Hello all,
Enjoying the blizzard??? We had a fairly peaceful day at home. This weekend was another story.
We went on a snowmobile trip to Pequot Lakes, MN which is near Brainerd. This is an annual vacation for us for about the last 5 or 6 years. We left late Thursday night and arrived at the motel around 11pm. We enjoyed their free breakfast of waffles, bagels, juice, coffee, cereal, etc early the next morning so the kids could get some swim time in before we left for the trail ride. In past years I measure the success of the trip based on the hours spent in the pool... and we did rather well this year with about 8 total between 3 days.
After swimming, however, Ben our snowmobile enthusiast (pretty cool, I spelled that right without spellcheck!) didn't feel right and was rolling around the floor all curled up like a ball. When asked if he wanted to skip the trail ride he proceeded to get his gear on while curled up...it was quite a task. He was a good sport and drove his Skidoo from the motel to downtown Pequot and took a little cap nap in the little red and white cutter that Bethany and Josh rode in behind Paul's '66 Arctic Cat. He found his second wind and made the trail ride to the restaurant, just in time to take another rest on the floor laying on my coat. He found his 'third wind' and made it back to the motel and rested and watched cartoon for awhile, while we went swimming. He caught his forth wind and joined us pool side throwing a ball for Bethany and Josh. He finished the night feeling like he had to puke, but didn't and by 7:30 am on Saturday he woke me up stating, "I feel awesome!"
Saturday went well with a snowmobile show and races which Ben raced two and got a trophy for the youngest racer. More swimming for us and Paul and Ben went to the banquet where Ben got his trophy. Sat night around 3am, I awoke to Bethany puking which lasted for a good 2 hours. Luckily, Paul was able to sleep through the whole ordeal....
Sunday, Bethany was feeling a little better, but tired. Josh started getting sympathy pains and they both declined breakfast. We packed up and headed for home by about noon. About 20 min into the drive, Josh was complaining a bit more loudly about his tummy hurting so, I told Paul we had better find a bucket somewhere. Luckily, Paul found a sympathetic gas station employee who found us a large bucket and wished us luck and off we went. We took Josh's coat off to find him rather clammy, but he seemed content to watch the movie on the laptop. About an hour in to the drive....Bethany was the first to use the bucket....and eventually Josh did too. Not too pleasant of a trip. By Wahpeton, Ben was needing to go to the bathroom, but decided to wait til home. Off we went.
We arrived at home around 4:30, just in time to unload the pickup before we watched the Vikings game. (Yeah, yeah I know they lost) While we unloaded here comes my black lab, Lena, holding her hind leg up. Looks like she broke it, but with the icy roads decided to bring her in the house and take her to the vet in the morning (lets make that Tuesday morning)
Ben finally made it to the bathroom and shortly was yelling for....you guessed it, a bucket.....
So the blizzard was a pleasant surprise seeing the kids weren't going to school anyway. Unfortunately, Lena had to wait to get to the vet (I'll post her update tomorrow)
On the bright side, Ben's fish tank went from 3 fish to about 20 when a black molly exploded with babies!!! They are way too cute. And tonight, Josh found an itty bitty little orange fish, so who knows how many fish will be in there in the morning.
No puking today and with 2 extra hours in the morning we should get to our destinations.
I hope you had a less eventful weekend than we did, although we did enjoy it.
More later with pictures...I can't find the picture card thingy again.
Thanks for stopping,
Treena
P.S. Fish for sale
I couldn't resist the wise ol' owl for graduation cards this year.
This one was for a Confirmation card. I made the cross using the Dahlia fold,
Here is a quick birthday card I made for a classmate of Josh's. 
Here is the invitation I made for Josh's B-day party.
After school, we walked down to the Pizza Ranch; 17 kindergartners in all!!
Here is Josh holding his treat he brought to school that day.
Good morning to all!!
Here are 2 cards we made last night featuring two-step stamping sets.
This card features a 2 step set that SU! is offering at 20% off:
The kids beat me home from school and called my cell phone to tell me the porch was filled with boxes!! They carried them into the living room for me and I waited until they were in bed to open them....how fun!!
Not all are mine.....but it is sure fun to unpack these boxes.
Here are a couple cards you could make on Tuesday if you come to my Easter Workshop!
Hello everyone!! Where does the time go.....it has been forever!!
This little bunny bag turned out so cute and could be filled with any colorful candy. 
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The big day made for a very sleepy Joshy on the way home.
Here are 2 cards from the last club night. This one uses my Big Shot and the movers and shapers die to make the fun heart cut out featuring the heart embosslit die.
This one uses the two step bird punch. It gives such great detail and is soo easy to use!
We even focused on the inside with another beautiful butterfly, elegant border with the scallop trim border (which you can get free during Sale-a-bration!)
Here are the items we will be making at my next workshop.
Making Valentine cards has turned out to be a fun time for me!
This is a wedding card for future use. It also uses the Well scripted set. The large heart is cut out with the Big Shot and the movers and shapers die. I plan on adding the special couples initials in the heart.
Another fun new toy from the mini is the Scalloped Heart to Heart embosslit die. It cuts and embosses this heart which is just a hair bigger than the large heart punch, so it layers wonderfully as seen on the first card.
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I love these little 3x3 cards, they are so fun and quick to make.
This card uses the new 2-step bird punch. It is a new punch design which is featured in the Occasions Mini catalog. It is a fun and easy way to make cute cards.
Hope you are warm on this very wind-chilly day!
Here is a cute little box I made for a family gift exchange.
I thought it was so cute, I made one for myself too!
I used my Big Shot to cut the letters out using the Billboard Sizzlet
I embossed the dice and dominoes and used crystal effects on the little hearts and spade to give them some shine and thickness.
This card is for Paul's Grandma Ruth. She is 93 years young.
I had the kids each sign their names. Bethany helped make the card.
I just love this pop up cake....there are so many fun things to do with it.
HAPPY NEW YEAR!
The recipe for this box includes 6 matchbox 'drawers' assembled and taped together, some white punched flowers to frame the shot of red in the rhinestone brads, drawer pulls. The entire set is then wrapped in the Night & Day DSP with another shot of red for the bow. I added some white matchbox die cutouts for the recipient to use on her own projects.
