Yes, I know its been a little bit since I’ve been around. Holy cow, it’s been so busy here. We had Shelby’s birthday party, and I had card class, plus all those little things in the middle.

First, Shelby’s birthday…she is so stinkin’ cute I can hardly stand it. She just loved her birthday party and seemed to really enjoy the whole candle blowing out process. The face that she was serenaded by everyone probably helped. Michelle got her the cutest little outfits for dance (when she starts in the fall) and Jeannie got her a great big tea set, which she has been playing with almost non-stop. Now if I could only get over the fact that she is two years old already!

I had card class on Tuesday. That was a lot of fun and I think everyone had a good time. I really enjoyed having class at Scrap Palace and will be doing it again next month on the 28th of August. If you want to see some of the cards we did you can check them out here. The ones we did in class start there and end on the next page.

The other exciting news…. The school has been coming down and they finished up last Saturday with the actual tear down. As of right now they are still doing clean up and sorting all the materials into piles and taking it away. Here is a photo from one of the days of demolition. You can see part of the new school in the background. Now that the old school is totally down the new one looks HUGE! We needed a new school and I’m excited for this one to open up. Yipee.

Let’s see what else has gone on… Oh, I finally got my phone fixed yesterday. I’ve been without a phone for 2 weeks. My phone company, SunRocket, went belly up and discontinued services without sending notice to anyone. That was a pain in the you know where. Anyway, they come out yesterday (Wide Open West) and set me all up with my Internet/Phone bundle. Turns out they had a offer that included internet, cable, phone service, and a DVR for the tv and it was the same price I was paying already for all those services separately. The price is guaranteed until 2010 and I got free install. I do however miss all the functions I had with the internet phone service, but supposedly Wide Open West is working on getting some of that up and running.

I also entered a couple contests this week. One for the Cupcake Scrap Shop Design Team. (Check out the website. They have a great kit club and some cool cupcake recipes.) TO compete for the Design Team position you had to submit a layout about a cupcake, amongst other things. I did mine on the cupcake my mom made me for my birthday. Isn’t it cute??

Anyway, I used some of the new Basic Grey for the layout I submitted. It came out pretty cute and when I can share it with you all I will. I think its the journaling that makes the entire layout really…

Tonight I’m going to Scrapbook Emporium to drop off the items I’m selling at their garage sale. I had to pay $5.00 for the table and they do the selling and I get store credit. I could have stayed and done it myself and gotten 50% credit and 50% cash, but uhh, well I have plenty of other things I could be doing with me time. They do this garage sale annually so hopefully they will have a good turn out. I could use some store credit, lol.

Ok well thats a good update on the happenings around here. Oh, I almost forgot…. Today is Michelle’s birthday!! Happy Birthday Michelle!!

~j