OMG - it's been so long

Sorry ..... not much really happening that needed to be said. Just regular life stuff.

We went on vacation in July, school started in Aug, football & cheerleading, my job was deleted end of July, got another job (same place), started new job Oct 1, DD danced with Titans - was on the stage!, school football is over, cheerleading for basketball is around the corner, Titans are 7 - 0, DD is going to be Dorothy from Wizard of Oz for Halloween, and it's almost halloween.So that pretty much sums it up!

So, now for some pictures:

Vacation picture Myrtle Beach, SC = family shot. The wind was blowing like crazy. Mine and Em's hair was crazy............... (this picture has been edited in PSE)

Another shot of the three of us.

The whole crew. Grandaddy, Me, Steve, Nana and Em. Not sure why the picture isn't all that great. Probably could use Nana's loving touch in Photoshop.

I've been in my new job about a month now. Not much different than any other administrative assistant job I've ever had. Just a different boss. Although this time I'm dabbling in the publishing world - that's new. Which is weird considering our business is publishing. I work with the Young Adult Curriculum, which I'm no longer considered a Young Adult, now I'm just an Adult! :-)

Titans ......... what about them Titans 7-0.... beat the Colt! YEA! Here's some pictures when Em danced! It was The Sept 28th game against the Vikings.

Before the game. We have to be at the games when she dances at 8:30. Which means she has to get up around 6:30. She doesn't do mornings well. She really didn't want me to take this and it was chilly.

Here she is dancing. Such a natural. She was on the 10 yard line, front row. She did sooooo good.

Here she is right in middle of the stage .... she was one of 6 girls picked to dance on the stage at the end of the routine. This is the Titans 10 yr anniversary in TN so the theme this year was Past, Present & Future. They had all the cheerleaders dance from the past 10 years plus about 200 little (future) girls. It was really neat, but a lot to watch. I think Em felt a little slighted till she got to be on the stage, because she knew everyone would be watching the "big" girls. She really loves to do this.

After she cheered, we went and picked her up. She talked Daddy into a new jersey ($70!!) . Then we went back to our seats with Beth Watson and her crew. This picture is of Em and Erica. Erica is 18 and is Em's role model!

Family shot after the game. Em was so tired and hot, but she looked really cute in her jersey, fancy earings and little cheerleading skirt!

We also went to Gatlinburg a couple weeks ago to take Em to her first UT game. Yes, they won the game we went to, so that was nice. We had a good time. Here are a few pictures:

Em's birthday

So, I'm a little late on reporting on the 11th birthday of one very loved little girl. She got the blue iPod Nano - 8g ...... wow, she's already went through like 35.00 on iTunes. She gots lots of clothes and $200 cash that she's saving for vacation (what will she do with that??????). Here's a couple of picture .... kinda over exposed, but you get the idea.



Wonderful cake from Sweet & Sassy. Isn't it pretty. They make the best cakes. I can't say it taste better than any other cake. But for some reason, their icing is the BEST and they never fail to impress me with their creativity.

Then, me and Em. Isnt' she cute. This was taken at Kubuto, where she tried Sushi for the first time! She liked it okay .. we might try something different when we go to the beach in a couple of weeks.

Okay, just wnat to say

that I'm such a nut .... I'm loving Days of Our Lives right now! How about EJ & Sami? I really like them together!



Well, just to recap NSD. I got about 12 pages done ...... not completed because they still need titles and journaling. But the bulk of the layout is finished. I actually finished up an Easter layout last night from a couple years ago ... again, no titles, just general layout. I was scheduled to go on a scrapbooking retreat May 30 - June 1, but it's been cancelled because its just a busy crazy time right now.



Em's b-day is next week and all I have her is clothes. She wants another iPod, a larger one in blue. I guess that's what she'll get. And probably the accessories to go with it. I'll probably get it at Walmart since it's close and easy. We aren't having a party - probably celebrate it with friends at a cookout and then probably just have dinner with Nana & Grandaddy on May 21.

The crazy bug that has us all in an up roar!

So, one of the guys on my floor showed me this blog this morning. It's a crazy LARGE bug that the homeowners found while pruning a tree. So, all morning it's been the topic of crazy converstation.

http://carriehayes.wordpress.com/2008/05/07/what-is-this/

We have recently found out that it's not real! THANK GOODNESS! Now tell me, would you want this as decoration in your yard?

Grass cutting - if you know anyone in Middle TN area

So, my DH is mowing yards. Haven't offically started a business, but we have two mowers, a backpack blower, weedeater and new trailer. We're talking commerical stuff. Not your ordinary yard stuff. The zero-turn is 61 inches, the walk-behind is 48 inches and the blower will blow your ears off. He's got about 5/6 accounts and the goal is 10. He's just doing this for extra spending money (he's got expensive hobbies). Once we pay off the mower/trailer (our goal 24 months tops) he'll be able to take those lovely hunting trips and maybe take along me! :-). Anyhoo, if you know someone who needs their yard cut weekly at a reasonable price, he's your man ----- if you're in the target area which is west & north/west of the city (basically take a map, draw a line diagonal from Madison to Bellevue and that's target area) . He offers multi-neighborhood discounts and senior discounts. My only caution, he loves when a yard looks lush & full, thus meaning he won't scalp your yard and he doesn't cut when it's too wet. He's pretty anal about our yard, but hey whatever, it's pretty and almost all green (we're still trying to get rid of crab grass). His email is seclawncare@comcast.net

