Life is busy and it has become more and more of a struggle for me to fit scrapbooking into my schedule. I definitely don’t have the time I once had to spend HOURS on page layouts…picking just the right coordinating papers and embellishments…experimenting with different styles and sketches….running to the store to get just what each page needed and sometimes (when my perfectionist side would come out to play) even starting over on a page when I made a mistake or something looked a little off. Those days are LONG GONE! Now I cherish every second I get to scrapbook (because the seconds are few and far between) and I want to HAUL to get as much done as I possibly can. I’m loving that right now there are so many different ways to record family memories. Thank goodness for blogging! Since my blog is our new family scrapbook, I’m just focusing on my girls’ individual books and any themed books I want to have… a Halloween book to pull out every October, a Christmas book that will include all December pics and a handful of friend/family Christmas cards each year, and any other individual events I want recorded in a book… like this one I just finished of our 10 year anniversary trip to Italy. I used Pebbles Share and Tell binder and page protectors and it made it SO easy! I only scrapped a few main pages and then just slid the rest of the pictures in the 4×6 slots. My journaling was also typed on 4×6 cards and I tossed all of our post cards in them as well. I didn’t agonize over each page…just used a lot of the same supplies, kept it simple and got it done. Definitely the quickest book I’ve ever completed. YEA for having one less project on my to-do list! Thought I’d share these albums/page protectors in case any of you want to use them to make a quick album and have one less project on your to-do list too. :)
**Added bonus: getting it done in time to give to Kenny as part of his Valentine’s Day present.
xoxo, Erin
I was so impressed with my little 2 year old this trip! When we took Ellie to Disneyland for the first time at age 3 she was scared of everything. I was gearing up to spend the whole day with Addie on the carousel and Dumbo. We took her on the Peter Pan ride thinking she’d probably bawl (like Ellie did) but we were SO wrong. She LOVED IT! She talked through the whole ride saying things like “UH OH…we’re going fast aren’t we mommy! 
There was only one snag on our trip. We told Ellie she could pick out a toy for her birthday and she fell in love with a baby Minnie. She wanted to carry it with her everywhere. When we were getting ready in our hotel room to hit the park for day 2 she asked if she could bring Minnie. Kenny said no…I said “Oh – let her bring it. She loves it. What’s the big deal?” Kenny didn’t think it was a good idea…I told him to lighten up. The picture above is of Kenny and Ellie on Toads Wild Ride. You can see baby Minnie on her lap before the ride. Addison and I were right behind them and at the end of the ride…no baby Minnie. She was driving the car and must have dropped it somewhere along the way. There wasn’t much we could do (they won’t stop the ride) and Ellie was in TEARS. We of course went and bought her ANOTHER baby Minnie and Kenny had a great time rubbing in how right he was and how the world would be a better place if everyone would just listen to him. I feel it is important to document this tidbit for our family history since it is EXTREMELY RARE that Kenny is right and I am wrong. :) 
