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Well, I have actually gotten a little tired of scrapping the most 

recent photos of the kids and our daily life.  I love the idea

of Project Life and I think it would probably be the most rewarding

album to look thru later on, as a real document of what we REALLY

did every day.  But, when I started scrapbooking it was because 

I loved looking back at older memories, some I had journaled 

about at the time in a diary or baby book.  

I used to tell me husband that I loved to scrapbook because

 it was usually of happy events or moments that I felt were 

worthy of my time...which is becoming invaluable every day - 

AND that in scrapbooking those happy moments I remembered why

my children were such a gift and it was essentially therapy for the 

terrible two's & three's and too soon to be tweens....ugh.

So, I have been looking back through this enormous Cropper Hopper 

photo file box that could hold thousands of photos...

I had arranged them carefully into categories and then into more

specific categories depending on scrapbooking necessity & importance.

Well, until recently, that ginormous box has been gathering dust.

In moving my scraproom, I have discovered lots of old/new toys! :)

Kind of like my children, when I hide a toy they have been fighting over and a 

few months later when I break it out, it is super exciting!

This was an old photo from December 2007, right before Sam turned 1.

I did this LO for the Scrapbook Circle Challenge #37, which is a Gallery Lift challenge,

found here:  http://www.scrapbookcircle.com/2012/08/challenge-37-gallery-lift

I based it on the sketch that Allison Waken lifted from another SC subscriber...

Three time lift!  Kinda neat...She used that lovely white painted wood plank paper, found here:  http://www.scrapbookcircle.com/2012/08/lifting-you-patricia/allisonwakenhappyboys1-3   

I also used the same Crate Paper paper for some arrow/triangular shapes like she did.  

I had been hoarding this wood plank paper & really didn't want to 

use it, so this got me out of that hoarding mindset...bad Jenni, bad. ;)