Scrapbook Sunday XV

I've definitely been slacking lately on my scrapbooking posts.  I haven't had a lot of spare time with the fashion show and everything.  So here is a sort of update on the pages that I have done.

Here's another one from my family's Disney World trip to Florida.  I loved using my white pen around the outside of my pictures to make them stand out a bit.  I put some journaling along the right side (in the white stripe), but you can't really read it.  I also love the "memories" epoxy sticker :)

This year I've been trying to do a 2-page spread as a summary for each month.  So here are the pages for February...yes, it's May and I'm just now doing February!  That's probably why these pages are so simple :)

I wanted to try out a new technique that I read about recently.  It involves a way to save paper if you print something from your computer onto cardstock.  So I decided to try it out!  I did a test print on the right side of the page (regular computer paper), used the same piece of paper to attach my cardstock to the other side of the page, and then printed my text a 2nd time.

I have to say it worked pretty well!  And I loved the fact that I didn't need to send a whole piece of cardstock through the printer - I only needed to cut a piece as large as the area for the text. 

I love the way it looks on my layout.  It would've taken me years to write this much down (and I don't think I can write that tiny).  I was also able to copy and paste this text from a previous blog post.

This layout is for the 2009 Indy Mini :)

Two Great Weekends

The past two weekends have been great ones for us - two big events in two weekends!

Two weekends ago was the Indianapolis Mini Marathon.  This year Chris and I were both running in it!  Some people may ask, 'Did you run together?' And I would say definitely not!

I'll have to write down my thoughts from the race and also get Chris to write down his sometime soon.  But for now here are many of the pictures that were taken that day with a few comments.

Chris and I before the race.  We were in downtown Indy by 6am!  It was definitely an early morning getting up at 4:15am.

Chris stretching before the race.  We waited in the White River State Park parking garage since it was cold and windy outside.  The parking garage was definitely much warmer.  Since the 5k race started before the mini this year, Chris and I couldn't get in our corrals until after that race began.  I was thankful for this because everyone behind us (in corrals E thru Z) had to be in their spot by 7am.  Chris was in A and was in C this year.

Me stretching

Chris and his dad look so much alike...Thanks to Chris' parents who took us to and from the race!  It was great to have them there with us to cheer us on and take some pics.

Start line

The first "where's waldo?"...can you find Chris?

The wheelchairs getting ready to start the mini.

At the start line...here are the kenyans, who normally win the race.  I believe the guy in orange got 2nd place.

Me anxiously waiting for the race to start.  I took my long sleeve shirt off way too early!

The pace car in the last mile homestretch.

The leaders of the race!

Here comes Chris down the homestretch (with about 1/2 mile to go)!

He's running fast (about 5:20 pace or faster)!

I believe the other runner in this picture was the first Indiana female to finish the race.  Yes, my husband is that fast!

There I am coming down the homestretch!

The second "where's waldo?"...can you find me?

I'm pooped, but I can still walk at this point!  (I could hardly walk later in the day since my calf, which had been hurting all week before the race, and shin were really sore and hurting.)  I've got my gatorade and bag of food in hand. 

It was great to see everybody at this point because I was excited about my finishing time!

These were the closest pictures to getting one together after the race.  We forgot to get one before we left!

It was such a great day and race!  It was pretty cold and very windy.  The temperature was good though once we were running.

Chris did awesome and finished in 1:15.13, beating his goal time by about 3 minutes.  And I finished in 1:44.09, beating last year's time by over a minute.

This past weekend was the Reaching for the Stars Fashion Show.  I've been on the committee that's been planning this event since around Christmas.  It was wonderful for the day to finally be here and for all of our hard work to pay off.  This was the 3rd year for the event and this year it was a new location at the Holiday Inn downtown.  Enjoy the few pictures I was able to take.

At rehearsal on Friday night - Chris was able to borrow JC's cowboy hat to model with!

Pam showing the little kids how to walk the runway.  We had about 10 kids model this year!

Parents and models hanging out.  All of the tablecloths were white when we got there on Friday and they were supposed to be black.  I'm glad they were able to change everything that night!

All of the adult models.  We had about 7 men model for us this year!  (We only had 2 last year.)

Kenlyn looks good even though she was a little stressed, sleep-deprived, and starved!

Little Grace singing during the entertainment on Saturday.  She did awesome for only being 7 years old!

Many of the kids modeling on the runway - they were so cute in their clothes from JCPenney!

Kenlyn's sweet sister

And for the best picture of them all...my sexy husband on the runway with his "cowboy" outfit.  I think I might need to get him a cowboy hat now...Many people said he was a natural on the runway and I would have to agree with them :) Honey, thanks for helping by being a model!

It was a great time.  I wish I would've been able to watch the entire fashion show, but I was helping behind the scenes.  I'm glad we were able to help PEERS which is a great organization.

My first trip to Ross-Ade

Last Saturday we had the opportunity to go to the Black and Gold football game at Purdue.  This is the free spring scrimage that Purdue has every year, with both "teams" consisting of Purdue players.  So we enjoyed the game with some of our friends from church.  It was neat too because it was my first time visiting Ross-Ade stadium.  Enjoy the few pics I took while we were there!

We're convinced that the Gold team never actually scored any points (even though they had 10 on the board when we got there)!

Beauty of spring

So, as you can tell, I've been slacking on my blogging lately.  Well, it's because I've been working more (which is definitely a good thing)!  And (sadly) blogging has been at the bottom of the list of things to do.  And I have missed taking pictures on some days - so much for my "picture a day" idea :) But I have been taking plenty of pictures of flowers and such.  Here are a bunch that I've taken last month and this month.  Enjoy!

beginnings of our hyacinths

flowering red maple in the front

I love opening the windows to let in fresh air!

A lot of our bulbs have been doubling since last year.  Yay!

I love these purple/pink flowers on the trees!