Happy Memorial Day!

Happy Memorial Day! I hope everyone had nice weather this weekend. Our weather was gorgeous! Beach Weather!

It's a perfect day for doggie beach, and fun and games in the sand!

Jena is getting to be a real Frisbee dog!

Hmmm... a swimming dog?

YEP! A SWIMMING DOG!

Good girl, Jena!

This is what FUN looks like! LOL!

I hope everyone had a fun Memorial Day. Three day weekends seem to go by so FAST. It's back to work tomorrow...

Card Share..

My niece graduated from college and we got the cutest graduation party invitations from my cousin. I couldn't resist those great colors! So I cut up the invitation and created a quick and easy "Happy Graduation" card set.

Here is a closeup of the card. The stamp set is from my friend, Mary. It says "Follow your dreams..."

And the stamp for the inside of the card makes me LOL!

Congratulations, Karin!

It's Card Kit Time!!!

I'm so blessed to have found a great group of ladies online to play with! This card kit club has been so much fun! We have already completed a round of fun and have just started around again. This month, Beth shared a wonderful kit stuffed full of Berry Goodness! Thank-you, Beth!

In the past, we have been so BAD at taking pictures of our card kit before cutting into it. (I just get so excited when the kit comes in the mail) We decided to have the hostess of the month take the picture for everyone. So, here is the kit that Beth sent to us (picture taken by Beth):

The first thing that caught my eye was that big strawberry stamp. I just knew that's what I wanted to use first! I got out my Copics and colored it:

Next, all those cute embellies were just screaming "CLUSTER ME!" So, cluster I did! And I created this card using one of the cute BERRY sentiments. I added a little strip of red paper (I think this might have been left over from Mary's kit)to add a little color POP!

I just had to use this next sentiment. It's that time of year when I need graduation cards, and this is such a cute sentiment for congratulations! I needed something to make the fussy cut "berry" stand out, so I added a strip of aqua paper which again was from Mary's kit last month. (Don't you just love it when things are on hand, when you don't clean up, lol!)

I LOVE the uniqueness of round cards and was excited to use the tag image to create this FUN card! I got my Copics out again and colored away!

Thanks for stopping by, now go checkout the BERRY goodness from the other ladies in the group!

Beth

Mara

Mary

Happy Mother's Day!!!

I wish all the Mother's out there a Happy Mother's Day. My family is making me feel very special and blessed this morning.

Look what Cheryl made for me... I just LOVE it!! She is the SWEETEST and talented too, hehehe... I'm going to frame this one for my scrap room!

Chris made me a new blog header.. with this message:

Happy Mother's Day Mom <33333

I made you this blog header. I didn't think that port-o-potties matched people places and things that you love very well, so I made you one with people, places, and things that you love <3

I love you <3

That is a lot of pictures! He did a great job picking out things that I LOVE! What a special gift from my SPECIAL guy!

I got these beautiful flowers from Jim. I don't know what I would do without him. He is the BEST!

He also got up early this morning made breakfast, washed my car... AND made heart shaped cookies. The kids appreciated that one too :oD

Did anyone tell you that they love you today? Hi, Jena, love you bunches!

Happy Mother's Day to ALL!!!! Have a WONDERFUL day!

OC Half-Marathon

Today was our 5th race in our 12 races in 2012, AND it was Cheryl's very first half-marathon. We got up at 4:30am to get to the race for a 6:15am start. This is a point to point race... starting from Fashion Island and ending at the Orange County Fairgrounds.

We met up with my friend, Paloma, from work, which was a miracle considering there were 10,000 people running in this race. Look at that sea of people... and that sea of people need a whole fleet of port-o-potties, hahaha! Have you ever seen so many port-o-potties? (blog header)

Well, somthing went wrong with the web site... my stats and Cheryl's stats are missing. We ran together and finished in 2hrs 9 minutes. That's faster than my first half marathon! She ran the whole thing without stopping.

Here's Chris's stats:
Overall: 1353 out of 8708
Men: 930 out of 3472
M 16-19: 15 out of 42
Age/Grade: 53.01%
Place: 2528
Finish: 1:54:20
Pace: 8:44

I told Cheryl that her first half-marathon would be her hardest. She said that she hopes so, because that was really HARD!

Next race: Rock n' Roll San Diego Half-marathon!

National Scrapbook Day

Yesterday was NSD, and today I finished a challenge layout!!!

