Cooling Down

During these hot summer days, Kathy Martin's new Digital Doodle stamp 'Double Scoop' will help you cool down (mentally at least!) Even better, the top scoop of this adorable little cone is separate, so you can add as many additional scoops as you would like. Here's my card using the 'Double Scoop' stamp:


Fortunately for us, we are cooling down literally as well as mentally. The girls and I have been in Colorado for the past week and a half visiting my parents. It has gotten up to 90 a couple of days, but compared to 115, that's cool. This week, we are really cooling down up in the mountains, where the highs are in the low 70's.

We discovered during our visit that Colorado has a professional soccer team, so we had to take Charlotte to go see her first major league soccer game. On our way up to the game, we stopped at the Colorado Department of Transportation's 100th anniversay celebration, where they happened to have face painting as one of the activities. It just seemed natural to have Charlotte put on her 'game face':


We really enjoyed the game, despite the fact that a few fans had the infamous vuvuzelas that were such a annoyance at the World Cup games. This is my favorite shot of the game action. The goalie was unsuccessful in blocking the free kick, as you can see by the ball in the lower left corner of the net: