I love this kit!

There’s a ton to work with and though here you see mostly blue, there’s a lot of girlie pink, too. I love that it’s so versatile.

So anyway, just thought I’d make a little post here. My blog has been quite neglected lately but I promise, updates coming soon. :) In the meantime, though, I hope y’all like my layout. I haven’t had a chance to do much scrapbooking lately so it was nice to sit down and do something even if I didn’t really get to work on it until after everyone else was asleep. It really is kind of relaxing and therapeutic. I guess that’s why, in part, I like it.

The left photo, though, was shot in black and white film and the second, of course, in color film. I wonder if I should have turned the other photo black and white to match but I like the color version. Both of those photos are some of my favorites from that year. And I just realized I dated the page wrong so I guess I’m off to fix that before bed! It was 2003, not 2004. Duh, Val!! That’s what happens, though when your photos get somehow organized in the wrong folder and though you move them to the proper folder, you have it in your head the wrong date. :)

I’ll never be at that weight again, lol, or that hair!! (Second photo for hair, that’s me in forefront.)

Neither of us can remember a wedding we went to, before ours, that used a non-traditional recessional. Seems, at least with the people we know, we started a trend.

Our recessional was “Wonderful” by Bleach from their album “Space.”

We had to stop and think, too, about why we did that in the first place. If I remember correctly, Steve wanted the song in but we didn’t have anywhere else to put it! Of course, we kept it “top secret” until the rehearsal dinner and then freaked out our parents with it. :) We were begged to change it but it turned out really nice. So nice that our best man borrowed our CD for his wedding the following week. To think of it now, I don’t know why they’d want to do that, but whatever. :P

Then at a friend’s wedding in 2002, they used “L-O-V-E” by Nat King Cole

Two of our friends last year used “Signed, Sealed, Delivered”

My brother & sister-in-law used Less Than Jake’s “I Think I Love You”

Another of my friends used one called “You Will Go Out With Joy” but I wasn’t able to find that one. Not even sure who did it, I think it was instrumental and I just remember the title from her program. It sounded like Jewish traditional to me, though.

And the song my sister’s going to use?

“I Love You More Today Than Yesterday” by Spiral Staircase.

Fun stuff. Of course, there’s more, when considering I’ve been to about a thousand weddings in the last 7.5 years but those are just the ones that stand out in our minds.

So that was a nice little trip down memory lane. Those of you who are married (or getting married) – what song did you (or are you gonna) use for your recessional? Traditional or otherwise? I’m curious :)

Yup, that is Sarah! She was 6 or 7 years old, it was sometime in 2002. Probably early-mid 2002, actually. On piano is Sheila who was 12 or 13 at the time.

That was at the small church we went to at that time, we left later that year. The video actually also brings back some not-so-good memories. I’m reminded of some guy who thought he owned everything who I had to fight to get Sarah put on-air instead of his daughter who was on ev.er.y week. But, anyway. Not sure why the audio is so low here unless it has to do with the fact that this came from tape (hence the horrible horrible quality). Oh well! :)

So that was a then, here’s a now:

:)

In honor of his birthday today, he’s pretty much getting to do whatever he wants. Heh. Not been a bad day though, he’s been pretty well behaved. Though we’ll see how long it goes before he starts to get too tired and therefore mischevious and has to lay down. :P

We looked at some pictures earlier and I decided to post them. These are all from the day of his birth or the day after:

Anyway, enjoy some photos:

:)