These Small Hours

I have been scrapbooking for the last 10 years and still love it. I love pictures and putting them all together in a book that my family can enjoy together forever. My mom gave me a fun new program called Memory Mixer to start a new way of scrapbooking - digitally. I was a little hesitant to start, but it's so easy. Micah gave me a laptop for Christmas and it's been fun to put my pages together on the computer, especially since my other supplies are all still packed. Here's a few of my pages:

Thanks Mom and Micah for my fun new toys!

This plant is uber-determined to live! Just 6 short weeks ago it was just a stick in the dirt and now it's shooting out new leaves like crazy.

My great-grandmother, Mabel Andrasen, received this plant as a wedding present from her new mother-in-law on her wedding day on May 31, 1922. I've moved this plant a couple times now. It's climate and surroundings have changed and more than once it's been on the brink of dying. But it keeps surviving. It continually tries to grow and adapt to its new life. Many of us are going through changes and have to learn to adapt to new life situations. I hope we, too, can find the strength and desire to thrive.