as promised : )

I don't care what y'all think...They still got the "right stuff" : )

layouts from weekend retreat

click on the picture of the layout to enlarge it.

Kaycey, the soccer all star!

Cal's 9th bday

this one is one of my favorites, even if it's kinda plain & unfinished. I am going to paint the chipboard swirl pale pink and glitter it, too. I sanded some cute embossed Elsie paper from the Jack and Abby collection on the left of the layout (the cupcakes paper).

Yes, it really says "My heart beeps for you". I journaled on it after I took the picture of the layout. Every time Kaycey's heart is beating fast she says, "Mom, feel my heart, it's beeping so fast!"

another one of my favorites!! I've been itching to use the Elsie cloud paper forever. Maddie's pages just turned out so cute this time. I love this picture of her and Mike, too. The white space will be for journaling and a title...not sure on a title.

Cal was so mad at me for putting "Smarty Pants" on his page.

Another cute Maddie LO. I am recently obsessed with all the Elsie products I've been hoarding, can you tell???

Cal and his injury

Kaycey and her new hair-do

Maddie and her big smile !!

trick or treat?

It was so cool to trick or treat at night...it was a first for the kids, and for me!! Actually trick or treating for our town was on last Sunday. It was so cold, and terribly windy. We didn't make it far with all the houses spaced further apart and all the long driveways!! But in the village, they have trick or treating Halloween night, so we went out (it was a balmy 53 degrees!) While we only stayed out an hour, we got plenty of candy.

Cal was Indiana Jones.

Kaycey was a gymnast.

Maddie was Ariel (without the red wig, because I waited to long to go buy one, and when I went there was nothing left. : (

Mackinac part 2

more pics of our getaway....

The horses & carriage for the Grand Hotel

the boardwalk along the lake

another view from the top of the island

Sugar Loaf (rock formation--it boggles my mind how this huge rock is just in the middle of no where!)

I love this picture...it is the entrance to one of the cemeteries on the island.

Next post....MORE New Kids on the Block!! Yes, I went to a second concert & had way better seats. It was so cool !!! : )

part one of Mackinac pictures

I am going to do 2 posts of some pictures from Mackinac, because it takes alot of shuffling them around to make it look right on the blog. Then I'll do another post with pictures of my layouts from this past weekend's retreat I went to!! It was a nice place, and good to be with friends, and great to be scrapbooking of course!! It was more of a Bed and Breakfast place. But I think the 2 weekends in a row away were too much. I wouldn't have gone to the retreat this past weekend had I known way back when I registered for it that Mike and I would go away the weekend before. But oh well, it was still fun.

Cal, the day of his surgery.

On the way to Mackinac, we stopped in Schoolcraft County (somewhere in Michigan). Really pretty, and lots of land for sale!! (Someday I want to have a summer cabin on the lake!!!!)

The Mackinac Bridge is the longest bridge in the US over freshwater (maybe the longest in the world, I can't remember...)


The Grand Hotel from our ferry (there was a window so the picture isn't great)

Views from our hotel room's balcony



The Grand up close--the Grand is the largest summer resort in the world

me & Mike

me & Mike on the tandem bike

Arch Rock--we didn't stay long at this point, some really stupid people were throwing rocks down from the top, so we quickly rode out of there!

Fort Holmes, highest point above sea level on island