A modem for Christmas!

My modem apparently died this week, and after talking to several foreign people from AT&T I got a new one!! So I am back online with a wish for a Merry Christmas. I am going to leave you with our Christmas photo and my most FAVORITE version of the 12 days of Christmas!!!

Todays blog is brought to you by Debbie

You see folks, my dear friend Debbie took a personal day today and I was supposed to fill in for her. This year makes year 3 that Debbie has taken off and we have had a snow day! Poor Debbie, but yay me I get to stay home!

Ok nothing has really been going on....Tabetha and I did the craft show Saturday it was ok. I learn something new every year that I need to change for the next year. Had Tabetha's husbands 30th birthday the night of the craft show, that was good times.

Everyone in the house has a cold, so its even better that we have the day off!

I will leave you with Dana blowing out his candels, cause thats all I really have right now.

caution I am about to blog

Whats that Sally?!? You found my blog under the fridge?!?!

So I turn around tonight and this is what I see, my dog twisted and straining to get some tiny crumb that has slid under the fridge....thats when I knew it was time to blog!
Ok..recap highlights...Mike and his Mom took the girls to the cornmaze this year and they took my camera so I get to enjoy it even though I didnt go! Aubrey seems to be Daddy's girl, they are a lot alike so it makes sense.
Bailey dont look into the light!!! just kidding cornfield joke...corny I know..pun intended!
This year we carved pumpkins with the Meadows family..super fun times. Kids whined, grownups whined, it was great!

But we got some cute pumpkins out of the deal....The Skull is of course ours...didnt mean for him to have sunglasses on but things happen I guess. Then I think the small traditional one on the left is ours and the other pumpkins are Tabetha's.

Last but not least.....word girl and pinkalicous......Shell found these super cool suckers at Candy house for the girls and they are too funny, I wish Bailey had the pink one the whole time they just topped off her costume. Now hold your breath here but I dont have a picture of them in full costume...this is the only picture I have from Halloween...yes I know I know...BUT my aunt took several so I have a back up and will get a full suit picture up here soon. Hopefully I will get back into the swing of blogging, wish me luck!

maple leaf

Yes we are still alive...even though there are no pictures of Bailey she is fine too. We went to Maple leaf this morning didn't really plan on it but got invited to go with my BFF Jill and her family had SO much fun!! Those are her boys with Aubrey good kids love them! Anyway maybe in 8 months I will post again!

This is awesome

This guy rocks that is all there is to it!

a scrappy monday

So today was the first day of spring break!! Jill and Debbie came over to scrapbook and we did...all day!! It was nice to not have to worry about getting things together for Tuesday.
So I thought I would post a little bit of the book I made today, it is a 30th Birthday book for a gift, I will post the pages later. This is the second book I have made kind of like this. It is cardboard! Crazy huh? I made one for the girls a couple weeks ago and thought this would be a nice little birthday gift...hope he likes it.
Oh! Happy St. Patricks Day!!

and they grew some more

I just could not figure out why I kept finding things that I knew I put in the sink all over the house. I kept thinking the girls are too old to do stuff like this....now I know the truth. They are getting bigger.

A certain person has now let me know twice that I need to update my blog. Well all I have to say is this picture better make up for me not blogging since Valentines!!!

Nothing has really been going on....weather is weird...ice one day 60s the next. I took the ice picture on my way to work one day...there was NO ONE on the road it was strange.

I think I have subbed for a teacher everyday this week and we have several kids out of school sick...not good! We are all well here.

Sally seems to think that it is more fun to visit the neighbors then it is to hang out with us, luckily I have a REALLY nice neighbor who says it is no big deal if my puppy crawls under her fence. I personally just want to toss her out right now! It is so strange she has escaped several times and Lucy never gets out, Lucy just sits by the fence and watches her almost as to say 'ha ha your gonna get in trouble and I'm not!!'...who knows though.

So the picture of me was in Tabetha's car, we were on our way to Neosho to try on wedding dresses for her and I asked to borrow some sunglasses she pointed me in the direction of the door, I stick my hand in and this is what comes out!! Automatic immaturity!!!

Someone shared this with me and I thought it would be a nice thing to share with you on the day of love! Happy Valentines Day!


