Some book pages I’ve been catching up on. I always order Lainey’s book at the end of April so she can have it for her birthday, so we’re almost done!
Some catch up on Lainey’s book:
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And, a First Year Book has been started for the bunny:
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For those who have asked, we make 12 x 12 hardcover books through Shutterfly (they’re affordable, fantastic and hold up to 100 pages), and I use an old program, Microsoft Digital Image Suite, to make my scrapbook pages. I don’t use a lot of Scrapbook stuff…just basically drop pictures in, arrange into a collage and throw some text in to keep it simple and time-manageable.
I can’t wait to watch my grown-up girls look through their books someday.
Have a great weekend!
Thank you so much for sharing your story us. I have an amazing little girl who has also routed us to Holland. She was born healthy and contracted Group B Strep Meningitis at 3 weeks old. She has a resulting brain injury. She is such an amazing little girl and has overcome so much.
Your blog reminds me to get out there and forget about my worries for today. I still have many (worries) but I’m learning that if I can let them go, even for a day, I have the life I always wanted.
So beautiful! What a wonderful keepsake for your girls : )
You, and your fabulous pictures have inspired me to get busy on beginning to make books. So easy and affordable and yet I needed a little push. Thank you. Your family is beautiful!
What a great book! Now you have motivated me to make mine!
What a beautiful keepsake for your girls! Nice job, mama.
I love your blog. Your family is beautiful.
WOW!
That is amazing!
I am DEFINITELY going to have to do this when I have kids. Seriously – what an awesome gift to your girls!!!
I am so happy I found your blog! Your family is beautiful, the pictures are breathtaking! I love your little dog too!
I LOVE the scrapbook pages. So beautiful. I’m going to do that when I have children someday.
I love you and your blog–and you have some of the most beautiful girls ever. 🙂
Love & Blessings,
–Hannah
just happened across your blog! beautiful images!
Once again, thank you for sharing your beautiful story with us!
Beautiful! I make Shutterfly books often, but you have inspired me to use some photo programs to make them even nicer. Your girls are going to appreciate this so much when they are older!
From another side of the world, I have read your blog for a couple of weeks now. Every word, every picture is such a joy to mind and eyes. I love it! Thank you for the inspiration, for sharing your story!
Have a nice weekend with your sweet family:)
Love, Sunniva from Norway.
I’ve been reading your blog since I was forwarded to Nella’s birth story. I am hooked. Hooked on you, hooked on Lainey, hooked on Nella…just hooked! The love you feel for your girls & family in general just radiates through your words and photos! I appreciate your honesty and it is refreshing. Your Lainey looks a lot like my Audrey. I look forward to more posts and the book that I hope to see on shelves soon. God Bless!
Wow. Your girls are so lucky to have you for a mama. Your love for them has warmed my heart first thing on a Saturday morning. Thank you.
these are so beautiful. thank you for sharing. im inspired to make books for each of my girls. i have 3. with thousand of photos just stashed away as jpegs. Must. Make. Books.
Thank you.
Amazing books! I want to start making these for my kids. I used to do the hands-on scrapbooking but felt like the focus became more and more on everything else on the page and not the pictures. I love these pages–all about the pictures and your thoughts. Perfect. Thanks for sharing these pages. Loved seeing them.
xoxo
o these pages are just beautiful!
i’ve made several books for my daughter and we love reading them together!!
i love when you lie (this kind of lie, anyway)! good luck on your spring mini shoots today, wish i was there to share in the fun and have my littles captured by you once again 🙂
sweet day to you, my friend …
PS – i have some ski pictures up!
And the best book you are making is not of pages and pictures, colors and collages–it is the book you are making with the tiny moments you frame with a smile or a tear, the little conversations where tiny lips form new words of wonder and those occasions where words aren’t even needed–hearts connect silently and sweetly. That’s the book I love most of all.
I want to read and relish that book’s every chapter. It will be richly illustrated with love and hope…I want to write in it too!
Nice suprise post…how do you do it, girl…and you have an all day photo shoot today!!! I think it is Kelle Fanatasia at work! Love you oodles of poodles!
