Spring Break Update

Wow am I a terrible blogger. I don't know where the time goes. Ryan had a week off for spring break last week. Dave took off the Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday. Of course on Monday it was pouring rain. Can't remember what we did. Tuesday we went to the Vancouver Aquarium. We got a nice day too! Ryan had such a great time! I have lots of pictures but promise I'll only upload the good ones. On Thursday, Dave's brother Bo and his wife Jenn and the cousins, Ben and Danny came down for a visit. They stayed with Lia Thursday night and then stayed with us Friday night. We also had Kaitlyn that weekend too! Full house. We couldn't convince the Bridesville Macfarlanes to stay another day (they have this week off too-two weeks spring break) but they did however stay until late on Saturday. They left for home around 4pm after Turkey dinner. I thought it would be nice to have an early "easter' like dinner all together. At the time I was planning, I had no idea when they were leaving. Even if they couldn't stay, we would have Lia over and enjoy Turkey dinner! We all love turkey! I put the bird in at 10:50 so we were eating by 3pm. Get them all nice and stuffed up before the long drive. A triptophan induced sleepy drive....mwaa hahahah.... Other than that, I've just been making some card swaps for the Regional Stampin' Up seminar that I'm attending on the 27th of April. I've made 20 of one kind and 2 of the other as I ran out of some key ingredients like paper.....I'll have to place another order tonight! BooHoo....lol I can start working on prepping the easter baskets that I'm showing the kids how to make next week. I'm just cutting and scoring them. The kids get to decorate them and put them together in class. It'll be fun. They are also going to be coloring eggs that day. Yikes, it will be a busy 2 1/2 hours. Check out my craft blog to see the regional cards I just made and check back next week when we're done the baskets! Hopefully I blog sooner than later!

How many of you are there?

Tara Macfarlane......

HowManyOfMe.com

There are: 2 people with my name in the U.S.A. How many have your name?

Tara O'Hara

HowManyOfMe.com

There are: 13 people with my name in the U.S.A. How many have your name?

Been Busy

Well, I'm one to harrass others about not keeping up their blogs. Huh! Sorry! You're probably tired of looking at my bangs by now! haha Anyway, have been doing lots of crafting! I have started with making birthday cards for Dr. Mike's patients. I completed 23 female and 16 male cards for April! I would attach a picture but don't want to spoil the surprise for some who may be getting them, plus, I really didn't want to take a picture once I had packaged them all up. I gave them to Sue before our stamp club this evening.

I also signed up for a spring mini swap on splitcoaststampers. I need to make 21 card fronts with the Au Chocolat designer series paper. I decided to do a trifold card, and I have to say, I really like it even though the chocolate paper is not my favorite. So, swappers will recieve a full card and not just a front. That is what I'm currently working on. Next is more birthday cards for May and card fronts for swaps at regionals and the SCS dinner on April 27th. Marnia, my upline has said that she does 100-150 fronts to swap about 4 designs. We'll see what I might get done. I'm thinking these trifold cards for sure as they are super easy and really cute! As for anything else, not sure yet. I also said that I would donate a 3D item for the SCS dinner. See what I come up with there. So as you can all imagine, I'm spending a lot of time at my dining room table! I am spending some time with the boys too! lol

Tomorrow, Ryan is supposed to go on a field trip to Peach Creek to release a salmon that the class had hatched. They raised salmon right from scratch. It has now started to rain. I got Dave to take the afternoon off to take Ryan as the hike is quite muddy at this time and really not stroller friendly. If it rains a lot, they might just cancel the whole thing. I really hope not as Ryan is sooo looking forward to releasing his salmon! Apparently there are only 3 release sites. They wouldn't want our Canadian Coho to go to the USA. Anyway, put the no rain vibe out there for Ryan!

I'm hitting the hay!

Tara

I have my bangs again! Yay!

Well, I got my hair cut and colored today! I had at least 3 inches chopped and wanted to color my hair to cover the white hair. I just keep pulling it out. And those were just the ones I could see. Could you imagine how many there were that I couldn't see? It's really soft and nice and shiny. I'm liking it a lot so far. So, of course I bought product and I bit the bullet and bought the flat iron. Every time I go there, I've wanted the flat iron. I think I have a spending problem?! I have to promise myself that I'm going to use it at least 3 times a week! Anyway, what do you think of my new do?