March 31st

I was so excited to work in my newly cleaned and re-arranged scrap room, so I dug out some scraps and made these cards. And then I cleaned up after myself, so the room is still mostly clean. Hooray!

March 30th

Woke up with this intense desire to rearrange my scraproom...this is the result. Can't wait to break it in!

March 29th

Made these cards at a crop in central IL - big fun!

March 28th

I guess I am in a crafting mood, made a couple more cards on my own today!

March 27th

Glenna came over to play and we made some cards.

March 23rd

Happy Easter!

March 22nd

Nothing like waiting 'til the last minute...

March 21st

This is Drew, isn't he adorable? My camera was not cooperating, he's much cuter in person!

March 20th

Nora had her auction at school this week. She had 618 reward bucks to spend and this 2-liter bottle of lemonade cost her 480 of them! (The 4th graders earn these bucks for good behavior and stuff like that, I believe.) Since she bought it all for herself, she decided she would drink right out of the bottle. Goofy girl!

March 19th

For the blog's sake I am pretending this happened earlier in the week, but it was actually Saturday that we finally dug out all the Easter decorations. And the kids thought it would be cute to put all their Easter-ish stuffed animals all over the Evergreen Tree (it's not a Christmas tree if you don't turn the lights on and it doesn't have the ornaments on it!!!) Little did they know, I had already bought some Easter Egg garland...it looks very festive...and not at all like a you-know-what!

March 17th

Green Eggs & um...sausage. Ya gotta work with what ya got!

March 16th

It's Palm Sunday, so why not buy a palm tree? It was a comedy of errors getting it home in my minivan...it sure didn't look this big in the Costco warehouse! Good thing Grandma came over to watch the kids or I may have had to tie someone to the top of the van to get us all home!

March 15th

Back to last weekend pictures again, because they are just too cute. Here's Ben & Carmella.

March 14th

Gina finally got it! She's finally comfortable and balancing while riding her 2-wheeler! Wahoo! And yes, that's her outside without a jacket...we had a couple of 60-degree days this week, thank you Mother Nature, we are SO ready for spring!

March 13th

Look at those eyes...an auntie could get lost in them, I tell ya!

March 12th

This was a common sight, Nora giving Ben a piggy-back ride. Again! Again!

March 11th

More pictures from the weekend, since nothing else was going on that was picture worthy. I'll fill in the rest of this week with more pictures of The Babies. Aww.

March 10th

Had to snap a picture of Ella in the sling, Gigi wears her babies. They look squished, but seem to love it! And the look on Gigi's face just screams "Get that camera out of my face and don't you dare wake up the baby!" Whoops!

March 9th

And here's Grandma on her birthday with Will & Ben - aren't they adorable? And the best thing is, they didn't seem to notice that their gluten-free brownies with dairy-free icing wasn't the same as this awesome ice cream cake with cookies-n-cream ice cream and lots of whipped cream frosting!

March 8th

After the fiasco at Mom's on Friday night, I got a brilliant brainstorm on Saturday morning to call one of the picture places in the mall....just to see if they had any openings. They did! So we met up with Auntie Gigi & the Babies to have a REAL photo taken of all the grandkids! Notice the difference in the amateur shot from yesterday!!! This is a picture of a picture, of course, so imagine it's much clearer and beautiful, because it is. I thought the prices were really reasonable, too. Though my kids could have done many more poses, the Babies had enough fun after just a couple. Luckily, the photographer knew what she was doing and got good pics. I hope we can do this again through the years! It's been a long time since I took MY babies to a professional photographer.

March 7th

OK so Friday after school we went over to see Auntie Gigi & "the babies" as we like to call them. It was so exciting to spend time with them. Nora gave a gazillion horsie rides to Ben, and loved every minute of it. Will entertained Gina and Carmella. Jack basically just watched TV...but he did get to hold Ella until she squirmed. We had our Pizza Night and got to see Auntie Gigi's culinary skillz with the gluten-free/dairy-free pizza she made for the boys. I'm so glad we don't have those dietary issues in this household, I think we would just starve. :)



After eating, we decided that we should try to get a good photo of all 7 grandkids, because that's the ONLY thing that Grandma wanted for her birthday...well that and a picture of her daughters, but sometimes you don't always get everything you want. Anyway...here is a good example of our attempts. Of the 68 pictures on my digital camera, a total of um...zero of them were acceptable. For example, in this picture, you will notice the kids are all looking in different directions, some eyes are closed, a few are red, and oh yeah...Ben's watching TV. It was Wheel of Fortune, so you can hardly blame him, but it was not conducive to photo taking. We also tried to arrange them on the stairs, but they were a bit narrow, and poorly lit. Plus in such close quarters, Ella got a handful of each of the girls hair and slobbered on somebody's hand. Much screaming ensued. It certainly was a memorable activity though!

March 6th

Jack got new glasses (again) because he lost his old ones. I'm hoping we find them one day, but these were pretty stylin' so Jack's happy, and will hopefully take better care of this pair!

March 5th

Will loved Waddle (the Webkinz duck) and just carried it around as much as he could. I'm surprised he let us take Waddle back home with us. I have a feeling the Easter Auntie will be sending Will his own Waddle! :)

March 4th

Nora & Ella

March 3rd

I've been a bad blogger...I'll try to do better. I had some sweet subjects to photograph today! I got to meet my sweet Ella Rose finally. It was love at first sight!

And this handsome fella is my godson, Will. He was a little shy, but loved spending time with the kids! I didn't get a good picture of Ben, just an upside down one with Carmella, so I will make sure to get a good one later this week.