Your story continues to amaze me. I was especially intrigued by your post about going to Italy; I have two children with bipolar disorder and relate to being routed to Holland later in life by your child when you originally started in Italy. Your analogy put into words some feelings I have had for a very long time. Thank you for showing me the ways you move forward, a bit at a time. I’m beginning to learn to do the same. Blessings to you and your family.
I’m glad you lied. What a nice way to start out my saturday.
Thank you
Kelle, this is such a wonderful and amazing way to document your girls’ beautiful lives! I love seeing pictures of all of you and reading about your daily adventures.. your family is stunning, and I thank you for sharing your life with us!
Thank you so much for posting your story and sharing the pictures of your beautiful girls. I have two girls, too. My second was born only 12 days before sweet Nella. I read Nella’s birth story a few weeks ago with tears streaming down my cheeks onto my baby’s head. Since that day a very close family member discovered half way through her pregnancy that she, too, had a DS baby. She chose to terminate the pregnancy this week. My heart is broken for her and her baby. I wish I could have directed her to your blog before it happened. I tried, but I have no idea if she read it. Thank you for giving a beautiful face to Down’s Syndrome and being so honest with your emotions. No doubt God will use you to save little lives. I’ve enjoyed watching your Nella grow alongside my Isla already and will continue to do so. By the way, Nella is already much better at her “tummy time” than Isla!
Hi Kelle,
Those pages are amazing and so is everything you post on this blog! I get so excited when I check in and see that there is a new post. I hope this doesn’t sound weird but I find myself wanting to know more about you. I feel like I know so much about your life now just from reading over the last few weeks but nothing about you before your had Lainey…your upbringing, where you grew up and went to school and how you met your husband, your wedding, your life before you had your girls, etc. Maybe you want to save all that info for when you write your book 🙂 but if not I’d love to see a little bio on the writer! (and I’m sure lots of other readers would too)
Also…how do you make the pictures on your blog so big? Why are mine just the boring little squares? I love how yours take up the whole page. All of your pictures are beautiful as are you and your daughters!
You are simply amazing. I don’t know how you find time to do this with 2 little girls. How lucky they are to have you as their mommy.
These pages look AMAZING!!! What a blessing that your girls will have these to look back on later in life!
Kelle –
I found some inspiration for your Fairy party last night – not like you need any help, you creative beast :). I came across dancing fairy rings that you could make quickly and for very little cost. http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=42084137. Ah, inspiration surrounds us every day in every little niche! Peace – Jennifer (aka Tallcurlygirly)
wonderful pages for your girls’ books. what a treasure ~ to experience the moment and remember the precious memory.
Oh I love it! Your girls will always treasure those pages and books you made for them 🙂
I love how you call Nella “bunny” too…every time I read that, I think of “The Run Away Bunny” and the phrase that comes to mind is: “…I will catch you in my arms and I will love you, for you are my little bunny.”
Hi, Kelle! I found a link to your beautiful blog on 2peas and have been following it ever since. Now I’m addicted! Thanks for the frequent updates and the lovely photos of your family.
I love the book idea. You have amazing talent. I think I am jealous of it…not really. I am in love with your family and constantly reflect upon my family. Savor these early days as time goes so fast as you know.
I love the book idea. You have amazing talent. I think I am jealous of it…not really. I am in love with your family and constantly reflect upon my family. Savor these early days as time goes so fast as you know.
I always have so many words pouring from my head when I read your posts. They just fill me with such simple joy. But I’ll pick the top 3 for this.
1. Your daughter is more stylish than I am. She’s adorable and I gotta say I’m a tad jealous of her fashion. 😉
2. Being pregnant let alone being a mama is such a good color on you! I only hope to be that stunning when I’m pregnant.
3. I know you love your girls so much! It’s so wonderful. I wish every child could be loved the way you love Lainey and Nella!
Have a wonderfully normal beautiful day!
Wow. Just beautiful! I love your books for your babies! Perfectly delightful!
