More about our trip!

I've been so slow about getting these layouts of our trip done! Well, first of all, we took so many pictures that it's a little overwhelming when I do sit down to work on one. Also, since we've been home, the kids and I have been living in the water all summer. Between trips out to Whiskeytown Lake and swimming at the pool at the YMCA, we're pretty much never home during the day.

So, back to our trip...

This layout is from our day in Peel. Charming little town with a beautiful old castle in it. I will do a layout just about the castle next. We took so many cool pictures of the castle that I couldn't fit them in this particular layout.

So far the summer has been busy, but relaxing. I'm having a great time and not letting myself feel guilty about it! So what if my house may be a little dirty!

This afternoon we're going to see a local production of "High School Musical". Raegan has been really into it since she saw the movie on the Disney Channel. It should be fun.

So, I'll try to get working on more layouts to share from our trip. It's hard to find the time. Relaxing by the lake or the pool takes up all my energy for the day, you know! (ha ha, poor me, huh?) Hopefully I'll get another one done before school starts. And soccer! Ugh, the fall is such a busy time!

The Isle of Man - Part 1

Our flight over to the Isle of Man went much smoother than the first leg of our trip. We were met at the airport by Wendy and Michael (the Britton's 3-year old son). After a quick stop at the Britton's house to drop off our luggage and pick up Rachael (their 11-year old daughter), we drove to the little town of Laxey...

We enjoyed our first day on the Isle of Man just driving around and taking in the scenery. What a beautiful country! Although we were met with some rain the first couple of days, the weather cooperated for the remainder of our stay, and we had beautiful sunny days.

As soon as I complete another layout, I will post about our next stop on the island, the town of Peel, where we saw a really cool old castle. Until then...

Finally...a post!

I know, I know...I'm a bad girl. I've been wanting to post for awhile, but have run into a few gliches (is that spelled right?). Anyway, we got back from our trip on June 14. At that time our computer was pulling it's annual "I'm not going to work" crap. Being that neither Casey nor I are very computer saavy, we just prayed the computer would miraculously work one day (it didn't, so we just cussed at it instead). Luckily my nephew came to visit from Illinois a couple of weeks ago. You know how those teenagers are with computers (makes me sick). Anyway, he came over one day and had it fixed within like 10 minutes (smart aleck!). So, now our computer is fixed once again! Hooray!

So then I decide to start scrapping our trip. Let me preface this by saying that Casey bought a new camera right before our trip. And let's just say he went a little crazy with the whole picture taking thing. Plus, I had brought my camera too, so needless to say, we have tons of photos from our trip. It was a little overwhelming at first to try to pick just a few to scrap. But, one day I was determined to get started, and I succeeded! Hooray! So, here's the first two pages of our trip. Our first day was spent in Dublin, Ireland...

So we were very happy to make it to Dublin, Ireland. It was a loooooong trip there. We thought we weren't going to make our flight in San Francisco. We thought we had left early enough, but when we got around the Berkeley area, the traffic was horrific! We finally made it to the Bay Bridge, but then the traffic got even worse! We sat and sat and sat. We realized we only had a short time to get to the airport and didn't think we would make it (we still had to drop off our car in long term parking). Well, miracles do happen because we made it to our gate just as the flight was boarding! Whew, that was close!

So, I'm a terrible sleeper on planes and knew I would not get any sleep before we arrived in Dublin (I was right). We arrived in Ireland about noon their time (yea, that's about 4:00am our time). We decided to try to stay awake the whole day, so we could start adjusting to European time. After doing a little walking around Dublin (well, it was more like dragging), we decided to hop on one of the city bus tours. Ok, we might as well have been in a cradle being rocked by our mommys because the motion of the bus was putting all of us to sleep. We somehow managed to stay awake(well, mostly) for the majority of the day before we finally crashed in our hotel room around 6:00pm. The next morning we headed to the Isle of Man...