It finally occurred to me

that I can actually *print* my pictures, put them in albums and scrap the photos later. I started stressing out the other night because I counted up all of the pages I want to make from our trip to the States, and it is 20. It would take me at least a month to scrap all those pages, and that is if i ONLY scrap those pictures. I just don't want to do that. So I looked into Shutterfly's pre-made books, but I didn't really like any of them. As I was trying to figure out how to solve this dilemma, it dawned on me that I could have them printed.

So today I picked out 110 of my favorite pictures from our trips to the States (Christmas) and Bali (June) and had them printed. The kids LOVED them. They looked through them all the way home talking about the things we did with their grandparents. :) It made me so happy. So yeah, I will probably make layouts of those pictures, but I won't feel stressed about it, like my kids are only going to have these memories if I am faithful to put them on a layout.

BUT, total bummer here, after I had the pictures printed, I lost my brand new, 4 GB flash drive. :( Isn't that o depressing??? I went maternity shopping with my pregnant friend, and while she was trying on clothes, I was mindlessly turning the thumb drive over in my hand. When she came out, I put back two of the shirts, went to the counter with her, and then we left. As soon as we walked out, I realized my thumb drive wasn't in my hand, so I wen through my bag, only to find it wasn't in there either. We went back through that store five times, but it was nowhere to be found. Getting another one isn't a big deal, and it isn't expensive or anything, I just hate to be so wasteful and careless. And to lose things.

It is funny to me how I can never find anything I like when I go shopping, but when I go shopping for someone else, I love everything I see! I think I will go shopping again by myself on Thursday and pick up a few things. We have this really nice mall, but it is so absurdly expensive that I don't know how it stays open. The main mall downtown, where we were today, is reasonable, though most of the stores have the same stuff. My favorite place to shop is called F.O.S. (Factory Outlet Store) where we get excess clothes from the Gap & Old Navy from like two years ago. So I'm not stylin or anything, but at least I feel comfortable.

And as my mother would sadly testify, I always opt for comfort over style.

I have been a scrapping fool lately, and I want to share my most recent favorite with you.
Everything is from the Shabby Princess's Gigglebox (isn't that bg paper FUN?!). I just love those epoxy dots and the cool alpha. These pictures from April always make me smile, and I wanted to remember how we laugh together.