Scanning Nostalgia

I have been putting my Christmas presents to good use. The KitchenAid, of course, has been making biscuit dough, whole wheat pancakse, and once I get some yeast, it will be making whole wheat bread - yummy! Oh yeah, it made cookies a few nights ago, too - Jessica's recipe. We took some cookies to a friend's house. The cookies at both houses were gone within a day. Yummy cookies.

Anyway, my other gift was a scanner. I hate paper. It accumulates, and you have to get a big old filing cabinet and file folders and keep track of things, and in order not to accidently throw away something you're going to need later, your files just keep getting bigger and bigger. So, I decided that I would scan all those things into my computer - you know, all the stuff you want to keep, but it's silly to keep paper copies of. All the things that I want to keep permenantly, I will eventually burn to CDs or DVDs, so I dont' have to worry about my harddrive crashing and loosing everything (I'm also going to save up for an external harddrive, so I can save all the documents on an external harddrive and save space on the one in my compy). Anything that is like a time capsule - you know, tax documents, receipts, etc - stuff you only keep for a certain number of years - I'll just leave on the external harddrive - no need to waste permenant storage space with stuff I can delete in the future. So I will only have to have maybe one little accordian style folder with documents that we reference frequently and often have to take places (like our lease, insurance documents, birth certificates, etc). It makes me feel more clutter-free. I hate clutter. With a passion. So, in all of this scanning, I came across two old photos that I had framed in homemade frames - here they are. I actually decided to keep the one of me and Leslie. I'll hang it up inside my computer armoire (once all the parts come and we put it together).

This one from girls' camp - I think my first year as a JC... I can't quite remember. All I remember is really enjoying myself, loving the girls, and learning how to do that stuff where you stamp something and then put this crystally stuff on it and heat it up. I know it has a name, but I can't remember the name. I think that year was one of the best years of camp.

This picture was taken of me and Leslie at a stake conference once upon a time. I seem to remember that she and I were singing in the choir for that stake conference... my memory seems to be going these days. Or I'm just getting older, so all these "younger" moments are kind of fading. That's one reason it's nice to have pictures and scrapbooks. Helps you remember. I think I made this frame at a girls' camp, too.