My last two Lo's from the weekend.

River pictures...

Just a few pictures from the trip to the ELk River this past weekend. It was a beautiful day and we had an awesome time!

Scrappy Weekend!

I had a super busy, but productive weekend! Friday night was Scrapbook Generation's Scrap Pink CropDebbie and Karin outdid themselves, it was really fun! I haven't actually been to a crop since the retreat in the spirng and i did get some LO's done and it was for a good cause! Karin made pink cupcakes and cookies and they gave away lots of pink prizes. I was also participating in a online crop ove at Scrap4life.com Kazan Clark was the host this month and she put up some great challenges. I only got 4 of them done, but I was happy with the LO's I did. I have been competing in a design team search atScrap4lifeand I did advance this week! It went from 27 to 16 this week so I am thinking about the challenge for this week, we are supposed to do a paper piecing on our page, I have had a crab pattern layed out on my desk for a few weeks to do a lO of the kids crab hunting at the beach, so I am excited to get that started.

The boys and I went with Katie and her kids and Mom to the River on Sunday. The weather was beautiful and the kids loved getting to spend some time floating in the river, collecting rocks, and tadpoles and crawdad's. katie and Griffin brought home one of the tadpoles and are hoping to see it to maturity. She researched online last night and found out they eat dry dog food, simple enough right? We'll see! here are a few of the pages I did this weekend, I have a couple more, but they need the journaling yet.

Challenge 1

Scrap4life.com is hosting a design team search contest. Last week the challenge was to use circles for your background. This was my entry. I love these pictures of Brian and Taylor. The most recent one where Bub is holding Taylor was the start of this LO, it cracks me up! I was pretty happy with the finished project. I used the new My Minds Eye Paper.

A Tail of Puppy Love

Thisis a mini album that I am teaching at Scrapbook Generation tonight. It is super cute, featuring a cover made from a transparency and a fun bone shape made with the cricuit. Each page features a quote about dogs and our relationships with them. There is room for about 3 2x2 photos on eage page. Of course mine features the lovely Daisy dog! It is a pretty full class so I am excited about that! Gregg is meeting me in town after for a dinner out, just the two of us. We are actually going to Red Lobster his favorite. We never went out for our anniversary, so we are using that as an excuse to share a nice meal, that I didn't have to cook!

She may look like a sea dog...

but she's not! We spent the weekend at Stockton Lake, we camped and fished and just had a great weekend. Saturday we were all out on the boat, Daisy included. It was cloudy and cool when we headed out onto the lake so I had on Capri pants and a t-shirt, not intending at all to get in the water. The sun did come out after we had been on the water for a while and i got kinda hot so I decided to hang my feet off the edge into the water and cool off. Daisy does not like the water, she likes the boat and is perfectly content to lay on the deck and nap. When the boat is in motion we make her wear a life jacket, but when we are sitting still I take it off. We had been in a cove for quite a while so she didn't have her life jacket on. When I decided to hang my feet over, she was on the front deck, she decided to come sit next to me, only she took the faster route over the top cap of the boat. Those of you who know us know how much time Gregg spends washing and waxing the boat and vehicles, needless to say the top cap is very slick. Daisy went in and went under, from where I was I was not convinced that she was going to make it back up on her own and so I jumped in, fully clothed, and the water was not warm! By this time, gregg and the boys are laughing their heads off, Daisy is fine and I am soaked! Are dogs born knowing how to swim? I don't know and i still don't know if she can actually swim. Oh well, I was cooled off and Spent the rest of the afternoon laying in the sun trying to dry out! My camera battery went dead shortly after I took this picture so I have none of the two of us after the trauma, but I can tell you we both needed a nap!

October Classes

In October I will be teaching 2 classes. The first is a Disney album class, using the Maya Road binder album. the cost will be $18. The second is a single page Halloween Layout. Usually I wouldn't teach a single page, but this one has quite a bit going on, lots of distressing with sandpaper and ink and paint. I am using the Little Yellow Bicycle line. the cost will be $8. I am not sure of the dates yet, they will be in the SG newletter or you can always call the store and the girls there will hook you up with the information.