You are so talented! And your girls are loved and adored SOOO much! I hope to be like you one day!
You are so talented! I would love to do this for my daughter… maybe I’ll try!!!
My daughter Abigail who also has ds who is 10 years old loves looking at the pictures of your daughters. We were talking about Nella and I asked her if she knew why Nella was special and she responded with ” 3 chromosones?” That is how I have explained things to her for she is pretty bright. She also wanted to know if Nella pinkies were crooked. Both of hers are and I have seen this in several other children that I have met.
Just curious…
Wowza! Lainey looks just like your husband in the carnival pics. 🙂 We love the 12×12 Shutterfly books around here too – fantastic quality. I also love L’s eclectic outfit in your last post…I’ve gotta get my daughter a tie! 🙂
Have a great weekend!
Those pages are great!! they will look back on them some day and know how much you loved and enjoyed them!!!
What a wonderful keepsake for your girls!
My son just turned one and I’ve been meaning to do his 1st year scrapbook but not got around to it. I think you’ve just given me the push I needed! x
Such beautiful pages! I’ve been following your blog since reading Nella’s birth story and your girls are just so beautiful. Lainey holding the little curly haired doggie is too adorable. Love the pic of a ribbon around your Nella-belly! Thank you for sharing with us.
I have been following your blog for a couple of weeks. A friend on facebook put a link to your page. It has been inspiring reading your posts. You are a great writer and photographer and I LOVE how you “capture” your life. These books you make for your girls are absolutely beautiful! I have 2 little girls as well. Thanks for sharing your life with all of us!
How do you make these pages? They are gorgeous!
And I love when you lie, too! 🙂 Love reading your blog.
Simply Beautiful.
My sister an I both agree that our favorite picture is of you and Nella wrapped up in that white gauze sheet. Breathtaking.
so beautiful!! Your girls are so blessed to have you as their momma. You are truly inspiring. Thank you!
Oh my! You amaze me! Seriously. For some reason I haven’t been able to post comments, so I hope this works. I’ve never been so touched by someone’s birth story than I have been by yours. I am 4.5 months pregnant with my 3rd child and have recently gotten news that he has a 1 in 10 chance of having spina bifida, your words and happiness have given me hope and strenghth, so thank-you!
Such beautiful work, your daughters will be forever grateful to see your amazing work of art and how much you treasure their very existence.
Your Dad’s words ALWAYS bring tears to my eyes…
Have a fabulous weekend!
love love LOVE everything about your blog…. your words, the pictures…they all are very inspiring 🙂
Love this post! Such beautiful pictures; as always! I think you have been asked this before. But, how do you get the pictures on your blog to be so big? I think that’s reallly neat! I wish we lived closer and I would totally have you take our family’s pictures!
what beautiful layouts! love that you are so on top of getting their books done. My son is 8 and I have only half done his baby book. This year I have learned all about digi scrap booking so I hope to get it done. Thanks for sharing your beautiful photos!
Simply beautiful! This is the way to do it!
What a fabulous idea! wish I had thought of that for my kids. My 3.5 has a scrapbook for his first year but my second only got about 4 pages of one before I gave up. This is a much better idea!
Oh, how I love to come to your blog! The page layouts are wonderful, but your photography is completely beautiful. Coming to visit your blog is like going to an art gallery. Thank you!
They are all just beautiful! I have a vest like her’s…wow, I’m cool now! Love the pic of her and the baby under the covers..the look in her eyes..so sweet! Have a good weekend..sending my love! 😀
I admire you. You are beautiful, talented, and so blessed! I love reading your blog. It’s my absolute favorite!
Wow, that is so cool!!!
Bridget
Thank you so much for sharing!
Your blog has inspired me so much for the better, thank you.
I was first sent the link to Nella’s birth story, which was written so beautiful that I had to read more, and the more I got to know about your beautiful life the more it seems that you were made to have Nella – she is in such a great loving family, I wish every child could have the same experience.
sooo beautiful! Your girls are so blessed to have these to look through one day. You are talented. (I love the picture of you pregnant with the Canadian flag in the background!) 🙂 I wish you still lived in BC so I could hire you! You’re an amazingly gifted photographer… move back!!! 🙂
Your blog is definitely about LOVE. Your LOVE for your girls, your family, and for life is simply undeniable.
