all about Miss Maggie

I just wanted to post some pictures of Maggie that I've taken in the past few weeks. It ends up that she is one of my main objects to photograph. And I need a reason to use my new camera and fill up my Project Life album (which is going wonderful, btw)!

Each one has a bit of a story to go along with it...

Maggie with one of her favorite toys, her stuffed dinosaur. Chris won this for her at the 2010 white elephant gift exchange and she's hardly put it down since (as evidenced by the fact that it's ripping apart). In fact, she even carries it up and down our stairs and has come very close to falling multiple times.

Caught red-handed sleeping on our bed while we were at work. This has become a more common occurence (her still being on the bed when we go upstairs) as she's getting older and loves to sleep more.

Maggie really, really, really wanting Chris' milk cup. I don't know why I ever started this when she was less than a year old, but it has stuck ever since. She has this sixth sense about when you have a glass of milk, especially around bedtime. She will literally come from another part of the house if you are having milk and sit like a perfect little angel, just hoping that you will let her lick your cup when you're done :)

Project Life

This year I decided I wanted to try something a little different with my scrapbooking.  I heard about this system called Project Life - basically just a simplified, back-to-basics approach to scrapbooking.  After following Becky Higgins' blog for some time, I convinced myself that I needed to try this out for myself!  It's so simple and fast, which sounds right up my alley (because I'm definitely not fast when it comes to scrapbooking)!

Becky's focus is to capture everyday life.  To capture those moments that wouldn't necessarily end up in a traditional scrapbook.  And this sounded awesome to me.  How great would it be for our kids to look back at how our lives were when it was just the two of us?  What did we fill our time with?  What was life like in 2012?  How was technology different?  And it would also have to be great even for Chris and I to look back and remember our everyday life because those are the memories that easily slip out of our minds years (or even months) later.

So with this system you basically just print out your pictures, write some notes/journaling, and stick both into photo sleeves.  You can get as complicated or as simple as you want.  I decided to order the Clementine edition (of the core kit, which has all of the cards you need to put in an album) because I just love the designs in that set.  And I just ordered the Signature Black Album last week to put it all in :)

Here's the first week of January that I (almost) completed last week - I still have one picture to print out...

I'm not focusing on taking a picture-a-day but just filling the two pages with pictures and stuff from the whole week.  This might slip as the year progresses and I might end up focusing on a month at a time instead of a week.  I'll just have to see how it works out but I'm gonna be flexible about it.

Oh, and this first week I started was Sunday thru Saturday since January 1st was on a Sunday.  I think I'm going to make my second week Sunday thru Sunday so I can get into a pattern of my weeks starting on Monday.  I just think this might flow a little better, especially for the times that we do stuff on the weekend (which would include Saturday and Sunday).  That way I wouldn't have to split pictures from those weekends into two different weeks.

I've only completed one week and I'm already loving it!

great start

We had a wonderful Christmas! It was a great time to see family and friends. And we even got to bring in the New Year with a small party at our house :)

Our year is off to a great start! But it's always tough to get back into our routines again after having a lot of days off for the holidays.

We got a new camera (finally) this week! Our old one has been on its last leg for a pretty long time and it's almost 5 years old. (I guess that camera didn't ever start off too well since Maggie got ahold of if when she was a young puppy!) Wow, has technology changed. I'm already absolutely loving it! It's just a point and shoot (Canon Powershot) but it's so easy to use. I can't wait to play with it some more and to use the 1080p video! Here are a couple of my favorites from just the last few days...