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Monday, May 01, 2006

Ta-Da!

Well, we did it, folks. Thanks to all your prayers and support, I finished my son's graduation scrapbook. It started with A is for Artwork (If you are having trouble seeing these teeny photos, right click on them and highlight "view image"):

The drawing on the right is the cover of a pamplet full of his artwork from preschool on up. (The scrapbook pages are 12x12, and my scanner isn't. So, I had to cut-and-paste these photos together. Sorry about that.)

Each page (well, double-page actually) represented a letter of the alphabet. It ended 26 pages later with Z is for "Zee" End:

We are going to put one of his senior portraits on the righthand page--they just haven't come in yet.

Then, when you turn the "Z" page over, the final page of the book looks like this:

The Scripture at the bottom says: When you seek Me you will find Me, when you seek Me with all your heart. Jer 29:13

I wrapped his scrapbook up and we surprised him with it at our family crawfish boil. We had cousins, aunts, uncles, grandparents, nieces, nephews, boyfriends and girlfriends. Here he is looking at it for the first time:

Here he is with his "little" sister:

Here I am with my man--the last to eat crawfish after the rest of us had our fill.

Now ... I think there's this book I'm suppose to be writing, so I better get to it!

posted by Deeanne at 1:13 PM

6 Comments:

Meg said...: Beautiful scrapbook, beautiful family. And it looks like you had good weather, too.
Deeanne said...: Actually, it poured rain the night before and well into the morning. Finally stopped around 11:00am. The boil started at 1:30 and by then all was clear (if a bit steamy). (whew!!)
Barb said...: Pretty fancy book there, ma! And what was the boy's reaction? Any interesting quotes?
Deeanne said...: He really liked it. He spent a lot of time looking at every page and commenting on each little thing. It was really sweet. Later that night, he brought all his buddies over and showed it to them.

As for your question from last week--no, I don't have the alphabet letters represent the same thing with each kid. They are unique to the child. For example, in my daughter's book, A was for After-Prom (as opposed to Artwork).
Susan said...: It is an awesome scrapbook! I knew you could do it. We so enjoyed our day with you all.
Deeanne said...: (In case y'all are wondering, Susan is my sister-in-law. The blonde on the right in the photo with my son and his scrapbook.)