Easter pics of our grandkids

I hope everyone had a wonderful and blessed Easter. Ours was wonderful, full of family and friends. We had a great lunch with daugther Tracey on Sunday then headed out to son Mark's (and Rachel's) for a lovely dinner. They made a great meal with turkey, ham and roast beef with all the trimmings. I made Easter bags for 6 of the younger grandchildren. Below are some pics we took of the grandkids.

Jesse, Seb, Madison & Kassandra

the bee purse is from a friend of mine......Madison loved it!

Alex

Thomas

a big grin from Madison

Sebastian

cute pics of Madison

Madison's new dress and shoes

just so cute!

liking her picture being taken

a bit shy, holding gramma'a hand

everyone's looking at me!

big smiles

enjoying her cupcake

Our Anniversary and Birthday Celebration

This past weekend we celebrated our 17th Wedding Anniversary as well as hubby's 65th birthday. On Friday night we went to dinner with friends, Sat hubby had to work so we had a quiet night in and on Sunday we had lots of family and friends in for a big BBQ. Below are a few pics of our Sunday. Ted's birthday cake

Ted cutting his cake

our anniversary cake

cutting our cake

birthday boy, Ted

Madison in her new dress and shoes

Ted with daugther Tracey

Mirtha & Tracey

Mar & Rachel

Dad & sister Lyn

sister Chrys, Dad & Sandy

nieces Dorothy & Jessica

brother Jim

Norman

Celebrating Milestones

Below are some cards I made for some very special ladies that I've know for many years. They are all celebrating milestones this month. They will be receiving what we call in Sorority long service awards. These wonderful ladies have all been in Sorority of 50, 40, 30 and 25 years!

for Dorothy

for Lyn

for Lorraine

for Pat

for Audrey

for Lynn

matching boxes

Our visit with our grandchildren

We hadn’t seen our grandkids for eons and were so pleased that they were able to come and stay with us for a few days. We picked the kids up at their Nana’s on Monday afternoon and spent the rest of the week making lots of cards and watching tons of movies, LOL! What a lovely way to spend a week with our grandkids! Below are some photos we took. Kaylie (14) & Colton (11) on our porch

in a tree close to where we live

Kaylie striking a pose!

Colton in the tree

gramm and Colton

making cards

easter card made by Colton

easter card made by Kaylie

easter card made by Colton

birthday card for Papa, made by Colton

birthday card for Papa, made by Kaylie

red, black and white

I love this stamp, it has all dressed in white above and below it but I've masked the text off to use as just the dress. I find using red, black & white a great color combo. The black sticker is from my local $ store and of course I added a few pearls, ribbon and bow to finish. I'm entering this at Mojo Monday for the sketch challenge.

happy birthday cupcake

this cute cupcake is a free image from Papercraft Inspirations. They have a lot of wonderful free downloads. I used the swiss dot and the victorian embossing folders for this card. Lot's of pearls and a little flower finish it off. I'm entering this into 2 challenges:

Crazy 4 Challenges - color challenge

pink, kraft, turquoise & brown

Sketch Saturday - sketch