Birthday Surprise!!

 So July 24th I turned 30, yes I'm still in shock! Mine and Kaiden's birthdays are only four days apart, and since we had his party, I didn't expect much for mine. Little did I know my hubby and two best friends were planning a weekend getaway to Daytona for me! My hubby told me about an hour before we left and I had to get packed and dressed within that hour! Here are a few pics from our weekend.

They surprised me at the door, when I thought it was just me and Shane going!

View from our suite, we were right on the beach!

The gang in the water, and me taking a pic from my towel ;)

The Falls

  Hey Everyone, Happy hump day! Here is a quick 

page I made of Kaiden from our trip to Niagara Falls in June. I have hundreds of pics, so I'm pretty sure I will be doing some more travel layouts soon. :) have a great week!

London

  

Happy Thursday! Here is a page I did using 

 October Afternoon's Boarding Pass collection. I've been hoarding um holding on to it for a little while. Shane travels for work, and he went to London earlier this year. I have tons of pics from his trip and I'm working on a two pager as well. I am still planning on adding embellishments to this, but it won't be anytime soon I'm sure! Have a great weekend!

I was Featured!

Good morning everyone! Hope you all had a great weekend. What an awesome jam-packed weekend I had. On Saturdays I usually take Jenny to swimming lessons, and this Saturday Kaiden started lessons as well. I THOUGHT he would be fine, since he is always asking to ""swim with sissie." So he gets there, and goes in just fine, then as he gets into the pool...the screaming started, and continued for the entire lesson! Lol, what an experience for those other kids. I think he will need a few more of those crying sessions before he will be fine. After swimming I headed over to Paper Niche to work on some wedding invites for my cousin, and Wendy Vecchi was teaching classes. I had the opportunity to take an amazing class with her Friday night, and now I am officially hooked on all things inky :). Anyways, getting to point of this post, I was on Facebook scrolling through my newsfeed, and recognized a picture, and realized it was a layout of mine! Trinity Paper Arts featured a layout I had posted to their wall, on their blog!! I couldn't be more ecstatic about my first time being featured!  You can read the post here, and leave a comment too ;). Here is a peek of my layout. Oh I almost forgot, after church on Sunday I spent the entire afternoon at a car dealership, and came home with a brand new car!!! So totally over the moon about it, this was our first new car purchase :). Well I hope you have a great week. I will be back soon, to post pics from my amazing class with Wendy!

Chichen Itza

Hope you all are having a great week, we're halfway to another weekend, woot!! This is my second page I've done from our Anniversary getaway. We visited the pyramids at Chichen Itza while we were in Mexico, what an awesome experience! School is crazy busy this semester, not really sure how I'm managing so well, but I sure hope it continues.

Destination: Adventure

I'm back to share another layout I had put together sometime around the holidays. These pics are from our 10 year anniversary vacation to Mexico in November 11'. I used Teresa Collins travelogue line and lots of brown and kraft. I've got over 500 pictures to scrap from that trip (out of 1200!) and I managed to scrap a whole 4! Will be back soon to share the other layout. Hope you all have a wonderful week!

A New York Minute...

was exactly what this past weekend was for me. Jenny, my mom, and I took a quick (36 hours) trip to NY to spend some time with our family. It had been over two years since we had gone back for just family time, instead of funerals, like the past two times. We definitely made the most of our short visit there, spent lots of time with family, eating, shopping, laughing, etc. It was such a wonderful weekend, and I hope to get back there soon, hopefully for longer this time!

Playing Catch up!

Wow, where has August gone? I can't believe we're almost half way through September! I've had so much going on, and just trying to get adjusted to the new school schedule is a feat all on it's own. I was so ready for September, to just be home and relaxing on the weekends, lol, but that's out the window. We had family in town last weekend, which was nice, but tiring, and this weekend is another full one with a baby shower, and more out of town guests. But I'm not complaining because, I'm so thankful for all I have, and love being able to see and spend time with everyone. Anyways, I hope you all are having a wonderful weekend. A few pics before I go, of Jen's first day of school, and a quick altered tag I made, also our trip to Harry Potter a few weeks back. See you next time!

Finding my groove

Hi all, How are you? I hope you're all doing well. I'm doing ok, just trying to settle in after vacation. Why is it that we always need a vacation from our vacation? Things always seem to be hectic and crazy, and it takes a while to finally find your groove again. Well that's where I'm at right now, along with doing too many things as usual. I'm also trying to sign up for school this summer, what am I thinking?! It's crazy how time flies, and how off of my life plan I am! But I guess as long as I keep working towards it, it doesn't matter how long it takes. Well scrapbooking has been the last thing on my to do list, as it always is, but I'm hoping to squeeze in a layout this week. Until next time, thanks for stopping by, have a great day!

The kiddos with a pile of yummy coconuts in Guyana.

Lol, this is about the closest I got to both of them looking!