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Ode to Adam

This post is a tribute to my nephew Adam. He’s adorable and ridiculously funny so I wanted to write down some Adam quotes he’s said. Keep in mind that he’s 3 1/2 years old.

Last Halloween when anyone asked what he was dressed as: “I’m ADAM!” He refused to wear a costume!

Me: “That’s why you have pockets, duh!”
Adam: “I’m not duh.”

Grandpa Bill: “Adam, what did you do?”
Adam (with a cute shoulder shrug and lisp): “I pushed pause.” Now everyone in my family says this “I pushed pause.”

Adam: “Han-nah” (the way he says her name is priceless)

Me: “Adam do you have a best friend?”
Adam: “Nope. Just Han-nah.”

Adam (on his way to preschool): “I hope Olivia isn’t sick today” (already has a crush on a girl!!)

Adam: “Where’s my memory game.” Hannah had her Heritage Makers memory game that I made her two years ago out (http://www.heritagemakers.com/projectBrowserStandAlone.cfm?projectID=1117497&productId=63&sponsorID=291868). I’m currently in the process of making Adam his own set for Christmas and I can’t wait to it to him (http://www.heritagemakers.com/projectBrowserStandAlone.cfm?projectID=2032365&productId=63&sponsorID=291868)

There are many more Adam quotes, these are just the ones that always come to mind!!

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Photo Guestbook

Currently at JFK airport and have been up for way too many hours as I return yet again from another (2 day) Switzerland trip. This is the last trip before W-day. The nice part about this return-home trip has been the upgrade to business elite (1st time ever, thanks Delta) and now the relaxing in the Sky Team Lounge. It’s quiet, cool, and has free food and drinks. I could travel more often if every trip was this luxurious, but I digress…

Last night in my hotel room, I finally finished our wedding day guestbook. I wanted to make it personal, cute and memorable, so of course I used Heritage Makers and I used an existing guestbook template to create ours which made it super easy and quick. Click the photo below to view the entire super-cute guestbook.

 

Heritage_Makers_Guestbook 

I also just bought a few of these Zip Photo Signature Pens from Scrapbook.com. The reviews looked promising so hopefully they work for people signing the pages of our guestbook.

Thanks to my mom for all of the “engagement” photos in our guestbook. One thing I was starting to regret was not having engagement photos, so last weekend we headed to my parent’s house with 2 different outfits each and for about an hour my mom took some really awesome, great photos. The best part – they were FREE!! Thanks mom!!!

Time to brush my teeth before my next flight!! (20+ hours of flying makes me feel pretty disgusting….).

– Mary

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Wedding Shower Weekend

The first weekend of May was packed full of wedding related activities. On Saturday, I attended the shower of my childhood best friend, Jenice. The shower was at the Worthington Inn. One of my gifts to Jenice was a storybook of our childhood memories together. I had fun gathering the photos at my parent’s house and remembering the funny things we did as kids. I was really excited to give her the gift and of course once she opened and looked through the book, it was passed around the entire room for all to see. Jenice’s future mother in-law loved seeing photos of her as a little girl. To see the book I made Jenice (and to see hilarious photos of both of us as little girls, click the image below).
 Jenice_Heritage_Makers_Book

I made Jenice’s book following a really simple 4-step formula that anyone can copy for their own project:

  1. First, I spent an hour or so of gathering the old photos that I wanted from my parent’s house.
  2. Next, I scanned the photos with my high speed scanner and wrote out my favorite Mary & Jenice memories to include in the book. [Interested in having some of your photos scanned? Check out my scanning services!]
  3. Then, I searched the Heritage Makers template gallery to fine a template to use (this was my starting template: http://heritagemakers.com/index.cfm?event=projectBrowse&projectID=9b251d5e-70f5-4269-b242-eb4ad6753850&productId=1)
  4. Finally, I spent 2-3 hours dropping the scanned photos in the template, modified the template slightly and added my personal notes.

Jenice’s book was by far one of the favorite projects I’ve made so far with Heritage Makers. It  gave me the opportunity to look back and remember so many fun things we did together!

On Sunday of that weekend, May 3, was my first bridal shower with Nick’s side of the family. It was a very nice shower and I enjoyed it! Here are some photos:

The women in Nick's Family (plus Nick)

The women in Nick's Family (plus Nick)

The hosts - Phyllis and Wanda (THANK YOU!!!)

The hosts - Phyllis and Wanda (THANK YOU!!!)

Princess Hannah, Lindsay, Me, Patty and Rosie

Princess Hannah, Lindsay, Me, Patty and Rosie

 

Two more showers to go…. Next weekend is my family shower and my I’ll get to finally see my third bridesmaid, Christine! She’s hosting the shower and here’s a peek at the super cute invitations she created:

invite photo

Here is what I’ve been reading lately on weddings:

From here on forward, I am going to post weekly until the wedding…. Things are starting to happen everyday and I want to capture them!! (This morning I had a trial run of my wedding hair and so as I write this I’m sitting here with my hair all curlyand wearing my glittery headband — I feel oh so cute!).

Next up: Photos of the painted upstairs of the condo!

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