Project - Living Room

You are all aware of the troubles that I have been having being satisfied with my house. I have rearranged, changed color about 5 times, and I have still don't have that comfortable, settled feeling in each room. Out of 11 rooms in our home, I am totally happy with one (my bedroom).

Well, tonight (being childless for two nights in a row!!), M and I decided to head over to Home Depot to do some looking around (and because we have over $200 in gift cards burning a hole in our pockets). We picked up a few color chips for the kitchen and dining room. Secretly I was looking into ideas for my living room as well. We were also pricing new floors.

After complete frustration, we headed home. As soon as we walked in the door, we changed into tee shirts and flannel pants...AND... we TORE OUT THE CARPET IN THE LIVING ROOM. That in itself, revealed REAL, TRUE hard wood floors (yes we knew they were there but we were taking a chance on them being workable). There are a few boards that will need to be replaced, but it's gorgeous. Now we have REAL, TRUE hardwood floors in both the dining room and living (oh, and the hallway too). Upon riping up the carpet in the hall, we discovered that H and S both have REAL, TRUE hardwood in their bedrooms as well!!!!

I am a little more pleased with the living room now. It looks better with the "rustic" look that we are into right now. I also rearranged the furniture so it feels a little new and exciting to me!!

Next, we will decide colors for the dining room. Paint it.

Decide on a color scheme for the kitchen and go from there. We are redoing cabinets, counter top, floor, and EVERYTHING. The only thing staying the same will be the appliances. Keep in mind that we gutted the kitchen exactly 3 years ago and bought everything brand new. Therefore, we will NOT be spending thousands of dollars more for new appliances, we will have to work with what we have.

I'll post pictures as soon as I get around to downloading them to this computer.

Love to you all!!

Here's Another

This picture is from last year. I have not downloaded the new ones from my new camera yet. I'm still playing around with the photoshop program. I'll tell you right now that I really hate it!

Playing Around

I obviously have a LOT to learn about Photoshop, but this is what I first played around with.

Original picture

Photoshop picture

If you have photoshop, where do you suggest going to read up on it?

Celebrate the Season

Dear children,

It has come to my attention that many of you are upset that folks are taking My name out of the season. Maybe you've forgotten that I wasn't actually born during this time of the year and that it was some of your predecessors who decided to celebrate My birthday on what was actually a time of pagan festival. Although I do appreciate being remembered anytime.

How I personally feel about this celebration can probably be most easily understood by those of you who have been blessed with children of your own.

I don't care what you call the day. If you want to celebrate My birth just, GET ALONG AND LOVE ONE ANOTHER.

Now, having said that, let Me go on. If it bothers you that the town in which you live doesn't allow a scene depicting My birth, then just get rid of a couple of Santa's and snowmen and put in a small Nativity scene on your own front lawn. If all My followers did that there wouldn't be any need for such a scene on the town square because there would be many of them all around town.

Stop worrying about the fact that people are calling the tree a holiday tree, instead of a Christmas tree. It was I who made all trees. You can & may remember Me anytime you see any tree. Decorate a grape vine if you wish: I actually spoke of that one in a teaching explaining who I am in relation to you & what each of our tasks were. If you have forgot that one, look up John 15: 1 - 8.

If you want to give Me a present in remembrance of My birth here is my wish list. Choose something from it.

1. Instead of writing protest letters objecting to the way My birthday is being celebrated, write letters of love and hope to soldiers away from home. They are terribly afraid and lonely this time of year. I know, they tell Me all the time.

2. Visit someone in a nursing home. You don't have to know them personally.
They just need to know that someone cares about them.

3. Instead of writing George complaining about the wording on the cards his staff sent out this year, why don't you write and tell him that you'll be praying for him and his family this year. Then follow up. It will be nice hearing from you again.

4. Instead of giving your children a lot of gifts you can't afford and they don't need, spend time with them. Tell them the story of My birth, and why I came to live with you down here. Hold them in your arms and remind them that I love them.

