Simple Pleasures

I think I forgot to attach the pictures to this post a while back! Ooopss!! Here are the pics!

Tinkerin' around with Tinkerin' Level 1

I ordered a photo collage of the girls at Walmart documenting their first family vacation! We headed south to Omaha and stopped at Falls Park in Sioux Falls on the way down. We headed to Omaha's Henry-Doorly Zoo on Friday and afterwards headed to Downtown Omaha to Old Market. What a treat! Cobblestone streets and old fashioned candy!! We ate supper at Spaghetti Works where the girls (OK, just Stephanie!) but they sure had fun with the dangling spaghetti over their mouths! We also hit Lauritzen Gardens before we headed home. It was the best vacation I've had so far!! Even though my wedding/honeymoon and anniversary trips to Jamaica were awesome, I had the best time with my children and husband on our first family vacation!! Looking forward to many, many more!

Emporium 2 pg LO using Flip-Flaps - Ice Cream Fun!

I had quite a few pictures of Stephanie's First Ice Cream adventure and the new Flip-Flaps worked perfect for the extra picture I wanted to use that didn't fit, and also will allow me to add my journaling and keep it hidden. I do believe I put the Flip-Flaps on wrong, but I think it turned out OK. The tab is supposed to be flipped UNDER the picture not sticking out unless you want to make a photo book with it and bind it. I love the versatility of the Emporium My Reflections paper packet! This was Summer 2008.

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My Little Fish

Stephanie is definitely taking after her Mommy in the swimming department! I was a little fish when I was younger, too. Lucy gets is getting much better at the pool thing, but Stephanie is definitely going to be our little fish!! She loves the pool and the sprinkler! We went to the big swimming pool last weekend and Stephanie and Mommy went down the big water slide into the Lazy River. Stephie was pretty speechless at first, but so was Mommy...I had no idea what to expect but definitely not almost flipping over inside the slide!! What a landing, too! We got stuck and needed the assistance of the lifeguards to give us a push through the river so we could get out. Mommy looked like a blubbery whale trying to get out of the inner tube! Stephie was mad that we had to put the tube away...she wanted to go down again!! Maybe next time Little Fish!

Animal Cookies card

Here is a card I made for our unit meeting's card swap during the launch of the current IB. Animal Cookies was the new PP I chose to make my cards with. I used a tag punch (SU), and the rest CTMH products: Clover Meadow Bigger Brads, Natural Hemp, White Daisy Bitty Brads, and It's A Zoo stamp set (C1360). I stamped the monkey image on the punched out tag and then layered onto another piece of CS and cut around it. I was unsure if I should leave the monkeys hanging or glue them down, but I chose to let them hang for movement. A friend of mine (thanks, mashelly!) freehanded the bananas and I cut them out (i'm not good at drawing...she did awesome!

Scrap Room

Here are some pictures of my scrap room. I share it with the laundry, so it is easy to get laundry and scrappin' done at the same time, if only I frequented my room more often. Ha! Actually, I get down there quite a bit just every time I sit down, I get tired and my brain hurts. Anyway, this is not a finished room, yet. There are potential plans for putting in wall-to-wall cupboards and countertop with cupboards below. Right now, I'm just happy to move my stuff from the living room to the basement! I am going to decorate in "I Love Lucy" memorabilia.