E- Mealz.com - check it out

I read about this on Heather's blog and decided it sounded like something I might like. I hate, hate, hate the question .... whats for dinner and when I tell them, that don't act excited. Usually thats because it's the same old stuff. I don't have time to make up a meal plan and grocery list, coordinate and all that stuff, so I usually just pick up the same stuff every week at the store. So when I read about e-mealz, I thought I can do this. So, I signed up for 3 months, which is $15.00 - only $5.00 per month or $.125 per week ..... for someone else to make up my weekend dinner menu and my grocery list. Every Friday I download my WW Points designed menu and my grocery list for Walmart and shop. Last night was my first meal, since we went to the store this weekend. AND it was really good. Country Chicken with potatoes & carrots and steamed broccoli. Yummy. Pear salad was included, but I was the only one that ate that. Everyone liked the chicken, it had a great flavor. Tonight is a quick night, so probably pizza casserole for tonight. IF DH thaws out the gound meat. Check it out ... it's pretty cool!

No Hunting - but lots of cleaning ......

I slipped out of work a little early Friday. I had lots to do this weekend and work was holding me back. First, I needed to make 4 Death by Cream Cheese danishes for an anniversary party. Not only does that take time, but I only have two 9x12 bakers, so I could only make 2 at a time and they have to cool enough to slice and take out the danish pieces. So, I made two Friday night and put in the frig overnight. While that was baking, I made spaghetti, cleaned the kitchen, swept and cleaned the hardwoods and dusted. Saturday I made the other two danishes, did laundry, picked up stuff around the house, cleaned up the kitchen mess again, made DD do homework then got ready for the anniversary party. We were out till about 1:00 am Sunday morning ..... what!!!! Yes, we missed church Sunday morning cause I slept late. Then got up and made breakfast, went Walmart grocery shopping with DH & DD, cleaned hardwoods again, vaccumed the basement floors and picked up the bonus room. Mom andDad came up for supper to celebrate Mom's birthday. Yummy food! Then DD had to finish homework, which took me and Nana helping her! So it was a busy, fun weekend. I like it when the family can spend time together.

May 2 & 3, I'm scrapbooking for the weekend. Friday night crop to kick off NSD and then all day crop on May 3. Sounds like LOTS and LOTS of fun and hopefully I can get lots accomplished. I'm going to start planning pages NOW!!! And figuring out how to pack everything I need/want to take. My guess is TB, CM and I will be a table together. So, space will be somewhat limited with three people at a 6 foot table (lets hope thats not the case!)

More later ...........

Video

I'm not sure this will work. It's a Quicktime movie. My DH took our neighbor turkey hunting this past Sunday and Mike got himself a nice bird. DH took his digital camera to take pictures (this is why Santa brought him this camera) and what he saw in the woods warranted him taping a couple of minutes. It's lousy taping because, well, DH is trying to watch the action and tape at the same time using a small camera. But you get the gist. This is actual footage of two turkey's fighting in the wild. They are Toms (adult male turkeys) and they are probably fighting over a hen or terrority. The commentary is great. My husband whistles at them, then when they finally break apart tells Mike to shoot about 4 times. Mike is frozen. This is his first bird and both are keepers. He finally shoots. Good stuff! DH is quite the guide!!!!

I'll post a couple pictures of his bird too!

MY TURKEY!!!!!

So this past Saturday (April 5) I went turkey hunting again with DH. There was four of us hunting, me being the only woman. We got up at 4:30 am (crazy, I know, but you gotta beat those turkey up you know) and was in the woods by 6:30. Steve and our friend James called, Mike and I (the turkey killing virgins - meaning we hadn't killed yet) were just waiting for the birds to show up. The turkey were all around us when they flew off roost, but as soon as they hit the ground, they were quite. We had two hens come upon us, but scampered off. Then we had two Jakes' (adolescent male turkeys) but they came up so quitely that we almost didn't see them till it was too late. I didn't even have my gun up and ready because my fingers had gotten so cold waiting. I finally got my gun up shot ..... WOW ..... I killed my first turkey!!! I was SOOOO excited. I laid the gun down, jumped up saying, "I killed a turkey", "I killed a turkey". I couldn't believe it. It was AWESOME! I'm totally hooked. We left my turkey where I killed it and went off to another spot to try and get Mike a bird. It didn't happen for him Saturday, but it got a HUGE bird Sunday. My bird was a Jake with about a 3 inc beard, nubby spurs and weighed between 16 - 18 lbs. DH says now I can "trophy" hunt. Meaning I got the first kill out of the way now I can get down to business and get a good turkey. My first turkey fan is getting mounted and added to the wall of fame in the basement.

Here are a couple of pictures:

Pictures of my hubby

Okay, so my husband went on his first "dream" hunt this past November. He paid for the whole thing himself, saving all his extra overtime money and cutting back on a few things to have some extra money. At the same time he was planning this trip, we were remodeling the kitchen and he was a bit stressed about both the trip and finishing up the kitchen so Em and I would have a complete kitchen to live in while he was gone (not sure why that was so important to him, but I'm glad it was!) Anyways, he killed a HUGE deer in IL. He was so excited the morning he called me to tell me. I KNEW the minute the phone rang it was him and that he had killed something because the whole week he was gone he hadn't called before we left for work, just at night. Here are the pictures

It was an 11 pt buck, don't know how much he weighed, but it was a BIG deer! A lot bigger than these pictures look. Isn't he a cute hunter? LOVE HIM!!!

