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May kit layouts...
This Work in Progress kit was so fun to work with this month!  You can find more ideas for this kit at the flickr site
 
I loved Chelsea's Easter outfit this year! I used my new stampin up tag punch and Martha border punch on this layout...

 love playing with these childhood photos

Oh the story of Tony!  He is a friend of my cousins and Debbie kept insisting that...

"And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years."- Abraham LincolnGot to spend the past few days with girlfriends celebrating birthdays!
 
 We celebrated Brenda's 50th

with tiara and all!

dessert...

  I love this one of Debbie L!
The next day we spent shopping! Fun fun fun!

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...

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?
Mojo by Marshall GoldsmithThe Poisonwood Bible by Barbara KingsolverHer Fearful Symmetry by Audrey...

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!
 
 

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...

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...

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! 

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...

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...