He Cooks, He Blogs, He Scrapbooks too!

I've got half a dozen hobbies that I like to tinker with off and on when I'm bored. Scrapbooking is one of them. I recently started doing it again. I hate messing with all the papers, stickers and other stuff that comes with the territory though. Plus, the vast majority of our pictures are digital, and up to this point have just been taking up space gathering "dust" on their virtual shelf inside my computer.

So the other day I was bored and I had finished reading the news (which is another thing I like to do online), and I googled digital scrapbooking and came up with 9.9 quadzillion results as you can probably imagine. Among the results was a website called scrapbookflair.com. They offered a free program and free layouts, backgrounds, embelishments, and etc. so I thought I would download the program and give it a whirl. So far I like it, and here is a page that I created using it.

Two "Dudes" and their baby

So Josh got these two blue BYU hats for 50 cents a piece out of a claw machine at Wal Mart (Sorry Jim, I know you hate BYU) and the boys just loved them. They decided to turn them around back wards and Jeffrey says, "Mom we are Dudes!" Where the heck did they learn that? So silly!

I don't know who is having more fun in the back yard with the snow, the kids or DAD!

Even Jakey is in on the fun.

Joke

What is blue and fluffy?








Blue Fluff!!!



In telling this joke to a few members of our family one answer was a smurf. And after telling another family memeber the answer, the response was laughter followed by, "Which one of your boys came up with that one?" I think that was funnier than the joke!

Josh told me this joke that he read off the computer. I was racking my brain to think what could be blue and fluffy. When the answer was so obvious, it got me to thinking how isn't that just how we view life sometimes? Sometimes we think the answer to our questions in life are more complicated than they really are.

Us

I had a request to post pictures of myself and Amber. The sad thing is the only one I could find is two years old! I guess one of the benefits of being a parent is you are always on the "right" side of the camera, and don't end up being the subject of very many. So, we've got hundreds of photos of the kids, but not too many that include us in them.

Hopefully before too long we'll get updated family pictures that include all of our children and not just Austin when he was 6 months old. How sad!

Our Introduction

This is our first time as bloggers! I have been watching a few family blogs and I just love it. It is fun to see updates every week. One of my passions all of my life has been journaling but the busy life of a working mother has let this slack quite a bit. So hopefully this will be a fun new attempt to keep it alive!

Joshua and I have 3 boys! Who would have thought we were to have 3 boys in a row! Austin is now 5 and in preschool. He loves learning his letters and spells everything. Jeffrey is 3 and is my little babysitter. Jakob is 7 months now and is trying his hardest to start crawling.

Austin

Jeffrey




Jakob