You know you are out of shape when. . .

Alright it has been day three to my "Back to Running" routine. And I know that I am out of shape, because little griz dog can run faster than me. He is only 8 inches off the ground and weighs 6 lbs. Okay I seriously have a lot of work to do- but three days and I am still doing it-I don't go very far-just enough to get my heart working. Tonight the kids and Taylor ran with me, along with Griz, and it was nice to have company.
This other picture is one of Stephanie's new doodles-we really need to get her up to Montana to teach a class! She is amazing. I have just been working on a few things for CKU next week. Cannot wait to go-Amber and I leave on Tues and we are driving to Provo-
Off to the cabin for the weekend-we are all ready to go-tomorrow night we are going to have a hot dog roast and make s'mores! See you Sunday!

Summer Fun

It seems like forever since I posted on my blog and that is why I have random pictures and a lot to say.
Great weekend. We went swimming with Molly and the kids on Friday and they had so much fun! Then we headed to Anaconda to have dinner with Nana and Papa. On Saturday my dad took the kids to Evil Kenevil Days in Butte and Fishing at the potholes on Sunday. So when Ike returned on Sunday we finally got to take a bike ride-(this is our picture without helmets) it is the rule that helmets are worn-so if you ever see my husband without one he is in big trouble!!!!! He loves the bike and has had a lot of fun with it-It sure beats filling up the Chevy Silverado with gas let me tell ya-It cost him $14.85 to ride to work all last week.
My lil love and I hung out all day today-while our little man was at football camp. My self and two neighbors all locked ourselves out of our houses today (what a coinicendience??) So my little love was climbing through the screen windows to let everyone in, I can't believe three of us were locked out in the same day. She had a lot of fun doing it.
The picture of my little man is with Griz, and I found them like this one night last week. I don't know how griz made it under the covers of if lil man put him there.
The two garden photos are of my mother in laws gardens-they are so beautiful!!!
She and my father in law really work a ton in their yard and it shows.
My next class "Dates to Remember," will be August 19th at the Hideaway-call to sign up, I am taking 8 people-pictures will be posted next week.
Also other great scrapbooking news, Lisa Bearnson and Stacy Julian will be coming to Missoula in October to do a fundraising benefit crop for Tracy and her family. We are so lucky to have both of them come. The Scrapbook Hideaway will be posting dates, times and classes soon.
This weekend we are heading up to the Lake-can't wait, haven't been there for a couple of weeks, and really miss being up there. Maybe I will even waterski!!!
Hope you are having a good week!

Ten Years Today

Today Ten Years Ago today I married my sweetie in Butte Montana. I have to say besides the birth of my children it was one of the happiest days of my life. Ten years, 2 children, 2 dogs, moves, school, buying a practice, oh the list could go on, and here we are. I love it where we are, couldn't ask for a better life and am so blessed to have what I have. It has been a great ten years and I can't wait to see what the next 60 bring. When we first got married and lived in Milwaukee we said that we were going to buy a Harley on our 10th Wedding Anniversary, welllllll, nothing was said for a long time and let's just say I will post pictures later.
Now on to less "deep thinking issues," here is a new school project-something fun and simple for school, coming up in a month.
My day started off rather rough. I usually wake up at about 6-6:15-I see patients starting at 8:00. Well at 7:15 I awoke to Griz puking on my bed, didn't know whether to clean up the puke, wake the kids, or run to the shower. I did clean up the puke, then woke up the kids, and then took a 36 second shower-
Everyone made it out the door in 17 minutes-wow!
Have a great weekend!

Vacation Book Class

I had a great time teaching at the Scrapbook Hideway last night. Even though I put those poor girls through a whole album-they all completed an entire 5 x 7 album in one night! Good job! They all did a great job and their vacaction books turned out great!
The next class I am going to teach is the "Dates to Remember Book," I will have to ask Gina about a date-I think there will be the book and 5 cards to go along with it!
You can watch the Scrapbook Hideaway website for class details.
Tonight we ventured to Costco and the Grocery Store-and now I
am pooped!
I hope you are all having a great week. The kids and I are going swimming on Friday with Molly and the kids and maybe we will catch a movie on Saturday!

Home from Vegas. . .

What a great trip to Vegas we had-We saw two great shows-O and Blue Man Group-both were great! We ate at a lot of awesome restaurants-If you get to Vegas you need to go to the Burger Bar-They have the best hamburgers around. We shopped and swam and just had a great time together! We loved watching the people-I guess it must say it somewhere that you are allowed to wear what ever you want in Vegas-because let me tell you that everything goes-We had an awesome time-but I think we are both happy to be home. Two weekends in a row traveling is a lot for people that usually don't go much further than Georgetown Lake. We also visited the Harley Store in Vegas-very cool and for those of you wondering I have no idea who the man in the O picture sign is-I was just taking a photo and he happened to be there-I must get to laundry and kissing my kids again goodnight-(they have been sleeping for awhile-but I love seeing them sleep-especially when I have been away for awhile) Oh yeah big thanks to Nana and Papa who took care of the fort! When they picked us up at the airport today they looked like they were ready to be relieved of their duty! Thanks so much the kids had a great time with you!!

Our Rental Car

Recently for an undisclosed reason Ike's truck has been in the shop (and no it wasn't me for once!!) One of our assistants accidentally hit the dumpster at the office after running an errand-any how long story short the truck is in the shop and our rental car is known as "ol blue." It is Amber and Jared's and we thank them so much for allowing us to borrow it while Ike's truck is getting it fixed-
Jared tells Ike it is quite the chick magnet and I better watch out-
I drove ol blue coming home from the office tonight, and she likes to go 55- that's where the little orange spot is on her speedometer-and that's where she should stay-
Her only down fall is lack of cup holders and we are going to work on that one!
Thanks for the ride and she has been a perfect rental vehicle for us while Ike's truck is getting fixed.

