My volleyball girl...

Monica started volleyball yesterday and she did so good. I am so excited that she wants to play volleyball since it was my favorite sport when I was in school too. I was surprised as to how well she did too. She did a 1 day volleyball camp at the high school back in October where they taught her basic skills and stuff. I guess she really learned a lot from that camp because she was very good yesterday. Here are some photos of her from yesterday. I hope to get some better ones as the season progresses.

My name was mentioned...

Pink is the new blog is my favorite celebrity gossip blog that I read every day. The author of the blog is named Trent and he loves the movie Brokeback Mountain so when I saw the Peeps contest from the Seattle Times (see post below about Peeps) I knew I had to e-mail him to show him the one that someone made that spoofed Brokeback Mountain. I guess he liked it so much that he mentioned it and my name on his blog. How cool of him to do that! Those of you that read his blog will understand my excitement probably more than others. He is kind of a blog celebrity. :) Here is a screen shot of it:


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Our Easter...

We had a great day today. Matt and I both went to the gym in the morning since we both knew that we would be eating a lot of "dangerous" food later in the day. I made prime rib, salad, butterflake rolls, roasted garlic mashed potatoes and deviled eggs. For dessert we had French silk pie. My parents came over and ate with us. It felt great to do all of the cooking myself for once. Usually my Mom and I help each other, but I wanted her to be able to just sit and relax without having to worry about doing anything for a change. The kids had a great time searching for eggs in the back yard and got some cute fun toys in their baskets. It was a very nice and relaxing day. Now I just have to worry about working off all of that food tomorrow at the gym. :) Here are some photos of the kids searching for eggs and eating their candy.

Happy Easter Peeps style...

The Seattle Times had a challenge for their readers to make things out of Peeps and I thought the entries were awesome. Here is a link to the article with all of the photos online. Just click on the photos on the right side of the page that say Peeps, more Peeps and even more Peeps. They are really cute. Here are some of my favorites:

Monica and her kitty...

Brace face...

Well, she finally got them. Monica got her braces put on her top teeth today. I can't believe how old she looks with them on. She will be getting them on her bottom teeth in a few months, but for now she has them on just the top ones. She picked pink and yellow bands for them for Easter. Here are the pictures of my sweet beautiful tween and her braces.

Little Book of Big Ideas Scraplift CHALLENGE

This is a layout that I did for The Little Book of Big Ideas Scraplift CHALLENGE on the KI Memories blog. I was so excited to find out about this challenge because I have so much KI Memories stuff that I have been hoarding forever and I guess I just needed a little push to use it. Here is the page that I scraplifted from Carrie Colbert.

Here is my page.

I didn't obviously copy the whole page, but I liked how she used the ice dots on the polka dot paper in the middle of the page and how she used the quote on the page as well. Thanks for looking. I can't wait for the next challenge.

More photos from our trip to Seattle...

Our trip to the Seattle waterfront...

Today we decided to take the kids to the Seattle Aquarium. Riley had never been there and Monica hadn't been there in quite a while so we thought it would be a fun adventure for all of us. We also went to eat at Ivar's on the waterfront and fed the seagulls there too. Of course while we were down there we had to stop by the Ye olde curiosity shop to get some little treasures as well. The weather ended up being perfect for our little adventure so I got some great pictures. Here they are: