This past weekend my scrapbooking girlfriends and I held our own retreat. Rather than paying $150+ for a weekend we decided to have one for $30 at my friend, Anna's house. We all arrived at Anna's around noon on Friday including Stephanie, who came from Pocatello just for the event. We'll just say that our weekend started of with a bang. Just as we were all getting settled with our lunch we heard a frantic knock at the door and our friend Debbie burst in the door to let us know that the house across the street was on fire. We all ran to the door and this is what we saw.
We could feel the heat from the fire and as Anna desperately tried to get a hold of her neighbor to notify her house was on fire. While we all stared in shock there was a huge explosion that we are guessing that it was from the car that was parked inside the garage. We were all so startled that I think we each stepped back from the door. Our next few hours rather than scrapbooking were filled with watching in shock as this family's home was destroyed. Thankfully all of the family got out safely and without injury. My heart is heavy and still swirling from all of the emotion that filled me through the event.
We did eventually have to move on with the weekend and as best we could and try to leave the chaos outside. After a couple of hours back in our "retreat" environment we were able to get into the groove of all of the scrapbooking fun. We had wonderful meals and more junk food soda than any of us really needed, but we needed the fuel to keep us going. I had so much fun with all of the girls and it was fun to have a weekend with out the hubbies and kids, even though I know they were all greatly missed. We had prizes and gave each other challenges to keep things going and interesting. We all took turns wearing the pipe-cleaner crown when we would finish pages. What a fun weekend filled with laughter, sleeplesness and lots of other emotion...definitely one that I will never forget.
Sunday, September 28, 2008
Scrapbook Retreat
Angie proudly wearing the coveted crown
Lots of Yummy Food
Thursday, July 31, 2008
Scrapbook Weekend!
Since Matt was on a scout backpacking on our anniversary (with my permission) I decided to invite Steph for the scrapbook weekend we have been talking about having for years now.
Steph and Matt's Mom came over on Wednesday night and we cropped all weekend, when we were not shopping, yard saleing, eating, sleeping and taking care of kids.... Needless to say we ended up doing more other things on our "Scrapbook weekend" then scrapbooking. It was a good thing that Mom came, because she helped out with the kids a ton. We had such a blast though! 
Some of the pages that I did over the weekend. I had fun putting extra detail then I normally would into some of my pages.
Monday, June 16, 2008
Father's Day
Each Father's Day since Bailee was born I have done a picture frame for Matt with pictures of Bailee and either her hand or foot print. This year I had to expand with the addition of Owen. I have been having a lot of fun with Mod Podge lately and had so much fun re-doing this old frame that we bought at a yard sale a few years ago. This is the first time there have been any pictures in it. I love how it turned out and I hope that it puts a smile on Matt's face when he needs it at work. We love him! He is such a great Dad and husband!
This year we went to my Mom's house for dinner. We had a great time visiting with her and GG. We also gave Matt a new lightweight shirt for hiking and backpacking. It will be so great for our backpacking trip in a few weeks. He is going to be styling in all of his new gear. (over the the past 7 months he has gotten new shoes, socks, pants, pack and now a new shirt.) Everything came at different times and when he put it all on together we noticed that it all matches too. Matt will be the first to tell everyone that he is the picture taker in our house, it must be true because I didn't take one of him in all of his gear on Fathers Day.