By the way, I'm hunting with him this weekend ... turkey! Wish me luck!!!

Snow pictures

I finally have some snow pictures:

Em and Addy

Em hitting the bottom of the hill

The girls being pulled by the 4-wheeler

The adults enjoying some snow time .... this is the life, letting the 4-wheeler get you UP the hill!

Just quickly checking in and scrapbooking

I don't have any "great" pictures to share today and I hate that. I really like to share pictures, but since I haven't brought any to work lately.. nothing to share thats new.

I do want to say I'm rocking at Scapbooking right now. Since cheering is over for the moment for Em, I acutally have extra time on my hands! Especially this week since it's Springbreak! NO HOMEWORK!!!! She really has a lot of homework during school and it's hard on her. She is just so social and active that after sitting in class all day, it's a lot to ask her to sit for another couple hours after school. But, its all worth it for a good education. Something I can say I didn't get. Hopefully all this work now will pay off when she start college. From what I understand, that's what private schools do, prepare you for college. I know it's preparing me for a monthly school payment! Whew! Only 9 more years to go till no more school payment! (that only includes 3 yrs of college!)

So, here's something to share:

The first two are Christmas Eve, Em and Dad, Em and Me.

This picture was Christmas morning .... her "big" gift. A 32" Flatscreen TV for her room. It's mounted and has the satelite hooked up to it now. Nice for a 10 yr old huh?

Thats all for now!

MORE SNOW!!!!!!

We got great snow Saturday (March 8). In our area we got about 4-5" and by 10:00 it was perfect for sledding, which we did ALL DAY! Our friends, the Holmes', came over with their two girls and we had at least 5 sleds to use and eventually brought out another one later in the day. The grown-ups even had fun. We had a Four-wheeler that we used to bring us back up the hill, which I think helped us sled longer. Plus after the sun came out, it was pretty comfortable if you weren't wet. I'll post pictures soon, promise.

The only thing is I didn't get to go to my crop Friday night because the weather was headed in and DH said if I went he wasn't coming out to get me if I got stuck. So I opted to stay home and you know what, I only got 1 double page spread started ... not even finished. Of course, Friday night I didn't do anything but watch TV. I love "Bones" and for some reason, I rarely get to watch it. Then I watched "Ghost Whisper" and then flipped the channels, looking for something - but really didn't find much after 9:00 pm. Then Saturday sledding all day. Em had a friend over Saturday night, so I did start the layout, but ended up reprinting all the pictures to make them work in the sketch I wanted to use. So I did a little Saturday, did a little Sunday and even sat down and put the starting of the title on the page last night. Maybe I get it finished tomrrow .... how terrible is that. 5 days to do one double page layout, using a sketch no less!!!

By the way, I love Becky Flakes sketch ...... great ideas!!!!


What about Day's of Our Lives. I can't believe that Bo is leaving - he is right? I think I read that on the front of Soap Opera digest. Why would he be leaving - maybe that is totally wrong!! I would hate it! Anyways, gotta run!

Blogy ya later - hopefully with pictures!

SNOW day! YEA

We finally had a snow day yesterday. We got just enough snow that the roads up where we live were pretty yucky, so no school for Em and no work for me. I actually got to sleep till 7:30, cook lunch & dinner and scrapbooked about 3 pages. It was so very nice!!! I even got the house swept and some clothes washed.

We went sledding for a little while, before the snow melted. I was the camera-man for a time and then I gave the camera over to Steve, so he could take pictures of Em and I sledding together. Then we had a little photo shoot. I really love snow pictures. I don't have the pictures downloaded to a disk yet, but I'll post some of them soon.

Have a great day!

I'm going..........

to a crop next week!!!! YEA! I can't wait. I have two weeks to get my pages preplanned and get in a creative mood. Really, I'm pretty much there. Cheerleading is over, remodeling is over and scrapbooking is on the horizon!!! I stopped by MIB this weekend and picked up a couple of magazines. One was the March CK magazine ... it's okay. I enjoy looking at the ads since I've been out of the loop for several months. Then I bought this special issue. I really like it. I've gotten several pages marked with good ideas. I basically print in 4x6, occasionally in 3.5x5

I've also printed off several layout off the internet. Megan Hall is one of my favorites, because she does multi-picture layouts. I usually have more than one picture to include on a layout, at least one of two pages will have several pictures on it, so her layouts are really close to my style.

Anyone else you enjoy for multi-picture layouts? Let me know!

Christy

DAYS of OUR Lives

If you've read any of my past posts, you'll know I'm a DOOL fan. Have been since I was about 6 yrs old, staying with my grandmother, who watched all the channel 4 soaps. I've never been into the other channels, just channel 4. DOOL, Another World, Santa Barbara.... I loved watching those, especially DOOL and Another World. Of course, there was a period when I didn't watch (work gets in the way of everything!). Now, I don't watch but I read and every chance I get, I watch. Soap Net has it on at 10:00 CT, but I'm usually heading to bed at time. So, if you watch it, I understand (from my reading) that there are some pretty intense scene's coming up on the airplane....... Bo has cancer? WOW! And the plane is going to crash! Kayla and Steve are pregnant and I get Hope is too ..... Shawn, Belle and Claire are on the plane and I read someplace they are leaving the show, so I wonder if they will decide to go live someplace else to get away from Philip, who is trying to get over Belle and scooping on Chloe. AND John, poor guy. How many times can you get your memory erased? And Marlena is getting lots of play time, she turning into a regular DIVA! Anyways, love the show and currently I'm reading the day before's at http://www.salemspectator.com/forum/forumdisplay.php?f=58. Love knowing what's going to happen the day before!!!!

