Last night I re-did a layout I made of miscellaneous January 2009 photos with this Katie Pertiet template I bought. I'm such an office-product loving nerd, so I LOVE this template! Also, that green "life" button is from Katie Pertiet's Simple Spots No. 2 button pack.
Today I was reading Country Living and I came across this page.
Now, I really don't care about online farmers markets, but I immediately tore the page out. I have tons of magazine pages in my scrapbooking inspiration folder, but this is the fastest I've made a page from one. I've mentioned before that my grandma has been sending me some family stories. This is the first one I requested from her, and I LOVE it. This is one of my favorite scrapbook pages I've ever made. Simple and focused on the photos and story. LOVE this...
Journaling Reads:
Rich’s family moved to Wallace in 1954. He was a sophomore and I was in the 8th grade. He was the cute new boy in school, but we barely noticed each other. The following fall, 1955, we both went to the ‘Hard Times’ dance at school separately, and were joking around with some of the other kids - no dancing involved. That was the start of it all. It must have been the old bib overalls I was wearing.
In December the FFA had a formal Christmas dance, and Rich asked me to go with him. I was 14 at the time. Looking back, I’m
surprised that my folks let me go, but they did. Rich gave me a rose corsage and a gold evening purse. I still have the purse.
Shortly after that, he gave me his class ring and we were officially going steady. Each school day at lunch, the two of us would stand at a window in the assembly room, at the head of the stairs, and talk. Later we found out that Mom and Dad had done the same thing at the same window when they were in school.
Like most couples, we sometimes had break-ups and make-ups. We were broken up when Rich joined the Navy in 1958, but when he came home on leave in March after boot camp he came over to see me and we were back together again. When I was 16, I got a little package in the mail, and in it was a set of rings. Mom and Dad were not thrilled.
In March of 1960, I was in college and he came home on leave again. I walked to the bus depot to meet him. We had made plans to be married while he was home. There was a terrible snowstorm; the snow drifted as high as the fences the weekend of the wedding. To get me home from the highway, Ray Campbell got me with his tractor. Luckily we were plowed out in time for the wedding.
We will have our 50th Anniversary March 19, 2010. How did we get so old so fast?
- Sharon Moffett Graham January 5, 2010
This will most likely be printed from Scrapbookpictures.com and will go in an album with the layouts from my Yesterday and Today class. Look forward to similar layouts of other family stories, probably coming soon.
