Card Exchange

When Rian and I lived in Iowa, I made a lot of friends who also loved to scrapbook and make cards. 12 of us started a group where we each make 12 cards and then we exchange them with everyone else in the group. We each end up with 12 different, beautiful handmade cards. It's been three and a half years since we started our group and now, only three members still live in Iowa while the rest of us are spread out all over the country. We still exchange cards about every other month and I LOVE getting my package of beautiful cards in the mail.

This is the card I made for our February exchange this year. Our theme this time was birthdays.

These are some of the beautiful cards I got in return. (You can click on the pictures to see them better.)

Unfortunately, my camera doesn't quite do them all justice. Maybe I should have Becky take pictures of them for me. :) I love our card exchange and all of my wonderful friends who are apart of it. I am always amazed at what everyone creates!

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Another thing we do with our card exchange is that we send a letter with our cards to help us keep in touch. In our letters we answer a few questions that are chosen by whoever is hosting the exchange that month. I haven't been able to send my letters because I don't have a printer. So, instead of emailing them this time, I thought I would post my answers here for all of your reading pleasure. (I'm sure all of you are just dying to know what my anwers would be, too.)

1. What is the most romantic thing that you have ever done for your spouse or your spouse has done for you? The most recent thing that comes to mind was when Rian surprised me and took me out on a date this last January. I was told that Rian had an open house to go to after work one Friday for one of his bosses who was retiring. I met Rian at his parent's house after work so they could watch the kids while we went to his 'office party'. To my surprise, Rian instead took me out to dinner and a movie. I think that was our first real date in months. The funny part was that I was actually a little annoyed that Rian only gave a couple days notice about this 'office party'. The reason for his short notice was that he is not good at keeping secrets from me and I found out that he did have this date planned for a couple of weeks.
2. What is your favorite romantic comedy? Some of my favorites are: Just Like Heaven, 13 Going on 30, The Prince and Me and How to Lose a Guy In 10 Days.
3. What book are you loving right now? I just finished reading Because of Winn Dixie with Isaac for school and I just started reading Twilight, again.