Milestones

Our 9th anniversary was last Thursday (thus the beautiful flowers, same periwinkle color as at our wedding). At first it looked like we might not get to celebrate alone, but we ended up celebrating two days in a row! I have a maternity aqua exercise class that meets T/Th evenings until 6pm, so my friend Amy watches the kids. She offered to keep them Thursday evening while we went out to eat at The Cafe. This is probably the coolest restaurant in our town...awesome food, awesome ambiance, and they are dedicated to providing as much locally produced food as possible, which is great.

Then Friday night my in-laws, who are in the throes of a COMPLETE kitchen remodel (as in no cupboards on the walls at the moment and just got their new appliances), offered to watch the boys while we went out again:) This time to Cool Basil, which has had mixed reviews. Spouse had been there once before for a business lunch and the service was terrible, but the food great, so we figured it was worth the gamble. It was awesome! I had Tom Yum soup and gingered orange roughy. Spouse had Tom Kai soup and angry dish Pad-Pi-Rod.

Then on Saturday, S-i-L had her baby, so I am an aunt for the second time:) Dominic Borg (family last name) Purcell made his appearance during the day and we saw him briefly before I had to fill in a partial shift at the Fast Track Sunday evening. They've been too busy to blog his appearance yet, so no pics of him yet:(

Seventh Anniversary

This one was done from scratch, using mostly freebies and other assorted pieces from the Jessica Sprague NWR class. Me & my sweetie!

Journaling: After seven years of marriage (on top of seven years of dating), I still find myself completely in love with you and wondering what life still has in store for us. On our anniversary this year, we actually hired a rare babysitter to have a night alone at Appare, a Japanese restaurant in Des Moines. I wonder where we’ll be in seven more years. . . they say seven is the “perfect” number, so maybe we’ll be lying on a beach or strolling through Europe together on our 14th anniversary!

Michelle Coleman topper
Katie Pertiet On the Edge Flourishes 3 6G
JSprague stapled heart and Valentine background page and pieces of flourished frame.
Herald and CK Becky fonts.

TFL!
Cheri

A smörgåsbord for your viewing pleasure!

Top image: Grandma & Grandpa's 65th Anniversary
There is more journaling and a copy of the newspaper article sticking out from the circular pocket. For my scrapping friends, the supply list: Basic Grey Motifica paper, ANCIENT MAMBI stickers (I always liked their heritage line), and K & Company epoxy sticker.

The barn is a quilted piece of art I purchased through the Mary Greeley Medical Center Auxiliary art department. They always have a featured artist and works for sale in a couple hallways of the hospital. This artist is a nurse who works at the hospital. She painstakingly machine quilts around each tiny little element in the design, including each little brick in the lower part of the barn. It was our joint gift with my parents for my grandparents anniversary and a couple other holidays for this year.

Second image: Michael on our neighbor, Minnie's, swing. Junkitz papers, unknown chipboard circle and sticker, Queen and Co brads
Third image: Christopher at the park. This is a "scraplift" of a layout in the Basic Grey catalog from a year or so ago. Junkitz & Magenta papers, CraftRobo cut shapes (circle, heart), and stickers from my friend Kristina (see, I'm using them!!)...can't remember the brand off-hand.

Fourth image: Michael on the carousel at Adventureland: This was a class taught at Memory Bound Scrapbook store. Paper and flowers are MAMBI, die cut was cut on the CraftRobo, fonts are Rage, Dingos, ribbons are May Arts and circle stamp is 7 Gypsies.

Fifth image: A Day out with Thomas in Boone: I had to work at the Fast Track, so Jeff met his parents in Boone to take the kids on Thomas and do the various activities. He didn't bring the camera (2 boys are enough to handle), so we paid "mega" bucks to purchase the "professional" images...actually the boys smiled way better for him than they did for us the last 2 years, so it was worth it.