Thanksgiving 2012

Hi all!!! Sorry I've been a little quiet. We've been busy with family stuff.

We went over to my mom's house on Tuesday afternoon after Carver got out of school. It was a day earlier than I thought so I was scrambling to get everything ready and not forget something. It was also the day that we needed to pick up all the wreaths people bought from Carver for his school's fundraiser. They were hoping to get $3,000 to fund a new playground set (it's a non-profit Christian preschool) and they got over $11,000!!! How awesome! So anyways, we got everything loaded - in the POURING rain - and headed out of town. I think that extra day made everything more relaxing. Chris was able to duck/goose hunt almost every day.

We had Thanksgiving at my Mom's on Thursday. Then after Carver fell asleep my mom and I got in the car and headed to Yakima (45min away) to go to Walmart and Target. I wouldn't have gone that night if I didn't have a choice. Carver has been talking about how he wants a camo jeep just like Noah's and we just tell him to keep saving his money and he'll be able to get it. Well... I saw that Walmart had a battery operated camo SUV that in all actuality looks like a jeep! So we had to go. Then we got in line for Target. We were only in line for about 20-30min before we got inside the store. We opted not to get a cart, which was a perfect idea. After getting the few things we wanted, we waited in line to pay for AN HOUR AND A HALF!!!! It was crazy. We were both tired and our feet were killing us by the time we paid. We got home around 11:30pm and then Carver woke everyone up at 5:30am. Yay! So we went to Fred Meyer to get socks, mainly. Then we picked up my brother, Jake, and went back down to Yakima to go to Cabelas and the mall.

While we were at the mall, we ran into Carver's preschool teacher! It turns out she grows up in Naches (another small town close to Yakima). Carver got a little confused when he saw her and started crying but got over it quickly. He thought it was pretty cool that Nana and Pops got to meet Miss Erin. :)

After the mall, we came back to Ellensburg and Chris, Carver, Jake and I went to my grandma's for another Thanksgiving with my dad and his wife. We were a little late but it was a good time. After we left there, Chris dropped me off at Starbucks to have coffee with a friend and talk logistics about her baby shower I'm hosting, and Chris and Carver went out to Chris's uncle's house to deliver his wreath. Oh! I totally forgot to give my grandma and dad their wreaths! I got all the way home and realized they were still in my mom's garage. Thanks mom for dropping them off! :) Anyways, it was great catching up with Colleen and we've got a starting point for her baby shower. She's having a little boy in May. :)

Saturday morning, we helped my mom set up their Christmas tree and headed home. We had about 45min at home before we had to be at Chris's parents house for yet another Thanksgiving. Surprisingly, I didn't eat turkey at any of the meals we had. Guess I haven't fully recovered my meat eating from being pregnant. Sunday turned out to be a lazy, relaxing day. We were supposed to set up our Christmas decorations but never got around to it (or today, either, for that matter). Hopefully tomorrow we'll get some of it done.

That's what we did. It was a whirlwind and we're still recovering a little but it was a lot of fun. Hopefully I'll be able to catch up more on other things sometime soon. These dark evenings make me tired way too early.

Happy Black Friday!

Have you noticed that Black Friday has turned into Black Thursday? It's starting to get ridiculous! I could justify starting at Midnight, but 9:00pm? That's pushing it. If I kept my same schedule and went at 6am Friday morning, everything would be gone! So my mom and I will be driving to Yakima (45min away - because there's only a Fred Meyer in Ellensburg) at 8pm after Carver goes to sleep. We'll hit all the big stores (Michaels, Target and Walmart) and then do Fred Meyer on Friday morning. This might make the bulk of shopping less tiring since we'll be breaking it up but it still makes me frustrated. 

Ok, enough ranting. Here's fun card I made using Pink by Design's Black Friday set. The current challenge over on the Pink by Design blog is to use your favorite background. I thought for sure I had the big dots background stamp but I guess I need to go shopping. :) So, my favorite background is big polka dots but my second is dictionary paper. These two sheets are actually the same since it's double sided.

Details:

Studio Calico - Classic Calico

Pink by Design - Black Friday & Just the Ticket

Twine

Don't forget that I will be at 

Meeker Middle School 

Saturday 10-4

4402 Nassau Ave NE

Tacoma, WA 98422 (Browns Point Area)

COUPON:

If you buy a 4x4 Notebook, you will get a card for free. Just tell me about this post. :)

Noel

I wanted a simple easy card and this is just that. It's hard to not try adding things to it but that is exactly why I wanted it to be simple.

Details:

DCWV - Christmas & Winter Stack

Recollections - black

Pink by Design - Small Banners

I'm doing a show this Saturday at 

Meeker Middle School

4402 Nassau Ave NE

Tacoma, WA 98422 (Browns Point Area)

10:00am - 4:00pm

Not only will there be fun crafts, it will be benefiting the school's exchange program to New Zealand!

Warmest Wishes

I'm back! The hole is still there but I moved my desk back to *almost* the same spot so I could get some crafting done. I've been busy making notebooks for a craft show I'm doing this weekend (see all the information below).

I made this super cute card and love how it came together. The colors were exactly what I was thinking. Don't you love when that happens?

Details:

Simply Charmed 3.25"

DCWV - Christmas Combo Stack

Recollections - kraft

Divine twine (the picture didn't really pick it up - it's down at the bottom)

Gems

Pink by Design - Winter Fun

I'm doing a show this Saturday at 

Meeker Middle School

4402 Nassau Ave NE

Tacoma, WA 98422 (Browns Point Area)

10:00am - 4:00pm

Not only will there be fun crafts, it will be benefiting the school's exchange program to New Zealand!

An unexpected pause...

I was sitting in the office on Monday when I heard a GUSH on the other side of the house. I thought that I had left the water running in the sink and it overflowed... I came out to GALLONS of water dumping on top of my Cricut!! I yanked that out of the wall so fast. Then yelled at Carver to grab some towels. He stopped where he was and yelled "ACTIONS STATIONS TEAM!!!!" (It's from Bob the Builder). I called Chris and he came home to help. I went through ten bath towels before he got back. The kicker was that it was a nice, sunny day. It had poured the night before though. So when Chris got home, he pulled the rest of the ceiling tiles down and there was STILL more water collected in the plastic holding the moldy insulation up. Yes, I said moldy. So gross!!! We opened the window and he threw it all out into the yard so he could get a better look at what was going on. He found a rusted spot in the roof which he thinks he has fixed. But... I'm too worried to move anything back to where it goes. So everything is a mess and out of place. BUT, my Cricut works!!!! I'm so thankful that it wasn't ruined. 

Here's how it looks right now.

I have a party at my house this weekend (31 Gifts, if anyone wants/needs anything... hint hint!) so I have to do something before then. So, needless to say, I doubt I'll be doing much crafting before next week. I'm going to a scrapbook expo on Saturday so I'll try to post all my goods. :)

Joy

Super cute card! Love it!

Details:

DCWV - Christmas & Winter Stack

Recollections - black

Pink by Design - Small Banners

Snowflakes

I wanted a fun and simple Christmas/winter card and found this snowflake punch in my stash.

Details:

Value Pack - red

Recollections - kraft

Fiskars Snowflake punch

Pink by Design - Christmas Wishes