Life is really about how well we can LOVE. To be happy in the most basic and ordinary ways, to be able to touch one another with our hearts. That’s what you are doing with your lovely words and beautiful photography. Kelle, you are touching people’s hearts.
ps: your Poppa “knows”, he “gets” it. His wisdom is such a blessing and a gift to all.
Love
Is the only fortress
Strong enough to trust to.
-Marianne Moore
your pictures are amazing and the pages of the book are so beautiful. your girls will love them.
Kelle, I have been following your blog since beuatiful Nella’s birth story and you inspire me in so many ways. I am a newlywed and I can only pray that one day I can be such a loving mama as you are!
love the pages! i”m trying now to decide if i want to print jonahs 1 yr book hinged or not. the nice thing about hinged is that it limits me to 50 pages so i dont feel the pressure to make pages for everything (which I would) and then feel guilty when i dont have the time which would then cause me to make no pages and get even more behind. its a vicious cycle.
I love it!! those are some lucky kids you have and Brett’s boys really scored to enjoy you in their lives as well!
happy weekend!!
xo
Kelle, why did you title this I Lied? I couldn’t find a reference for it in the post… did I miss it? Also Nella has the most amazing blue eyes in that photo towards the bottom.
Would you be willing to clone yourself? I ask because time is so valuable and I know you have none extra to spare.
But your photo books and pictures are ever so much better than mine and I so NEED you to come take my pics of my Beau and make his books for me, ha!
Oh, if I only had your talent….sigh!
But you do inspire me. So, I am bound to get better, ha!
I have yet to read one of your posts without having tears come to eyes. You have a beautiful family and a beautiful spirit. Thank you so much for sharing both.
What a beautiful book! They’re going to treasure them forever.
Jill, it is because Kelle said she wouldn’t be doing another post for a few days–she has an all day photo shoot today and then…she lied…she put up another post. That is my lovely little liar–serendipitous and energized by her littles.
amazing, it’s all i can say. amazing. you,your children, your life,your photos. amazing.
ps, how does one get shots like that fabulous shadow one of preggo you and L on the beach?
So glad you decided not to stay away all weekend. I love seeing pictures of your beautiful little family. What lucky little girls you have to be so loved. Your story has truly inspired me and my family. Blessings to you and yours!
What a lovely idea! Thanks for sharing. 🙂
I absolutely love your blog…so happy I found it. Your scrapbook pages are stunning and thanks for sharing how you publish them. 🙂
God bless you and your dear family!
Your blog is so beautiful, every…single…day. The color, the composition, the sentiments, the words. Go you. You are the highlight of my Google reader.
I also want to say–never had a chance to comment yesterday on “Happy Pipe”–that you will always revisit the day of Nella’s birth with tears and grief and joy. And the fact that you fell in love with your daughter so quickly is to your credit, and should never be held against you as denial, or whatever it was people were saying. Those who haven’t been through the experience of giving birth to a child with special needs don’t know the dramedy that is our life. For the first few days after Julianna was born, I was shellshocked, in crisis/survival mode. I fell in love with my daughter when she was five days old and I got an email praying that God would take away her Down syndrome, since there is no Down syndrome in Heaven. I wanted to tear the head off that woman, and that was the moment when Julianna became mine by choice. And although sometimes I still grieve for the difficulty of teaching her some of the things that come so easily to my other children, I spend much, much more time laughing at her, with her, and with her siblings. It’s been that way since she was just a few weeks old, and I think it always will be.
I popped back on here today to show a friend and got a little giddy when I saw a new post. Kind of feels like opening a present whenever I see a new post!
Your girls are stunning. Really and truly.
I popped back on here today to show a friend and got a little giddy when I saw a new post. Kind of feels like opening a present whenever I see a new post!
Your girls are stunning. Really and truly.
