A Fall Field Trip

Well Riley had his first field trip and it was to the Linder Farms Pumpkin Patch.

Both the kindergarten classes went and I have to say that it was the largest parent turn out that i've ever witnessed! There was more than one adult to each kid. (We had Carol and I there for Riley!) There was lots of fun to be had, petting zoo area, hay bale maze, corn maze, hay ride and of course the actual pumpkin picking. Riley was a little difficult with his absolute refusal to pose in a group photo. Two were taken and Riley ran the other way yelling both times. I tried to trick him once by just saying that his teacher needed to talk to him. Unfortunately two parents busted me by telling him to head over to the photo! I wanted to yell - Don't talk to my kid! You gotta be tricky when your boy is anti-photo. Overall it was a good day though, he wanted a green pumpkin and was so happy to have found it. 

Scrapbook Stuff

Super cute school days mini book kit that I put together for Scrapadoodles. Anyone want one? I've got them for sale :) $18.

Rainbows Make People Happy

Here's a pic of my Kolbi that brings a smile to my face.

she does love those rainbows

Take A Moment

It's been a sad weekend around here. Nichole and Chris have lost a good friend. He was a father, friend, son, good guy and way too young to go. I know that he will be missed. I can't help but feel the need to take some time and  be sure that everyone close to me knows how much they mean to me. I am very lucky to have such good friends and family to love. I am really good at remembering people that I need to keep in touch with but not so good at the follow through. Life shouldn't be too busy to write a note or make a phone call just to say 'Hi, I was thinking about you.' Forget about the dirty house and read a book to your son or watch a goofy movie with your daughter. I'm glad that I take a ridiculous amount of pictures so that I have lots of photos of my favorite people to reminisce over.  If you take the time out of your day to read my blog (all three of you?!) then you are important to me too and know that I appreciate your friendship. So let's all start keeping in touch and making sure our people know we care, I think that is a good way to honor a lost friend.  Goodbye Levi. 

Blogging at the Airport

Well I'm sitting in the airport in Florida watching my plane pull up and thought I'd upload a photo shot at Cocoa Beach this morning. The Atlantic Ocean was the perfect temperature and I wish i'd had time to hang out there all day. 

And The Time Flies Again

Another week has flown by and I have not found any extra minutes to update. I took a random day trip to Silver City to snap some vintage photos with Aimee and Nichole. Then had to turn around and run right out to a 2-day trip to Seattle with Nichole. We went on a mass fabric hunt for some new scrapbook designs. Tons of great ideas is what we came back with, can't wait to get some of them on books! I've only been to Seattle one other time and I just love it there so much. I like rain-y days and overcast skies so it's right up my ally. Nichole and I ran non-stop while we were there in order to pack as much into our short trip as possible. Here are a few photo highlights of our shenanigans. (They uploaded in all sorts of a crazy order so i'm going with it and just narrating along the way)

Some of the prettiest flowers ever, must be all the rain.

Check it out, I'm touching the space needle!

The Seattle Aquarium

A pic of Nichole and I at the Aquarium

Pike Place Market is the greatest place ever...

some fresh fish anyone?

we took a ride on the ferry 

a yummy coffee shop breakfast

a shot by the needle again

The beginning of our trip, a ride on the bus!!

A good shot of the Market

some beautiful flowers 

Playing A Little Catch Up

Well it's about time I catch up here. I had a great, much needed, trip to Las Vegas. It was so good hanging out with Jeanine and catching up. I realize that I'm very lucky to have friends that I've known for 26 years and we still make time to get together. I took a few pics that I'll have to upload later because I'm currently writing from my new MacBook and there are no photos on it yet! I'll take care of that tomorrow. What can I say? I have a very generous boss who must have definitely heard my not so subtle hints about needing a laptop!

I'm so happy to have this new little toy and not only will it make me a super employee ;) but a better blogger and myspacer and everything else! I do have to do a little re-learning of some basic PC skills but I think I'm up to the challenge. 

One more thing before I finish up. I found this cool website, wordle.net and I made a little 'word cloud' . I hope the link takes you to the one I made because I couldn't figure out how to copy it and paste it here. Even though it's not copy and paste friendly it is a neat-o little site and you should check it out. (The copy and paste issue could be user error too)