Pictures you requested...........

okay for all the requests for pics from last week at the double digit birthday party....hold on to your seats! Here we goooo....

this is A winning 500 tickets out of a machine....which by the way is NO easy task....

Taking a chance with his friend on a game.....

a little wall climbing.....

WHEW!!!!

750 tickets here ~ another BIG win..............

Let the party begin.....a few friends, an arcade, cheese pizza, pop, brownies & chocolate chip cookies...what more could a 10-year-old ask for?

What a good time we had....lots of good clean fun!!!

Hey Friends.....remember this.....

To the world you may be just one person, but to one person YOU may be the WORLD!

(I can't take credit for it but I am unsure where credit is due? - just love that quote though!)

Birthday Party.....

Today was Angelo's birthday party.......
we went to Bumpers....he had six friends come. They were all pretty nice kids - wait, they were all extremely nice kids! I think they all had a load of fun hanging out and spending tokens on games. Pizza, pop, cookies & brownies......I will post photos tomorrow maybe - I am too tired to have the patience to wait for the downloading process tonight.

The party was nice and relaxing - don't get me wrong I am exhausted but it was a nice low key party and the kids were great and the parents were great! I managed to sink a few coins into the machines myself....

I finally bit the bullet and bought Twilight for myself today.....everyone is raving about it so I will give it a try! I am usually not into those kinds of books but I will "try" to do my best to read it!

Not much else happening at the moment ~ I am going to crochet some more on my latest work of art! Although I am extremely jealious of the quilting that is going on in someone elses life! GRRR!

Recent creations....

This is one of my latest layouts - it was from summer vacation....

This is part of the above layout - Summer 2008 - Ang & his best friend!

These are the bookmark/tags I made for my sorority project......

Ang's party invites....you requested - you received! They were a little plain but I liked the simpleness....All with my CRICUT.....

What a HUGE day yesterday.....

First & foremost.....



HAPPY BIRTHDAY MS. SAUSAGE GRAVY.....AKA AMBER!



CELEBRATE AS MUCH AS YOU CAN WITH YOUR LITTLE ONE IN YOUR TUMMY!



BIRTHDAY BLESSINGS TO YOU!



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Yesterday was a busy day - I had myself scheduled for a meeting bright & early on customer service - very informative - mandatory by my employer - it was enlightening to understand what customers expect from businesses - much more than a few years ago as we are more informed & knowledgeable as consumers and so many options available for potential customers.

Interesting and fun to meet some of the new people at work since I am working at home most of the time.



Anyhow.....I didn't realize I had scheduled myself for this mandatory meeting on the Inauguration Day! So I DVR'd it hoping to get some glimpses later! What a day huh? Lots of different insights and stories! I am so excited for a new start.....fresh ideas.....hopefully things will be better for all in America eventually, though I realize it will take lots of time and work and don't expect things to change overnight. I am happy for the Obama family but I also think about how much those girls little lives will change now and forever. I may think about odd things....but I wonder will they have slumber parties at the Whitehouse? Will dad still have tea parties with them in the midst of his new life? What will it be like for these girls down the road....only time will tell. They are now performing for the whole world and have secret service watching over them. God Bless those girls! I worry about something happening to our new president, I have since he won the election - hopefully my worries are never validated.



Last night it was off to sorority. I was in charge of the program so I had to "think" of something to do....I did sweat over this one believe me! I had thoughts about doing something meaningful and not a lot of work like in the past when I have done things. Then last week I had an idea, the idea arose because my Sunday school teacher passed away at age 98 - she was older when she was our teacher and most of the kids dreaded Sunday School with her but I always admired her knowledge and love of God. Anyhow, thinking about her and the meaningful things she did for me and our class. She at one time had us take little pieces of paper and write one or two words about each person in our class. Positive and uplifting words - nothing negative! Then we were each given our pieces of paper. I still have these pieces of paper in my bible today. It was just an meaningful thing to me! Sooo, anyhow for sorority last night I designed these little gift tags - that we can use as bookmarks, then I gave a heart to each person to write positive things about each person on and then we strung them on our bookmark (tags)! I thought it was a nice thing to do and uplifting but I am not sure what others were thinking. Sometimes it is just nice to read positive things about one's self.

Anyhow - I posted some pictures in the above post of my latest creations!

Soo....

As usual the weekend is a fly by - where did that go?

I hung out with some friends on Friday night at a Scentsy Party! I almost forgot about the whole party invite but "thankfully" I called my friend to talk with her and and she asked if I was coming and I said....well never mind what I said....but I went and had a load of fun - never mind I was supposed to go to dinner with my family....OOPS! Ang had fun with my friend's daughter and J hung out with her husband - ummm ya, so at 10:00 p.m. when he came up the stairs to tell me we were leaving "I knew it was time".....

We hung at home on Saturday. I made a great recipe I got from http://hannahandlily.blogspot.com/ "Death by Potatoes" - wow that is one rich dish but it was good. I did manage to get some more scrapbooking, cricutting, cardmaking (invites for Ang's 10th b-day) and crocheting on my pink and brown afghan done. This will be a gift....I already know who the lucky recipient is! It will make its way in a box to SLC to my SIL, I know she will LOVE it through all the little errors and mistakes I made, it is turning out pretty nice - I tried to make my stitches a little tighter this time and used a smaller crochet hook - it has made it quite a bit smaller too but she is petite so it will work out great for her.

Sunday I buzzed around the house and organized my scrapbooking stuff a bit, funny how it can become so spread out in such a little amount of time. I headed out with some friends to have a little "us" time and hang! I was supposed to go with "Sausage Gravy" and get a facial but Joe wanted to have dinner out with some friends and so I knew I didn't want to battle that battle with him after the Friday night dinner out that didn't happen (oopsie!) - thankfully he understood!

I had to watch Desperate Housewives 100th episode last night and then Brothers & Sisters (for whatever reason - I love these two shows). Was that good or what? I made a bag of popcorn for me & my guy and we just enjoyed the shows!

Next weekend is the big double digit birthday for Ang....my baby turns 10. Amazing how fast that happened! He is such a great kid - hopefully through the next few years it will remain that way. We are having a birthday bash for him, we took him to Bumpers (it is an arcade/fun center) a few weeks ago to check it out and when we asked if he wanted to have his birthday party there his eyes lit up, of course he didn't want to react to "excited" but you could see those eyes saying "YES"! He hasn't had a big party for a couple of years so this is the year!

Well hi-hoe, hi-hoe it is off to work I go! Gotta get some morning buzz juice going and then hit those keys!

Love this quote......

"Call it a clan, call it a network, call it a tribe, call it a family: Whatever you call it, whoever you are, you need one."

~ Jane Howard~