Rearranging things - 8x10 photo

So this is a selfhi photo taken at the Grand Tetons.

I've written about it before, it's a fun story as in

me versus the timer on my new camera

and slim internet to get any answers.

There was success as you can see.

Anyhoo, this was hanging in the kitchen and I replaced

it the the beautiful photo of Mt. St. Helen's

(I have a blooper page of that coming up).

 I decided to do an 8.5x11, that I do often

and scrap right on top of the photo.

DH and I do NOT do many selfies, however, we are getting better.

This photo is also in one of our road albums

and I'm sure I've scrapped an oversize page of this too.

So now there's plenty for the kidlets to fight over 😏

Studio Calico envelop, punch and title from stickers from the

Nat'l Park. (I've used a lot of those in this recent road trip album).

Pointer pages in regular album

That point you to "The Album."

For those of you that followed our 2 month

travel escapade you'll remember that I did an album

as we went, so except for one page the

entire album was completed before we returned home.

I know it still boggles my mind as well.

This album is the West of the Mississippi Tour.

 This double spread (more or less) are our adventures

in Yellowstone park - And yes I did get the kit from the park store.

As you may or may not know, Tom and I don't do a lot

of pictures of ourselves and I decided that

we were going to include some for this trip because 

why not. 

So to make a statement or two, I printed the photo 8.5x11

and decided to scrap straight on that photo.

 With a note on the page to check out our road trip album

for more details.

 Because the story of this photo was fun.

 It's a gorgeous place and if you ever want to

go anywhere and only one place to go

check out Yellowstone Park.

You will NOT be disappointed.

 And because we took another photo together

that had another fun story with it, I printed two of them

because I wanted to frame one. When I

decided the photo to be frame needed to be tweaked,

I decided to scrap the second 8.5x11.

The Grand Tetons are the breathtaking mountains

you see on the ride to Yellowstone - if you're coming in

from Jackson Hole Wyoming - you

get a gorgeous ride to a phenomenal park.

Win-win.

Of course we stopped at the ranger station to get our

passport stamped and I picked up a couple of do-dads perfect

for scrapping.

Again pointing out the road trip album.

 Love how these 2 pages turned out and I

may also pull out other photos - maybe to tell a bigger story.

Its pretty hard to do that because it was so cool scrapping

as we went so the stories have already been told.

I also have a better idea of what to take now

although stopping at a scrapbook shop on the road

was a total win and I documented that.

If you go back through my posts started about mid-July in 2015

you can read about our exploits starting with Packed and Ready to Go.

The photos in my road trip album were printed from Canon Selphy printer.

Its a great road trip printer - small and compact however, the largest

photo size is 4x6.

It is also not the most cost effective printer but it was the convenience

of being able to have the prints instead of adding

them after the fact...

I also kept a separate "daily journal" that I'm going to

try to combine this next time around.

More of the Grand Tetons

Can you get too much?

Oh No....

Like Totally - because around every bend,

every curve, there is a grand teton waiting to take your breath away.

 They are ruggedly handsome.

Beautifully sculptured.

 and then Oh here's me. 

with the Grand Tetons.

Doesn't get any better than that.

 My beloved.

 Close up view because honestly, the color, the angle

everything changes second.by.second.

 Okay so this is FUNNY.

I broke out the tripod - which I know how to use

believe it or not.

Then we decided that we'd employ the timer.

Well.

I had no idea on my camera well the heck the timer is.

SO.

We had to look it up. 

Did I bring the manual this time????

NOOOOOOOOO..

  because it was all about lack of room and packing it out for the new rig.

So internet was not 5 bars but we were able to figure it out and

WA-LA a timer selfie.

The Grand Tetons have their name for a reason

and I really wish I could do them justice.

I have 19034813910394819348 photos because it was so hard to choose

which to take and which to ignore.

So basically I took them all.

The road to the Grand Tetons

More mountains and clouds oh my.

 As well as cool fun structures 

or otherwise known as a barn.

 Coming down Teton Pass was a tad steep.

 Then into the town of Jackson

where Tom finally found the moccasins he was hunting for.

 The national Elk refuge where I found no elk lurking about.

 But some geese were flying down the road with us.

 And shazam you go around the corner to this

breathtaking mountain.

We'll be heading into Yellowstone and will be boondocking.

So I'll catch you on the flip-flop when we

get some more free internet :)