Scrap and Dash today!

This weeks Scrap and Dash feature two of my favorite subjects, my beautiful niece Morgan and my best friend Fern. The paper this week is from K and Company and from Hambley. Dash on over and Scrap.

Jeremy's Bar Mitvah-the photos's

http://www.smilebox.com/playBlog/4e7a6b7a4e6a51350acheck out my Smile Box creation of photos from the Bar Mitzvah!

Jeremy's Bar Mitzvah

What a blast I had at Jeremy Corn's Bar Mitzvah! Eileen (his mom) and I met in college and are sorority sisters. Eileen sent the save the date card for the Bar Mitzvah a year ago. Or at least it felt like a year ago. Eileen then proceeded to call me, email me, write me and any other form of communication til I said YES I am coming to the Bar Mitzvah. The party was in Virginia and we stayed at a beautiful hotel where the party was in Arlington at the Weston.

It was an all weekend affair. I flew in to Dulles with a sorority sister, LuAnne who was president after I was. I have not seen LuAnne for over 17 years. We had the best time rooming together. She has 3 beautiful kids and I can't wait to meet them and her husband John. they live in Tampa! We flew in Thursday night and Eileen picked us up and we went to the hotel and talked for a bit. Then LuAnne and I stayed up for hours talking. We had so much to catch up on. The next day we went to Old Town in Alexandria and walked around and had lunch and then took the metro back to Arlington. I must say for two college graduates we needed the assistance of about 12 people to help us get back to the hotel via the metro.

Friday night we met in the lobby of the hotel and Eileen's parents, who are the sweetess people in the world took us to Eileen and Bob's house for a Shabbat dinner. The dinner was prepared by 4 of Eileen's friends and it was so warm and wonderful. I must say that Eileen is probably the nicest person I know. She is so sweet and in college used to sign everything with "luv you sweetie". LuAnne says Eileen's handwriting is bubble writing and that everything she says is sweet and nice. Well being so nice of course Eileen has wonderful friends and boy did they make a lovely dinner for all the out of town guests. When I walked into her house for the dinner and saw her 2 beautiful children I started crying. I had not seen them for a long time and they were so grown up and beautiful.

Saturday morning was the Bar Mitzvah and Jeremy did such a wonderful job. After we returned to the hotel with Sharon and her husband Roland and then we met up with another sister Theresa and her husband Bill and Claudia and her husband Michael. We sat at an Ithaca College table. When we walked into the ballroom and I saw the DJ, my jaw dropped, it was my old friend Doug Sandler who is now DJ Doug. Apparently he is the DJ to have if you live in the Washington metro area.

We danced and ate and danced and ate. What an amazing party it was. Later that night my best friend Molly and Henry came to take me to dinner. We ate at PF Changs, my favorite. We had so much fun. After a while LuAnne, Eileen and Eileen's friend Elizabeth came over to the restaurant to find me and we all hung out til late and then we went back to the hotel and crashed Vicky's Bat Mitzvah.

On Sunday Eileen's parents hosted a beautiful brunch for the out of town guests and then we headed over to Eileen's for a pool party and more eating. Bob's mom hosted the house party and had deli trays to feed an army. We were wisked to the airport by LeAnne and then walked to our gate at Dulles. the gate was as far as possible. LuAnne said that the gate was that far because they knew how much we ate all weekend.

I cant' begin to say how happy I am that I reconnected with LuAnne. She is tops and even without meeting her children I can tell what an awesome mom she is. Eileen had told me that LuAnne lived in Tampa right after my dad died, but I was not in the socializing mood much after my dad died. We had so much fun this weekend.

LuAnne and I are now going to plan a Delta Phi Zeta sisters reunion cruise for 2008.

This has been a year of seeing my sorority sisters. Lora in Jan, Laura in Feb, LuAnne, Eileen, Claudia and Theresa in May and Melissa in June.

Thanks Eileen and Bob for a Memorial Day weekend I will never forget! Jeremy and Alana , you two ROCK! SSF Jocie

Weekly Challenge from a K2 Design Team member

This weeks challenge is to create a layout using my favorite "glitter". Last year at SDV I was so into glitter, I think every layout I did had glitter on it. If someone showed me their layout and said what do you think? I said it needs, glitter!

I just love these photos of Andrew at the baseball game. For a kid the game is all about the food. I used plain stars from American Craft and then pressed them into my fabulous Essential Glue Pad and then put glitter on them. If you have never used the glue pad it is just like a stamp pad but with glue, it is a must have for all scrapbookers. Head over to K2 and get yours!

Well, you know what to do. Create a layout using glitter and email me the link. On Sunday night I will pick the winner and then Karen will post the winner on the K2 blog. Happy Glittering.

