It turned out to be a gorgeous day!!

Macy had off school yesterday and today for conferences. I didn't need to go to a conference for her, so that's nice!!

I decided last night that I'd take them to Hershey today since Chris would be working. Well, we woke up around 9am and it was raining pretty hard, so I had to think of alternative plans! The rain ended up stopping and it turned out to be a gorgeous day with a high of 60 degrees!! We'll try to hit Hershey during the spring break next week!

We went to IHOP for lunch. They have special Horton Hears a Who foods right now. Jack had the "who-cakes" minus the green eggs and ham! He loved them! They have some pink and blue boysenberry syrup on them plus sprinkles and a bubble gum lollipop! Can't beat that!!

Then we went to the mall for our yearly Easter Bunny picture!! Jack kept giving the bunny kisses! This is the best of 4 pics that they took.


We had to go to AC Moore too to get me a new heat gun. The little monster decided to play with mine and I think he burned it out!! grrr . . .

Came home to have some craft time. Since it was gorgeous, we did it outside! I bought some little dollar family shadowboxes last week, so we painted those. Jack's started out nice and colorful like Macy's, but whenever he paints, he smooshes all the colors together then and winds up with a lovely shade of gray!



I did some much needed yard cleanup while they painted, then they helped me after they were finished!! We've got one side of the house done, we'll work on the rest over the weekend if it's still nice out!!!

It was definately too beautiful of a day to be inside!!! We were out for hours and it was so nice!! Yay for spring coming!!!

Jack got his preschool pics back last week, so I'll leave you with that!!!



Have a great weekend!!!

A Hint of Spring!

Yesterday was beautiful, it got up to 60 degrees!! We were all outside for most of the day! Today is warm as well. Jack and I got to sneak out for a few minutes before it started to rain.

The kids enjoyed riding their bikes and scooters yesterday and also swinging on the tree swing!





Later in the day, after Macy got home from school and after we ate, she and Chris went to the camping store and came home with a receipt for a down payment on a pop up camper!! Did I just say that? Me, buying a camper? Nah, we had a good camping experience when we went to NY back in August, much better than our local camping experiences, so it'll be fun! Being up off the ground will be excellent! Less chance of critters biting at my toes! LOL We went to an RV show at our local expo center last weekend and enjoyed looking at pop ups up to the $300,000 home on wheels! We decided we wanted to buy used (no chance for engine problems with these!), since this is our first, not to mention it would save a few pennies! We searched around and found a local dealer listing on Craigslist. We went and looked at it on Sunday and it's in great shape!! Chris and I thought about it and decided to go for it!! The dealer is at a big RV show this week, so when they get back next, we'll go and pay it off and get our lesson on how to use it! I'm excited, already planning a trip to Maine with stops in the other New England states on the way! We're also going to try to do a weekend every month! Should be really fun, camping is such a great family bonding experience!

I'll leave you with two layouts. I did these for the ScrapGal March newsletter. The theme this month is "inherit".



Thanks for reading!! Have a great day!!

I was heading to bed . . .

but felt the need to make this instead!

I've been wanting to do it for a few days and decided tonight was the night!

It's a quick project. I cut the shape out of Hambly using my Expression, then cut the outline part out of a piece of Fancy Pants.

The hardest part was rummaging through all those felt alphas to find the right ones, and then creatively piecing them together if I didn't have the correct letter!

Of course, a project is not complete with bling and Radiant Rain sprays!! Added a little silver Glimmer Mist with the Rains on the flower.

No big plans for the weekend. I think we're supposed to get some snow tonight, but it's not doing anything outside right now.

In more scrapping news, I had 3 layouts accepted for the Making Memories Scrapbook Idea Gallery 2008! Super excited about that!!

Have a great weekend, everyone!

Crazy Kids and a request

Not much has been going on around here.

The kids are as crazy as ever! Here is what they did with their happy meal boxes over the weekend! Never realized that the little handles looked like glasses!





They're so silly!!

Now onto something more serious. My friend Katie could use any prayers that you can spare. Her dad is in very critical condition. He took a 20 foot fall from a ladder several days ago and shattered his skull. Things are not looking very good right now.

Katie is such a sweet person, I met her about 2 years ago at a class. She has a great little online scrapbook store.

If you are of the praying kind, please say prayers for her dad, her and her family. I know they will be very grateful. We all know how strong the power of prayer is!

You can read all the details on her blog. Here's the link again!

Thank you!!

We got some snow!

It finally snowed here! Macy didn't have school.

We didn't get much, maybe 3 inches and I think that is pushing it! Nonetheless, the kids had a wonderful time out there!




Not too much exciting planned for the weekend. I did a bunch of cleaning this morning. Boy did it need it! I've had so much mojo this last week, that I really, really let the housework slide!! Gotta use it when it's here, right?

I don't have any new layouts to show today, but hopefully soon!!

I have to go back to that letter verification thingy on here when you post. I've been getting some spam comments. Sorry!

Have a great weekend!

A college student lives here!

Big things going on here in our household!

Chris officially started his masters program yesterday! He is taking online classes to get his Master of Science in Disaster Medicine and Management! What's that you ask? It is FEMA related things. It is right up his alley!! I am so proud of him! He has been talking about this for at least a year and a half and now it is reality! I'm sure it can't be easy going back to college after being out since 1996! I can't imagine going back! I know he will do great though! He is determined and this is perfect for him!

We had a nice day yesterday. I picked up my friend Andrea and her 2 girls and we headed to an indoor playland McD's! We met up with another friend and her 2 boys and everyone had a blast!! The seemed to run off a lot of the steam that they've been accumulating this winter! Macy and Jack hit their beds hard last night!

We, of course, stopped at the LSS on the way back. Umm, yeah, the whole trip was definately for the kids! Yeah, we didn't plan the McD's around the LSS or anything! *wink*
Here are some pics of the kids outside the store!



Believe it or not, my mojo is still kicking! Here's a new layout I did yesterday with pictures from the above kid shoot!!


I also got a great email today! Simple Scrapbooks wants to publish one of my layouts in their July/August issue! I'm super excited! It will be my first time in their magazine and I just love the layout they picked!

Thanks for reading!! Have a great rest of the week!

It's still flowing!!

Can you say 4 layouts in 2 days? Whoa!! Unfortunately, most are for assignments so I can't post them yet!

I'll leave you with 2 that I did featuring lots of the new Making Memories (and some older) goodness!! I just can't get enough of it!!

Sorry for the lousy picture, I took it at night in not the greatest of lighting! These are some pics from this past summer at Rehoboth Beach, DE. We enjoy going to the Seashore State Park.


This one is of 2 of my friends. They have such a wonderful friendship, it really makes you smile! A blog entry that Sarah wrote last month really touched me, so I snagged most of it and the picture and scrapped it!! Thanks Sarah and Colleen for the inspiration!


We're on a 4 day weekend here and have been taking full advantage of it! We didn't get up until after 11am today!! Boy does that ever feel good! Tomorrow the kids and I are going to lunch with a bunch of friends. We're going to a McD's with an indoor playland and then we're hitting memory lane, pa afterwards!! Can't wait!!

Have a great week, everyone!