I was surfing all my favorite sites the other day, and came across these cute, cute Easter templates from Christina Brown Designs.

So I pulled up some pictures from Easter past and digi-scrapped them.


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As some of you may know, Genius received a Fuji Digital Camera last April for her 12th birthday. We bought it at Wal-Mart for a fantastic price in a bundled pack for $71.00 on clearance. It was purchased with money from all three of the grandparents. She was so excited to receive it.

In November when we went to the Mall Of America with the girl scouts, out of the blue, the lcd screen went all scrambled. She was in tears over it. We packaged it up and sent it off to Fuji to get fixed under warranty. They informed us that it would cost us $62.00 to fix it (plus we had paid $8.00 to FedEx it to them), because the lcd screen was cracked. Yes, and we replied so, you won't fix it under warranty? Nope, because it won't break unless undue force was placed upon the screen, and that is not covered. ARGH. No undue force was placed upon the screen it wasn't dropped or anything it just broke (most likely due to shoddy manufacturing). So they wanted us to pay as much to fix it, as we originally paid for the camera! So we told them no thank you. This all happened December 30th.

New Year's Eve, a FedEx overnight package arrives on our doorstep. It's the broken camera returned to us. Fuji OVERNIGHTED it to us. At their expense. What? How ridiculous. That probably cost them almost as much as just having fixed it, and keeping a customer happy. NO MORE FUJI products in this home.

Anyway now Genius needs a new camera, and I've been looking at one of those Flip Ultra Video Camcorder things for her. What would even be nicer for me, would be if I could snag one on sale, or free! I Never Grew Up blog has one up for grabs, if you comment on the blog. If you want to try and win one too, head on over to I Never Grew Up and enter.

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The sun of life has set too swiftly. The days are growing dim; this tiny person standing here is like a candle lit, the rush of light and heat shall make these last few hours special.