Korbin Dodge Palmer

He's finally here!!

Korbin Dodge Palmer

Born July 14th, 2009

7 lbs

20 inches

Proud parents!

Our family

Adorable baby boy!

Flashback: 5 years

Five years ago this week, I was on vacation in Maui with Derrick's mom Jamie, his sister Brianne, and his grandmother Charlotte. We had a great time and enjoyed beaches, amazing views, waterfalls (and trickles, grandma!) on the Road to Hana, a great luau, shopping, eating, and so much more. But, the greatest part for me was getting to know all of them so much better. I'll never forget the fun time we had together there. I recently finished the scrapbook that I made for this vacation (yeah, a whole five years later) so it has been on my mind lately. Thanks ladies, for great times and great memories!

What a bike!!

While going through my morning blog checking ritual, I saw a post about winning this bike. This is the first time I had seen this beauty and I would love to win.

For more info, I have added their button to my blog. Click there and get the details for yourself! I'm sure you'd love to win too.

New Moon

I was NOT impressed with the Twilight movie. Derrick even rented it from the Red Box one night to surprise me with something he "thought" I'd want to watch. I couldn't force myself to endure it again.
BUT.......I am willing to give the next movie New Moon a shot in hopes that lessons have been learned from Twilight and this one will be much better. With that being said, I saw something the other day that has me even more excited for the November release of New Moon.
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The wolf pack................need I say more??!!!!!!

Mesa Scrapbook Convention

This past weekend I was able to get away for a little while to have some fun with my sister and sister-in-law. Friday, Jodi and I met in Green Valley and drove to Mesa for the Scrapbook Convention. We went to the vendor fair and spent $$$$$. We got to enjoy dinner and then we were off to the crop. That's where you take stuff to work on and sit in a big room scrappin' while everyone else is doing the same. They give everyone free products and there are tons of prizes to win through drawings. I should have had someone take a picture of Jodi and I while we were there but I didn't. Jodi ended up getting sick (we think food poisoning) so we left early and went to our hotel. Our sister-in-law Laura met us at the hotel. We all woke up the next morning and went to the convention and took some classes.

Jodi and I took this great class and made this "Good Things" acrylic album. It was so much fun to do. The teacher of this class makes amazing album kits and was selling them at a booth in the vendor fair (more of our $$$$ went to her than anywhere!)

Next we met back up with Laura to take a class called "A Peek Into My Week." We got a surprise when our teacher was..........................

Elizabeth Kartchner

Sort of a celebrity in the scrapbook community

We made this fun album which showcases a week in the life of yourself or whoever you want to make the book for. So much fun!

Here are the three lucky ladies who got to attend this awesome scrapbook nerd event!

Thanks for the fun times girls! I'm looking forward to more good scrapbooking times in the years to come.

And Suzi, we missed you..............................a lot!

Easter

I'm really late in posting these pictures. Scotty had a lot of fun with Easter festivities. Lucky boy got to go on 4 Easter egg hunts over a couple of weeks time. The first was the Primary Easter egg hunt they held the last Saturday in March. He got to wear "bunny ears" and thought it was so cool.

Here is Scotty patiently awaiting the hunt.

The whole group of the younger kids waiting.

They enjoyed a snack of cupcakes and milk after they had fought for eggs.

The second Easter egg hunt was at the mom's group party the first week of April. There was some cool stuff hiding out there. There were toys, bubbles, pencils, packs of stickers, plastic eggs filled with candy, and just random wrapped candies here and there. The kids would run by all of the cool bubbles, pencils, stickers......anything NOT in a plastic egg. They just wanted to grab those eggs. We had to keep telling them to grab the other stuff. It was pretty funny.

Here is Scotty at the beginning of the hunt.

Here he is with his bucket after he was finished.

Easter weekend we went to Gilbert for an interview that Derrick had. We also got to visit with family. Scotty had a fun time with cousins at the park Friday afternoon. Derrick and I went to dinner with Jamie, Brianne and Saleem and had a good time visiting with them. Grandma made it possible for Scotty to participate in her ward/neighborhood Easter Egg hunt that Saturday. It was raining that morning so we had Cierra and Kerry (Derrick's little sis and bro) come and tell us when they were about to do the egg hunt. Then we hurried over, Scotty hunted eggs, and then we hurried back to the house. I didn't take any pictures of any of these events even though my camera was in my purse the whole time. Scotty was also spoiled by his grandma with an Easter bag with toys, a movie and candy in it.

We drove home on Saturday evening and spent Easter at home. Scotty got to go on another Easter egg hunt at home by himself on Sunday evening. And again, no pictures. But, the spoiled little boy was happy with all of the fun he had.

The most terrible baby name EVER!!

We haven't decided on a name for our little baby boy yet (we still have awhile) and I picked up a baby name book at the library a couple of weeks ago. I was looking at it over the weekend and found the worst baby name in the world!

The winner is:

Harshit: 'Joyful', 'happy'

I don't know how anyone could be joyful or happy with a name like that. Needless to say that this one didn't make our list. So, it's pretty open for anyone out there who wants to use it!

Do it.

I dare you.