Scrapbooking Weekend

I've just returned from a lovely, refreshing weekend at Gull Lake. It was technically a scrapbooking conference, but I managed to squeeze in a whole bunch of other stuff, like a massage, watching 2 chick flicks, a trip to the mall, Panera for breakfast one morning, a couple of naps, a lot of reading, etc. As a result, I didn't get a whole lot of pages finished, but that wasn't really the point.

I wish I had taken a picture of the cropping room. There were 58 women there for the weekend. There must have been tens of thousands of dollars worth of equipment and supplies in that room. One woman stood up this morning, and ecstatically proclaimed that she had finished 1997. Another woman shared that she had finished 70 pages. One of the women I shared a workspace with got through 60. That's dedication! I, on the other hand, was in it mainly for the relaxation. It was a successful weekend, as far as I'm concerned!

Halloween Costumes

The kids all recovered enough from the flu to have fun trick-or-treating. Here they are in costume. Big K went trick-or-treating in Connecticut with her cousin.