Summer Tubing !! What Fun!!

This was so much fun- it is new to Canaan Valley and actually there are only 5 in the United States. They do not have a lift as of yet, so we definitely got our exercise walking up that hill for 2 hours. The teenagers were the first to poop out. It's $10 for a 2 hour session ~ most people don't last more than 45 minutes, so after the first hour we pretty much had the place to ourselves . The run was about the length of a football field. What a BLAST!!

Almost Heaven, West Virginia

You can say anything you want about West Virginia, but this is a REAL vacation! I have been to Europe and the Caribbean, but this is by far my favorite. Sometimes we forget what's in our own backyard! We just keep going back here again and again because it is just soooo relaxing! I REALLY did not want to leave!

Scrap Instructor gone wild!!!

Hey everyone, I will soon be teaching at Storytellers Scrapbooking in Belcamp. I am sooooo excited about this opportunity, because I am an independent instructor, free to teach whatever I can dream up with whatever materials I can get my hands on- Woooo-hooo! One of my first classes is going to be a version of this album, which is held together by skewers - IT IS A LOT OF FUN to make one of these! (Sorry about the pictures being sideways. I'm not great with the computer, but I'm learning!) As soon as I can get some projects to them they will be setting up a gallery for me on their website. Check out their website at: http://www.storytellerscraps.com/ - it is a very clean and easy to navigate website! Please be on the lookout for my gallery and classes. I look forward to seeing everyone!

It's my birthday!

My friend Becky gave this to me this morning for my birthday- isn't it the coolest gift -EVER? I love, love love it! and if that wasn't enough, she filled it with scrapbook stuff !! This just made my day - it will go PERFECT in my scrapbook room!! Thanks again Becky, you know me so well!

Can't wait to leave for vacation on Friday to one of my favorite places, as most of you know... Canaan Valley, West Virginia. I can't wait to take lots of great pictures. Both of the kids are going and some of their friends plus both of Denny's sisters and their family. Should be a BLAST! I can't wait to just R-E-L-A-X and do anything I want or nothing at all. I'm looking forward to horseback riding with Allie again. We leave Fri, but unfortunately have to be back on Tues evening because Allie starts field hockey practice on Wed at 8am- YUK! Denny and I drove her and some of her team members to camp yesterday- almost 500 miles round trip- whew! Too much for one day- that girl has had a busy summer. I am looking forward to just enjoying my family and having nothing else to think about- wooo-hooo!

Allie is home from Africa

Allie is home with 1700 pictures (I've trained her well!) I won't bore you with all of them, but they really are fantastic ~ Take a look!

I'm baaaack!

Wow - again it's been forever since I blogged! It has been a whirlwind month with Allie going to Africa. I definitely overbooked myself, thinking I'd have so much more time- what WAS I thinking? I have run across some cool websites I wanted to mention. One of them is http://www.moo.com/ - they will print up to 100 of your favorite photos in 2-3/4" x 1" (half the size of a business card) with journaling on the back- what a cool gift idea and they come in a plastic box to store them in. I can't wait to try it. they will also print your photos on stickers. Another cool scrapbooking site is http://www.aussiescrapsource.typepad.com/ - definitely some talented scrappers. Well, it's been a heck of a day- we went to Denny's company picnic and our alternator belt broke- luckily Denny is pretty handy and was able to temporarily fix it in the Advanced Auto Parts parking lot, however, I had no power steering or air conditioning to get home and it's an hour drive. I have been able to get to a few thrift stores while Allie was gone (mostly hunting for record albums for my August class) and have made some really cool purchases. My scrap room is really starting to come together and have a look to it other than "total chaos room". Well, I need to get some rest- whew!