5. Pick someone that has hurt you in the past and forgive him or her.

6. Did you know that some people in your town will attempt to take their own lives this season because they feel so alone and hopeless? Since you don't know who those people are, try giving everyone you meet a warm smile. It could make the difference. Also, you might consider supporting the local Hot-Line: they talk with people like that every day.

7. Instead of nit picking about what the retailer in your town calls the holiday, be patient with the people who work there. Give them a warm smile and a kind word even if they aren't allowed to wish you a "Merry Christmas" that doesn't keep you from wishing them one. Then stop shopping there on Sunday. If the store didn't make so much money on that day they'd close and let their employees spend the day at home with their families.

8. If you really want to make a difference, support a missionary, especially one who takes My love & Good News to those who have never heard My name. You may already know someone like that.

9. Here's a good one. There are individuals & whole families in your town who not only will have no "Christmas" tree, but neither will they have any presents to give or receive. If you don't know them (and I suspect you don't) buy some food & a few gifts & give them to the Marines, the Salvation Army or some other charity which believes in Me & they will make the delivery for you.

10 Finally if you want to make a statement about your belief in and loyalty to Me, then behave like a Christian. Don't do things in secret that you wouldn't do in My presence. Let people know by your actions that you are one of mine.

P.S ~ Don't forget; I am God and can take care of Myself. Just love Me & do what I have told you to do. I'll take care of all the rest. Check out the list above & get to work; time is short. I'll help you, but the ball is now in your court. And do have a most blessed Christmas with all those whom you love and remember I LOVE YOU

Life isn't about waiting for the storm to pass - it's about learning to dance in the rain.
-- Author Unknown

LET US ALL REMEMBER THIS!!

Okay, I finally ordered our Christmas pictures. After the price of the "package" and the additional fees (which I was not made aware of) it came out to $108.25. I would be fine with that if these were amazingly captivating pictures, but when they are mediocre and over $100.00, it just isn't setting well with me. ESPECIALLY when I found out that their photos are edited with the EXACT SAME program (and YES I do realize that this is Adobe Photoshop
Elements for ONLY $89.99) M has bought me for Christmas and the EXACT SAME camera (they have various lens, while I am currently going to have just two) that M also bought me for Christmas.

Well, I have been reading up on the photoshopping "techniques" because I am on my own now!! Much cheaper that way. ALSO there is a GREAT small business in town that will print them out for me if I need special sizes. For example, Profession Photo Workplace $100.00 for 16 x 24 picture. $200+ for sitting fee, creation fee, and photo package (1 8x10, 2 5x7). Small Business Workplace $25.00 for 16x16, FREE picture taking by Mommy! I think that I am better at capturing my kid's real personality too. They look to "posed" in these pics.

Wish me luck!

Just Stay

A nurse took the tired, anxious serviceman to the bedside.

"Your son is here," she said to the old man.

She had to repeat the words several times before the patient's eyes opened.

He was heavily sedated because of the pain of his heart attack, he dimly saw the young uniformed Marine standing outside the oxygen tent. He reached out his hand. The Marine wrapped his toughened fingers around the old man's limp ones, squeezing a message of love and encouragement.

The nurse brought a chair so that the Marine could sit beside the bed. All through the night the young Marine sat there in the poorly lighted ward, holding the old man's hand and offering him words of love and strength. Occasionally, the nurse suggested that the Marine move away and rest awhile.

He refused. Whenever the nurse came into the ward, the Marine was oblivious of her and of the night noises of the hospital - the clanking of the oxygen tank, the laughter of the night staff members exchanging greetings, the cries and moans of the other patients.

Now and then she heard him say a few gentle words. The dying man said nothing, only held tightly to his son all through the night.

Along towards dawn, the old man died. The Marine released the now lifeless hand he had been holding and went to tell the nurse. While she did what she had to do, he waited.

Finally, she returned. She started to offer words of sympathy, but the Marine interrupted her.

"Who was that man?" he asked.

The nurse was startled, "He was your father," she answered.

"No, he wasn't," the Marine replied. "I never saw him before in my life."

"Then why didn't you say something when I took you to him?"

