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and we've got some actual spring weather to go with it!
Last night I went to an Archiver's crop with my sister, Trish, Jen and Maryann.  This was my first time to crop there and I have to say it was pretty nice - though I could have used more table space.  I guess next time I just won't pack so much stuff! 
The highlights of the night included spending time with friends, laughing so hard that...

Until his spring break begins  and so am I.
He and his cousin Cameron will have plans to fill most of the days together along with another friend Paul.
But he's reserved Monday for me.  We are going to tear apart his bedroom, take down the bunk bed and re arrange his room.  (well, we need dad to take down the bunk bed) Then we may even take the border down and change some other things?  We'll...

away from home yesterday!  Between work and then picking up Zach from school, then grocery shopping
(which I hate by the way) - it's such a repetitive job.  Load the groceries in the cart, put on conveyer, put back in cart, load your car, unload your car, unload groceries!  OMG how many times shall I move these same items!
Before we even brought the groceries home we ran over to Verizon  since...

Was a quiet day - I worked the first half of the day and then met my mom at Panera after picking up Zach from school.  She made Zach a pumpkin pie and wanted to give it to him.  She's in a baking mood lately.
I also got my order from Norma's uppercase living party and had to put it up.  The order from my party has been placed and hopefully soon I'll have more words than I know what to do with,...

So excited to have my mini book featured at Work in Progress today.  I had a blast making this girlfriend mini...
 
The pictures are from many different girlfriend trips and get together's. 
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Tonight is Biggest Loser!  Chel and I can't wait...
I finished the book Middlesex. 
 
I swear I've been reading this book for months, but...

A big year for Chelsea...
Goes for senior pictures in two weeks, taking her ACT, just turned 18, is going to graduate in a couple months and now added to the list
Gets a new Car!
We were talking to our salesman about trading our car in and found out there was a good promotion going on until tomorrow for the car that Chelsea has wanted.  The one we knew we were going to get when she graduated...

Well we began the weekend with a girlfriend night out for dinner!  What a blast as usual.  Talking, sharing and laughing about our childhood.
Then we all met up again early Saturday morning to board the bus and head down to the Longaberger Homestead and to Dresden. 
Debbie and Brenda drove in from Michigan the night before to go to the dinner and then on the bus trip. Kim always says that Brenda...

Middlesex and I'm almost there.  It's good, don't get me wrong but it took a while to get into it and it seems every night I only read a couple pages and I'm too exhausted to read on.  Yet I picked up Valerie Bertinelli's book and finished that in a week.  Needless to say I'm plugging along here with just over 100 pages left.

Have you seen this book?  Its hilarious!!!  I just started reading...

digital scrapbooking - and I'd like to learn more.  I have many brushes and templates but I need to figure out the basics to get more motivated.  Any good sites with tutorials?  I searched two peas and didn't find anything for a step by step build a layout type of page, etc.
Here's a template I filled with Easter pictures.

the template is by Kellie Mize at Designer Digitals.  I got a lot...

I really want to get in the habit of journaling more.  Not just in my scrapbooks, but in my everyday.  Now my blog serves as a type of journal but I don't put my deepest thoughts and dreams out here - at least most of the time?
I have two journals for my kids I started back in 1996.  In them I wrote only on certain days.  Like the day of their birthday, what they got, what the weather was like...