pictures SOMEWHERE but darned if I can find them.
So I scrapped the ones I found.

Credits: Paper, Tag - Atomic Cupcake; Curled Frame - Toy Box Designs;Aged Frame - Broken Jar Creations;Halloween Font

Credits: Paper, Tag, Ribbon, Brad, Metal Alpha - Atomic Cupcake; Hairpin Normal, Arial Fonts

Credits: Paper, Tag, Chain, Brads - Atomic Cupcake;Pumpkin, 'Boo' - Scrapbook Flair; Billiebarred, Arial Fonts

Credits: Paper - Johanna at DigitalScrapbookPlace; Pumpkins, Pumpkin Alpha - Jennifer at DigitalScrapbookPlace

Credits: Halloween 2006 kit by Scrapbook Flair; Old Press DSG Font

Credits: A Girly Halloween Kit by Digitreats; Creepy Font

Credits: Halloween 2006 kit by Scrapbook Flair; Jokerman Font

Credits: Paper - Atomic Cupcake; Beaded Frame - Bon Scrapatit Designs; Halloween, Ghostmeat Fonts

Credits: Halloween 2006 kit by Scrapbook Flair; Broadway,Cursed Huerbis Fonts

More Scanning!

I had recently started to scan some old photos when I realized that some of them were missing from the folders they were stored in. (The original packaging they came in when I got them developed) So, since I still had the negatives, (also in the original packaging they came in when I got them developed - bad idea I know but it sure came in handy for this project!) I decided to scan them instead. What a surprise! The scanned negatives have much better color than the photos. I'm not sure if they were originally printed that way or if they have faded over the years.
Here is a sample:

The photo above was scanned from the negative.

This photo was scanned from the print. Notice that they even chopped off the sky!!