CHA has come and gone....

Well another CHA convention has come and gone and the new products are moving out. The good little angel in me says that I really don't need to buy anything new, but the bad little shopper in me says to buy as much as I can before Tyler notices. SO what is new at CHA you ask? These:

Wall Text by Making Memories: photo compliments of Ali Edwards

More cute chipboard letters from Heidi Swapp: photo from lifetimemoments.com

DCWV chipboard stacks! Brilliant!!! : photo from www.photoexpressfotosource.ca

And these are only a few of my favorites. I can't wait to get my hands on some of the new fabulous products coming this way. Yummy!! :)

Pictures.... Pictures!

Well here they are. My sweetie scanned the pictures in so I could show you all. I am still in shock that I actually jumped out of a plane. My ankle is healing nicely. The swelling is down and I can walk without pain, so it is all good. Thanks for looking!

Picture 1 is of the jump.
Picture 2 is the ride to Medical :)
See the other photos here

What a Weekend!

Well this weekend, I took the plunge. I decided to make my first skydive jump at the World FreeFall Convention in Rantoul, IL. And without fail, I got hurt. Now this is in no way going against my instructor, Kip, but landing at the speed we did, I felt the need to put my feet down instead of landing on my bottom. And then it happened, I landed on my ankle instead of on my feet. Now knowing my knee situation, you can imagine that my family thought that I blew my knee out, but I didn't. Just a bad sprain. No biggie!!

In other words, we had a blast. Courtney and I were the first tandem jumpers of the convention and it truely was the experience of a lifetime. It was euphoric falling through the air at 120mph, and CRAZY! I was very calm through the jump. It didn't even feel like I was falling. Very nice feeling!

The family had a good time this weekend. Good food and good company. Good times!

The picture is of Bergie, my videographer. More pics to come soon.

One more to go...

For my parent's anniversary, the big 25, I gave to them a family scrapbook. My mom and I went to pick out the papers she liked and I will put it all together. Well today, it begins! I have been trying to get Tyler and my book updated and it is time! I have one LO left of Josh, Audra and Courtney's graduation and then I am good to go on the Big Book(s). Here are some more fall and then a Spring LO. Hope you see this, Mom.

Rest and Relaxation

Despite my latest afflication (I hate my knee), I have been turning out pages left and right. Here is the last in my Zoo series, followed by a day at the pumpkin patch. This past weekend was so nice and relaxing... too bad it was forced due to said knee, but I am ok with that. I go to the ortho on Wednesday to see what is up. And hopefully the Doc won't ban me from jumping out of a plane with my sister. Anyway.. enjoy the pics!

New Layouts and News

Today I have scrap fever. I came back from Summer School teaching and just felt great about my pictures. I bought some new Basic Grey not too long ago and really tried to use as much patterned paper together as I could. I am starting to feel very comfortable with it. And I love my ZOO pictures. It was so much fun. It is hard to believe it was almost two years ago. And now I just found out that we are going to an exotic animal refuge this coming weekend, so I am keyed up about that.

This past weekend we were down South and the girls had their birthday party. We got them DVDs and a really cool dinosaur pop-up book and a teacher Barbie. Just had to do that. Tonight is fondue night with a killer cheese recipe and great company (Josh and Audra ... love those kids!)

Tomorrow night is Bud T-shirt night at Busch and best believe we will be there with bells on. Have a wonderful 4th of July Weekend. We both have to work Monday, so we are going to take a trip down to TN next week to see my Dad for his 50th... hehehe

Take Care!
Go Cards!!!

Happy Father's Day!

First and foremost, Happy Father's Day to all you Dads out there. Today has been a relaxing day. We called our Dads with well wishes and made dinner and even dessert! I love my husband's stuffed ricotta shells. YUMMY!!! Today I worked a lot on a new layout of my 2 neices. They are so cute.

Next weekend is the girls' birthday party. We are so excited to see those little munchkins. I can't believe they are 2 and 5 already. Not too much is going on otherwise. Have a great night.