Here's a page I did from our New Orleans weekend prior to our fundraising cruise. My thoughts and prayers for those affected by Katrina.

My weekend

Well, Saturday was the first Cabinet meeting for our district. We arrived bright and early (8AM) for the meeting which was scheduled to start an hour later. Emil, as Cabinet Secretary got to start off the meeting.

After the meeting was over, we dropped our friend Harold off and since Nancy (our club president) had never seen Harold and his mom, Susan's hot house, we all went in to take a look.

This is only some of the flowers they have! The second picture is only half of one side of the hothouse. They have shown their flowers at various flower shows and won ribbons for their blooms.

Sunday evening, we attended the charter meeting/dinner of a new club in our district, the East Palo Alto club. I think they are going to be a very active group of people!

Monday, August 22, 2005

Yesterday was my cousin Lisa's wedding. It was a bit chilly but all in all a beautiful ceremony. They had it in their backyard and after the ceremony, released 2 white doves. Unfortunately, those poor doves must have been cooped up too long as they didn't fly away until much later.

My brother, the Deacon got to perform his first wedding.


Got to see some family that I don't get to see too often.

Then it was off to a Lion's function. It was the installation of the Peninsula Council and I changed tops (layered my clothes!) in the car.

Our friend, Harold.

And this is Nancy, our current club president and brother, Eugene.
And here's Michael (immediate past president) and wife, Roseanne, who is Nancy and Eugene's sister. The 5 of us usually go to functions together and others from our club sometimes join us.
At the dinner, the keynote speaker was David Louie, who's a newscaster on our local TV who spoke about trade in China. After the installation of officers, the club presidents had to go up to the head table and was made to wear "jail house outfits and linked together. This was for their motto "linked together and working hard for a good cause" and they were each given a cake pan with cake fixings for the next meeting in November. The person with the most imaginative cake with the theme "breaking out of jail" wins a prize. Should prove interesting!

One of my fave pics of us. This was taken on our fundraising cruise Oct. 2004. I just love Emil's pose!

Welcome to my spot!

Just a bit about myself ~

I've been scrapping since 1993, when I was silly enough to take over the scrapbook making for our Lions club. The last person to do it didn't want to do it anymore.
His loss, my gain.
But, back to the subject at hand. I had never heard of scrapping and didn't have an inkling where to start. Between Emil and me, we went to Michael's and picked up a bunch of supplies. We should have looked around better! My first album was 17 x 24 and we brought it to the convention. It was a hit, but didn't win, as I didn't read the rules. There were rules? Who knew?
The next year, I was asked to do it again and this time I did read the rules and won!
I 've been scrapping and learning since!

If you've read this far, I'd love to hear any comments and suggestions!

Thanks!