I wanted to get a few shots of the great grand children (my mom's great grandchildren) so I asked my niece and my daughter to meet me at the park for pictures. It is impossible to get one where they are all looking the same way.
I made this layout this morning still using my November kit from Urban Anthology. This is a picture the kids took while Gino was home on leave as a present for my birthday. Those kids know exactly what I like ~ pictures!
Isn’t my granddaughter adorable? I made this layout using a sketch from http://inspiredblueprints.ning.com/ and the November Urban Anthology kit. I used Basic Grey Urban Prairie patchwork quilt and petticoat pattern papers and the Basic Grey Granola wild oats pattern papers; Basic Grey glazed brands; Star Dust, Eucalyptus, Waterfall Stickles; Prima flowers; swirl and cherish these moments glitter diecuts from Crate Paper's Prudence Collection and Chit Chat Thickers puffy letter stickers outlined with a turquoise Souffle pen. All but the Stickles were from the November kit!
I made a pumpkin cheesecake for desert (we also had apple carmamel and pumpkin pie) it was yummy.
Earlier this month I wrote that it was the Marine Corp's birthday. Well it was also the time of year that they have the Marine Corp Ball. Gino sent the following pictures so of course I had to make a layout. As many of you know, my son is currently serving as an Embassy Guard in Uzbekistan.
I chose to go very simple in my layout design as the pictures are very powerful. I used actual paper designed by http://www.stampinstation.com/ called Marines Dress Uniform left and Marines Dress Uniform right. Perfect for these pictures.
This cutie pie is Rylee and these series of pitures were taken at Disney's California while waiting to see the Crush the Talking Turtle show. Patrick had bought her this really cute priness twirly thing.
Scotty bought us all bowling shirts with our names on them! Aren't we cute? We even look like real bowlers! And to top it off, we even won 4 games last night. (You actually bowl 3 games, then the 4th "game" is taken by total pins). You see some of the staples of our every week activies in the foreground. Scotty usually brings a cooking magazine to share really cool recipes (notice the page it is currently turned to for my Patrick's benefit - see the large bling?). He also brought in brownies with nuts (Cinda and I love chocolate). There is my ice tea cup and then there is something there that is not usually there. A shot glass ~ Pat bought me a Russian Qualude. It was ok. Then during the past couple of weeks, I have been teasing that I wanted a shot of Tequila. 2 or 3 of them even. So he comes back with a double shot of Patron Silver, the salt and the lime. It took me 3 drinks to get the whole thing down. This was with one frame left in the night. I felt a little tipsy by the time we left for the night but I did sleep all night long.
If you have heard the news lately, Southern California was burning with 3 wild fires. The 1st one started on Thursday and by Saturday morning 2 other major fires had started. One of them not to far from me. Not close enough that I was worried about my house by any stretch, but it surly impacted our air quality. Saturday was extreamly windy and hot, we were in the 90's. I meet up with some friends for lunch at Downtown Disney and this was the view. There was so much ash falling all around.
To give you a different view, this is the smoke spreading into the blue skys we usually have.
To the United States Marines - Sempre Fi - and thank you for your service.
This is a layout I created using the November Kit, Calgon Take Me Away at Urban Anthology http://urban-anthology.com/ . Pictures were of my granddaughter and my son's girlfriend taken at Disney's California Adventure this past Saturday.
Marty and Lisa joined us for the day as well.
One of Marty's favorite rides is Grizzly River Run . Arianna really likes this ride as well but neither Jillian Patrick or myself care to get wet. Marty, Arianna and Christina rode it while we watched them.
Amazingly, they didn't get all that wet.
After dinner we went back to Disneyland to ride a few more rides. What a fun day and we get to do it all over again next weekend with Darleen, Rylee and Ryan as they were unable to join us on Saturday.