This layout is for the Unity Sketch Challenge, and the May Challenge at Scrappin' Mojo. The Unity stamps used in this layout are:

Dream Big
11/09 KOM
Time of your Life
...and my favorite stamp set: All About Today

Thanks for stopping by, and Happy National Scrapbook Day!

CR84FN Color Challenge

This is my first time participating in the CR84FN color challenge. The colors this week are pink, aqua, and neutral. The colors are more girlie than I usually use, but I think it came out nice and, uh, girlie. I did add green leaves. After all, leaves must be green ;oD
See more GREAT creations at : CR84FN blog

Friday Friends with Flair

Here is my card for Unity's Friday Friends with Flair. I used the super cute Itty Bitty called Fly Free with Me along with a great sentiment also from Unity (I don't know what set it is from).

See the rest of the wonderful creations starting on the Unity Blog!

Color Run

We thought we were going to have another 90F day, but it stayed cool and overcast... perfect for running!!! The Color Run is our 4th race in our 12 races in 2012 series. Here we are before the race, in the mandatory white T-shirt before the race starts:

There were over 12,000 people running this race! It was HUGE! We started in the 4th wave...

Here we GO! We quickly moved out front of the runners in our wave...

There were 4 color stations... yellow, green, blue, pink. Here's a view of the yellow station from afar:

Here is the pink station close up! LOL!

No, we weren't in that picture. Jim had a hard time picking us out of the 12,000 other people wearing white t-shirts, black shorts, sunglasses, and splattered with paint, lol! Oh wait! Here we are coming into the the finish line!

And here is us after the rainbow of finish line festivities.

Here are a couple of close ups of the new colorful US! Here's Chris. Doesn't he look like he had a GREAT time?

And here's Cheryl. She was so excited about this race that she had trouble sleeping last night! In this picture she thinks that she looks like the Luigi character from Nintendo...

And here we have Jim! He was careful NOT to wear a white shirt. He was so sweet to come out into the madness and take pictures. And for his trouble he now has pink boots.

Color was unavoidable! It was everywhere! From the tops of our heads...

All the way down to our toes...

And everywhere in between, and I mean EVERYWHERE! No place was safe from color!

You are probably wondering about clean-up. It wasn't bad at all... the green was the hardest color to get off. Cheryl had a little panic trying to remove her green mustache. BUT, not worry... Cheryl is now mustache free. This was such a FUN run. Lots of families were running/walking together. I'd recommend this race for a wild time. Here is the website so you can find a Color Run in your area: http://thecolorrun.com

Let me leave you with a 4 second video of the finish line... Yes, we are in there somewhere!

Card Kit Club - April edition

It's the most wonderful time of the month! It's card kit time! This month it was Mary's turn to put together the kit. Look at all this goodness... hand crochet flowers, lace, twine, tulle, fun stamps, and lots of gorgeous PP!

Here is my first card. I just couldn't resist all the pretty paper, so I used it all! Mary sent us some Unity Stamp images. I just LOVE that bicycle.

And look at those flowers! I made a matching envelope for the card before realizing that the card will never fit in there, lol!

Here is my second card... Again I used multiple sheets of the PP, and another Unity stamp. I just love how the colors all go together!

My last project, believe it or not, is a Christmas tag. I'm making one Christmas tag a month to make sure that I have enough to go around when Christmas gets here. Mary sent us a large tag die-cut and a little glassine envelope which were PERFECT. I put them together with some of the cute trims from the kit.

I added a mat board ornament to the pocket made with one of my favorite Christmas stamps by Paula Best.

Thanks for stopping by, now go checkout the inspiration and creative genius of the other ladies in the group!

Beth
Mara
Mary

Sunny Sunday!

The morning started with a 17 mile run. You heard that right! Cheryl and I ran 17 miles this morning! She's following a half-marathon training plan and that is the last long run before the OC Half Marathon. She's ready, and she's going to do GREAT.

Jim got new tires for my bike and is taking it out for a test spin. He's trying to teach Jena to heel to the bike, and only being marginally successful.

YAHOO! New tires! I may take this to work a couple days a week during the summer.

This was supposed to be a picture of Jena, but the camera decided to focus on my roses. Well, I'm going to take a hint from the camera and enjoy our Spring day while the sunshine lasts!

I hope that everyone had a GREAT weekend!