Seattle

Our meeting was great- took a lot of great dental classes and it was really fun for our entire staff to be together!! Despite our assistant Michelle nearly knocking her front teeth out in the Spokane airport- it was a great trip-
The second night we were there we ate at the Cheesecake Factory and the third night we ate at Ivers on the waterfront-hence my new flossing invention (Sarah I know you will appreciate this one) Have you ever seen those little floss handles? I made my very own with my crab claw- It is now known as the Seattle Floss Handle!!!!
We got to shop and just hang out and have fun after our classes!
Also posted are a couple new cards!
Big week this week with Griz Basketball Camp and our trip to Vegas!!!
I hope you all have a great week!

You know your car is dirty when.....

We are taking our car part way-to Spokane for our Dental Conference and so I thought the staff wouldn't appreciate the wrappers, dirt, chicken nuggets, and other little special things my children leave underneath their carseats so I had it detailed. My husband picked it up after work and brought it home. When he brought it home he opened all the doors and my little love was looking inside-she ran in and said, "Mommy, Daddy bought you a new car!!!"
I guess I need to clean it more often!
Have a great weekend and I will post pictures when I return.

Vegas here we come....

Okay I have been seriously bummed out-It just so happened that Ike scheduled a dental course in Phoenix over a year ago and come to find out it landed on our anniversary-Not just an ol Anniversary-our 10th-so I was a little sad until today!!
It started at dinner when he told me that he needed to use my scrapbook room for awhile. He was down there for about 40 minutes when he came up with a gift certificate to my favorite clothing store and a card-(a homemade one by him) First he went into the details about all my little gadgets and how he liked the chalk (maybe our next Tim Holtz?????) He used stencils for the card-Heidi Swapp Hearts and inside this little message:
Here is to 10 wonderful years!!! The 10 best years of my life. Here is a little something to pick our an outfit for our big trip!

Who: Ike and Carrie (married for 10 years)
What: A fabulous trip for two
When: Leave on Thurs the 17th and return on Sunday the 20th
Where: Las Vegas; three nights at Mandalay Bay

PS: All dinners and shows are included
I Love you very much! Hope we have a great time!
Love You
Ike

Okay.....I am impressed-scheduled Nana and Papa to come, booked everything; including a nice dinner, two shows, I am SOOOOOOOO excited I can hardly stand it.

Alright-now that I am floating, I think I am going to go fold laundry!

Fourth of July Weekend

What a great weekend!- We had a lot of fun relaxing even though it seemed like we were constantly doing something.
Let me put the 4th of July into perspective for you from my lil mans standpoint.
He asked his dad if we could move his birthday to the 4th of July. He saves his money all year for fireworks, and he can't sleep the night before we let off all the fireworks and the constant, "is it time yet?"
We did have fun and my lil love wasn't scared this year-she even lit some of them.
A BBQ with the family, water-fun (Ike said that I need to re-deem him with a picture that is nice and so here it is) a parade at the Lake (Which was a ton of fun) and last night Kung Fu Panda (again) yes we have seen it twice!! If you have never been to the Washoe Theatre in Anaconda you need to go sometime. It is so beautiful!!!
There are a couple of spots left in the Vacation Book Class so if you want to sign up- it is 543-6222-do it today!!!!
The cards are made from scraps and the same paper I used for the Dates Book below!!!
I love the paper!
This week is busy-heading to Seattle for the Northwestern Dental Society Dental Conference Wed-Sat-it is going to be a ton of fun-our entire staff is going!!!!!
I will post some pictures of our trip later!
Have a great week!

Best of Times, Bags and Books

Alright a lot to share-sorry about all the pictures-just had to get them all in before the long weekend.
Best of Times: We have so much fun at the Lake-the kids love to be there-along with mom and dad!!! This was last weekends trip and a couple swimming photos. My husband is going to kill me for this one!!
Bags: Just a couple new bags- These are so fun to make!!!
Books: This is my new Dates to Remember Book-It is a book where you can keep track of all the birthdays, anniversaries, special days , any day that you would like to remember every year. I think that I may do this as a class at some point- Gina what do you think? It sits on your desk, and has 12 months for you to fill in with all of those special people in your life.
I hope you all have a wonderful SAFE 4th of July-we are off to watch the fireworks in Butte tomorrow night. We always watch them at Mt. Tech. Then Ike brought the kids to the big fireworks stand at Evaro Hill so I think we will be lighting fireworks for the next 2 weeks- (I was getting my hair done.) I think I should go supervise next year by the looks of the front seat of his truck-he is such a kid at heart! The rest of the weekend will be spent at the Lake!!
Have a great holiday!!!!

A work in progress

I have been working on my blog now for awhile and as you all may notice I haven't gotten very far-I think on Sunday night I am really going to put in some time and make this site look a little different!
I will post some pictures tomorrow-been working on some new bags and I have a new Dates to Remember Book that I may use as a class (not sure about that one yet) You can all tell me what you think.
This weekend was so much fun-we had a great time at the lake. We were out on the water a lot and I am now convinced my husband needs a helmet when wake-boarding-we are going to get one tomorrow- It is a comical site-me driving the boat-my little man is my co-pilot-lets me know what to do next-slow down, speed up, or we lost dad-my little love she holds Griz-and does a fine job-Myself I am so nervous driving-there are a lot of boats and ducks and well I am just paranoid!! It was a ton of fun and I am looking forward to spending the 4th weekend at the Lake. I promise I will be back tomorrow night with some photos!
Take care