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 .jpg "faces ==>> tracy-larsen.com/blog") and then there is the sweet smile and adorable little dimple on the face of my tate. *sigh* oh how i want to remember their little faces exactly how they are today…
.jpg "faces ==>> tracy-larsen.com/blog") linked 2013 is a monthly blog project. check out what comfort looks like to these ladies linking up with me this month: Amanda, Carla, Hanne, Heather, Janet, Jenn, Rhonda and Tracey.    
.jpg "March-23,-2013-93E") the boys loved coloring easter eggs this year. quinn wanted to color every egg as fast as he could while tate couldn’t help but drop the eggs into the colored water with a giant splash. they ended up with multicolored fingers and brightly colored eggs. in the spirit of keeping it real, i love that these photos include quinn wearing his tee shirt backwards because when he puts his white shirts on every night for bed, they are always backwards. and as much as i wanted to produce the “perfect” egg coloring photo set-up, we just let the boys do it their own way – even if it made a big mess.
I simply love your style of photos and journaling. I follow your blog regularly. I know your type almost all your journaling, so I wanted to share with your a simpler way to journal. Easy peasy for catching up on journaling or just printing Becky Higgins cards in general. http://www.smpljournal.com to print your journal cards. So, so simple. No glue or tape required. Just print the templates, place your journal card in the slot, and type your stories, then print. So simple!! You can use digital brushes too. LOVE how the boys are all wearing white with the colored Easter eggs!! So cute. Thanks! Happy Journaling! 
Love the color pop on the white. So cute. Looks like you guys had a good time! 
Love the coloring of these photos! Beautiful i’m doing it. i’m keeping up with my weekly project life pages. for me keeping it simple and getting it done are my focus. and i mean this in the best way. i totally enjoy the whole process of putting together my weekly project life pages. from taking the photos to writing down the stories that i want to remember. giving myself the gift of time to sit down at the computer to edit and order my photos and putting it all together when i pick up the photos from costco. it is a memory keeping process that is just a part of my everyday life now. even my husband has knows how project life fits into our family. when i tell him a funny story about the kids, he asks me if i wrote it down in project life. um, you betcha. week 9
week 10
left side: a sunset light saber battle, little iphone moments from the week, quinn coloring ducks in his new easter coloring book with some text printed on the photo.
click here to view all of my project life posts.
Tracy, I love how you’re recording your children’s cute use of the English language! I wish I’d written down more of my kids’ mangled wordings. =) 
Beautiful! 
You are really making me reconsider the rounded edges for my PL. I love the borders and the small 3×4′s that look like polariods. I’m craving the white space on my spreads. Beautiful! (Oh and I love the light saber pic!!) 
Hi Tracy, if you have time or interest would you consider creating a tutorial on how you create the image with text underneath in your 2×3 slots and also how you create your collage of photos in the 4×6 size? Have you created a template somehow? I would love to try this. Thanks, Gen
Hi Tracy, I meant to say the 3×4 inserts not 2×3! Gen 
I loooove the ones with the words they are saying!! I need to do that more! And I love how clean your whole PL is!
making duck cookies with quinn. he has a crazy cute obsession with ducks so i bought these spring cookie cutters at target and we made duck cookies. tate loved helping out too but his favorite part was driving his cars through the flour on the table. crawling out of a blogging + photography funk. i’m ready for spring and a fresh start to april. rediscovering my love of cooking + food by focusing on quality ingredients – like real dark chocolate. the kind you buy that says the percentage of cacao on the label. heaven. going gluten-free for me and the boys. it is time for this change and it is certainly a process. but we are enjoying focusing on what we can eat instead of what we cannot. reading more books and loving the time i get to slow down. shopping with tate and his “red cart” that he loves to bring in the store with me so he can be a helper. it often slows me down, but he is so sweet that i just plan for the extra time so i can enjoy him being three and wanting to do this with me. i know this will not last forever. learning so much about food dyes and behavior issues in children. we said good-bye to food dyes (especially red dye #40) and have had a much better month of march. it is amazing what you find when you really dig into what is in the foods you eat. attending parent orientation for kindergarten – already?! enjoying some unexpected visits from good friends that live far away. oh how we all miss them. listening to quinn read. yes, he has learned to read in preschool and i am such a proud mom. looking forward to easter + spring break. and a little road trip. 
I obtained all baking tools that were acorns when my daughter had an acorn obsession! Thinking about gluten free myself… any good resources that you could recommend? 
The food thing is interesting huh? I’m GF, not by choice but because I was diagnosed a Coeliac after the birth of my first child. It was hard at the start but so much easier now. My daughter has gone very healthy and low sugar by choice and it’s been great for all of us (we call her the food police!). What you will need to consider if you go completely GF is that you will probably become very intolerant of gluten should you choose to eat it again. Good luck with it all. I think it’s a way healthier way. 
[...] photo that i slipped into a becky higgins 8×10 vertical page protector. i printed out my march 2013 these days blog post. i used these templates from cathy zielske and sized them down to an 8×10 so they would fit in [...] another day in my life. captured in 15 photos. a little photo project i’m doing with my friend rhonda. check out her 15 photos here.
[...] Another 15th passed and I had fun capturing my dayTracy did it too… go check out her pages here. [...]
Just got mine up! I love yours!!! Love that top shot of you!! 
