Wednesday, June 21, 2006

Summer Times





Had a great time in springfield this past week. Enjoyed swimming with the kids and getting to see everyone. Always wish I could stay longer. Tysha and I have picked out the stuff for my wedding scrapbook and I think we are both very excited about that. Ty you will have to wait for me to get moved to go through the pictures. I am not sure I will have time in the next two weeks to get to that.
After I went to springfield I was able to spend a few days in KC with Keil and Dad. Boy, did we have a great time. I am sure all of you have seen those shows on TLC, well we "moved that bus" on Keil's house. The three of us completely redid his back living space. I have sent omost of you pictures already, but it has turn into "The Lounge" so on days where Keil is missing I would check The Lounge first since there is something for him to do in there all day.
I thought everyone would get a kick out of our toolbelt diva and his co host working out under the shows tent while cutting wood. And just like on those shows we had our share of bloopers. Of course the measurments were off,not just one or two, but one or two walls! Then just to get a work out Keil decided to drill holes in all the framing to run cable to the other wall before we put up the bead board, when all he had to do was run it along the ground where there were gaps between the board and the wall. I proceede to paint myself more than the cabinets or doors and to top it off we didn't check the new outlets we installed so when we went to use them once everything was nailed into place, they didn't work and we had to pull off three panels. But the dessert of all desserts was the fact that we decided to arrange the funiture in a way that would put the tv on a wall with no outlets and no cable. I guess Keil's holes should have gone the other way!!!! We enjoyed each other and had several good laughs (of course at the expense of each other). Keil's place looks great and I finally got back to see my husband who was missing me emmensly.
Once I gt back to town, I had just a few short hours with Carleton and then it was up the hill for family time with his parents and cousins. We again had a great time by bike riding and golfing. Several good stories there too. We got chased by an ELK. Okay maybe not chased, but he was right there and very big and he started to run, but it was the other way from us.
We have 16 days until we move from georgus Colorado and off to the hot! We can't wait. -Kase

Tuesday, June 06, 2006

Weekend Scrappin!





















I wanted to tell Kace that I finally got Photoshop Elements 4 - so we could play & edit photos, however, don't really know how to use it yet so that might be a no go.

Things to think about for this album:
1. What are you really making this album for? Are you wanting to scrap all the photos? Are you wanting to scrap your 10 to 20 favorite photos? (Here's maybe another thought: I haven't done our "wedding" album yet, but I did do a 8x8 album called, "Our Story: How We Met, Married & Spent Our First Year." The "married" section has my favorite wedding picture and then memories and then on the next page is Rob's favorite picture and memories.)

2. What size of an album do you want?

3. What sort of format, if any, are you going to use? Such as do you want to do each page differently in order, do you want to make a table of contents with each section (ceremony, reception...) and then to begin each of these sections there is a page with the "fillers" after?

4. Color Scheme? if any? Since I attended the wedding, I have always thought that using this line of paper would be great: Sublime from Basic Grey - sampling up top.
(If you think they are totally too loud, no problem. We can work with whatever :)

Can't wait to scrap and chat!

Saturday, June 03, 2006

Tara passing through





Tara came through on her way to Vegas and I was asleep for two days after she left! I am no longer in shape to be going out all night at the bars. We all had a great time and made some memories and laughed alot. Wish she could've stayed longer, but I think she is going to come back for the 4th of July. We tookthe train in downtown and you would think Tara was 4 years old. I think she like the train just as muc as Logan did when he was here last year! Missed the train coming home so had to hang out for about a hlf an hour for the next one. That is what these pics are from.

The other pics are her getting ready to drive on to Vegas. She has her suit on so she can get a tan while driving, however it is hard to get a tan when it is snowing outside! I guess Utah gave her a little surprise on her way home.

Friday, June 02, 2006

Interesting Sites


Random, but worth checking out.

I've posted about Post Secret and 52 Projects, but just a reminder because I really love these sites! Check the side bar for their links too.

From one of the many blogs I read all the time, funky bracelets from Freda La. I thought these might be cool even for guys. Rob is wanting a bracelet of some sort. But he hasn't seen these yet and given the approval...we'll see. You can choose your color and your "affirmation."

The Jumpstart organization focuses on students and personal financial management. They have a "Reality Check" online questionaire that lets students, or whoever, enter in information like what kind of car they want to have and more on their "dream life." Then they get a reality check to see what kind of job they'll need to support this "dream life." Pretty funny and shockingly accurate.