I’ve been scrapbooking some pictures from my son’s first Christmas (which was in 2005!). Here are the layouts I have completed:

My husband’s squadron had a Christmas party, Santa and all. We were stationed at Yokota AFB in Tokyo, Japan.

Credits: Comfort & Joy Collection, Comfort Too, and Lil Bits – Comfort & Joy by Mary Fran at NitWit Collections, PageMaps

If you haven’t already done so, go check out this month’s Songbird Avenue charity kit, Sugar Plums by Jan Crowley, Meredith Fenwick and Lilypad Designers. It’s a fantastic and different Christmas themed kit and all the proceeds go to Toys for Tots!

Credits: Sugar Plums by Jan Crowley, Meredith Fenwick and Lilypad Designers, PageMaps

Journaling: It was your first Christmas and it was December 17, 2005 not the 25th. That may be considered a bold move on our part but we were moving the week after Christmas and most of our stuff, including some of your gifts would be unseen for more than 3 months. So we thought it was best to have Christmas early so we could enjoy our gifts before we had to pack them away.

Christmas was fascinating to you. All the sparkle lights, ornaments and papers were what interested you most. You were quite immobile at the time so mostly you stared at everything with your tongue sticking out (that’s another story). For being only 3 months old you received many gifts, including clothes, books and stuffed animals. You were very unimpressed with the whole event. The only time you showed any emotion was when you saw the gifts Grandma Rupp sent since they were wrapped in foil paper. Oh and when you wanted a bottle instead of another gift.

I just wished that our whole family could have been there. Living in Japan made that impossible but they were atleast there in our hearts.

Credits: Comfort and Joy, Comfort and Joy HalfWits, Comfort and Joy Lil Bits by Mary Fran at NitWit Collections, Atomic Cupcake

Journaling: Once all the gifts were opened and the excitement of Christmas was over we were quite tired. You and I took an impromptu nap. I am very glad daddy took the initiative to take a picture of this tender moment. This is one of the special moments I miss, now that you are older and to big to fall asleep in my lap (at least comfortably for
either of us).

So there is all my layouts for Christmas of 2005. Done. Complete. Yeah! Now I just need to do 2006!

This layout is a little personal. My husband is a meteorologist for the Air Force and he is getting out this summer. He is still looking for a job so we don’t know where we are moving too! This has caused a lot of stress and alot of bad weather for us.

Credits: RAKScraps April 07 Mega Kit (blue paper by Kim Jensen, scribble paper and ribbon by Gwenevere Dupus, metal weather plates [except sun] by Jan Bolton, tab by Irene Brown), Glass, Chipped Painted Metal and Folded Torn Paper action by Atomic Cupcake.

Lately we’ve been under a lot of stress with the upcoming move and Liam’s constant tantrums; our weeks are starting to look like the weather forecast for a storm coming.. I do not like arguing with you but we always seem to be doing so. At least at the end of each storm we have sunny weather when we spend time to together and love each other. Now we just need more sunny days. Being a weather man maybe you can forecast some sunny days ahead for us!

I had bought this kit before I had started digi-scrapping for a project but then never used it. Now I am finally using it!

Credits: Home of the Brave by Jessica Safty; Ink Edges Action, Burnt Edges Action, Gold Action, Frayed Action, Linen Texture, Sanded Edges by Atomic Cupcake.