I happened to glance out the window of my office here at home as I was working on my computer today... grabbed my camera and ran out the door. The clouds in the sky looked like balls of cotton! I just had to save the moment! I used Roxanna Parkers contribution to the Mother's Day Mega Kit for Club Deco Members for this page... I just loved the flowers... did a little change on the colors for the papers to match my photos... Thank You Roxanna!

It was really good news that you did not have to have surgery on your finger... the Orthopedic Surgeon said that the line up on the bones was very good, and he put you in a cast for the next three weeks. You are a very lucky kid! Some people have to wear casts for months... and as you discovered last night, as cool as it is too have a cast, it gets sweaty and it itches....I used my EMT kit and the staples and photo holders are from my Grungie Day kit.

This has definately been a year of injuryfor you Matthew. Earlier this yearyou fell getting off the busand scraped up your forhead,cheek, lip and mouth, thena few weeks later you spraigned your ankle ingym class, now, today,you broke your littlefinger. They say bad thingshappen in 3s I hopethis is it for you! Papa is going to try to get you anappointment with the ortho-pedic surgeon tomorrow. The E.R. Doctors showed me your x-rays, and although they did a pretty good job when they set the bones, they were not able to get them lined up straight. This is definately not the page I wanted to do today... I would have much rather taken lovely photos of flowers in my yard... but at least Matthew is resting comfortably now, and will hopefully get a good nights sleep.

Our tradition on Mother’s Day is that Jeff and Matthew take me shopping to pick out flowers to put by the front door of the house. We have done this every year since Matthew was 2 years old and we were living in this house. I love the purple and yellow flowers that were in this potted plant. Now... if I can just remember to water it . . . or pray for light morning showers and sunny afternoons!! It was a rainy day today, but the sun did come out this afternoon, and I was able to get these photos of the potted plant Matthew and Jeff got me for Mother's Day. I used Lorene Hill's Quick Page from the Mother's Day Mega Kit for Club Deco for this page. I did alter the colors... Thank you so much Lorene... I love the way this page turned out!

Tonight, after DH got home from work, it was time for some yard work... I had finished potting my tomato plants, and was inside starting dinner, when I heard a very loud... NOW WHAT! I grabbed my camera and headed out the door! Matthew had been helping his Dad in the yard, and his Dad was mowing, so Matthew was yelling at his Dad asking him what he wanted him to do next... but from my end... it sounded kinda frantic! LOL! This will be the first year that Matthew will get to drive the tractor... I am not ready for it... I am way too overly protective... and worry all the time... he is an only child... I know he has to learn to do these things... but some times, I wish he was 2 years old and I didn't have to worry about lawn mowers and blades, and ... I know... I know... I have to let him grow up.

I just had to do this page today because it makes me giggle to think of how silly Lori (the other designer at FMA) and I were being...On the way back to the office from our “field trip” today, Lori and I saw these cows out in the pasture. I pulled off to the side of the road so I could take a photo. Well... this cow looked right at me until I got the camera out... then it refused to look at me... must be camera shy! Lori and I made all kinds of noises to try to get her to look back over at the car... finally, Lori barked like a dog, andthe cow looked at the car! So... if you ever want to get a cows attention, you must bark at it!I used the butterfly element from CAZ\'s contribution to the Mother\'s Day Mega Kit for Club Deco Members for this, the rest of the page is photoshop created from photos I have taken, and stroking the layers to create borders on them.

Grown-upsget to takeField Tripstoo....Ilona's contribution to the Mother's Day Mega Kit for Club Deco Members May 2008 was just perfect for this page. I added the flowers from photos I took today at the nursery, but eveything else used is from Ilona's kit. Thank you Ilona! I love the way this page came out! May 12,2008Every Monday morning I attend the breakfast meeting for Full Moon Advertising. Usually wemeet at a local restaurant, and the owner goes overthings with the sales team and the office staff. Today, we took a field trip and went to Phil Deruiter’s Green House. Phil is a salesman on staff at FMA during the winter time, but in the Spring, Summer, and Early Fall, he wears a different hat, and runs his greenhouse. I took lots of photos of the flowers, and Phil let us each pick out some plants to take home, which he so kindly gave us for FREE! Thanks a million Phil... I will think of you all summer as I eat my tomatoes, and look at the pretty perennial flowering plants you gave me to plant by my Mother’s Angel! It was a fun field trip!

My Father-in-law turned 88 years old last week, so we went out for dinner tonight to celebrate Mother's Day and his birthday. I used backgrounds from Paris Designs contribution to the May 2008 Mega Kit Mother's Day for club deco (Colors altered), ... I also used the template by Burkhart Scrapzone (Michaele) altered to use only two photos.