~Maureen~

DI and Fairy Houses

Our weekend was incredibly busy!  Johnny has been involved with something at school called Destination Imagination all year.  He is in the "Rising Stars" group (which you are in for K,1,2) which is non-competitive.  It has been a really great thing for him, as it's right up his ally!  This weekend was a competition and they do "perform" and are observed but not judged yet.  Here are a few pictures of him at DI

As soon as this was done, we had to book it to another part of NH to see Katie's performance.  Her dance studio performed "Fairy Houses, the Journey" and it was really good!  Katie did great and looked beautiful!  Here are a few pictures of her

 
 

Katie was a "Starlight Fairy".  There were other fairies and farm girls and all of the girls did relaly well!  Katie smiled like the pictures (but maybe bigger?) her entire time/s on stage!  This was the meet and greet and she loved it almost...if not more...than dancing!  So cute!

And...I did manage to put together some things for a design team contest....this one, I would really really love to be a part of but have absolutely no expectations of getting.  I love the product and actually, the design team members are all girls I have admired....and love their work.....so I think it makes it more exciting to apply.  I haven't been disappointed about not making a design team for a long long time but this one might bring a little.  Still, though...I am happy I applied!  Here are my layouts and cards that I submitted for it:

Don't you just love that lemon paper?!  So cute!   Of course I also love the birdhouse and butterfly papers! Fun stuff and fun scrapping again!

 
 
 
   
 
  
  

I kind of got back into scrapbooking....here are the first layouts I have done in almost a year and a half.

 

I submitted 2 of these but knew it was a long shot...and an even bigger long shot....I applied for 2 design teams last week!  Did not make either but tried anyway.  I am thinking seriously of trying for one more.

Call me crazy! 

But...it sure feels good to scrap again!  I just need to organize my life and then it will feel like it's easier :)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Power...less

On Thursday (Feb 25), at 10:25 pm, we lost power.  The wind had picked up and I wondered if we'd lose it and we did. 

After the ice storm in Dec '08, where we felt so vulnerable, Johnny looked and waited to find a generator at a decent price. He found one last summer on sale and bought it.  I was somewhat annoyed by the $$ spent when there were other things we could spend that $$ on. 

Well, now....I am so grateful that he did buy it!  He hooked it up right away on Thur night, having a feeling that we'd be powerless for longer than just a few hours.

The generator he bought is able to keep our fridge and heat running.  We were able to make coffee and use our microwave, plug in our phones and thankfully, run our sump pump....had it not been running, our basement would have flooded.

Johnny had gone out right away to help out at the fire dept.  While he was gone, I was lying in bed and the wind was scary!  I almost grabbed the kids and hit the basement but did not.  Branches were hitting the front of the house and the wind was so loud and strong, I thought for sure the windows would be blown through!

Johnny said the town was like a war zone.  He couldn't believe it.  He said he had to drive all over to get anywhere because trees and wires were down and all over the roads.  Trees were uprooted.  Trees were through rooves for some people.

It was a long few days but at 9:00 on Saturday night, power to us was restored!  Not so for many of our friends and a lot of our town.  School is closed today...March 1st, due to no power in some of the schools, but also roads still being unsafe for driving.  
We had winter break last week so one more day off for the kids.  Not thrilled but not complaining either.

Feels good to have power and hoping today's winds don't cause anymore outages!