story of the day...

angie gets a speeding ticket

whatever!!! we had just left the stampin up tour and heading to robert's (provo crafts' local retail store). i had just slowed down to let two dumb girls cross the street and was just starting to go again. and we see the policeman. i look down and i see the speedometer on 41. i'm in a 35 zone. i look in the rear view mirror and see him turn around onto the street. oh great. lights turn on. holy crap!! i'm getting pulled over with my cute mom, traci and mary in the car!!! i was so mad! he gave me a ticket for going 49, which is 14 over the limit. there is no way i could have been going that fast. oh well. it's his word. so i now have to pay a $107 speeding ticket.

what a great experience for the out of towners!!

met the queen...

of papercrafts, that is!!! here's the story...

so we met up with traci and mary yesterday. it was great meeting mary and seeing traci again. we went to go tour the ck media offices that chelsea went to a few months (has it been that long???) ago. i didn't have many expectations other than maybe getting a free magazine or something. well they were totally blown out of the water!!!

we all walked up to the door of the ck media offices and who opens the front door and greets us? non other than lisa bearnson! yes, the queen of paper crafting and founder of creating keepsakes. she welcomed us in and we took pictures. she was so friendly and excited that we were there to go on a tour. also in the lobby was stacy croninger, the editor in chief of paper crafts magazine. we got pictures with her too. then we took a tour of the offices and we were introduced to almost every person that worked there. it was cool. we got a stack of all the new issues of papercrafts, simple scrapbooks, creating keepsakes and more. we also got to pick a few books. and we got two books that lisa autographed and one that stacy autographed. it was so fun! i heard an interview once with lisa and she said, "it's nice to be important, but it's more important to be nice." and i think she lives by this.

mary (my cute mom), me, lisa bearnson, mary h, traci

mary h, traci, stacy croninger, me, mary

and let's not forget the cute tour guide, dani, who made it all happen! if you ever want to go visit ck media, she's the one to talk to!

the goodies we got!!

traci and mary gave me and my cute mom the cutest things that they are swapping at the convention. so nice!!

a little fun...

a few shackies, traci and mary, are coming to town today for the big stampin up convention. don't ask my why i was a dork and decided this wouldn't be an event i should attend!! oh man! anyway, we are going to get together a few times over the next couple of days and have some fun. today we are going to go tour the ck media (think papercrafts mag, creating keepsakes, etc) offices. then we'll just see some sights or go find more stores to visit!!

a little less cash...

so kerry loves to play poker. he gets together with his friends every few months to play, but that doesn't usually satisfy his jonesing for poker. so every now and then we go out to wendover (think the run down version of vegas on about 1/1000th of the scale). it's about 140 miles from our house and takes a little less than 2 hours to get there. we usually have a coupon for a free hotel room, so besides gas (which is horrendous) it's not too expensive of a little getaway. until you add the money for gambling!! i usually blow about a hundred bucks, then head up to the room for the night and craft the night away while kerry plays poker until the wee hours (or not depending on how he's doing, like last night when he was done at midnight!). that's what we did yesterday. we just got home. i finished two swaps last night and made a few new cards. i have to go take pictures and then i'll post them.

tonight we are going to finish staining the deck. it's going to be so nice when it's all done!!!