Where Have I Been?

Where have I been? Over these past couple of months it seems like I've been everywhere! lol. We went to the Chicago area for 5 days last week. My cousin got married and it was a beautiful wedding! Krissy is my closest family member, we were born 6 hours apart and even though we've always lived across the country from each other we're super close! :) I love her. Her husband is such a good guy, I'm so happy for them! Here are a few pics that I snapped during the wedding:

The beautiful couple!

My cousins, Jake and Dave (Krissy's brothers)

My Mommy!

HAD to get a pic with the bride!

Please excuse my peeling, red face. I got SO sunburnt a few days before I left, ugh. Story of my life, lol! I tried to wear a dress that covered most of it up but can't hide the face. :)

Can you tell that I got a new camera? Yes, after YEARS of whining John finally broke down and let me buy a Canon Rebel T2i. I am in LOVE with it! I still have a lot to learn but oh my goodness, the quality of the photos that it takes compared to my old camera is insane!

While we were in Chicago I got to see lots of family, cousins, aunts, uncles, my mom and sister came over from Montana too. The 5 days that we were there went by WAY too fast. John and I wanted to go exploring in Chicago and we ventured our way out there last Sunday. We wanted to take Alex to the Shedd Aquarium because I went when I was about ten years old and I remembered it being the most incredible place that I had ever seen back then! I wanted Alex to experience it too. Well, once we got near the aquarium we figured out that the opening NFL Bears game was going on in the stadium right next to the aquarium! It took us two hours to find somewhere to park and it cost us $50! After that experience and once we were done with the aquarium we were done with Chicago for awhile, lol! We are definitely not "big city" kind of people! :) The aquarium was AWESOME though! All of the sea creatures were fascinating, Alex loved it! We saw the beluga whales and dolphins perform, but Alex still says that he liked watching the sharks swim around the best. *shudder* I can't wait to go back to Chicago again though, there are so many things that I still want to see and do!

I've been scrapping LOTS since I got home, will share more soon. Here is a layout that I created for the August 2011 issue of Cricut magazine. I highlighted the Freshly Picked cartridge here.

Check out the Cricut blog to see the Grandparent's day kid project that I came up with!

Happy Monday! :) It's going to be a great week. I'm working at the Scrapbook Store on Tues. and Wed. again, then after work on Wednesday John and I are taking Alex to the state fair!

Heh heh hehhh....