Just a minute of my time...

End of the school year....

I cannot believe we are coming to the end of Chelsea's 2nd year of college!  How did it fly by so fast? Grandma and I got a chance to get out there and visit before the school year was out...

 

we hung out.... got lunch and grandma's 1st smoothie!  I had no idea she had never had one before, but was glad I got her one because she couldn't get over what she'd been missing!

Chelsea had such a great year and we couldn't be more proud! 

 beginning of school year

 end of school year

I am so excited for both of their summers!  With both of them having internships in their fields of study and jobs, its sure to be a busy summer!

 

Team-up Thursday:

This weeks theme was UP CLOSE... and it's so funny how similar Jill and I always are!  I loved how the rain stayed on the branches and wanted to capture it and Jill took these beautiful flowers! And here is our results:

 

   

Thirteen books on my too read list... any I should add?

1. Mojo by Marshall Goldsmith
2. The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
3. Her Fearful Symmetry by Audrey Niffengger
4. Push by Sapphire
5. City of thieves by David Benioff
6. The girl who played with fire by Stieg Larsson
7. The Trump Card by Ivanka Trump
8. What the dog saw by Malcolm Gladwell
9. Brava Valentine by Adriana Trigiani
10. House Rules by Jodi Picoult
11. The Cruelest month by Louise Penny
12. Ford Country by John Grisham
13. Open: An autobiography by Andre Agassi

You can find more thursday thirteen here

Yes we have a cat...

So many posts I do are about our dog Shaggy, but we do have a cat who is appropriately named SPUNKY!  She is 12 years old and spunkier than ever!  You will hear trotting through the upstairs, sometimes racing back and forth and realize its just the cat upstairs playing.  She will run by and entice the dog to chase her... sometimes he does!  This cat is fun, loving, adorable and hysterical!

 

 

Week in the life

While I don't have my album design yet, I'm keeping an eye out for others and looking for inspiration, I'm thrilled with the moments I captured in my not so eventful week!  With the kids being older I don't have a lot of the little moments to capture, but just as importantly I captured some of the teenage moments with Zach!

Here is a few of the first half of my week!  I will definitely do this again over the summer!

Monday...

 

Tuesday... 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Wednesday...         

  
 
 
 

Do me a favor

So this week we are celebrating more girlfriends birthdays with dinner and presents and of course FAVORS!

I picked up these favor boxes at Archivers a while back and knew I was going to put them together for this event, but as with many projects, it was coming down to the last minute and I needed to get them done.  So my sister came over today and we put together some favors that we both can't wait to share at the party.

 

 here are the plastic boxes

the papers

the favors  

I was thrilled with how they turned out! And decked out my just completed basket

and we added charms that relate to each persons personality... the camera is mine!

I finished it!

So today I took the basket outside in between raindrops and got it painted.

 

 Then I trimmed some of the moss off of it and added the flowers

 and here is my finished basket!

I just love how it turned out and exclaimed to my husband "don't you just love it" and he said - "you took the words right out of my mouth" - I'm sure that was sarcasm.... but I do love it! 

craft projects

Do you remember seeing this basket here or when Michelle posted hers on the Work in Progress blog?

Just after Easter I found the baskets that were already pretty inexpensive, even more inexpensive and decided I would give the moss a try....

Here is my basket before getting it painted and adding the sprigs of flowers to it.  

 

   

I'm hoping to add that today sometime?  And I'll update my finished basket

Isn't it funny

how things come about...

Chelsea didn't know about Mount Union College until meeting Ben. After visiting the college and deciding to transfer to a smaller school things started to click...  her grades improved and life just seemed to flow so much easier.

 

This year her cousin Shawn will graduate and has been looking at colleges all year long.  Mount Union wasn't even in the running until after coming out to a football game, a couple of track meets and meeting with the coach who REALLY wants Shawn at the school.

So today we took Shawn out there for another visit and an overnight stay with the track team.  He is down to deciding between two school, with Mount Union being one of them! It just makes me think about how life changes for one person and those changes affect so many others lives!

 

 it's such a beautiful campus... keeping fingers crossed! Oh yes, and lots of pictures for my week in the life too!

  

Team-up Thursday:

Each week Jill and I are picking a theme and taking a picture to use in our team up thursdays. It's funny how similar our choices in photos are each week.

Since both of us are documenting our days for Week in the life, this week our theme was day to day. I chose my morning routine, and well, so did Jill.  However my coffee takes cream and hers is black...

 

taking lots of pictures

and documenting life....

     

 and having a blast doing it!