American Pasttime

Photos: May 26, 2008

We celebrated Memorial Day like most people do...with a trip to Wal*Mart. Ok, so that part wasn't that much fun but we did get Jonas a bat and ball there so he could sharpen his skills as a baseball player.

At first it seemed that there was going to be a huge learning curve for Jonas to ever hit the ball. The first several tries he would just whirl around and fall down, missing the ball completely. But after a little while he got the hang of it.


He would even take turns with Tony being the pitcher. His pitching definitely needs more refining but at least he didn't fall down every time after throwing the ball.

Once he got going, he was rounding the bases like a pro.

JAC 2005

Photos: January-December 2005

Wow, look at me go with following through (at least a little bit) on my plan to use up those leftover photos. I love any layout that I can get 22 photos on. Although I don't know if this is technically a layout since there are no embellishments or other fanciness. Perhaps this is just a collage but hey, who cares, it's done.

Favorites in this group: Tony feeding Jonas his first rice cereal (top left). He really has that deer-in-the-headlights look but he actually really liked it and we couldn't get it in his mouth fast enough. Also love the one of Jonas in the backpack with Tony (bottom left). Jonas' cheeks look super plump and squeezable.

JAC 2006

Photos: January through December 2006

Leftovers. Piles of leftover photos is an ongoing problem with scrapbooking, at least for me. I sometimes get a little crazy with printing loads of photos to make sure I have enough to work with for page layouts but of course I always have some leftovers. Most are good photos and some are super-funny or cute but just didn't make the cut for whatever the layout was about. So finally, I've come up with a system to use up at least some of them. I plan to do one album with only this kind of layout of wall-to-wall photos taken throughout the year. I'm working on 2005 right now and it's funny to see Jonas looking so small and round. He never really seemed chubby to me but looking back at the photos from 6 months to 18 months his head and face are a perfect circle.

I like how this collage turned out. I'm especially glad that I was able to show his two major wounds; January split forehead open (top left) and October split cheek open (far right, middle.) The October pic is especially nice showing the huge puffy black eye Jonas had the next day at church after splitting his cheek open the night before.