Photo from today

taken by Joshua as we had Bass's birthday lunch in the food court at the mall of all places :-)

Heading to Kennewick today

with the kids to celebrate Bass's birthday and it's a beautiful day! :-)

today was a day for thinking

about the many blessings in my life right now and being so grateful for them :-)

our day at the mall

Well, Amanda found her dress and the girls tell me it was relatively painless. She picked a gorgeous brown silk dress....... ...... very grown up but not revealing. They did good and had tons of fun. I am pleased. I wanted the day to be a great memory for her and I think it was. :-)

Starbucks was great. A friend who is a manager at Macy's in the mall met me for coffee and we had fun catching up while the girls shopped.

Olive garden was also yummy as always. They had a new dish........ ..... chicken and lasagna rolls with a white sauce and spinach..... ....... it was yummy!

Shopping at the mall today

for Amanda's dress for 8th grade graduation. I can hardly believe it and it takes my breath away a little bit to say it. My "glass half full girl" will be a freshman in high school next year! It seems like just yesterday she was learning to walk.

Amanda is not so thrilled about the whole dress idea. So I came up with a game plan to try to make this special day more fun for her. The twins are with my mom and Amanda invited her 2 best friends to come shopping with us. Estany will also be in the graduation ceremony with Amanda and McKayla graduates from 8th grade in Helix this year. We will have a girls day out and end with dinner at Olive Garden before coming back home.

Wish us luck :-)

family photo shoot

photos done by Kevin Madsen of Nighthawk Photography

Amanda



My favorite of Amanda and I


One of the whole group..... Joshua, Me, Amanda, Jeremy


My favorite of Amanda


Talk to the hand :-)

Happy mother's Day

My 14yo, Amanda, sent me this funny mom video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3QitzqXZq6w
You should watch it.but don't be drinking anything. I laughed until I thought I would pee my pants

I also woke up to the sweetest letter from her sitting on my keyboard waiting for me. It tells me what a great mom she thinks I am and how lucky they are to have me. Made me cry

Have a great day everyone. We have Sunday school and church and then the rest of my day will be a surprise planned by my children. I think I heard some whispering about a picnic in the park
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the day after National Scrapbook Day

How was everyone's day? Mine was awesome! I had 10 ladies sign up for my crop/workshop and 9 came. We started at 3 and the last of them left about midnight. They loved their goodie bags and had a blast doing the make and takes and challenges. And I always love how everyone starts with the same supplies and the projects all look different when done. One of the challenges involves voting and a prize for the winner so be watching my blog in about a week to see entries and vote :-)