Happy Birthday Boys!

This weekend we celebrated my husband and my nephew's birthdays...ok, so we were a little late for J's and a little early for Greg's, but who's counting anyway?

We had a great time celebrating at my sister-in-law's new house with both her (our) family and her in-laws there. J and Greg had a fantastic time with their Pixar Cars-Themed birthday party, ice cream cake, presents and plenty of good times outside with family and friends.

Happy birthday, boys! You know I love you both so very much!

Camping

This weekend found us enjoying the scenery and beautiful weather at St. Croix State Park. We had to dodge some raindrops on the way up, and hail on the way back but all in all it was a pretty fantastic weekend. We spent the weekend with a friend from Greg's work, his girlfriend and her dog, and we even got to go canoeing.

Layouts

Here's some layouts I've worked on recently.

The first is a photograph that was taken in May when my mom, my aunt, me, my cousin and several of my mom's cousins got together for lunch for a mini reunion. The papers and circle tag are My Mind's Eye, flowers are Prima. I stamped the dotted border and cut the title with my digital cutter.

The next is about seeing my nephew Jaedon back in January when he was first learning "Ring Around the Rosy" but wouldn't fall down at the end of the song. The papers are Cosmo Cricket, the circle embellishments are Scenic Route, the work "play" is made with thickers from American Crafts, the Rubons are also Cosmo Cricket. I made the journalling box on my computer based on an article I saw in Simple Scrapboks this spring.

The last one is a layout I did of a picture of my mom and I from Easter this year. Simple but to the point. The papers are Basic Gray (red) and Bo-Bunny (green); the border is a sticker from All My Memories.

Thanks for looking.

I hope you're all doing well.

Michelle

Thank you

Thank you to everyone who has sent me emails or left me comments about my friend's death. That means a lot to me. I ended up being able to go home over Memorial weekend for her funeral. As strange as it may sound it was a good weekend. Of course it was sad, but there was a great amount of togetherness that weekend. Our classmates got together on Friday night at her sister's house and by the end of the night our tears of sadness had turned to tears of laughter as we reminisced about high school and all of the trouble we got into...mostly because of Jill :)

Saturday was her memorial and her sister and best friend had organized it and did a great job of celebrating the person that she was the what she meant to different people. That night her sister had another gathering at her house. I got to see her husband and kids again, so that was nice to be able to show them support.

Sunday, we hung out with family. Went to the botanical center w/ my mom and grandma then grilled with them, my cousins, aunt & uncle over at grandma's. Monday we headed back.

As we were driving back to mom's after the bbq on Sunday night, I snapped this photograph. This rainbow was even more intense than the photo shows and such a peaceful sight!