Day 103, Thursday, April 12, 2012

Today the fire department conducted the annual controlled burn of the Native Illinois Prairie Grass.

Day 102, Wednesday, April 11, 2012

I am going to a scrapbook retreat on friday night.  I will have 3 days to do nothing but create!  I can't wait to spend some time with my scrappin' buddies and to meet some new friends.  I pre-planned to make the cards for my Chirpin' Chicks card swap.  I made one of each card and gathered the supplies, making kits to make all of these cards (and lots of other ones, too). 

Day 101, Tuesday, April 10, 2012

I finished the 2011 12 tags of Christmas by Tim Holtz.  I love to try his techniques.  I didn't have all the supplies to make the tags exactly like he did, but I got close!  I have made the tags for the past 3 years and want to go back and complete the tags for 2007 and 2008.  He recently announced that he was retiring the "12 tags of Christmas" and starting a monthly tag challenge.  I can't wait!

Day 100, Monday, April 9, 2012

Good morning my darling, Saige!  Isn't she just about the cutest little girl you have ever seen?  I took her Easter Bucket to her today.  She was trying to fit in the bucket!  She is the happiest little girl.  Look at all those teeth in her mouth!  She carried that bucket all around the house and filled it up with toys and dumped it about a million times.  Love you bunches, Saige!

Day 99, Sunday, April 8, 2012

Happy Easter Morning!  I made waffles, scrambled eggs, bacon and toast for breakfast this morning.  Stacie, John, Nate, Jim and I were full of breakfast.  We skipped lunch today!  (notice the Starbucks cup, too!)

Day 98, Saturday, April 7, 2012

We had our Easter Egg Hunt tonight!  There were 58 eggs for two little boys to find.  Well, there were 59, but we had an unexpected egg hunter.  He was a very friendly squirrel, who stole and egg, broke it open and tried to eat the candy!  And I was standing about 3 feet from him.  I chased him off and he came right back and tried to get another egg.  We had the kids run around and gather up the eggs before he could come back.  We ate sub sandwiches, chips, fruit & dip and veggies & dip.  I love spending time with my family!

Day 97, Friday, April 6, 2012

I took this picture of these birds at Petsmart.  They were preening each other and stopped, looked at me as if they were posing for the picture and went back to preening!