Maple Memories

Lindsay and I went to Maple Memories this past weekend. MM is a house (similar to mine) that has been totally remodeled (unlike mine :) and is rented out to scrapbookers. How cool is that?? I have been once before last fall and let me tell ya, this is the place to go to relax and recharge. It is especially wonderful in the fall with all of the leaves changing colors. The house is in McPherson, KS which is similar in size to Winfield but Lindsay and I were amazed by all of the small town charm. The downtown is full of little shops and restaurants and seems to be hoppin at all times!! We went to a specialty baby shop and boy did they have some interesting items there!!! Including, something you wear like a bra that will support your breast pump so you can walk around pumping hands free!!! Also, a bra that has little reservoirs to catch any breast milk leakage so you can save it!! And if you are in to cloth diapers they specialize in that too!! As you can see most of the products were a little out there but i did find some headbands for her and a little vinyl bag to keep in my diaper bag to hold dirty clothes if we are out of the house...oh and it is brown and pink paisley pattern!!!! The Scrapfunattic girls bought her a huge red fluffy tutu and legwarmers from there too!! Soo cute!

This is my crop space--what a mess!!!

Lindsay and I like to work on pages together. It is one of our "things" that have sooo much fun doing. We print pics of all of the activities that we do together (which between scrapbooking, work, and stuff with our families---turns out to be a ton!!) and make layouts together! We have been doing this since Lindsay started cropping last year and just love it!!

Here we are working on Bluegrass 2009 (don't you just LOVE Lindsay's concentration face!!!) :)

I got 25 pages done so I was pretty happy about that!! I think Lindsay got about 20 and made me 2 more onesies!! Soo cute...there is a "baby rock star" one and a "princess paisley" both so darn adorable that I can't decide if she will wear them or have them hanging in her room! As for the preggo girl... I kept my feet propped but my ankles still swelled to the size of my calves practically. Thankfully the swelling has gone down and my feet are pretty much back to normal. My back on the other hand is not that great. I have had a pinched nerve for the past few months that has gone from my back to the right side of my stomach. It feels like I am being stabbed in that one spot pretty much 24hrs a day. I am learning to just live with it and I keep reminding myself "2weeksleft, 2weeksleft" so that helps. Plus I know how worth it she will be!!!