So, a thread about ktichens got me thinking ......

What's your style? Since I haven't scrapbooked in about 9 months, this is about your house. Do you have a style? Up till we started the kitchen remodel, DH and I had never bought a "new" couch/chair or appliances for that matter. Our downstairs couch was bought from the couple across the street that was barely used. It is a burgendy leather sectional. Other than TV's, we really haven't purchased anything for ourselves. We moved into our house fully furnished, so we just kept it till we could do something else. So even though the kitchen remodel was little stressful, it was totally fun. Learning so much about countertops, tile, flooring options, making decisions that where sooooo hard at the time. Looking back, it was very worth it. BUT our "style" changed a bit during this process. I LOVE antiques and as you can tell my kitchen table (my beloved antique table) I like it pretty natural. BUT, we decided to go more classic/traditional in our furniture. I think eventually I'll sprinkle more antiques in as I can, but I like our "netural" style........... what's your style?

Christy

New LIVING ROOM to go with New KITCHEN

See blogs below for kitchen pictures and the story about our house. Here's pictures of the new hardwood floors, new living room furniture and my 100 yr old farmhouse kitchen table.

I bought these pieces at a unfinished furniture store that was going out of business. I knew I wanted black distressed but couldn't find exactly what I wanted. So this worked. It took me about 3 days/nights to paint and distress. I still need to seal it, but I'm not not really in any hurry. I have one more piece to paint and distress that will go by the recliner when it's bought.

I have a photobuckett account that has all the pictures in it. Before, during and after. Plus pictures of the 40 yrds of concrete we had poured during this remodeling project. Take a peek if you have some time to spare.http://s234.photobucket.com/albums/ee293/CABurch/

So do you want to hear the ktichen story?

Our house is 18 yrs old. My grandparents built it. Nothing fancy, about 1200 sq feet, open floor plan, full basement, 3 bedrooms, 3 baths. If I had built the house, I might have picked the same floor plan and if I would have picked it, I would have bumped up the sq ft for larger rooms, probably adding about 500 sq ft to the total design. I'd love to have a larger master bedroom/bath and a seperate laundry area, since it's at the end of my kitchen.

So, the story. We were kinda ashamed of our house. We invited very few people over. Emilee had just a few friends that I'd allow to come over because our house was kinda yuck. Not dirty yuck, just worn out yuck. Since my grandparents paid cash for it, they went with very builder quality stuff and probably really didn't think anything about it. They knew they wouldn't be in it forever. The carpet was a great color but the quality wasn't there and after 18 yrs it needed to replaced BAD. The linolum in the dining room/kitchen was okay, but kinda blah. My cabinets were the only thing that I though were of any quality and having a closet pantry allowed me to use all my cabinets to store dishes, cookare, etc. We finally decided we need to update our "common" living areas of the house. Either that or buy another house. Remodeling was a lot cheaper!!!

It wasn't any easy project and it was a tad bit stressful. DH was great and did what he could himself. We ended up paying for all the tile work and hardwood work that we did in the dining room/living room since our deadline was Thanksgiving. Needless to say, we met a Christmas deadline!!!

Here's BEFORE pictures. The next post as AFTER pictures!

AFTER pictures of the kitchen

New countertops: Granite - Verde Butterfly

Faucet: Delta Saxony

Sink: Stainless Steel (10"deep bowl, 8" deep bowl) Ferguson brand

Frig: Maytag

Dishwasher: Frigidaire

Stove: Frigidaire Duel Fuel

Washer/Dryer: GE front loads with Pedastals

Floors: Ocre 12x12 italian tile (Happy Floors); 2x2 floral dot accent piece

Backsplash: Golden Sienna 6x6 mexican travertine tile; 2x2 floral dot accent piece

Only things left to do:

1 pesky plug plate

cabinets over the washer/dryer

We also updated our hall bathroom with new tile, new paint, new faucet, new accessories and new toliet! WOW!

JUST SO YOU KNOW

I haven't really forgotten about all you people in blogland. I'm just obessing this kitchen project. AND work has been super busy. We hired a new director and he doesn't have an assistant yet, so I'm his assistant till 10/1/07..... included his job is event coordinator for an event I know nothing about! NOT FUN and very busy!!! So, just wanted to let you know, that we haven't started on the kitchen yet, but we're planning like crazy.

Granite countertops,
new applicances
tile backsplash
new floors (ceramic tile)
paint

Then for the living room/dining room:
new hardwoods
new paint
new couch/loveseat/endtables/lamps

ALL of which have to coordinate in some way since it's an open floor plan!

Wish me luck!

I know you think I've forgotten you .......

but I haven't. I just haven't felt inspired to blog anything.

