My new love affair

I know, I know, I missed my Monday ramblings yesterday - but I had a good reason. I promise.

My mom and I spent the day on a little pre-birthday birthday shopping day. Our plan was to hit as many craft stores as possible, have lunch, cram as many other things into the day as possible and make it back home in time to pick my kiddos up at school. Well, it sounded like a lot of time but the time went too quickly. We had also both made "agendas" for the day since we were going to "town" and were hoping to accomplish way more than time allowed for. But the most important part is we hit all the craft stores we wanted, had lunch and even slipped in some birthday shopping for Drake, too!

But the MOST exciting part of the day was when we were standing in one of the craft stores and my mom told me she was buying me THIS beauty for my birthday!

Oh, yes it is! And if you're a crafter I know you are just as excited as I am! Isn't she beautiful? I have had my eye on her for quite a while now and, of course, would not spend the money on myself

Now, I ended up getting the pink one. Not because I like pink (because actually I'm usually not a fan) but this one is the Pink Journey Bundle. And with our purchase $50.00 was donated to breast cancer research! So, since it was the only one in the size I wanted that the cashier could find behind the counter (and bless her heart she was not real sure about what she was doing), and it was the same sale price as the regular Expressions one, and they were donating money to Breast Cancer Research, we took it! Oh - and it also came with 2 extra cartridges, which if you have done your homework on Cricut's you know you don't get that with any others!

So, to wrap it up: We found it on sale! (Score!) It was promoting a good cause (score!) It came with extra cartridges (double score!) and I am now the proud owner of a Cricut! Yea, me!

Even my kids were excited when they saw it. They know I've been wanting one - and they were just as excited last night to try it out. We had a little bit of fun playing with it!

Thanks again, Mom!