The Committee

Scrapbooking can be a solitary or group hobby.  I prefer to scrap with company because you can bounce ideas off each other, scrap lift (politely steal others ideas) and just chit chat as you put pictures on paper.  Since I have had my sweet baby twins, I have not gotten the opportunity to scrap much at all. 
My husband is blessed to have two wonderful women in his life that just happen to be his mother and his aunt.  They don't see each other all that often, so when they both mentioned they wanted to come love on my children, I planned their vacations together.

Besides all the wonderful help they have given me with my children, you want to know the best part?  They're scrappers!!!

Yesterday we got Daddy to babysit and we headed out to Archiver's for a much needed creative outlet.  We weren't in the store more than five minutes when we spotted a gem:

Fancy Pants Glitter Cuts transparency overlays and embellishments.  The committee (me, Granny, and Aunt Wanda) started planning and plotting and came up with an idea:

Cut the S off of Brothers to fit my family and make the first layout of my three kids.   After spending a lot more money than any of us planned on (isn't that always the story?), we headed home and waited until all the kids went to bed so we could SCRAP!!!

After a committee meeting discussing the layout and trying many different patterns together, we came up with this:

I had never had a committee meeting concerning a layout, but is was a lot of fun.  The whole time we were planning I kept thinking it was so neat that my husband's family was helping me with my scrapbooking.  As I added the final touches on the layout, Aunt Wanda suggested I add something on the back about the committee creating this layout.  What a fantastic idea!  I added the following:

I kept thinking long after we are all gone, my children will be looking back at these layouts and I am so glad I got all of there signatures!  I will leave you with a few pictures of the committee:

Usually committee meetings are just another commitment you wish you would have said no to.  Not this time!  I hope you get to have a committee meeting soon with other scrappers!

~Jenn
Mama Scrapper