We all had a fun day today. My parents came down for the day and my dad put in an extra electrical outlet in the bedroom we are remodeling. I'm so thrilled that the room finally got cleaned out yesterday. Now it really looks like progress is being made.

Ok, I'm bad. I totally missed blogging about my hubbie's birthday and Mother's Day. His birthday was the day before Mother's day. That always sucks they are so close together! I'm so lame, I didn't even get him a gift. I just never know what to get--until after the fact. Duh! Didn't even get a birthday cake! That's so sad! And we spent the entire day at my brother's apartment celebrating his and his wife's graduation from college. At least after I remembered to tell the kids it was Daddy's birthday, they ran upstairs and started singing "happy birthday".

BUT I stayed up until 3:30 a.m. the night before planning to make him a card AND a layout, which then morphed into a layout/card cause of my need for sleep at some point! There are probably things I could have done to make it better, but too late now!

This is what I came up with after torchuring the whole fam with taking pictures and trying to get the perfect ones to use just for this occassion! Nobody wanted to cooperate. Especially little L. He's very stubborn. Wouldn't look at the camera or smile even once! And the babies didn't want to sit still. They just cried even after being fed twice during the whole ordeal. This picture I used is sooo cool--it looks like E.M. is waving--too cute!

We didn't really do anything for Mother's Day either. Stayed home. Got breakfast in bed. That's always nice.

Logan loves this cat! We think it belongs to one of our neighbors, but he spends a lot of time at our house now. Even likes to try to sneak into the house when somebody leaves the door open. Whenever he's around Logan is out there carrying him around and playing with him. Even Lonnie, who hates cats, loves this one. He must, because he bought it cat treats!

This is a pretty simple page I put together last night. The patterned paper (striped) is Junkitz Dog Collectionz-dog stripe. All cardstock is textured, from Hobby Lobby. The journal circle is vellum Deja Views Fresh Verse. I cropped it to the circle shape and attached it to brown cardstock with brads as the center of a few of the flowers. The titles are stamped with Making Memories Foam Stamps-Franklin, and Paper Studio Foam Stamps-alpha blocks, using white Colorbox pigment ink. Looks like my stamping went a little downhill at the end--grrrrrrrr. Can't anything ever be perfect?!

TUESDAY BLOGGER CHALLENGE

Blog about your most fave summertime dessert! What do you really enjoy each and every summer????

I love watermelon. Just had my first one of the season and it was sooooooo good. I'll be posting a layout of my son and watermelon one of these days.

Here's my fave recipe:

Strawberry Jell-O Pie

MIX 1 1/4 cups apple juice, 1/2 cup sugar and 3 Tbsp. cornstarch in saucepan; cook on medium heat 2 min. or until thickened, stirring constantly. Remove from heat. Add 1 pkg. strawberry jell-o (4 serving size); stir 2 min. until completely dissolved.

PLACE 2 cups halved strawberries, cut sides down, in graham cracker pie crust.

POUR gelatin mixture over strawberries. Refrigerate 2 hr. or until firm.

This is the best strawberry pie recipe. I think it has something to do with the apple juice used. I used to use a similar recipe that called for water instead of juice and it just didn't set up as nicely.