The Crazy Chaotic House

Saturday, July 30, 2016

Maui.

Ryan and I were in paradise for a week. And we were there with no KIDS. A week. A whole week! Need I say more. It was relaxing, beautiful, and so awesome.
It was quite crazy leading up this awesome vacation. The crazy busy school year was just ending {we left the day after the last day of school}, we had just went camping on the holiday weekend {a week before we left}, baseball season was still going on, I had just went on Easton's overnight field trip a week before we left and 2 days before we went camping.....needless to say we needed this vacation. We needed this vacation for our sanity. We needed this vacation for us...for our 10 year anniversary!

Everyone asked us what we did while we were there....our answer...nothing! We relaxed! We did things on our time and our schedule....it was wonderful! There was only one thing we had planned and that was for Ryan to golf at The Plantation Course in Kapalua. Other than the golf we had nothing planned, that's the way we wanted it. When we were there 10 years ago on our honeymoon we did tourist activities and we didn't want none of this time.

Photo overload ahead!

Whoohoooo...We made it!!!!

Having some drinks while we wait for our room.

This road we called the Road of Death. We took a drive one day and the highway turned into a one lane road....like seriously a one lane road with no where to pull over, super windy, and with hello tall brush. It was just a tad bit scary.

But the road of death eventually brought us here....an awesome little swimming hole!

Love all the bright colorful flowers and scenery...everything was lush and so green!

This was on our hotel balcony.....this partial ocean view was just fine with us.

***WARNING...GOLF PICTURES OVERLOAD*** With views like these it was hard not to take a million photos.

The doors that open up to the First hole.

Breakfast at the Plantation House.

Yummy!

Sunset at the Kapalua Plantation Course Restaurant.

Sunset on Kaanapali Beach

This made me a little nervous when Ryan brought the phone out in the water...eeeeekkkk!

Our Hotel had a walk up bar about 5 feet from the beach...Room Charge PLEASE!

FaceTime with the boys at the beach...they thought that was pretty cool.

About the second day or so we bought these little plastic cups to take our booze down to the beach...can you guess what mine is filled with?!

The wind was blowing so bad it was pelting us in the face.

We couldn't take any more of the blowing sand so we moved to the pool.

Happy Hour is the place to be!

A mom of boys will always find hot wheels/matchbox cars in the bottom of a bag.

We were waking up so early coming down to Lahaina was awesome because there was no one around and we scored on front row parking.

The streets of Lahaina.

After a couple days of searching for some "good" coffee we finally found Bad Ass and we drove the super far 3 miles every morning to Lahaina to get a fresh cup.

While walking around Lahaina we would walk past this every day...so true this is!

Ryan's favorite meal the entire week, he couldn't stop talking about it.

Oh and I found a lego dude in my purse...only a mom of boys!

CHEERS TO A WONDERFUL VACATION! We had such an awesome trip and cannot wait to go back!

I love him! Happy 10 year Anniversary to US!

Friday, July 1, 2016

Blogging Friends July Blog Hop

Well I here we are again for another blog hop.....I am back after taking a little break last month. In fact I have taken a longer break than I was planning. School is out and it's been so nice having some down time doing absolutely nothing for a change BUT I cannot believe we are already in JULY. How does the time go by so fast?!

This months theme is Summer Fun. My project today I am sharing some project life inspired pages using the Serene Scenery DSP from the new catalog. This month I was really struggling with what to do but then I thought about all my summer photos of my kids and since I am really trying hard to scrapbook more I thought this would be perfect. The photos I plan on putting in these pages are from a day at the lake. I can't wait to pick up the photos and see how they look...if you join my Facebook Group I will post an updated photo of the pages there so you can see how they look:) I am picking up the photos later today.

Let's see what Leanne has going on this month.....

Jessica Mink {you are here}

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Sunday, May 1, 2016

May Blogging Friends Blog Hop

Who are the ‘Blogging Friends’? Until a few months ago, we were a group of Stampin’ Up! demonstrators located all across the U.S. and Canada who had never met before. Well, actually, we still haven’t met yet (in person). . . But, through our common bond of Stampin’ Up! and a shared love of paper crafting we have created a fun new blog hop!

This month we are sharing retired items. There are many retired items I am sad to see go BUT there are so many new items that are just as awesome and lovely...so to keep this post short and sweet I am only featuring two stamp sets OR else we would be here all day:)

The first one just came out in the Occasions catalog in January. I really haven't got to use it much and was hoping to see it carry over. I still think I will hold on to this one for awhile. It's great for teacher gifts and cards:) I made a super cute desktop calendar for my kids' teachers for Valentines Day using the "apple of my eye" stamp...I shared it with my Facebook Group.

Apple of My Eye

We made these cards at card class a couple months ago.

The second one I am sad to see go is the background stamp Swallowtail. This stamp makes some beautiful cards...I have used this to make very simple cards to very elegant and time consuming cards as well. This card is one of my favorites.

Continue onto Jodi Horsley and see what retired products she's featuring.

Jessica Mink {you are here}

Jodi Horsley

Leanne Johnson

Michelle Clark

Lorene Yoshimura-Tanigawa

Friday, April 1, 2016

April Blogging Friends Blog Hop.

Well this months Blog Hop is featuring our favorite Stampin' Up! stamp sets. I haven't been around as long as some of my buddies here but already have a long list and it was so hard to choose. So I decided to choose my favorite from this current catalog. And I am hoping it's not going to be on the retirement list!!! Gorgeous Grunge is hands down my favorite stamp set from the current catalog. I use it a lot!

These are just a few examples of how I have used this set in the past. I also use it on my scrapbook pages and 3D projects. This set is so versatile, there is so much you can do with it! Of course I cannot find all the other cards I have made using this set, they are somewhere on my computer. I just recently made a new folder to put my photos of the cards and projects I make in...much easier than having to shuffle through hundreds of photos, not sure why I didn't think of that sooner.

What is your favorite Stampin' Up! stamp set?! Is this one of your favorites too?!