Once upon a time there was an island where all the feelings lived: Happiness, Sadness, Knowledge, and all the others, including Love.
One day it was announced to all of the feelings that the island was going to sink to the bottom of the ocean. All the feelings prepared their boats to leave. Love was the only one that stayed. She wanted to preserve the island paradise until the last possible moment.
When the island was almost totally under, Love decided it was time to leave. She began looking for someone to ask for help.
Just then Richness was passing by in a grand boat. Love asked Richness, "Can I come with you on your boat?" Richness answered, "I'm sorry, but there is a lot of silver and gold on my boat and there would be no room for you anywhere."
Love then decided to ask Vanity, who was passing in a beautiful vessel, for help. Love cried out, "Vanity, help me please." "I can't help you," Vanity said, "You are all wet and will damage my beautiful boat."
Next Love saw Sadness passing by. Love said, "Sadness, please let me go with you." Sadness answered, "Love, I'm sorry, but I just need to be alone now."
Then Love saw Happiness. Love cried out, "Happiness, please take me with you." But Happiness was so overjoyed that he didn't hear Love calling to him.
Love began to cry. Then she heard a voice say, "Come Love, I will take you with me." It was an elder. Love felt so blessed and overjoyed that she forgot to ask the elder his name. When they arrived on land the elder went on his way. Love realized how much she owed the elder.
Love then found Knowledge and asked, "Who was it that helped me?" "It was Time," Knowledge answered. "But why did Time help me when no one else would?" Love asked. Knowledge smiled and with deep wisdom and sincerity answered, "Because only Time is capable of understanding how great Love is."

Tag.....I'm it!

So I read several blogs and a lot of them have had 'tags' on them over time and I wanted to be tagged, then it hits me no one is going to tag me! So I am going to tag myself mainly because I am not in the best mood today and I have homework to do....so what do I do? I blog!



1. Name your two favorite scrapbooking topics: My girls and now my dogs


2. Where are the two best places you’ve been to? Nashville and Cocoa Beach



3. Name two things you do every day: Shower and intake some kind of caffeine



4. Tell us two things that pretty much everyone knows about you: I have twins kids and twin dogs and I am looking for prince charming



5. Tell us two things that everyone DOESN’T know about you: I want to be a house wife and I wouldn't mind being a starving artist.



6. Tell us two things that got you into the hobby of scrapping:My kids and working at Creations Unlimited



7. Tell us two things that you want to accomplish in the next six months: Get straight A's and lose 10lbs.



8. Name your two favorite scrapping tools:Mono glue and fiskars scissors



9. Name your two favorite sources of scrapping inspiration: Two Peas in a Bucket...and blogs

10. How has your scrapping changed since you started? It actually looks good now (at least I think it does)

11. What scrapbooking project have you yet to try but would love to? making those acrylic mini albums

Ok so I am going to Tag Jennifer because I think she might be one of the few people who reads this blog that has a blog of their own. And she might need a bit and non homework thinking too!!!

The tonsils are gone!

Day 1 : We had been home for just a few hours.....so that means that the GOOD meds that they gave her at the hospital are still working not too much going on. I think she only got one nap in when they told me she would sleep all day.
Day 2: She has stopped talking and is a bit of a whiner. We will make it though...that is if Aubrey will leave her alone.
If the dogs aren't outside they have been curled up with her, espically Lucy. Lucy is such a sweet natured dog and I think she knows that it is not right for Bailey to be acting like this since Bailey is usually the one bugging her.
This one is last today....she has the zombie eyes....tylenol with codeine is a good thing, I just wish she owuld go to sleep! Poor Kid!

And this is just the pups....I looked over the other day and saw this, how cute are they?!?!

funny stuff

OK so there is not so much going on....the girls are sick but they are on antibiotics so hopefully they will get better before Bailey has her surgery. I have waited too long for this for us to have to reschedule it!!! I am still doing homework and working and taking care of them. Not much else going on but I found this today on yahoo and thought that is was so funny I had to share!!
WARNING there are some foul words but there are some others that are too funny!!

www.getmortified.com

Go down on the page to find "The Mortified Shoebox Show"

Hold on to your hats, two posts in one day!

Something happened today and while this may appear to be a naughty puppy post its not (well not totally). Bailey yells from the living room "mom the dogs have your glove" by the time I make it in there this is what it looks like, my dry clean only blue angora gloves are no more. That is when it happened, I started to get sad because of where the gloves came from and the memories behind them then I realized that one its a material possession and two those are memories I don't want. The past, times that really weren't all that happy.
When I was talking to someone this weekend I was told that change is good, look to the horizon I said I was going to write that on my arm in sharpie and after this morning I just might. So the gloves go in the trash and I am still smiling. This year really will be better.

Dan is the Man!

