National Scrapbooking Day

Yesterday was National Scrapbooking Day!  What did you do for the day? Get any Scrapbooking done?  I did manage to get one scrapbook page done!  It's not nearly as easy to create anymore with a 1 year old in the house!  My daughter really likes to "help" mommy! And by help, I mean tear apart!  I'm sure anyone with children know what this is like.

Here is what I was able to complete:

I haven't titled the page yet, as I can't think of a great title that speaks to the page and to me.

I just absolutely love this picture of Maia!  This is just a snap shot with my iPhone! 

I love to showcase photos on a scrapbook page.  Sometimes I use more than one photo, and sometimes one photo is all that is needed.

Something that I have struggled with in the past was getting the "perfect" picture for a page.  Yes, perfect pictures are important at times, but not all the time!  This is a prime example of how a not perfect photo makes for a great layout!

I am trying my had at Project Life as well.  Not all of my scrapbooking is Project Life style, but I am liking how it is fast and easy.  If I don't have a lot of time to scrapbook, but have a lot of photos of an event, I like to use pocket pages.  If I have time, and special photos, I still like traditional scrapbooking.

I hope you had a great day creating yesterday, and hope to see some of your creations!

Have a great evening!

Luv Tracy

It's Been A While..............

Wow, time sure flies when we are having fun!  I can't believe how long it has been since my last post.  Way too long, but it sure flew by!

So, you ask, what have we been up to?  Well, our biggest and most exciting news is.................. We are new parents!  We welcomed our beautiful baby girl, Maia on May 14, 2013.

She was born at 10:27 a.m. at the Sturgeon Hospital in St. Albert.  We had an amazing team of doctors and nurses for her care.  She has a difficult delivery, and needed to spend a few days in the NICU. 

She had excellent care at the Grey Nuns NICU.  The entire team of nurses, doctors, lactation consultants, physiotherapists were amazing!  I am so thankful that we have such a stellar hospital.  Thankfully, she only had to be there for 3 days.  Then we brought her home!  And our lives have forever changed.  But changed for the better.

There are so many amazing parts to being new parents!  Learning not only about our new little bundle of joy, but also about each other as parents.  Learning patience.... Eric has been so wonderful to me and very patient with a hormone raged mama!  Oh, boy the hormones right after giving birth!  That is something that the Doctors and Nurses just don't tell you about!

Being new parents, we had to find our own parenting style.  After a lot of research and a lot of advice we have found our style.  We are following the Attachment Parenting style which was created by Dr. William Sears.  We breast fed her exclusively until 6 months, and continue to do so now even at almost 1 year old.  We also co-sleep with her.  Now, co-sleeping doesn't work for everyone, but it works for us.  Co-sleeping is a topic of great conversation.  Not only do we get the weird looks and nay-sayers, we also very unsolicited advice!  But we take it all with a grain of salt, and just let it roll off.

Now that we have introduced you to our new addition to our family, I will keep you updated with photos of her! 

Have a great day.

Luv Tracy