This weekend I had a morning of crafting with the ladies. Love the Christmas ornament we made. My intentions are to put together a garland with handmade paper ornaments, but each ornament takes time and all the pieces need to be glue perfectly so everything connects together very nicely. Last month we started to make an exchange of two Christmas cards per month. This really helped me look for everything I have to make holiday cards and ornaments and also truly motivated me to make cards..

Park City

We left around 10 am for what developed into the most glorious hike. The original idea was just a walk, but we end up hiking and walking close to 3 hours. It was so much beauty  everywhere...ahhh...the colors...Just wanted to stop everywhere for pictures. Huge accomplishment to get everyone away from Laptops and gadgets to enjoy the sun and breathe some uplifting air...

Park City, Utah

This year we decided to rent a place in Park City for a few days. David and I started our mini vacation on Tuesday and the kids all arrived on Wednesday, just in time to celebrate David's birthday. The place turned out to be lovely and with lots of space, including a great kitchen...Yesterday we enjoyed a fab lunch at our favorite restaurant in Midway and a morning and evening walk in Main Street, of course spending time in several cute little shops and sharing a caramel apple from Rocky Mountain...Last night we finished the day soaking in the hot tub looking at the stars.....Loving this time with our little family and the spectacular fall colors.

Expo - 2012

We spend the morning at the Scrapbooking Expo. Krystel and I had a lovely Saturday morning glancing, taking pictures and getting tons of ideas and inspiration. Our favorite booth was and it always is Graphic 54...Their papers are very whimsical and sort of vintage, the colors are old and faded and we just love the look..They always have lots of displays and their paper right next to it, so if you like the display chances are you are buying the paper...and of course we did. Krystel is little by little getting into this fun art, her taste is more vintage and she is the one that made me a fun of these paper designers. This year they added lots of metals, sort of Tim Holtz kind of trinkets..they certainly add to their already beautiful designs.

Last days of summer

Not quite ready for the summer to end...even when the fall weather is so inviting to do so many outdoors things and my favorite time of the year. Our summer came and went and with Cristine's wedding seems that it really was a fast summer. We'll have wonderful memories of this summer, great family times and the most fun wedding memories....