Happy Mother's Day!!

Dear Mom & Faith,

Happy Mother's Day!! We love you both so very much. Thank you for the godly examples you are in our lives & for all of your love & support through the years.

Faith, I am so thankful for the way you raised Tim. You raised him to love God, love his family (including his wife) selflessly, to honor both you & Richard, & to work hard. I am so very blessed by Tim & your family. I love you very much - happy Mother's Day.

Mom, where do I begin? Thank you for always being there to listen to me, to give me thoughtful advice, & help along the way. This past year especially I have greatly appreciated your care & concern as we both face similar battles. I think you should know that as I think back to my childhood - almost all of my memories involve you. I have nothing but happy thoughts about growing up & I'm so blessed to be able to call you 'my mom'. You are a beautiful, loving, & talented lady. I love you very much - happy Mother's Day.

And for all other mom's out there - a very special Mother's Day wish to you too! Happy Mother's Day!

Honesty...

...it gets ya everytime. Today I received a card with an envelope that said this:

'Best Music Teacher EVER!!!' And the fine print says...

'and the only one I've ever had'. :) Isn't that hilarious? I'm laughing just typing this out. It's true...& I love it.

Wedding Album

Here is a collage of my circle journal. I've just included the pages I finished this weekend (& the new cover that Erin did for me). It's ALL done - I'm so excited for this...it's only been 4 years. :)

Teacher Appreciation Week...

This week is teacher appreciation week. At our school we've been receiving lots of love each day from students & parents. Yesterday our parent club paid for a chair massage for each of us - for 10 minutes. It was 10 minutes of bliss - fabulous.

Today I was greeted by students with flowers, cards, & this: a puppet - that when you open her mouth, she has music notes that come out - how cute is that!? From a 1st grader. On the back it says 'I love music'.

This note made me tear up - it's from a 3rd grader. I received several other sweet cards & notes from students - what a wonderful week it has been.

More?!?

Yes, I'm just getting warmed up...

Here is my card from last week's prompt - Reality Check:

Front:

Back:

A LO I did from Erin's wedding several weeks ago - but haven't shared yet...

Another LO I did several weeks ago - but haven't shared...

National Scrapbook Day...

After returning from the slumber party Saturday morning - I headed out to celebrate 'National Scrapbook Day' with a friend of mine from church. It was a creative memories party - which I realized is not my style - but they were very nice & I ended up winning this album! It's super nice & I'm very excited about it. I also finished several LO's while I was there & even begin my part of the circle journal (I needed to finish it once it was returned to me).

New album:

Nellie's b-day LO:

The Meridian Water tower - I love it...I know, silly...but I do...

Do you recognize this girl!?

Trash To Treasure...

On Friday night I went to Nicole's house (aka - my biggest blog stalker) for Trash to Treasure. She made us a delish taco salad - then off to trash it was. :) We each (Nicole, Beth, me) brought things with us that we didn't want/use anymore. We all walked away with new treasures & a pile of items to be donated. It was great fun!! After our treasure hunting...we sat around & chatted. Then we painted nails & ate freshly baked cookies. Then we chatted some more. It was a perfect slumber party - thank you Nicole for hosting us!!

Nicole & Beth - can you hear me now?!

Trash/treasures...

Beth & some of her new-found treasures...

More Scrapping...

Here are 2 more LO's I did last Friday. On Saturday I'm going to celebrate national scrapbook day in style - with a friend from church. We are going to be scrapping most of the day...I can't wait. I just need to print out some pictures as I've used all of mine up with LO's like...

Erin's wedding day photo - this is one of my favorite photos from her wedding...

Anonymous & me. :) - At the Chamber Choir reunion this past September...

I know these photos aren't the best - I was too lazy to take them out of their sleeves for the photo - sad, I know. I'll do better next time...

Scrappy Fun...

Friday night I played scrapbook. I was able to create my Mother's day cards (including the grandmothers), & 6 LO's. Crazy...but if you've ever scrapped with me - you know that I just put it all together quickly - & usually I'm happy with the result. Here's what I came up with (don't look too carefully at this picture Faith). :)

Mother's day/Grandmother's day cards:

Disneyland LO:

The Price Is Right LO:

Planner pages LO:

And I quote...

'Hi - can you just blog this for me?'

- sure I can! :) Just wanted to let you all know that I have 28 days left of kids....not that I'm counting or anything...& I do love my job, right Andrea? :)

Happy Wednesday!

More Nephews...

As a proud aunt - I just can't help myself. Here are some more cute photos of my nephews from the weekend.

Auntie Jess & Silas - just hangin' out

Eli kissing his brother...

Eli sneaking up on his brother...

Eli biting mommy's toe. Why? Who knows - he's 1 1/2...probably just because he can. :)

Meeting Silas...

On Saturday morning we headed to Bremerton, WA to meet our newest nephew (& visit our brother & sister-in-law & oldest nephew). We had a WONDERFUL time with them - as always - & got lots of baby time. Kim was very gracious about sharing her precious angel, & I/we were more than happy to have him as much as we could. Here are some shots from our weekend of fun.

Silas

Uncle Tim & Silas

Kim & precious baby...

Eli

Isn't he adorable!?! He was so much fun. He doesn't really understand what's happened to his world, but he's handling it well. On Saturday night we played hide & seek, which really meant I chased him & would hide from him around corners. He would giggle with delight when he 'found' me. It was great game. Kim & I had some great chats while I was there too. It was really nice to spend some quality time with them. We can't wait to do it again soon. Thanks again for opening your home to us & for sharing your precious boys with us - we love them (& you). :)

52 Card Scrap-up & more...

This week's prompt was issued by My Andrea. Her prompt was: What inspires your creativity?

Here is my card:

Front

Back

Clearly My Erin & Andrea inspire 85% of what I do. Speaking of that...a few weeks ago Erin did a challenge where she used numbers to make a list. I LOVED it - so this weekend while scrapping with My Nicole I created a list of my favorite OPI nail polish colors & names. Shocking I know - but I thought it was perfect to have a page about nail polish since I'm captain of nail polish (self proclaimed).

Here's a close up...