Nothing new happening around the house yet. Expecting a concrete quote any day now. Can't wait for that figure. Been looking at tile/hardwood/counter tops a little. We've decided on the hardwood and counter top and probably the tile, but I'm not sold on it yet. And I can't decide on backsplash tile.... I want something that coordinate with my countertop, but I'm having a hard time picturing it from a small little chip. I'm sure it'll come together soon. I'm hoping to get the countertop and new sink soon and then the tile on the floor and backsplash. I think new countertops will make a world of different in the look of our kitchen. Our kitchen is pretty blah now, butcher block counter top.... no color what so ever!

Maybe I'll get up enough nerve to post a before picture and then an after picture. We'll see!

More later!!

Wow! It's been a while

Nothing big happening in my life........ other than

Eventually our house is going to be a wreck!!!! We're planning on a putting in a huge amount of conrete (like a full basketball court!) and then some landscaping (hopefully can do that myself - when it cools off!) and then my beloved hardwood floors. We've been saving forever for some of this and some of it will have to be a loan. We just can't do all that on our own. I hate having borrowing money, but that will so pay off in the long run - an investment. Oh yea, plus the hardwoods I'm getting new counter tops and a new sink and eventually new couch!!! YEA. I so need it all. My counter tops are so dated and fugly! I really want a deep sink - my mom sold me on this when she got hers. It's great!!! And all the flooring in our house needs replacing so, hardwoods here we come. The concrete is a Steve thing. We are pouring about 41 yards .... what, thats HUGE!!!!! But it will be nice to be able to use that space for more than just grass cutting.

I've finished all my consigned project. Should start working on craft fair projects soon. I dropped out of the Livery Stables, I just could keep up with the seasonal things. I think I'm keeping some cards up there since they sold really well. I really just want to concentrate this year on craft fairs and Christmas presents.

Work is work ....... lots of changes, new challenges, just stuff.

I've been keeping up with Christy Tomlinson blog.... have you? http://christytomlinson.typepad.com/ She's been giving great tips and information about make-up. She recently used a "minerals" make-up similar Bare Essentuals and loved it. So much that she hooked her readers up with a make-up rep. Then she's turned us on to E.L.F makeup, which I think I've seen at KMart, but on this site the makeup was only $1.00. Can you imagine? I bought $14.50 worth of stuff, including a set of makeup brushes, cause I soooooo need to replace all of mine! Anyways, take a look at her site, it's fun.

Gotta run to a meeting, blog ya more later!

Up to my ears in consignment projects

I have 4 clipboards I'm trying to complete by tomorrow and a 11 x 8.5 baby book - boy..... you know how I struggle with boy stuff. Although with an 11 x 8.5, it should be all good.... more room to play with than the 8x8. The client wants some 4x6 mats and some 5x7 mats.... mostly by the month with a few "extra" pages thrown in! Need lots of rubons to do "month" 1, etc..... I'd love to run up tot MIB tomorrow while by boards are drying, might try that pretty early, so I can come home and clean/laundry and then deliver the boards to my best buddy.

Wanted to share some recent pictures, but blogger is being bad. Let me try just one at a time.

Nana, Em & Me

Me and Em being silly!!!

I had another to share, but can't get the orientation to stick, so I'll have to upload it using blogger, maybe Monday.

Have a great weekend!!!!!

Great Weekend.........

Just wanted to say thanks to the ladies at Scrappuccino's for hosting such a wonderful National Scrapbooking Day celebration. I had such a good time!!!! If DH hadn't made plans for us for that afternoon, I could have stayed to 9:00 that night (of course I'd probably be outside on the sidewalk, but as long as I was cropping, I would have been happy!) I love working at the store. Such a fun enviroment!

So, I got 3 12 x 12 pages done and one 11 x 8.5 page (for Tracie Claiborne - scroll to the bottom for the layout). I was on 2001 pictures. DD was so cute!!!

I used these for one of my layouts of Halloween that I need to fit a lot of pictures on (all the pictures were cute, so I couldn't pick!!!). It worked so well. I hadn't thought about using the few templates I have in a year or two, but wow... they saved my sanity on that page!! And let me tell ya, I paid a lot more that $2.00 for them!!!

I'm sad to see Deluxe Design so away. I've always liked them, especially for these templates and their diecuts. I love going to the coventations and buying a whole bunch of them! Now that they are going out of business, I find myself hording those die cuts because I'm afraid I won't ever get another one!!!!

Gotta run!
Busy week. Say a prayer for me. I'm teaching ladies "Historical Scrapbooking" Wed, Thurs and Friday!!!

All about our wedding....

1. Where/How did you meet? We grew up in the same town, but a couple years apart. He went to a different school, etc. So we offically met at Union Hill Drag Strip. I was going out with someone else, we was trying to met my friend. We all ended up at my parents house, they were out of town and the next day, my friend made me tell him she had a boyfriend. He then started calling me to go out. We went out the next week. That was May 1990.


2. How long have you known each other? 17 yrs... talking, but always knew "who each other was".


3. How long after you met did you start dating? A week


4. How long did you date before you were engaged? 5 months


5. How long was your engagement? 11 months


6. How long have you been married? almost 16 yrs



7. What is your anniversary? September 7

8. How many people came to your wedding reception? 100 or so



9. What kind of cake did you serve? Traditional white cake with white icing. Grooms cake was chocolate with a UT theme


10. Where was your wedding? Nashville

11. What did you serve for your meal? No meal, just fruit, ham biscuits, cake, punch


12. How many people were in your wedding party? 8


13. Are you still friends with them all? Yes, most of them. My maid of honor is still my best friend. I talk to 2 of 3 of my brides maids about every other month, sometimes more. The bestman was my hubby's brother. We talk to at least one of his groomsmen every couple of week and the other periodically.