Last night we went to see Daniel play ball. It was the first game that we have been to and I regret that but boy did we pick a game to go to!!! Daniel played great!! The other boys were good too I guess but Daniel had 6 3 point shots!! The beat Parkview 60-54, it was close at a few points and you only looked with one eye open but they did great! Good Job Dan (even though I don't like calling you that!). I hope next Friday goes as well!

Well I couldn't post again without any pictures so here is Sally being a bit naughty again...had to take a picture and then she got in trouble.

So I went out tonight, I haven't been out in awhile as most of you know. Little to sheltered I guess. It was nice though, went to dinner had a great conversation. The best part is, I'm not stressed. I had butterflies when I got there but by the end of the evening I was happy. You know that high that you used to get when you were young and it makes you smile like a dork for days. Its great to be a dork sometimes. A lame dork is even better ;) Anyway, I had fun and it was great but I am not stressed about it. I am going to take it for what it is and that is was a fun night and enjoy the moment and keep smiling. Just had to share my happiness with you all. Goodnight!

UPDATE:For those of you who might question it, I do clean my table before I let people eat off it! :)

Well I really don't have any pictures to share because I am not on the picture a day band wagon, although I love the people who are!
News; Bailey will have her tonsils out on January 30th, she is a little nervous but I am sure she will be fine (I am just going to keep saying that), she will be missing pajama day at school though which Aubrey is upset about even though Aubrey still gets to go.
Aubrey has lost two of her bottom teeth (guess I could have taken a picture of that!).
I started back to school Monday...wow...it will be a long haul lets just leave it there.

As for now I will leave you with a blog that I really enjoyed. If it is possible to fall in love with words this person grabs me everytime they write. Hope it makes you think.


The only way to live is to accept each minute as an unrepeatable miracle, which is exactly what it is: a miracle and unrepeatable."Storm Jameson

Life is a string of moments, a spine tingling sequence of magical moments. Miraculous, electrifying, life changing moments one after another. Frozen in time moments that will never be repeated again. Yet how many of us fritter away a large portion of our momentous moments in a succession of relatively unexciting, uninspiring and generally unproductive activities? Way too many.
How about you? Do you habitually squeeze all the fun and excitement you can from each and every day, seeking to make each day your best day ever? Or does one day after another seem to blur together into an inconsequential haze? The way you approach these extraordinary moments systematically shapes the life you get to enjoy. If you're going to make the most of your life, you must start making the most of each magical moment.
When you energetically embrace life's precious moments, filling each thrilling minute with electrically charged enthusiasm, your life will instantly take on heightened meaning and increased passion. You will soon finding yourself loving the life that you live and living the life that you love. This was something that I missed out on for a large chunk of my life, that I now know I will never get back.
When you think about it, the only time you control is the moment at hand. After all, yesterday is gone and will soon be a distant memory. And tomorrow is never promised to any of us. That leaves us just one day the most important day ? the only day that ever counts. And that day is today. A day chock full of magical moments. A day that we'll cherish forever. Wasting even a minute, much less an hour or two, of the only day you will ever have is a mistake any of us can ill afford to make.
Why not set your sights on making today the greatest day of your life? Right this very moment! When you start squeezing all the living you can from every moment, you'll start adding magic to your life.
You need to seize the day right here and right now, right this very moment. Why wait and allow hundreds or even thousands of moments to slip right through your fingers? Don't wait or hesitate, but get busy and start snatching these marvelous moments before you lose them forever.

AHHHH!!!!! WOOOOHHOOOO!!!!!

Excited does not even begin to describe how I feel! I am one of the winners of Elsie's blog challenge!! Go to the link here and it will show you the winners I am number 5!!! I was so excited last night when I saw it that I started screaming! Aubrey said if I didn't stop screaming the neighbors were going to call the police.....so I guess stepping out of my box is paying off so far!!!


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Gratitude

There have been several things that I have wanted to share with you all recently and today I saw one that has to be shared right now!! Saw this on Donna Downey's blog. Not even half way through I had goosebumps....it is an awesome idea that should be used!! Things that seem simple can mean so much.

http://www.gratitudecampaign.org/

Elsie Challenge!!

Ok so I said that my resolution was to step out of my box.....here goes nothing. I am posting this page for all to see. Elsie has put up a challenge on her blog (link to the right) to make a page that shows how we evolved in 2007. Here is my page. Now posting pages on here is one thing but there will be a link on her blog....now that is a whole other ball park. If anything...it was fun and I got a page done.