We WON!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

First game was a 5-1 win... pictures to follow later today.

Wooohoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

SO EXCITED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

hehe... do you think that title means I'm excited???

Do you???

We've been researching lenses for the camera for a very long time. We really need a really good lens for shooting hockey games. We have a Canon 20D camera and every professional we've talked to (believe me, we hit up every professional photographer we see at games, tournaments, etc.) has recommended the Canon Zoom Telephoto EF 70-200mm f/2.8L IS Image Stabilizer USM Autofocus Lens hands down. When you go to websites and read the reviews, everyone gives this lens very high marks. Usually 5 out of 5 stars and no less than 60 reviews per site. Biggest problem is the price tag that comes with it. Sooo after much discussion in our house, I am getting the lens for hubby as part of last Christmas (for the wide angle lens I got him and he ended up returning), his birthday last week and part of this Christmas. I just ordered it and hope to have during the week next week. That means he'll only have to shoot the game this weekend with the old lens. I'm sooooo excited about the new lens. I can't wait to see the photos and will be sure to share them here.

I can't believe our first game is tomorrow. I'm the team manager again this year and I must say that I'm happy that I've gotten a really good response from the parents. I've already got a volunteer to help me with shots on goal and have had two other mothers to help out with stuff when needed. GO KODIAK MIDGET 16U!

I'm not lost...

really I'm not... LOL

I've been working super hard this week getting organized! I am busy updating my calendar in Outlook and syncing up with my Palm Pilot. I don't know when I let that get so out of control, but I think I'm back up to date again. I even started using the color coding labeling so I can print out calendars and it's easier to find things. I've also been getting things in order for Ollie's travel hockey team. I'm the team manager again this year, so I'm busy organizing the first aid bag and paperwork for the games, getting everyone's e-mail addresses entered from the roster and group e-mails set up for reminders and directions, etc. etc. I've also been working very hard on my grab bag for Digitals' 3rd Birthday Bash the first week of October. I have three products almost ready to zip up and upload. Be sure to check it out, it's a great bargain at only $2. I'll have more about that as we get closer.

I've got my list of other design deadline stuff to get done. Stop by TSG and check out the Box of Dreams challenges this month. Every Thursday I post a new one. We are doing journaling challenges this month. Each one completed earns you a piece of the School Days kit I did. I will be putting the kit in the stores after the challenges are completed this month.

Also, if you stop by the TSG store, any purchase of $10 or more this month earns you my Butterfly Dance kit for free. That will also be going into my stores after this month.

Would love to hear what my readers are up to. Back to work ........

My boys ...

Hubby and Ollie from our Hershey trip on Labor Day weekend. They were waiting in line to ride the Comet roller coaster and I got a chance to snap some pictures. I took pictures of them on the ride too, but that's a whole different layout.

Journaling Reads: You are my two favorite boys in the whole wide world! I love our little family more than anything even though we are sometimes“weird”. Who determines what “weird” is anyhow? I wouldn’t trade either one of you or our “weird” little family for anything. Good times and bad, as long as I have the two of you, life is GOOD!

Supplies Used: Background Paper is a photo I took of the Comet used as an overlay. Brad, paperclip, ribbon and monogram from my Dream Your Own Monogram for summer kit.

Leaf Into Fall Kit

Finally, I got this kit resorted and headed to the stores. It is available at Digitals here today. It will be available at TSG on Friday.

Cooler days, sun going down earlier . . . Leaves change into brilliant browns, oranges & reds as we "Leaf into Fall". As you will enjoy all the pumpkin patch visits and hay rides, take those photos and then you can scrap those precious memories.

Kit Contains:
5 Patterned Papers, 5 Textured Solid Papers, 1 Doodle Fence, 3 Doodle Pumpkins, 1 Bead Boarder, 2 Binder Clips, 1 Burlap Border, 3 Brads, 2 Copper Charms, 1 Copper Paperclip, 1 Copper Swirl Clip, 3 Frames, 1 Burlap Leaf, 1 Copper Medallion, 2 Burlap Ribbons, 1 Twisted Ribbon, 2 Tags, 1 Wheelbarrow, 1 WordArt