April Showers Bring...May Showers!!

Hello! Ann Arbor has finally been warming up (upper 70s) but it's also been extremely rainy!! We had some storms last night so now it has cooled down a bit, but is really humid. This weekend and next week we should see some temps in the mid 80s!! So what have I been up to since graduating? The MYLead conference, of course! That's kept me completely busy ever since my graduation day, but now things will slow down again (just on time for me to leave for Africa for vacation for 3 and a half weeks). :) There is never any downtime!!! But that is fine, I like to be busy. :) The conference went really well. This was my first time being a Group Facilitator, which was kind of scary, but I had 8 really great kids in my group. None of them gave me any major problems, which was good! I had a lot of fun. So now that the conference is finished, I am just tying up loose ends like printing all the pictures that the kids ordered, taking inventory of all the MYLead merchandise, sending receipts to all of the silent auction donors, etc. Yes, being the official MYLead Treasurer as well as being the wife of the conference chairperson means that I get to do lots and lots of fun stuff!! :) By the time I'm done with that, it will be vacation time! We are spending a week in Egypt, then doing a Safari at the Kruger Wildlife Park in South Africa, hanging out in Cape Town, and visiting Victoria Falls. Should be a wild time! ;) Needless to say, I haven't been able to spend much time on jewelry/beads lately. I haven't even listed anything on Ebay for about a month. :( I may try to list something before I go on vacation, but we'll see. When I get back from vacation, life will finally start slowing down, so I will be able to get into a good routine of bead-making and jewelry-making again. I did donate a couple bracelet/earring sets for the MYLead silent auction and I was quite excited about the high number of bids they got, so that was fun!! :) Let's see, what else is going on...My sister Barbara is headed to the Persian Gulf next month (she's in the Navy), so we are having a little going-away lunch for her next weekend, plus my sister Mary's birthday is next week so we are celebrating that too. My cousin Jennifer, David's cousin Danielle, our friend Leslie, my co-worker Debbie, and our dentist all gave birth to baby girls this month, so that is neat!! Last year around this time, I knew just as many people who were pregnant but they all had boys, so baby genders must come and go in waves! It's interesting! :) Okay, I think that is all that's new with me. Hopefully I will update a few more times before going on vacation (and I really want to post some pictures too, sorry I'm so bad about that!!!)