Gettin' Back In The Groove

I hope you all had a wonderful weekend.  We certainly did.  We took a MUCH deserved trip with my mom and dad in the "Lake House" to Tawas Michigan.  It's been years since we've camped in an RV or 5th wheel trailer.  After dad's diagnosis, we've all been looking forward to this trip (and a trip to Aruba sometime soon).

While I don't have any projects to share with you today, I thought I'd share some photos that we took this weekend.  We took a bunch, but I'll just share a few with you.

These few are when we got to our campsite and were getting things set up. 

 My wonderful hubby, ducking before we put the awning up - yep, we're a bunch of shorties and my hubby is 6'5" or so.

This was the Tawas Point Lighthouse - just up the beach from where we stayed this weekend. Glen and I walked the beach on Friday afternoon once we got to the park and got set up.

A different angle of the light house

We just love the sunset photos we too (I must have snapped 30 photos and they're all just gorgeous).  It's hard to pick our favorite, but I think this one is pretty close to our favorite.  :)  This was one of my favorite from Saturday evening.  That spot on the beach - it's actually the sun reflecting - not a bon fire.  Gorgeous, huh?

We too more photos today, but on mom and dad's camera, so hopefully next weekend I'll have a few of those.  We walked the beach on the opposite side of the point, actually went up to the light house, took some photos and just had a nice morning wrapping up a terrific weekend.

I'll be back a bit later - there's lots of great things going on today that I don't want you to miss.

Happy Hauntin' n' Craftin' Too!

Happy Monday!!!

Whew, how is it weekends go SOOOOOOOOOOOOOO FFFFFFFAST - even when it's a 3 day weekend??

Friday we spent the day at my folks.  They had their "Lake House" pullin' truck delivered.  Now all we need to have done is the hitch installed and they're good to go where ever the wind takes them!  Or course, there were a ton more veggies we picked - about 5 pounds of beans and about 7 or 8 pounds of roma tomatoes (along with green onions and peppers).  Friday night was a late night - at 12:30 am I was baking a HOMEMADE Carrot Cake for my mom's birthday on Saturday and at 1:30 my hubby was cleaning the 9 pounds of ribs we planned to dine on Saturday evening with friends and family while cheering on the Maize and Blue.
We cheered them on all right - we cheered them on to a BIG win over the whining Irish. What a great game! We got to enjoy my niece and nephew Saturday too! Colin was so fun honking the horn with Uncle Glen when Michigan scored.

My Sweet Sucky-Thumb Niece

This is what we call "EXTREME BABY CLOSE-UP" at our house!!

My dad enjoyed the game, mom is now making super cute little felted pumpkins (I'll be sure to take a photo and show you.....yep, will be makin' some of those soon!).  Mom K got to snuggle with Natalie, Glen got to BBQ with his bro and I got to make twice baked potatoes that were super yummy with the help of Colin.  We had YUMMY viddles, great company.  After everyone left and we made our way through four loads of dishes, we had a few beverages with our neighbors - always a good laughin' time.

Sunday, Amy, Susan and the kiddos and I had a birthday lunch planned. We enjoyed lunch on the patio at Bar Louie (SUPER YUMMY Tuscan Chicken Pasta - mmmmmmmm!) and then played on the oversized food with the kids. It was the perfect way to wrap up a weekend - but it went WAY TOO FAST!!

My ROCKSTAR nephew at lunch on Sunday

A Happy Girl

Spending time with the Raz kiddos and mama was kind of bittersweet - we learned late last week that they are moving to California.  Daddy Raz was offered a terrific job opportunity, so the fam is packin' up and headed to Cali.  Of couse we're very sad to see them moving (especially THAT far away), but heck, it gives us a REASON to FINALLY visit California (hubby and I have never been).  So for now, we're spendin' as much time as we can with the kids and enjoying them here.

So, with all the entertaining, cooking, lunching, applesauce making and veggie pickin', you can understand why I haven't made it to my studio since Thursday......I'm hoping tonight after a little peach cannin' I can get a little scrappy therapy in.  And maybe, just maybe I can share a little somethin' crafty with you tomorrow?!  LOL

P.S.  Can I tell you I made the yummiest homemade applesauce last night - on a whim I picked up "Pink Lady" Apples the other day when I went to the grocery store.  Can you say AMAZING?!  If you've never tried them before - I STRONG recommend it!!  :)

Weekend Wrap Up

I hope this finds everyone having had a lovely weekend! Our weekend was great. I was able to get my massage on Saturday morning that my wonderful Hubby got me for Christmas.

I don't have a paper craft photo for today, I've spent the last 2 days cutting chipboard albums. I hope to have some photos for you tomorrow.
However, I do have a little culinary photo for you - this was dinner tonight. My hubby is a Master Griller and tonight's dinner was nothing short of fantastic.
We made grilled pizza from scratch - right down to the pizza dough!! My favorite - Garlic Butter Crust, BBQ Chicken with roasted roma tomatoes, garlic & onion. YUMMO!!!
I hope you all had a lovely weekend. I hope to be back tomorrow with some crafty stuff!
Happy Craftin'!
Min

I'm STOKED!

Not only is it Friday, but last night we got a new printer - WOO HOO!

Not sure about all of you, but BOY was this 'short' week LLLLLLLOOOOOONNNNNNGGG!!!

This weekend includes a few family chipboard albums I neet to get working on this weekend in between projects we've got planned around the house as well as joining my friend Amy for her Taste of Home party she's having on Saturday.

We'll likely be busy, but hopefully we don't have to go outside too much. While it's closing in on 40* today, we're suppoed to be back down to the single digit and 0 tonight, only a high of 15* tomorrow. Brrrrrr! Prefect for inside 'stuff'.

Here's another layout from Monday I thought I'd share. This was our Easter Egg decorating from 2007 (yep, I'm that far behind and MORE!!!)The printed paper I think is some older Doodlebug that I had in my stash - Black, Yellow and Green are cardstock from the stash. Bunny is from the Paper Dolls Card, photo corner is from Jasmine, Filmstrip with the photo in it I think is from Mickey & friends and the title, Hmmm, I think it's Alphalicious, but I could be wrong. Little O easter eggs are from DoodleCharms.

Thanks for looking - I hope you have a super productive & crafty weekend!

Min