Coca-Cola Happiness Factory

another album idea

This is #26 from Handbook for Life: 52 Tips for Happiness and Productivity.

Enjoy the simple pleasures. You can find these everywhere. Food (I love berries!), sunsets, sand between your toes, fresh-cut grass, playing with your child, a good book and a warm bed, dancing in the rain, your favorite music. You could probably make a list of 20 simple pleasures right now, things you enjoy that you could find every day. Sprinkle those little pleasures throughout your day. It makes the journey much more enjoyable.

This would be a GREAT mini album idea to do. LOVE this!!

quote of the day

Photography is more than a medium
for factual communications of ideas.
It is a creative art.
~Ansel Adams

doing it digi

I'm taking an online class called 'doing it digi' from Big Picture Scrapbooking. Here are the 2 LO's I created in PSE.

I'm in Heaven

I think I've died and gone to heaven! I just tried Gelato for the first time. Oh! Yummy! I'm sitting at my desk at work eating Black Cherry Gelato and moaning about how good it is, and people are walking by asking if I'm ok. LOL! I am now!! :D

So if you're ever in Madison WI, go to Paciugo on State Street and try some Gelato. So yummy!!

Proud parent

I will always be so proud of my baby, Zona. :D

Zona photos

Senior Center Concert

Last night, I went to see my friends mom sing in her senior center concert. OMGosh! The concert was not what I had expected. In a way, it was fun! They had audience participation. During some of the songs, 2 teenage girls would come out into the audience and hand out small props that went along with that song. It was so cute! I only wish I'll have that much energy when I get to be that age. How fun for them to do this. Here are some photos from the night.

new fav

My new fav drink! SoBe Life Water. LOVE this stuff!

The time is coming

I was at a craft store Tuesday night and was walking down the isle to the front of the store to go check out when I was startled by the screaming sounds of ghosts and goblins. I stopped and slowly turned on my heels to see an isle filled full with the glittery purples, shiny black metals and flashing oranges of Halloween. I just stood there and stared in amazement at the sight of what I was looking at. I couldn't believe that they had Halloween decorations out. It's the beginning of July! We JUST celebrated America's birthday and now this! I started to walk down the isle and I was getting this giggly feeling inside. I just LOVE the Autumn season. I started getting flashbacks of the sights and smells of Autumn: baking apple pie, carving pumpkins, the cool crisp air, the leaves changing colors. I had a very big smile on my face.

As much as I like summer time, I LOVE Autumn even more. I know for most people it's a little early to see this stuff out already. But in my mind, it's never to early. YAY!! Autumn is on its way!!

Good to see family

My cousins Shelly and Tracy and their families were in town on vacation at the same time. And they wanted to get together and have a cousins cookout. Shelly started doing all the planning for this and choose Sunday, July 1. When I read that email with the info, I responded back to her telling her that day was also my dad's birthday. And we should celebrate that as well. She loved that idea. So then it ended up becoming the cousins/birthday cookout. We had so much fun. It was really nice to see people who you only get to see once a year, if that. And lately, it just seamed like the only times I see my relatives is at funerals. So it was nice that is a was positive event that got us all together!!

Here is a page I did of my cousin Shelly.

paper and brads – Sun Porch kit by Amy Teets (shabbyprincess.com), photo frame – Festival (shabbyprincess.com), font – wistful by CreatingKeepsakes











Here is a page of my cousin Tracy and her 13 month old son, Colin.

paper - Sun Porch kit by Amy Teets (shabbyprincess.com), font - wistful by CreatingKeepsakes

HB Dad!

Everyone wish my dad a very happy birthday today!!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY DADDY!!

Love Ya!

