I love to preserve memories with digital scrapbooking. It is a joy to live in the present, focusing on the people and events right before me, and then later, it is also a joy (and a fun hobby) for me to preserve those memories. I love to be able to share some of the scrapbook pages here on my blog, and also in the albums I have at home with the printed-out pages. So many, many memories, more and more each year ...
Though 2025 was an extra busy year for me (less time for digital scrapbooking), I do want to share a few pages of our memories from the first half of 2025 ...
Above are memories from one year ago! Our second precious great-grandbaby was born on the other side of the globe, in Japan!! Such a joy! (We were able to meet this great-grandbaby boy, Micah, in February 2026, about one year after his birth ... and those photos will come later!)
In March of 2025, our youngest granddaughter turned 13! Eva is a sweetheart and so creative ... it was a joy to drive to McCook to celebrate her birthday!
May 2025 held graduations for three of our grandkids! Two of our granddaughters graduated on the same day, which kept us from being at both graduations, with one in Nebraska, and one in Texas! We were able to be with Ali as she graduated from Conestoga High School on May 10th. And then we traveled to Texas to see Brianna five days later, and spend some special time with her, as well.
Our trip to Texas on May 14-18 also gave us opportunity to celebrate our grandson, Luke's, graduation from Dallas Baptist University, with two degrees: a Bachelor's Degree and also his Masters, both which he was able to complete within five years!
June held a very special event with my dear hubby's birthday #81. It is crazy how fast the years go by! We had a quiet little celebration, having had a bigger celebration with most of our family with us the year before when he turned 80!
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A joy to share these memories with you! There were many more happenings the first half of 2025, but these are just a few glimpses of some of them. We have so much to be thankful for in this season of life that we are in.
NOTE; for those who ask how I create these pages:
About fourteen years ago I switched from paper scrapbooking to digital scrapbooking, and took some online lessons from Digital Scrapper to learn how to digital scrapbook using Adobe Photoshop Elements. (I currently have the Adobe Photoshop Elements 2022 version).) You can also click here for some great tutorials on the Digital Project Life website - this is probably a quicker way to learn than the site that I used fourteen years ago. I recommend using these tutorials. Most of the page templates and digital products that I use are purchased from Digital Project Life. Also, besides being able to share my completed pages online, I also print them out at home in 8x8 inch size to fit in the albums that I purchase from Michael's, Hobby Lobby, or Amazon. (Added Note in 2025: It was a lengthy process for me to learn how to use Adobe Photoshop Elements, but I do love it! A simpler way to create pages like this would be to use one of the multiple companies online where you can create your pages and then pay for them to print out your scrapbook. One of our daughters uses Mixbook for her scrapbooks.)
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