Also here's a quick update on our Easter Break at a cabin in Island Park, just outside of Yellowstone. We love staying in this cabin....we were first introduced to these awesome cabins a couple of years ago when Kevin's brother Brian, who is an executive at Autoliv, was invited by one of their printing vendors to stay for free for the weekend. The cabin they were invited to stay in was huge, so Brian invited Kevin and our family to come along. I couldn't go, but Kevin went with Katelyn and Ashlyn and they had a blast. Kevin was so impressed with the cabins, that we booked another one (this one was a little smaller for 2 families) in October 2007 and stayed with Kevins sister Michelle, her husband and two kids. So that's what we did this year for our spring break - but this time we just went with our little family!
Here are the photos from our stay....so fun to get away, take a break, relax and play!!
I loved the chance to actually take a nap and read 2 books! Yes - 2 full books in two days. The first time we went to the cabin is when I read Twlight for the first time and fell in love the book....I stayed up for 2 days straight reading it. This trip to the cabin I fell in love with another vampire series and again stayed up all day and night reading! It's so different from Twilight...and very...mmmmmm...adult! But so good too....and now I can't wait to read the next in the series....
I saw this on Stacy Julians blog....I love it! I remember sitting in Womens Conference, and very tearfully reflecting on all our roles as women and how our Heavenly Father blesses us and guides us in all our capacities....and Elder Uchtdorf's talk really resonated with me along with so many others that evening! I just wanted to share this with everyone.....I love that one of our roles as women is to create and be creative!! So in honor of National Craft Month...do something creative!
It's March already and I'm once again wondering where all of February went....holy cow it's March. It doesn't seem like we've done much, but we're busy as usual. It's starting to get a little warmer outside the snow is melting....I love this time of year. We hope our grass will grow....we moved into our new house last spring and finally got the sprinklers and grass planted in fall so this will be our first spring and summer with actual grass...I can't wait! Kevin and I were at Sam's Club eyeing this ultimate summer "babysitter" for our kids. I told Kevin "Why does it seem like such a big deal to pay $1300 for a playground set, yet men don't even blink at a $1400 flat screen plasma TV".....hmmmmm. Who's knows if we'll be getting it this summer...but one can dream right!!
I am hosting a baby shower for my neice Morgan on Saturday and I'm very excited....I can't beleive she's already married and having a baby. She's so grown up now.....Morgan and Jason will make great parents! Here are the baby invitations...I got them out a little late...they took longer then expected to make so I hope people still come (sorry Morgan :) So if anybody knows any great baby shower games...let me know....it's been forever since I've hosted a baby shower...I'm a little rusty!! My mom will be coming down on Friday and we're going shopping for the food and presents...so fun!!
Getting lots of snow and splurging on a new snow blower...
Enjoying a belated New Year's party with great friends (letting the guys think they're rockstars fro the night...) and being with my very best girlfriends catching up...gossiping....talking about kids....and "other" things (lol)
Playing in the snow....
Saying a sad goodbye to Bryan, Shauna and the kids...only to welcome them back again!! (Yeah....they don't have to relocate to Argentina afterall....our kids will still have their favorite cousin around!)
Playing games and being together....
Being with the MemoryWorks team and going to CHA!!
Barely escaping with our lives at the CHA tradeshow and enjoying the fresh air during the fire alarm evacuation....
It's February already and we're already in for another crazy month....our kids all had strep throat this week, Kevin had an infection and has been sick....we're busy trying to meet our deadline for the MemoryWorks catalog so have had to work a lot this week!! I would totally love the house cleaning fairy to come visit!! But things are great and we keep going....although it gets a little tough to keep up with everything. I'm really looking forward to the snow melting and warmer weather...plus a chance for the kids to play outside again.
I'm also excited to start the $25 dollar contest with my friends...I really need some extra motivation....I haven't been very good lately.....can't wait to get back to the gym!
I'm also working on stressing less, being more deliberate with my time and enjoying the simple moments of life. I'm also committing to completing this one scrapbook project that I'm totally excited about: Project 365. It's a "photo a day project" that includes all these cool, simple tools to highlight a photo everyday for the year, along with journaling. Pre-printed journaling cards, page protectors, stickers, transparancies, etc....so all you do is slip in your photos, write your journaling on the cards, slip those in the album...and you're done! I usually don't promote "other" products that we don't carry, but this concept is so cool ... I just wanted to share. You don't even need the kit...you can use your own supplies to create your own personalized Project 365. This kit is designed by none other than Becky Higgins (my all time scrapbook hero) and it's received a huge response and unfortunately there were major issues the CK Media's (Creating Keepsake's Magazine) ordering system, it was a holiday and no one was there to man customer service, their website crashed because so many people were trying to order the kit right at 9:00 am on New Year's Day, the kits sold out in minutes, tons of upset customers, blah, blah, blah. Unfortunately the dark side of the industry has come out on her blog with people being so critical and unbeleivabley rude and cruel to Becky. She's taking the brunt for CK's customer service...and is handling everything with grace. I know all too well when things don't go right with your business, or your computer system....and you have angry, upset customers and a big icky knot in your stomach. It effects your family, your life...everything...so I totally feel for Becky!! It took me a while to order the kit...and I'm still wondering if it was actually ordered...but I received a shipping confirmation so I'm hoping...but if I don't get it I WON'T be upset and angry....I'll just use things I already have in my stash and come up with something cool too!
I wanted to share a few of my daily photos so far...totally excited becuase I'm actually doing this and caught up and everthing:
