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We all hear that saying from those older than us as they reflect back on their children and how they've grown, and now here I am doing the same.
I look at my daughter and can not believe she will be a Junior in college next year!  How did that happen when I can remember so clearly taking her to pre-school or volunteering at her elementary school?  How did she end up all grown up in what seems like...

How sweet it is!
Planning - our family vacation this year and lets just say when you wish upon a star...Training -  for a half marathon in less than a week! eeeek!Creating - Working on my week in a life - because I can't wait to do it againLoving - having my daughter home for summer

Had such a wonderful weekend and the best Mother's Day!
The morning started early with notes from each of the kids, a card and flowers for me and both the grandmas...
 
 then it was off to breakfast at Yours truly

after breakfast we parted ways with the grandmas and headed downtown to visit the Rock and Roll hall of fame!  Which we loved!
 
then it was off to the Indians game!  Where...

Happy Mother's Day!  We are off for a day of fun!
 
 Friday we headed out early in the morning to go to the Great Lakes Mega Meet in Novi Michigan.  We talked and laughed as Amy -the GPS, led the way to Michigan.  It rained most of the way down there, but decided to pour the moment we got there and were walking to the building!
We had a blast as we cruised up and down the aisles to check...

Time just seems to fly by anymore!  On Sunday we went and moved most of Chels things out of her dorm but she still stayed for a few more days for another final.
On Monday I got to chat with a fellow scrapper Brandy!  We did a video chat and it was a blast! She is so sweet and adorable and made the cutest album that I need to get for our camping season this year!
Tuesday flew by with Chelsea arriving...

Theme:  Kids...
That was our theme for the week and since I had all the kids here I enlisted them to come up with an idea.  They chose to represent speak no evil, hear no evil, see no evil....with fruit!  Not only do I love the picture but I love the memories they made as we cracked up coming up with the shot!
Jill has her adorable daughter Alyssa and recognizes how quickly they change right in...

What is it about accomplishing a lot that always makes us feel good?  Whatever it is I had one of those weekend and I feel good!
Did some reading....

picked this up on Friday and finished it on Sunday and added it to my reading list for 2010!Did some running...ran 10 miles on Sunday to get closer to my goal of 500 miles for the yeardid some cleaningworked on my Week in the life and got the...

May kit layouts...
This Work in Progress kit was so fun to work with this month!  You can find more ideas for this kit at the flickr site
 
I loved Chelsea's Easter outfit this year! I used my new stampin up tag punch and Martha border punch on this layout...

 love playing with these childhood photos

Oh the story of Tony!  He is a friend of my cousins and Debbie kept insisting that...

"And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years."- Abraham LincolnGot to spend the past few days with girlfriends celebrating birthdays!
 
 We celebrated Brenda's 50th

with tiara and all!

dessert...

  I love this one of Debbie L!
The next day we spent shopping! Fun fun fun!

I cannot believe we are coming to the end of Chelsea's 2nd year of college!  How did it fly by so fast? Grandma and I got a chance to get out there and visit before the school year was out...
 
we hung out.... got lunch and grandma's 1st smoothie!  I had no idea she had never had one before, but was glad I got her one because she couldn't get over what she'd been missing!

Chelsea had...