Shopping, lunch and an afternoon nap. It all started with a tape runner refill. lol I told Daniel I needed to run by Hobby Lobby to buy another tape runner refill for my tape gun and he said "Oh I'll go with you." :-) la la la la ... lol that's my happy song, I sang it in my head on the drive to HL. He bought me two Fantabulous paper stacks, tape, ink, a bunny ears craft, and 3 new sets of clear stamp ... two of which came with ink and a stamping block. Since Michael's is literally around the corner he suggested we pop in . LA LA LA LA!! Too bad punches weren't on sale. lol I left with two more super pretty paper stacks, MM Chloe's Closet decorative straight pins (so pretty!), MM Chloe's Closet clear creations, another bottle of Beacons :-), and a Fastenater mini. We went to lunch at one of his favorite Chinese food restaurants and then stopped to fill my gas tank before heading home. While I was taking out all my goodies and arranging them for a photo he popped in and asked if I felt like a snuggle and a movie ... Of course I'd never say no so I ended up taking a really nice 3 hour nap. :-) He left for work while I was still sleeping but he set the alarm so I wouldn't be late for Roo. Sweet sweet sweet!!!
I'm really loving the wonderful sketches over at Mojo Monday and this is my second week to give it a go. I love this new paper stack I picked up last week! The colors are so vibrant and pretty. I posted a close up of the super cute MM clear creations circle tag and their decorative straight pins ... so cute!!! I love how this card came out. Thanks for looking!!! 
As you can see Abbey fell in love with this little fleece hoodie, her first, and she wore it basically everyday even though Daniel bought her one in just about every color. She and Gia the Build a Bear match ... too cute! 
I was invited by Abbey's choir teacher to help chaperon the Advanced Choir group as they attended their yearly competition. It was a long day with many many flights of stairs, seemingly endless hallways and being moved from one hot room to another until they were finally allowed on stage to compete. They spent oh - maybe 10 minutes on stage and half of it was in silence as the judges wrote down their scores between songs. They looked so pretty in their long choir gowns .... I wish I had taken my steamer because most of the girls pulled their gown out of their back packs!!! Wrinkled and all they sounded amazing. They received a 2 , meaning they were above average. After they sang their rehearsed music they were moved to another oh so hot holding area before being ushered into a smaller room to perform a piece they had never seen or rehearsed. That part of the competition is called Sight Reading. Basically they have to know music well enough to read it and perform it. Their teacher had 4 minutes to guide them through the music without instrumental or vocal aids!! The whole time they practiced they had to do it in their heads, without tapping out notes or rhythms or they would be disqualified. After their practice their teacher is allowed to play 4 notes on the piano and then they have to perform with out her help at all. I don't read music and I haven't a clue what b flat or any other note sounds like but wow these kids were just amazing ... they sang the song so beautifully it nearly had me in tears. To me it sounded perfect, like one of the old Latin Church songs where it sounds like it's almost chanting ... sadly to the keen ears of the judges it was only a 3 ... meaning they were average. Oh well. Maybe next year.
