So I'm a bad poster, huh?! I'll try to be better! I'm SORRY! This will be a fairly quick post...I just wanted to document a trip I just went on. For the first time in what feels like FOREVER, I went on a trip ALL BY MYSELF! (Ok..not all by myself exactly...but all by myself meaning no family was with me.) It was an all expense trip paid by Stampin' Up! Why?! You might ask?! I won an award through them (along with about 120 others) that earned me the trip. They flew us all to St. George and we had FIVE DAYS to do very little. :) They had a few events planned for us, but most of it was free time/relax time. I had an AMAZING TIME! They spoiled us rotten and it was wonderful. :) I met new friends, got closer with other friends, hung out with SHELLI (the co-founder and President of Stampin' Up! and someone I admire GREATLY!), and just had a BLAST! I shared more of this on my stamping blog, but I wanted to document it here as well. I missed my family SO MUCH and couldn't wait to come home and give kisses and hugs to both Brian and Kylie. I think they both missed me a bit too. :) But they had some fun Daddy daughter time and Brian is SO AMAZING! I came home and he had the house spotless, some landscaping done, the garage all organized, other places in the house organized, and he had a gift on my pillow since I'd gotten so used to that while I was away! :) (Yes...every night when we got back to our hotel room there were gifts on our bed! SO FUN! :) ) Anyway: it was a great time, but it is good to be back. Here are a few photos...
This was on my door as I checked in to my room. What a fun welcome! :) 
We had the whole hotel, so Stampin' Up! kinda took over. They set up an an area called The Gathering Place and they had all sorts of comfy couches, chairs, LoveSac type things, and THIS! There were a few of these around the room, and you could just come, fill up one of the silver buckets with whatever candy you wanted. They kept this thing stocked the whole time. :) It was such a fun touch! 
These were how the tables were set up for our first night welcome dinner. So pretty! I LOVE the pink/black/and white theme throughout the week!
Brandi (on the far left) is my upline and who I hung out with most of the week. It was GREAT to get to know her more and have fun with her! Wendy, in the middle, was with us a lot as well. She is darling too and so much fun to get to know! ("As we discussed"...thanks girls for a great time! :) )
This was one of our gifts that was left in our room. Probably my favorite! :) It had a new stamp set, some ink pads, and some ribbon! SO MUCH FUN! :) 
Shelli is the one on the far left. I really do admire her for all that she has accomplished as a female in a "males business world." This is the 20th year Stampin' Up! has been around and it has grown SO MUCH! It's amazing, really...but I'll spare you the details! :) I'm SO impressed with so many things about her and I feel so lucky to get to hang with her a bit this past weekend!
In the Gathering Place they also had these comfy blankets to cuddle up in. We all wanted to take them off to our rooms when no one was looking. Well, Stampin' Up is SO NICE they gave us ALL one the last night we were there! They are FABULOUS! :) 
Stampin' Up!'s manufacturing plant where they make all their rubber stamps is actually in Kanab. One of the days we took a trip out there. Shelli and Sterling (her husband) made this park for the city of Kanab. It's only fitting that the stuff under the playground equipment is leftover rubber from the rubber stamps! :) It's all shredded up, but you can totally find pieces of stamp sets if you look! It was SO FUN to play with and more bouncy than you might think. (I know..it's rubber. I still didn't think it would be as bouncy as it was!)
5 comments:
OMG I was looking at the pics and then This last one I was like hey that looks like the resort from Hight school musical (My madi is HUGE fan) and then I read and you said it was wow, thats soo cool!
What a fun time! Sounds like things are going well for you! Kylie is adorable!!
HOW FUN! And wow, all that great stuff too! Amazing!
Wow--it sounds wonderful! What a cool retreat!
That looks like it was a lot of fun! You will be so proud of Sadie's birth announcements. Granted I'm sending them out two months late, but whatever, I MADE THEM. ME. I MADE SOMETHING. BY MYSELF (not true, I totally had help).
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