Another Mother's Day Layout

 Shimelle Laine posted a tutorial over at Shimelle.com and I decided to follow along and see what I could come up with. I just finished it last night and am so happy with the results. I used more Every Day Moments by Teresa Collins (I simply love the colors in this line!) I haven't used brads in ages and she had us using brads with bakers twine....what a clever idea. I love bakers twine. I used some more photos from Mother's Day and voila....my layout was done in very little time. Have a great week everyone!

Everyday Moments

I don't always scrap photos of just myself. I am like most Moms that have a tendency to always be behind the camera. Now that my kids are grown I am learning to hand the camera over to them. I often times love the results. Of course some times they get some really "interesting" shots that I wish they hadn't but isn't that what the delete key is for? lol This one Jason took of me on Mother's Day. I think he did a great job. I found a sketch over at Let's Capture These Sketches and paired it up with the beautiful Teresa Collins Everyday Moments line. I can really relate to capturing the everyday. I don't always think to do it but those are the photos I love the most. Those are the ones that tell the stories that I want to tell. If only I had the stories to go with all the photos I have of my Mother's and Grandmother's. Hopefully I am leaving the stories that my children will want to read about someday. Thanks Jason for capturing an everyday moment with your Mom on Mother's Day.

Mother's Day

My Mother's Day Flowers from Jason

It's been a lovely day. I started out with breakfast in bed after I slept in ....along with a very cute card and photo from Jeremy and Holly. Ok...it was printed at Costco but it was a "wordle" he used Mother's Day as the base and then put in all kinds of sweet tender words on it...some made no sense to anyone else but me but it brought tears to my eyes. Then we went to church during Relief Society (the women's meeting) we were treated to a lunch served by some of the men in our ward. It was so nice and very tasty. After we got home I put the leg of lamb in the oven as Cliff wasn't sure how to cook it and I was really hungry for lamb. We got to skype with Jeremy and Holly and I got a little scrappy time and even a short nap before dinner...man was it good! My Gramma would have been proud of me...I even made her mint relish. After dinner I opened my cute cards from the rest of the family. Yes there was even one from Riley...lol I also got a gift certificate for a spa pedicure which I will no doubt enjoy! So there you have it...my Mother's Day...I am so grateful for my sweet husband and my amazing children...they are simply the BEST!

He hates having his picture taken but he managed
to give me this one. =)

The cute Wordle that Jeremy made me

Leg of Lamb...done to perfection!

I am so grateful to be a Mom







Costco Huntington Beach Grand Opening

Sign on the side of the building

It's been a crazy few weeks. I can't say enough wonderful things about the new Costco in Huntington Beach. I came home and told Cliff that the warehouse was "beautiful" he looked at me like I had rocks in my head. It was hard not to think it was beautiful. Nothing was messed up...every item was perfectly stacked..the floors were polished, the ceiling was so white and bright. everything was so pristine. So yes...beautiful does describe the new Huntington Beach Costco. Of course you have to take into consideration that I came from working in a 25 year old warehouse...so new is wonderful.

We have merchandise geared for our beach community

Our Grand Opening was this past week. Tuesday night we had a VIP night which basically was a party for all the exec's and to show off our new warehouse to the community. We attempted to count not Costco cards but actual bodies as they entered the front door....What a trick that was! There were actually two of us with "clickers" counting people as they entered...my thumb was clicking fast and furiously. Not sure how accurate we were but we did the best we could. Wednesday we opened for business. It was busy....like a Saturday in Fountain Valley. For a new warehouse I think we had a pretty successful opening. I love our managers. They are so willing to help us. They have no problem getting in the trenches and working along side us. I think that does a lot for morale.

Another perk to working in HB is the fact that I am now third in line with seniorty so I am working days. It's so nice to be home with Cliff in the evenings. We can actually do stuff together! What I am having trouble with is the fact that for the last 5.5 years I have been working basically all evenings and so have been use to having my mornings to myself....so it will take a bit of adjusting but all in all its a good thing.

We had a table full of high end Channel and Prada
handbags that sold like crazy the first day we
were opened!

Our front end manager Rommel along with two of
 my front door co-workers Carrie and Judith

Rommel and Carrie our Asst Warehouse Manager

Here I am in the oh-so-lovely red vest (NOT) along with
Carrie, Shirley and Peter.

 

Our entrance door is on the corner of the building
so they made the cake that way. =)

I told ya....bright and white! Of course the registers
are now uncovered...lol

Look at those perfectly stacked colorful tee shirts!





My 5 Minute Commute



Love these guys! Sure will miss them!



I started working at the new warehouse in Huntington Beach this week....no kidding I can get to work in 5 minutes! Of course parking is going to be insane when the place opens but for the next two weeks I can enjoy a speedy commute and close up parking. So far I am really enjoying the new place. I am working with a lot of the same people from Fountain Valley and I am also working with a lot of new people. Everyone is so nice and if a warehouse could be considered beautiful this one certainly is. It's HUGE, and clean, and white, and bright. I love it. We still have lots to do to get ready for the Grand Opening and the VIP Party on May first...but I am sure it will all come together nicely.

While Linda was here I took her over and showed her the new Costco. As we were leaving we saw this in the parking lot....



I had to ask...Linda says about 500!
Think we will run out on a busy Saturday?



Linda being the numbers girl she is was trying to figure out just how many carts there were...being the "artsy" girl I am I just wanted to get a cool picture. It just shows how different we are and yet sometimes we aren't that different at all. If I could remember how many baskets she figured out were there I would tell you but I don't remember...which is also "so me"....lol I did get a pretty good "artsy" picture tho don't you agree? =D

Girls Weekend!!!

Linda and I did a pretty good job with the self timer on
her camera!



  I had a wonderful girls weekend with Linda last weekend. It was so much fun to hang out and do girl stuff. She has been working so hard at work that she decided she needed to actually go some place on her vacation instead of just staying at home. She really needed to get away. It was perfect timing as I had taken the weekend off before starting work at the new warehouse in Huntington Beach. So we did lots of girl stuff...we had pedicures, did some scrap shopping and of course played with paper! It was really nice to just hang out and relax. I did this layout while she was here. I used Teresa Collins Carolina Breeze. I love the yellow and grey with just the right amount of black and white thrown in. It worked perfectly for the photo that Linda and I took with the self timer on her camera.

A Weekend of Resting and General Conference

I have had an interesting weekend....I got sick on Thursday night at work....came home and stayed in bed for the next two days. No fun! Thankfully, I started feeling better and decided to scrap. I decided to scrap some random photos from 2011 and used some paper that I got from the girlz at Scrap Friendzy. Thanks Cheryl for the cute paper. The other layout is a fun picture of my sister's family from last year when they attended a wedding in a pumpkin patch! I used some Teresa Collins Fabrications line for that along with a design from Helen a talented dt member over on the Counterfeit Blog.

This was also General Conference weekend at Church.  It was nice to be able to listen to all the sessions. President Uchtdorf's talk this morning was great I loved this quote.

"Don't judge me just because I sin differently than you do" (Bumper sticker cited by Dieter F. Uchtdorf) It was a humbling talk about not judging others. It was something I needed to hear. Later President Monson spoke and I loved this quote by him:

"Ponder the truths you've heard, help them make you better than you already are." So that's what my plan is...to think about all the things I have heard today and help them to make me a better person.