plain and simple

papayalicious

such cool stuff at Papaya

some photos..

from a night out with all of my favorite people .. thanks to my sweet friend, Becky, for the photos-- love you girlie! :-)

Tia is the cutest ever

Lovely Tracy

isn't Becky gorgeous?

Cute Tia again...and Leslie- couldn't live without her :-)

and yes, i tried to stick my head into every photo. it was fun :-)

**Sonburn Designs**

These are my two new collections being released at CHA Summer this weekend- I am so excited to be working with Sonburn and my friend Lori Scroggins (she was the smart girlie behind Artistic Expressions but now is the smart girlie at Sonburn!)- it has been fun! We will be at booth 4220- come by!!

Each collection has 8 papers, 4 double-sided cardstock papers, rub ons, alpha stickers, ribbons, a really nice big die cut sheet (shapes & monograms), cute chip buttons, card toppers (great for making cards!), and these neat lacing borders (12" borders with holes that you can lace ribbons through, or use with brads, etc), and a great great kit to make a star album (love these!). I'm pretty excited, can you tell? You can't really see details from these catalog pages, but maybe I will try to post some clearer images soon! Edit:: ((closer look at all the papers below!))

Cutie Pie

Cool Dude

have i created a monster?

Aislin had her first Illustrator lesson today- she has been asking me to let her make a "paper"- just in case she wants to design papers (like me) when she grows up. I guess she wants to be prepared. So today, she played around and made a paper while listening to some Green Day and Matt Costa. She is so like me (it is crazy). She is so proud (ps, i did not pay or bribe her in any way to write that i was pretty) :

The kids and I also played with Photo Booth a little bit, we had fun:

that is about all I did today, besides taking the kids to the pool and laundry (so fun). Check back in a day or so and I will have a little peek of my two new collections that will be released under Sonburn Designs at CHA this week :-)

ok ok

the hair (and a funny face i made for brian, just enjoy it or ignore it)

and the dress (well part of it anyway) ignore the bathing suit strap marks. i tried to get rid of these at the beach for 3 days, but it just didn't work.

these are not the best photos- taken in a hotel room.  really didn't get a good full photo of the dress. maybe next time i wear it (?? i need somewhere to go!)

just a few pics

Brian's brother got married last weekend- a gorgeous huge wedding!! Aislin was the flower girl, Declan was the ring bearer- they were so cute!  I didn't really think Declan would wear the tux, but since his daddy was wearing one, he was ok with it!  (though right after we got back to the hotel, before the reception, he had to change into a tshirt, shorts and his crocs!  funny little dude!  Aislin didn't want to take her dress off, she wanted me to wash it so she could wear it the next day)

The kids got to spend some time with their cousins that live in Virginia, but not enough- so we are thinking of making a trip to see them this summer to hang out a bit more- fun!!