Grampa Lloyd

My Grampa passed away on Monday morning. I went to Prince Albert that afternoon so I could be with my family. When two men came that evening to pick my Grampa up, something wonderful happened during the time they were there. The men first asked my Grampa "where would you like us to take you?". My Grampa thought for a second and replied " I'd like to go to a place where im no longer in pain. Where I can eat all the steak I want and chase it down with a beer. I'd like to go to a place where I can kiss my mom again, hug my dad, and teach my great grandaughter Reicy how to dance. I'd like to go to a place where I can watch over my family everyday, watch them grow and change through this journey called life. I'd like to keep them safe and help them when they seek my guidance. The two men looked at eachother and then said "We know just the place. It's called Heaven and it is everything you just asked for." My Grampa smiled. It was the first smile in a long time. He then closed his eyes and the two men took him to Heaven.

Unfortunately, it doesn't work this way, but I like to think it did. Although for months we were living on edge, wondering when he would pass, we still weren't expecting it to happen so soon. My Grampa will be terribly missed, but we know he is in a better place now.

I love you Grampa.
Britt

Baby Mini Albums

My sister and her family, as well as my parents were up to visit this past weekend. My Grampa had been admitted back in the hospital for a few days and every moment we get to spend with him is precious time. I had a nice visit with all of them and was very happy to be able to visit my grampa because he lives in PA. My sister had recently gone to a scrapbooking weekend in Cold Lake and was still in the Scrapbooking mood. She was looking through some of my past layouts and a few mini albums that I have had on the go for quite some time. I decided today to take some pictures of both albums and post them on my blog. They are both 6x6 mini albums made for two friends that each had a baby, one a girl, the other a boy. This is the first boy project I have ever worked on and found it very challenging. My goal was to create something that the parents could easily put in their own favorite pictures of their baby. My only suggestion being that they get their pictures copied and shrunk down to a 3X2 size, that way they dont have to worry about cropping the pictures themselves with a risk of ruining them (this can be intimidating for non-scrapbookers).

This is the Boys album. Its for a friend of mine from work. Her little guy is named Paxton and he is absolutely adorable. Ive only met him once, but have seen many pictures of him online via the fabulous facebook. I hope to see Jill sometime soon so I can give this to her and Paxton.


The little girls album is for a close friend of the family. Her name is Jylissa and the baby's name is Raya. Raya is absoultely beautiful and is growing so fast. I really enjoyed working with the basic grey 6x6 paper packs in her album. I mostly stuck to pink and brown in this album, but did two pages with green for photos of Raya and her Daddy.

Since seeing these albums, my sister has now requested I make one for a baby gift for a friend of hers. It will be another girl alubm, which I find easier, and again will end up using a basic grey paper pack but in a different design. These albums didnt take much time at all to put together, its just a matter of finding a few hours to sit down and do it. Now that I have a deadline, im forced to scrapbook and get back into the groove of things.

Ill will be back to post some sneek peaks of my scrapbooking room soon. Please check back. BZ