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I've gotten a few emails in regards to directions on how to make the sour cream party favors so I thought I would post how I made them.
Now I usually make them out of scrapbook paper and either stamp or embellish according to the holiday.  But then my friend Val shared with me its the same size as a 4 X 6 picture!  Now why didn't I think of that???
First off I found a good picture of my daughter...

you have one day where you seem to be able to conquer the world and the next where nothings seems to go right?
That is what my Monday has been and its only 10:30 am.  Seems we woke up to no heat this morning.  Before calling the furnace repair guy Joel went to check the level of our propane tank, turns out there was only 5% left which would account for the no heat.  You are supposed to have it...

When you feel like you've accomplished a lot in a days time?  It sure does for me.
I started my day cleaning my bedroom since I decided to move some of the furniture from the family room into the bedroom and move things out from the bedroom.  Needless to say our room was a mess. 
But then I was sidetracked chatting on the phone with my sister and checking things online.  Like this awesome...

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...