Tell the whole story

 These are Joe's grandparents again - they were only married 5 years, but the marriage produced Joe's mother.  Joe never even met his grandfather, so it might be easy to pass over that part of history except that Joe looks just like him! So again Joe's mom gave me some nice photos of them together and told me their history, which I was so excited to get down. I wrote everything I could remember, it took me 4 pages (written on vellum to achieve the overlay effect I wanted), because even a short story can be a very important one.

Dare to Compare

My husband's mother has been extremely generous in giving me copies of photos that I might enjoy scrapbooking. These are not originals, she had them scanned and reprinted, so I feel comfortable cutting or cropping as needed.  

I did two comparisons here - the first is a comparison of Joe and I at the same age (which really, we ARE the same age, which is fun), so I played on "age 4" and "made for each other."

 The second comparison is one of our engagement photos compared with a photo of his grandmother and grandfather (not their engagement photo, I think the silly neckties were for fun). We were about the same age as each other, early 20's. The cards are typed up (something about how Joe looks like his grandpa), printed on plan scrapbook paper, then cut out and grommeted to look like tags.