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On Sunday I spent the day decorating and cleaning the house. Getting out my Easter decorations and changing around the furniture a bit.
This included my antique secretary, one of my favorite pieces that I needed my husband to fix so it could stay open. I called him and explained that I couldn't go any further in cleaning or decorating until he fixed it... so he came home and fixed it :)
ahhh, it feels good to have that done... more pictures to come
Recently my sister and I stopped into the local Archiver's and I FELL IN LOVE with these tags from 7 gypsies! And right when I saw them I knew I wanted to make a mini.
Already starting to plan my letter for mom's day I had an idea. Why not make a mini book with my thoughts and wishes instead of writing a letter this year? And the idea began to grow...
then when I came home I found another pack of tags that would go perfectly in between
and soon my tag mini for moms day was complete!
Spring....
Okay what an irony that today is a Spring themed team up and the calendar says spring yet it is snowing outside?
The first sure sign of spring in our yard is the crocuses that come up faithfully year after year and the tulips that were planted last fall begin to shoot up through the ground. I actually get excited when I see them, they verify that it really is spring! Even with the snow on the ground!
Jill can't wait to get outdoors and enjoy the beautiful weather that spring has to offer and I think her picture clearly shows one of the advantages of the warmer temperatures!
You can find more SPRING related team ups here at Mental Inventory
My second year attending mom's day and what a great time we had. The girls always do such an amazing job putting this together for the 80 plus mom's that attend.
We sat at the table with Chels sorority family
These friends for life are an amazing bunch! You can see why they are called sisters because they are always there for one another, each a positive role model to the next!
and here we are with the moms who we found out we had more in common with after talking. Going to the same childhood camps and living in the same development as my parents were just a few of the OMG conversations we had.
After lunch we separate into two groups in two different rooms and receive the letters the girls wrote to us and the girls are given the letters we write them. This usually leaves the rooms in tears as we all read the letters. This year I decided to change things up and made a tag mini book instead of the letter.
More pictures to come in another post
then we all headed over to campus grounds to paint pottery
What a fun day! I can't wait to see our pottery once its fired!
We are counting down to braces removal in our house since Fridays visit to our dentist. He said next month they will take impressions for his retainer and then....
No more braces for Zach!
I've become so used to seeing him with braces even I can't wait to see that new smile!
I will be sure to capture before and after photos!
Music...
This weeks theme was Music and I couldn't wait to capture Zach in his"element" with music as he played his guitar. He took lessons years ago and now he just teaches himself. Pretty amazing hearing some of the songs coming out of his bedroom as he plays.
Poor Jill was running without an ipod after hers was stolen! Running without an ipod sometimes is a crime in itself! Thank goodness her daughter Alyssa got her a new one! Too sweet!
You can find more team up here at Mental Inventory
Have you ever seen these chalkboard speech bubble signs? I made one up over the weekend and we decided to have a little fun with it...
Actually a lot of fun with it once my sister got her hands on it!
Just LOVED Ben in this one!
Gordon is such a good sport!
these two were such good sports and agreed with the statement they were holding!
Did I mention what a good sport Gordon is?
It has taken me a couple of weeks to edit all the pictures both Chelsea and I took during our trip to Florida for the Disney Princess marathon.
Since our return we have found videos that we were both in from the race, the video Chelsea was in for her costume and by chance I happened upon another video that I had made it in to on this site. It is the video from the half marathon and I'm in with all the Disney princes and heros at about 30-34 seconds in and again at about 40-44 seconds when we are coming through the castle. Unfortunately it won't let me copy the code to post elsewhere? Still working on that...
As for my pictures, some of my favorites from the trip are the following:
picking up our park tickets
just before the race
For my daughter's 21st birthday I put a blurb book together for her. It includes some of my favorite quotes and favorite pictures, and I'm thrilled with how it turned out!
While over Trish's for a crop we were discussing ideas for mini books. She had a written list of ideas and this one just stuck with me, I thought how perfect for turning 21!
My mother in law is turning 70 this year and I'm already planning one for her! So fun and so addictive!
I shared several pictures of the book on my blog post at Work in Progress
Week 10
Wow we are 10 weeks into 2011... time sure does fly!
Challenge, it is applied to so many things in my life, but this week the word challenge goes to my son Zach. He decided to attempt his first challenge of running and I'm so happy and so proud! He ran the Arnold 5k with Chelsea, Ben and I and did awesome!
Chelsea wore her new vibram 5 fingers and Zach ran his first race, both of them with their own challenges. My challenge, I just wanted to beat my time from last year.
As usual I over dressed, its just so cold when we start! I ran it in 29:03 which while isn't bad with some of the hills you run in Columbus, I was hoping for 28 something... Although it is a great improvement from my time running the same race last year which was 35:24
We had a blast the entire weekend hitting the Polaris mall and dinner at Smokey Bones. I'm still not sure if Zach is going to run again but I'm glad he at least tried one race.
You can find more One little word captured on Jill's blog here