"I knew right away there had been a mistake,

but I also knew he needed his son, and his son just wasn't here.

When I realized that he was too sick to tell

whether or not I was his son,

knowing how much he needed me, I stayed."

The next time someone needs you ... just be there. Stay.

Mike Huckabee

With express permission from ConservaChick... I present to you...

* (Another Conservachick disclaimer)*I know that many of you are not all that interested in Politics, but I encourage each and everyone of you not ignore this post, but actually read it, consider it, and GET INVOLVED!

*I didn't name myself Conservachick for nothin'! Most of my posts do not revolve aroundpolitics (even though I love them so very much) but around my walk with God, my daily life with my family, and even some theological stuff. As we are nearing the 2008 election, I think it's important I live up to my name, and let you know why it's so important we support MIKE HUCKABEE!

When I first looked at our options for 2008 presidential election I was very discouraged. The Republican choices didn't support my beliefs, and Hillary and Obama would get my vote when hell freezes over! I looked at Mitt Romney (figured a Mormon might share my conservative views) only to discover his voting record was more Liberal than most LIBERALS!

Then I started to hear a buzz in Christian circles about an unknown... Mike Huckabee. He is UNAPOLOGETICALLY a Christian. He believes just as I do on all the issues. Speaks with tact, and kindness, and is not run by the special interest groups. He was the Arkansas Governor for over 10 years and before that, a pastor! He was the youngest president ever of the Arkansas Baptist State Convention!

I thought.... this is too good to be true! I love this guy, but this "unknown" doesn't have a shot! Ah, but with GOD, all things are possible. Christians everywhere are starting to catch wind of this candidate who ACTUALLY supports their beliefs! Like wildfire his positive campaign and moral stance on issues are being noticed. People like me... and now hopefully YOU are sharing the news! We DON'T have to settle! WE CAN HAVE THE BEST!

Proof that God's hand is in this campaign? Last week, this unknown with only $475,000, shot up to 25% of the Republican vote. Today, CBS/NY Times poll as well as a CNN poll have us statistically tied him for first place in the nation with Rudy Giuliani! DID YOU HEAR THAT! Look at what GOD is doing!

So what should we do to get Mike Huckabee into office? GET THE WORD OUT! Just yesterday I asked a conservative friend who he was voting for, and he glumly said, Obama I guess. WHAT? What about Huckabee? He replied "who's Huckabee?" THIS is where WE come in. Tell everyone you know about this candidate who really supports our views!

I also encourage you all to donate. Let's encourage a man who is not taking money from special interest groups. Let him continue to answer to God, not the company or cause that throws the most money in his direction. TV ads cost $$$, traveling costs $$$. Shouldn't we as Christian's help support our brother's efforts to get in office, and create real and positive change in this nation? You can donate a just $1! If we all give a little, God can magnify it into a lot.

They also have the option to give $20.08 (for the 2008 election... cute). I thought, I'll skip the fast food this week and give to a GREAT cause instead. It's a win win! $20 bucks to a great cause, and 800 calories less on my butt!

I think once you learn more about this guy, you'll think being a part of this cause, is reward enough!!!!

LET'S GET TO WORK!MIKE HUCKABEE FOR PRESIDENT in 2008!!!!!

My First Award

Thanks Miss Sniz!!!!

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I've come up on search engines before, but not like her :)

Margaritas

Frozen Margaritas!

Ingredients:
2 6oz cans limeade
6 6oz cans water
2 6oz cans tequila 1 6oz can triple sec
1 6oz can beer....I prefer to use a Mexican beer, since it is a Margarita! :) ...anything cheap will do!

Mix all ingredients together in a gallon sized Zip-Loc Freezer bag and place in freezer. Do not go cheap on the zipper bag or it will burst in your freezer. Store bag in freezer, and you'll have tasty Margaritas at a moment's notice. When in the freezer for a while, it may separate a little; just take your frustrations out on the bag and they'll be perfectly prepared!

*Of course, sometimes it's easier to find limeade in a 12oz can, so just adjust the recipe accordingly. Also, it makes pouring all ingredients together in the bag easier when you place the bag in a mixing bowl or something first.

