Ok I will start by saying I took these photos four times! The light here is not so great and it was hard to photograph them. So there we go:
For the last three years, I’ve always begun my first page with “and so it begins.” It’s my personal tradition and I wasn’t breaking it this year:
the back of the page is a reminder to keep my word at the forefront of my mind:
So then the real day one start with the first surprise of Christmas which was the advent calendars. Lego Starwars for David and Playmobil Santa’s Workshop for Nathaniel. Neither kid expected it and they were very surprised. I put only the first photo in the front of the kids opening their gifts.
and the back is all the other ones I took with numbers showing order of time. And a few words from me.
and that’s it for day one. simple. but a delightful moment captured and documented nonetheless.
I love your album. The photos are to adorable!
thank you so so much! 🙂
So Wonderful! I somewhat started the and so it is December!
Thanks for sharing cute kiddo!
this is really nice, looking forward to more pages. thanks for sharing, deb
thank you so much for your kind words 🙂
Beautiful work as always Karen.
thank you so much! 🙂
Oh, Karen, your Dec. Daily album is GORGEOUS! It looks so festive. You never fail in bringing us inspiration and joyful eye candy. How I wish my pages could sing like yours! Merry Christmas!
oh you’re so so kind. i am absolutely confident yours look wonderful too! and remember it’s truly about the stories more than anything else (at least in my opinion 🙂 )
Lovely, Karen! It’s a feast for my eyes just to see your pages. You amaze me. 🙂 I have one question: where do you get the branch photo (paper?) that is the background for your “the first surprise” page? Is that a photo of yours that you’ve played with or did you find it somewhere? It looks almost snowy in the background. Cool!
what kind words!! thank you 🙂 that branch photo is one I took last year. i have a few of them in the book 🙂