Creating a Disney Scrapbook

seven months ago my family was having a blast on a week-long Disney vacation at Walt Disney World in Orlando, Florida. you might have noticed that i haven't shared a single thing about that vacation.

why? well, the truth is......i'm overwhelmed with how exactly to record the magical-ness of it. (if magical-ness isn't a word, it is now.)

do you ever get that way with your photos and/or memories. frozen for fear of 'messing' it up? silly, isn't it?

i took thousands of photos on that trip. eeeps! we also took advantage of the Photopass system and purchased the CD of images which gave me another 600 or so photos.

gobs and gobs of photos.

this layout is the very first layout i've made that displays photos from our trip....i hope that there are many more to follow, like, real soon!

there are SO many stories to be told from this trip.so many. i can't wait to see them all unfold in the pages of my scrapbooks.

this layout in particular was created using some new products released at CHA from Little Yellow Bicycle's Just Because and Naturals collections. i've also used quite a few Fiskars tools in the mix too!

this layout also appears today on a few other blogs.  in one place i'm talking about tips for putting the layout together and in the other talking about recording vacation memories as a whole. click on over to the Little Yellow Bicycle blog and to the Fiskateers blog for more of the story.  there are also links to products and tools at the respective blogs. 

ahhhhhh, vacation...

i've always said "i hate going to the beach." but, after this trip, i think i'll have to retract that statement...or rephrase it.

what i really hate is cleaning up all the sand after going to the beach, not the beach itself. :)

because let's face it. no matter how long you try to shower off that sand at the beach and again once you return home, you're still finding sand in your hair, in your car, in your shoes and at the bottom of your suitcase weeks later.

it's all worth it though when you come home with pictures like these and memories they won't ever forget.


we're ever so grateful to have family living so close to the beach that is willing to allow us a week-long stay at their home, free of charge, so we could go on vacation.

for.the.first.time.in.six.years.

why did we wait so long? i'll never know.

we've already vowed that we won't wait that long again and we've already started saving our pennies for another vacation. i'd love to be able to take the girls to disney world before they are too old to enjoy it. but we've been told to prepared for it to cost thousands. :(

so for now, it's just a big dream. *sigh*. someday.

p.s. we did way more on vacation than just go to the beach, so i have many more pictures to share.

all good things must come to an end....

did i mention we were spending a week in Myrtle Beach for a much needed, long awaited, vacation? and did i mention that it's the first vacation we've taken in 6 years?

no?

well...darnit. i knew i was forgetting something.

hey ya'll, we went on vacation. LOL. :)

but all good things must come to an end. today we're heading back home, happy and healthy, where it'll undoubtedly take me the next 2 weeks to sort through the 1700 photos i've taken here.

i can't wait to share. :)

now i'm off to see what kind of celebrating i can do with this husband of mine----today we're celebrating 16 years of this thing we like to call 'happily ever after'. :) go us!

might just have to map out a cupcake shop along our route home.