I call this one..."Happy Family at the Top of the Wet Mountain."

Christmas Past. circa 1980 something.

Sorry, little bro.  I solemnly swear never to decorate you again.

My Memories Suite Giveaway - CLOSED

Back to school and back to blogging.

Let's start with a giveaway.

I used to scrapbook all the time. A LONG time ago. I look back at those scrapbooks now and just sigh. I wish I wouldn't have cut up those pictures and spent so much money on all those funky embellishments. Sure, it's nice to have memories, but my style has changed so much that now I think most of my pages are tacky, and my pictures are all chopped up. I guess those scrapbooks will serve as a good reminder of my wonky style. Like the 80's.

I've heard of digital scrapbooking before but have never paid much attention to it. Then the people at My Memories contacted me about their software and asked me to take a look. I was curious, to say the least.

Their My Memories Suite software was easy to download. I quickly started browsing their page layouts and embellishments to see what this was all about, then downloaded some photos off of iphoto and started making some pages. After about an hour too long and dinner being neglected, I needed to stop. Oh, the possibilities.

I like to give grandparents and the kids photo books for Christmas. This software is just what I need to do that. Wouldn't it be fun to have a little spiral book with funky faces of all your relatives? Or a recipe book. Or an I-Spy book. Or thank you cards.

You can share your pages online, print them at home, or send them to a professional printer. You can also include music or movies to your pages. I'm not a facebooker, but that would be cool to have a talking scrapbook page on your update thing. (Can you do that? I dunno. I'm behind.)

My pages are really simple and basic, just how I like it. I didn't dive into all the possibilities here. There are a lot of embellishments, backgrounds, and templates you can use...I just made my own.

We made Andy's birthday invitations in about 10 minutes.

My Memories wants to give a copy of their My Memories Suite Digital Scrapbook Software to you, a $40 value!

1. Please visit their site and leave a comment on this post sharing your favorite Album Template.

2. The giveaway closes midnight,

Wednesday September 7.

3. The winner will be picked by random.org and announced Thursday morning.

4. This is a download of their software, so check their system requirements before you enter!

AND...just in case you don't win, they will give you a $10 discount off their My Memories Suite version 2 plus a $10 coupon for the MyMemories.com store when you use the coupon code STMMMS35749.

If you'd like to know more about their software, here's a video tutorial:

You can also check out the reviews on Amazon.com.

Good luck!

this blog has been officially swallowed by summer.

with only two weeks left, I'm giving in.

I will no longer pretend I'm going to blog about our days.

Summer wins.

see ya in a few.

black out.

good day.

The Wizarding World of Harry Potter.

for my sister Cassy, who couldn't come because she's having a baby, and who had to have counseling when Dumbledore died. She's totally a wizard.

and for my other sister Corrie. Who loves it when I post hilarious pictures of her face.

I posted all the pictures here, so you can zoom in and stare a long time, Cassy.

And I made a movie here, because it's so much better with music.

Love, your muggle sister.

we like shaving cream.

Nauvoo.

We spent two days in Nauvoo, Illinois.

This is such a wonderful place;

you can't help but disregard the sweltering heat

and soak up the history and the reverence.

I didn't really want to leave.

“I was in Nauvoo on the 26th day of May, 1846,

for the last time,

and left the city of the Saints feeling that most likely

I was taking a final farewell of Nauvoo for this life.

I looked upon the temple and City as they receded from view

and asked the Lord to remember the sacrifices of his Saints.”

Wilford Woodruff

clubhouse.

We're trying to sell our house, you know, so we cleared everything out.

The armoire in the living room was supposed

to go to Grandma's, but it's so heavy we couldn't move it alone.

And so it sits.

Empty.

The beautiful clubhouse making kind of empty.

Dani quickly dubbed it her space, and filled it with personal effects.

It's strange to start doing dishes and hear the faint music of

a Nintendo DS coming from who knows where.

Oh yes. The empty armoire.

Turned awesome clubhouse.

she's a beautiful mess.

{kacie sneaking into the chocolate chips}