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Last week was our Spring Break. While this picture may look simply like your stereotypical Northwest spring day, it was anything but. Our Spring Break consisted of some mixture of rain, snow and hail (along with very cold temperatures) every day. It was CRAZY!! Anything but typical.

This week the warmer spring-like weather has started showing itself. I am so thankful! This girl needs warm sunshine!





I just have to take a minute and brag on Michael. Last Thursday he showed up with these beautiful flowers. Not for any reason; just because he's that sweet.

The boys were at Matt's this past weekend for the first time in a month. It gave Michael & I a chance to do some fun "couple" things. One thing we had been looking forward to was going garage saling on Saturday. We made out quite the list of what we were looking for.... Michael did great on his part; I didn't have as much luck. The weather ran the gammut while we were out.... pouring rain, snow, hail and sun. You name it, we had it. But we had a blast. And that night we had dinner with both sets of parents.

Gary (my brother) is in town again for a few days working on his aerial photography business. He brought Makenna (my niece) along for fun. Today I snatched her as a babysitter. It has been a godsend because I have TONS of work to do on these weddings. Been doing lots more networking as well. Nothing new on the job front, so I am concentrating 100% on networking and marketing.

Friday I met with my June bride at the reception site. Before now I never considered myself too creative when it came to decorating & design. However, she is relying on me to pull her vision together and I found that I had a whole bunch of creativity that had apparently been hiding until now. It's been so fun to dream up a design based on her desires (simple, yet elegant; no flowers, only candles).

My first wedding is coming up in only 12 days. Much to do!!

I'm thinking of trying something new.... I heard of a local Portland guy who has a blog to record his goal of trying one new thing every day for the entire year of 2008. The more I think about it, the more it sounds like fun to try something similar. I'd love to get to the end of the year and be able to look back on all the ways I was able to stretch myself and think out of the box. Could be a big thing one day and a little thing the next.

Since today is the 1st, I thought it might be a great day to start. I have no idea yet what I'm going to do.... I guess I'll let you know tomorrow what I came up with!

Anyone else game to do this with me? It could be pretty fun!! If nothing else, perhaps you could just shoot some good ideas my way...