Back from the Tally Rally!

Whew! Six days of travel and fun and scrapping can really wear a person out.
I went to Texas to a scrapbooking retreat with 25 friends from Tallyscrapper.com
and had a GREAT time! My friend Pam picked me up at the airport in San Antonio, along with my friend Nicole.
After a crazy afternoon running around San Antonio, we had a delicious dinner at Pam's son's
restaurant, called Ciao 2, outside the city.


After picking up another friend, Dorothy,


we headed off to the Rockin' R Retreat in Temple, Texas. Then we scrapped, and played and partied for FOUR SOLID DAYS!

Pam's husband made us all some delicious TX bar-b-que Saturday night. I scrapped ten pages and made a thank-you card for Christine, our lovely sweet and crazy hostess!

It took me a while to recover, (I ain't no spring chicken, after all, and staying up until 1 or 2 in the morning was killin' me!) but I think I'm good now. Here are a few more pics. They're a little repetitive but, hey....I wanted pics with my friends. What can I say?


Me with Laura Jean, me with Starla, and me with Jenn T. Jenn made us all monogrammed bean bags to play cornhole with.......but then we ended up not being able to play. I love my bag, though.



Me with Staci and Nikki and crazy Rachel in the background. Me with crazy Brandy and me with Christi.


Here I am with my roomies........Susan and Patti. They are sweet ladies!

I'll post more about my trip later. Off to finish my coffee!

Happy Fourth and some Cards

Happy Fourth of July! God Bless America........thank you to all of those who fight and work so hard to protect the freedoms and bounty and blessings that we enjoy in our country, but don't deserve.

So we are enjoying our celebration at home with cousins and grandparents and in the absence of Sarah, who is still in Texas but will be home tomorrow. I took Scrappy walking in the neighborhood parade this morning. It took him 30 minutes to stop panting when we got home. Poor baby. He's sacked out in Randy's chair as I type (and watch the Nathans' hotdog-eating championships on TV).

If you know me you know I don't like the cards I make. Here are some cards I've made that I actually do like:



Just saw where the SEI blog had a great giveaway! Just go HERE to see what it's all about!

Been a Lot Going On!

Some scrappy projects I've done in June! I have scrapped my little head off! I have scrapped a TON this month, participating in the Summer Scrap Fest at Lifetime Moments and doing the monthly challenges at a fun place called Scrapbook Heaven.





June has flown by, unfortunately! One more month of summer vacation. Here's what we've been doing, since the Heatwave earlier this month.

After a trip to her grandmother's in Cleveland, Mary Beth came home and she and I left for Sandestin with Neely, her mother, and her three beautiful children. We had a fun-filled four days, very very hot, and were very glad to get home.

Not long after we got back from Florida we left for New Orleans to take Sarah and Brittany to fly out to Dallas for the International Key Club convention. No pictures of the girls, but a couple of pictures of the Big Easy!


The trip to New Orleans was short but sweet for the Mighty Hunter and me. We stayed at the Monteleone, where we stayed on our honeymoon 23 years ago. We ate at the former Tortorici's Restaurant (now the Royal Oyster House) where we ate 23 years ago. It was a wonderful weekend for the two of us.

July will consist of more traveling - back to New Orleans to pick up Sarah, then Mary Beth back to Cleveland, and me to Texas (for the Texas Tally Rally......where I get to hang out with some of the most wonderful scrappy ladies ever!) and then Gulf Shores (where I get to hang out with my friend, Kim). Sarah and Randy have to work, sadly.