Jan 1st cell phone pics

 Jenna and her giant pencil drawing.  She is so talented!

 Josh, Lee, and Jeremy being "Awesome" for January alphabetical photo challenge "A"

 Our sweet Nikki.

I have not done any digital scrapbooking in well over a year.  Well, here is my latest attempt!

Some Beards

A little over a year ago, my dad decided to grow a beard. It has just continued to get longer and longer. Here is what it looked like in April. It has since gotten even longer than this - and Jeremy shaved his off. Lee and Josh still look pretty much the same!

Christmas Day Games

Boxing

Jeremy had his first boxing match in July. Here are some pictures from that bout. His trainer was shocked to find out that his opponent was a southpaw as he had not trained Jeremy to fight against a lefty! Unfortunately, Jeremy did not win, but it was pretty close! And now he knows what to expect from a southpaw!

Black Crowes

We recently went with some friends to a Black Crowes concert. It was a lot of fun. They are such a throwback to the bands I used to see in the 70's. They look like a bunch of hippies, but not as old as real hippies would actually be!

Hiking

Jeremy in the Gila

Found some more old pictures and just had to scrap them. I had forgotten how blonde Jeremy's hair actually was.

Stock Car Races

We went to the Stock Car Races in Las Cruces this past Saturday after not going for about 20 years. So of course Joel had never been before. He kept saying things like "This is awesome!" So I think maybe he enjoyed himself. Lee had actually taken Jeremy and Josh more recently than 20 years (but I wasn't there so it doesn't really count :) ) so Jeremy remembered going before. He had a blast too. Now Lee is all inspired to start Stock Car Racing. I figure why not? Over the years he has done Soccer, Softball, Mountain Biking, and more recently gotten into boxing, not to mention being in a Band, so he might as well race! Ha - we'll see what REALLY happens with it...

Jeremy's New Boxing Gym

OK - I realize I am a month late posting this. I will try to be a better blogger in the future! Anyway, Jeremy started training at San Juan Gym on the 1st of July and he had his first fight last night - 30 days later. I will post something about the actual fight real soon!

Dinner with Grandpa

Just a quick post today.

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!

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!!

Fun at the Border Patrol Check

Over the weekend we travelled to Lubbock for a memorial service for my Sister-in-law's father. He was 88.
On the way, we had to stop at the border patrol check as usual, but things didn't go quite as they normally do...Jeremy was driving. I was in the front passenger seat. Josh was directly behind Jeremy and Lee was behind me. Joel and Jenna were in the back seat.
Jeremy was prepared for the usual 'Are you all American citizens' and he was ready to say 'yes'. But this is how it actually went:
1st Officer - Where are you going today?
Jeremy - uhhhhh (then to me) where are we going? (not the type of hesitation you should have at a border patrol checkpoint!)
me to Jeremy - Lubbock!
Jeremy to officer - Lubbock.
Officer - OK - where are you coming from?
Jeremy - El Paso
Officer - Where do you live?
Jeremy - El Paso
Officer - Which side of town?
Jeremy - West side
Officer - Which street?
Jeremy - (tells him our street)
(by this time they have noticed other people in the back of the van - Josh, Lee, Joel and Jenna)
2nd Officer - is this door locked? Can you open it?
(while Josh is unlocking the door 2nd officer asks - And what are you going to be doing in Hobbs?
Me - It's Lubbock and we're going to a funeral
2nd Officer - Is everybody back here American Citizens?
They all say 'yes' as he actually gets a good look at Josh (who has recently grown a full beard and did I mention that Lee has told him he should stay away from airports? Lee says he looks like he would be named Mukkhi Farshad)
2nd Officer (to Josh) - And where were YOU born sir?
Josh - Here
2nd Officer - Here? (we are actually in the middle of nowhere)
Josh - Providence....Providence Hospital (with no trace of a foreign accent)
I guess by this time they realize we're not drug-runners or terrorists and they let us go.
As we are driving away, nobody has realized why they targeted Josh like that except Lee - who mentions something about the beard - prompting Josh to exclaim - That does it - I'm shaving it off!! And we all were almost rolling on the floor with laughter for quite awhile down the road! Funny in retrospect but kind of scary not to mention annoying at the time. I wanted to just strangle Jeremy for not knowing where we were going in the first place.

