"In the end I'm just the mean girl, or somebody's in-between girl"

My Musical Weekend countdown has begun!

Friday night I'll be heading up to Sup-Town, armed with the $25 gift card to Barnes & Noble (sorry, Llew) I received for my birthday. And you can bet I'm gonna wear that sucker out!

Then Saturday Kristen and I are off to Minneapolis/St. Paul to begin our rocking. After many hours of shopping at the Mall of America, where we'll have lunch with dearest Jolene, her husband Mike, and daughter Kate, it'll be time for ... M. Ward! Woot!

Sunday will be spent (literally, I will return home broke, I'm sure) at Ikea, where I have no reason to actually shop there and nothing I really need to buy, but I'm sure I'll find something. And we may go to a movie at MOA, too. I'm hoping for Adventureland. And in the evening ... Neko Case! Woot Woot! (that's double the Woot!)

Did you know I found JV (from Bon Iver) on Twitter? I'm a good little Internet huntress.

And I'm pretty much in love with this print: http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=15042332

The picture at the top, titled Gingerbread Forest, and this one, Lonely Moon Girl, were recent purchases from the Etsy shop TheBrilliantMagpie. Love everything on her site! I'm hoping one day she paints an authoress with curly brown hair and blue eyes.

Easter 2009

The real highlight of my Easter was making my brother attempt to do a cartwheel, but since he won't let me post the hilarious video, you'll have to make do with these other pictures.

I picked up these sweet treats for the girls in Eau Claire. Yum, yum--frogs and ladybugs!

Jersey and Gram made these delish Easter basket cupcakes for the family.

The hunt for colorful plastic eggs began.

Aaliyah needed a little more help finding hers. In fact, she was happy enough with her first find that she had to be "egged" on to find the rest. haha. Sorry. I'll stop now.

After the egg hunt, they played on the swing/slide set for a while. A very brief moment where I could capture them sitting still and not arguing.

My mom took this picture. She was quite proud of herself.