Some Layouts

Just wanted to share a few layouts. I did these at our last Crop. Love getting together with Kimberly and Tab. It's our monthly "date" and love getting to finally scrap more regularly. I'm also working on getting more layouts posted to Two Peas in a Bucket, as I haven't added any in a long time.


My birthday celebration

The zoo on my birthday

I pic of us that I love. It was taken at Disneyland when we went for my birthday last year.

A layout for my honeymoon album. It's about the morning we had breakfast delivered to our bungalow via outrigger canoe.

Sad news

I sometimes follow links to random blogs of people I don't know and find interesting things. Yesterday I found some sad things. There are a bunch of blogs right now about 2 families in the blogging community that have recently lost their children. Many people have set up ways for people to help out these two families with things like funeral expenses. Click here for more information about the two families and their stories. This particular site I thought had the best and most information that I found and it has lots of links about the stories and ways for people to help. I know there are not very many people who follow my blog. But if a few people tell a few more people, it helps spread the word. It warms my heart to see how people from all over are coming together to help these families. I just wish that every family who loses a child had this kind of support, because this happens to people all over the world EVERY day. Please keep these families in your thoughts and prayers.

Happy Easter!

Hope everyone had a great Easter. Mike had to work so I went to Benson. Keith, Sara and the kids came down Saturday night and stayed at my parents'. Dustin had to work so him and Monique did not make it either. We went out to Dragoon with a bunch of family friends and had a picnic and egg hunt. Just wanted to post a few pictures. Love taking pictures of Violet!



Violet and Nathan

Keith, Grandpa and Dad

Sara made some Kool-Aid for Violet with a bottle of water and a little packet of Kool-Aid. When Sara was mixing it Violet said, "That's why they call it Kool-Aid... 'cause it's cool!"

Sushi party

The Saturday after my birthday we went out with some of my friends and some of the people from Mike's work (my friends too I guess). We were originally going to go to a sushi place called RA, but when I called to make a reservation they promptly told me they don't take reservations, just "call ahead" and that they were totally booked for Saturday night. So, I figured everyone was already planning on sushi, so I made reservations at the Sushi Garden instead. I'm not a big fan of sushi (except california rolls, which don't really count) but knew they had cooked food too. Mike has also never had anything more "sushi" than California rolls. So, imagine my surprise when Mike went all out and tried some of the craziest things on the menu. I ordered a cooked meal, but Mike decided to split sushi with Scott. Scott ordered the first round of stuff, mostly regular fish, nothing too crazy. Then Mike ordered the next round. He ordered stuff with scallops, stuff with eel, Vegas rolls and some sweet shrimp rolls. Well, the sweet shrimp rolls come with a fried shrimp head on the side. And, Mike ate it! I was so proud of him for being so adventurous. Seeing him bite into a shrimp head was a little creepy though. Then later, I got dared to eat the shrimp's eye ball, and I did it. It was just gross and chewy. I also branched out and tried the dragon roll (with eel) and it was actually pretty good. And you can't go out for sushi without doing Sake Bombs. So, I made my friends do sake bombs (after all, I don't drink beer and it was my "birthday") while I had plenty of other yummy things to drink. We closed the place down and had a great time...as evidenced by the photos.

P.S. I'm doing well since my surgery on Monday. No bleeding (knock on wood) and surprisingly less pain than I expected. I was prepared for the worst after stories I had heard. But I'm taking tylenol now and doing okay, making a list of all the food I can't wait to eat again. Mike took very good care of me and I sent him back to work today since I am doing better than expected. And I'm going scrapbooking tomorrow night. I'm getting very bored of being home so it will be nice to get out and do something fun. Hope everyone has a good Easter. I think my family was going to go on a picnic but the weather isn't supposed to be very good this weekend so we'll see.
Mike's order of sushi: something with scallops (looks like roasted marshmallows), dragon roll (eel), sweet shrimp roll (with the shrimp heads by them) and the vegas rolls. No, he didn't eat it all by himself, he shared with Scott. And pretty much no one ate the scallop things.
Mike eating the nasty shrimp head...enough said.


Tab and Craig getting ready for Sake Bombs, with a little help from Luke.


Me and Eric trying the dragon roll (he was a sushi virgin, too.) Notice the fork - proper sushi eating utensils are a must!

Me, Hugh and Craig rocking out with our chop/drum sticks and various empty glasses.

Tab and Hugh doing a sake bomb.

Andrea and me trying some sake (minus the bomb)

My birthday present

For my birthday, Mike bought me a new digital camera. So far I love it. It seems to take great pictures and has a 10x optical zoom. Now, we just need to get an underwater case for it so we can take it diving. On my birthday, the weather was great and Mike said we could do whatever I wanted. So I chose to go to the zoo. A chance to enjoy the weather, try out my new camera, plus, I always love the zoo. That night we went out to dinner with my parents. We were going to go out with a bunch of people but Mike had to work the next day, so we went out on Saturday instead. More on that in my next post....