Little things.

When Stephen was gone playing with the kids, I worked on these things. Not totally great, but I am happy with them.



First one was for Meredith's little goose, second was for Mom's 24Th wedding anniversary wow, and the third for my friend Lauren at work, she still has yet to receive it.
I am working on another project and it is taking me a little long to finish due to no time. So, more to come later...until then look At my favorite placefor my favorite things.

Aww now I am really jealous

Stephen emailed me these pictures tonight of the girls at a restaurant called Fire and Ice, They had so much fun. Keep in mind that my hubby forgot his camera and he used his cell phone for the pics. Don't my girls look so happy, I am so glad they have such a wonderful daddy. Boy are they lucky, and so am I!

I am alone all alone....

Yes, my family left me for beautiful Tahoe two days ago. I am secretly smiling. Some of you know that I am in heaven, but to be quite honest...i miss my crazy family, and being crazy alone isn't to much fun.
I have made way to many *extra* trips to Green Tangerines, and when I mean extra, I mean EXTRA (sorry babe). Apparently I am filling the void, with paper, thickers, ribbon and ink. But I made fun things! I will post later when they are given to the people I adore.
Stephen and the girls are having such a good time, eating out and playing on the beach, wish I was there.......
But I am having so much fun at work too, we have been getting in lots of CHA products that makes me a very busy girl! But I love to see the faces of the Creative Crew when we get really cool stuff, it makes me smile.
On to another dreadful topic....Weight ugh, I am struggling so much this week, and I have 161 more days until Kauai...that means 161 days to lose weight! That is 23 weeks, so I know I said this before, but this time I am going to record my weight loss. Wish me luck and if you want to join in - I would love it.....
If you want to see some really cool weight loss check this out...Donna Downey. She looks so amazing you will need to scroll down to Big Reveal.

Phulps Family Reunion

Yesterday we had our 2nd anuual Phulps family reunion at Lake Minden. I packed up the kiddos and set out for a fun HOT day with my wonderful family. Grandpa and his brother Dude (Louie) and sister Beverly got all the family members together and set up this really fun party. Aunt Helen's family and Uncle Bob's family was there also. We met cousins that we didn't know we had and it was fun to see all the little ones play. Uncle Herman and Aunt Bev are really into the family history (they are our Family Historians) and they put together so much information that I was a little overwhelmed and excited.
The pictures at the top are obviously the first Phulps with the spelling that remains today. Volp and Fulp were the original way to spell it, so you can imagine all the hard work that went into finding all the original Volps, and Fulps. ugh, a huge project that I am glad it was pretty much handed to me to add to my list of people.

Boating

On Thursday, a day after our anniversary we went boating with some wonderful friends of ours, the Chapmans. We spent the day playing paddle ball, football, and exploring the lake with the kiddos. Stephen and I played paddle ball for an hour or so and I have to say out of the two of us; I am the one that tries the hardest. I don't think his feet ever left the ground. We ran into some of our friends on the lake too, which made it so much special. We opted not to go home for dinner and went to a restaurant and had a yummy dinner with fantastic company. Thanks Chapmans for a really great day. The kids were good considering they had been in the sun all day running and playing. Steph and I had a really good Hard Cider Pomegranit, yummy. I had forgotten that Cider was more milder than a good beer, especially with my problematic tummy.

Happy Anniversary to US..

Today is Our 6th Anniversary. Wow, I can't believe its been 6 years. *it actually feels like ten!* Its been fun, crazy not so fun, everything a marriage is and I can't wait for another 6 years. In that time, we have had two children, 3 dogs, 3 cats, 12 fish, 2 houses, 3 cars, 4 computers, 8 major hunting trips, 6 duck seasons, 6 major fishing trips, 5 scrapbook weekends, 1 million bottles of wine (ok, exaggeration there but not by much). A lot of things have changed but mostly things just stay the same, the way they were when we were first married. (except my hair, that seems to change a lot!)

I love you hunny.