Dallas 1/2 Marathon Baby!!!

It's now something I can cross off my list, although, I'm not really sure it was on my list to begin with.....anyway, somehow it made it on and now it can be crossed off. Whew!! What a rush, and not necessarily in a good way....by the end, seriously I just wanted to be done. In fact, when I saw the finish line, I took off, running faster than I had before because I knew that once I was across that line, then I was done. I could stop. Just get me to that line. I was spent, I had to pee, and I had nothing left to give. My time....not great, but not too bad for my first time ever. 2 hours and 42 minutes...give or take a few seconds. Who does that? Runs for over 2 hours....crazy people do, that's who, and most of these people .....LOVE IT!! Will I ever run a 1/2 marathon again?????? Good question, right now I don't have the answer, but I wouldn't rule it out completely...I mean just look at how happy we look!! We did have a ton of fun too and meeting some pretty dang awesome people. I even got my picture with BILL PHILLIPS, he's a total rock
star!!


Before the marathon. Me, Eme, Mark, and Julie with Bill Phillips. Me, Mark, Lorenza & Cathy



After the race!! I am smiling, because I was done, and didn't die on the side of the road. Hmmm, the Vegas 1/2 is coming up in December, that is plenty of time to consider running again!! :D

Easter in Zion

I highly suggest to anyone out there in blogland, that if you get the chance to visit Zion National Park in Utah to do so. What an amazing, wonderful, peaceful place....a place that is truely touched by God.









My sister and her family came down for the Easter weekend and we stayed in a hotel in Springdale, a really cool place with lots of places for the kids to explore, they even came upon 5-6 deer grazing on the side of the mountain. They were able to get within about 5 feet of the deer.


We hiked up to Emerald Springs, enjoyed the beautiful scenery and enjoyed being together. That's what it's all about!! Life, love, and family.

Loads of Layouts!!!

Well, loads for me, plus I'm so behind in my Design Your Life class that it's not even funny. I'm having a hard time finding pictures to go with the sketches. I will be taking lots of pics this next weekend though as I'm heading to Dallas for a conference and 1/2 marathon, so I'm sure to come back with TONS of pics that will be perfect for these sketches. This class is quite a bit different than my usual scrapping style, but I'm getting a lot of pics on the pages and the clean lines and design is visual pleasing. So, here are some of my LO's based on Cathy Z's DYL class. And yes, I have a TON of pics/LO's of my cute daughter. My son lives in VEgas and it's just me and her.........and she LOVES the camera!!!!

The cutest love topiary ever!!

Isn't this the cutest??? I can't really take credit for the idea, as I found it on someone else's blog, and I can't find that blog again to link to to give her credit. Dang it! She had a really cute blog too.

I did tweak it a little bit, I couldn't find a pail, so I got a flower pot, painted it red, flicked some white paint on it and added the black ribbon around the top. I think it turned out really cute, and I finally have come down off the glue high that I had for a couple days! That is some strong smelling glue. (E6000)

It was kind of a messy project, glitter, glue, and moss everywhere, but it was fun, easy and didn't take too much time. I think it would be fun to have a topiary for every holiday!! Hmmmm, what's next? St. Paddy's day...fun!

Puppy Love and Hot Celebrities

Just a couple of LO's for the Design Your Life class. I'm falling a bit behind, like a full week, but I'm trying.....hopefully I will do a little catching up this weekend. :)

Party in the USA!!

Amber, my former, (sort of ) sister in law took her daughter and my daughter for a day full of makeovers, manicures, lunch at Serendipity, shopping and finally a Miley Cyrus concert. They all had so much fun and I used all the pictures they took to do one of my DYL assignments.

then I used pics of my son to finish the second assignment. I'm kinda falling a little behind in the class, but trying not to get stressed about it. I love it, and I love that it's making me scrap and get some motivation back. I have too much invested in this hobby to just sit and stare at all my supplies. :)

2010-the year of Challenges!!!

I've signed up for an online class by Cathy Z called Design Your Life, it's 12 weeks long, with a several assignments per week. I'm also trying to do a card a day challenge on 2 Peas, I don't think I'll get one a day done, but maybe a couple a week. I've also signed up for the Transformation.com challenge. With this challenge there is a Dallas conference and half marathon in March, my intent is to go, so I'm going to start training for a nice 13.1 mile run! I sure hope that I can keep up with all this and that I didn't take on more than I can handle.


These are my first 3 assignments from the Design Your Life class.




And,my first two cards for the card a day challenge!! I think this will be a great way to stay motivated and to stay challenged......I just hope I don't get overwhelmed!!

I haven't scrapped much in the past couple months, I just don't have the motivation to do much in the creative way. But, here are a couple things that I have managed to squeak out. The card was for a little boy that is suffering from a life threatening illness and this sweet little boy only wanted to receive Christmas cards, well how can you turn that down? So, I sent it on it's way a few weeks ago and only hope that it brightened his day a little bit. I also managed to finish a scrapbook page, this is of my daughter and her friend getting manicures and drinking chocolate from Starbucks....two of lifes greatest pleasures!!