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.. on this day, my life changed - my son Harry was born.
It has been a joy and learning experience from the very
proud mommy moments, to the headaches from not getting
his way, I wouldn’t change our situation for the world.

So to my first-born, my shooting star, Happy 8th Birthday!







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Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature’s peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you, and the storms their energy, while cares will drop off like autumn leaves.
~ John Muir

Clouds of insects danced and buzzed in the golden autumn light, and the air was full of the piping of the song-birds. Long, glinting dragonflies shot across the path, or hung tremulous with gauzy wings and gleaming bodies.
~ Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns.
~ George Eliot

Everyone must take time to sit and watch the leaves turn.
~ Elizabeth Lawrence

For man, autumn is a time of harvest, of gathering together. For nature, it is a time of sowing, of scattering abroad.
~ Edwin Way Teale

I cannot endure to waste anything as precious as autumn sunshine by staying in the house. So I spend almost all the daylight hours in the open air.
~ Nathaniel Hawthorne

In the garden, Autumn is, indeed the crowning glory of the year, bringing us the fruition of months of thought and care and toil. And at no season, safe perhaps in Daffodil time, do we get such superb colour effects as from August to November.
~ Rose G. Kingsley

I’ve never known anyone yet who doesn’t suffer a certain restlessness when autumn rolls around… We’re all eight years old again and anything is possible.
~ Sue Grafton

No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace
As I have seen in one autumnal face.
~ John Donne

October is a symphony of permanence and change.
~ Bonaro W. Overstreet

The foliage has been losing its freshness through the month of August, and here and there a yellow leaf shows itself like the first gray hair amidst the locks of a beauty who has seen one season too many.
~ Oliver Wendell Holmes

The lands are lit with all the autumn blaze of golden-rod, and everywhere the purple asters nod and bend and wave and flit.
~ Helen Hunt

There is a harmony in autumn, and a luster in its sky, which through the summer is not heard or seen, as if it could not be, as if it had not been!
~ Percy Bysshe Shelley

Winter is an etching, spring a watercolor, summer an oil painting and autumn a mosaic of them all.
~ Stanley Horowitz

Youth is like spring, an over praised season more remarkable for biting winds than genial breezes. Autumn is the mellower season, and what we lose in flowers we more than gain in fruits.
~ Samuel Butler

A few days ago I walked along the edge of the lake and was treated to the crunch and rustle of leaves with each step I made. The acoustics of this season are different and all sounds, no matter how hushed, are as crisp as autumn air.
~ Eric Sloane

All those golden autumn days the sky was full of wings. Wings beating low over the blue water of Silver Lake, wings beating high in the blue air far above it . . . bearing them all away to the green fields in the South.
~ Laura Ingalls Wilder

Autumn is a second spring where every leaf is a flower.
~ Albert Camus

Autumn is the eternal corrective. It is ripeness and color and a time of maturity; but it is also breadth, and depth, and distance. What man can stand with autumn on a hilltop and fail to see the span of his world and the meaning of the rolling hills that reach to the far horizon?
~ Hal Borland

Autumn, the year’s last, loveliest smile.
~ William Cullen Bryant

Bittersweet October. The mellow, messy, leaf-kicking, perfect pause between the opposing miseries of summer and winter.
~ Carol Bishop Hipps




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I’ll admit it, I have a soft spot for Disney, I never had the opportunity to visit as a child, but got to spend the first half of my honeymoon and almost every summer vacation since, and of course my kids love everything about Disney, so how about a Disney themed album in alphabetical format? I have been collecting Disney photos since 2000, so this should be an awesome venture to getting the majority of them into some order.





And if you’ve never visited Disney, you could always scrap your child’s favorite Disney show(s)!

Not an extensive list by any means, but a great starting point to try out in either digital, traditional or even a combination of the two should yield some interesting results!

Happy Scrapping!

A - Aristocrats, Ariel, Animal Kingdom Lodge, Animal Kingdom, Asia, Africa, Alice in Wonderland, Aladdin, Adventureland, Abu, American Dragon, All-Star Sports/Toy Story Complex, Autographs

B - Big Bad Wolf, Bianca, Bed Knobs and Broomsticks, Beach Club Resort, Boardwalk Resort, Beauty and the Beast, Big Thunder Mountain Railroad, Backstage Studio Tour, Buzz Lightyear, Brer Patch, Blizzard Beach, Bashful, Belle, Bambi, Baloo, , Bug’s Life,

C - Camp Mickey/Minnie, Castaway Cay, Contemporary, Cinderella, Castle, Carousel, Chip, Country Bear Jamboree, Carpet, Carousel of Progress, Catastrophe Canyon, Christmas parade, Cruella DeVil, Cantinas, Comedy Warehouse, Captain Hook, Captain Jack Sparrow, Cars, Chicken Little, Cheetah Girl’s, Camp Rock

