Wordless Wednesday

 

Photo Books

I've posted before about the photo books I make every year and some of you have asked to see them.
I've tried different companies for this over the years and have decided that Mixbook is the best of all I've tried.  It's easy to work with, has so many options for backgrounds, stickers, fonts and layouts.  (I'm not getting paid to say this, I just think they are the best.)
When my kids were younger, I did scrapbooks for them. I like this better because you don't have to go to the store and get supplies, store everything and haul it out to work on. It's all on your computer!
Anyway, I do one of these every year for each of our grandkids, and I do it from one birthday to the next. I also do one for Bob and I, with all the fun and events of the year.

Here's what they look like:

Here's Alaina and Ruby's books.

This is a page in Alaina's book from when we took them to Greenfield Village.

This is a page from Ruby's book showing her entry in the school Art Show, and also the visit from my friend Jenny of I'm having a Thought Here. 

And here's Cassie and Connor's books.

This is a page in Cassie's book from a day she spent with us.

and a page of Connor being cute!

This one is Bob and my family book for 2025.

This page has Alaina and Ruby doing a craft and a visit from Terri of Your Friend from Florida.

It's so nice to have all these photos in books with dates and documentation.

Right now I'm working on another book that I'm really having fun with. It's a family history book with photos of both my Dad and Moms families, letters my Dad wrote to my mom when he was in the army and history of the farm I grew up on. I'm looking forward to getting it done and sharing it with my siblings.

Finally, some time with our girls!

It's been a while since we've had Alaina and Ruby over. Between us being busy, them being busy and some sickness at their house, things weren't working out. But we were finally able to have them over on Friday night.
We picked them up after school and went out for supper. We went to Cracker Barrel this time and they had fun in the shopping area and enjoyed the food too.

When we got home they started this project. I had ordered a few little kits to make animals from buttons. However, when the kits arrived, they were just a little bag of buttons and cords. The girls had to try and figure it our from a picture.

They did it!  Alaina made the squirrel and Ruby made the turtle.

After that, we made monkey bread. We all got into our PJ's and watched a movie - 'How to Train a Dragon'. It's an oldie but very cute!

On Saturday morning, we went for a walk. It had rained a lot in the previous days and it was 51 degrees!  This little patch of snow was all the remained in our yard. (You know this makes me happy!)

We walked down the road and visited the neighbor horses.

We brought some apples along to treat them with.

Here's some moss we saw as we walked back. I love seeing this green pop out!

When we got back, we worked on our craft for the day. We made Fairy Gardens. The girls each chose little houses, trees, flowers and even little dogs to put in their gardens.

The cups were a thrift store find, perfect to put a little garden into.  My friend Kim is always coming up with fun things to do with thrift store finds, and I was happy to finally do one too!

Here's the finished fairy gardens; Ruby's on the left and Alaina's on the right. They both picked flowers to match the houses they were using. I think they turned out very cute!

We had to play the marble game before they went home, it's a tradition!  

It was fun; we're blessed to spend time with these girls!