Enjoy!

PLEASE SHARE YOUR FAVORITE DRINK RECIPE WITH ME (IT DOES NOT HAVE TO INCLUDE ALCOHOL)

Any suggestions for good books?

Christmas MeMe

I seen this over at Tricia's blog, Dragon Fly Dreams. I had to participate too!!

1. Wrapping paper or gift bags? I hate wrapping and I'm NOT good at it. Either M wraps or it gets a gift bag!

2. Real tree or artificial? Always artificial. Then I don't have to worry about keeping it alive until Christmas.

3. When do you put up the tree? The day after Thanksgiving.

4. When do you take the tree down? After the first of the year.

5. Do you like eggnog? Never had it.

6. Favorite gift received as a child? Everything!!

7. Do you have a nativity scene? Nope

8. Hardest person to buy for? My 10 year old son

9. Easiest person to buy for? My (almost) 2 year old son

10. Worst Christmas gift you ever received? Homemade bath salts

11. Mail or email Christmas cards? Mail (when I actually have time to do them... it's been a few years)

12. Favorite Christmas Movie? National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation

13. When do you start shopping for Christmas? October

14. Have you ever recycled a Christmas present? Yes

15. Favorite thing to eat at Christmas? Michael's Cheese Ball

16. Clear lights or colored on the tree? Clear!

17. Favorite Christmas song? O'Holy Night

18. Travel at Christmas or stay home? Stay home!!

19. Can you name all of Santa’s reindeer? Yes!

20. Angel on the tree top or a star? Star. I am doing something different next year.

21. Open the presents Christmas Eve or morning? Christmas Eve

22. Most annoying thing about this time of year? The Rude People (those that run over you with their shopping cart everytime you turn around)

23. What I love most about Christmas? I love EVERYTHING about decorating for Christmas!!!!

Mean Moms

Not sure who the author is...

Mean Moms

Someday when my children are old enough to understand the logic that motivates a parent, I will tell them, as my Mean Mom told me:

I loved you enough . . . to ask where you were going, with whom, and what time you would be home.

I loved you enough to be silent and let you discover that your new best friend was a creep.

I loved you enough to stand over you for two hours while you cleaned your room, a job that should have taken 15 minutes.

I loved you enough to let you see anger, disappointment, and tears in my eyes. Children must learn that their parents aren't perfect.

I loved you enough to let you assume the responsibility for your actions even when the penalties were so harsh they almost broke my heart.

But most of all, I loved you enough . . . to say NO when I knew you would hate me for it.

Those were the most difficult battles of all. I'm glad I won them, because in the end you won, too.

And someday when your children are old enough to understand the logic that motivates parents, you will tell them.

Was your Mom mean? I know mine was. We had the meanest mother in the whole world! While other kids ate candy for breakfast, we had to have cereal, eggs, and toast.

When others had a Pepsi and a Twinkie for lunch, we had to eat sandwiches. And you can guess our mother fixed us a dinner that was different fromwhat other kids had, too.

Mother insisted on knowing where we were at all times. You'd think we were convicts in a prison. She had to know who our friends were, and what we were doing with them. She insisted that if we said we would be gone for an hour, we would be gone for an hour or less.

We were ashamed to admit it, but she had the nerve to break the Child Labor Laws by making us work. We had to wash the dishes, make the beds, learn to cook, vacuum the floor, do laundry, empty the trash and all sorts of cruel jobs. I think she would lie awake at night thinking of more things for us to do.

She always insisted on us telling the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth. By the time we were teenagers, she could read our minds and had eyes in the back of her head. Then, life was really tough!

Mother wouldn't let our friends just honk the horn when they drove up. They had to come up to the door so she could meet them. While everyone else could date when they were 12 or 13, we had to wait until we were 16.

Because of our mother we missed out on lots of things other kids experienced. None of us have ever been caught shoplifting, vandalizing others' property or ever arrested for any crime. It was all her fault.

Now that we have left home, we are all educated, honest adults. We are doing our best to be mean parents just like Mom was.

