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Here are a couple of my layouts from this month's Work in Progress kit.

Tom came over today and finished putting the trim up in the family room.  There still is some touch up we have to do and a couple small pieces of trim, but otherwise my room is done.
Now I just have to decide what's going back on the walls?
Here's some before and after shots...
 
And after...

Now I still think I want to do a border?  Possibly at the top of the ceiling and the top...

Was another snow day and another day off work!  Zach and I ran some errands later in the day and then I finished painting all the trim for the family room.  I also found time to play some more with my Work in Progress March Kit!
Tom is coming over today to finish!  So finally that part of the room will be done.  Now I just have to decide which items will return to my walls and which things won't?
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I love using the flickr program to organize my pictures. You can make sets, tags, collections, etc and then when you want to make a mosaic or some other fun project its easy to put together. I tagged some pictures of Terry, since he LOVES when I take pictures of him and put them together in a mosaic. Not all of these were taken by me and I'm missing some of the best ones I'll have to add to another...

Well lets see...
I uploaded pictures and organized pictures and ordered pictures (over 400 pictures!) ... loaded the dishwasher and emptied the dishwasher and loaded the dishwasher... turned on the furnace in the barn and painted the trim and let it dry and painted again, so hopefully soon we can finish the family room... worked on several layouts with my Work in progress kit watched the episode...

How awesome is that!  It seems the snow has been my friend because everytime I think I just need a day home to get things caught up, I get my snow day!!! 
Now I was supposed to go to the dentist this morning but I have since cancelled that and will have to reschedule.  Since while on vacation I broke a tooth!  I couldn't believe it, it seems anymore I have so many problems with my teeth and this...

Okay where do I begin?  There are so many fun memories from this trip that I don't want to forget about that I think I need to try and detail them here for future reference...
Driving wasn't too bad... the trip alone took us approximately 16 hours.  On the way there we split it into 2 days and arrived by 1:30 on the 2nd day at our house.  We checked out the house and unpacked our things and headed...

And I took a TON of photos, had a blast and am extremely exhausted and so glad that tomorrow is Sunday!  Ahhh, one day before I have to get back to the rat race of life!
Here are just a few pictures... and with the combination of what we all took in photos it's going to take days, weeks, or more to get them all organized, cropped and uploaded!
What an absolutely wonderful time we had, I can't...

12/7/87 - 2/23/93
You can read Ryan's story here
A LAST GOODBYE TO RYAN
By Kenneth Wallace
At a time like this we ask ourselves why? We try to find a reason, we search for some logical answer, we grasp at straws to try to put some reason to this so we can lessen our pain. But there are no reasons in this world that would ever explain Ryan being taken away from us. The wisest men on earth can...

more fun than the next and yesterday kept up with that pattern as the most fun we have had so far.
We began our day at Animal Kingdom with half our group. Terry and Lisa and their family headed over to Magic Kingdom for the day and we met up with them later. In our group at Animal Kingdom the first thing we wanted to do was the Safari ride and remember my poor nephew Shawn going through surgery and...