Good night and big balls...

In our household Tuesday night has taken on a whole new level of excitement! WIPEOUT is our new favorite show. The boys LOVE it! If you haven't seen it the premise is to basically take a mix of "average" people and put them through an insanely difficult obstacle course. They weed them out through different levels and the ultimate winner will get $50,000.
This is Jr. High school humor at it's finest!

Sale at the store!

There's a BIG SALE over at the store this week!! EVERYTHING, including new arrivals and kits, is 5-55% off. So head on over and get some fun new supplies to get crafting with!

Hail Twitter

This made me laugh so hard. I know "several" people who are WAY to into twitter... :) My favorite line. "I might as well talk to people in real life. Do you know how tiring that is?" CLASSIC!! Watch it start to finish. If you are a geek, or love a geek it will make you laugh.

New tunes and love letters...

Every so often I get really nostalgic for days gone by. I came across a bunch of mellow old 70's songs that remind me of being 5 and riding in the car, so I decided to post them up. Enjoy, or put it on mute if that's not your thing... LOL!
So I did this LO today rather quickly but I'm happy with how it turned out. I used Pink Paislee papers, a few "in stitch" buttons, some American crafts hearts and felt Thickers, and Making Memories tiny alphas.


TFL...and have a good weekend!

A new week...

We had such a great last couple of weeks. We really enjoyed Jason's vacation time. He had 2 weeks off and we went to SF for the night and then we went to Six Flags one day as well. We also got some home projects well underway which we can easily complete over the next few weeks.
Re-painting our bedroom and framing the windows as well as adding crown molding. And then we also want to repaint our front porch rail and switch out our fixtures. Right now we have the sort of recessed overhead lights out there and a year ago I bought some that hang down, so my goal is by the end of August/early Sept. to have all those things crossed off my to do list. There really isn't a hurry, I would just like to get it done... :)

So soccer season is here!! Jason is going to coach the twins team (The Knights) this year. They are so excited. Tonight is the first team meeting and they are wearing their uniforms to the pizza place...pretty cute!


My firend Michelle passed along a very nice award to me called the “Brilliante Webblog Award“. Thanks Michelle!!
Here are the Award Rules:
1. The winner can take the logo
2. Place a link to the person that sent you the award
3. Give the Award to at least 7 other Scrapbooking-Blogs, which by its currency,the issues of choice and for their designs are especially noteworthy
4. Put a link to these sites on your Blog.
5. Write a comment on their Blogs that they’ve won an Award.

So I would like to pass this along to my frineds Greta, Elizabeth, Simone, Michele, Jenn, Sasha, and Kerttu! You guys are all awesome and I always look forward to checking out your blogs!

Now, if you have time you really need to get over to the challenge site and join in! This is my favorite challenge ever! Seriously, GO NOW!! :)

Dance like no one is watching!

I did this one using papers from the Picnic basket kit! I also added some Melissa Frances lace, a MME frame, in stitch buttons, some SW chipboard and those fun Cosmo letters. So the paper under my journaling block is a Jenni Bowlin shaped mini paper and I liked it, but I wanted it to pop, so I decided to paint it that orange and I'm really happy with the result.

Our little SF jaunt...

The family packed up last week for a little spur of the moment trek over to San Francisco. It's only about an hour and a half away so it's really not much work getting there and we can get there and back on less than a tank of gas so it was a perfect idea. Plus I figured out we had almost enough points for a free room in Union Square through our Hilton card, so I shelled out a little extra money to purchase our necessary points and voila, a 4 star room in the heart of the city for the price of a Best Western in Fresno...HEHE. I shall start off our photo tour with the necessary Cable Car shot!

Our first stop was the exploratorium. It was really fun but pretty crowded for a Wednesday. Lot's of summer camp people I guess, and a lot of tourists. So we stayed and played for a few hours and then we went back to our hotel.





We checked in and got settled and then we headed out for Fisherman's Wharf. Apparently both Jason and I thought the other had the camera and neither of us did, so no photo's from our night of walking around, eating at Aliotto's, or hitting Ghiradelli Square.
The next morning we got up and went to Union Square, which was a block from our hotel. We went to Macy's and up top is the Cheesecake Factory where we had an early lunch. Then we walked around a bit and ended up buying books at Borders. We had an appointment in Brisbane to keep at 2 so we took off from the city about 1. it was a really fun little getaway! And the kids loved the change of scenery and pace of life.