A card, the flower beds and something strange...

Hello!
Just thought I'd post a couple things today. First off, this card. I actually made a few of them - this one is for one of the girls in our youth group who is moving to Alberta this week. I just changed the sentiment for the others so I could use them as "thank you" cards and I also made one into a wedding card. I used last weeks cupcake sketch on Taylor's blog - I thought it was a fun one to work with. On this card, I used a tag for the sentiment, but I since got a new template for my circle cutter, allowing me to make 1/8" matts, so I used that for the others instead. The big circle is cut from chatterbox scrapbook walls paper and the rest is either bazill or some other scraps I had. The ribbon is from my big box of ribbon I got at Costco.
As for the flowerbeds - here are some pictures of the front garden. I'm not the greatest photographer, and the flowers are just starting to fill out, so it's hard to give you a good idea of what it all looks like, but we're happy with how they look so far. We've started putting in a bit of a sprinkler system in the front beds to help us keep them watered well... and that's a project that we'll add to over the next few years. Just in case you want to know - we planted impatiens in the corner with the barrel... and the bed by the tree and our welcome sign as red salvia circling around the tree, yellow marigolds and a few purple wave petunias in the middle, and then alyssum (spelling?) around the edge.

As for the strange thing...
When we bought our house, most of the landscaping was in bad shape - and we pulled almost everything out, except for a few things, including two "rose of sharon" bushes. We haven't really done a whole lot with them, just pruned them back each year, because they seem to grow really quickly. Anyways, this year, for some strange reason, only half of this bush/tree is budding! We didn't do anything different to one side compared to the other - we can't figure out what happened! Oh well... it'll be interesting to see what happens to it next year!
Well, that's all for now. Tomorrow we are going hiking for the day - we're going to check out Needle Peak. Should be fun! Hiking is something we've talked about a lot, but not really done much of. It'll be fun to get out there and actually do it!

A scrapbook page

I know, I know... it's been a long time since I posted. Life just gets busy, and so I just haven't gotten around to it. I also know I promised pictures of the newly planted flower beds - but I also haven't gotten around to that. One of these days I will!

For now, I will post this latest scrapbook page I did. I actually took the layout from Valerie's sketch blog, and used Sketch #48. Another sketch blog that I found that I really like too, is called Stuck! - and I'll probably be using that one quite a bit too! This page is significant because it means that I'm finally finished scrapbooking my wedding! I have a few pages that need a little fixing up here and there, but it's mostly finished! It only took me 5 years!! Haha. As much as I enjoy scrapbooking, I admit, I'm ready to scrapbook anything besides my wedding pictures! I bought a couple of new scrapbooks at Costco the other day - and am looking foward to filling those up.

It's not the favorite page I ever made, and these pictures aren't the greatest... especially the reflection of the flash on the first picture... but oh well... it'll have to do!

A quick update...

It's nothing too exciting, but I thought I'd just quickly update the blog.
This week I had my first two days of orientation at the new hospital! It is absolutely incredible! It's huge, and the new technology will make our job so much nicer! It is super exciting to be a part of this! The move is planned for the end of August - so less than three months left at MSA!

Other than that, we've just been doing some more work in our yard. The front flower beds have been topped up with nice new soil again, and this afternoon we're going to plant the flowers. Fun! I'll post pictures of that next week sometime. For now, I figured I'd include this picture of my flower boxes. This picture was taken the day I planted them, and they've already started to fill out quite a bit! I'm pretty excited about them this year!

I decided to add this other picture of us just for fun. This year is my 10 year grad reunion, and we had to hand in a recent picture of us. Me and my sister tried to edit a picture of us that I had, but that didn't work out as well as we hoped, so we just went in the backyard, set the timer, and took this picture! We're not professionals by any means, but it's not too bad, if I may say so myself :)

ETA: the link for the "new hospital" has been corrected. Sorry!