I popped back on here today to show a friend and got a little giddy when I saw a new post. Kind of feels like opening a present whenever I see a new post!
Your girls are stunning. Really and truly.
Just wanted to say hey, your photos, your stories, your words always bring a little tear to my eye. You are gorgeous, your children are beautiful and I love reading your blog. Thank you!
Ok, your pages are so gorgeous! I love them more than my overworked scrapbooking hand ones. You may have convinced me to step over to digtal scrapping. 🙂 Again, thanks for sharing your family with us.
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I love that you share your like with us all, and so happy to be a part of that!
And we LOVE shutterfly too!
Love the pages. I do something very similar for my girls! WHo do you use to print the book? I am stuck trying to find a place to print!
ha ha! Thanks Poppa for answering that for me! 🙂
i don’t know if it’s the beautiful songs or the tender words and pictures, but i am sitting here holding back the tears. I wasn’t expecting to start crying just cause I’m checking the blog updates on friends!! I know you hear this all the time, but you have a gift. i feel SO inspired and moved. and it makes me feel good that you use that old microsoft digital image suite program cause i like it too.
Beautiful, Beautiful pages! Thanks for sharing!
as always an amazing post!! What a bonus for us followers that you “lied”!! I love that! and love the pages for the book… your girls and in turn their children and so forth will thank you one day! what an amazing gift you’re giving your family and in turn the following generations. that’s something many of use do not have from parents/grandparents and wish we did!
question for you — you say here you use microsoft digital image suite (which I don’t think is made anymore sadly) and in another post you said you use Lightroom… are those the same? are they both imaging/editing software?
Kelle,
After several attemps, I finally read your story of Nella’s birth. I’m not sure I’d ever be able to read it without tears, so I just kept going till I couldn’t see through them anymore, then I’d start again. As I see several other have said, this could have been my story. My son, Kellan, was born Oct. 2, 2009, with Down syndrome. I, too, knew it as soon as I held him. I too waited for someone to tell me I was wrong. I too spent that first night in agony, unsure I’d ever be able to bond with this baby. The baby I’d been pregnant with was gone, and he was replaced with one I hadn’t signed up for. I too am sad that I missed out on feeling so much happiness. I too love, love, love this baby now like crazy. I wouldn’t trade him for anything. Nella is beautiful, so are you, inside and out! Thank you for sharing your honest, heart-wrenching story.
Christina
I recently found your blog. You have such a beautiful family. Your girls are just absolutely precious. And your photography is amazing.
You are so amazing Kelle…Just absolutely amazing.
The scrapbook is beautiful! What a surprise to see a post!! 🙂
Have a great rest of your weekend!
Love,
Tara
I believe that this earth is simply more beautiful because you are part of it.
Your light….it just shines.
Your daughters? Pure love.
You are such an amazing photographer. These pages are amazing!! Love the playlist on your blog as well.
You are such an inspiration !! i want to learn to take better pictures when I look at the beautiful pictures you take . You write with such passion about everything you write about.
Those photos are AMAZING!
I just started my blog- but someone shared your blog link about sweet Nella’s amazing story, and like the 1000 other people, since then, I have been hooked. I am an aspiring photographer, aspiring mommy, and mostly aspiring to love anyone I come in contact with as much as you love.
Thanks for making me smile and cry all at once. you are one rockin’ mama.
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Thanks for sharing yet again, you continue to inspire and create love and hope.
Thanks for sharing yet again, you continue to inspire and create love and hope.
Thanks for sharing yet again, you continue to inspire and create love and hope.
Kelle ~ your words ~ your photos ~ your dreamy, sweet Littles = my blessings at the discovery of your “Small Things”.
God Bless,
Barbra.
I found your blog through someone else and what can I say?? Your story of your life is so incredible and your outlook on your good and bad days is so raw and honest. Thank you so much. You girls are amazingly beautiful and blessed.
LOVE them! How gorgeous! My husband surprised me and got all our old videos of my twin boys put on DVD’s and we have been having a GREAT time watching them! Of course we have a dvd camcorder now so we don’t have to worry about that anymore 😉
Kelle!!!
