Birthday Wishes!

To my Niece Melissa, she is 19 years old today! Party on Saturday! Happy Friday!!!

Belated Birthday Wishes!

I am so sorry I missed wishing you Happy Birthday! Sounds like it was Great!
I love this picture

Can't wait to see you in March, The Pink room is all ready for your visit

New Blog Alert

My bloggy Friend Missy and her friend Cecile have started a blog for there paper piecings

Check them out my clicking on the photo above

WOO HOO!

MOM GOT A SLICE!Look how happy she looks, I won't tell the story of why I went over, I will leave that story for Olf to tell, let's just say it was a name changing event. LOL (Mom you crack me up!)

We had a great time playing with it , and boy it makes me want to sell my Cricut
I Loved It!
Anyone interested in a used Cricut?

Updates on Everything

Thought I would do an update of all my crap:

* Talked to my Dad on his birthday (66) He is going back to talk to the surgeon again, not sure when, but I am just thankful he has not given up on some sort of treatment. HE sounded good and was just happy to be eating again.

* My foot is good, I have no pain when I walk on it. My heal and the top of my big toe are still numb, the Doc said because he moved so many nerves around in there that I may not get feeling back. Believe me that is better than the pain I was having.

* Jack is doing really good, he came by to see us all on Saturday, so he is driving and back to a semi normal routine, I know he has lots of appointments coming up, so he is hoping for good news from those. He has lost alot of weight, and I think that tires him out quickly.

* My female problems will be taken care of on the 13th of Feb. The inspection the other day added another little something that needs to be taken care of. A nice size polyp has found a home in my uterus, so along with removing my left ovary and tying my tubes they will also do a quick DNC to get that all taken care of. I will be so glad when all of that is done. Maybe I feel better.

* Mark is taking exams today and will be finishing up the semester. I think he did pretty good grade wise. We will see. I know he learned a lot of different things. I will share those soon.

* Samantha is driving me crazy as usual and is usually the source of all my Bad Moods. Oh the drama of an 8 year old GIRL!!!

* Mitch is enjoying working at the harbor view store, closer, smaller and not such a headache to deal with.

* We are still really slow at work, I try not to worry about the shop closing, but when you go from an average of 150 working jobs to 25, it's kinda scary. Not sure what we are up against, but all we can do is hope for the best.

* I hope everyone has a great Monday and I am sorry this is a picture less post. Let me know if I forgot something.

Social Studies Project

Thought I would share a picture of Sam with OUR in mean her project on Christopher Columbus!

Hope we get an A!

This is a picture of Dad & Sam in 2005, when he visited at Thanksgiving

Blogger Friends Award

Thank you Missy for extending this award to me. I am truly honored to be your Friend!

Here are the requirements:

These blogs are exceedingly charming.
These kind bloggers aim to be friends.
They are not interested in self-aggrandizement.

Our hope is that when the ribbon's of these prizes are cut, even more friendships are propagated. So do pass the award along and stop by and introduce yourself to some new friends along the way. Please give more attention to these kind writers as kindness is so important.

When you pass the award along please include these guidelines.

I am to choose eight friends to share this with. Some of you may have already received this award from another blogger and if so, please accept it from me as well.

Kalo,Shell, Sandy V, Mandy, Shari, Lisa, Michelle and Shelley Moore

Obama

I knew we had something in common

Sunday

It's Sunday and I have nothing to report. Nothing going on, nothing exciting happening. Just a boring old very cold day. Going in on Wednesday for a procedure, it seems I have something in my Uterus that is not suppose to be there, so they want to remove it. It's either a polyp or fibroid.

Then on the 13th I am having that nasty cyst removed along with my left ovary and my tubes tied. No more babies for me. Maybe this will end all of my problems and I will start feeling normal again. Not sure if it's the weather or what, but my mood has been yuk and I am tired all the time.
I gotta get myself straight before March.

I have a two year subscription...

All Good Things Must Come to an End

Isn't that how the saying goes? Beginnings and endings. It's the circle of life. But it doesn't make it any easier. I'm saddened to announce that Simple Scrapbooks magazine will be ceasing publication after the May/June issue. And let me say that "saddened" is not a strong enough word, but I don't know what words would suffice. Sad for our readers. Sad for the staff. Sad for our founder. Sad for the loss of a fantastic, helpful, top-notch, high-quality, unique, and wonderful in all ways product...nothing short of "supercalifragilisticexpialidocious" if I do say so myself. (p.s. I spelled that right on the first try)

