Vacation Update!

Here we are - Fort Walton is really nice this time of year. The weather has been in hte high 80s/low 90s. No rain since the little showers on Sunday.












We worried about B (and his not wanting to get into the big waters - there are animals in there!!). On Saturday night we bought a body boards (giant kick board). We didn't even take it down on Sunday.



On Monday, the water was so calm - it was like a lake. We took the body board out as a family. We were one of about eight families in the immediate area. BP was talking big about the third grader wearing floaties.....I told him that was big talk coming from a boy on a body board that wouldn't let his mom let go. With that: BP said, "Then Let Go!!!" He has not stopped since then.

This morning, I got up and had breakfast before 7:00. BP was already awake, playing Nintendo in his bed - such a vacation thing. Mike got up and started getting ready to go to the beach aroud 8:30. With that, I said something about going back to bed. I managed to get out of the bed aroud 10:30.

By the time I got to the water, this is what I found......

....followed by this.....

New Slideshow

Hi guys -

A couple of months ago I spent a weekend cropping with some friends. I love going to crops but I find I always, always, always take too much stuff with me. So, to combat that issue I decided to take a SINGLE project - albeit a biggie. I had promised a friend I would make an album of the cadid shots from her daughter's wedding (11-08). I did this for the other daughter about a year ago.

Well, I traveled with very little that weekend and this is what I have to show for it. I used about 4-5 packs of cardstock from CTMH (Cocoa, Taffy, and Sweet Leaf, 5 loose sheets of the prettiest copper/bronze paper I have ever seen, and 1/2 - 1 pack of white and colonial cardstock).

I spent the first night random stamping paper. Then, I used a couple of the xx pages from 1 pack type layouts that are shared on the CTMH bulletin board.

By keeping the colors consistent and limiting the embellishments, this was a pretty fast project. Hope you enjoy!

New Laptop

Well, in the last eight hours I have purchased a new laptop and gotten almost everything back like I want it. Still working on getting one more piece of software authorized to the new machine and getting some files back where I can get to them.

We made pizza tonight for dinner. We used a premade pizza crust. Lightly brushed it with EVOO - baked in a 450 oven for 3 minutes. Then, topped it with fresh spinach, tomato/pesto mixture, proscuitto, and mozzarella cheese. YUM!!

Bases loaded at the Trav's Game

Cool breezes, nachos, ice cream, and ahead in the game. Good times!