14. Did your spouse cry during the ceremony? No, he was too nervous.


15. Most special moment of your wedding day? Hmmm, I don't really remember. The day was a blur. Now, I'm grateful for pictures I had made with my grandparents since they aren't living anymore.


16. Any funny moments? Me walking around in shorts, button up shirt, house shoes and my veil. The best was on the video though, DH had an itch in a "manly" place. When everyone was praying, we moved up on the stage some and he decided it would be a good time to stratch his itch. As soon as he did, he looked up with the deer in the head light look cause we had a video camera set up at the front of the sancuary to get our faces, it caught a lot more!!!!!


17. Any big disasters? Not that I know of or remember.



18. Where did you go on your honeymoon? Panama City Beach FL




19. How long were you gone? 6 days, was suppose to be 7, but we got homesick......



20. If you were to do your wedding over.... for my first, I'd do nothing different, other than the brides maid dresses, I'd pick something else.

21. What is your song? Don't think we had one.



22. Describe your wedding dress: Straight, off the shoulders with "flowers" on the shoulders.


23. What kind of flowers did you have at your wedding? LOTS AND LOTS of really flowers. The accent color was purple. We had lots of white flowers with purple accents and a little pink.

24. Other interesting details: My photographer was from Sweden. He took great pictures (very expensive, but great!) and he made the funniest noises to get people to smile! His wife did the video. And our flowers were beautiful. I love flowers and I wanted a lot of them. We got married in a Methodist church, which wasn't our church, because I wanted a center aisle to walk down.

*** Consider yourself tagged. Leave me a comment so I can read about your wedding!!!*****

By the way, the pictures of the frame above is the only picture I have of us at work. I was looking at my hair stylist..... I was surpise she came!!

Mocha

So, it's been forever since I've blogged and I'm gonna be sad. Sorry!

See that sweet face? That's Mocha and this morning he went to play in doggy heaven. I think he was about 7 yrs old. And at this very moment, we aren't sure what happended to him. All we know is that his body stopped making blood and we'll, you know what happens when you don't make blood. You get reallllllllllly sick. It started about a month ago. His right eye became discolored, bulging and pretty gross. He spent 3 days at the vet and they said he probably suffered some sort of head injury/eye trama. More than likely cause by our other dog, Koda. They play pretty rough - both 90lb labs. Anyways, that got better then Tuesday, the left eye started looking funky. DH put Mocha in the garage to keep him from the other dog getting to rough. That was Wednesday around 4:00 pm., by 5:30 pm, he was a sick puppy, having a hard time breathing and looking sick. I called the vet and they said to watch him and to take him to the Emergency Vet if he got worse. He didn't really get worse that I could tell, but he wasn't getting better either. DH stayed home yesterday morning to take him to the Vet. The vet said heart worms at first, then he said rat poisioning and then this morning when the vet came him, he was much worse and wouldn't/couldn't even stand. They said we said two options. Send him to Knoxville Vet School or put him down. We opted to put him down, not knowing if he'd ever get better. At this moment, all we know is that his body wasn't making blood. They did a mini-autopsy and didn't find anything. The lab is doing more work, free of charge, because they are so baffled at what happened. Plus, we are concerned it could be enviromental and we have another dog in the same yard, plus my house dog. So, love your pet today and tell them you love them! Somehow I knew if would end up like this, I told DD to tell him by and that she loved him yesterday morning cause we never know what could happen.

Wow - two in a row!!!

I went to Scrapn' Memories yesterday during lunch with the girls. It was fun. I spent money (imagine that!) and got one of the two patterns I'm using for a wedding album. My friends Beth talked me into making a wedding album for her to give as a gift. If you know me, I hate doing wedding albums. But this one is going to be very simple and elegant. So maybe I won't stress over it too much.

I'm going to the ScrapHouse in Joelton this weekend - I can't wait. I'm so looking forward to getting this wedding album done and working on stuff for Em. I'm so far behind in her books. And I thought with digital cameras it would be so easy to get pictures printed, but since I see them instantly, I don't print as often as I should, so I'm even behind on getting pictures printed! Crazy!!!! I've got pictures in my cart at winkflash and I need to order them.... maybe I'll do that this afternoon!

I made a yummy roast yesterday. Goodness it was yummy. I was a great cut of meat. We had sweet potoatoe casserole (with marshmellows), carrots, green beans and butter noddles with it. GREAT supper in my opinon! I've got a little roast left, so I'm going to attempt to make veggie soup with it.... never made that before, if you've got a good receipe, please share it!

More later!!!

It's been a while ....... sorry

Nothing exciting to report on .... really boring at my house. We did go to Memphis March 9 & 10. That was fun. Graceland & Elvis was interesting. We had to visit for Em's school project. Now, I've got to get the pictures developed and the poster made - oops, she has to make the poster (yea right!) and write her report. She also has a report due Monday on James and the Giant Peach (a book report). She's doing well at school. Of course, we constantly harp on her. She really could care less if she makes good grades or not! Well, let me rephrase that. She likes to make good grades, but doesn't like to work at it. And she has to work at it. It doesn't come natural to her (guess what, it didn't me either). The only thing that comes pretty easy for her is English/Language. She struggles at Math and Reading (she can read, it's the comprension that she struggles with). Anways, mostly A's & B's on her report card... I can't complain too much!


