Create a brag book, but stay away from an OMG moment, ok maybe 4 hours lol...

Hi everyone,
If you've visited me for a while now, then you probably know I work daily to create my daughters each a yearbook, using a standart 4x6 photo album. It's inexpensive and fun. While I do this, I post freebies for everyone and usually include some kind of layout both for an example and so I can brag about my girls.
Last night, actually really really early this morning, I began "dealing" with a computer situation that has been pestering me for about 2-3 weeks. Really I'm not a procrastinator. I just hate changing things on my system. If it's not broken why fix it, kwim? Well in the middle of "creating" I began working to get the program to stop pestering me. A short, or rather a long, time later, since it was 12am - 4am, I restarted my computer in every kind of way possible (safe mode, safe mode with networking, etc.) I really thought I had done it this time. I'm a software nut. I enjoy seeing what I can make software do. But I do not like virus or anti spyware programs. They ALWAYS mess my computer up for a great amout of time. Time I could be scrapping! It was so bad I had to complete my newest layout in safe mode, lol. By 4am I had had enough. I figured I'd have to ask dh for help tonight. So I went to bed. Needless to say it bothered my sleep. I went over the events multiple times. Questioning how I did this or why'd it do that. I'm happy to say I at least managed to uninstall the program in question! So I could get back to work, lol.
Ok then, I'm working!
In my comments yesterday, someone asked what an "electric guy" would want with a hog? (my sister would be so proud of me) here's where I get to "educate" in case you never knew.
4H offers a variety of agricultural opportunities to members. My girls are in the 4H club 2 hours to the east. My sister and bil are their leaders, great ones too. So every year my girls visit their aunt and uncle, or as dd#2 states "my summer house", multiple times during the summer to get everything ready for fair. They participate in multiple areas at fair, including livestock contests and indoor projects. Well one thing they do is "show pigs". My dh always asks, "what do they show them? lol" I never know if he's kidding or not. Anyway, they get in the ring and walk these almost 300 lbs animals around while a judge stands or walks around. The judge chooses 1-6 place of which child "shows" the animal best or in the case of Market Hogs, which animal is the most desirable based on multiple criteria. After the show, the kids choose 1 animal to put in the auction. Benefactors come to the auction and purchase these animals for anywhere from .60 cents a pound to $7.00 a pound. The benefactors buy the animals for multiple reasons - to support the children who are participating, to get meat to eat, etc. They will even buy an animal then send it back through the auction, so the kid can make more money from it. Basically giving a donation. Well my girls have been showing for 6 years now and they've never gotten over about .80/pound. But this doesn't bother them, because after it is all said and done my sister gives each girl a check for somewhere between $100.00 and $300.00, after taking "expenses" out of their fair checks. My girls use their "fair money" for mostly "educational opportunites" (saving a bit for college, taking a course, paying for education related expenses like playing volleyball, competitive cheer - since our school now has a pay to play policy and we just don't make enough to cover expeses) Like I said my sister and my brother in law are awesome leaders! They care so much about kids!! Anyway, if you ever have a chance to support a child in 4h, please consider doing so. If you have a business, you can even write it off your taxes!
Ok then, I have to show you how far I got on my layout.
If you'd like to leave the layout love please visit my gallery (it's so lonely, lol)
I used Simple Stacks Template 113, available
to download here (sorry to everyone who downloaded earlier this morning, I had a duh moment. This file includes the psd file of the template now. Three and a half hours of sleep is just not enough)
Cross your fingers for my ease in completing my computer corrections
Happy Scrapping,
MaryAnne

PS. I'm always on the look out for 4x6 quick pages. While browsing this morning I found a zoo quick page freebie and they've created some of them in a 4x6 portrait style. These could be used in your 4x6 album as individual pages!!

Here's a preview

Visit Creations By Rachael to pick them up.

maryanne

ok I think it's done :) full credits are in my Gallery