I think that is what's wrong with the world today.

It just doesn't have enough mean moms!

Showing Off My Babies

S helping set up the Christmas treeHubby and H finishing the tree
D and H
All 3 of my crazies!
Chillin with Grandmaw in his shiny new wagon




D helps with the tree too!

I'm A Big Boy Now

Thanksgiving was awesome!!! I am so unbelievably thankful for everything and everyone in my life. I dreaded coming back to work today, but I am so glad to get out of the house and away from the kids for a few hours.

A LOT happened with D over the break...

He graduated to Pull-Ups on Saturday 17 November

He's checking out the "Undies"
By Thursday 22 November, he is peeing in the potty!!
Give him a break that he peed all over the floor!!! Hell, he wipes the tip of his wee-wee and then he wipes his butt, throws the toilet paper in the potty and goes to flush the big potty.

Join The Fun!!!!

Head over to this post of mine and join us!!! I am about to send out my second gift!!

Well, my inlaws left this morning. :(

We had a great time. We had a HUGE Thanksgiving dinner with them last night. The left overs will last a for days... AND we still have family to have Thanksgiving dinner with on Thursday. We are going to be eating turkey for months!

The kids got to have Christmas with them before they left. They are so excited over all of their cool new toys!! Maybe that will keep them out of trouble for a few days at least.

Not much else to say... I probably won't be back until after the holiday, so have a great, safe Thanksgiving!!!

My inlaws are in town. They are here for week, but that is way too short. Especially since we all have to work. The kids are in school and D is not himself. I really wish they could stay longer... like through Christmas!!! I don't feel like our time with them does justice to how we feel about them. We've only been able to spend a couple of hours with them in the evening. What I really wish is that they lived closer!!! Anyway, we love them like crazy... I just wanted you all to know.

Shout Out

Amber - Do you still have my email address at work? If so, email me so I have your address. If not, email me at the "Contact Me" email address on this page.

Too Much is Too Much

Two weeks ago was Halloween. I was sick and D was getting there. The next day, I am at home because I'm really sick now. I also have to go to the school to pick up thirty-something boxes of frozen cookie dough and deliver it all after the kids get out of school and before I have to pick D up. While delivery cookies dough to my office, my husband calls to tell me that Daddy has been in a serious accident and it doesn't look good. I drop the kids off (all 3 of them) with our closest friends. I haul ass to the hospital, only to find out that Daddy has taken a fall, busted his head open, had a seizure, and has no memory of it at all. It's hard to see, it's hard to accept, I'm not dealing with this well at all. I cannot handle that every two minutes he asks what happened, why does his head hurt, why is he in the ER. I cannot handle that my Daddy is crying, my mommy is crying, I'm crying, my sister's crying, my husband is crying. My kids are scared because all they know is that there has been an accident. I call often to keep our oldest updated. It makes him feel better, it makes me feel better. I hang up the phone and I realize that never in my 27 years of life have I ever witnessed my Daddy being weak. I've never see him not be able to take on the world. I've never seen him helpless. I've never seen my mommy so scared. I've never seen her not know what to do. Eventually the situation gets better. He had his staples removed two days ago. He's slowly remembering what happened...

Fast forward a week later... D begins running a fever. It hit 103 degrees. We haul ass to the doctor. It's 104.1 degrees. They cannot find infection in his throat or ears. Doc orders a chest x-ray. Pnuemonia. Caught early enough to be treated with oral antibiotics. Caught early enough to not have developed into a terrible cough. I still don't have my baby back. He is so calm and quiet. I want him to be crazy busy again. I want my baby back.

In the midst of it all, H is giving us so many problems that I don't have the time to go into all of that. I'm sick of it. I don't know what to do. All I know is that he gets punished, however, there is always some excuse to not have to serve it. Too busy at first with all that was going on with my daddy. Now M's parents are in town. I'm just going to forget about it because I don't have the energy to deal with it anymore. M is not supportive, nor does he enforce. M and I fight terribly when it comes to discipline. He refuses to accept that H does anything wrong. M cannot see the affect this will have on H later in life. But when he ends up being so much trouble that the law intervenes, I don't want to hear one damn word about it.

