I agree with the subway art words! And something with fun words that are kid relaated. I LOVE Technique Tuesday!

1. Studio AE - Favorite Story by Ali Edwards - February 2012 2. Studio AE - Give Thanks by Ali Edwards - October 2011 3. Studio AE - Beauty Of Spring by Ali Edwards- March 2012 4. Studio AE - Love This Memory by Ali Edwards - August 2012 5. Studio AE - Simple Joy by Ali Edwards - May 2012 Pick me! I LOVE Technique Tuesday! I've missed you guys at the CKC Mesa!!

1. Sour! 2. My daughter taking her first taste of a lemon at a chinese restaurant when she was about 10 months old. She puckered and shivered, then had another taste and has been a lover of all things sour ever since! 3. Fresh! 4. Sunshine. 5. Lemonade!

1. Clean the house! 2. Freak out! 3. Rush around like a crazy person! 4. Stay up to late. 5. Fall over exhausted when they leave. Actually, while some of that is paarty true, I like having company! Here's what we really do: 1. Take them someplace we love... and indoor jumpy place, chocolate candy factory, hike in the desert, etc. 2. Make sure we take them out for good Mexican food. 3. Stay up late talking and catching up. 4. Try to make them feel welcome in our home!

A - Assertive M - Manager (of the family!) Y - Yes!

I adored my Grandma and Grandpa... 1. Grandpa came to visit often. He drove a white chevy Luv pick-up truck with a camper shell on the back. He had it set up for sleeping in the truck. Sevral times I traveled with him and went fishing or camping. I think he loved being a grandpa and going on adventures. 2. Grandma was one of my very favorite people... She let me do anything I wanted and loved me unconditionally. She taught my how to pray a rosary and she taught me to play bridge! I always loved visiting her house...even when I was grown up.

And one more thing... I'll be checking out the Mosaic Moments sale this weekend!

This week: 1. I will be unpacking my scrpbook stuff from a weekend crop. 2. Snapping and cooking up about 5 pounds of fresh green beans. 3. Making some fun dinners for my family - including meatball sandwiches, stir fry, and fajitas (on Cinco de Mayo!) 4. Wrapping up homework grades for my math class... their final is next Monday! (Then I have three weeks of "vacation" before the summer session starts!)

This spring I photographed multiple days of our "Octopus Agave" plant shooting up it's stalk. This "succulent" plant (that looks kind of like an aloe vera plant...but BIG) grows for about 10 years then shoots up a stalk about 15 feet tall!! the stalk blooms and the mother plant dies. It's been fun to watch this spring and I plan to make a scrapbook page about it! Also in sping I photograph my garden alot... I've done one layout of my garden... Don't know if I'll do another one. But I still take a lot of pictures of the garden!

Distance... 1. I don't like it when my husband travels a long distance. 2. Summer vacation has to be a short distance from home this year in order to fit into our budget. 3. All our family lives a long distance away. 4. "from a distance..."

I am not much of a pet lover... but there have been a couple over the years that I enjoyed. 1. Our "outdoor" cat, Sandy. She was a stray at my brother and I fed and then she became ours. We had her for 5 years or so. When she was allowed inside, her favorite place to sleep was on my bed. 2. My son has a Beta fish right now named "Cornstock". I love this fish! I call him "the begger" because he watches me in the evening hoping I will feed him an extra treat. A fish with personality!

My present... watching Fox News Sunday and catching up on Facebook and e-mail. And we're getting ready to go church (on Sunday morning). Also, after church I am going to scrabook with friends!

I've given up... 1. Trying to keep a perfect (almost perfect) house. Instead I've embraced the fact that kids live here and clutter is my friend. 2. Movies. Ok, we see a movie every now and then, but not nearly as much as I'd like! 3. Beauty shop and hair cut appointments. The walk-in places get my business now!

There is a picture of my and my grandfather fishing. Grandpa is holding a fish waaaaay out in frornt of him (because it looks bigger that way!) and I am looking over his shoulder. The river we'd been fishing in is in the background. It's one of my alltime favorite pictures!

1. Kitchen faucet - not because it was broke, but because I wanted a new one! 2. Garbage Disposal - The seal was leaking. We had a baby and not much money. So we replaced it ourselves! Quite an accomplishment! 3. Hot water heater. 4. Toys, toys, toys... but I leave a lot of them for my husband to fix!

1. Finish teaching. Last week of new material for my class! (next week is review.) 2. Try a new recipe for dinner. 3. Getting ready for an all day crop on the weekend!

What I love about Spring: 1. Everything blooms! - I especially love the smell of the blooms on the orage tree in our backyard. 2. Planting a garden - a couple years ago I cleared a small area in the backyard and planted a vegetable garden. I love choosing new vegetables, watering them every day, and watching them grow. 3. Spring sports - Soccer this year. I had no idea how relaxing it was to sit and watch my kids play soccer. I love it! 4. Beautiful weather - sunny and warm. 5. Ladybugs - my kids have been outside collecting ladybugs every chance they get for the last three weeks!

LOST (Fun topic!) 1. LOST - The TV show. I watched part of an episode once... 2. I'd like to get lost and relax on a sunny beach for about three days. 3. Jewelry - I've lost more than my fair share over the years. The most recent was a butterfly charm for my daughter that was a gift from my Mom. I still think it has to be around here somewhere...but it's been two years since I've seen it!

Favorite 1990's TV Shows 1. Mad about You 2. Early Edition 3. Felicity 4. Stephen King's "The Stand" Mini series 5. 7th Heaven 6. Star Trek - The Next Generation

Childhood Toys: 1. Barbie Townhouse - I didn't play with Barbies but I played with every other doll in that Townhouse! 2. Big wheels 3. Books - Loved books!

1. Get well. Been fighting a cold for at least a week. 2. Put away all my purchases from the CKC-Mesa convention. (Sure missed seeing you guys there this year!!) 3. Start working on the syllabus for my summer class. 4. Cook at least one fabulous dinner for my family. 5. Friday - pizza movie night!

My tools of spring: 1. Gardening gloves and a watering hose for planting a vegatable garden. 2. Popsicles for the kids. 3. Shin guards for my kids who are playing soccer. 4. A good book for reading on the patio.

If I had the time I would grab... 1. A small box of my "good" and sentimental jewelry. It would fit in my pocket. 2. My kids loveys. Allison's "fleecy" blanket and Carter's "bunnies". 3. My scrapbooks. Although I periodically copy my pictures from the computer to a CD and make a copy for my Mom - so I could get back almost all the pictures of my kids!! 4. Three "keepsake" boxes in the top of my closet. (Any maybe my husband's "keepsake" box if I could find where he puts it! 5. As many of Allison's soft toys as I could get in one armload. (She knows they're not "alive", but she still thinks they have feelings - and she'd be devistated to lose them in a fire!)

brady bunch Gilligan's Island Little House on the Prairie Born Free Happy Days Mork and Mindy MASH The Love Boat Fantasy Island

I was fooled! 1. Yesterdays posts were things that drive me crazy. 2. Tami is writing another post complaining today 3. That's rather uncharacteristic of the usually happy, thankful Tami who normally posts these Life-in-Lists. 4. Is she having a very bad week? 5. No! It was April Fools!