Latest favourite picture

Just had to post this picture of Henry. It was taken when he went for a hike with his mum and dad at the weekend, he's certainly going to grow up an outdoor's boy.

Favourite Xmas Layout of Henry

This was a template of my good friend Pam Callaghan, perfect to tell the story of Henry tearing the paper, discovering the gift and enjoying it, thanks Pam for allowing us to use these.

The top page 'Henry with the bugs' was such a cute picture of him with his biscuit all over his face and such a cheeky grin...this was my 2nd digi layout, the 1st one is somehow lost amongst my many files aarghh!! one day I'll find it but it did have errors on it, this one doesn't..I don't think, also made it with a freebie kit, but now that I feel more comfortable with it I intend to go buy a few kits.

These were the last pics taken before we left last November

End of Summer aarghh!!

Well the time we all dread has arrived today, end of summer, cooler mornings and nights already, darker sooner. But, shouldn't complain as we have had a wonderful summer and the warmest I can remember for some years.

Blog has been neglected a bit of late for many reasons, but hopefully now it will get some priority so I can get it back on track.

Our dear Grandson Henry has grown and changed so much since we last saw him last November, he is sitting up now, saying mum (his first word), and has 6 teeth with 3 coming through in the last week, amazing, and of course this has meant little sleep for his mum and dad.

Personally I've been playing around with digi scrapping, took a while to grasp the 'layers' thing but feel comfortable with that now so am stretching out into other areas. Don't think I would ever fully become a 'digi scrapper' because I love playing with the paper too much, but, definitely think I will use it to make smaller books for gifts etc as it is so quick. However, as a result of this and keeping up to date with my online friends and their galleries, I have had little time to actually scrap, done a few since the last ones posted on here so will put a couple up 'of Henry of course'. Will never be able to keep up with scrapping all the fabulous pics his mum and dad keep me updated with, without these I think I'd go crazy because it is so hard living so far from him. Less than 2 weeks and they will be home in Australia for our youngest daughters wedding...so a lovely wedding to look forward to and the arrival of Henry, Erin and Jarrod.

Mt Rainier

These layouts are of the absolutely beautiful snow at Mt Rainier in Washington State.

Back Again

Well after being away from my blog for some time I am now back and will hopefully have the time to keep it up to date.

When I last posted we were heading back to the USA to visit our daughter and her family in Washington State. Well, our first visit there was absolutely wonderful, it was so nice to see how our gorgeous grandson had grown since we were last over there. Our daughter and son in-law took us to some of the most beautiful and scenic places and have to say this State is truly beautiful, can't wait to go back and explore it some more.

Yesterday was a wonderful day with our youngest daughter and her fiance at their home for Christmas Lunch. What a wonderful day it was, they have been renovating their home and doing a really great job, we are so proud of them. A lovely breakfast with them after a very early start from home, and then dinner and chat with Jeremy's family, made for a lovely day before heading back to Orford.

Back to the U.S.A

Great news, Bob and I are heading back to the United States to Washington State this time where our daughter and her family have recently moved to, Bob surprised me with the suggestion to go back, he misses them as much as I do, we leave in a few weeks, yea!!

Good Morning Vietnam

Just to change the scenery a bit. This pic was taken at 11a.m. our first morning in Vietnam, Ho Chi Minh City, it was already around 39 deg at that time, so very hot. Picture was taken in a beautiful restaurant we visited for lunch prior to travelling south to Vung Tau where my husband was stationed for some of his time in Vietnam.

Grandchildren are things dreams are made of

A couple of multi pic pages highlighting my dear grandsons cute faces as he grows.

Proud Moments

I was so glad to finally be in America and to be holding our first grandchild, he arrived early and we were still touring Ireland on our way to Virginia for his birth.

The Journaling on the bottom of this layout says; My greatest joy in life was having children. My second greatest was to see them happily married and happy in life. A grandchild is the icing on the cake and the dream.

This layout was done using a sketch by 'Julie Bonner' for the October Sketch Challenge on 'that Scrappy Girl' site.

Henry with his beautiful mum

This picdture taken on Erin's 31st birthday, Henry was just 3 wks old, I love this picture Erin looks so beautiful and full of love for her son.

Our Beautiful Murpy

This picture taken in October 2009 and it was so cold but Murphy likes to think he can catch the seagulls so went for a swim, his efforts were in vain as they hover above him tormenting.

Henry and his Dad

Well my blog is going to feature a lot of Henry, he is going to grow up on this blog I think.
This one I love the picture I took of him with his dad when we were visiting them, Jarrod was dressed in his 'Dress Uniform' for a formal event.

Slide Show

ALL WEEKEND LONG CROP

Yes, that's right, all weekend over at PAGES IN TIME -
Are you ready to crop the weekend away?????

Nikki is hosting a National Holidays Mini-Crop at Pages In Time and would love for you to come join in on the fun with us. What can you win????

How does the September Pages In Time Kit sound???? Yummy, right???? There are already sold out so this is your only chance to get this awesome kit in your hands.

The National Holidays Mini-Crop starts at 9am Friday, September 11th and last until Sunday 9pm, September 13th. There will be lots of challenges and some fun games and our top winner will get that yummy kit shown above. Second and Third place winners will get some goodness from my personal stash.

Beautiful Vietnam

Just to mix things up a bit I have started scrapping our latest holiday. This first one is from Vung Tau in South Vietnam, when my husband was based very close by during the war, this was all scrub, now its a tourist mecca. A very beautiful country and the people in the majority are really humble and lovely.

Couple more...and this is just the beginning

These pics were taken at around 2 wks when Henry was a bit unsettled and loved to lie on his tummy on his mum or dad.









And a beautiful peaceful picture ;

Well this is it - the start of Henry's Album

On this one I have cut the frame from the Cricut Cartridge 'Accent Essentials'. The furry little blue elephant ' too cute' is from Martha Stewart and the 'Moment in Time' wording is from FX essentials, Australia.



















I decided rather than start with my favourite picture of Henry, I would start at the beginning, so these first 2 pages are a couple of many, taken shortly after his birth with his 'hospital' cap on, doesn't he look cute.
The Punched left edge and frame are both done with Martha Stewart Punches, the pale pp is Creative Imaginations. Decided to do a mix of blues with a hint of green for the album, although I'm sure I'll be tempted to vary that a bit when some nice new pages are released.

Crop on the 29th

Well those of you that follow my blog will know that at 'Pages in Time' we have regular crops which are a lot of fun with games and challenges.

This month's crop is going to be wet and wild, it is on the 29th of this month, and we are going to have a blast, hope you can join us. Come get all the details and so on!http://www.pagesintimestoresite.ning.com/