About Memories & More: When it rains, it pours.

I love it when it rains. I guess if I lived in Seattle I'd feel differently. But since I live in Flagstaff, I have a serious appreciation for the rain. We need it so very badly. Every year the monsoons bring rivers of rain to my parking lot. A few years ago they re-did the parking lot...and created a river that typically runs straight to my my front door. Makes perfect sense, doesn't it?

A few things are happening this week that you might be interested in. Tonight is the Little Joy mini book class...it's at 6 pm, cost is $20 & you'll make a fun mini book from scratch. Wenesday is the 5 Things I Love About You mini book class. It's $30 & it's so cute! Both classes allow you to pick out paper to match your specific theme. Then Thursday is the Teen Night class...it's really for 4th thru 6th grades...and the project is super fun. Cost is $20 and includes all the supplies & pizza. And then there's Midnight Madness on Friday. Saturday, Sherry's teaching the transparency class, which is $20. Here's a page from it...and there are 2 cards, too:

You can check out our classes by clicking here....

I did a photo test. I ordered photos from www.scrapbookpictures.com and www.snapfish.com on the same day last week. I'd like to say it was Wednesday, but it could have been Thursday. I ordered the same number of prints....70 or so...in different finishes. Yesterday, the www.scrapbookpictures.com order came in. Nothing from snapfish yet. I'm happy with the quality of the scrapbookpictures photos. They're pretty nice. I tried the metallic prints, matte & glossy. I have to say I'm a matte kind of gal so the others don't do much for me. A cool feature that scrapbookpictures.com has is you can have them printed square. So I had a photo of AJ printed 6x6 & it's super cute. I'd definately do that again!

So why did I try online processing? Well, I've been really bad at getting to Sam's Club lately to download them. And when your card has 600 or more photos on it it takes forever to upload them at Sam's Club. So I haven't been going. And the photos keep multiplying. So I tried online. I haven't seen the snapfish ones yet to see how they are, but I made a mistake when I ordered & put a white torn border on them. I emailed them right away to see if I could remove it & they can't. So right there, I don't like them. They said they were too automated to make changes. Whatever. I'm happy with www.scrapbookpictures.com so I'll use them again. But I'll let you know how the snapfish ones turn out. And you can stop by the store to see the quality yourself.

This is just silly....it's time for us to get new phones from Verizon. Did you know that if you get your phone at the Verizon store you have to pay a $20 activation fee? And if you go online, they offer killer deals...I got Kendall a Chocolate (the 2nd version, not the new one) and Don a Motorola Moto completely free. Yep, free. Not even shipping. The same phones would have cost us $150 or more at the Verizon store. So now I'm thinking it's time for me to get a new phone (a downgrade, actually...I don't really need the Treo or the services that you have to pay for with it) and I found this:

Ok. I'll admit it. I love Batman. I thought it was just Christian Bale that I loved, but no (although he does make my heart race). It's Batman. And what Batman lovin' girl wouldn't want a Batphone all her own? Anyone have one of these? Do they work well? Do I care? It has pre-loaded Batman goodies on it....hmmm.....