My Crazy Life

47 Days and counting

until we leave on the Disney Magic for our Panama Canal trip....did some shopping this weekend for the trip...or at least that was the excuse that we used.  John cleaned up with some pants....I know can you believe it he is going to wear pants...for those of you that know him understand how rare this is...for those of you that don't....he wears shorts pretty much 12 months out of the year...good thing we live in AZ.  He also got some loafers to wear.....they are dressy enough for dinner but actually casual enough for him to wear with his "shorts" unless he goes to put on socks with them and I will just have to beat him......

Well getting my swaps done for Creative Escape...finished and mailed my paint can swap....I don't think that she reads my blog so here is a picture....I actually think that I like it....which for me is rare...I am way to critical of my stuff.  Also started working on my Heidi Swapp Playing Cards....here is a picture but I have already changed them...

See what I mean...I sat here and looked at them and decided they needed a little something else so I put brads in the bottom corners and swirlys behind on the orange.....

Today I was lucky enough to spend the afternoon at the dentist...yippee....had to have a tooth extracted and two more fixed...still have one more to go....the tooth that was extracted was because it was cracked all  the way through....the dentist can fix the other three that are cracked as well....guess instead of a grinder I am a clencher and I do this with such force that I crack my teeth....oh yay....this was not good news especially if you are one of the people who know how much money has been invested in my mouth....let's just say that I most likely could have a Corvette sitting in my driveway...well that may be a little bit of a stretch but you get the idea.  So sitting here getting ready to take some more drugs...and I will most likely look like half a chipmunk tomorrow but we will be fitted with a mouth guard type thingy (techinical term) after they fix the one tooth that is left and then I hopefully won't have this problem any longer.

Later

CE & Heidi Swapp

I have been working on stuff for my swapps for CE....I just realized today that I signed up for 10 of them...I think the only one that I didn't sign up for was a recipe swapp.....what was I thinking.  Anyway finished my page toppers and my tags.....tried a couple of new techniques on these which I am pretty happy with...hope whoever receives them likes them as well.

The picture of the tag is a little more pink than it actually is because I used the same paper as on the tag topper.

I have taken some pictures of the Heidi Swapp book that I did at Scrap, Etc in April....this is a really great book...haven't quite finished it yet and the story that she tells about making sure that you are in the moment for everything you do because really why do it if you aren't really paying attention to what is going on...one of the things that she says is drive home from work, drive around doing errands with the radio off....it is amazing how much inside your own head you will get and you need to listen to your heart when doing anything...it won't steer you wrong.  Here are a couple of pics...the front cover isn't finished because I couldn't get the rub-ons to work for me.....

As you can see...awesome book....love the picture above with the overlay of the butterfly that we cut out.....

We had to take Sassy back to be tested again since the last test showed that her numbers were lower then where they needed to be....we did that on Thursday but haven't heard back....so hopefully it will be good news soon.

Got the chance to make our shore excursions for our Panama Canal cruise....didn't get hardly anything that we wanted but I have been told by several people that they keep back a lot of the slots for people who don't have internet....really there are people out there like that??  I know that I am a lot more addicted then some but come on it is so handy to have around......anyway so I will work on booking the Dolphin Swim and the Jet Ski ride when we get on board...two months from tomorrow we will be in California.....can't believe it is getting so close.  Ordered Pirate outfits for us to wear last night....looked really great on-line hopefully they will look that good on.  Will prbably start packing stuff in the next couple of weeks...you know that stuff that you only use for a trip.  Trying to decide what to do with my hair as well.....I know that it is going to be extremely humid everywhere we are going and humidity and fine straight hair doesn't mix.....so maybe a perm.....or a wave....just don't know what to do with it....any suggestions.....and be nice.  :-)

Well need to get busy on my paint can for my secret buddy....suppose to have this finished today and things just aren't working out.

Later

2000 Miles Plus

Yea that is what we drove in the last 96 hours....up to Elk Grove, CA (Sacramento) and back again.  We went to see my only niece graduate from 8th grade - of course, they call it a promotion but whatever.  Here is a picture of the happy graduate with her family which is also my brother (Toby), sister-in-law (Mary), and my nephew Cy. 

Afterwards we went back to their house to open presents of course....I remember when I graduated from 8th grade - my big gift was a electric typewriter....boy have times changed - that was a huge thing then and now what do we give to graduates......

do you think she is excited...I would say...a brand new laptop...see I told you that times had changed...I just got my very first laptop and we won't go into how old I am now.....anyway she was beyond excited.  Sydnie had a graduation party to go to that afternoon so John and I decided to head to Redding, CA about 180 miles North to check out the SunDial Bridge that I had seen someone elses blog.....this is a amazing piece of architecture. 

The walkway of the bridge lights up at night but we got there about 5:30 so we would have had to wait for at least 3 hours before this would have happened so I didn't get any pictures of this happening.  There are several things to do in this area....there are several walking, running, riding paths all through - you could spend a whole day just enjoying everything that this place has to give.  The bridge goes across the Sacramento River and looking East you can see Mt. Shasta - if you look really close in this picture you can see it... just barely though....right here.....also saw this little guy checking out all the wonderful flowers that were all over the area

 

 

 

 

 

 

on our way back to Elk Grove we passed umpteen roadside fruit stands...unfortunately they were all closed at this point and so we decided that we needed to come back up this way in the morning to see what we could get for fresh fruit...all the signs were indicating cherries, strawberries, etc....well they weren't kidding....we drove North again on Friday morning and this is what we found......

Mount Rainer cherries.....unfortunately we didn't get any of these but the red ones....a whole bag...I think by the time we got back to Elk Grove we had eaten half the bag.  I would be making myself sick on fruit and veggies if I could do this here....they tasted so wonderful.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Didn't get any of these but look at the colors....they are just so vibrant.  We also picked up some pistachio nuts....don't know if it was the fresh air or what but they just tasted so great....they never made it back to Phoenix....of course, we didn't stop on the way home for any food at all so this stuff kind of sustained us for the 11 hours of travel we did.

 

 

 

Bought some of these.....gonna cut into those today and add them to a big huge salad....can't wait.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Well we are back and really enjoyed ourselves but glad to be back at home again.  We will be planning a trip up around that area again in the future...will go to Kings & Sequioa National Park, Mt. Shasta and probably back into Yosemite again.......if you are one of the lucky ones to be able to enjoy roadside stands on a regular basis just want you to know I'm very envious.......

On the Road Again......

 

 

Well tomorrow morning bright and early we are headed to Sacramento.....my only niece is graduating 8th grade and we need to be there to see it happen.....not really looking forward to the 12 hour drive but hey at least we have a pretty nice car to do it in and we also seem to enjoy ourselves while we travel.  I can't believe that we are headed to California without a stop at Disneyland but oh well the sacrafices we make.......any way I plan to head to the Green Tangerine which from what I understand is a pretty awesome scrapbook store and we are also planning on heading to the SunDial Bridge - here is a picture of it.... architectural buildings and bridges and such have always been a draw for me so this just looks like it would make some awesome photos (which of course I need more of) and from what I have read about it the bridge itself lights up after dark.  Hopefully I will have internet service while gone but if not I will blog when I get back.