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Last camping trip of the season.....

.....well we had our last camping trip of the season! We went to Boulder Creek with the Leiterman family, Sandvick family and Cori's parents (my Aunt Karla & Uncle Wayne). The weather was a little chilly - BUT- it would not have felt like camping without the frigid weather. It only rained one day so that was spent playing card games. I took a couple 4-wheel rides which I love to do...... played quarters, sat by the fire and just plain relaxed! Jayton fell in the creek TWICE! So I had to dry shoes over the fire. Ashlyn drove Caylie's 4 wheeler which she was initially scared to do. Here is a slide show of our fun-filled cammping trip! Bet you wish you were there too!!

Need a gift idea?

..... well I can solve that for you. I am having a perpetual calendar class at Crop*Paper*Scissors on Monday night October 21 @ 6:00. The cost is only $12!! These perpetual calendars are so easy to make and are great gifts for teachers, friends and co-workers. We will even let you choose what paper you want to use.

Sign up at the store today................

Proud momma!

I am a proud momma.... my daughter enjoys my obsession- the scrapbook obsession! Ashlyn entered four scrapbook pages she did this past year in the

Nez Perce County Fair. She won on each layout she entered. She got one first place, two second places and a third...... She was pretty excited. I think this will get her motivated to scrapbook more. She loves getting any 'hand me downs' from me to create with. Now I have pictures of her with her layouts & ribbons to create a scrapbook page!!

The store had a booth at the fair too.... it turned out really cute. I was surprised that not many people had heard of the store. They have been in business almost a year now. But, we got the name out there and received a lot of expressed interest. Handed out a lot of coupons and told them about the website. I anticipate many more new faces in the store the next few weeks!

Retreat layouts!!

I had a blast at the Crop*Paper*Scissors retreat at the Palouse Divide Lodge..... here is a slide show of some of the layouts that I did......Check out some of the fun pictures on Erin's, Michelle or Aunt Jan's blog from the retreat. Thanks Kristi & Jan for the great time.... great prizes & FUN!

My baby starts school

My lil man Jayton has officially started school, pre-school at Grace Lutheran. I have to admit that I was just a tad bit apprehensive about the whole thing. He is the wild child of the two......But he loved it and was well behaved after all! Jayton cannot wait to go back today for his second day. I keep forgetting that he is a good kid when he is at Cori's or at school and let's us have it at night and on weekends since he has all this energy bursting at the seams from holding it in. I cannot wait to hear how his day goes today. Wed. he said they started to learn about the letter 'A', and when to say please & thank you. He said they even got to paint and make their hand print with paint. Little things like that are so exciting for kids.

Tonight Ashlyn is having her birthday sleepover....... lots of girls spending the night! I think 7 total. What was I thinking? I'll let ya know how it goes & show you all my newest grey hairs from it!!

Lil' Road Trip

Friday Jeff called and informed me that we were going to take a lil' trip over the weekend holiday. I was working at Crop Paper Scissors and assumed my days off would be filled with yard work & house work but the call came that changed what I was assuming. 6:oo am Saturday morning we hit the road.... Jeff, Jayton & I went to Missoula, Montana. (Ashlyn wasn't left at home alone- she went on her own road trip w/ Cori to Boise- her story should appear soon on her blog) anyway, I have not been to Missoula and I was told there is better shopping & no tax..... so I was ready for this trip! Out first mistake was not giving Jayton meds to prevent car sickness- oops! Not my fault. I had no idea the road to Missoula was curvy. He only got sick twice which is much less than the seven times Ashlyn got sick on her way to Boise with Cori. We finally did make it to Big Sky Country and started with some shopping- one of my favorite past times!! We spent the night we a friend of Jeff's who works at the dealership there that Karl Tyler also owns. Then we headed home the following day to do the things I assumed we would be doing had we been home earlier in the weekend..... yard work/house work! I did however start a fun lil' calendar that Krisit got in the store so I was pretty productive. My friend Toni came in to town from Wenatchee and I got to visit and have lunch with her too. The Labor Day weekend holiday was TOPS!!!- from working at CPS, to taking a mini trip, being crafty and seeing my best bud! Who could ask for a better weekend?