I finished the heritage album today!

It's a good thing I finished, because I need to get this album in the mail. I guess I did 9 pages today! Of course they're little pages, and they're all 2-page layouts except for the final page, but I'm glad I got it done.

Page 14: Fred and Anna K. (Harold's parents)

Page 15: Charlie K. (Fred's father) in Nebraska with his wagon

Page 16: Harold and Barbara start a family (baby pictures of my mom)

Page 17: Snapshots of my mom's family, and one of my mom and dad three years before they got married!

Pages 18&19: Family Portrait (Harold & Barbara and kids)

Page 20: Ben and Pam get married. That's 1966! I wish I didn't have to crop the funkadelic clock from the top of the photo, but I had to so the photo would fit in the album.

Page 21: Ben and Pam start a family

Page 22: About the scrapper (that's me!)

The End!!

Four more Heritage Album pages

Page 10: Grandma K. at 6 months old! I think it's so fun to be able to see a picture of my grandma as a baby.


Page 11: The H. Family--Grandma K. (bottom right) with her brother Wayne and their parents. (Same Jack and Beulah as on Page 9.)


Page 12: Now we have shifted from Grandma K's family to Grandpa K's. At right is his mother (Anna Johanna Person K.) and at left his grandmother (Karna Person; I'm not sure of her maiden name, but she was born in Sweden in 1849).


Page 13: The top photo is the K. family: From left, Fred, Florence, Harold (my grandpa) and Anna (same person as on Page 12). Fred and Anna had a third child, Milo (who always went by Mike, as far as I knew) but he was the youngest, so I'm guessing he wasn't yet born when the photo was taken. The smaller photo is Florence all grown up with her husband Basil A. (though I don't know if this picture is before or after they were married).

Heritage Album pages 8 & 9

Page 8: John (Jack) H. threshing. He was my great-grandfather--my mom's mom's dad.


Page 9: My grandma's parents, John Irving H. and Beula Hazel Cox H., married June 14, 1917. These photos are undated (as are just about all of the photos in this album), but both portraits were from Iowa (his from Youngberg in Sioux City, hers from the Le Grand Studio in Anthon).

Today's work on the heritage album

I got more work done this Friday than I did last week, but I'm still not quite even halfway finished with the album. The first time I posted these photos, most of them were horribly blurry (except for the first one) but I've replaced them with slightly better ones. Page 2 (this page goes side-by-side with page 3, which I posted last week). It's just journaling about that portrait of the Button family. I came back later and added that button, ain't it cute?

Page 4: Photos of Oscar and Ida Hall Button. These were my great-great-great grandparents! My mom's mom's mom's mom's mom and dad. ;)

Page 5: Lillie Amanda Button Cox (daughter of Oscar and Ida on page 4) and her husband Joseph Ain Cox. This was their wedding photo, from December 1890.


Page 6: Matthias and Anna H., with their son Bert. Another son of theirs was John H., my mom's mom's dad. So these people in the picture were my great-great-grandparents and my great-great-uncle.


Page 7: Four of the 10 (I think) children of Matthias and Anna H. My great-grandfather, John H., is at right.

Here is something really cool I noticed about two of the pictures today: My grandparents' wedding picture (from 1944, page 1) and my great-great-grandparents' wedding picture (from 1890, page 5) were both taken at the same studio in Sioux City, Iowa!

If I work really, really hard I suppose there is still a possibility that I might finish the album when I scrapbook next Friday, but I'm not going to count on that.

A New Project

My mom has me making an album of old family photos for my grandma's 90th birthday in April. (Shhh! It's a surprise gift, so don't tell her. I'm not worried that Grandma will find this blog, because she doesn't have a computer.) I just started working on it today (actually I got it organized yesterday and did stick one photo down then, but I didn't finish that layout today so it is not pictured in this post). I bought an 8x8 album kit just so everything would match nicely and because a smaller album is easier to store than a 12x12. Also, smaller pages seem to go much faster than larger ones!

Even so, I didn't get near as much done today as I wanted to (I read more than I had planned today) but at least something is better than nothing. I finished the first and third pages today.

Page One

Harold & Barbara

12/22/44

This is my mom's parents' wedding photo. My grandpa is wearing his Navy uniform. I chose this photo as the first page since the album will have all different family photos of theirs (both sides of the family) so they are kind of the theme of the album.

Page 3
The Button family

Yes, you read right. These are the Buttons. The parents (at left and right) are my grandma's great-grandparents, Oscar and Ida Button (making them my great-great-great-grandparents)! The photo is undated, but it is certainly from before 1922 and probably close to the turn of the century. My grandma's grandma, Lillie Button, is in the middle of the back row. I wish I had a scanner, or the means of taking a better photo of the page, because the actual photo of the Buttons is much clearer than it appears here. Pages 2&3 will be facing one another; I did not do page two today, but it will have journaling/text to go with this photo.

9.8.2003 "Baby Girl in the Laundry"

I think I put all three of my babies in the clean laundry at one point or another. I don't think Stacia knew what to think of it, but she sure looked cute. These pictures were taken on their Aunt Debbi's 34th birthday!

New Year's Day 2004. "Hudson & Dylan"

Here's a layout of Hudson and his favorite cousin (second cousin, actually . . . in case you hadn't gathered that). Hudson and Dylan always have such fun together. Dylan is almost two years older than Hudson, but they still get along really well. They don't get to see each other very often since the Goodes live so far away, but the boys are always so excited when they get the chance to spend time together, and they always pick up right where they left off. Just like me and Dylan's mom, Lori!

I have been doing a lot of color-block pages recently (well, if you count two or three over the past six months as "a lot"), but they have been from different time periods, so they're in all different albums. I like the simple beauty of color-block pages.

It's hard to see because of the flash, but on the right side of the lefthand page it says "BEST BUDS", not "BEST BUGS." Also, please notice the ampersand in the title. I sketched that from an example on the Internet, cut it out with an Xacto knife, and painted silver glitter on it. Just tell me it was worth it even if you don't think so.