Yes Virginia, there is a National Margarita Day.

Who Knew That!!! I was surfing the web tonight and came across this article. Actually I saw quite a few articles, but I liked this one best because it gave a few recipes in honor of my favorite alcoholic drink.
So Sunday is National Margarita Day. And Academy Awards night! Wow two of my favorite things together. I think I'm going to have to honor National Margarita Day by mixing up a batch and kicking back to watch all the pretty (and the what were they thinking!) dresses.

Note to Self: Go to store and buy salt. :D

More Disney

Okay I must have not counted on my calendar correctly because I'm at the last day of our trip this week. I thought for sure I had enough days to go right up until a week before our trip this year. I do have one more layout to share next week that is kind of a summary page for our entire trip that is at the end of my album. (And I must say that layout is one of my very favorite layouts that I have ever done.)

So here is Day Six. We spent this day at Epcot and then back at the pool at the resort. I, of course, love Epcot because we get to visit the wonderful country of Mexico there. And we all know what Mexico serves: Margaritas!!!! If you haven't figured this out yet, I love Margaritas. I don't drink them often, but something about being out in the warm sun, and I just felt that I needed one. Or two. :D








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More Project 365 pictures

I got all caught up on my Project 365 today, which means I have all of my pictures printed and the journaling done for each day. Yea!

This first picture speaks for itself. :D

Connor getting his hair cut. I'm not sure what he is looking at, but I do know that he was avoiding direct eye contact with his "momarazzi".

Spencer brought home this clay pot that he made in
Art class at school.
Chris is taking it to work to use as a candy dish on his desk.

This was an exciting day! The elementary school held "Saturday" School for all the new incoming kindergartners. Here Connor is coming off of the bus after his very first solo bus ride. Then after this, he went to a kindergarten classroom and did some crafts.This was to get him used to where he will be next year. I can't believe he is going to kindergarten next year!

These are some tulips that Chris brought me. And no they weren't for Valentine's Day. We got engaged 11 years ago on February, Friday the 13th. He thought Valentine's Day was too obvious a day to propose. So he picked Friday the 13th!

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I actually did a 12x12 layout.

First off, I apologize for the color being off on these pictures. I had the most difficult time getting a decent picture of this layout. It might have to do with the fact that we are stormy here today.

This is a picture I took last summer. I have been wanting to make it into a layout for a while now and finally got around to it. It just amazes me what these two boys of mine can come up with to amuse themselves.

And don't forget (Mom) that you can click on the pics to make them bigger. :)


The journaling reads:

Is that underwear on the window sill?

That was the question I asked Spencer and Connor one morning when I came downstairs. I guess because I'm a girl I will never understand the joy of using your Spongebob underwear like a rubber band.

And since I found a rubber band on the ledge as well, I can only assume that is where the idea came to life. I still don't get how you can go from shooting rubber bands to "Let's see if we can shoot some underwear up there too!"

But I'm a girl.

Supplies I used:
PP: Making Memories
Stickers: 7 Gypsies
Ribbon: Daisy Hill
Fiskars: Upper Crest Border Punch
Rubons: Hands: Basic Grey Letters: Doodlebug Design
Chipboard: Colorbok and Fancy Pants
Blue Ink: Studio G
Cardstock

Now this Countdown is starting to get Serious!

We are officially one month away from our trip! Woo Hoo! This weekend I think I'm going to dig out the boys summer clothes from last year and see if everything still fits or if we need to do some shopping. :) We got them nice new tennis shoes this last weekend and I know they need new swimsuits. (They have been wearing the same ones for the last two years!) The only thing about shopping for summer clothes at this time of year is: 1. there isn't a huge selection yet and 2. nothing is on sale! And if you know me, I'm a huge sale/clearance shopper! I did get both of the boys some new shorts on super clearance last fall, so I'm really hoping they are all set. Now me on the other hand, I desperately need new shorts. I started looking a few weeks ago and there is just nothing out there yet. I'm hoping the stores get something soon.

So here is our Day Five from last's years trip. One of the things I absolutely love about Disney is how friendly and helpful their employees are. The main picture there of the four of us was taken by one their employees. He saw me taking pics of the boys by that fountain and came over and asked if we wanted him to take a picture of all of us. And he took an awesome photo!




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Some random pics from my Project 365.

I'm still going strong with the picture a day for this year. I can't believe that I haven't forgot yet. Although I will admit that this last week has been kind of tough. I had a hard time coming up with things, but I still got my picture everyday!

Some days, the picture just happens naturally. Like this shot from this morning. Connor was drawing at the kitchen table, and I knew this was perfect for today's picture!

Then other days, they don't happen so naturally! Yesterday afternoon I was walking around our house trying to figure out what to take, when Spencer volunteered to jump up in the air for me! I love that all the boys (including Chris!) try and come up with ideas for me to take a picture of. It makes it much easier for me than having to beg for a picture!
And this one was from last week. I noticed a bunch of birds hanging out in the trees behind our house. Of course by the time I got my camera out, half of them had flown away. I think the sky looks really neat and this picture just looks wintry to me.
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Still Counting Down!

5 More Weeks!!!

I'm still here counting down the days to our Disney trip. Why does time seem to go so slow when you are waiting to go, but once it is here, the time just zips by? In a perfect world it would work the other way. But since we don't live in a perfect world, I'm still counting each and every day until it is Vacation Time!!!

These pages are from Day 4 of our last trip.
We went to the Animal Kingdom this day.

This was breakfast at the Tusker House with Donald Duck.
Spencer liked this a lot because it was a buffet and he could go pick whatever donut he wanted. Yes, vacation food is sooo much better!

My pictures here of Spencer winning one of the games didn't turn out. He ended up way too dark to see in the picture, so I just changed them to black and white and lightened them up a bit. Then highlighted them with some rub-ons.

And you have to get Mickey ice-cream at Disney! Yum! And since I dream of some day living where there are Palm Trees, I had Chris take a picture of me leaning on one.

Thanks for stopping by and taking a look at my Disney album. It brings back such good memories of our trip!