Is it over? Did we survive?

Well, our out-of-town guests came and went. It was a successful weekend, ending with the BBQ at our place. The night before, my Mom watched the girls and Erick and I went to dinner at CPK and then went shopping at Sam's Club for the BBQ. Kind of like a date night? LOL! Anyway, after we got home from that and then running with my Mom to her place so we could pick up her table and chairs that she lent us, it was way too late for me to cook anything. So I did ALL my cooking the day of. Erick was grilling cheeseburgers and hot links as the main dish. But I made 2 big batches of potato salad, 2 big batches of chicken tortellini salad, 2 chocolate cheesecake pies, and a batch of homemade citrus punch. I cooked from 9:30-3pm. Cleaned from 3-4. Got in the shower at 4 and by the time I got out 15 minutes later, guest were arriving (the first being my sister and nephews so I wasn't embarrassed that I was just coming out of the shower at least). But it was pretty much go, go, go from the moment I woke up at 8am straight through until I fell asleep during the guys poker game at 1am. Everyone seemed to have a great time though. It was such a laid back, fun group that it didn't take much to keep 'em happy. Just some good food, some beer and some poker. Easy enough ; ) Here are a few pics:

Erick & Kyla:


Erick & McKenna:


C6M Group shot (l-r: Jason, Bill, Mark, Erick, Chris)


Notice anything different about this one? LOL she insisted:


Erick & Mark flashing metal:


McKenna and her new buddy Amy play baseball:


Bill, Mark, Erick, Stuart:


McKenna and Amy having a tea party:


McKenna exhibiting that ANY party is a party for metal:


And for those who wanted yard pics...

The left side (see that table, my Dad GAVE it to us!! Woohoo! My Dad is the best!)


And the right side (that big black thing is our grill):

Pretty good size for an apartment huh? Didn't my Dad and Cheryl do an awesome job fixing it up? Well, you didn't see before pics but just imagine that it was lined with rotting wood fences, all dead grass, a giant bush that attracted wasps, a deserted garden in the corner and a big ugly palm tree. Oh and TONS of small rocks. Tons.

Here is a pic of my girls enjoying our California sunshine and some dinner:


And just a cute one that I wanted to share:


And this one is for my family. Tell me this kid is not the spitting image of me when I was her age:

Do you see it? I never realized that McKenna had my eyes. Not my eye color but the shape of them. Her face is identical to mine when I was little, isn't it? I never really saw it until I took these pics of her! So crazy!

For anyone else looking at that pic, I realize McKenna looks kind of spooky. LOL! She wanted to pose like a princess so I helped her with her pose. But she was so worried that she would budge and ruin the whole pose that she would NOT allow herself to smile with her mouth. I kept telling her to smile and she would just open her eyes wider and wider. It was pretty funny!

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So there were sales and deals a plenty of a bunch of things lately and Erick wanted to treat me because he's sweet. And maybe because I had to do like, fifty loads of dishes after the BBQ. Could be that. LOL! So here are some cool things I picked up.

Don't you just love how you can buy so many digital products for practically nothing. I love that about digi.

2peas Fonts:



Some of Karen Hunt's new line at SBB:


Designer Digitals goodies:


Digital Design Essentials element packs:


3Scrapateers kits and templates:


Twenty dollars worth of BBW products on sale for $7.56? Cha-ching! Peach was my first Victoria's Secret sent that I got for my 16th birthday. I looooooove peach! But VS discontinued their line! So I was pretty excited to find a good one at BBW:


Half-off at NY&CO? Cha-ching again! I bought two pairs of the Thompson Crop pants, a white halter and this adorable sundress:


So that was fun. I'm pretty sure I won't be able to shop for myself again until, oh, August. We have Father's day, a graduation and a whole mess of birthdays coming up. So I had to stock up I guess ; )

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Well this post has gotten long enough! I'm not gonna post layouts. I did upload four layouts recently that you can see if you click on the gallery blinkie up top. Three of them were for the UDS competition a few weeks ago and one of them was a gift I made for my Grandma back in November. I wasn't able to give it to her until February so I never showed it off online. But by the time I finally gave it to her, I'd forgotten to upload it! So you can see it in my gallery as well.

Question of the day: What was the last movie you saw in the theater? I honestly can't even remember what mine was!! Maybe The Family Stone with my Mom and sister??? Yikes!