The First Half Marathon!

Do you love it? Party Boy ran his first ever half-marathon yesterday! His time was 2 hours and 15 minutes.

I am so proud of him! Of course, this means that he has met his goal for the year, which also means that he does not have to suffer the punishment that he picked out if he did NOT run a half-marathon in 2008, wearing a tire around his waist on 1/1/09. Bummer.

The race was great. It started off pretty bleak and rainy, which was a bummer, but the rain let up after about 45 minutes and then it was just cold and VERY windy.

He's so psyched by the whole experience that he decided that he wants to run a marathon now.

Maybe as early as September.

Wow.

100 Miles!

I am so proud of SSCB - He has run over 100 miles since he started running at Christmas. What an accomplishment!

I think I have probably driven at least 100 miles since Christmas. He drives more often than I do. And we have elves to fill our gas tank, too. It's magic. I drive one day, and the tank is nearly empty. The next day it's all full again. But, I digress.

This kit is in colors inspired by my favorite cartoon character. Be aware, these only contain similar colors. There will be no images or anything to imply the images of the unspoken characters. Honestly, as much I would love to do a kit for these characters (and several others that my kids love) I can't because, well, let's just say that the copyright makes it cost prohibitive.

Hopefully someday the owners of all my favorite characters will release digital scrapbook kits containing my favorite characters. I think that they haven't yet because there are still so many issues in digi-scrapping with piracy. While these corporate conglomerates certainly have the incentive and power to go after pirates they probably are left asking if they really want to. I am holding out hope that someday the digital market will be big enough that we won't be ignored anymore by these copyright holders.

Until that day comes, please enjoy my Silly Bear kit.

Errand Day and Who Says You Can't Get Anything for Free?

Oh, how I despise errand day. I do not like grocery shopping. Especially with the skyrocketing bill that seems to come with it these days.

After last weekends race I decided that I needed a kit that I could use to scrap SSCB's race pics, because he needs an album right? I mean, each of the kids has an album, but my poor DH is album-less.

So, I made this set of papers and some simple elements. I am sharing them here, well, because with the rising cost of groceries we all deserve a little something for free. Don't we?

The elements will be posted tomorrow and are very running specific, but I tried to keep the papers generic, although the colors were inspired by the colors of the racers clothing. There are three gradient papers in there too.

Hope you guys can use these!