Teresa Collins class

Another major highlight of Mom's visit this spring was our planned trip  to Mooresville, N.C. to attend one of Teresa Collins scrapbooking classes. We had planned this trip about one month in advance before mom got here. Once I found out Teresa Collins was coming to Moorseville from reading her blog I got all the info about it and we planned to go.

Mooresville is about 4 hours away from my house.  Janice & Wati met up at my house early in the morning after I got the girls off to school and we headed out around 10:00 a.m. We drove straight down I 85 then met up with Janice's sister, Eva at Concord Mills Mall at  A.C. Moore. Had lunch at the mall, then followed Eva the back way from the mall into Mooresville so we could shop at the Scrap Shack Scrapbook store owned by Kelly Earnhardt (Dale Earnhardt Jr.'s sister). We shopped a little and then had to rush to Eva's daughter's house where we were staying overnight to change and make it to JR Motorsports by 7:00 p.m. where the class was being held in the conference room.

   

  

Here we all are getting a lesson on how to use the zutter properly....I have had my zutter bind it all for quite sometime now and I can NOW honestly say I know how to use it like your supposed to. I learned a few new tricks about the zutter from Teresa.

Lunch & Pretty Toes

While in town (05/05/2009) Mom & I had to have a Pedicure....just had to! We met up with friends (Wati & Janice) for lunch at Sagebrush and then headed over to get our toes all pretty. We laughed, cracked  jokes and snapped pictures the whole time, I think the lady that was giving us our pedicures thought we were crazy! We were in our own little world that day.

 

 

Bird Watching

One of the things Mom & I enjoyed doing one afternoon while she was visiting was to watch the birds at the bird feeders. We have some of the most beautiful wild birds that come to our feeders in the spring they vary from yellow birds, blue birds, cardinals, doves, gray & black finches, robins & even big black crows. Not really sure what some of them are but they are so pretty. We have a little gray & black finch that makes a nest in our hanging green birdhouse every spring. I am not sure if it is the same bird that comes back every year, but for the past 5 years the same type of bird makes a nest in there. I watch him/her fly in and out bringing twigs and what ever they can find  to make a nest. I have the feeders placed out by the edge of the woods out from my kitchen window so I can watch them while I do dishes. I think the yellow ones are American goldfinches but not for sure.

Madison's 8th Birthday party

Story of our Indoor/Outdoor Party

Well it started out looking like it was going to be a nice day, weather wise and continued to look like the rain was going to pass over us. So we began the party outside as planned at 2:00 in the afternoon with hot dogs on the grill. Then the kids were ready to do their first activity. We could hear thunder in the distance, but it was sunny so we stayed hopeful it would pass by.

The thunder started getting closer so we decided to go ahead and gather around the cupcakes and sing Happy Birthday. We started serving cupcakes & ice cream to all the kids and right in the middle of them eating it started to sprinkle. It was a little sun shower  just as sunny as can be. All the adults frantically took all the presents and the rest of the cupcakes inside so they wouldn't get wet. The kids finished their cupcakes in the rain...then it started to rain harder so we all bolted indoors to do the presents inside.

After all the drama of the rain was over and presents were opened it stopped raining. Everyone...even the cupcakes went back outside so the kids could have another cupcake.  As  they were eating, it started to rain again...so we all ran to the front porch, just as we got there it stopped raining and the sun popped back out and it was almost like it never rained at all....How CRAZY was that!

We dried off all the tables & chairs outside so we could set up for the girls to decorate their foam crowns. While the girls were doing that the boys played outside looking for caterpillars.  By this time  it was after 5:00 and was getting late, some of the girls had left. Then it was back inside for the night to start the sleep over. We painted fingernails, watched movies, popped popcorn and stayed up late!! What an eventful day we had, it sure was a birthday to remember :)