Dear Family,

I found these pictures in with some other old pictures of Chris'. Can someone please tell me who these people are?

thanks,

echoeve

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P.S.

I found these pictures as well, and scanned them with my computer. Hee Hee. Any great stories about these pictures would be fun. I am making copies of them to put in the scrapbook and would love to have stories to go with them. For this first picture I am looking for any stories that you can remember about when Pat and Farrell first brought the boys home. For the second picture I am looking for any stories about the wedding.

Thanks

echoeve

Croptoberfest

I want to do this. I think it would be TOTALLY FUN.

TMI Tuesday # 3 'Oh Scrap II'

So much has been going on.
But today I don't want to talk about any of that. Today I want to talk about a turning point in my life.
I have always considered myself crafty. I like to do all kinds of different kinds of crafts. I love the glue gun, and I used to actually sew. (Believe it or not)
However, I never understood the idea of Scrapbooking. I mean I like to take pictures (it's in the blood), I like to organize my pictures, I like to look at my pictures, BUT I didn't like the idea of cutting them or only using some of them. So, I never did the scrapbooking. I liked the idea of making cards and tags and stuff like that, even though I didn't do a lot of it. Over the years I had been invited to scrapbooking parties and never went. My Aunt Julie even sold stuff but it just wasn't my cup of tea. On our first Kirkland family vacation we went to Gatlinburg, TN. In Gatlinburg they had the BIGGEST SCRAPBOOK STORE ever. Amanda and I finally snuck away and when we got there it was raining so hard we didn't go inside. At that point I still did not like scrapbooking but Amanda really liked it. That was the summer of 2006. Not long after we got back from the vacation I was arguing with myhusband. I was feeling like I had no friends and nothing to do that was away from my husband and kids. I felt trapped. He pretty much was saying tough, suck it up. He said something like what are you going to do, I mean you have nowhere to go. I said watch me I will find a place to hangout by myself and I left. I drove around town for alittle while and there was no place to go. I went looking for Karaoke and I couldn't find any in the whole stupid town. So, I circled around for awhile crying and feeling like a LOSER. Anyway I finally went home defeated.Then for some reason I was over by the Memory Boutique and I just thought whatever and popped in.
That's when I meet Beverly.
At the time Lenee was talking about how she wanted to start scrapbooking because her friend in Atlanta loved it. I was telling her that Amanda really loved it, and I am pretty crafty so maybe I would like it.
The day I meet Beverly.
It's hard for me to remember the exact day I meet her. It just always seems like she was there. I instantly liked her. She always makes me feel like a good person.Anyway, I went to visit one day after I had been shopping with the kids and they were making me crazy. I left the kids in the car with lunch and I went in to get a pep talk.I was telling her about what happened with Chris telling me I had no friends and no where to go. She said you should've come down to the store we were here. So, the next Friday I went to the Scrapbook store for my first Crop night.I went pretty regular from August of 2006-May of 2006 then school was over and I hadn't been in a long time. Then I started back and then at some point she went from every Friday to every other Friday. Then I started going off and on. I really loved going to crop. We would get there sometime after 5 on Friday and stay until after midnight. I did a lot of scrapbooking. I think I have some really good layouts.But crop is way more then just scrapbooking. I really got to know the women I cropped with and they got to know me. I really considered them friends.
I laughed, and cried at crop.
It was a lot of fun for me and it was really good for me.My husband has always been very supportive when it came time for me to go to crop. He never complained about taking care of the kids, or what time I came home. He even took care of Victoria when Lenee would go with me to crop night.June the 21st was the last crop at Beverly's store. She is now closed. I really wish that it wouldn't have happened but I understand that everything in life can't be the way we want it. At the last crop I didn't crop one thing all night. I shopped her mega sale, laughed and cried. I watched the sun come up with Beverly and Kathy.
That morning when I hugged Beverly I knew that it was the end of something special.

I mean I know that we will still get together but it will never be the same.
I am very sad.
I miss my friends.

Some of my creations

I really wanted to post this last night but for once I took the night off. I came home and slept in my chair from 5-6:30. Then Chris brought in dinner. We went to bed about 10pm and I got up this morning at 5:30am and I feel great. I highly recommend a night off once in awhile.

Now here are some of my creations that I am very pleased with.

Bethany Corin Kirkland School Picture 2006-2007



Lynsey Morgan Kirkland

Ethan Christopher Rauscher with his parents(courtney and chris)


Madi Leigh Kirkland (I still don't know how to spell Madi?)

Jonathon, Madi, and Jackson on Nanny's Farm.

Emma Mae Kirkland (Bethany thinks that this is her special baby)

Friday Night Crop

So this past Friday night I went to a crop at the Memory Boutique. These are my newest creations.

This tells a story something like this. One day Bethany wakes me up and tells me that she is writing a list of all the things that she would like to have. I say okay just lay it on my dresser. Later when I look at it I say Bethany what is this. She says its floam, a hair genie, ect. I take a closer look and it is the 1-800 numbers to call and order the products. She has copied them from the TV. LOL

Scrapbooking with the girls

Well I went to the Memory Boutique last night and did scrapbooking from 7 until midnight. There was 7 of us. I knew 5. It was so nice to be able to hang out with Karin, Lenee, and Beverly. We laughed and laughed. I guessed songs, and we talked and talked. Anyway, I was working on some pages for Christopher and Noah's albums. I was working with Myrtle Beach Vacation 2007. I was working with the same kind of pictures, however I really wanted to have to really different layouts. Let me show you how they turned out. Let me know what you think. I am alittle nervous about Christopher's because I am giving them to his Grandma to put in his book. She is the one who really is making his scrapbook. She also used to own a scrapbook store in Waycross.

This first set is for Christopher's scrapbook.

This set is for Noah's scrapbook.