I love the pages, they make me want to make a book like this for my little ones 🙂
Every time i read your blog I become inspired, to be a better mom, a more fun mom, a photographer (lol), a tigger, everything!
I’ve been going through some depression and your blog has really been helping me get out of my depression because I’m learning how to enjoy life and see the good and the joy and the love.
Okay, Lainey and Nella are so cute!!! Lainey seems like such a sweet big sister, so loyal to her baby sis and Nella is too cute with those big eyes and pouty lip. I love getting to know the girls and watching them grow and thrive. You are doing great!!!!
Oh, one more thing, you look awesome!
Seriously. you are good! I’m so glad that your story has brought you into my world. Hope to speak again soon!
Thanks for sharing! I make a book for my parents every year for Christmas, caputuring a lot of great moments with my daughter. THey love it and someday the books will be passed back down to Syd. Love your posts!
Beautiful photo books! You are such a great mama. I have missed reading your blog – I’ve been cooped up with mastitis for almost a week – ugh. So I had fun catching up on your posts! Lovin’ Nella’s head lifts 🙂 and Lainey’s party will be fab 🙂
I am a new reader and have to say, your photos are stunning, your words compelling, and your example in motherhood inspiring. I am awed by you attitude towards mothering and your clear love of life- you are amazing!
Kelle,
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What an AMAZING idea! Thank you so much for inspiration!!!! My son just turned a year old in January and I want to make this a tradition too!!
How is it possible that you’re MORE beautiful pregnant? No wonder you fit back into your favorite pants!
Nella looks like a porcelain doll in the “Welcoming You” collage. Each of your photos are amazing, full of life and love and innocence and wonder.
I made a traditional scrapbook for my 2-yr-old’s first year, but this method looks infinitely easier!
Thanks for sharing these precious pictures, captured memories, beautiful slices of your life.
Oh they are SO going to treasure those one day! 🙂 And thank-you for sharing with us! PS-you’re the most gorgeous pregnant lady ever! 🙂
Your beautiful photos…and your precious words….make me weep! You inspire me! I am so blessed to have found your blog.
The books are a treasure.
Your girls are so lucky to have a momma like you that is documenting their lives so beautifully…You are gorgeous by the way!
http://knockoffwood.blogspot.com/2009/12/plan-cutest-mail-box-ever.html#more
Saw that and thought of your Lainey….I remember you saying she likes to get mail. 🙂
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Saw that and thought of your Lainey….I remember you saying she likes to get mail. 🙂
I love your little books you make for your girls what a wonderful Idea. Thank you for telling where and how you make them.
Oh, one last thing. Your pictures are so beautiful and captivating. I love to take pictures but I am a ways off on capturing the expression that you seem to capture in yours. I love them.
a new post i seemed to have missed! beautiful pages! love them all. i can’t b you are making a book for nella already…seems like you are still preg with her.
xo
Oh, Lainey… Such a serious, beautiful, little soul. You are blessed to have a mother so full of love for you and your sister.
Again with the inspiration! Your soul is just beaming it out all over the place. Luckily, some has landed in your blog! Thanks for sharing!
♥
Amazing…I love this idea!!! And would eventually love to put something together for my 3 girls. You have really blessed me with your blogging and sharing a bit of your life with the blog world…Thank you!!!
I love this…your children are going to treasure these books when they are older! I hope I can put something as precious as this together when I have my own little ones. You are so talented! And your girls are just beautiful 🙂
Beautiful photos, books, girls, and blog. I’m addicted to it. I just wanted to point out (proofreader that I am) that one of your book pages has an error in it. Normally I wouldn’t say anything, but as you are going to print it for your daughter, I thought I’d point it out so you can correct it (hopefully) before you print it.
On Lainey’s carnival page you wrote “delighted to indulge in a your carnival treats”. The “a” should not be there. Just evidence in a change of thoughts . . .
All in all – just beautiful!
You inspire me daily. You are a beautiful woman inside and out!