I going on a SCRAP-RETREAT this weekend! Just the girls. I can't wait to spend 24 hours scrapping with people who want to do nothing but scrap and eat! How much fun is that!!!
I'll try to post pictures next week!

Today is the first day of spring.... my favorite time of the year! Happy Spring to everyone!


Gotta run....... more later!

Nothing exciting!

I shipped out my stuff to the consignment store Friday (see link below). She got it Saturday and called yesterday to tell me she loved my paper bag albums. She (Dawn) doesn't think the 6x6 "hard" books will sell for $40, but there's a lot of work and time in those things. She's probably right. She knows her clintel better than I do.
http://www.funtiquesconsignment.com/index.html


Nothing exciting going on. Went to the NWTF convention this past Saturday. Saw some "hunting" celebrities. It's funny. Reminds me of scrapbooking!

This weekend we're headed to Memphis to visit Graceland. Em has a report due first of April about a historic TN place. She picked Graceland. Fun ......

Gotta run and read blogs :-)

More later!

Birthday; Valentines; Scrapbooking; Tax Time

So, my birthday was last week. We celebrated with my parent on Sunday, the 11th. Chinese buffet and Red Velvet Cake - after this birthday, no more celebrations .... no more birthdays. I'm stuck for the rest of my life at 36!!!! See, that's only 4 away from 40 and I'm having a hard time with 40. I've already started panic mode ... only 4 more years and I'll be 40! YEEEKKK!!!
It was a good birthday. I got money - more on what I do with it later in the post.

Valentines is the day after my birthday, so really they are combined. I don't blame DH for doing that, I probably would too if it were me! So, DD got money and a small box of chocolates since I knew she was getting a lot of candy from her party. On Valentines, the 4th grades classes at her school had a singing program. My little Em stole the show (in my opinon). They sang classic love songs and that sounded really good. Some of the songs had some dancing with them and we all know that Em loves to dance. She was on the front row and really getting into the dancing. During the last song, I heard a few comments on the little girl on the front row having rhythm. That's my girl! After the show I had a few friends ask where she got it and it's not from me. Must be the good dance genes that skipped me! Everyone kept coming up to her telling her how well she did and how good she danced. I don't think she realized she was the only putting so much effort into the dancing. She asked "Why does everyone keep coming up to me telling me I did good?" Too cute! I video taped the performance and then we bought a DVD. Good memories!

I'm taking a few days break from scrapbooking..... maybe. It seems when I get home, I don't want to scrapbook. It's too cold in my area of the basement. I don't like going down there and freezing. So I'm not motivated. I did make some cute cards that I copied from a card magazine yesterday using scraps, which is always a good thing. But not much scrapbooking, although I took off Friday and really planned on working hard this weekend. I did however make a major purchase this weekend! I put my deposit down on a Silhouette! I can't wait for it to come in! Now, just to figure out where to put it!

Taxes are down. I did them myself. Just to have them double checked by a friend and they are ready to be submitted!

Gotta run .... more later!

My life is so boring

that I don't even have anything to blog about. We'll at least not anything I want the world to know! :-)

I have been working pretty hard on getting some paper bag albums, cards and other things ready for the lady in Murfreesbboro. I need about 3 more paper bag albums to feel like I'm giving her something she can sell. I need to call her, because I'm not sure how she want to handle the cards - individuals or several packaged together.

I did make two "tear bears" this weekend. Did you see them when they were huge? I mean some of these cute little bears sold for $100's on ebay! They are cute, but not that cute!!!

These little guys are cute. I just found them on ebay - 1scrapbooklane is the creator. Mine aren't this cute yet, but they are cute. Her's are much fuzzier than mine. I did find out that different color handmade paper tears differently. The white I used was much easier to tear.

As soon as I get my cards scanned, I'll post them. They are very simple, except the bears.

New CLIP Board

This is a clipboard I did before Christmas - commissioned piece. I made two of them, very similar. They were for our Viking Jr. Pro program. The lady who commissioned them was putting a 4x6 picture in them and giving them to deserving moms who helped her through out the season. They turned out okay - I guess. I've done better and seen a lot better!


More later! (I've figured out how to published pictures from Picasa to blogger .... easy as pie!) 

Dentist & Purging

So, two post in two days ...... how's that? I must have something on my mind!!! :-)


I had to go to the dentist yesterday ....... $395.00 visit. What the heck, right? Well, call me having a new crown $395.00! Thats after my insurance pays for 1/2! So, I sit here today with a sore tooth (not really that bad) and a temp crown that is GOLD! How funny! Anyway, I hate the dentist. I hate having anything done to my mouth! I'd rather have 10 yearly exam than go through what I'm going through now! No kidding!

On to something more fun ..... purging. I'm purging my stash! And I've discovered something. I love paper! HA-HA-HA! Really I have so much paper that I'll probably never use. I went through it and pulled out a lot of "older" stuff. But I still need to go through it again. I've decided that I love kits ...... it's so nice to have the pattern paper and solids all together. I wish I could sell all my paper and start over with only kits! Just think of all the cool embellishments I'd have! Anyways, I brought a lot of paper in and several of the ladies bought it. I made about $45! I'm either saving for a Cricut or a new Quickutz tool .... can't decide which yet!

