World's Largest Crop

This weekend was crazy cool!  It was super busy AND completely satisfying.  The big event of the weekend was attending the World's Largest Crop.  For you non-scrapbookers, the World's Largest Crop is an all day scrapbooking event held at the Merchandise Mart.  There were over 1,000 people there, a ton of cute ideas, classes and of course some of my closest friends.  I'm always busier than I expect to be.  I don't think I sat down for more than ten minutes until mid-afternoon.  Now, a lot of people would hate that, but I loved it.  I loved connecting with my friends - that's how I spend most of the morning.  I track down all of my consultant friends, all of my ex-consultant friends and connect with my customers (most of which are my friends).  I guess my only complaint is that I can't be everywhere at once.  I would love to spend the day just hanging out with Tina.  Crops are also normally good times to connect with my mom.  I hadn't seen my other three customers in a couple of years, so I would've loved to spend the entire day catching up.  And that's just my small group of customers.  Five.  That doesn't include the other friends I have spread through out the thousand.  But it's ok - it all worked out.  I didn't get to spend a huge chunk of time with anyone, but I got to spend a little chunks of time with a lot of very special someones.

I also learned a lot at the digital class I went to.  I would've learned it all eventually from my super-cool digital diva friend (and let's be honest, I probably won't remember most of it) but it was cool none-the-less.  The funniest part about it for me was that I went to the advanced class (yay me - I understand enough of it to be able to go to the advanced class), there were probably ten or so ideas that she went over - all very quickly.  About half way through the second item, the woman across from me told her friend, "This is really A LOT!"  It took everything I had not to say to her, "That's because it's advanced!"  By the time the instructor got to the fifth item, the poor woman had her head in her hands.  Again - advanced!

My funny experience of the day was when I got a mysterious text that said, "Did you get my text?" from a number that I didn't recognize.  I figured it was a wrong number until I read the text that referenced me climbing a 14er.  Hmmm....someone I know.  Then they said they could see me - I sat up straight and looked around to immediately find Stephanie and Polli watching me closely.  (Steph is one of my BFFs and Polli easily could be.)  I jumped up to go give them a good talking to - but instead, ended up telling Polli all about my 14er plan and guess what?  They want to come too!!!  Woo-Hoo!  It started out with Emily, but I'm dragging Chrissy along and maybe her sister.  One of Emily's friends wants to come and now Steph and Polli.  Party on Grays Peak!  Woot! Woot!

The other highlights of the day was that Tina won a prize (funny because it was a Cricut cartridge and she's a digi gal) and I got to help Staci celebrate her birthday in the parking lot with some of my new friends and some yummy cake.  Oh yeah - and at about 5:00 I finally started cropping and I stuck down six pages - that's five more than I did on my last retreat, so yay!

To add to this great event, I got in a walk along Boulder Creek on Friday with Emily and our two littlest girlies (including squats and triceps dips).  I rearranged my family room (did you know that I love the paint?), went to church, got to take a nap and watched Under the Tuscan Sun and Eat, Pray, Love - and (of course) bits of Ocean's 11.  (sigh of contentment)  Life is good!  Yes, it's also confusing and overwhelming and difficult and... and ... and... but right now, at this moment, life is good.  So I'm just going to bask in this moment for a bit.