Sneak Peak at tomorrows Scrap and Dash

For all of you who check out my blog daily, here is a sneak peak at tomorrows Scrap and Dash at K2. This week features the pattern papers of Anna Griffin and Scenic Route. The embellishments are from Prima, Jenni Bowlin, Hambly, Anna Griffin and Gen X. Head on over tomorrow at 5:30 pm and Scrap and Dash.

Scrap and Dash today!

Is it really Wednesday already? Here are this weeks Scrap and Dash layouts. Head over to K2 tonight to create them for yourself. This weeks layouts features my favorite Ki Memories new birthday papers. I am busy at work on the next 6 weeks of Scrap and Dash layouts. Also don't forget I am the DT member with the weekly challenge this week. See below.

The Happiest Place on Earth

Hands down, the happiest place on Earth is Disney World! Disney is not for the faint at heart, you need to be prepared to have fun and let me tell you it is work. Combine heat, toys, stimulation, fast food, lots of children and lots of sugar and you got Disney World. All that said I love going to Disney. We are so lucky to live so close. There is nothing like Disney. It is a marketing marvel. This year Disney is where I celebrated Mothers Day! Our friends the Browns where visiting from Texas and Andrew and I were lucky enough to get to spend Sunday with them. Andrew had so much fun with the girls. We had the perfect Disney day. We rode Splash Mountain twice and both times Karen and I got soaken wet!

New DT Challenge

This weeks K2 Design Team challenge is from me! I challenge you to use a printed tranparency. I just love the transparencies from Autumn Leaves. I had so much fun creating this picture of Fern and me. If you don't have any transparencies in your stash, head on over to K2 and get one. Good luck. Don't forget to send me the link to see your page this week.

Happy Mothers Day!

Happy Mother's Day! Last weekend I was lucky enough to spend it with my mom in Boynton Beach and yesterday I was lucky to spend it with my son and The Brown Family in Disney World. Wow, how lucky am I!!! I was at the happiest place on earth yesterday with my son. We spent all day with Karen, Stan, Adrienne and Jillian Brown. It was extra magic hours and boy we did it all. It was a hot one but some milestones were set. Andrew rode all 3 Mountains yesterday, Space Mountain, Big Thunder Mountain and Splash Mountain. We had fun pin trading and just an all around great day!

Wednesday Scrap and Dash

Well I can hardly believe it is Wednesday already. Did you Scrap and Dash today? I just love this weeks layouts. Again this week it was a mix of manufacturers pattern papers and the embellishments came from Anna Griffin and Scenic Route. I just love the big arrows.

Next week get ready for some Ki Birthday layouts for Scrap and Dash. I just finished the following weeks and I am almost done the week after that! I just love Scrap and Dash pages. I was so bummed I missed the big 12 hour crop on National Scrapbook Day but I was enjoying a couple of days with my mom on the other coast. We had a really nice weekend over there.

I went to an awesome dinner last night at Cathy Chungs. She was quite the incredible hostess. I even tried sushi. She had set the most beautiful table and we ate outside. She had amazing favors and it was just an amazing girls in dinner. She had a very interesting guest from UNFPA in NY and we learned alot about the agency.

Tonight Molly, Karen, Mindy, Andrea, Melissa, me and Fern celebrated Andrea, Molly and Mindy's birthdays at Ferns new house. We all made something and the dinner was incredible. Fern and Davids new home is so beautiful and I am so happy for them. I am a lucky girl to have such nice friends and to have gone to two such amazing dinner parties in the last two nights. Melissa gave me a great recipe for a lemon caper sauce to put over salmon and boy was it good. Andrea made an amazing salad, Mindy made delicious stringbeans with pinenuts, Molly made the incredible potatoes from the Bijou (if you haven't had these you must go and have them) Karen made my favorite roasted veggies and orzo with pinenuts and feta cheese. Melissa made Ina Garten's killer brownies and Fern and I made the salmon with the yummy sauce.

Wow, I have had a busy week and it isn't over yet. Today I drove to Tampa to pick up our speaker for work tomorrow. I am missing K2 I haven't been able to get there all week.

Scrap and Dash today!

Well ladies I know what you are thinking...this isn't Jocie's style of scrapping. You are right. This weeks Scrap and Dash is a little different. It features pattern papers from several manufacturers and not just one line like I normally do. We thought we would change it up a bit. Have some fun with it, I did. If you want to print out the "Good Wife of the 1950's" like I did, go to google and google Good Wife of the 1950's. The article from Better Homes and Gardens will be the first hit you find. It is fun to break out of your comfort zone every once in a while.

Can't wait to see who leaves on American Idol tonight. I actually voted for the first time last week.