Jack is turning 5! I have always dreamed of having a beautiful "Martha-esque" party with all these lovely paper creations I've made, but alas it's never happened. Too busy with life I guess. So, this year I am getting started early. His birthday is on the 27th, but I've already made the invitations. They were so easy, it only took about 20 minutes total. (Let me apologize for the shadows. It's partly cloudy here today and the light keeps changing.)
These cute cards were inspired by this little animal sound book I made. It took less than 10 minutes, but I love it!
Now for my big surprise. Tomorrow morning at 5:30am, I will be waking my four beautiful children, piling them into the car and driving them to the airport. We spent all of Eric's sky miles to buy six tickets to California.
When we get to the airport, we are going to tell them that we are flying to see their grandma in St George. They will be really excited about this, partly because they love to see their grandma, but mostly because none of them have ever been on a plane.
When we land in LA (it was a lot cheaper than John Wayne or Long Beach) we are telling them that grandma's house is about 2 hours from the airport. I'm sure that it won't take long for Ethan and Kate to figure out that we are in California (we have done similar tricks before, like telling them we are driving home from grandma's only to end up at Disneyland). When they do, we are going to tell them that they must have put us on the wrong plane and now we are lost.
We are taking them to see their cousins that live in Orange. They haven't seen them for 5 years. We'll also hit Disnelyland and the beach and then be back on Friday. I can't wait!
Now for another surprise, we are offering our stores Cosmo Cricket Combo Kits for National Scrapbook Day. These kits are similar to the one we did for HSN...... pricing and everything! I won't put all the details here because Lindsay put them together and I might make a mistake...... by the way, Lindsay is on his way to Northern California at the moment..... he's meeting his dad this week!!!!!
OK, back to the kits. There are three different ones: Garden Variety with Early Bird, Joy Ride with Lil' Man and Material Girl with Earth Love. They have tons of stuff. They will value around $37.00 with around 1800 pieces and you could win one! Tell us one of your favorite surprises to be entered into our random drawing. We'll choose three winners that we'll announce here tomorrow morning.
