Thank You Secret Chick!

At work we've been gifting each other secretly and no one is supposed to know who has who. But as always with a bunch of fun girls like our group it's hard to keep a secret and most of us are already sure of who we've been getting fun stuff from. Anyway, I received the coolest treasure hunt type of clues and they led me on a hunt all over the store. The first time I got a cute shamrock plant, and I'm proud to say it's still alive. I love the little white flowers on it... The second time my secret chick led me on a merry chase around the store again and I got a bag full of fun for Gracie and me. In it where the coolest shades and some awesome bubbles. Grace has been anxiously awaiting some nice weather to use them outside.

Just had to post this photo...as you can see the shades have been put to good use already.


Thanks again!

Awesome Easter Egg Hunting

All I can say is WOW!
I am in awe of what this amazing group of people has accomplished. Grace, Martin & I were lucky enough to snag an invite to the annual Easter Eggstravaganza my boss and her family and friends put on in a little park behind their house. I can't rave enough about how cool it is to have a park and playground like this in your backyard. Wow! Very cool.
Anyway, I digress... We suited Grace up in her Easter finery and lo and behold (like some other girls, I was glad to see!) she refused to put on pantyhose to keep her legs warm. So knee-high socks and black leather shoes it was, since a girl get's what a girl wants, right? (Well, sometimes she gets...)
I found the cutest bunny pail that unintentionally even color coordinated with her outfit. How cool is that? She even wore her bunny ears for most of the day, what a trooper.
She was a little set back by the fact that there were a lot of kids there and absolutely refused to get into the group photo. But I got some nice single shots of our little bunny girl.
I heard rumors that there were between 800 and 1000 eggs hidden in the park, and boy some were hidden rather creatively, like hanging from bushes and such. Very neat to make it a bit of a challenge for the older kids. I think the number of kids was supposed to be around 50 or so...
This year Grace got into the egg thing a little better than last year. Last year she just kind of stood there and watched all the other kids running to pushing to get a the loot. This year she took off at a good pace and had her share in her basket fairly quickly. The cool twist was that there were some "golden" eggs hidden that the kids could trade up for prizes like stuffed bunnies, bracelets, PEZ dispensers, little toys and trinkets, stickers and much more. Grace decided to go for a three pack of play-dough, which Mommy will hoard until we can play without making too much of a mess.
It was really neat that the event was a potluck so there was plenty of good food to be had and we had our share. Yummy! Grace was in 7th heaven with her strawberries and cheese on cookies. Yes, you read that correctly she placed her cheese slices on her sprinkle cookie instead of her cracker. Guess she liked it...
After we spent some time catching up with the gals from work and saying hello to others we knew we headed out for home. Grace barely made it out to the main road and my tired little bunny girl fell asleep. What an exciting morning...

Help, Advice or any Input is appreciated...

I am in the throes of planning my first ever Toddler birthday party. And I'm all by myself. Thank you so much for Sara and the other TOM girls with their helpful thoughts on my invitations. Because of them I am on my way... (on the way to what I don't know, but nevertheless I am going there!)

But now I still need help with food, decorations, goodie bags, the cake, games, what time to have the party, etc? Heck, how many kids is it sane and politically correct to invite?

As you can see I am a total novice when it comes to kid party planning. At least with my birthday I could pretend to know what I was doing and with a little help from my friend MARTHA I even lulled some of my guests into believing that. LOL

So please help a girl out and post any hints, tips or advice on my comments here...

Thank you so much.

Finally Found Some Free Time..

Wow, what a concept. After being sicker than I've ever been, (I couldn't even scrapbook!), I finally found some time and energy to finish some layouts. These particular ones were part of Creative Escape last year, a class taught by Heidi the daughter of Mr. BAZZILL. I wasn't too fond of the class especialy since it was supooed to be a calendar and they only gave us 1/2 the pages due to budget issues, what's that all about? Anyway, I put the page kits together and printed some quick photos to finiehs the puppies off.

So without much further ado, here they are: