My Scrappy Space is Under Construction....

School is back in session..........

The kids actually started a few weeks ago, I just got around to uploading their "1st day" photos!!! We got preschool, kindergarten, 3rd grade and 5th graders this year in our household!

CABIN FEVER....

We had a great time last weekend at the family cabin outside of Flagstaff. My dad has the prettiest flowers in bloom all around. And of course I took photos. Not often you see lillies and tropical flowers blooming around Flagstaff alongside pine trees! The weekend was a soccer retreat for Evan, so we dropped him off in Munds Park, and stayed a few nights ourself. We also went to the Deer Farm in Williams and went into downtown Flagstaff for some lunch and shopping. Robb's parents came along too. The weather was 72 degrees and stormy, but no rain!

Cupcake Heaven

Ohhhhhhhh....how we love cupcakes in our house....on any given day we have at least 10 boxes of cupcake mix in our pantry. I must admit I use the boxed kind, since I have limited time for things like cupcake baking!! Of course ,Paris and I are the QUEEN BAKERS in our house! We *HEART* cupcakes............. and a really cool cupcake blog I frequent is: http://cupcakestakethecake.blogspot.com/

We LOVE the USA!!!

Kids' Program on the ship

Open Sea (kinda scary)

St Peter's Basilica (at the Vatican), where Peter is buried

Robb & I

Pompeii (sad what happened here)

Pompeii (boys)

Paris in Ephesus, Turkey. Where Paul spoke to the Ephesians!

Turkey's Harbor

Us (Greek Isles) at Sunset

Santorini, Greece

Our ship (a view from a hill WAY up!!! Had to take a gondola cable car down!)

Mykonos, Greece. We got no rain...but looks really cloudy huh?

First of 3 formal nights!

The port closest to Rome

Pisa.....we LOVED Pisa....the day was perfect and not crowded at about 9am!

Barcelona Spain. Day after we arrived! Our hotel is on the right side by that tall (Eiffel wannabe) cable car tower.
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***Our family of 37 is SOOOOO happy to be home. We just went on a "Grandparents' 50th Anniversary" trip to Europe. 4 days in Spain (Barcelona), then another 13 days aboard the Brilliance of the Seas cruiseship touring Italy, France, Monaco, Greece & Turkey. 10 stops in 13 days!! It was SOOO fun and TONS of memories! But we are so glad to be home....wow. 23 our family members were on our Delta flight arriving back into Phx, Az and we were almost kissing the ground as we entered Sky Harbor. NOTHING LIKE THE GOOD OLD USA!!! Here is some photos of our adventure!!

California Dreaming!!

Sister & I

San Diego Zoo

San Diego Zoo

The beachhouse

Beach house balcony (Encinitas)

Disney's CA Adventure

Disneyland

Dad's 49th Bday!! Homemade Cake and LOTS of family....

Our July CA trip ;) 2007

Still here..........just super busy!

Lake Powell (June 2007)

Preschool Graduation

MOVED :)

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Just got home from vacation and in 5 days I am off again. Here is some photos of my summer so far!!! Once the kids start back up in school I will be on more regularly and visiting all your blogs too!!