Any suggestions on how to get a better grip on a 10 year old boy?

D Working on Boat, Part 2

Happy Halloween

My kiddos getting ready to go out

"The Gang"

At Granny post trick or treating

From Halloween party Friday night She was scary bride on Friday and pretty bride last night... however, she lost half of her costume at the party!!
D felt left out that he was not getting made up for the party, so he decided to do it himself with S's makeup. For those of you with little girls too, you do realize that this cheap-o make up is not easily removed!

What once was my beautiful, expensive, exquisite glass (collected and treasured for over 6 years) has now become this...

We can only thank GOD that once of us what not hurt!! We don't know exactly what happened, but our sweet baby boy was the ONLY one in the dining room! I'll let you speculate for yourself.

Is It YOU?

I'm getting ready to send out my first piece of "Good Mail Rocks." I wonder who the lucky recipient will be?!

All is well in my world. M didn't hear his phone yesterday when I sent him a text message so that's why it took so long to respond to me. Luckily he is not upset. I'm sure he would have preferred that this did not happen, but it did and he is not upset at all. I LOVE MY UNDERSTANDING HUBBY!!!!

S and I went to a Mother/Daughter Tea for her GS troop yesterday evening. We had so much fun. We are going to circus for GS next week. I'm thinking of taking the boys too. I know I wouldn't have any problems with H at all, but I'm really worried about taking D. I don't think he would sit still with all of those animals to look at. I'll have to keep thinking on that one.

How was your Monday?

By the way, thanks for the recipes guys.

Give It To Me...

Anyone out there have any good slow cooker recipes? I would really appreciate them (so would my children who have to eat canned spaghetti-o's).

Thanks!

Oh yeah, I smaked the shit out of M's truck this morning with my SUV. I waited a couple of hours and then sent him a text message. So far, no word from him... do you think that's good or bad?

NEVER Flirt at a Halloween Party

A wife got a terrible headache and told her husband to go to the Halloween party alone.

He, being a devoted husband, protested, but she argued and said she was going to take some aspirin and go to bed and there was no need for his good time to be spoiled by not going. So he took his costume and away he went. The wife, after sleeping soundly for about an hour, woke without pain and as it was still early, decided go to the party.

As her husband didn't know what her costume was, she thought she would have some fun by watching her husband to see how he acted when she was not with him. So she joined the party and soon spotted her husband in his costume, cavorting around on the dance floor, dancing with every nice chick he could and copping a little feel here and a little kiss there.

His wife went up to him and being a rather seductive babe herself, he left his new partner high and dry and devoted his time to her. She let him go as far as he wished, naturally, since he was her husband.

After more drinks he finally whispered a little proposition in her ear and she agreed, so off they went to one of the cars and made passionate love in the back seat.

Just before unmasking at midnight, she slipped away and went home and put the costume away and got into bed, wondering what kind of explanation he would make up for his outrageous behavior.

She was sitting up reading when he came in, so she asked what kind of time he had. "Oh, the same old thing. You know I never have a good time when you're not there."

Then she asked, "Did you dance much?"

He replied, I'll tell you, I never even danced one dance. When I got there, I met Pete, Bill Brown and some other guys, so we went into the spare room and played poker all evening."

"You must have looked really silly wearing that costume playing poker all night!" she said with unashamed sarcasm.

To which the husband replied, "Actually, I gave my costume to your brother, apparently he had the time of his life."

Ponder This...

Something to Think About
Why do scientists call it research when they are looking for something new?

Something to Make You Feel Good
I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar, but I cherish the friend who for me does not consult his calendar. - Robert Brault

Charm is a way of getting the answer yes without asking a clear question. - Albert Camus


Today is just a beautiful, wonderful day. Nothing special happened or is expected to happen. I just love life. I love my family. I love my friends. I love my job. I love everything!
I hope this post finds you all feeling the same way.

SERIOUS Idea Thief

I am so stealing this idea from Tori because I think it's cool and motivating and just makes you feel good.

