Life is good

It seems I have been busy lately...a good busy. Last Tuesday was our class field trip to our state Capitol. I had to bring Natalie to a DR appt for another ear infection on Wednesday, and Thursday was a Kindergarten meeting for parents. This weekend we had loads of fun. I took Natalie to the free Spring matinee at Kalamazoo 10 to see Hotel For Dogs. After the movie, we headed out to my Aunt Kathy's farm and checked out all the animals. Such a great time of year because of all the new babies. There were 1 week old kittens and 3 week old goats. The goats are so friendly that we can pick them up and snuggle with them just like a puppy. Natalie loved every second of it! She fell in love with the kittens (of course) and the goat. She LOVED that goat. It has been bottle fed since birth since the mother rejected it so this goat tends to think it's more human that goat. It was just SO cute to see Natalie and this goat.
These were taken on our Saturday visit.


These were taken today...the brown goat was Natalie's "buddy"


Something great about being a kid is appreciating everything in nature. As an adult, dandelions in my yard are a nuisance. But to Natalie, they are free flowers for Mom. Natalie was so excited to see all the flowers that appeared in Mommy's yard this weekend. She must have picked me a hundred dandelions this weekend. They don't last long but it's the thought that counts!

Scrappy Sunday

It's hard to believe I have already completed one week of school since Spring Break! It's been busy around here...a good busy, though.

I went to my monthly crop last night and was able to start and later finish a few layouts. I worked on a few things from my Mon Ame Memories kit. Here they are. Lots of MME Bloom and Grow. Yum-o!




I also did some layouts just because...I like how the bright colors on the papers compliment the pictures. Natalie was so careful when coloring eggs this year. I love that bunny headband, too!

And this layout I made with some Jillibean Soup papers. The pictures are from last Spring when me, Natalie and my Mom went to this pond in Portage. There were literally tons of frogs and a bazillion tadpoles of varying sizes in it. It was so cool.


This weeks Product of the Week is up on Coordinates Collections.

Mon Ame Memories sketch crop

Sketch on Friday, April 17th from 6-10EST at Mon Ame Memories

Happy Easter!

I hope you all have a wonderful Easter! We've had a great couple weeks getting ready for Easter, coloring eggs and hunting for eggs at a couple different hunts. yesterday, Natalie and I colored eggs. The only part of the coloring that I did was add the dye tablet to some water/vinegar. Natalie was so proud and happy to carefully add an egg to each color. She did such an outstanding job! Oh, and my Grandma gave Natalie some bunny ears that Natalie insisted on wearing all day. I thought she looked just adorable in it, especially with the egg coloring pictures.

The colors were so vibrant on these eggs. I just loved this lime green!

And here she is with them all

And a little piece of Easter scrappiness...I made this layout for a Treasured Scrapbooking challenge. The challenge was to use a rainbow on the layout. I also used an Inspired Blueprints sketch for this layout.

Hip Hop class...Days 1 and 2

Natalie is doing a Hip Hop Spring Camp for four days this week. The first day I stayed the entire time, but Tuesday we agreed I could leave. She is really enjoying herself in this class! Here are videos from Monday and Tuesday


Here is Tuesday's video

Simply Obsessed April reveal

I really loved the soft colors in this month's kit at Simply Obsessed. I had so much fun creating with it!
The calming colors worked perfect for this "Nap time" layout.


The brown and blue colors in this kit made it even more versatile. This layout is of my daughter and a Great Dane we met at an Easter egg hunt.
"Eye 2 Eye"


I love how the pinks in the kit worked with this picture of my daughter and a pink marshmallow peep.
"Pink Marshmallow Peep"


And finally, I made this piece of home decor using some chipboard pieces that I already had and covered them with papers from the awesome April kit. I used the wing rubons on a neutral color that was also included in the kit and then cut the wings out. I added ribbon and flowers from my stash and some twigs from the backyard.

Here is a close up of the female bird. I love how the pearl flowers worked as eyes.

Easter egg hunt...

Yesterday was the annual Easter egg hunt at the Portage Celery Flats. I am so glad the weather was cooperative so we could enjoy the activities this year...last year we had too much snow! Natalie was very excited to go and had her place scoped out so she could grab some sour candy she saw. She grabbed that first and anything after that was just a bonus!

The sour candy she REALLY wanted!

Here she is with her loot...already with some candy in her mouth.

Her candy "bling"

While we were emptying the eggs we met this GIANT Great Dane. Now, I understand that Great Dane's are huge...but this one seemed particularly big. Natalie got her picture taken with him, too. He was such a gentle giant...the owner said this is about as active as he gets. LOL

After the hunt I was ready for some lunch...Natalie voted for Sonic so I checked to see how busy it was...perfect timing! It wasn't busy at all (until we left)

Natalie wanted her picture taken of the pickle the slipped off the burger but not into her mouth