9 & 10 month bear pics

Kaden turned 9 months on Easter Sunday. Hence the dressed up picture with his bear. :) Also, hence the lack of Easter pictures. Hmm...should have thought it through better.



By 10 months it was getting increasingly difficult to get him sitting with his bear. This was the best I could do. It makes for some fun pictures though.

Oklahoma/Camping

This next set of pages is my top favorite, I think. I LOVE the texture here, and the colors, and the patterns...just all of it. I might have something to do with the fact that it is also great memories!




These next ones are the first time (and only, I think!) camping with a kid. It was long nights, with a baby between us trying to keep warm AND asleep! We had fun, and Kaden had a blast. He was born to be outside.




Why, OH WHY, did I not texture the orange part of the second page? I will never know.

7 & 8 month bear pages

As simple as they are, I love these pages.



I just noticed it kinda looks like the croc is getting ready to beg for some food. Hmmm. (It would be appropriate for a scrapbook of Kaden, I guess.)

Christmas!

Oh how a baby changes Christmas! The wonder, the excitement..just everything. We spent Christmas with my side of the family, and Matt and Bonnie got to visit us for a day.





Again, I wish you could see the texture of these cardstock stickers. They are *almost* as good as my Cricut cutouts...but much more pricey! I had bought them before I got my cricut, but was more than happy to have to use them.

5 & 6 month bear pictures

These pages were tough for me. There are some of pages where you're just glad to have them done. I am pretty hard on myself, so I know most people won't see the things I see...but some will... and that's the part I'm trying to ignore!


Good thing he is so darn cute.

Thanksgiving!

In 2008 from May to November there were 4 babies born..and all of them were able to be together for Thanksgiving. It was a perfect time for pictures! I found the stickers I used at Hobby Lobby. They are called cardstock stickers and they even had 4 little Indian/Pilgrims. I wish you could see the texture of the stickers...they match the texture of the stickers throughout the book..and lately I've been looking for some for Kate's book.. guess what I can't find? I had fallen in love with them, too!


We also took pictures of just the 3 boys... l'il turkeys. They've lived up to that name since!

Acacia, the lone girl..and first granddaughter... learned early how to hold her own. My favorite picture is the last one that shows how tired of her Kaden was by the end of the pictures.

Our Favorite People pages

Here are the next 2 page spreads. I loved this one. I just had so many pictures of Kaden with all kinds of people we love. I spent a long time getting those circles cut from the cricut and arranged to look "random". It's so true that being purposely random is a hard thing to do. See the texture under the alligator. I think this is the page that helped me fall in love with texture. I can't wait to enlarge my colection of folders.



By the way, Kaden was the first baby Brad (above picture) had every held.

This next photo is Kaden with his Grandparents and Great-Grandparents. The next one is with several of his aunts and uncles. Somehow Uncle Andrew made it on their twice... He should feel special.




He is so loved.

Finally some more scrapbook pages!

So, I've had Kaden's scrapbook "done" for about 3 months now (except for one set of pages which is my brother's wedding that we went to when Kaden was 3 months old...adn somehow I completely forgot...shhh don't tell my brother!) and, Yes, I am just now getting around to posting pictures. I'm really happy with the scrapbook, and think it's crazy how much my style has changed in the process of just 1 book. I learned a lot. The most important thing I learned is I LOVE TEXTURE. I will point it out when I can. It adds so much to a page!

These are the baby shower pages...it's so nice to remember how blessed we were at Kaden's birth and how everything we could have possible wanted or needed was given to us. In the first page, it is the surprise baby shower thrown by my highschool girls volleyball team that I coached. They each wrote "advice" on the bibs to help remind me the joys of mothering. I love them!. Also, there is a pocket with a white paper that a little girl (about 3 years old) drew for him as her baby shower "gift"...it was so incredibly sweet.

The diaper shower was thrown by our church in Gillette...we had only been here 6 weeks...how cool is that?

I don't have pictures of the shower Luke's extended family threw for me, or the one our church in Butte through. Like I said before...so blessed.



Oh and Kaden was about a week late. Hardest.week.ever. It's so much easier after the first baby!

3-4 Month Bear Pages

These are Kaden's 3 month and 4 month scrap pages. I liked how these turned out, which was good after struggling with them for a while-then putting them away, then getting them out again! It finally came to me and I was pleased. Like I've said before-the bear photos are actually the harder ones to put together. I had thought they'd be easiest. After thinking about it, I've decided it's because there isn't a lot of variety of phrases or things like that to add!

I stacked an orange button under a blue button. They fit perfectly and really complimented the colors I'd chosen. I also flip-flopped the main background colors because I just couldn't figure out how to make his shirts "work" with the colors!



I just love this 4. I haven't figured out what it is about it, but this part is my favorite.