I belong to "Good Mail Rocks." There are about 25 - 28 of us on the exclusive list. Our blog is listed, along with name, birthday, and address (private blog, only those invited can view). Anyway the point is to send "real" mail to your new friends. I have not sent mine out yet, nor have I received anything but I'm new. I am 27, and still get excited about receiving mail in my mailbox (not bills though).

I am going to start "Good News Mail" if you are interested. Send me an email at the "Contact Me" on the right side of my blog and we'll go from there. I am limiting this to 10 people right now. I'll go up to 25 if I get enough participation.

Or you can comment on this if you are interested and we can discuss details via personal email.

"Good News Mail" can be uplifting when you need it most. Very Fun Simple but thoughtful

http://busybeelauren.blogspot.com/2007/10/tis-special-day.html

http://joyismygoal.blogspot.com/2007/07/knee-surgery.html

These are just a few sights, check them out!

Camping Trip

The view of the drop does NOT do Mommy's heart good!

Big Boy

Daddy just sent me these pictures of D working on a jet boat.

Tattoo(s)

Give me your opinion on tattooes on women?

Happy 33 M!!!!

We all love you!

Does anyone else have to fill out their word verification twice everytime they want to post?

The weddings were great... very short though.

At the first wedding I saw a few friends from high school (4 to be exact) but only 2 talked to us.

At the second wedding, I saw a few friends from college and 5 of my sorority sisters that I have not seen in about 4 years. We had sooooooooo much fun. I was great to catch up and to them all again. We decided to keep in better contact, so knowing them, we will be seeing a lot more of each other.

The kids are not back from their camping trip with my parents yet. It's very quiet and I'm enjoying it! I've got to started M's cheesecake here in a little bit. His birthday is tomorrow and that is what he would like to have instead of a cake. Fine with me because cheesecake is my absolute favorite. I'm trying a new recipe that has walnuts, almonds, pecans, and vanilla wafers for the crust. The cheesecake mixture includes cream cheese, sour cream, and lemon juice to name a few. I don't think that I've ever had a cheesecake consisting of sour cream before. I hope that it's yummy! Any comments on that? Anyone had cheesecake with sour cream in it before?

Amber - I'm so glad to be hearing from you! I took down my MySpace page because MySpace sucks ass!!! I seriously think that someone hacked into my account and was sending messages out to people.

You need to send me some new pictures of your kiddos!! Do you update your blog anymore?

Decisions Made

I ended up finishing the living room that I had started painting green. I now love it and my new decor. I will try to get pictures of those up as soon as possible. I have also decided to go with a goldish color in the dining room. It looks great with the living room color (the two rooms are side by side and can be seen together so I needed a color that would really compliment).

Completed Bathroom... Almost

Here are some pictures of our bathroom that I just finished two weeks ago. There is still touch up paint to do on the trim and the bottom of the window needs trim. But other than that it's done. (This was started in June 2006.) I've changed the color on the walls and the floor twice in this time. I've changed the shower curtain three times and the towels once. Luckily I am now very pleased with this.

Baby Girl's Birthday

I don't think I ever posted pics from S's 8th Birthday party. So here you go...

***Edited to add - Why don't my pictures post in the order I want? They just appear on here however they feel like it. Oh well, I'm too tired to mess with it right now.

Girls and H getting ready for cake. (Mid-Party)

Spa Time!!! (H not included). They have oatmeal masks on their faces, cucumbers on their eyes, and they are about to get pedicures. S relaxing!
Abby and S
Cake preparations earlier in the day
Icing preparations
Party Time!
Cake handmade by Mommy :)
Me, D, H, Addison, S, Shelby M, Ashlee, and Abby. The other girls are on the other side of the table. She is getting ready to open presents.

Sorry those are up so late. I rarely get on the computer at home and I haven't had time to send my pictures to work in the last few months.

I've got to get ready for bed because the kids (all three) are leaving early in the morning to go camping and M and I have two wedding to go to in the evening.

I'll catch up with you all on Monday... if not sooner :)