who doesn't love a little blog candy?

check it out here, these posies are fantastic!

http://scrappincecile.blogspot.com/2009/04/happy-spring-blog-candy.html

and here is an awesome kit!

http://lovejoyscrap.blogspot.com/2009/04/national-scrapbook-day-rak.html

Evie and the butterflies

we had such a nice afternoon at the butterfly house, located near the 4h children's gardens at msu.

i haven't been very good at updating, but i thought perhaps a photo post would be fun. :) easter was fun. we had an easter egg hunt for the kids. this photo of my sister, brother and i is the first one we've done in a couple of years. and evie and cousin makenna had lots of fun playing together :)
i seem to have taken a lot of photos of evie eating this month. poor kid. so here is ice cream at coldstone creamery and the biggest, reddest strawberries i've ever seen. i'm going to add some pics of evie at the butterfly house in another post because i can't make this darn thing rearrange the photos!!

if it's groovy!

i can finally announce that ms. groovy deborah has invited me to become a member of her groovy design team. how exciting! i'll be working on 2 page layouts (ooooh a challenge!) and also participating in her monthly challenge. i was asked fairly close to the april deadline (and i'm pretty sure the surgeon took my sb mojo gland instead of the one he was supposed to remove), so i haven't got a layout for april. yet. but i'll be working on it!
this month is national frog month (go figure!), and that's the theme for deborah's monthly RAK opportunity. so pull out your froggies, whether they be princes or toadies, and hop on over to if it's groovy to enter the contest :)

i'm not usually the type to pass things like this on, let alone pray for anything, but i find i cannot resist this poor, innocent baby and the struggle he and his family are going through. if you have it within yourself, please send a prayer their way:

i had the surgery on thursday. ask me again in a week, but at this point i never would have chosen the procedure if i'd known it was going to be this painful. i feel like i've had a good pounding in the face by a very large man with brass knuckles, a scent of garlic and a name like vinny. my poor nose hurts (as do the rest of my sinuses) and is swollen to nearly twice it's size. this too shall pass?

i haven't gotten much scrapping done, but i manage to finish all of my c2p layouts before the deadline (well one was a little late...) sweet bug, let's go fly a kit, bubble beard, and swimsuit models were done with the delicious march kit; fancy pants daily grind papers and embellishments. while i really like most of amy's kits and always have fun working with them, this one is definitely in my top three. :)

although i've been out of it (i had a panic attack coming down from the anesthesia and that in and of itself was scary, and then vicodin is just not good to me), evie was very excited coming home from her ballet class today--they got to try on their costumes for the upcoming spring recital. i must have missed the day miss liz showed the pictures, but that'll be a nice surprise. i believe they will be blue and lavendar butterflies :) she was also told that she needs to practice at home, so we'll have to work on that. evie's not so good with independent activity. like me, she prefers to be with other people. :) school has been going very well for her--this year has been amazing to me. she's READING! and getting so good at spelling and sounding things out!

andy's about the same. they lost someone at work and so he's been busier than usual, having to take customer support calls. he'd rather program but is glad that this is spurring the new sales guy to help out with the phones more.

i've started a new project for my sister--she gave me a shoebox full of pictures that i'm scrapping for her. don't really know why i've taken on another project when i have many many many shoeboxes full of photos, myself, except that i'm no good at saying no, especially when it's from someone i love and also a sincere compliment. :) so the "too much party" and two senior prom layouts are for her.

squeeeeee!

i've just received notice that four of my layouts will be published in the next issue of scrap 'n art ezine! i'm so excited :D :D :D
i will have to take these down for the period between april and july, but i'm just so tickled!!