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June Kit...
I was so excited to get my hands on this kit and really enjoyed creating with it last Saturday during the crop at Trish's.  I love when things are really flowing!  I think it's a combination of awesome kits and having a creative boost that helps me put some of my favorite pages together.
Here's what I did with this months kit...
    
 
 
 
 
 

 
Recently I added the rolodex die to my favorite sizzix dies from Stampin up!  I've made several birthday rolodex's over the years and this die would have made it so much easier!

 I used the SEI dill blossom paper I picked up while shopping in NOVI.  I could cut two cards out of each 6 X 6 sheet and then using the left overs I would trim strips to decorate the cards.

 all of the pictures...

Team up Thursday:
Here we are again, another week gone by and another team up thursday with Jill.  This week we decided to do blurry photos.  Usually blurry photos are not something you want, but sometimes it captures exactly what we want it to.
 
Jill's photo is of her son running and all blurry, mine is focused on one grandma and blurry with the other grandma and Zach

yesterday we went to Shawn's commencement and celebrated with family afterwards!  He still has not decided on his college yet and both schools are still actively pursuing him! Within a few weeks he knows he needs to make his final decision....
 

unfortunately I had not checked all my camera settings and some of my pictures were over exposed so I had to change them to black and white! 
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The other day I read a book that will not leave me!  The book was LIFT by Kelly Corrigan
 
It's a small book, just over 80 pages.  In fact you could probably read it in an hour or so.... but there is so much in this book, especially for mom's!  I read this book and laughed and cried and learned so much. It made me want to detail more in my life and made me wish I would have detailed more...

So where do I begin?  On Sunday Chelsea and I ran our first half marathon and I'm having a hard time finding the words to describe the amazing feeling that I had and still have about this accomplishment.
The night before the race I think we fell asleep by 9:45.  I remember waking at one point in the evening thinking "Oh no, I'm exhausted don't let it be time to get up".  Thank goodness it was only...

This week Jill and I chose white space as our photo for team up Thursday
I love how we are always similar in our ideas.  Jill with the medal from this past weekends marathon (where we finally got to meet) and my photo taken later that same day of my nephew on the track.
It's so amazing that a couple similar interests and a blog can introduce you to new people you get to know through blogging...

What a great weekend I shared with Chelsea!On Saturday we ran a 5K to benefit the Hannah Wernke memorial foundation as a prelude to our half marathon on Sunday.  I went into this race with the mindset of it being a warm up, not to push myself and that I was doing it for the fundraiser not to break any personal records.  I had spent that last 4 days in pain from a Tuesday two a day work out and a...

On Thursday Chelsea and I went to the Healthy Women Expo and got to meet and have dinner with Ali Vincent from Season 5 of the Biggest Loser.

 She was so inspiring and funny to listen to.  She showed clips from her season on the show and how far she has come.  She says its not just about losing weight but her attitude shifted and a fire inside her started to burn to where she said Instead...

Colors - is the theme for team up thursday with Jill
 
I chose the flowers from Mother's Day and Jill chose I think everyone's favorite..... chocolate!