MVP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I'm so excited for my son that I can hardly contain myself. The awards dinner for the Kodiak ice hockey organization was last night. All kids received a very nice trophy for playing the season. There were some special awards handed out to a few players from each team based on different things. Each team had one player named as "Most Valuable Player". Ollie was the recipient for his team! HOW WONDERFUL is that? I have to tell you how proud I am of this kid. He puts his whole heart and soul out there every time he steps on the ice. His work ethic is absolutely amazing and he works nonstop at improving his skills and the way he plays the game. It is so nice to see him rewarded for this.

I think I'm most excited for him because this organization has treated him so incredibly well. This coming after being in an organization that treated him badly for 2 years. We went from an organization that only cared about the management of the organization and those parent's children to an organization that cares about each and every one of the players. This awards dinner was amazing and the things they did for the kids were equally amazing. The awards, prizes, gifts to the team managers, coaches, etc. were so well thought out and planned. My hubby took the team pictures, I did all the editing and printing and then several of the mothers helped put them in frames last week. EVERY player and every coach received a framed team picture.

Just to cap off a fabulous night, one of the parents from our team organized a collection and gave my hubby and I a very nice plaque thanking us for all our hard work as Team Manager and a gift certificate to a very nice restaurant. It was so unexpected and it is very much appreciated even though completely unnecessary. I would do it all over again in a minute even though it's a lot of work. As a matter of fact they wouldn't let me turn in my first aid bag, water bottles and game pucks... I have a feeling I'm already designated for the spring league team! Even better than that, one of the parents took a picture of hubby, myself and Ollie after the last game at the tournament. He printed it out 5x7 and framed it for us. I was so touched, we have so few pictures of the three of us together and it turned out gorgeous. Never mind that we were dressed for a game, Ollie had wet sweaty hair, etc. etc.... I'm in between my two favorite boys in the world in that picture and it's AMAZING!

Hubby took the night off from being the photographer, so no pictures from the dinner. I'll be sure to get pictures of the awards and post them here later. The president of the whole organization got up throughout the night with some one line facts, stories about the season, etc. One of the one liners was:

"Chances are... the Oliver's have more pictures of your child than you do"

ROFL, how true and funny is that?


P.S..... for those of you who have e-mailed me this week and not gotten a response back, you can see why! I'll be working very hard the next few days to catch up on things. LIFE IS GOOD!

THANK YOU!!!!

Thank you so much to everyone leaving me the lovely comments on the download area and post. It's nice to be appreciated and have other people like your designs. I love love love designing and feeling like someone besides me likes them is a huge boost! Also a big thanks to everyone signing into my guestbook/map. It's so fun to see where everyone reading the blog is from. It's great to see many new faces I don't know and the familiar ones that I already know and love. Keep it up everyone!

I think you have all convinced me to definitely add pieces and maybe make this part of a whole kit. Thanks again!

Design Fun and a Blog Freebie ...

Ok, where did my weekend go? Anyone know how to make those things stop going so darn fast?

Parent/player games yesterday were a riot and the kids (and parents & coaches) had so much fun. There was good food, good times and a lot of laughs. Hubby took tons and tons of pictures I need to get downloaded and up on the website for the kids.

I've been on a creative tear and having a ball creating again. I'm so happy with the work I'm doing right now. So far just this last week I finished a piece of the April Mega kit for The Scrapping Garden, a piece of the April Mega kit for Digi Scrap Shak and a April 2007 Challenge Bonus kit for Digitals. Previews will pop up here on the blog as the stuff becomes available. I'm chomping at the bit to show the stuff. I'm also working on a fun magazine project for The Scrapping Garden and you'll have to wait on more details for that too! hehe

In the meantime, I was playing around with a color palette and these pieces just flowed right out. Here's a fun blog freebie just for my loyal readers.

You can find the download link here. Please leave me a comment if you like it. I can so easily see this being the beginning of a whole kit. I have SOOOO many ideas, I just need SOOOO much more time to create!

Happy Monday to all!

Thursday News ...

Hmmm Monday is the beginning of the week, Wednesday is Humpy (or Hump) Day, Friday is always TGIF, Saturday and Sunday are the weekend.... Tuesday and Thursday are just kind of boring in comparison!

Well the team pictures are printed, cut and assembled into frames for the awards dinner. With four teams it was a lot of printing and cutting. We had about four people assembling them at practice last night so that went pretty fast. The kids are excited about the parent/player game and the awards dinner, but I think sad that the season is basically over.

Spring season is gearing up quick though, just got notice that one of the two teams he's playing on will start practice next Tuesday. Ummmm did they forget that hockey moms need a break too??????????????????????????

Digitals is having a CT Call! You can find information about it here.