I will try to post a picture of Josh in his beard so you can see what Lee meant!

Then and Now

Again, while visiting my Aunt last weekend, she had this old picture of Jeremy and Andy. I couldn't resist the opportunity to do a 'Then and Now' page!!

Credits: Ribbon and Stripes Template - Scrapbook Max; That's Super, VAGRounded BT, and X-Files fonts; Scrapbook Max Software

Roxy

Going through some old pictures the other day, I found these taken of Roxy when she was just a pup. She was actually smaller than Poochie. (She's a big monster now!!) Jeremy and Joel have always had a soft spot for animals which you can see in these pictures.

Credits: Paper, PostIt, Chain & Dog Tag - Atomic Cupcake; Overlay - Scrapbook Flair; Weathered Frame - Deanna Patterson; Curled Frame - Kimb's designs; Fancy Frame - enableem;Tag - Chris Greiser; Bad Cargo 2.0 Font

Credits: Paper, Chain & Dog Tags - Atomic Cupcake; Overlay - Scrapbook Flair; Tags - Chris Greiser; stamp frame - Moo Two Designs; White Frame - ImagineByFran; Black Frame & Grungy Frame - Raspberry Road Designs; Billiebarred, Bad Cargo 2.0, and Arial Fonts

Breakfast with Grandpa

Quick Post for now: These are some pictures from awhile back that I just got around to scrapping.

Credits: What Boys are Made of kit by lizandherbabes; Photo Mat - Katie Pertiet; Folder Tab - Tracy King at florescentjellybeans.com; Framed tag - Osten Wilkins; Corners - Heather Watson; Goudy Stout and Arial fonts

Diablos Baseball!

Last weekend, my company had an outing at the local minor league baseball park. Mark and Amy were here for the weekend so we took them along too. And all 4 kids actually went! We had a very nice time.

Credits: What Boys are made of kit - lizandherbabes; Stacked Journal sheets - ; Elements - Scrapbook Max;Mesh - Kim Liddiard; BellCent BdList BT font

Credits: What Boys are made of kit - lizandherbabes; Stacked Journal sheets - ; Stamp - JuLaender Designs; Stitches - Jerline'S DigigrapiCS; Mesh - Kim Liddiard;BellCent BdList BT font

Boxing Workout!!

About 2 or 3 months ago, Lee decided to take up his life-long dream of boxing. One of my co-workers is a member of a Jiu Jitsu gym where they also do some boxing training, and he thought Lee would like it for some reason, so mentioned it to me. Somehow the name of the trainer came up and it is Tom McKay, who, for 24 years, trained local kickboxing hero Cliff 'Magic' Thomas, 5 time World Champion. Lee has always admired Cliff Thomas and had actually met Mr. McKay several years ago because his son and grandson are BMX racers. Lee started the boxing training and absolutely loves it. He mentioned it to Jeremy, who started about a month later. Now, they work out together - boxing!! I stopped by on my way home from work and took some pictures. I was a little late to get much of the actual workout, so I made them pose. :)
Judging by the sweat, I would say they had a pretty good workout.

Camping-Fishing

This is an old layout from a camping/fishing trip we took with a bunch of our neighbors a few years ago.
I liked it so thought I would put it in here. I am currently working on a baby book for a co-worker so I have not been able to do much of my own scrapbooking lately. So, I am going through some older pages I've done so I can at least put SOMETHING out here!

Credits: Paper - Scrapbook Max ; Tag - Atomic Cupcake; Corners - unknown; Crazy Girls Blond BTN Lt Font