Wow!! What an amazing idea, and if you don’t mind – I am totally going to do this for my own children! Thank you so much for sharing, it would be amazing to have something like this from my own childhood to look at. I can’t wait to do this for my future children, and try to catch up with my 11 year old daughter now!
Your story is beautiful. I am now a faithful reader!
~Melissa
http://www.pdxritchie.com
Like so many other commenters, I’m inspired to do more to preserve my kids’ memories. Thank you for the inspiration. I love what you’ve done!
Your pages are beautiful. I’m a traditional (paper) scrapbooker but love what I can do digitally as well.
Your children will love their albums forever.
Your girls will cherish those books for the rest of their lives! They’re adorable 🙂
I can’t even write a comment to you without crying… isn’t that silly, someone I have never met, and yet you have touched me so deeply. Today I sent the link to Nella’s birth story to 4 of my close girlfriends and every one of them called me or emailed me and thanked me and said they were crying and inspired at the same time. You are an amazing woman kelle. I am so glad that I have found your blog and so look forward to following you and your beautiful family on this journey… thank you.
I cry every single time I look at the picture of you with your two gorgeous girls in the hospital, so beautiful! Thank you for sharing your gifts with us, they are treasured.
what beautiful treasures these books are and will become as your girls grow older. I regret not doing this with my children!
Kelle,
What a wonderful idea. I have a scrapbook that was given to us as a gift at our baby shower and I haven’t begun working on it, but I have 4 months until his first birthday. I’m gonna get moving, this is a great gift. I think I might do one a year or every 5 years to really see the changes. Thanks for the idea.
Wow, these look awesome! Such a cool idea to put these together. Nicely done!
oh wow … you’re little sweetheart is about 11 hours older than mine! I think that’s pretty cool! I love your blog and those pages are amazing!
Your photos are incredible. Great idea to scrapbook. The pages look amazing!
Wow I wish I would’ve thought of making books. My oldest is four. I could probably still catch up, lol. What a great keepsake
OK, obviously you don’t need to solve publishing issues, but I am curious if you know of a self-publsiher that allows you to publish 12 by 12 books created on our OWN software, instead of shutterfly’s or snapfish’s, etc. You said you use Shutterfly…but can you publish with them using your Digital Image suite layouts? Seriously, I have googled this and checked out SO many different publishers and can’t find ONE that does 12×12 with my elements layouts! I love your pages, by the way.
THANK you, Kelle! It worked! I can’t tell you how many months I have been trying to figure this all out, in my “spare” time. I too can’t wait to see these books on my girls’ shelves when they are older. I also send them their own cards whenever we send cards out (birthday invites, Xmas cards, Valentines Day, etc.) ( and keep them in little growing stacks for them, unopened. It’s all about the memories. Your daughters are beautiful and will love what you are doing!
Thank you for sharing your amazing story… you are an amazing mother, writer, photographer, you have so many talents and reading you blog today I was touched very deeply. I work in your old department at the hospital, and was told to check out your blog. I had no idea I would be left wanting more! Just wanted to share with you, that I appreciate the chance to have seen into your beautiful family and life. All the best wishes on what the future has to hold for you and yours.
Jes
I anxiously await each and every post to see how you and your beautiful family are transitioning day by day. Your photos are so fantastic and you are leaving an amazing legacy to your children…nothing is more precious than the memories that tend to fade with time!!
I am honored to spend time with you and your thoughts–by experiencing your feelings, I become better connected to my own.
I found a quote many years ago that has helped me through many trials these past years.I i hope it does the same for you. It goes like this…
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“The same Everlasting Father who cares for you today will take care of you tomorrow and everyday.
Either He will shield you from suffering, or He will give you unfailing strength to bear it. Be at peace then, and put aside all anxious thoughts and imaginings.”
He has obviously given you unfailing strength…so go bravely forward on this path, for you are not alone.
YOU are so incredibly talented it is ridiculous. you must be super-mom!!
your girls will love these scrap pages and cherish them as they get older. I wish I had the time (or energy) to do something like this!!! Oh, and your photography is gorgeous, that goes without saying. 🙂