My baby is 18 years old today...

Yeah!!!! He is an adult!!! Today at 12:48 pm my baby boy became 18 years old. He shares a birthday with my uncle Troy and one of my dearest friends, Mimi. Happy birthday everyone. I have several pictures to share with you from his party tonight...

Oh, how he loves this Affliction shirt from the May's...although he decided not to wear it tonight due to the cake, ice cream, and etc...he wanted to make sure it was ready to wear tomorrow to school.

Every boy going off the college needs a TomTom to get them around...that's a navigational system. He is always taking ours so we thought it would be a good idea for

him to have one of his own.

Alicia brought her crew to celebrate with us...

Grandpa Shorty and dad ...

Joshua and Jessie...look what she and Micah did to his room...

The balloons provided lots of entertainment through out the night...loud entertainment.

Happy Birthday to you...happy birthday to you...happy birthday Joshua, happy birthday to you.

Fred tried to help him blow out the candles but they would not go out...I really didn't plan that. I had no idea they were trick candles. I just told the lady behind the counter that I needed 18 candles...no, really.

They were using their fingers to try to put out the candles. Every time they would pick one up to take off the cake it would light up again. It was quite funny.

I am very grateful this year that my children have all me healthy on their birthdays and that they are good kids. It is a blessing to be the parent to all three of our children and I wouldn't change a thing. Love you kiddo's.

More vacation pictures

I know, I know...more pictures of the aquarium.

Fred posing with the mouth of a shark...

Hummmmm, wonder what he is thinking about.

Josh and Jess in the mouth of a sea serpent...

My kiddos...

You had to be here to appreciate this picture. In the clam tank was a blow up fish. I don't think that is the technical term for the creature, but any way, Madison was trying real hard to get this fish to blow up. She and Kyle were banging on the tank, waving their hands and it appeared that the fish would just stare at them, wondering what they were. No, it never blew up...darn.

Doesn't Mike look great! He is a whole person smaller than he was this time last year. He has now lost over 100 lbs., and the pounds are still dropping.

Pictures inside the clams mouth...

Fred looks like he's hurting or something...

Kyle and MadisonJessie is attempting to kiss the fish...wonder if it made Joshua jealous. How cute.

Michael took this picture holding the camera out with his arms...I thought it turned out pretty cool...good job baby.

Here are my pride and joys again.

Ahhhh, God's creation is so fascinating, especially the parts that we don't see everyday.

I don't have a clue what this is...it was stuck to the glass wall...cool huh?

If you are ever given the opportunity to go to a

Ripley's Aquarium, try it out. We really enjoyed it.

Now I am off to get ready for a garage sale tomorrow...I am selling my mom's stuff. It is a bitter sweet time. Bitter to see it go and sweet to get rid of it. I have never seen so much stuff in all my life. Well you can imaging...64 years of stuff collected.

Until the next post.

Long time, no see...

I know I haven't been around in a while. It's harder now to find time to set down at the computer, or maybe I should say I feel guilty if I do because there is still so much to take care of since my mothers death. But today, good-bye guilt. I have cleaned one room in my house, took a friend to the doctor in Jonesboro, met Mike for lunch, went to Wal-Mart and braved the hard rain storm. I think I desire a moment to set and relax and show you a few pictures of our vacation. This is me and my man!!!

We went to Myrtle Beach, SC this spring break with Joshua's baseball team to play some ball. Now before you get jealous...the tempature never got above 71 and the ocean tempature was 56. So we just played in the sand. Watched baseball, shopped, eat real good, and spent time with some friends that joined us this year...Shannon and Misty. Micah received the special treatment this year on this vacation, I guess maybe because it was her 16th birthday and lack of room in our vehicle...so Shannon and Misty adopted her for the week. She rode to S.C. with them and here are a few pictures of there first stop...Stone Mountain.

Misty and Micah

View from the sky tram they rode over the mountain

Micah and Misty in front of the beautiful mountain.

Ok, my computer crashed when we got back and now it is really messed up. I cannot add anymore pictures to this blog so I guess I will have to send more later...

Thank the Lord for friends!!!!

Some friends of ours came over to help us put up four ceiling fans...yes, that is part of the remodeling...no more wobbly fans. Now we can run them on high and save some money on our electric bill. Oh by the way, did you know that running your fan on high and raising your thermostat can save you up to 15% on your electric bill. We keep our thermostat on 78 and run fans on high and our bill is around $230.00 and that's for a 3400 square foot house. That total includes our Internet, garbage pick up and cable. Now in Arkansas, that ain't to bad.

It is a five fan, ceiling fan, you can only see four...isn't it pretty. I am very proud of them Hunter fans.

