What A Fun Filled Week....

Below each picture will be a synopsis of the picture....
My cousin and her husband arrived at the resort with their 5th wheel. They will be staying with us for a month at the resort.
The resort had a party and since it was a baby sitting day we took our granddaughter to the party, breaking her in early....
Here I am dressed to party :)
Papa and Addison taking a walk around the grounds.
Here we took a tour of an Air Force Museum and we had a chance to climb up into a B17 aircraft. Naturally I had to climb up and get my cousin to follow suit. The quarters in the craft were very tight but we got a good feel what our soldiers were exposed to when they flew these planes.

Here we are playing Boccie Ball and teaching the game to my cousin and her husband.
Here Linda and I are posing on a trip to Schnepf Farms for the Peach Blossom Festival this week. The owner of the farm gave us a tour of the whole operation and the history of the farm which has been in the family for generations.
Hubby and I pose in front of one of the trees.

These two pictures are of another adventure we went on this week. Garmin steered us wrong and we followed its directions only to land in a barren field and be told that " you have arrived at your destination". Well our destination was the Queen Creek Olive Mill that was holding a festival. Do you see a festival in those pictures?

We finally did find the place and had a tour of the mill and enjoyed samples of olives and the oils they made.

Here we are at the Olive Mill sampling some wine.

Instructions For An Easel Card

Recipe:
Cut one 4 1/4" x 5 1/2" piece out of white card stock

Cut one 4 1/4" x 5 1/2" piece out of patterned paper

Cut one 4 1/4" x 11" piece out of white card stock

Cut out 2" x 3 3/4" piece of orange paper and out of white paper a slightly small piece 1 3/4 x 3 1/2 approximately

3D dots

Ribbon to match

Instructions:

Glue printed paper to 4 1/4 x 5 1/2 white card stock

Tie ribbon around the bottom edge of card

Fold remaining white card stock in half to make a 4 1/2 X 5 1/2 card.

Fold the front of the card back to 2 3/4" from the top

Glue printed/white card stock to folded back part of the white card stock

Stamp greeting onto white cream card stock

Glue the white card stock to the orange card stock

Using pop dots /mounting tape, center and adhere layered orange card stock 1 inch from bottom of card inside.

The greeting area will hold up the front of the card to form an easel.

Thanks to Lesi Spafford (Love Note Class) for these instructions.

Use of Small Stamps

Stamps: Whipper Snapper and Impression Obsession

A Day of Riding....

Today we rode to Superstition Mountain

Pictures are of places we stopped to see along the way

Ghost Town and Superstition Mountain Museum

Pictures below Arizona sky...

Christmas Morning At My Son

Their own kitchen set....
Family waking up and coming downstairs.....
Gifts galore....
Granddaughters trying out the trampoline
How high cam you jump....
Jamie's gift to Addison
Addison loves her new car
Their own vanity....

My son Michael and his family.

Hope everyone was as blessed as my family was this Christmas.

Wishing everyone a Happy New Year!!!

International Collection of Nativity Sets

United States
Russia

Alaska
Russia
Poland
Native America
New Mexico
South Africa
Peru
Poland
Singapore

This is part of a collection of Nativity Sets that are on display at the Mormon Visitor Center in Mesa, Arizona. I am not a Mormon but the collection is one worth seeing if your in the area.

Today's adventure....

A visit with Santa.
Granddaughter Addison
Granddaughter Bella
Christmas tree in living room.
Son and Daughter in laws home all decked out with holiday lights.

Dealership in Chandler.

This morning we meet up with old friends at a pancake breakfast sponsored by the Harley Davidson dealership in Chandler, AZ. We had our bike shipped down here so we could rejoin

and become active members once again with the Foothill Chapter. It was great seeing our old friends and meeting new ones today not to mention a great breakfast. When we were about to leave they asked us to stay for lunch for the dealership catered lunch for all the members. I'm beginning to believe we "ride to eat".

This evening with visited with my son and his family and took our granddaughters to see Santa. Above are some of the pictures from today's events. Aren't those girls the cutest thing.....:)

Click on any picture for a larger view of it.

They told us.....

They told us to take the southern route to Arizona and miss all possibility of running into snow. HA! HA! Nature had other plans for us snowbirds and above is the proof, of what we viewed and experienced while in Texas, between Midland and El Paso.

We traveled 2450 miles since we left home and are exhausted so more to come later on our latest adventure.

Happy Thanksgiving

Time is at a premium when you're trying to close up a home and prepare for an extended trip. That's what I've been trying to do while making all the necessary holiday preparations as getting my holiday cards done, Christmas shopping and wrapping gifts for the family. This makes my creativity and computer time very limited. I'm posting my last card until after Thanksgiving. So Happy Thanksgiving to all and remember to give thanks for all the many blessings that are bestowed on us each day.

Takes so little to distract me......

Trying to clean up my stamping room before I leave town I discovered this stamp that I haven't used in ages. So the cleaning went wayside and out came the ink and watercolors. Above is the results, now hopefully this little distraction won't keep me from moving forward with my goal of cleaning that room......oooooh look what I found now!