D - Dinoland USA, Donald Duck, Dale, Dumbo, Disney, Dwarfs, Dopey, Daisy Duck, Doc, Dolphins Resort, Diamond Horseshoe Saloon Revue, Downtown Disney (Disney Night Life), Doodleboops, Dory

E - Epcot, Eeyore, Eiffel Tower, Electric Light Parade, Enchanted Grove, Electric Carts, Enchanted Tiki Room

F - Flubber, Fifty’s Prime Time Cafe, Frontierland, Figment, Fox and the Hound, Fairy Godmother, Fantasyland, Fantasia, Fountains, Fireworks, Florida, Finding Nemo

G - Goofy, Grand Prix Raceway, Great Movie Ride, Genie, Grumpy, Gift Shops, Gepetto, Ghosts, Green Army Men

H - Hollywood Brown Derby, Hall of Presidents, Haunted Mansion, Higglytown Heores, Handy Mandy, Honey I Shrunk the Kids, Honey I Shrunk the Audience, Hoop Dee Doo Musical Revue, Hollywood Boulevard, Hannah Montana, High School Musical





I - It’s a Small World, Indiana Jones, Illuminations, Italy, Icabod, Ironman

J - Jungle cruise, Journey Into Imagination, John Smith, Jasmine, Jafar, Jasper, Jiminy Cricket, Japan, Jonas Brothers

K - Kaa, Kids, Kanga, King Tritan, King Arthur’s Carousel, Kim Possible

L - Little Mermaid, lumiair, living seas, laughter, Lion King, Lady and the Tramp, laser light show, long lines, liberty bell, liberty tree, liberty square, live wire theater, lemonade, Lake Buena Vista, Lottawatta Lodge, Lightning McQueen, Lilo and Stitch, Little Einsteins

M - Main Street USA, Mickey Mouse, Minnie Mouse, Magic kingdom, Mad Hatter’s tea party, Mr. toad’s wild ride, Mary poppins, meeko, monorail, magic lamp, morocco, Mexico, Mr. Potato Head, Matterhorn, Mickey Mouse Clubhouse, Marlin

N - Nala, Niggie, New Orleans square, nighttime parade, New York street, nine-eye, narcoosees, Norway, Neverland, Nemo

O - Orlando, Oliver and Company, O’Malley (aristocats), 101 Dalmatians, owl, Old Yeller, outer rim cocktail lounge, ooooh!, ‘ohana(polynesian resort), only’s bar, once upon a time, O’Canada, omnibus

P - Parent Trap, Prince John, Pirates of the Caribbean, Peter Pan’s flight, Pocohontas, Polynesian luau, Pluto, Pooh, Piglet, Pecos Bill’s cafe, Pinochhio, passport, prince charming, Pongo, Perdita, Polynesian resort, pizza planet, parades, pleasure island, planet Hollywood, Pinocchio, princess, Pumbaa, Pirates of the Carribean, Pete





Q - Queen of Hearts, Quasimodo, Quartet, Queasy from Crazy Rides, Quiet times, Quite magical

R - Rex, Roger Rabbit, rope bridge, Robin Hood, rafts, Ratcliffe, Rafiki, rescuers, remember the magic, Roo, rides, railroad, rockets, resting, rock inn, rock and roll beach club, river country, race cars, robots

S - sword in the stone, slinky dog, Swiss family tree house, splash mountain, Snow White, space mountain, star tours, skyway, steam boat, Sleepy, Sneezy, swan hotel, souvenirs, swan, spectromagic, sunshine season food court, special effects, star wars, sunset blvd, Spiderman, Superman

T - tomorrowland, Tinker Bell, toon town, Thumper, Tom Sawyers island, thunder mountain, teacups, tram, toy story, twilight zone, tower of terror, Tigger, tickets, tiki birds, trolley, tuckered out, timekeeper, typhoon lagoon, tinker bell, That’s So Raven, The Proud Family, The Suite Life of Zack & Cody, The Wiggles

U - Universe of energy, uniforms, Uncle Scrooge, under the sea, underground operations, unbelievable, utterly amazing, Ursula

V - Vacation, video arcade, volcano, voyage of the little mermaid, villas at the Disney institute, Victoria and Albert’s

W - world showcase, wonderful, world of motion, wonders of life, Woody, Wendy(Peter Pan), Walt Disney, walking shoes, wonders of china, wishing well, wicked witch, Winnie the Pooh, whale, Wizards of Waverly Place

X - Xtraterrorestrial Alien encounter, Xcellent, Xceptional, Xtraordinary

Y - yo ho yo ho a pirate’s life for me, Yankee trader, yacht club, yachtsman’s steak house, yippee, yong feng shopping area

Z - ZZZZZ, Zipidee Doo Dah, Zipidee Ay



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