Exhausted!

I just posted a link to some layouts I have thrown together over the last week. I have been so busy that I have just done them as I can and I think they turned out pretty well for the most part. I am determined to use every kit I have at least once, so I have been going back through all my old kits and trying to find things to use. I have found some beautiful stuff that I completely forgot I had. I hadn't ever used my Dana Zarling kit before Friday. How could I have forgotten about that??? And Amanda Rockwell's Watermelon Patch kit... what was I thinking??? I did get some cute new kits this week. There is an AMAZING sale at SweetShoppeDesigns until tomorrow. I love it when they retire kits because you can get them dirtcheap. And on my scrapbooking budget that is WONDERFUL! And I also went to PlainDigitalWrapper's blog and found some coupon codes to use in their store. I got a Holly McCaig kit for $3!!! Oh! And I got Fee Jardine's Wild Animals stamps & brushes set for 40% off from the DST newsletter. I spent less than $25 and got 15+ products. Pretty good if you ask me. Now I can't shop again until Christmas. I have new kits coming out of my ears right now! Tracy Blankenship, Sue Bond & Doris Castle are all sponsors for RAKScraps in September! They gave us AMAZING kits to work with! I got the new Laura Burger kit, Too Hot, to work with as well. I am so excited for that one! The colors are so bright! I also have a Melissa Goerke kit and a Rachel Dickson kit, too! AND I am a Guest CT for an amazing designer in the month of September, but I can't announce that until after she does. So, that's a surprise for now!

and on top of all the scrapbook news, I am turning TWENTY-SEVEN tomorrow. I deserve a break just for making it this far in life! lol I am soooo tired! That is really pathetic isn't it?! :) We had a carnival at church yesterday. I got to the church at 7am and didn't leave until after 2pm. It was HOT! I was dripping with sweat before 8am. Gross! I don't like to sweat. We had a good time. We were planning for 300 people, but hoping for about 150. We probably had 100-125. We were so busy we didn't have time to count. We ordered 50 pizzas from Dominos and also had hotdogs. We were giving away pizzas & hotdogs yesterday to anyone who would take them. After church today we were still trying to get rid of those dang hotdogs. At least they were BallPark all beef hotdogs. I wanted to use Nathan's, but they were too expensive at Costco & BJs & Sams, so we went with BallPark. Then, after I bought all the hotdogs, I ran to the grocery store and they had Nathan's on sale for the same price as BallPark. So we made nasty hotdogs for no reason. But they got eaten. We had a lot of support from the parents of the kids who came, but there wasn't much support outside of that. Most of our teachers didn't show up. Three of our little nursery teachers came and three of our other teachers came. In all fairness, 3 of our teachers were out of town, one had to work, and one was sick. It turned out rather well and everyone had a good time. Next time I think we will do more of the big activities like the dunk tank & moon bounce and less of the little booths. The younger kids really liked the little games, so maybe we would just do fewer of them. The cotton candy machine was a bust. It was way too humid here to make cotton candy. We are getting popcorn next time. We are also going to try to get a giant slide or a climbing wall or something. We'll have more than 2 weeks notice for that hopefully! There was a 70% chance of severe thunderstorms all day yesterday. Literally, as I was putting the helium tank in my car to return to the party store, it started raining and storming like crazy. It was like God waited until I put the last thing in my trunk and then just let it come down. I was so thankful that it waited to rain. And by the way, helium tanks are very very VERY heavy. After the carnival I was exhausted, but I decided to put the helium tank in my trunk by myself. I almost died trying to lift that thing. I thought my insides were going to come out. I feel better today, just tired. So, Hannah is finally napping, I'm going to go, too! later...