And I had a blast! I got the pleasure of sharing my wonderful vacation with Tiffany of InspiredbyDominic Designs and also with Anne (formerly of Fishbowl Designs). Tiffany and I have been friends since 2009 (Anne and I have been friends since probably sometime in 2010?) and have been ITCHING to meet up since then. I can’t count on two hands the number of times we’ve said “I wish we lived closer!” to one another.
So last year, we finally decided to act on it, and planned to meet up this 4th of July in Kansas City. It was amazing! Kansas City is an amazing city during the 4th of July. Anne lives close by to Kansas City so she made the drive to meet us as well. We all met up on the last night of our stay to see a fireworks show a little bit outside of Kansas City – and wow, what a show!
All of us and our families (my parents joined me and my husband on our trip, or rather we joined them lol) sprawled out on the grass and listened to a live band for a couple hours before the fireworks started, our children played together, and when the fireworks started we were so close that we kept having firework debris fall on us. All of us required showers after the fireworks, we were covered in it! My husband got a little scared when he watched a falling ember break apart and scatter all over the road that was right in front of us lol – but nobody got burned by the fireworks and we all had a blast.
Top: Tiffany and myself
Bottom: Tiffany, Anne (holding her son), and myself
The day before the fireworks, Tiffany met up with us and we took all of our boys to the Kansas City Crayola store – talk about overwhelming. I’m 24 years old and I was overwhelmed at all the cool art stuff they had in that store. It was so overwhelming for our boys that we had to take them to grab something to eat at the Crayola Cafe and then take them back to the store so they could pick out their new goodies. Isaac got a Crayola glow board (Toy Story of course) – after we got home, we realized you had to be a rocket scientist to figure out how to put it together. You pay so much for something and then all it ends up doing is making you feel like a complete doofus because you can’t put it together – but my uncle the “techie” managed to get it put together for him, so he saved the day!
Then we also took the boys to Build-A-Bear – it was a first for I think all of us, Tiff and I included. That place is worse than a scrapbooking store for myself – I can spend hours in there and come out with $200 worth of stuff, everything is so CUTE! We will definitely be making many more trips back to Build-A-Bear in the future, since there is one in Wichita when we visit Heath’s parents. Isaac loves dressing up his cat in his different outfits – he looks like a pretty cool cat, with sunglasses and Skechers. The cat is dressed better than I think we are, to be truthful lol.
When we weren’t with Tiff, Anne, and their families, my parents and my husband and I all spent some good quality time together. It was really nice, because we hadn’t gotten to do something like this in quite a long time. We hit a lot of scrapbooking stores for myself and my mom (and I spent way too much money and had to end up reorganizing my scrapbooking supplies when I got home because of it lol), we hit the hotel pool (I’m really looking forward to scrapping the first swimming pictures of the year), and we set aside a full day to visit the zoo (what a catastrophe), Union Station (the Science City gift shop was their favorite), and the WW1 memorial together.
Us in front of the huge memorial (about 1/4 or 1/2 mile away, actually)
My boys checking out the view of the city from the very base of the memorial
The three of us at the base of the memorial
All in all it was a fantastic vacation, and I will never forget it.
I will have even more pictures of our vacation up sometime this weekend (hopefully) at my personal blog, Creative Chaos.
I will return to designing on the 11th (Monday), and start working on two new kits I’ve had in progress for a while – one I have decided to totally revamp with a new color palette, and one I have about 30-50% completed. For now, I’m giving myself a couple extra days to let my mojo return and work out all the writing and scrapping motivation that I have – so many things to do, so little time!
My retiring items are STILL on sale – the end of the sale came right in the middle of us leaving for vacation and I didn’t have the time to take them off sale, so I decided to extend the sale by another week or so. The items will go off sale first thing in the morning on Monday, so if there’s anything you want, go grab it before it’s gone forever!
See you here again soon with some new releases!
