My Up"LIFT"ing Weekend

To celebrate the beginning of Fall break, I took off to Prescott with my girlfriends. A whole day without responsibilities and cool weather -- PERFECT! My girlfriend, Lisa, moved up there 3 years ago and we usually make a trek up there once a year -- ya know, because she only comes to see us the other 11 times of the year. Lisa's house is gorgeous and she always takes us shopping at the cutest stores and out to eat at the yummiest restaurants. This time lived up to all the others.

The premise of our trip is that we go up for scrapbooking. This is about how it turned out:
8 am Leave Michelle's house. Surprisingly on time.
8:10 Stop at Starbucks for Michelle and Beth
8:15 Stop at Basha's for ingredients to make a treat we never got around to making. Have debit card not work because Dustin forgot to switch money into checking account before house payment came due.
8:30 Run back to Michelle's house because she forgot her debit card
Drive to Prescott -- I have no idea what time we got there, but in some order we:
went to the scrapbook store, went out to lunch -- I had the yummiest brie/bacon/apple and turkey pannini -- shopped at antique stores, went to another scrapbook store, picked up Lisa's little sickie who was off camping with her dad and sisters, stopped for drinks. . .
5:30 Home to Lisa's -- maybe we should scrapbook??

We actually scrapbooked for the rest of the night. Like ROCKSTARS! I got 3 and a half pages done in the next 6 hours. We had to stop for yummy snacks for dinner -- bread and pesto, gingersnaps and pumpkin dip. . . Going to Lisa's is all about the food in case you're wondering why I'm even including these really boring details ;DThe "half" page is the page where I accidentally chopped Ellie's picture in half, so I need to order a new one of those and then journal, add a title. . .

I have not scrapbooked in a good 7 months and when we first got there I actually looked at all my stuff and said, "I'm giving up scrapbooking." I guess I was just out of the groove, but it was actually really nice to just scrap for hours. The only reason I was so productive at scrapbooking was because I brought my copy of LIFTED. I "lifted" 3 of my layouts for the night.

In case you're wondering what the heck LIFTED is -- it's a book that my girlfriend Michelle wrote on how to scraplift a layout and make it your own. I am in LOVE with it! You can read more/buy it here. I started off with a few lifts and got my juices flowing. Here's how it works:

I finally crawled into bed at about 2 am. Yesterday was just as crazy -- except I went to bed at 9-- so we've spent the whole morning just chilling at house. My one and only goal for the day: get to the gym.