Blogging time - road trip pictures





















OK - it's high time I sat down and actually blogged from our home computer instead of my phone. I downloaded the photos the boys took from their trip (17 GB) and enjoyed touring the country via digital photo. Here are a just few highlights. The photos from the trip are front loaded as it seems they grew tired of snapping pictures of the second half of the trip (nothing from mammoth caves, baseball games or camp sites). I will only share a few wildlife photos with you but if you are interested Benjamin took many of a shot of buffalo, chip monks, antelope and other wildlife. He is a pretty good little photographer. My favorite photo is the buffalo with 5 birds perched on it's back. I also only decided to share one animal dung photo with you. Realize these are boys gone wild with the camera... I decided not to crop or edit the photos so you can see them as they were captured. Fun stuff.

Game of Risk!

Risk! Boys are spending a week with Grandma & Grandpa. Nicholas and I dropped them off last night. The boys immediately started a game of Risk which the same game apparently is still being played today. Too funny!

SU convention 2011 - product park









Another year another Stampin' Up! convention has come and gone. The theme this year was GROW and all of the displays and classes tied into the theme really well. Many folks in our department were charged with creating displays using our products. The product display theme was Product Park and each display was a little garden of products tied to the product suite theme. I was given two product suites to display (Flirtatious and Letters to Santa) and enlisted the fabulous folks from my team to help pull them off. Here are photos from the two displays I was in charge of. Most of the hours spent on these displays were volunteer outside of work hours (yes, I do have a real job that takes up the work day). So I took great advantage of the evening hours the month Chris and the boys were traveling the country. In all I believe I spent a good 40-50 hours creating these displays. It was a fun project and a great opportunity to use Stampin' Up! products in abundance. Here is a link to photos of many of the other displays as taken by a demonstrator at convention. And another link here. I didn't take the greatest pictures with my phone (terrible really), I'll see if I can find some better ones...