Of course, I thought he was crazy since we drove to the farthest point in Alabama from Ohio with an infant, but the baby did fine and we had a blast. We were saving Alaska and Hawaii for when the kids were old enough to remember them and now we saving them because our kids are making us broke! :) We'll get there one day, just not now.
This is our very first state and my very first page. Here in the close-up you can admire my use of decorative edge scissors and trimmed ephemera from the guidebooks, apparently we stayed at a Days Inn.
Of course, my favorite part is the adorable kids in the photo, sitting on the edge of the minivan eating candy from Miss Colleen's Kitchen near Gulf Shores. We had to go there, since our daughter is our very own Miss Colleen. She was excited to see her name there and more excited to eat a yellow chocolate sucker.
We're on the letter M now and turns out, we have a lot of states that start with M. We've seen Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts and Michigan and now we have four more M states to go. This year is Minnesota. So if you have any suggestions on what to see there, be sure to let me know!
I still need to scrap the Michigan page in the official Travel Scrapbook and I'll probably use some beach themed items from Pretty Little Studio, since we went to the lake. They have a new collection that I'm coveting, along with some vintage die cuts. Love PLS, where I keep getting pretty things to hoard use. I promise I will use them soon! (I'm not affiliated, just like them). I bought this little die cut and lurve it, but still not sure what I'll do with it. Probably a baby page from when my old kids (15 and 21) were babies.
Happy Throwback Monday...Throwback Thursday really does sound better, doesn't it?
Chark
Fun! That is a good idea. I want to do a book of National Parks. I am good at the ideas but not so good at the doing.
ReplyDeletethat would be a gorgeous album to look at!
DeleteHow fun to have a scrapbook for all the states you'd visit!! The photo of the kids is precious and you're so clever to use the map. I always collect maps on trips but never have to will to cut it up to put on my page.
ReplyDeletehaha, it is hard to cut things up sometimes, but then you have it saved without stuffing it in a drawer.
DeleteWhat a wonderful way to visit the states! These pages not only record the trip, but also the scrapbook trends of those times. I have very similar pages! Sorry I don't know much about Minnesota, but when you get to the "W"s, you must see Appleton. Okay, it's not that exciting, but you could stay with us!
ReplyDeletelol, that's awesome! I have some time before the W's but I like that I have a place to stay :)
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