Ok, before we go any further, I'm going to post an example of what I mean when I say I want to re-do a bunch of these old pictures of Aaron. I originally scrapbooked his baby photos when I was first starting out, and while I have no intention of getting rid of the old layouts (they're part of my own history), they are definitely lacking in some areas. First of all, I didn't scrapbook all the pictures we took, mainly because I didn't have extra prints of all of them and even back then I knew better than to crop an original print. Getting reprints was a pain back in the days of using negatives. Also, I guess some of them I didn't think were good enough, while now with digital photo editing photos can be zoomed, enlarged, cropped and spiffed up into acceptibility or even better. Another problem is that I would take these little 3x5 inch prints and crop them within an inch of their lives, often in weird shapes, rendering them even tinier. Then I would combine a lot of them on a page with some lame and random theme and some unenlightening captions. Here's what I mean:

Now, this is a particularly egregious example. But you get the idea. I really felt like I wanted to focus more closely on the relatively few photos we took of Aaron (at least as compared to Jesse when he was a baby) and give them more attentive and appropriate treatment. Not to replace these old layouts, but to supplement them, fill in the missing pieces and tell the story more completely (and with a little more style).

Patterned paper: you don't seriously want to know, do you? Anyway, it's either Paper Pizzazz by Hot Off the Press, or from the old Memories in the Making kits I used to get, which haven't been available in years.