A Few More Ireland Pages!

Well, that was a nice little, unintended week long blog break.
Between losing internet for almost two days, a busy weekend and the holiday on Monday, I just didn't have time to check in.
But today I want to share a few more pages from my mother-in-law's album.
I showed the title page for the album here.

These photos are from the boat ride they took down the St. Lawrence river to get to the Atlantic and on to their journey to Ireland.
I am learning that even with "newer product" this album is going to have the older vintage feel to it that I hoped. It helps having the older photos in photo corners to the handwritten journaling by my mother-in-law's father that she wants included.
I did leave a blank square there at the bottom for her to add some journaling. We haven't decided yet if she is going to hand write or she wants me to type it. We will see when the album is completed.

A few photos as they arrived into Ireland once again using a vintage post card and her father's handwriting :)

This page is one of my favorites! And it's all because of that photo on the left. I LOVE her smile in that photo. If you click on the page, you may be able to see it closer. The excitement in her smile at finally arriving matches the journaling by her dad underneath.  The sticker "a little birdie told me" is special because my MIL has such fond memories of her older cousin Birdie who helped take care of her while she was there. Birdie is the woman on the far left in the photo.
And I had the absolute pleasure of meeting a much older Birdie when Mike and I went to Ireland back in 2009. She is a pretty amazing woman!

I am looking forward to completing a few more pages soon, but I have some assignments to work on for the month of March for ScrapGal first!
Those will be coming up next week already :-O

Just one more note - I have been struggling with the new word verification on blogger. Hopefully this won't still be an issue when this is posted. But I apologize in advance if it is.