Easter Fun!

Well our Easter weather was beautiful!  We got up and went to Easter service at our church and then headed to my sister's for our family dinner.  I hope you all had a great Easter too.  Here is the highlights...

The weekend before the twins came over and we colored eggs...

...and Hope dyed her hands too.  She looked like a moldy piece of cheese.  LOL!

You know those plastic wraps that come in the dye kit, well Hope wanted to put them on her eggs this year.  So we got the blowdryer out to shrink them on the eggs.  This cracked me up when she did this.  LOL!

Easter morning Hope got up REALLY early (see it is still VERY dark out) to find eggs.  Luckily, the bunny didn't fall asleep and forget to come (yep that was a real possibility).

Don't look at the scary reflection of me in the window.  YIKES!

And something new this year (probably since the weather was nice), the bunny actually hid eggs outside too.  She didn't discover these until we were getting ready to leave for church.

We finally got to hold this little guy, my newest great-nephew, Nolan.  Hope loved him.

We had an egg hunt for all the kids here too.

Kids is a loose term...for all the kids at heart too (AKA my sister Dee).

We took a picture of Nolan's older sister Kendal like this when she was a baby.  

And they topped they day off by taking the girls on a mule ride through the pasture.

The even got to see a baby calf that had been born about 20 minutes before they got there.

So much fun and great memories.

Today is my mom's birthday, so here is the card I gave her.  Love you mom!  Hope you had a great birthday!

So to continue the theme of MOM, here are some cards celebrating MOM's everywhere!

Well, I am off to movie night with the ladies from the neighborhood.  Wine and popcorn!  YUM!

Darla

Painting Masterpieces

Last weekend started the first of many busy weekends coming up this Spring, but I am looking forward to everything coming in the next few months.

So the ladies in my neighborhood like to go out and do fun stuff together, so we decided to try out Social Canvas, which is a place that walks you through how to make a painting (while drinking mimosas).  Of course, the mimosas was part of the fun!  LOL!

Ok, I am not sure why I didn't smile for my own picture, but maybe I had not had enough to drink yet?  Anyway, we did laugh a lot and have a lot of fun.

Here is all of our final masterpieces!  I think everyone did a GREAT job!

This week we had some wicked wind...this picture cracked me up with the wind blowing through Taylor's fur and blowing her ears straight out.

Well, keeping it short for tonight, but mostly because my computer is NOT cooperating tonight!  So I am going to call it quits.  

Since it is Easter weekend...here are some Spring and Easter related layouts to share.

Until next time...

Darla

National JOE day!

Happy National Joe day to my husband Joe (and all the other Joe's out there in the world).  LOL!  I bet you didn't even know there was a day dedicated to all those Joe's out there.  I know my Joe deserves a day to celebrate him!  He is pretty awesome.

And Sunday was his birthday to, so we celebrated by going to hit golf balls at the dome.  Hope and I started on the miniature course.

Then while Joe was taking breaks from hitting he gave Hope some lessons.

Then she would hit some on her own.  It was pretty cute to see them together.

Golf is probably a better bet than softball.  LOL!  I was lucky enough to talk her out of going out for softball this summer.  So we are going to spend the money on a pool pass instead.  Hopefully we have a nice summer to enjoy the pool.

Surprisingly, I don't have any cards to celebrate National Joe Day, so these will have to do...

For this card, I actually cut a slit in the chipboard typewriter sticker and slipped the stamped sentiment to look like it was actually typed.

This is another of my favorite cards I created a while back.  I love the bright colors!

Everyone have a great weekend!

Darla

24

I haven't given an update in a while on my diet.  Well, I am happy to report that I am down 24 pounds.  I am really happy with where I am at right now, but would like to give myself a few pounds to play with over the summer, so hoping to get another 6-7 over the next month.  We will see.  There are a LOT of temptations out there.  LOL!

Tomorrow someone (JOE) has a birthday!  We are going to celebrate by watching UNI and Iowa play tomorrow in the NCAA tourney.  GO UNI!!!!!  They have the late game, so I hope I can stay awake long enough to cheer on my panthers.  Iowa will get my cheers too, until they have to play each other (if they both keep winning they will meet up on the brackets).  I have the tourney on now, and Charles Barkley just chose UNI in his bracket.  :)

So what else has been going on...

This furry beast got a buzz cut the other day.

and now she is all cute for Spring!  She even had a purple bandana around her neck for UNI!

So when I picked up Hope on Friday, she brought all her crafts home from BTB for the week.  One in particular cracked me up.  She chose to wear a hockey jersey to BTB and came home with this... MASK!

How creepy is that!  I am just glad they didn't offer that craft last friday on the 13!  I would need to change her name to Jason.  Good grief!

Taylor is obviously a little chilly with her new do, so she likes to snuggle in the blankets.

Hope's class got their picture in the paper this week too.  She is in the front on the left hand side.

Well, it is about time to round of Hope and her friend from her sleepover and deliver her home and for me to have a little bit of relaxation the rest of the day.  Probably wishful thinking, but never hurts to dream right?

So to celebrate Joe's birthday, here are some recent birthday cards I created.  Enjoy!

Happy Birthday Joe!  Love you!

Darla

Beautiful Weather!

Oh I am so loving the weather this week.  We have been walking at work and Hope and I went for a walk down the trail tonight after school tool.  She was on her bike and just before we were going to turn around the pedal fell off.  I wasn't able to get it back on so she walked it to a neighbor's house along the trail and stayed and had a play date and I had Joe pick her and the bike up on his way home from work.  Taylor and I made our way back home and had supper ready by the time everyone made it back home.

It was a little wet and muddy in places along the trail, but it was great being out in the weather.  AND we even saw a robin, so it is officially spring.   Right?

So Hope had her interview for the videographer position for next school year.  She is supposed to find out if she got it or not tomorrow.  Keep your fingers crossed.

One of the videos she showed as a sample was of her friends performing at Funday Sunday last weekend.  She was in the first two songs and then the last song she recorded for her sample.

The girls were rocking it out to Taylor Swift!

Hard to believe we have had this furry cutie for almost a year now.  After our walk tonight, she needs a bath and a good trim.  Next week on Spring Break she gets her turn at the beauty shop.

Last week one of my best friends got back from vacation.  She went to Costa Rica and celebrated her birthday.  So I gave her a gift when she got back.

So to celebrate her birthday and just being happy about the weather, here are some cards to share!

Shared this one because my mom and sister Dawn and I went to a retirement party for our dentist.  He had been (almost) the only dentist I have ever been too.  I had my last appointment with him just a few weeks ago and got teary as I walked out.  

Well, I hope I have good news to share with you tomorrow.  Have a good night!

Darla