9.10.2009 "Hud's Big White Truck"

Hud loves his truck. Funny thing is, it hasn't looked this white since the day I took these pictures. Well, he really wanted a brownish truck... now, thanks to our dirt road, he has one!

8.24.2009 "First Day of School 2009"

Hudson is in 4th grade and Stacia is in 1st grade this year. Please notice the super-cool mini license plate next to Hudson's picture on the right-hand page (where he is moping with his head down). Just in case you can't see it, it says "H8N IT"!

Natalie's very first scrapbook page

Natalie, age 3, has decided she needs to join me in my hobby of scrapbooking. Apparently her idea of "tee-apbookin" (as she calls it) is to cut and tear a sheet of 12x12 paper into various pieces and pile them up on top of a couple of photos. She may not quite have the idea, but at least she is easily pleased. For the price of one sheet of paper, she kept herself entertained (and off my lap) while I worked on my own scrapbook.

Thumbsuckers

Finally managed to get around to scrapbooking this week. Maybe I'll actually get back into the habit of scrapbooking every Friday now. I thought I might scrapbook a couple of other layouts too (First day of school and Hud's truck) but my photo printer was out of ink and if I have a backup cartridge somewhere, I can't find it. So I was stuck with scrapbooking only the pictures I had printed previously. This layout is about sisters Stacia, who used to suck her thumb, and Natalie, who still does.

7.8.2009 Natalie's 3rd birthday "portraits"

Some of the pictures I took of Natalie on her third birthday.

5.15.2009 "Stacia's 6th"

Stacia's 6th birthday party was a trip to the movie theater to see the Hannah Montana movie with five other little squealing squirming girls. We had cake and ice cream and opened presents at our house afterwards.

9.18.2003 "Getting To Know You"

9-18-03. Hudson and Stacia sitting on the couch in their PJs. Hudson was eating a bag of Cinnamon Imperials (AKA Red Hots) and Stacia was looking on with interest.

03.2007 "T is for Teeth"

Natalie's first four teeth came in during February and March 2007,

when she was 7 1/2 to 8 months old.

Summer 2006 "We Love Our Sweet New Baby Sister"

Big brother Hudson and big sister Stacia being sweet to their new baby sister Natalie during the summer of 2006. And a few cute pictures of Natalie sleeping thrown in. That pink rectangle on the left page really does say "baby sister" on it, even though you can hardly see it. The middle picture of all 3 kids is the one I had enlarged black & white and framed.

"My Garden"

The "landscaping" I put in on the south side of our house. The photo on the bottom right shows one of the gardens the same year it was planted (2005); the other photos are from 2007.

"Easter 2008"

"December 2007"

Playing outside on balmy days; Riding on the four-wheeler with Daddy.

05.2007 "Grandmomie and the Gingham Dress"

Hud's maternal grandmother hand-made an old-fashioned red gingham dress for Stacia as a baby gift. Though Grandmomie passed away less than two months before Natalie was born, Natalie got to wear the dress too.

10.2004 "Twinkle Toes"

Girlie-girl nail painting with Baby Stacia

05.2008 "My Little Wild Animals"

May 2008. The ears: Made for Stacia's 5th birthday party (Littlest Pet Shop theme). The kids tried them on and looked so cute I had to do a photo shoot. The books: Given to the kids as birthday gifts by Aunt Geneva. I used one of these photos to decorate her thank you card.