wls scrapbooking

last year i moved from germany to delaware and our house was just finished being built. we were lucky enough to move in during the big snow storm. i unpacked as fast as i could and took all my photos and put them in a big plastic container and shoved them in the attic. i wanted to put them in albums while i was recovering from wls, but that never happened lol. so now i have started working on them. photo ablums are really expensive!! i went to my local dollar tree and they had 8x10 photo albums with 10 pages each. at first i was thinking that this wouldn't really make any kind of dent in the huge piles of photos that i have, but then i thought i could make a wls photo album out of it. i only have very very few photos of myself from the past ten years because i hated having my pic taken(can anyone else relate hahaha). my mother did take one pic of me 1 week pre-op and i am going to start taking pics each month. each page i will add how i felt(mood and health wise) that month and my stats. this is more for myself than for other people to look at. maybe down the road i would share..ya know what i mean? but it really is a nice album for only $1.00. when i was in germany i would daydream about dollar stores and walmart hahahahahhahaha when i left the states there were no such things and SUPER walmarts hahahahhaa GOD BLESS THE USA! haha

Hey, Fran! I can relate...the only pix you really see of me were at family functions where my dad roamed around taking candid digital pix. I also lived in Germany...where were you? I was stationed at Gibbs Kaserne in Frankfurt from 1985-1988. The 'pre-baby' pix of me 16 yrs ago were taken at the huge park on the Rhine in Frankfurt. I know you said your OB pix was from Paris...I never made it there (and I'm so mad at myself!). I wish we had done a lot more traveling while there, but we did make it to Holland (Amsterdam), Trier (the ruins), Austria, and went skiing in the Bavarian Alps ( I think I have a pix of that somewhere). That was my poofy perm days, so watch out! lol I'll add more of these pix to my web page later this weekend...then y'all can really get a chuckle! (((hugs))) -Karen

i lived in erfenbach near ramstein and vogelweh. i loved it and went everywhere i could. i am also a violinist and was lucky enough to be able to play with the land-kris germany symphony when i was there. that is where i learned to speak very broken german hahahahhaha i really loved germany alot. it was the first move ever in my life. my hometown is charleston south carolina. and let me tell you trying to speak german with a southern accent is a killer hahahhahahhaa

Guten tag! I never made it that direction but I loved Germany, too. It did rain a lot but just learning the different culture and language (very broken here, too...and I also mix in Spanish when trying to speak it!) and seeing the countryside was so wonderful. My ex-hubby and I participated in the volksmarches, Octoberfest, oh, and sledding down a mountain on this HUGE German sled with a whole German family...it was a blast! Wow, playing with the German symphony...that's awesome! Do you still play? Do you have any pix? auf wiedersehen! (((hugs))) -Karen

i have been playing since i was 7..and i'm 31 now and i still play. i don't think i have any still pics of me playing in the symphony, but i do have a video i think. my oldest daughter just started playing the flute this year in band and i am soooooooo excited!