It’s been a while…

February 1, 2010, 9:13 am
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…almost a year, actually. But I’ve been visiting my blog now & then and thinking of coming back to blog again, so here I am. I just returned from a family vacation to Walt Disney World and have some layouts to post. It was our first trip to Disney as a family and my parents went with us, too. John and I haven’t been there since our honeymoon 13 years ago, so a lot had changed! The kids had fun, as did I. John did too, I guess, but he was sick for most of the trip. All of us, except for Allison had a touch of sickness at one time during the trip. But, we tried to push on, ignoring the sickness when we could, so that we could enjoy Disney. All in all, we had fun.

I think unanimously, we all thought that Soarin’ at EPCOT was one of the best rides there. It was one of the only rides that all 7 of us went on together, we got to sit together and we all enjoyed it. Soarin’ simulates a hang-glide ride over different places and it’s augmented with scents like a crisp forest or sweet orange grove as you fly over them. It was so cool and normally I don’t like simulated rides like that, but it was slow and easy enough that it didn’t bother me.

We enjoyed seeing all the characters, too and Disney’s PhotoPass is one of the best inventions ever! They have trained photographers throughout the park and with most of the characters to take your picture. They give you a card that you enter into the website to view your photos and can purchase from the website. I purchased the entire CD of over 100 photos. It’s expensive – $150, but worth it considering each photograph costs about $15. You get copyright release so you can reprint them as much as you want. So I can use them for scrapping pages, printing photo books or just printing prints.

I’m going to be spending the next few months, I’m sure, scrapping my photos with a goal of putting together a couple of photo books for myself and my parents. Here is the first layout set I’ve created. I used Sahlin Studio’s Enjoy the Moment kit from Scrap Matters for this double page spread.

And here is each side individually so you can see it better:

Each kid picked out some hats on the trip (as to be expected in Disney, right?) and while the girls each got some form of Mickey Ears, Ty wanted nothing to do with them. Instead, he picked out a Pluto hat, which is just adorable. I love Pluto & didn’t realize how much until this trip. He’s just so fun, isn’t he? I’ve got lots more characters to scrap, but I think I have more photos of Pluto than anyone else.

I’ve got so much to get done today – laundry, cleaning, preparing for REC and Scouts and I still want to scrap some photos, so until next time…

Adios!


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