A Fabulously Flawed Life

Chanda and I left our families behind and spent the weekend at the Covered Bridge Inn scrapbooking retreat. It was such a cozy place to leave the summer stress behind. Needless to say - we had a BLAST! You might think this is just a door... Oh no! It doubles as a book shelf! Everyone there lugged in all their boxes and containers full of scrapbook supplies and embellishments . Me? I brought my laptop and successfully completed 2 Shutterfly books - 200 pages and 444 pictures. Top that. Here's Chanda creating her pages which I call modern artwork. They're beautiful! We were fed 3 times a day with a 3:00 snack of homemade cookies and chips & salsa. The food was seriously so yummy! It was my kind of food - comfort. It was so great not needing to leave the house to eat or filling up on junky fast food and feeling heavy later. We even relaxed in the hot tub late one night, told stories, and laughed. I fell in love with these chip board books. Aren't they so cool. This on...

Last week for Girl's Camp , Wendy and I went shopping and I got soo much done. Including, purchasing outfits for all 3 boys for a group picture and the boys their backpacks for school. Afterwards we ate at Cozymel's for lunch. They had an LCD screen right on our table to check out the specials, split our check, pay, and even check out the movie times at the mall. Crazy!! It was a very productive and fun day. Thanks Wendy!

The 4 of us at the movies. We saw Wall-e and the boys LOVED it. I really like what I saw. Drake had more fun running around in the hall. I know I've been posting a lot about my kids lately, but right now that's my focus. Swim team and swim lessons are finally over and so now we can do other activities and have fun playing with friends. There's no time or creative energy for projects. I'm putting all my down time into Tip Junkie. I'm currently interviewing fun people like Hostess with the Mostess and the Organizing Junkie for a new feature I'm really excited about caled Talk to me Tuesday . I also just finished a Media Kit to start offering advertising on Tip Junkie. I'm collaborating with Kim from Today's Creative Blog , Cindy from Skip to My Lou, as well as Heather & Tiffany the SITS girls . They are completely fabulous and I'm excited about our joint venture. There's still a lot to do on my end. I also finished organizing crafts, schedu...

I don't know why, but I have been really resistant to put myself out there and make new friends. I know - you're shocked! But it's true, I've been hesitant to meet new people. (In every day life.) I think it has a lot to do with blogging. I feel like I have all these amazing women at my fingertips that I don't really feel the need to reach out in real life. I have my favorite friends at church, long time friends, my favorite friends of friends I now call my friends, and of course my fabulous Book Club and Mavens friends. Totalling less than 25 people. For me, it's hard to keep up with that many people on a regular basis! I can't deal with the stress of more. However, lately I've been feeling guilty that I'm not more involved in my neighborhood. I really want my boys to have friends that I don't have to drive them to play date. So in an effort to better the social life of my kiddos, I finally did it. I went to my neighborhood's girl game night...

I love before and after pics. I think they're one of my favorite things about blogging - an instant remodel. I finally got around to cutting my boys hair. Boy, did they need it. Before Before Before After After

So "Shake it" by Metro Station is my song for the Summer of 2008. I LOVE it. I dance to it in the kitchen and in my car. Even the boys get into it. Thanks Lisa for the Mix CD! She has the best taste in music. So if you see a crazy lady dancing in her blue minivan - you know she's blocking out the demands of summer and shakin' it! Let's rock!

I finally finished the backyard project Lisa and I started. Before After I left early (for me) Saturday morning and got 3 car loads of St. Augustine grass to replace the crushed granite. Over the next few years, my hope is that the St. Augustine will take over my backyard and I'll finally have lush green grass to enjoy. Here are the boys "helping" me in our family project. I do have to give Davis some credit, he did carry 4 squares of grass to the backyard. Thanks son. I'm so excited! I've been wanting St. Augustine every summer since we moved in. I can't wait for it to start growing. Drake has finally decided it's ok to talk. He probably has a 20 word vocab that I'm working on daily to expand. However, he still refuses to say "Davis". Here we're talking about colors. I had to bring in boats and cars in order for him to pay any attention. Can you say, "stubborn". I have no idea where he got that from. {{giggle}} Jason received...