It's hard to believe he was ever so little!

1-2 Month Bear Pages

My Cricut saved these pages-although, the are still definitely not my favorites! I'm so glad I took monthly pictures of Kaden with his bear! The lettering was cut on the Sesame Street Font cartridge. I love this shapes font for little boys!


If I were to re-do these pages I would add more colors. It's tricky, though, when I have a lot of pictures to fit on such a small page. The longer I go on this scrapbook the more I am a believer in 12x12 size! I still may add "bling" or something to these pages if I am inspired...Like I said before...these aren't my favorite pages. I thought the bear pictures would be the easiest pages-but that is proving false! Here are the pages individually.


Was he not seriously the cutest baby ever!

Outdoor Fun

These next two scrapbook pages are when Kaden was 2 months old. We took about a week-long trip to Montana to visit around. The weekend was spent visiting Howes at their campsite near Anaconda, MT. Kaden was just 2 months old and just too cuddly not to spend a lot of time with him in the hammock!



I love my stencils (from the Target dollar bin one lucky day!) that allow me to have little journal areas.

I cut the "outdoor" from the Sesame Street Fonts cartridge. I originally planned to use the individual letters on a blue shadow, but when it came down to it, I just loved the outline the cricut formed when cutting the word. I really love that with the cricut you can use the outline or the letters...sometimes both! So the letters that didn't get used get put in a container of random letters...they come in useful for many things...AND I feel great that there is NO waste this way! The "fun" was a word sticker I had that is made to pop out from the page. It really adds a lot to the layout-in case you can't tell from the picture!

I ony did one set of pages today since I've been taking a few more pictures. I don't want to overload my post with more than one set of pages. This set of pages are some of my favorite so far.

Scrap, scrap, and more scrap...booking that is.

These are pages of Kaden's first pictures. The first picture has his baby announcement and the pictures we took right before heading home from the hospital in his first outfit. I had a hard time making these pictures fit until I added the light blue. It will be one of the few times "other" color is added to the album than the main 5 I chose in the beginning. I just found the picture the hospital took and am going to try to add that one to the page with the baby announcement somehow. It would fit in great if I can manage it!


These next 2 pages are of our trip to Keystone/Hill City with PCA Engineering (Luke's work) when Kaden was 1 month old. We stayed in some cabins and on one of the days we took the train from Hill City to Keystone. Since we took the train we couldn't take a stroller and it ended up being about 100 degrees that day. Kaden blew out of his diaper 2 times and didn't want to eat because he was so hot. The picture of him sleeping on the floor was in a restaurant and it was about the only time he slept all day, I think! I really like how these pages turned out-simple and fun.

More Scrap Pages

Pages 8-9 are of our Happy Family. The yellow card is from Kaden's 2 day Dr. appointment-it has Kaden's size and weight from that visit. I love to keep little things like this for the baby book even if it does make it harder to get it to "fit in" with the page layout and colors! Also, more journaling! It says, "Newborn Pictures with your bear from Grandpa and Grandma Bradley" And there started what was the main inspiration of this scrapbook. You'll have to stay tuned to see where it goes!
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Right now, these next two pages are pages 10-11. I'm unsure if that is where they will stay. I chose to do a Daddy and son page because I kept running across pictures that I wanted to put in his scrapbook that didn't necessarily "fit" with the pages I had in mind. I love this page because it just looks FUN...it is all ages from birth to 4 months which is why I am unsure if it will stay in this order. Notice the buttons. I just love buttons in a baby scrapbook. I try not to over use them!


So there you go! Pages 12-15 will be coming soon!

Ultrasound & Birth pages

Here are pages 4-7 of Kaden's baby book. Pages 4-5 are some of the ultra sound pictures from my pregnancy. These pages always remind me of the little boy at the daycare I worked at while I was pregnant. The kid was about 2 1/2 (Kaden's age now, actually!)-anyway-he would NOT believe there was a baby in my tummy. He even told his mom I was lying to him. It was pretty innocent and cute. Anyway, back to the pages- I have a stencil I got at Walmart that lets me "trace" an area to journal in. You'll see it in many of my pages.


Pages 6-7 are some of my favorites, but probably only because they are pictures of the first time I ever saw my baby boy. I learned not to use "dries clear" glue on the clear parts. I haven't yet figure out exactly what you can use, since photo squares, and clear tape don't work well either. So until I figure it out, I am using glue sticks. It seems to work well. Also, for this page I used the measuring tape they used to measure his head and chest as well as the tag off his crib at the hospital. The bands on the 2nd page are his ankle band and my wrist band. It doesn't fit as well with the jungle theme, but that's hardly noticeable unless I point it out, right? Espeically since I managed to squeeze in that cute little giraffe!