Indian Jones Ride

I snapped these pictures in the line for Indiana Jones ride at Disneyland of Uncle Gino and Arianna. They were perfect for the layout that Jessica designed for us at the Scrappin Escapes retreat I attended back in July.

Let's Capture These Sketches - Sketch 99

I love this layout I did featureing myself and my grandson Dane! It is just so tender, don't you think? I used sketch 99 from Let's Capture These Sketetches.

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Let's Capture These Sketches

Time to play along again with Sketch 95 at Let's Capture These Sketches!


Here is my take on the sketch. The picture was taken at Disney's California Adventure. Silly Amara didn't want her picture taken.

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Kids say the cutest things

So Tuesday I was taking my Amara to pre-school (she starts kindergarten next month!) and she is being her usually chatterbox self. Out of no where she starts to giggle! I say to her, "why are you giggling?" She says, your car farted!!! LOL (my breaks are a bit squeaky and I guess I pressed on the breaks and she heard it)

Out of the mouth of babes!!!

One more layout from My Urban Escapes weekend

This is Miss Rylee at her Kindergarten grandparents day celebration! I was honored to be invited!

Too Darn Cute

I have the sweetest granddaughter on the face of the earth. Jillian and the kids came over on Saturday. The kids were coloring and drawing and Arianna asked to use some of my stamps. Later when I went to bed I found this drawing under my pillow with a really nice note on the back. I love you Arianna!!

Urban Escapes Scrapbook Retreat

So this past weekend was the Urban Escapes Scrapbook Retreat in Las Vegas. The event was held at the M Resort. There was non-stop scrapbooking, contests, prizes, classes, chatting and girl fun from Friday morning at 9:00 until Sunday night @ 7:00! Kari had lots of fun designed into the weekend. She had even designed a special layout just for the girls in attendance. Kari and I actually left for the event on Thursday afternoon. Along the 3 hour drive out, we stopped at the Barstow outlet mall for a potty break and of course a little shopping. I purchased a new outfit for work. On the road we went and our next stop was Stateline. Again - purely for a potty break and to grab something for dinner! Well since we just happened to be at the outlets we went inside to potty and had to walk through the Williams Sanoma store. Oh the things they had there turned our heads. We both walked out with some new kitchen towels. Onward to the hotel and the set-up began!!

I was really there to help Kari with the retreat, but I was able to get a few layouts completed. This first layout titled Making Snowman Cookies was a Basic Grey kit that I added some snowmen cut with the Cricut.

This next layout is actually for an upcoming sketch (consider this your sneak peak).

Back in March Patrick, Scotty and I attended the stage performance of Wicked. What a great show that was!

And finally this two page spread of when Ching, Christina, Kari and I went to the Hollywood Bowl to hear Sarah McLachian. What an adventure that was!

As most of the ladies had left the event by 6:00pm on Sunday night, Kari and I left for our drive home at 6:30. Little did we know it would take us 7.5 hours to get home. I rolled into the drive at 2:00am! That was a looong drive.

If you ever get the opportunity to attend one of Kari's crops, I highly recommend it! She puts on a great event.

Let's Capture These Sketches

Check out the latests sketch at Let's Capture These Sketches. This is sketch #93

And here is my take on it. I didn't end up going with the circles, instead I opted for rectangles and I am really pleased with the way it came out.

Christmas in July

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Let's Capture These Sketches - Sketch #91

Check out this weeks sketch from Let's Capture These Sketches - Sketch 91.

. . . and here is my take on the sketch. Take Time to enjoy the flowers! These pictures are from 2007. The girls were soo small then. the patterned papers are Jill DZines from the Pink Lemonade kit and the cute little girl is the Marci digi stamp from LaLa Land stamps. Let's see what you create with this sketch!