I just wanted to take the time to wish everyone a very Happy Mother's Day! Yesterday was rough for me with the twins and I being sick - but god must be thinking of me today - Dakota is sleeping with her daddy, Brooke is blissful in her swing, Madelyn and Grace are playing with their cousins and the system is down for work - so I am not working any OT - yippy!!!

Guess where I am going to be - my studio! I think I will just stamp or finish cleaning it - maybe both. Maybe I will be able to post more today!!

New and Upcoming TAC Specials!
Here is a list of current and upcoming TAC specials - email me or post a comment if you are interested in any of the speicals.

Here is a list of TACs current discontinued list: here! These stamps will be gone as of July 1st.

Here is the TAC blog where you can check out some current TAC contests.

Below are the upcoming specials:

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May's SOTM

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May's Vintage

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June's SOTM

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June's Vintage

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No Time to Stamp :(

But I did have time to glitter :) When I couldn't find a peep stamp at the store - I went searching online to see what I could use to make my peep treat bags for the girls and their cousins.

I found a solid peep stamp - I printed it, traced it on my lightbox, scanned it back into the computer and the used Paint to make my 5 bunny image then I printed what I needed. It was a little more work than I wanted to do - but it was worth it! The kids loved their bags.
This picture was taken of the girls at the end of March. The babies are growing like weeds and the big girls look older each day.



When we had a nice warm day out - Grace and Papaw decided to get their toys out and play - they chased each other in the driveway for at least an hour - and if I recall Grace slept well that night!

Here is a cute picture of Madelyn and Grace coloring easter eggs.

Easter morning! I found those huge suckers at Walmart for a $1 each - actually between Micheals and Walmart I think that is what most of the items in their baskets cost! The Easter bunny is getting so thrifty!














I got all the girls dressed up on Easter - I wanted to get some good photos of each of the girls and some with their papaw. This may be his last easter with us and I wanted to make sure we documented it. He knows this will be his last and I could tell it bothered him a lot!

I got the babies these cute bows for their hair - because no matter how much pink I put them in everyone calls them boys!!

I am now selling AVON - the extra cash is always nice, Avon always has a great selection of gift ideas - great for a mom with no time to get out to shop - and with the huge pile of hospital bills anything will help. You can see a current catalog at www.youravon.com/leonacarver.

Baby Update
Dakota and Brooke and doing well. We are currently having an issue of Dakota acting like she is hungry all night. I gave her a bottle at 5 am this morning then let her nurse and she slept 4 hours. Dakota now weights 5.5 lbs and Brooke weights 5 lbs. that is up 13 oz from the weight check 3 days prior. They go back to the doctor in a week for the 1 month check up next week.

It is hard to believe that they are almost a month old. Looking at the calender had I not delivered on my own this would have been the weekend that I would have been induced and able to bring my girls home.

Dakota is a solid child - chubby chubby. I can tell the difference in the girls in just their weight. Brooke is more petite but is so observant and loves to look around!

Their first bath was a little hetic - they do not like to be cold. Now, their first shower was much more calm for both me and them. I took each baby to the shower with me and they just loved it. Matt had to do the dressing and the calming of the other one and they were not so happy about being out of the warmth!

Yesterday I posted a slide show of the babies - enjoy!

I got to Stamp!!

Yesterday I sat down to make Matt an anniversary card for today! It wasn't my best first attempt but he seemed to like the card! We have been married 5 years today!

This card is a 5x5 card. I used the Mr&Mrs set from Inkadinkados that I found at the Flower Factory. I used my cuttlebug to emboss the vellum and used some mono adheasive to mount to the card. It is a pretty simple card - I try not to over to cards for Matt as he always tells me I put way too much time into these cards.

Since I do not have 5x5 envelopes I told a regular 5x7 envelope after seeing a tutorial here - where I used my cuttlebug to punch hearts out of the envelope and the insterted a pieces of colored paper to seal off part of the envelope so that my card would fit nicely on one side. I think I like this better then trying to figure out how to make the envelope myself. Below is a photo of the card and envelope together:

Here are some recent photos of the girls - the babies - they are ever changing!