Pictures from our family get togethers while new twins were here.

3 generations of Turnquist men, our son Rod, his sons, Dustin Cody & Casey and Grandpa Don.

Grandpa Don

Max decided to try out a new look with his bottom lip stuck out.  LOLRod & two of his miniature horses.

Great Grandpa Don & Sam & Great Grandma Kathy & Max

Victoria wanted out.  She wasn't too sure about those little horses when they got to romping. 

Max standing up by an old mill wheel that Rod converted into a coffee table when Dustin was about the same age.  So both learning to walk holding on to the table. Both twins just learned to crawl the week before they all got to Kansas from San Diego.

They got to try out swimming at the Augusta pool with Uncle Casey.   Don't seem too concerned.  Uncle Cody is a guard at the pool.

Uncle Cody and Max.  He'd make anyone laugh with his crazy faces.

Grandpa Rod and MaxUncle Cody & Sam. 

Great Grandma Kathy & Max & Great Grandpa Don with Sam.4 generations of Turnquist men.  Rod, his sons Dustin, Cody and Casey and Grandpa Don.

Brent Finch, one of the twins friends trying out feeding a twin.  He's stayed at our house when in Hutchinson for basketball tournaments.Grandpa Don & Max.  It takes them a while to let people hold them.  They are definitely Mom & Dad's boys. 

Sam & Max find my rocking chair.  The chair went through 4 of us Woodburn kids, then my son Rod, and then Dustin & the twins, Cody and Casey and now my great grandsons get to check it out.  It had so much paint on it, White, Blue, Red, Brown and so I tried to strip it but it just wouldn't all come off so decided to just varnish it and let a little of all the colors of the generations show.  It was my chair as a little girl but I think my brother Phyl clocked in more hours watching tv in it. 

I sat Sam in it earlier & then both boys got a turn later.  First Max and then Sam. Their birthday isn't until the 25th of August but we decided to have a birthday party while they were here. Sam with cake.

Crawling in tandem & Max by the cake. It was also my oldest Great Grandson, Bryton's birthday so they shared a cake. My 4th grandson Kyle came over too with his son Korbin.

4 Generations, Grandpa Rod with Sam, Dustin, Great Grandpa Don & a mad Max.

When they crash they are out like a light. Korbin Ray playing. Sam was so out of it you could raise his arm and it would just plunk right down. Max was out of it too.

Sam with Uncle Casey.I love these two pictures.  My Grandson's Casey & Cody feeding my Great Grandson's Sam & Max.  My older twins aren't identical but the younger ones are. Aren't they all precious?  They are to Grandma. 

My twin great grandsons and parents came to visit.

Sam & Max (10months)Four generations of Turnquist Men & Boys.

Great Grandpa Don, Grandpa Rod, Sons Dustin, Cody & Casey (twins) & Dustin's boys Sam & Max (also twins).

I picked out all the pics I wanted on here twice and both times just one came into this post.  Grrr. 

Amber's Wedding Album

I spent 11 straight days printing pictures, getting them collated in the order I wanted them and then scrapbooking them into the album.  I gave Amber the choice of a white album or hot pink, which was the main color in her wedding.  I knew she'd pick the hot pick.  lol.   Here is Becky, mother of the bride, looking over the album while we waited for Amber to get there.

Amber is here and I put it in her lap.  First thing she sees is something I just stuck in there for Reannah, her daughter.

 

I don't know what I'm tellilng her here.  I told her I thought I just might keep it myself.  I said, Are you worth it and she let me know real quick that she thought she was. 

Rod took a picture of us together. 

This one is better of her so I cropped me out .

This is the front of the album.  I put some lace with pearls around the picture opening and then added the flowers.  It still needed something and I found the wedding appliques that I put on the right and left corners at the top. 

I had a small wedding kit and this church was in it and I put pictures behind all the doors and windows.  Then I cut slits in the plastic protector sheets so the doors could come through so you could open them to see the pictures.

A great picture of the beautiful bride.

I made her pink jewelry for the wedding.

This picture was taken in the brides room and we had her stand so you could see her in this big mirror.  Well all the bridesmaids suitcases were stacked in front of it so when I got the picture into my computer I made the carpet go all the way and took out the suitcases.  I had this sheer lace with pearls and its almost the same material as her dress so went well.

I took this picture of the back of her hair. 

This is Becky, the mother of the bride and Rod, my son and Amber's stepdad, who gave her away.

