Saturday... Shoes & Siteseeing - Awesome!!!

It was a busy Saturday....


First was A~'s soccer class... followed by Sergio taking her over to Soccer Scene for some new shoes, shin guards, and those fancy tall socks (there totally may be an actual name for those things... but my non-athletic self has no idea!). The class is more of a skills class and not a game-playing team, so we didn't have to have all the accoutrements for it. After a good slip and fall, my little girl's knees needed extra protection... hence the impromptu shopping trip!






Second was my lunch of homemade cheese enchiladas, rice (plain so little girl would eat it), and salad. Actually, the salad was more Bolivian style... you chop everything up and put it on a big plate in little piles. Each person just helps themselves to the parts they want... so kind of a salad bar on your table! I like it, and everyone else seems to as well. I think it was excellent and I have 7 enchiladas left for later. Sorry, no photos of the food! :)



Next we went to see the cherry blossoms around the Tidal Basin. The Metro was packed like I've never seen before. Sardines have more room than we did on our trip! I tried to look at it as just part of the adventure! We walked and walked and gazed and gazed. The weather was fabulous and it's Spring Break... so there were crowds everywhere. Everyone was really friendly and polite, so it wasn't bad. Sergio made the best of it... although crowds are not his thing. Thanks, honey for being so flexible! :)











After the blossoms we watched Sergio play soccer, missed our exit and took the long way home, and crashed upon arrival right into bed.


It was a great Saturday! As A~ would say, it was AWESOME! Beginning this week, everything has been awesome... dinner, tv, whatever... it's all awesome. Sounds too funny! :)



much love,
erin


PS. Here are my last 2 layouts... enjoy!

April Design Team projects

Wednesday was April 1st... so it was time to turn in my projects for April. This month we used My Mind's Eye's "Bloom and Grow" line and some of the new, yummy chocolate brown Cordinations cardstock. I didn't get as much done as last month... but here's what I've got.




Here is a two page layout of the Weise reunion last June. I put the lines of photos a little bit askew to keep it from being too regimented. I love the journaling block from the MME die cut sheet that coordinated with this line. The tree is a clear accent also from MME. Of course I added buttons... layouts just aren't the same without a few buttons! :) The layout is better in real life... it was very tough to get a photo with no glare with these darn glossy photos!




Staying on the June 2008 theme, I moved to Uncle David's farm and the kids petting the goats. I was a bit nervous about the goats... they are not the little bitty breed and I AM a city girl after all. Luckily Uncle Donnie was there to show the girls that it wasn't scary. I just checked them out from a distance. I added some paper flowers from SEI's Mimosa line, a couple of Fancy Pants pins, and used part of a Prima stamp for the journaling lines. (Actually I stamped them and they weren't complete so I tried to put it back down and failed to ge the same spot... but I thought that the imperfect lines worked fine with the subject and kept them!)

The final June 2008 layout was the group at Pappasito's in Houston. I have been wanting to use a photo of a sign instead of a title... and here the restaurant sign fit the bill! You can see the green core on the brown torn edge... love it! Otherwise a simple layout... cardstock, patterned paper, a few MME die-cuts, buttons, and penwork.

I also did a couple of cards.... one anniversary card, since all guys needs a mushy card every now and then, right?! The Martha Stewart aquamarine glitter is for me though! :) ...and one card with a die cut tag, some of the Bazzil edge sprayed with Glimmer Mist, and a little ribbon. I'm not a great cardmaker, but this turned out very cute. I will probably be copying it with the tags I have left so that I can have a few more.

And a desktop caddy that I found the instructions for on Pinky's Much Ado about Nothing blog. It was the perfect project to feature these papers!

much love,
erin