Now on to the cards. As a demonstrator there is nothing more exciting to me than when clients bring their work over for me to view. I know that they aren't just buying but using the products as well. Lisa A. brought some cards over this weekend for me to view and give suggestion to...now why she thinks I would change anything is beyond me. Here is a card that she made for a lady in our church that is having twins...
Now I know that cutting out those little ducks was no walk in the park. Good job Lisa, they really stand out on the card. Don't you love the little clothes pins? She stamped the image on the Designer paper, cut out the image and you have Designer Clothing...great thinking Lisa.

These two cards she used Summer By the Sea stamp set that I love. Right now that are in the Dormant state but will be brought back in a future Idea Book hopefully. You can still order dormant stamp sets so let me know if you like this one. I will be using this stamp set in an upcoming workshop with the bleaching technique. It will be a lot of fun.

Yep, guess what I am off to do...more hard wood. Will I ever get finished? I am thinking that remodeling is not for me with three very busy kiddos. Ta Ta for now. Have a blessed day in the Lord.

YES, he's home!!!!!!!

My husband, who has been away for the past three days, has been getting his continuing education hours for his work. I so desperately wanted to go with him but chances had it that I couldn't this time. If you read my previous blog you know that I thought that I would scrap, scrap, scrap till I couldn't stand it anymore...NOT!!!

Well anyway, as I was walking out to take our youngest son to his game...he walks in. Major load lifted considering that my oldest son had a game too and both boys were pitching. Always want to be there when our boys are pitching...very dangerous. Our oldest pitched his first shut out, no hitter...dad got to see that game. Our youngest didn't do to bad either considering this was his first time and I do mean, first time, to pitch....lol, you had to be there to understand. If and when I can down load that picture to this page I will show off my baby pitching.

Okay, enough rambling...now to the cards. I chose to do very simple cards tonight considering that the time was getting pretty late...11:25pm.

Stamp set: Full of Life which will no longer be available after this month

Card stock: Chocolate Chip, Pretty in Pink and Prints Pack Designer series Paper from the Hostess rewards

Ink: Chocolate Chip

Accessories: 5/8" Chocolate Chip Grosgrain ribbon and the Ticket Corner punch

Both cards are simple yet very feminine. I hope you enjoy. I hope to have more to show tomorrow.

A card...yippee!!!!!!

My husband has been out of town for a few days and I thought I would do nothing but stamp. What was I thinking? I have three children going in three different directions...Legion baseball, All-Star baseball, and Volleyball Play days at different schools. I don't realize what all he does until he is not here. My husband is not one that comes home from work and sits down in his recliner and enjoys a glass of tea. No, when he walks in he usually starts a load of laundry and determine which child he will be accompanying that night and gets them where they need to be. If suppers ready, fine, if not, he stops and gets them something. I am a very lucky woman. I have to make time for my Bible studies because nothing is taking my time from my Heavenly Father, and make time to do house work. Yes, I do have my kids do their part but sometimes that is like pulling teeth...you moms know what I am talking about. The beast in me comes out and I have to threaten with taking away their social lives if the work doesn't get done. It's amazing what I can get accomplished when the beast shows up. So after a late ball practice this is what I worked on. I hope you enjoy.

This is the "By Ones and By Twos" stamp set that will no longer be available after this month. Rarely do you find a stamp set that has quotes about twins. I know this is kinda plain but sometimes plain is good.

I had a blast with this card trying to use as many as my new punches that I could. I used the Spiral punch, 1/2" Circle punch, Small Tag punch, Horizontal Slot punch, 3/4" Square punch, and inside the Ticket Corner punch. I was pretty impressed I could use that many.

Now these pictures need lots of explaining. My daughter plays on a volleyball team with crazy girls that love to use their wild imaginations. Here are two juniors that came by to perform for her and I had to take pics.

Here we have the owner of this pretend dog holding a dog leash. It is sported by a red rhinestone collar and matching sun glasses for the doggy. The doggy is wearing white gloves because she is a rich and proper doggy.

Wait a minute...did I call that dog a "SHE"? I must have been mistaken. It's a "HE", or so that is how it appears in this picture. Yes this is a average day for us for someone to show up on our door step doing crazy things like this. To top it off, the owner and her doggy went into public like this with the dog barking and trying to lick people...no not really, just acting like she or he was...whatever.

This is how IT walked around, oh, and IT even hung it's head out the window and barked through our sub division. I can only imagine what my daughter will be like in the future with this influences around her. Please pray for me and her.

On a side note...if my daughter had to be like any of the girls, these are two fine ones to hang out with. They are just a little warped.