Baby Mini Album (Mr Benjamin)

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Almost three years ago I made this Mr Benjamin mini album from Paper Phenomenon and mated it using an old paper collection from Simple Stories.  The photos are from her first 2.5 months, I know, I love to photograph everything, I took lots of photos, is something I can't control, lol.

Since this album is so big and heavy, I made a flip through video to show it easily, you can find it below.  It holds approximately 135 photos.  If I make this album again, surely I will make it with only 3-4 pages instead of the 6 pages I used in this one to make it less bulk.


Disney 2018 Layout

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As many of you know, I'm a fan of Disney and of course, all scrapbooking products that can be used for those magical photos!  Recently, a few new collections were released and I wanted to scrapbook with them, this is why today I'm sharing a layout I finished yesterday to use as my album cover (first page) for our 2018 trips.




First ER Visit Layout

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A few weeks ago, I bought the beautiful papers from Photo Play Under the Weather collection.  They look childish and are perfect to document the hard and sad moments of having a kid not feeling well, but in a colorful way.  Since I never scrapbook those moments, I decided to buy them and scrapbook some of those hard moments in the life of my daughters and in our life as parents, because the truth is, not all days are happy, sometimes we have to overcome hard situations.   But I believe those moments helps us be grateful for all the blessings we have.

This layout is about the first time we had to take our baby daughter to the Emergency Room.  She was dehydrated because of some virus. We were in the ER more than 30 hours but at the end she leaves feeling well and full of energy.

Thankful Layout


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Today’s layout is about my family, my biggest blessing.  Having my husband at my side every day, having time to talk, to make plans plans, sharing and enjoying our daughters is a big blessing for me, one I’m really thankful for.  But also, for having two daughters that are healthy, intelligent, happy and more.  I know I'm super blessed and I'm thankful to God for all, because everything I have is for his grace and love. 

Life's Little Mishaps



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Today I’m sharing a layout I made for the saddest day of our life’s as parents.  Our daughter was sick at midnight and we took her to the ER, there, the doctor did some blood tests and never came back because he had a stroke (thankfully he survived and is doing great).  At 6 am some doctors came to the pediatric ER in the hospital and started attending other patients with worst situation, my daughter appeared to be having a vomiting virus and that was not a rush like other cases in the ER.  Finally, a doctor came to us because she recognized our daughter from school.  She was not supposed to attend her, it was another doctor who have her record, but she asked for permission and started attending her.  To make the long story short, she ordered a CT Scan not matter everything was pointing to be a virus.  The CT Scan was not made immediately because our daughter was vomiting the contrast she needed in order for the radiologist to perform the study.  At the end, the test was done around 12pm and at 3pm, the doctor's shift ended, but she called the radiologist to his personal phone because she needed that result before leaving, and he asked for a few minutes to read the results.  That was something she doesn't have to do, but she wanted to do it before leaving.  He called her back and told her our daughter needed  and emergency surgery because she was having an appendicitis and it was already suppurating, which means it was pretty rush.  The doctor stay in the hospital, and gave us the bad news and call the director of surgery of the hospital to his personal phone.  He was in the road but told her to prepare everything because he was going to arrived in 15 minutes.  Everything happened so fast, people started coming to us with papers to be sign, then we were moved to the surgery floor, I changed her clothes for the surgery ones and  then they asked us to say goodbye to her while they took her to the surgery.  We were in shock, we didn't have time to think, just to trust God and asked for him to be with her all the time and be the surgeon.  Everything went perfectly, the doctor told us a few more minutes would have been a disaster because of the suppuration.  We are really thankful to the ER doctor.  Our daughter was not having the common symptoms of appendicitis because hers was inverse, this was the reason why she was only having vomits and a little fever.  The doctor said, something told her to do the CT Scan no matter it was looking like a virus, and she follow her guts and faith.  Now, we think about all that and understand God’s purpose.  Maybe if another doctor have taken her case, she would have been released with medicine for a virus and the end would have not been the same.  Sometimes we don’t understand why things happen but we must trust God because He always have a reason.
To create this layout I used the PhotoPlay Under the Weather papers and die cuts. This is a very bright, colorful and cute collection.  I like it because no matter this was a very hard situation for us as parents, the end was a happy one and I don’t want to remember it with sadness but with gratitude.  She is now with us thanks to that surgery and she is healthy and enjoying life. 

Magical Day Layout



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Today I’m sharing a Harry Potter's layout I made for my daughter. I already made her a mini album that I shared before (you can see it here), about this experience but since I still got some printed pictures and papers, I decided to make this page.  During her 13th birthday we went on vacation to Orlando, Florida.  It was a trip decided at last moment with the idea of surprising her with a visit to Universal Studios so she could enjoy the Harry Potter area because she loves it.  In the summer of 2016, she started reading the books, since that moment she has read all of them like three times and she is always looking for some Harry Potter info on the internet.  We knew that taking her there would be a great surprise and it was.  We gave her the two days tickets to Universal once we were in Florida, she was thrilled!