Ventura Reunion!!!

So Thursday night (11/15) Bianca and Ethan flew up to Utah to go to Celeste's (their cousin's) wedding. So Craig and I picked them up from the airport and we drove straight over the the MAYAN (I know I was just there a few weeks ago...but it's fun) where we met up with a BUNCH of our friends from Ventura that our currently living in Utah. I was like a little reunion! We all had a good time catching up on each others lives and reminiscing of old times! After dinner Bianca and Ethan and Michelle came over to our house to spend the night...SLEEPOVER!!! It was so fun! Bianca, Michelle and I have been close friends for a long time and one summer we were being silly and called ourselves the "yam yams" like the "ya ya sister hood" (its a movie just in case you have no idea what that is) So anyway it was really fun to be all together again (we haven't all hung out in a long long time with living in different places and getting married and boyfriends, etc.) So we all had fun jibber jabbin' at my house!

Here is a picture of everyone at the Mayan. From left to right: Craig, Cyndi, Ashley, Aaron, Bianca, Ethan, Jordan, Michelle, Steve, and April.

Here is Michelle, Bianca, and I in the morning...we were watching the movie the Secrets of the Ya Ya Sisterhood! Fun memories!
Then Bianca said "let's pretend like we are just waking up!" but instead we look like we are dead! Silly girls!

Dancing 101

Star in Your Own JibJab! It's Free!We practiced this dance one time and perfected it as you can see.

Disco Dancing

Star in Your Own JibJab! It's Free!This is really Cyndi and I dancing. Arent we good?

Digi-Scrappin'

Hey all I just wanted to share some of my most recent layouts that I've done. They are all with elements by Jacque Larsen (b/c as you know I'm on her design team...and FYI you can get all of these elements at theDigiChick.com) Also I wanted to quickly describe how to digi-scrap (I know some people are curious) but I'm going to put it at the bottom of the post so if you don't want to read it just skip it.






So...99.999% of Digi-Scrappers do it in some sort of PhotoShop but I am probably the only CRAZY person who does it on PowerPoint 2007. Anyway, the first step to starting to digi-scrap is to download some papers and elements, etc. I would start with FREEBIES!!! You can get a million from a website called ikeagoddess.blogspot.com she lists about 12 Freebies each DAY! Just like paper scraping you layer your items any way you want them. The difference is that it's all digital...so each paper is it's own file and each element is a separate file, etc. So you just insert all items that you want on your page and arrange them the way you need/want them. You can make your pages any size you want. I'm making them 12x12 like most scrapbooks and then when you are done you just have them printed in a book.

It's super fun...if you are interested you should try it! Happy Scrappin!

Fun Friends

Sorry I haven't posted in a while...it's been a crazy week.
So, 2 Tuesdays ago (10/23) Michelle Mitchel (my friend from Ventura who is going to school in Utah now) called me to see if I wanted to get together for dinner. So after my class that night we meet up at the Mayan!!! It's a Mexican restaurant that has cliff divers...it's super cool for anyone who has never been. We hadn't seen each other since Craig and I moved back to Cali at the beginning of the summer. So we had a lot to catch up on! It was so fun though...we talked all through dinner and then just stayed around until we ended up being the last customers in the restaurant! And then we still went and talked in the car for a little bit longer. It was fun to see her.
Then for Halloween we were planning on just staying home and passing out candy but then that day our friends Matt and Sadie called to invite us over to play games and have fun times! So after I got off work Craig and I went to the grocery to get some yummy snacks and brought some games over to Matt and Sadie's house. They gave us the grand tour (which was fun) they just bought this cute little house up the street from us. So anyway we make some yummy punch type stuff (sprite with Sherbet in it) ate pumpkin cookies, chips and artichoke dip, and of course CANDY. We played taboo and Imagine If! We had such a good time...laughin' and giglin'!!! Right before we left Matt showed us a video from his band playing live. It was cool! I don't have any pictures because I forgot my camera and Matt took a couple but...anyway...Thanks Matt and Sadie for inviting us over, We had a BLAST!!!