Friday, August 14, 2009

Whew, I Am Back...

After a long hiatus, I am back and going to try and do a better job of blogging. Our summer is almost to an end here and so much has happened. Instead of droning on and on about it all, I will do a quick photo update and move forward... hey, better than nothing, right?

At the end of May, my little one sang the Star Spangled Banner at the Ramona Rodeo, pretty exciting!

My not so little guy had his 5th grade "graduation."

We flew my Gram out for a visit in July.

The bottle I made for Kim Caldwell in an altered bottle swap (i love her butt!)

AND the AMAZING bottle she made for me... see St. Joan of Arc?

The book pages I made for a journal swap

We took my mom to see Smokey at the OC Fair... still smokin' at 69!

The unexpected road trip we took to spend time with family in the midwest and went through 16 states, puppy dog and all!

and back in time to see Trace Adkins and Toby Keith last night... What a show!

"Never apologize for being patriotic!"

~xo

6 comments:

Maija said...

Great to see your posting! All the photos are wonderful, and it was good to play a little catch up with you. Your pages for the hournal swap are beautiful!!!
oxox

natalie hansen said...

Glad you're back! Looks like you've had a fun filled Summer!..See ya soon!

Pam @ Frippery said...

Love your condensed version of "What I did over summer vacation." Looks like you got a lot accomplished along with covering lots of ground!I just stopped by to say Hi. We have the exact same Silver Bella schedule of classes. Too funny. Pam P.S., I Love Smokie Too!

Unknown said...

Welcome back! What fun you had! LOVE the pix! The bottles are fantastic! I can't wait to see you at Artistic Affair Charlotta!

Sandy xox

Linda Jo said...

What a great summer you had! Good to see a post from you!

Mammabellarte Rita Reade said...

soso jealous Gina...I saw, I think I did Toby Keith in concert 2 years ago. Well, Deano rented a Limo, tequila was served all the way to San Diego. I think I heard TK singing....
I purchased a shirt "get drunk and be somebody". I got to go see him again. Ciao