You be the judge.

Phil:


Ahmadinejad from Iran:


COME ON!! THEY TOTALLY LOOK THE SAME!
Don't you think, Carl? Liane?? Seriously. Uncanny. And kinda creepy!

Couple more scrap pages...

for Technique Tuesday.

my self-portrait page...


and my kiddos. This uses the "Avalon" alphabet, "Love Notes" images, and "Truly, Madly, Deeply" words.

It's no "bear holding a heart" but I guess it will do...

My Valentine's gift from Rick... a new wedding band!









It's so pretty. I can't stop looking at it. It's like when we got engaged 13 years ago. I am all smiles and then some :)

So anyway...

Things are winding down here. Finally.

Little recap of what's going on at the Baldwin's house....
CHA was amazing!! whew! Loads of fun, met tons of people.
Got to go to Nic & Paul's Elvis wedding - what fun!

Working 3 booths at CHA is a bit hard. Not sure I'll be trying that again anytime soon!
The Designer Dinner was a hit - everyone loved their stuff, and everyone had a fabuloso time!!
Then on Wednesday night - the Masters Dinner - here are the '05 Masters that attended...

By Thursday Rick was very glad to have me at home. This is Projections season and he's been crazy busy. Plus he was *finally* interviewing for the new administrative position on the 9th, so we went out and bought him his first-ever suit to wear.

We celebrated Auntie Mel's birthday with a surprise dinner at Garduno's at the Palms.


Rick ordered this *GIANT* margarita. No joke - it was enormous. See??

Afterwards we went bowling at Jillian's and had an ice cream sundae at Fitzgerald's casino. Fabulous!

The following night, we went out with just the girls for Mel's birthday celebration - to none other than Margaritaville! I just love the balcony up there. So low key, so much fun! :)


And then it was back to work for me.
the CK Hall of Fame entry was due in-house by the 9th at 5 p.m. So naturally I was up all week till 2 a.m. doing HOF stuff, cleaning the house for our open house on the 10th, and figuring out lesson plans for my real job at the school.

I told the principal that I am not going to be teaching there next year, and he was disappointed, but happy for what's in store for my future. As of June I will be working for Technique Tuesday, a really rad stamp company that I currently design for.

Somewhere in there was Violet's 100th day of school - and she had to bring in 100 of something. She chose cheerios. Here she is counting them:


So I got my HOF entry in on time, after overnighting it. It arrived Thursday at 1:09 p.m. Whew!
Thursday afternoon I had a cleaning crew come over and help me get the house cleaned while I did I think a thousand loads of laundry. Seriously. But it was so good to not hace to worry about doing the cleaning stuff. I wa putting things away, organizing, folding clothes, and someone else was cleaning my toilets. :)

Rick had his interview - he wore his brand new suit and looked sharp! I can't believe I didn't get a photo of him in his new duds! He was really nervous, but came out of the panel interview unscathed. He would be notified by Tuesday if he got the job.

And then Friday night was our open house. We had tons of food & drinks and a pretty decent turnout of people. Most everyone came around 7-8 p.m. and stayed through till the end, and it was great sharing our home with them.

Oh and Rick found out on Friday afternoon - THE JOB IS HIS!!! WOOHOOOOOO!!!!
Rick is now the Assistant Director of Demographics & Zoning for the Clark County School District! YEEEEE HAAAAAAA!! :) :) :) :)

And that's the fabulous end to a crazy week!