Day 3 - YaYa Scrapbook Sisterhood trip

 

Day 3 - a very exciting "discovery" for me - FLIP-FLAPS!!!!!  If you haven't used these, you should.  In the foreground you can see "extra" photos on the chair?  These are the NUMEROUS photos that I took on this fantastic day - and to actually scrap all of them would have filled the entire album!  So, I have 3 photos where each 1 photo is placed on the layout.  How you do this is you decide the layout page (photographed here out of the page protector) so that the "best-est" photo is actually going to be shown on the top of the FLIP-FLAP on the outside of the page protector.  Amazing, huh?  I'm sure I'll be thinking about orientation of my photos more on the next trip (such as - "I have 2 horizontal photos and 3 vertical, I need another horizontal one").  :D

This part of the trip?  Well, Keri couldn't actually move into her apartment until Tuesday so we enjoyed the day together by driving over to the ocean (Newport, Oregon) and up along the coast to Lincoln City.  From Lincoln City we realized that there was fog swooping in from the North - so we jumped into the car and kept moving - stopping at many places along the way until the fog caught up with us.  It was really fun - racing the fog!  We had a lovely lunch at Rogue Ale House (a micro-brewery that also had fabulous food!) and visited park beaches as well as wineries!  What a perfect day!  The Oregon coast is wild and beautiful - much more so than I had imagined!  It's amazing.

So - first day back at work?  I am tired, but not overwhelmingly so -  It was a good day.  I'm getting around so much better than before.  I'm truly blessed to have such an excellent health care team! 

Hugs!

 

Day 2 - YaYa Trip Scrapbook

 

Day 2 of the trip - working on this scrapbook has been so much fun as I feel like I'm doing it all over again!  This day was mostly just driving - but if you look for it - adventure and interesting things come while you're driving, too!

I enjoyed an afternoon with my dear friends scrapbooking today - what a blessing!  I go back to work tomorrow (I'm strong enough!) and I'm sure the week will test my will-power!  Have a wonderful week full of a sense of awe and accomplishment! 

Namaste.

YaYa Scrapbooking Sisterhood Adventure of 2009

I've finally got to work on the YaYa Scrapbooking Sisterhood Adventure!  These are the two pages from our first day on the road (or rather, the end of the day) spent at Harris Ranch in Coalinga, CA.  I've used a mish-mash of photos, clippings from brochures, and post-cards!  The bright green image on the 2nd page is actually from a shower cap (my friend Pam's idea - and a good one!).

Hope your New Year's Day was good - ours was quiet.  I attended a funeral (a dear church family member), and went to the gym to do my rehab.  After a late lunch, I fell asleep and slept hard for a couple of hours.  Tonight I'm playing in the craft room for a bit while running loads of laundry.   Tomorrow should be a little more fun as we're hoping to go exploring a bit.  

Hugs!

Topstitch - MANLY

I've used my Window Charms more in the last week than in the last year! I guess I re-discovered them!! You know how things like to hide in the bottom of the drawer!

I love the definitions - a new set called "State of Mind". It includes Giddy, Love, Happiness, Beautiful, Favorite, Joyful, and Twitterpated (and Kindness). ;-)

I've been SO lazy! Santa brought me the entire 7 seasons of Gilmore Girls. Kristen and I watched them together when she was in high school - we thought we WERE the Gilmore Girls!!! The year Kristen went off to BU, was the year Rory went to Yale. I couldn't watch! It was just too much for me - I was struggling with the separation. But, as you know, I survived - my precious daughter grew up to be an amazing woman. I can watch Gilmore Girls now! My excuse is that I need to keep my knee elevated with ice (right?). LOL

Hugs!

Topstitch

I just love this new paper from Close-to-My-Heart! It's called Topstitch and it's very versatile. This card (girly) and another one I made (manly) from the same pack - now that's neat! This card was inspired by one by Teresa Kline found here.

I've been enjoying having my Kristen & her Brian here - Sean, too! Sean is Kristen's best friend and although he lives here, he only comes over when she's in town. We've had wonderful long talks, snacks, games, and late-late nights! When K and B left this morning to visit her father's side of the family in Prescott - I went back to bed! I'm not used to staying up until 2 AM!!! ;-)

Thank goodness I don't have to work this week! I'm still off with the knee - and my progress is remarkable! I've been going to the gym to use the stationary bike and there is definite progress each day. I'm moving better, getting stronger, hurting less. Yea for me!

I hope to post more - I've got lots of Thank You notes to prepare, and hope to get started on the Ya-Ya scrapbook!!!

Hugs!

Veranda Creative Basics - Sneak Peak!

True confessions - I copied shamelessly out of the new Close-to-My-Heart catalog to be released 1/1/10. This is the cutest stamp set - and the paper (Veranda) is beautiful!

I'm getting this post done quickly as it is FINALLY time to go to the airport to pick up my darling daughter and her boyfriend! Yippee!!!

Later alligator!

Update!

Surgery went well - I got home about 3:30 and had a bowl of rice and took a pain pill - - - then straight to bed. I slept a couple of hours, and awoke with a little nausea. I think I'll try to get off that particular pill as soon as possible.

I've been walking all over the house - it isn't any more difficult than it was before the surgery so that's great news! From here, it will just be getting better and better!

Thank you all for your prayers and well-wishes. Oh, and for those who weren't sure what I was having done, it was a torn meniscus and removal of a cyst in my knee. The tear and cyst were worse than the surgeon predicted, but he managed them beautifully. Can you stand a funny story? The anesthesiologist was quizzing me before surgery on what I'd eaten and asked about my current pain. I said "yes" and he asked me to describe it. When I mentioned a headache, he asked if I'm a coffee drinker (which I most certainly am!) and then he ordered caffeine to be added to my IV!!! Now THAT's customer service!!!!

Namaste.