What a busy week!

Saturday: We go and watch my daughter's indoor soccer team kick some butt and win their game by like alot. I know it doesn't really matter if you win or lose.....yadda, yadda, yadda, but we won so all is cool until I get home and a few hours later my dog gets attacked by something. I head on over to the ER across town and spend a total of four hours there and about a months worth of groceries on her ER Vet bill. I don't know exactly what happened but I guess she was bitten by my neighbors dog or some crazy wild animal. All I know is I love her and I wish I had pet insurance!!! One ER visit and two Vet visits later and I tell you it is expensive.... but like I said, I love her and she is worth every penny! Oh, and my daughter also had soccer tryouts for a competition team.

Sunday: it's all about relaxing...right....not...cleaning house and another soccer tryout. My daughter gets asked to join a top competition soccer team. She was already on a comp team but when they saw her at tryouts they wanted her to move up. It took us a week to decide to have her join. We love our other team, the girls, parents and coaches are all great. This is another level of competition, committment and travel. We are happy for out daughter as she has worked hard to improve her skills and move up a level.

Monday: It's all about going to dinner after homework and such...oh, and the follow up visit with the regular Vet.

Tuesday: We celebrate our friends b-day. It's a surprise and I'm not there for that part cause my daughter has a soccer game (she's also on her school team) in another town far, far away. She fails to tell me I'm giving three other girls a ride to the game (which is normally cool by the way) which means I need to take them back to the school, not too cool since I have to be at the "surprise" birthday. You get the picture, I miss the "surprise" but it's okay I have a wonderful time once there. Here's a picture of the b-day girl.

Wednesday: Bills, bills and more bills for our business. Then it's off to run errands and pick up the children. Homework then tutoring then dinner.

Thursday:You guessed it it's Vet time again, laundry, grocery shopping, then another school soccer game and finally a romantic V-day dinner.

Friday: My friend calls me and asks if I want to scrap. She gets to leave work early...hello, yeah I want to scrap. I put pretty much everything on hold and scrap until 2:00 am. Don't get much done but we have so much fun.

Saturday: Getting ready for another indoor soccer game yeah...Before we go my husband notices that my doggy is bleeding through her bandage!!!! Okay, I know you are tired of hearing it but it's another Vet visit for me!!!! Oh, and we win the soccer game by lots!

Oh, before leaving for the game/Vet I'm walking my dog Lulu outside on our front yard and all of a sudden I hear like a crazy shwooooooooo sound. I look up and I see these to hot air balloons right in front of me taking off from a field across the way. How cool is that? So I run in and get the hubby, the kiddos and the camera cause how often does that happen?

Sunday: Cirque du Soleil very cool.

I finally finished a layout thanks to kathym over at Scrapbookaddict.com. I made a layout of some of my favorite things. She had a challenge for us to play with our stuff and scrap our favorite things. Well, I have not used buttons in some time but it felt good to use them up. This two page layout is kinda crowed, not my usual style but I have lots of favorites!!!

Birthday Party

On Saturday my friends and family helped me celebrate my birthday at my favorite Italian Restaurant. We had a ton great food and drink. I think we had like 32 bottles of wine, 30+ beers, bruschetta, calamari, shrimp, eggplant salad, caesar salad, sea bass, new york steak, rack of lamb, sauteed spinach, creamy potatoes and tiramisu. YUMMO!!!! Holy cow we all were stuffed but we danced it all away with Massive Sounds DJ in the house!!!!!! We danced to some old school stuff and some of the new top 20 stuff. It was a night to remember and I have my husband to thank for it. He planned the whole thing by himself......he gets big time brownie points!!! This is the longest running b-day as we have dinner plans at another restaurant only this time it's French inspired. My youngest was on a school trip so she wasn't here to celebrate my b-day so we will all be together tomorrow to celebrate my b-day once again!!!!! See some b-day photos to the right----------->>>



Oh, and by the way I'm not 47 as my b-day cake implies....just a little joke from the chef and owner of the restaurant.

Yosemite & Birthday

My daughter is on a trip to Yosemite and they call and tell me she has been throwing up for 8 hours....I feel sooo bad for her. She was finally able to keep a little water down. My daughter is missing the spider cave trip with her friends today and was so looking forward to going. They will call me later and give me an update. They were concerned that she was dehydrated and if she continued to get sick they would take her to the hospital for and IV. Yuck...my poor baby I feel helpless and it's a 4.5 hour drive to be with her. We will go if she is worse....but she won't, right? Let's think good thoughts.






On another note it was my b-day yesterday and I turned 37, ouch that hurt! Here's a self pic cause no one was home and I wanted a pic of myself....not too shabby cause I have the flash on so that my wrinkles don't show so much!!! My husband, older daughter (will go to dinner again when younger daughter is home from her trip) and I went to shopping and then out to dinner. It was really yummy! I had Mahi Mahi with wild mushrooms, asparagus and potatoes, dessert was a little disappointing. Here are my gifts from last night a jacket and purse. My husband surprised me by buying me this Gucci Bag (wallet will be sent from another store). I also bought myself some goodies from the LSS!

Life Must Go On

Feeling kinda sad and angry. My little nephew Greaison passed away on Jan. 1oth we had his service on the 16th and I just can't seem to get rid of my sadness. Sadness for my brother and his family, sadness because his life was so short, sadness all around! I know life must go on but I feel so heavy inside. I think Greaison has reminded us all to love each other, hold each other closer and to let the little things go!

I dropped my 11 year old daughter off at school at 5:45 am for a week long school trip and I miss her already! I know that she will be fine but with everything that has gone on this last month I just want her here. Well, here's to a better today.

I love this stuff!

I love these folded note cards Folded Note Cards ohh, and these Bucket of Notepads are too cute. These Wine Note Card & Gift Tags would make be cute when paired with a bottle of wine and given as a gift. These are my fav's though.

Happy New Year!!

It's been a month since my last post. I had so much going on during the month of December it was crazy. We hosted a birthday brunch for my mother-in-law in our home the first week of December. I also put together the annual girlfriend ornament exchange this year, thankfully that was at a restaurant so not too much work.

We also had a scare when my sis-in-law went into labor on December 18th and had her baby 2 1/2 months early. The baby weighed 2.5 pounds and it has been a rough road for him, his parents and the family. I have babysat their other three children while they run to the NICU. I forgot how much work three extra kiddos can be. The baby has heart problems and will have surgery in the next week or so. He also had bleeding in the right and left side of his brain. The bleeding has stopped but they have now seen fluid in his brain and will have to drain that. It is a scary situation and I find that I feel so sad most days. My brother and his wife will have to make decisions most parents do not want to make when it comes to their children. Please keep them in your thoughts and prayers as they have a long road ahead.

Like most people I was trying to have a perfect Christmas. My brother and his family came by after spending lots of time with the baby in the hospital. We were all happy they made it so that we could all celebrate together. Hosting Christmas in our home turned out really nice, it was three days of work but so much fun. We had both sides of the family over so we had a full house.

Three day after Christmas my husband and I took off to Vegas to see a UFC fight. We had a great time and when we got home my cold came back in full force, so I feel really yucky right now!!!!

I hope you all had a safe and happy New Year!!! Here's to a great '08!! ;o)