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Thursday, April 14, 2011

Our new cabin

Oh how I wish this was ours! This past weekend we went and stayed in this beautiful cabin with all my family. It is my brother's in-laws cabin, not ours :0(
For Christmas my brother gave all of my family members a weekend at this cabin. We spent four days up there and it was WONDERFUL. We had such a great time visiting, playing games, riding snowmobiles and watching movies. Thanks Nic and Krista for such a wonderful time!
This picture was taken this summer, when we were there the snow was as tall as the first deck!
Part of the front of the cabin... I couldn't fit the whole thing in my camera's lens. It was huge!
This was the great room and dining room.
Another shot of the great room.
This was the downstairs family room/game room
The theater was INCREDIBLE! I literally felt like I was at the Indiana Jones ride at Disneyland. It was called "Big Thunder Mountain railroad Theater" Inside it looked like you were inside a red rock mountain. The picture above was of the stage in front of the screen and a cool mural on the wall.
The chairs were those 'rumble' seats that shook when the movie scene did, and all the seats reclined.
They even had a train set that ran around the top of the ceiling.
Freaking coolest theater I have EVER scene!
The entrance to the theater was right next to the 'ice cream parlor'
This was the downstairs kitchen that they called the ice cream parlor. All the little jars along the back were filled with different types of candy to be mixed into ice cream. They even had those cold granite slabs like they do at Cold stone that they mixed our ice cream on.
One of my favorite things about the cabin was how kid friendly it was! There were three different playing areas for kids. Here was the first one.
This was so DARLING! It was in the basement next to the ice cream parlor. I just love all the details that were added.
Look at this mural! I love how they made it look like the names of the kids had been engraved into the wall.
This was inside the General Store, the back wall was a painted mural that opened up into a secret hiding place. The kids loved playing store!

This was the second play area in the 'Princess room'. The front of the room had four beds and the back of the room they turned into a little cottage. These two pictures were in the cottage.
This faux fireplace was so darling!

The front of the cottage.... everything but the shutters were painted on. So cute!
Another mural, across from the beds.
A shot of the room from the doorway. This is where my girls slept.
The third play area was the 'tree house' room. It had a awesome bathroom in it, the picture above is the tile floor in the bathroom, it had frogs, lizards and leaves in it.

Another mural against one of the walls
Can you believe how awesome this is?! The tree trunks felt so realistic. Behind the trees were three sets of bunkbeds.
Ana playing on the log bridge that took you from one play area to the other.

The entrance to the tree house.
At the other end of the room they had another little deck area for them to climb up in and play.

The cabin sat on 160 acres of private land for us to snowmobile on. The snow was so deep and each night we got a new foot of snow. It really was incredible and so so fun!

Skiing with Lisa

While Chris was gone on business to Switzerland (ya, I know, lucky duck!) I took advantage of some ski passes that I had to Sundance. I took Taelynn one week and my amazing friend Lisa the other week. Lisa had never skied at Sundance so she was excited to go with me. We had SUCH a good time, it was an amazing day....so warm!
Check out that view! Perfect blue sky's!
Us at the top of the mountain. They have a lodge up there that we ate lunch at.

Hilarious! On the first run down, Lisa decided to take the harder route and I took the easier way. I looked over at her just as she took a huge spill! It was so funny! Then she couldn't get up... it took her several tries to finally get back on her feet. She was so shocked that she fell, she said that it has been years since she has fallen. What a hoot!
I think that she looks like a movie star in this pic. I seriously think that skiing is such an ugly sport... I feel so BLAH and frumpy. Why does everyone else always look so cute and stylish while they ski and I look like a stinkin Oompa-Loompa?!

Skiing with Tae

Tae and I were able to have a mommy/daughter date up at Sundance, for what turned out to be the last ski day of the season for us. We had such a good time! Tae has become such a good little skier and she just LOVES it. I loved being able to spend the day with my Tae Tae.




It was such perfect weather! Almost too perfect, the snow wasn't the best and I had to try really hard to keep going in-between hills. It was perfect for Tae though. She is doing so well at her S-curves. We can't wait for next year's ski season....I'm hoping that we can get Ana up on the mountain next year.

Wednesday, March 30, 2011

More finished pages

Some of you have asked which program/website I am using for my scrapbooking needs. It is from Close To My Heart's online program called Studio J. The website is www.studioj.com and I think you need to list a consultant when you register, please list my consultant.... she is AMAZING and I HIGHLY recommend her. Her name is Karen Pedersen and her website is http://leavealegacy.myctmh.com

This program is SO easy to use, in fact I learned how to use it by watching a few youtube video tutorials. Everything is pretty much done for you, all you have to do is drag and drop your pictures into the spaces and voila! Instant scrapbook page!


I love how this page turned out!





TaeLynn's baptism scrapbooked

I am ashamed. I am just NOW getting to scrapbooking Taelynn's baptism. She is 10, almost 11 people! Oh well, it is done now.


Girls trip scrapbooked

I know, I know.... I just posted about my girls trip, but I wanted to post the pages that I finished about the trip. I'm excited how they turned out.




Digital Scrapbooking anyone?????


Yep, that's right I have finally bit the bullet and given into technology. I have been introduced to an online scrapbooking company that does digital layouts. It is so easy and SO fun! It is from Close to my Heart, which I already love. When you order they send you Jpeg files so that you can post them online, pretty cool.
For years I have constructed beautiful layouts on paper, I have binders full of finished layouts with ZERO pictures on them. It's such a shame really. I just never print out my photos....going this route I am forced to put pictures on the pages, it's GENIUS! Over the past few days I have finished 25 two page layouts! That is crazy to me. I can't wait to receive my order in the mail. Lucky you, now I can post my pages on my blog, don't be too critical I'm just a newbie at this! Amy, aren't you so proud of me?!