me to a T - Tracey Odachowski

Forgot to mention these last night!!!!

First of all, there is a new feature up at the Village! This time the City Planners featured Sweetwater Products. And here is my contribution:

The pics were from last summer when we babysat Will. I miss that little guy! (and obviously so does Emily!) Hey Traci, when are you getting back here????

I also participated in a new, fun challenge with the HOF girls/guy. Because all of the companies that donated products have been SOO generous, we decided to do a monthly product challenge and feature them on the 15th of every month on the Creating Keepsakes web site. For our first month, we featured American Crafts!!! Take a look at the Challenge Gallery, and upload by Monday to win the CK book of your choice! I am truly blessed to be a part of this amazing group, and even more blessed to have received so many wonderful gifts from the manufacturers, and we just wanted to show some of our appreciation. Here’s my contribution for that one:

I also used the leftovers from that layout to create goodie bags for Gabe’s teachers:

Speaking of generous product donations, yes, we got MORE! We received a HUGE HUGE HUGE box from Me and My Big Ideas. (Jamie, I hope you don’t mind but I stole your pictures of the contents since they were so perfect):

And we also received MORE from Advantus, this time for the Heidi Swapp line:

Somebody…QUICK! Come scrap and help me get through all of this stuff!!! Or, even better, help me get organized so I can get the six boxes sitting behind me unpacked!

Off to take Gabe to school (and get the kids to quit arguing)…

Yeah, I’m late. I just ordered Mother’s Day gifts, um, today. (mom, don’t read that). But I had so much fun with my own family that everything got put on the back burner.

What did I do/get you ask?

I spent 8 1/2 hours at Busch Gardens. That was exactly what I wanted.

My husband tells me that the men in his office are a bit jealous that he got away w/ taking me to an amusement park for the day. We have season passes, so technically, on Sunday at least, it only cost him a dinner at the Irish pub in the park, and ice cream cone for the 4 of us to share, and a tube of chapstick.

Yes, one of my gifts was a $1.29 tube of chapstick.

Is that you asking me questions again? Why chapstick???

Because the REAL gift of the day was that I got to ride all of the coasters I wanted all day long, no questions asked. The first thing that totally made my day is that Gabe was willing to ride the Loch Ness Monster w/ me. This was his first time on a coaster that went upside down. He loved it so much that we rode four times together! Previously, he would only get on the Big Bad Wolf; yes, we rode that one, too - his first time in the front carraige!

But what REALLY made my day came in the form of an announcement during our 3rd ride on Nessy…they were opening Griffon for the day! It wasn’t supposed to open for another two weeks, but they must have known I was there. My little legs couldn’t make it from Scottland to France fast enough! I think I pulled something along the way. And before the end of the day, I rode it six times! Hey, they have a single rider line, and I was actually able to ride it every 10 minutes at one point! WOOHOO!

(that’s me in the front row, 3rd from the right w/ my feet sticking out. )

So, by the end of the day, I’d riden every coaster except Apollo’s Chariot, which I rode the last time we went and, well, it didn’t do it for me.

But, ahhhh, Griffon - that is my new love.

So yes, I’m a thrillseeker. Label me. I could NOT have asked for a better gift. The fam is now required to take me there every Mother’s Day (there were NO LINES!)

And to our mamas - thank you, we love you, we’ll see 2 out of the 3 of you this weekend and show you just how much.