A beautiful Spring day

Today has been an absolutely gorgeous day. I finally got to venture outside with the kiddos and hubby(Steve). They got the winter stink blown off of them while I got to hose the porch furniture off and put my back porch back together. The hubs got to finish working on the chicken coop he had started making the last nice day we had (weeks ago).

My older daughters usually help with the babies when we're busy in the yard. Today they happened to be shopping for Easter with my Mom leaving me constantly scanning the yard for little people and Steve would do the same. Hermione our 3 year old disappeared and here are some pics of where Steve found her.

Spring is finally here

Finally!
 The weather forecast has temperatures above 60 degrees for the next week. I am so excited. I have been itching to go play in the dirt for weeks now, but it just seems like winter never wanted to leave.
 I've been peering out the window at my poor gardens for weeks. My crocus have all bloomed, the daffodils are up but they haven't bloomed yet. I'm hoping this next weeks warm weather will give me ample time to clean out the gardens in between rain drops. 

 Since it has been so gloomy and chilly out I have been able to get all of my Spring cleaning done. With 6 kids though it seems like I'm always Spring cleaning. I also have had time to get started on another American flag afghan. Never too late to get ready for those Patriotic holidays.

 I hope that everyone enjoys their weekend.

The cricut experience

My husband decided a few months back that I needed to add card making to my list of crafts I do for my business. So we did some research and I would have been happy with the Cricut Expression but he insisted that we just go ahead and buy the imagine.
I have had no paper craft experience let alone Cricut experience so it has definitely been a learning experience. I'm finding myself becoming addicted to my Cricut Imagine.
Here is a gift bag I made using the Cricut Sugar and Spice cartridge. I made it so that the whole page or just the "Baby Girl" can be reused for a scrapbook or shadow box.


I apologize for the grainy picture my camera settings had been changed without me realizing it.