We finally woke up to some sun today....hopefully it will stick around. I am not complaining about the rain because it is good for all the plants but it can be depressing at times. I am so thankful I don't live in Iowa though!!

It is a Saturday and the house is quiet....weird! Maddie is visiting friends in Rochester. She really misses being there because there is so much for her to do. I am happy that she gets this time to visit before her work schedule kicks in. She is working in Lily Dale as a hotel maid. She has been putting in many hours already getting ready for the season to start and Monday she starts work officially on the 3rd floor of the Maple Wood....the most haunted of places in Lily Dale. She can already tell you many stories from her few weeks there. She is so funny about the ghosts!!

Drew, Andrew and Abby are over at grandma's and grandpa's. Grandma is having her hip replacement surgery this week so they are helping her to get things done before she does. As well as working in our garden. I think that the garden is going to be a godsend this year with the rising food and gas prices. Pretty scary to think of how ezpensive things are getting and how high they just may go.

Max and I are here being quiet. I finished painting my deck chairs and hung out a few loads of laundry and now I am going to scrap. I have been contemplating doing something this year that I always tell myself to do but just never end up doing it. I am entering the Memory Makers Masters contest. I have no hopes of ever being chosen but I really need to get over my fears and just do it! Nothing ventured....Nothing gained kind of thing. The hardest part for me is not sharing my layouts when I finish them. But.....I guess it will just have to be. Like I said I have no hopes of being chosen but I am excited about the challenge of it all.

Speaking of challenges: Over at MMFY they have a scraplift challenge every month and this month they actually picked a layout of mine for everybody to lift! I was so honored. Anyways I had fun lifting myself and this layout is what I came up with.....if you look back at my older posts you will see the original that we all lifted from. I have never lifted myself and now I just don't understand why not.....it was fun to do.

Paige just finished with her second round of chemo yesterday. She is amazing....her spirits are so high even after everything she has faced and will continue to face. Her hair is starting to fall out and she is going to be proactive about that and shave her head before it all does. I think that is awesome and I know she will be beautiful with or without her hair because how could she not!! Beauty from within radiates out and she is certainly beautiful with in herself!! Keep her in your prayers please so that she feels better quicker this time then last. I am posting her carepage link so you can all follow her journey. Then you will all see how special she is facing this dreaded disease!!

Have a great day everybody....hope you all have some sunshine to enjoy!!