I posted the "official announcement" just a few moments ago, so please read through that if you have any specific questions. I also thought I'd spend a few moments offering some context.
There simply isn't enough advertising to keep two magazines afloat. The economic situation has been difficult to say the least—and we've all been feeling it, no matter what area of the country we live in, or what industry we work in. I'm sure you can relate. Tough times. Tough measures.
Simple Scrapbooks will be folded back in to Creating Keepsakes magazine, from whence it sprang 8 years ago. Creating Keepsakes will grow bigger to make room for us, and several of us will have new roles on the Creating Keepsakes staff. My new job (as I understand it at this point) will be to infuse our best Simple content into the pages of Creating Keepsakes, to make sure that simple scrapbookers have a home in CK. You won't lose any of your favorite parts of CK; it will stay just as awesome as it is right now, but the umbrella will be expanded to include Simple readers as well. I have no details about how this will happen (a dedicated section vs. weaving it throughout the mag), because it's all too new. I just know that that's the goal. And I'm totally on board with that goal, because it means that the Simple philosophy is not dead. It will live on, just in new venues and in new ways.

The faces you know and love (Cathy Z., Wendy S., Stacy J. in particular) will not be disappearing. Other simple talent will be tapped as well to keep the Simple message going online, and in CK, and wherever else we can possibly find to spread the news. (like a sign on your front lawn, for example? :-)

By Association....

Thought I would post all my blogger buddies and tell you how I know each one. Each can be found on Blogs I watch......... I think it's neat how you meet people and find some kind of connection that keeps you visiting and sharing with one another.

Joyce-My Mom
Carol-My Sister
Judi-My Sister
Alexi-My Niece
Pam-My Cousin
GJG-Judi's family
Missy-Met commenting through another Blog
Shell-TLC friend
Izzy-TLC Friend
Rach-TLC Friend
Jan-TLC Friend
Amanda-Long time friend
Michelle-Met through Amanda
Shelley-met through Michelle
Mandy-Met through comments on Michelle's blog
Shari-Met through comments on Mandy's blog
Krystal H-TLC Friend
Shelley Moore-TLC Friend
Sandy-TLC Friend
Lisa-TLC Friend
Krystal G-TLC Friend

Your thoughts please

I have one of these.............................................

and I want one of these............................................

If anyone has a slice or has heard feedback on them, please share your thoughts.

Wordless Wednesday

Back from ECU

We had a great time at ECU. The girls came in 1st. Although they were the only girls in there division! LOL We never know how many other teams in the division we are competing against until you get there so we'll take 1st place with no problem! Lots of giggling eating and cheering. I am very glad to be home. Hope everyone is having a great weekend.

Finally Friday!

We are off this afternoon to East Carolina University(2.5 hrs away) for a cheer competition. It's starts early in the morning so we are going tonight. Mitch is not going ,so I have to rely on my new GPS, trust me even with a GPS and printed directions I could get lost! LOL

Thought I would leave you all with a Friday Funny!

SDV

Hi All,

Yesterday i added to the right on my sidebar our tentative itinerary for SDV. I hope that anyone that is on the fence about going will remember

• You only live once
• Liven up your Dash with a Great weekend you will never forget
• Working on project you never have time for
• Great Shopping
• Laughing till you pee your pants (depends are provide) Thanks Amy!
• And the Number one reason for attending the 2009 SDV IS.........................

The opportunity to make lasting friendship with perfect strangers!!!!

a little Shaken

I was met tonight by my across the street neighbor telling me that his house was robbed this morning. Mitch was not home so he was kind enough to come to house with me to check things out. Everything was fine.

It seems as though his wife had been sick at home and left at 9:30am to go to the doctor and when she got home around 12, stuff was everywhere. Mitch was home during the time of the robbery, but we cannot see the front of there house .

They mostly stole jewelry and her lack of being comfortable in her own home. They broke down her front door (It faces the street) and ransacked the house. They didn't take anything large, but broke they door down, making it impossible to even hang back up. How scary! Another thing for me to be Thankful for. Maybe my ferocious dogs kept them away! LOL

Anyway, hope everyone had a better Tuesday than my neighbors!

Birthday Wishes

Layout share

Bored waiting for everyone to get up, so i made this from some of my sdv project photos

Sunday Funny

Thought I would share this photo I took over the Holidays. Josh had brought mom this sign, and as some of you know OLF is my moms nickname (long story). We had a good laugh, because what it really means is off site landing facility (not something people around here are to happy about)

Happy Sunday!

Scrapblog.com

Yeah! I finally figured out my blocker wouldn't let me save this great new header. But I did not let it kick my butt and here it is. And better than anything this design is a Rhonna Farrer, how cool is that. She has some fabulous deigns. So what are you waiting for GO! GO Now and Pimp your Blog.
Thanks to Missy for giving us the scoop on this site.
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