I made the cutest "girl friends" paper bag album for the consignment store in Murfreesboro. The first of many. If I can get 6 done by Jan 31 .... I'll be sitting happy. The "girl friends" book took me 3 days to complete (oh yea, I need a few ribbons on the spine, but that all) so, if I have a book every 3 days, I'll have 6 done! Then I need to do a receipe box and a paint can and some card. Which I've made 5 cards in the past few days too! I'll take picture of the girl friends book soon. I used some K&Company paper (Neapolitan line) and it's sooooo cute! I made some b-day cards to match using scraps. How cool would it be to receive a present with a matching card?!?!?!?!

More later - and hopefully pictures!

Okay, so I'm a terrible blogger. I must confess, I get all up tight when the blogs I read aren't updated regularly and here I am, not EVER updating mine!

I'm at work today, no holiday for me! DD is at Nana's, DH is a work also and I have a dentist appointment today.

Not much going on. I did have someone contact me about putting some of my products in a consignment sale in Murfreesboro. I'm going to try it. So I'm knee deep in make cards, paper bag albums and paint cans (that's what she wanted). I don't know if I'll be able to make any more off the stuff or not. There's a split on the sales between me and the owner of the consignment shop. We'll see how it goes. I have to have all the product ready by mid-Feb! UGH! Gotta get working!

Nothing fun happen on the home front. Pretty boring life!

Gotta run!

Can you believe it!!?!?!?!?

I got an email yesterday morning from ScrapIt! One of our LSS's. It's so sad they are closing their store! It's one of my favorites. I didn't get by there as much as I wanted, but they are kinda on the wrong side of town from me, but anytime I was over that way, I'd stop. It's sad when a store closes .... I'll miss them!!!

WOW! It's been a while!!!!! Happy New Year

So, I'm not sure why it's been almost a month since I posted last. Probably because I like to post with pictures and I don't have any new ones to show ...... so no post!

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year! Last year seemed to fly by! 2006 came and went soooooo fast. I can't believe its 2007 and I'm almost a year older!

So, what did you get for Christmas? I got (from DH) a $75 gift certificate to Scrappuccino's and the EK Success Disney book. From mom & dad I got the QK Sunshine set and a Xyron 900, with and extra cartridge, plus a few cartrides for my 500 model. YEA! I also got clothes, towels, earrings, perfume and some other cool stuff! Em racked up ..... PS2, Karoke machine, Ipod Nano, American Girl and Bitty Baby stuff, CD's out the wazoooo, clothes, jewerly box ..... lots and lots. Steve got money - that's what he wanted. He's going on a guided hunt next year, so he's trying to save every bit of extra money he can to pay cash for it! (good for him!)

It was a great Christmas and so nice to have off almost 11 days straight. I cleaned out my closet, cleaned up some of the basement, took stuff to the daycare, gave clothes away to someone who's house burned down ....... nice to have that done. And the basement is getting cleaned so we can start working on building a wall and sheetrocking my scrap studio! YEA!!!!


I might have pictures soon. I should have already downloaded them off the card, but I was lazy when it came to spending time on the computer. I didn't even check my checking account and it was hurting when I looked this morning ...... :-)!

Gotta run and work on the above mentioned problem. More later!

READING

This is something I really enjoy. (hope it's rubbing off on my child!). I have many, many favorite authors. But I really like: Patricia Cornwell, James Patterson and John Sanford. There are several "romance" authors I like also: Nora Roberts, Jude Deveraux, Sandra Brown and many others. I just finished Patricia Cornwell's PREDATOR. Very gripping... gotta finish it now kind of book. I read it in about 3 days, all 453 pages of it. Of course, my boss as been out of the office, so I've read a lot at work. I finished it today. I'm not picking up another book till I finish my last 8x8 book (should go pretty fast though). I hope to get most of it done this weekend. I really want to deliver it by Dec 15. I also need to get Em's teacher present done too. An altered clipboard.

My friend, Beth, has had a loss in her family. Her 15 yr old nephew was in a car accident and has died. He was at Vanderbilt in the trauma unit for a couple of days and they declared him clinically dead this morning. The family is donating his organs - or at least what organs they can. They are almost for sure his Liver will be used ...... not sure about heart or kidneys yets. Waiting on testing. Very sad, he would have turned 16 next week. BUT, one good thing is that in his family of 5, he was the only one to go to church. His youth minister had one kid saved last night because of this accident and anticipates more at the funeral. It appears that his nephew made a huge impact on his church youth group and didn't even know it! God always has a plan!

More later!

If you need someplace to go Christmas Eve .....

http://www.thegatheringnashville.com/christmas_eve_ryman.html

This would be cool.

Going to a crop tonight

YEA! I have't been in ages! I really need a night out. I thought about working on a gift album for a friend, but I think I want to work on Em pictures. She's the light of my life, seeing her makes me smile. Sometimes I just need that - don't we all. Honestly, sometime she wears me so much. Our mornings are rough, I fuss at her, even spanked her one morning for talking back. It was a terrible morning. Then yesterday, a perfect angel. This morning was almost as good. NICE ...... love easy mornings!

I read a good Elizabeth Lowell book this week. The Wrong Hostage. Quick read, easy to understand- other than it uses a lot of Spanish. But it's still a quick read. Now I'm reading (at work --- shhhh!) a Judy Deveraux book - High Tide - pretty good so far.

Gotta run! Have a good weekend!