Hot Air Balloon Ride

This past Saturday, Darnell and I went on a hot air balloon ride. I can't believe I went up in a balloon! It was sooo much fun!! I've never experienced anything like that before. I had received a GC from my friend, Leah, for my 30th Birthday last year.(Leah, you so ROCK!) So I called the guy to schedule a flight for last fall. But because of the weather, that flight had to be rescheduled a couple of times. So with a little sadness (cause I really wanted to see all the colors of Fall), I decided to wait until this spring to try again. I had a date set again for this past Saturday. And YAY! I finally was able to take the flight. And what a awesome flight it was. The company that did the flight was Flying In Harmony. The pilot's name was Nick White. What a super nice guy. Everything about the morning, from the crew, the pilot, the exceptional great weather just made the whole experience perfect. And being up in the air, it was just so completely peaceful and calm. I will truly never forget that day.

Some of the things I saw while in flight were deer running in the fields below, a turkey fling up into the trees from the ground, and the cows running for their lives because there's a funny object in the air making noise. LOL (the noise part was the the thingy that shots fire up into the balloon)

Check out some of the photos that were taken that morning.

Nick even ended up using on of the photos on his website. How cool is THAT!!

Fav quote

Recently, I read a blog talking about our favorite quotes. I thought about it and just couldn't think of any at that time that really stuck out. But tonight, while watching one of my favorite movies Hitch, did I hear that quote.....that perfect little phrase.....that I found my favorite quote.

Will Smith said it perfectly....

Never lie, steal, cheat or drink.
But if you must lie, lie in the arms of the one you love.
If you must steal, steal away from bad company.
If you must cheat, cheat death.
And if you must drink, drink in the moments that take your breath away.

First digi layout

Well, I did my very first digital scrapbook layout. Thanks Bev for showing me a few tricks on how to do this!! I know it's not the greatest, but this is just the beginning. I just love this free kit I downloaded from Creating Keepsakes.


Let me know what y'all think about them!!

Becky

Men In Trees

I just found out my all time FAV TV show, Men in Trees is finally coming back! YAY!! This makes me soo happy! You ALL should watch this show. It's the BEST!!

a great read

There are a few different blogs I try to read everyday. Most of them are my fav scrapbookers from CreatingKeepsakes mag, and I read Ali Edwards'blog today and she had a post that really made me think. Here is the post. I think you'll like it.

Hot Air Balloon Ride

I can’t believe I totally forgot to tell y'all this. (so much on my mind) But I’m going up on a hot air balloon ride the morning of the 23rd. I was supposed to do this last fall. But the 2 dates I had scheduled, we had weather conflicts. So I’m hoping the weather will cooperate for this date and I can finally do the ride. I’m so excited about it. I’ve always wanted to do this. Just think of some of the pictures I can get from up there. We will probably go out over by the Holy Hill area. That would be so sweet if I can get a good shot of the HH church. It would have the best if I could have done this in the fall – with the colors and all. That would have been so pretty. But this time of year will be fun too.

Sharing my Birthday

I found out yesterday that my sister-in-law's brother, Kevin and his girlfriend Kate, announced the arrival of their new baby girl. Annika Rune. I tried to post a picture from my cell phone, but it didn't work. I guess I can only text from the phone. I will post a picture as soon as I can.

So that makes #5 on the list of people I know who also have a June 5 Birthday. How awesome is that!!

Speaking of June Birthdays, I'm going to give a holla out to all the folks I know that have a June Birthday. Happy Birthday everyone!!

1. Marie
3. Neil
4. Susan
5. ME! Aunt DeDe, Beth, Lynn, Annika, and Emily
6. Jen
7. Lisa (my sister-in-law)
8. Mr. Buzz
13. Michaela
15. Shawn
20. Serra
25. Donna
29. Ann

Whew! That's a LOT of June Birthdays!! I always knew June was a good month!!

Birthday dinner

Here I thought I was going to be all alone tonight for my BD. I get to my apartment, open the door and turn on the light, then I hear "HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU....". It was my parents and Darnell. I couldn't believe it. This made me sooo happy to see my family on my Birthday. What an awesome surprise. We ended up having dinner at Uno's on the east side of Madison. We had very yummy pizza. I just LOVE their pizza. Then we all had to say good-bye. Darnell had to work 3rd tonight so they all had to get back to West Bend. I was sad to see them go, but so happy that they came and surprised me for my Birthday. I love my family. They ROCK!!

Your cel phone says HAPPY BIRTHDAY!