The next best thing to being clever is being able to quote someone who is.

~Mary Pettibone Poole

I like that one. It's so me!! Here we go two days in a row! Woo Hoo!

Last weekend was my girls' scrap booking weekend! This all started a couple of years ago. My BFF Liz invited me to go with a group of her friends from church to this cool place in Rockport. Rockport is a neat, little town about 30 miles up the coast from Corpus Christi. The place we stay is called The Retreat House. The Retreat House is set up for crafty people to come & do crafty things like making scrapbooks. The house is at the end of a country road with a pond in the back. It's secluded and so quiet. We go twice a year & I relish every minute of it- not just the time to lay out all of my pictures & put them in books in cute ways, but the time to catch up with Liz and all the girls that I have gotten to know and just love. We cook for each other, critique each other's lay outs & share the pictures of our kids. I've never met most of their kids (since they all live in Pearland/Friendswood), but I feel like I know all their little personalities and I would definitely recognize them from their pictures. We leave the house usually only one time for amazing Mexican dinner at Los Comales. I crave their stuffed, fried avocado. Yum.

So... here are a few of the layouts I did this time. I have a "Sports Book" for my boys. Sorry there is a glare from the plastic cover on the pages, but you can get the jest of it.

Our next retreat is in October. I can't wait!!