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Hi, It's me still on my way to Woodsfield, OH. Today, I'm coming at you from the middle of Arizona, just past Sedona.



It's a beautiful area!

Mammoth Layouts

I have been scrapping... I just haven't been posting. Here are a couple of my new layouts using photos from Mammoth. The paper and embellies used on both these layouts are from a cute kit sent to me by my friend Mary. She assumed that I didn't have any snow scrappy stuff for my Mammoth photos, and she was right! Thanks for the fun goodies Mary!

High School sports report

Chris ran the 3200m (2 mile) last night in 11min 45sec, in a head to head meet against Tesoro. It's his personal record (since he hasn't run the 3200m before). He came in 2nd for Capo Frosh/Soph; 3rd overall Frosh/Soph. All the teams run at the same time. Varsity run with regular jerseys. Junior Varisty has their shirts on backwards, and Frosh/Soph runs with a red ribbon tied to their jersey. In this picture you can see Chris right in there with the Junior Varsity.



Cheryl's team played Aliso Viejo at home, losing 2-7. She was not expected to play because of her sprained ankle, but she went in for a while and saved a goal! Her ankle is feeling much better. She's hoping not to reinjure it before the Toyota Soccer College Showcase next month.

Happy Easter!!!

This is the earliest Easter we will see in our lifetime, and it was so early that it took us by surprise. We forgot to dye eggs, and bake cookies, but we did remember to celebrate the day and remember the true meaning of Easter. After our usual Sunday morning we headed to the market, so I could get ingredients for a layered taco dip and chips.

Then we headed to Mima's house... taco dip in hand. My sister-in-law has a big family/extended family. There is always lots of people, lots of laughter, and lots of fun! The day was beautiful, well over 90F (very hot for mid-March). Hot enough to melt the chocolate eggs in the traditional Easter egg hunt. No one there is every too old to hunt Easter eggs at Mima's. Then we had a great dinner, and even better dessert! My brother brought his water slide and the little kids slid for a while. The bigger kids had more sense... that water was COLD! After the water sliding was over all the kids got into the action bouncing, sliding, and wrestling on the dry slide. They all had a blast!

I hope everyone had a very happy Easter!

My Hubby at CHA

This is my friend at CHA. She's standing next to a layout of my hubby done for the show by Stayce DeWid (Creative Imaginations).







The story: Stayce DeWid was commissioned by Creative Imaginations to create two layouts for CHA using the new "Old Guys Rule" surfing line. She needed pictures. She contacted my friend, who contacted me (she knows my hubby is an old guy who surfs :lol: ) and I sent some photos to Stayce. It's so exciting to have a layout done by a professional. She said that she would send me the layout when Creative Imaginations is finished with it.

My hubby's reply to all this attention was:
"Oh, great! Now I'm known throught the scapping world as an Old Guy!" LOL!

High School Sports

Well, we switch from a weekend of soccer to a week of track and lacrosse.

Chris had his first track meet this week against Dana Hills High School, at Dana Hills. His events were the 1600m (one mile), and the 800m (half mile). Dana Hills is a FAST team. Even the cross country team that they raced last fall, was really really fast. Dana Hills swept the meet. Chris finished the mile in 5 minutes 17 seconds, that put him in the middle of the group. He's happy. 5 minutes 17 seconds is a new personal best for him. He came in 4th to last in the 800m. He said he was too tired after running the mile.


Cheryl's team played Dana Hills High School at home, and since I'm the team photographer, I was at the Lacrosse game. Jim went to the track meet and took video, so I could see the race too. Capo beat Dana Hills 10-7! So even though Dana Hills won the track meet, they lost the Lacrosse game.

Soccer weekend

It's the first weekend of Spring soccer... sorry Papa, we forgot to let you know the game times.


Chris's team played two games. They lost Saturday to Lake Forest, 5-0? or something like that... I kind of lost count after about 3 or 4. Sunday was much better. They tied the Ladera Ranch team 2-2, with a header in the last 30 seconds of the game. Their performance from the weekend has pushed them into the higher bracket for pool play (I'm not really sure how they figured that one out).

Cheryl had her first tournament of the season.

They won their first game by forfit. The other team couldn't field a whole team and dropped out of the tournament. They won their second game 3-1. Cheryl's still playing striker, scored the first goal of the season, and assisted the other two!... then she stepped in a sprinkler hole and twisted her ankle AGAIN! She said it's not too bad and should be better by the end of the week. The team went on to lose their third game 0-2.

TallyScrapper Challenge

It's anniversary weekend at TallyScrapper, and we are playing a little game. We are supposed to challenge the person who posts above us in the MB to do a layout with certain parameters.

I challenged LauraJean to do a layout using any song title from the album "Colour by Numbers" by Boy George and the Culture Club. She's an 80's music fan.

My challenge was issued by Charlee. I had to use a plain sheet of cardstock and a pen to create a layout with the word PROSPERITY in the title. No other embellies allowed. Here is my layout using a plain sheet of aqua colored cardstock, a pen, and the title: May Blessings and Prosperity be Yours... Ps. 128:2

13.3 MILES!!!

I had to try it! I had to know! and I did it! I ran 13.3 miles today. Now I know for sure that I can finish a half-marathon.



I strapped on my son's GPS watch and went running through Dana Point Harbor; from the Marine Institute to the end of Doheney State Beach, over the bridge around the island, between the boats, through the shopping villages, and past all the people sitting outside having lunch. It took me 2 hours and 23 minutes to finish my random course. I'm not too disappointed with the time, I'm just so happy that I made it!

Progress Map

I didn't make much progress the last couple weeks... I'm still out in the Arizona desert:

Thank-you Cards

Here are what my son's thank-you cards look like:



And look who made them... Yup! He made his own thank-you cards... pretty good, huh?