More birthday cards!

Holy cow!!! I am loving this birthday thing! IT is over a week since my birthday and the cards are STILL rolling in!!! I LOVE IT!!!
These two are from Frances and Jo! I love that little girl with the bird, and that cat laying in the bra...tooooo funny!
These two are from Annie and Leann. The colours on these are so gorgeous, I wish my camera was working better so you could see them!
These two are from Lynn and Caz....such cute images, I love them both!!
This card is from my SBS4 sister Marcia - LOVE this card! The colours are so awesome together!!
This card is from Sheila, from SCS birthday RAK.

THANK YOU EVERYONE!!!! I totally appreciate the beautiful cards and the thoughtfulness, it warms my heart and totally makes me smile!!! Thanks!!!!

100 DAYS!!!

In 100 days, I will be celebrating my Blogaversary!!! AND, I am at 8300 or so hits on my blog! Let's see if we can hit both those milestones at ONCE!! Only 1700 more visitors in less than 3 1/2 months....can we do it????

There will be DOUBLE the blog candy - I am gathering it today, so will have a photo soon!! PASS ON THE WORD.....you won't want to miss this!!!! :) (cuz you all know how terrible I am at ordering something I already have......hint hint)

POST a comment on the original blog candy post HERE, and lets get that counter moving!!!!

ETA: Here are the prizes: Package 1 includes a variety of adhesive 4x6 mats from Autumn Leaves, a selection of 6x6 Designer paper from SU, Basic Grey and Arctic Frog Lilly Pad, Prima Sprites, ribbon, ribbon slides, 3 unmounted stamps from High Hopes (Pig, a chocolate and a heart), a set of clear stamps from Clear Dollar Stamps, an accordion album ready to alter, and some stamped images. Package 2 includes a variety of adhesive 4x6 mats from Autumn Leaves, a selection of 6x6 Designer paper from SU, Basic Grey and Arctic Frog Lilly Pad, Prima Sprites, ribbon, photo corners, a wood mounted stamp from American Art, 3 unmounted stamps, an accordion album ready to alter, and some stamped images.

I of course WILL add more to these packages as I come across some goodies I know you will love!!! The first # I draw when I reach 10,000 will get to choose package 1 or 2, then I will draw a second # for the other package!!! Hope this intrigues you to pass on the word!!!! :)

(sorry the pics are so crappy - I am so frustrated with this camera I could scream! I am using the old one until I figure out the settings on our new one.....sorry!!!)

nothing to show you, but the bags under my eyes!!

LOL! Kidding! I am exhausted though. This last week before school, I help out my friends hubby with his business. What he does is supply band/music teachers the sheet music and a variety of musical instruments, cleaning bits, pieces, for all sorts of musical instruments, etc. that they need for the first week of school (in 2 weeks). So, this week is CRAZY busy for him as he tries to get all the orders out from 3 provinces! It is insane. He runs this business out of his house and it is pretty chaotic. This is my 3rd summer helping him, and each year I say yes, forgetting how freaking tired I am when I get home. I have to haul heavy boxes up and down stairs, make 180 trips up and down stairs, and their house is SO hot, I'm sure I sweat off 20 pounds today!! LOL so, needless to say, I have not done any crafting, even though I got some new Magnolia's, some new stamps from Alota Rubber stamps, new stamps from Sweet n Sassy AND my new Great Impressions stamps from Dick at HM Stamps!!! I KNOW....that is a crime isn't it?? Hmphhhh!!!! I have Friday off, so guess what I'm doing????????? Wheee HOOooooooo!!!!!

Sorry bout my little rant, but I feel better now, thanks for listening (if you made it this far!) I am off to bed!!!

FUN weekend!!!

Tim and I went camping this weekend & had a blast! We left Thurs. after he was done work, and came home yesterday afternoon. He came back into Calgary to work on Friday, so I hung out at the campground with Brick, went to the river and worked on my scrapbook! It was so nice!!! We went to a place along the Elbow River called Paddy's Flat. Apparently there was a small black bear hanging around the area, but we didn't see him at all. It was a little freaky sitting there alone for awhile, hearing sticks crack in the bush behind me! I made Brick wear his Bear Bell so that probably helped!!! (at least I like to think it helped!!) The Conservation officers were ticketing campers for leaving their coolers out when they weren't around...the fine was $172...what a strange number eh?? I laughed when I heard that! I made VERY sure we left nothing around for the bear, not even the dog food!!! Here are a few pics for your viewing enjoyment:
This is me enjoying my birthday cake. Tim bought me the silver earrings and gave me some American cash for our trip to Vegas in Oct.
Can you find the dog??
The "ritual" shot - Brick in his lawn chair. He was SOME pooped! He swam in a pond for quite awhile in the morning, then later in the afternoon, some kids were throwing the stick for him in the river - his 3 favourite things: kids, sticks, and water!
Brick in the river. The canyon was gorgeous!



This picture is of Elbow Falls. It was a beautiful walk to it. It is a pretty popular site for picnickers but we were there early enough & were the only ones there!
Here he is swimming in the pond. And the last one.....us standing in front of Elbow Falls.

Have a great day everyone!!!