I've been tagged!

I have been nominated by Dawn t and Christine and Jennifer to receive this blog award. Here's my list and the rules: Check out all of their blogs because they are great! Christine has a RAK on hers! If I didn't tag you and you are reading this, why don't you play along anyway.. it is fun!

1. Post the logo on your blog.
2. Add a link to the person who awarded you. ( me)
3. Nominate 7 other blogs.
4. Add links to their blogs on yours.
5. Leave a message for your nominees on their blog.

Have fun!
Thank you Dawn, Christine and Jennifer! I nominate these people....
1. Erika She is a very talented scrapbooker. I met Erika through scrapbooking but we also took classes together with our kids at gymboree and in Ms. Heidi's class. Wow, time flies!

2. Susan ( scrappydoo2u) She is a friend I met on tallyscrapper. We chat online and she is a cool gal!

3. Laurie Laurie was my 4D ultrasound technician when Iwas pregnant with Sammie. She is very skilled! She was the only person who saw Samantha's cleft lip. No other technician could see it, even in a diagnostic ultrasound! (Laurie, you rock!) She has a husband Brad and a daughter Samantha too! We have kept in touch over the years and that is cool!

4. Donna L. One of my dear friends for many years! We met in the teaching program at CSUF. Donna, get your blog up and running girl!!!

5. Stacey She is an awesome scrapbooker and very sweet gal. I met Stacey when I was on a scrapbook design team. Stacey's daughter loved My Little Pony too! ( We bought all of her ponies)

6. Annie She is such a sweetheart and an amazing scrapbooker and mommy. Annie is always friendly and fun to talk to.

7. Nan A friendly fun gal who is an awesome scrapper. I met Nan when I was on the design team. You should see her stuff!

Thanks for hanging out with me! Please make a comment so I know you were here!

Wicked Busy!!

This has been a super busy week for us. On Wednesday night, I saw Wicked with my coworkers. It was wonderful. I loved the play and the Pantages theatre is amazing as well. There were 18 of us that went and we went here for dinner before the show. I picked the place based on a recommendation from one of Christine's friends who lives in Hollywood. The food was delicious and everyone was so happy! We had a good time.
Here are some photos of Sammie swimming, our trip to the fair, (Elephant ride), pony club, and Sammie's lego creation which i love!





So here's what we've been doing in the last few weeks or so since I have posted but not necessarily in this order!
1. Swimming lessons
2. Went to the park
3. Saw Wall*e ( cute movie)
4. Pony club meetings
5. Dentist appointment ( Sammie and I)
6. Hair appointment ( Sammie and I)
7. Crafts
8. Oil change on my car
9. Took Nana shopping
10. Went to the fair
11. Lunch with Betty and Irene
12. Lunch with Christine
13. Pony club sleepover
14. Disneyland
15. Horse riding lessons
16. Made a mini scrapbook album for pony club
17. Just lots of stuff!!!

Anyway.. hope you are enjoying the warm summer weather and cool nights.
Sammie and I went to Disneyland a few weeks ago and the nicest thing happened.. We were standing in line to order dinner and the people in front of us liked her shirt and started talking to us. The next thing we know, the son who was 18, his girlfriend and mom, bought our dinner and invited us to sit down with them and eat. We hung out with them for a few hours after and just talked and laughed. It was fun. The kids took Sammie on the Tower of Terror which is her favorite ride and I can't stand it. We had a good time getting to know them. I was just dumbfounded that they bought my dinner. What a Random Act of Kindness.

Friday night we went to the OC Fair. Sammie and I rode an elephant as you can see in the pictures. We have both ridden elephants before but I forgot how funny it feels. They are so wide and they really sway when they walk. She rode a few rides, ( and a pony too of course) we looked at all the animals and ate some good junk food. We had a good time but spent lots of money. The fair is so expensive. It is a good thing it is only once a year!

The pony club had a swim party/movie night/sleepover party. It was a lot of fun. The girls swam and then we had yummy hamburgers & hotdogs. People brought tents and it looked like a little village. The event was at a house in Yorba Linda. The family has pony club meetings at their house because they have the perfect set up and horses in their backyard!!! How perfect is that?? After dinner, the girls made "marshmallow sandwiches" as Sammie calls them. We put on jammies and got into sleeping bags and watched a horse cartoon and then a horse movie called The Horse in Gray Flannel Pajamas". It was an old Disney movie. I had never heard of it but it was cute. Sammie liked it too but only wanted to see the horses, she didn't enjoy the dialog parts. We didn't wind up sleeping over. I decided it would be "too much" so we came home at around 11:00pm. ( yes, she was still awake!)

In other news, Sammie will be starting soccer in August. Her cousin Emily will be playing on her team and my brother- in- law Keith, is the head coach along with Brad as the assistant coach. It should be fun for Sammie. She has a pretty good running kick already. ( She definately does not get the "athletic" gene from me!!) It will be tough once practices start because that will be more places we have to be, but it is for a short time and then they just have games on the weekends.

Off I go for now. Be back soon!

Art Zone

Here are the pics of the Art Zone as promised in my last post. I have been a lazy blogger.. I will make up for it and post again tomorrow.. I have had a busy week!!

The first picture is the dress up room.. Are you surprised at what Sammie found??





They have wonderful painting easels which are really old "doors" with hangers for the paper.. Sammie painted a lot of pictures.




This is the "mud kitchen" which has a small "drippy" water faucet and the floor is wet and muddy. The kids wear crocs to walk around and play in the mud. They have towels, spare clothes and a dryer if you want to dry any wet clothes. This is Julia, my friend Jennifer's daughter with Sammie.. They had a blast making mud pies, etc.. They were in there for almost 45 minutes!! Very cool place!!