I feel like I know your family so well that if I came over I’d step right in as if I’d known you all along! You capture your family so well. week 7: valentine’s day week. cookies. stories. life.
insert: this is the insert i made for my january day in the life photos. i followed along with ali edwards and documented the last day in january. i took a lot of photos this day. i made my own template so i could fit as many photos as possible. i kept it simple and just added a little comment about all the things we did that day on the front and back. i sized them as 6×12 and slipped it into a project life 6×12 page protector using both the front and back. ali has some beautiful day in the life templates too. i originally planned to do a day in the life on the last day of each month, but i overwhelmed myself just a bit with all the photos i took. so i’ve since decided to do a 15 on the 15th photo project each month with my friend rhonda instead so i can limit myself to just 15 photos taken on the 15th of each month. i am working on my february insert now. i used my iphone for all of these january day in the life photos. i do hope to challenge myself and use my big camera for my 15 on the 15th project from time to time.
I am seriously inspired by your Project Life. Such a fantastic minimalist look. Thanks for sharing! 
I love how clean and organized your project life album is!
I loved all the photos and the journaling. Your 6 x12 layout is great! Love the look of it as well. It might be a bit more work, but perhaps having your 4×6 print with the white border placed on a new canvas the same size might do the trick. I see the protective covering on the iPad, would you mind telling me where I could find one? My boys use my iPad a lot, need something to protect it. Thank you.
Tracy, you rock simple, yet elegant, pages! I LOVE your work! 
Hey Tracy – He also told me that I really should Aspect Ratio for sizing my prints. Persnickety Prints has a good explanation of this: http://www.persnicketyprints.com/tip/aspect-ratio Liz 
Hi Tracy, I’ve been admiring your style for a while. Don’t know if I’ll ever be able to achieve your clean & simple look, but just love it on your pages.
my little niece turned two. yes, the very same little girl that came into the world 11 weeks early (you can read about it here and here and see her one year photos here). the one i made a very special baby book for. the only little girl in the pool of grandsons for my parents. and i took a few photos of her to mark her second birthday…
Love the way you photographed her, she has such beautiful eyes. Happy birthday celebrations!
planting some tiny seeds. i’ve always wanted to grow my own fruit + vegetable garden. so i figured i would start with a few herbs and a teeny tiny four leaf clover kit from the dollar spot at target. it has been three days and we have itty bitty sprouts! complaining a lot about the heat down here in florida. i don’t wish to live in snow everyday in the winter, but if we could just keep it out of the 80s down here… trying to figure out a system that works for me to get all of my to do’s done each day. paper or computer. i’m so confused! enjoying some me time thanks to a nice little routine with my husband that allows me a few hours on thursday mornings. i have found myself at target + starbucks these past few weeks. losing my mind over tate’s napping these days. some days he desperately needs a nap and has even been falling asleep on the way to get quinn from preschool. (something he hasn’t done in a very long time!) and some days he refuses to nap. either way i end up with a cranky little boy who is not getting enough sleep at night. i hope this works itself out soon for everyone’s sake. looking back at our project life album from this time last year and comparing how different life is already and how big the boys are getting. happy + sad. but love that i have these memories documented. thinking about ways to get my kids to eat some more fruits and vegetables. they are the pickiest eaters! getting ready to start a little list project for the month of march. it is all about me. i just want to get a bit more of me and my story documented. it is so easy to focus on the kids all of the time. sleeping much better now that i have stopped drinking caffeine. i never thought it effected my sleep, but i was totally wrong. as soon as i gave it up i started going to sleep a lot earlier. and we are all benefiting from mom having a good night’s rest. wanting to see the movie the impossible. i had not even heard of it until i saw that naomi watts was nominated for an oscar for her role in the movie. 
Ahh, yes So. Fl. weather, it is so hard to explain to people who are dealing with winter why 80′s everyday really isn’t that great. Going to relish having the windows open the next few nights and cooler temps. this weekend. As for the nap thing it will pass and thankfully when you look back it won’t seem nearly as bad as it does now. I so remember going through this with out youngest, as the poor thing had to deal with picking up her sisters and brother at their different schools. Thank you for your reminder the other day that quiet and uneventful is still part of life and it’s OK to just go with that. Being new to PL this year it helped me step back and remember to appreciate this time. 
That photo above is AWESOME with such amazing light!! I’m guessing you were shooting into the sun but it came out so perfect! I have such a hard time with photos like that. Any secrets, tips, advice you can give for beautiful backlit photos like this one?
I agree, I need to start documenting a bit more of who I am in my scrapbooking pages as well. Studio Calico is offering a class called, “This is me” (in the classroom section.) Also they are two instant beverages that taste almost like coffee, but are caffeine free. One is called Cafix and the other is Kaffree Roma. I am a coffee lover trying to stop drinking so much through out the day and these beverages have helped me.
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Jenn - So sweet, love all the faces.
tracey - You and I were on the same face wavelength with our similar posts.
Love our silly kids!
Rhonda - Same sort of pictures for me too
Love all the funny faces 
janet - It’s so nice that you have this wonderful way of keeping them frozen in time. I wish I had that, but that’s water under the bridge now.
These are great!
Hanne - You have such sweet boys! Sometimes I wish I could turn back time – just like Janet! Today it’s so easy to take photos – to put Them on blogs – make books and so on – 20 years ago eveything was so different! Happy Easter to you and your family