This is a collage of pictures of the bride with Grandpa Don. When we decided to take it over at the last minute, I realized I hadn't taken any pictures of the album so I picked out these few pages and had Rod take pictures of them. It ended up being a one hundred and four page book with over 350 pictures in it.  Man was I glad when it was finished.  I was up late every night working on it and I was exhausted by the time I got it done.  Its my own fault because when I start something I just keep pushing myself till its done and off my to do list. 

My new twin Great grandsons - Sam & Max

This is Victoria in Uniform.  She is a Lance Corporal in the Marine Corps. She is the mother of my new

great grandsons.

This is my Grandson Dustin who is a Corporal in the Marine Corps.  He is the father of my new great grandsons and has been in Iraq.  So Victoria went through her whole pregnancy by herself.  The twins decided to come on August 25, 2009.  They weren't due till Oct. 14, 2009.  So they were premies and very tiny.  Samuel Scott weighed in at 4 lbs 1.6 oz. and 16 " long and Max Michael weighed in at 3 lbs. 5 oz. and 16" long.  They were born in San Diego Marine Hospital by C section.  They were then moved to San Diego Children's hospital as they were better equiped to take care of them.  They've been home about a week now and are doing great.  Dustin got to take the next plane home and arrived just a few days after the birth. 

Above are the crosses that my church, 1st United Methodist, in Hutchinson, KS. gave to the boys.  I brought the two red roses home and stuck them in the microwave and dried them and put them in a box to send to the kids in California.  The crosses are to hang in their room so they start life recognizing the image. The next picture is of the inside of the certificates that came with the crosses. 

Dustin's little family. 

We now have 4 sets of twins in our family and 2 of them are my grandsons. The 3rd set belong to my brother's oldest daughter and the 4th to my Sister's son.  The last 3 sets came into our life in less than a year.  One set in Omaha, Ne., one in Kearney, Ne. and the other in San Diego, CA. so I guess the water isn't safe anywhere. I thought it was a miracle when we got twin grandsons 19 years ago and now their big brother has given us another set.  We are all so blessed with these little wonders & our other grandkids also.  Donny has 6, Andrea's Ben, William and new twins Gavin and Dawson, & Katie's Hannah and Noah.  Gay has 3, Mike's Olivia & twin girls Josslyn and Leah & her new step grandson, Ben.  I have Dustin, (new wife Victoria), Casey & Cody & new greats Sam & Max and from Rod's second wife Becky, I have stepgrandkids, Dawn & son Bryton, Amber & husband Joey & her daughter Reannah and his sons, Christopher & Tyler, and Kyle.  So from one son I have quite a crew.  Love them all. 

Alice in Wonderland, an altered Piano Roll

After seeing a piano roll that someone had altered in one of the Somerset magazines, I decided I wanted to try one. First I covered the piano roll with sheet music. Then I added pictures of many of the illustrations that were used in Alice in Wonderland over the years. Many different artists have illustrated the book. The first & probably most remembered are done by Sir John Tenniel. I followed the story from beginning to end and labeled all the illustrations with the artist who did them. Then I went back and journaled excerpts from the story. I used a crackle stamp and distress inks to distress the entire roll so it looks like a long banner rather than individual pages. This is the beginning of the roll and tells that the story of Alice in Wonderland was written by Louis Carroll (the pen name for Rev. Charles Lutwidge Dodgson. He told this story while taking 3 daughters of one of his church family on a canoe ride. He made it up as they went up the river. One of the girls, Alice Liddell asked him to write it down for her and so began the long life of the story of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.

I spent hours looking on the internet for as many examples of illustraters that I could find and downloaded them and printed them out and cut or tore them out to use on the pages.

You will also note that I purchased an unmounted rubber stamp set of Alice and used them throughout the banner also.

Here you can see the story came to its end and you can see the perforations in the roll of paper that the upright player piano would read to play a song.

The story all rolled up and in its box.
I covered the lid with some scrapbook paper with cards since the King and Queen of hearts were two of the main characters in the book. I bought a page that had Alice in Wonderland and the White rabbit as paperdolls and put them on the top of the lid. Below is the side of the lid with a pin of the Cheshire cat that I found in used jewelry at the Et Cetera shop.

This is my copy of one of the many books illustrated for Alice in Wonderland. I didn't use the illustrations in this book except for maybe one because I will lay the box with the roll by this book to display it and allow anyone who would like, to read the whole story.