Scrapbook Retreat

Oh, it has been a wonderful few days! This was the weekend of my annual scrapbook retreat in Mansfield, TX! I always look very forward to this time away each year, and we made a lot of good memories this year!

Kim and I left Abilene on Wednesday at 6:30, after both working a little late. We really enjoyed the 2.5 hour trip together, talking and laughing. We stopped at Chik-fil-A for a quick dinner and arrived at the retreat house around 9:30. After a quick unload of all of our materials, we then headed to the Super Target with our other friend, Kim, to get a few snacks.

Thursday/Friday/Saturday/Sunday have all been filled with traditional scrapbooking, digital scrapbooking, reading, watching Netflix, chatting with friends, naps, and writing.

I had a few random traditional scrapbook pages to accomplish, and that felt a little weird and overwhelming since I haven't done much of it over the past two years since going digital. But, I was able to get about 10 pages done. Digitally, I worked on the Ironman Texas album from beginning to end - chose the photos, put them in order, copied them over to my phone, got the photos all placed into layouts, added titles and artwork to the pages, and then finished up with all of the journaling. Then I placed the order to have the book printed! Big success there, super happy!! I was able to finish up The Masterpiece book that I was reading, and it was really good. I made it through the entire season of YOU, the creepy Netflix series I've been watching. I also pulled out the book I started writing awhile back, and after reading through it, decided I want to try working on it more.

Friday evening, Kim, Kim, and I met Aspen and Geordon for dinner! They live about 30 minutes from the retreat house, so it was so fun that they were willing to meet me! So good to see them! Saturday evening, all 14 of us retreaters had dinner together at El Primo's (Mexican) and that was a lot of fun, too!

We did have a little drama...one of the water heaters at the retreat house had a huge leak, and flooded the garage where they have a lot of scrapbook supplies. Thankfully one of the retreaters heard the water and with the help of a neighbor down the street, we were able to get the water turned off.  But, the damage was already done. They had to come remove everything the garage, including the carpeted flooring. It was a full day of work for them. They have quite a bit of drywall damage, and it's not going to be cheap. We had plumbers and water damage companies in and out all day.

Today we will be wrapping things up...packing and cleaning up our huge mess! We will head home around 5 or 6 and thankfully I took Monday off so I can recover a bit!! I can do laundry and grocery shop and put all of my stuff away. Looking forward to that too!