2 YEAR Anniversary!

Tuesday May 13th was our 2 year anniversary!!!! Because we just started a new business we were not able to go away for our anniversary but that does NOT mean that we did not have a GREAT time. Since we didn't have all day to play we decided to do something local that we had never done before (well actually I did it when I was really little but I don't remember a thing). We drove to Palm Springs and took the Palm Springs Aerial Tramway up the mountain. It was so fun! It is the largest tram in the WORLD! They also just updated the trams so that the floor inside rotates so you get to see a new view each time. It's really neat. The ride is about 10 minutes long, and when we got to the top of the mountain we went to the look-out points to see the view of the valley. They say that on a clear day you can see MEXICO from there. It was a little foggy so we could only see the valley. We then took a little hike through the mountains. It was so beautiful and the smell of the trees was so refreshing. After our little hike/walk we headed back down the mountain to go out to lunch. We drove through downtown Palm Springs and stopped at a Mexican restaurant called Mariposa. It was delicious...really good chips and salsa. Luck for me there was a See's Candy right across the street so we went over there after lunch and bought a half pound of chocolate. YUMMY!











After our short adventure and lunch we had to get to work. After work we had a nice quiet evening at home. A simple dinner, and delicious Martinellies in our beautiful glasses from our wedding that our friends made for us. They say Bride and Groom on one side, both of our names on the other, and around the bottom it has our wedding date. The boys (who are living with us for the summer) were nice enough to give us the house for the evening...they went out and did who knows what. It was so nice to just have a relaxing evening. It was a WONDERFUL anniversary.

Blurb

So I just got my Blurb book of my 2007 blog posts!!!! It is so cool, I love it! I am going to have one for every year...since blogs are the new age journals...I think it will be great for my kids so they can look back at all of our years.

If you don't know what Blurb is, it's a website that prints and binds books. They have a really easy program that you download for free and it can download your blog into a book format and you can edit it....it's really easy. You can print other types of books too...portfolios, books you've written, ANYTHING you want. It's so fun! go to www.blurb.com to check it out. Also they are coming out with a new product on the 15th...where they can burn pictures into the hard cover of the book...it looks really cool.

Anyway,

For my GRANNY

Since my granny lives far away and does not get to hear me sing very often...and I feel weird singing over the phone I thought I would post a couple of videos of me singing. These are actually from a Christmas recital back in 2005....but it's all that I had on video.

Granny, I love you so much! I hope you enjoy these videos, I wish I could be there to sing to you in person.
143,
Cyndi

I also wrote a couple of poems about my Granny. She is such an inspiration to me. She is the most spiritual person I know and gives me strength.

Here is the first one:

Shining star
Light up my life
Shining star
Show me the light
Shining star
You’ve guided me
Shining star
I can now see
Shining star
Your light is truth
Shining star
I emulate you

Grandma Dear
You give so much
You’ve shown your love
Through your gentle touch

Words cannot describe
The knowledge you’ve shared
To each person you’ve met
Is now more prepared

To follow the path
We were meant to find
We can’t thank you enough
For enriching our mind

You’ve given your time
To all in need
And now we must
Follow your lead

To help others
And show them the way
We can teach many
How to pray

Our Heavenly Father
Has a plan for all
To lead us back
So we don’t fall

You’ve been his tool
To help so many others
Learn the fact that we are all
Sisters and brothers

I love you Grandma!!!!!!

NSD - National Scrapbook DAY

So yesterday (5/3/08) was National Scrapbook Day...or as everyone calls it NSD (everyone in the digi-scrap community used 5 million acronyms it is quite annoying because I never know what they are). Anyway, what National Scrapbook Day means to the DIGI world is FREEBIES!!!!! and SALES!!!! So, I was downloading scrapbook stuff ALL day yesterday. It was fun....and I even bought a few things for some screamin' good deals!

Here are A FEW of the fun things that I got FOR FREE:








And here is what I bought:


It was fun...yet time consuming...but I was still able to download all of these items, get all of my work down, clean the entire house (except the bathrooms because that is Craig's job), and go to 2 movies at night. We saw Made of Honor and most of Iron Man. We had a nice evening; and I had a good day.