Time and life!

I read Mandi's blog and it made me realize that I haven't posted anything on here in a while. I signed up on facebook and I've just been messing with it instead. Where does time go?? I can't believe that it has been that long since I posted.

Let's see, mom found out she had a brain aneurysm. Thank God we found it before it ruptured or anything. She had experimental surgery in St. Louis and so far everything is looking good. She could have lost her eyesight if she had done the normal procedure for aneurysms.

Last weekend the whole countryside was on fire I think. Most of them centered around my house. We were lucky. I wasn't so much worried about my house as I was worried about mom's house. After daddy died, she could afford to keep insurance on the house. She was in St Louis at the time all the fires were going on. They sent the forestry dept in from Eastern OK and they lit fires all around the houses to let the fireback burn so that the houses would be protected. It was a stressful couple of days though. We had wildfires on Thursday, Friday and Saturday and then Saturday night it started raining. We desperately needed the rain, but it smelled like a wet ash tray around here : ( Here's some pics.

I had started this project a few weeks ago. I originally seen this project on the close to my heart website. I've had some of their true fit folio's for a while and have been wanting to make one of these. Close to My Heart doesn't have much in the line of doggy papers, so I had these from another kit I had bought one time. I thought this turned out cute. I stamped the front cover. I have tons of dog embellishments. Anyway, there are four tags on the inside that all come out and have different pictures or sayings on them. Oh yeah, and try to ignore all the clutter in the background of my one picture. LOL

Taking control of your life

Do you ever just wake up one day and try to figure out what in the world has happened to your body? How can you gain weight so quickly and never really notice until all the sudden one day your pants are so tight you have to go buy a new pair because you can't wear any of your old ones? I wasn't quite to that point yet, but was getting close. I decided I have to take back control of myself. It's so easy to just let yourself spiral out of control. Not just weight wise, but just with life in general. We seem to get so wrapped up in the daily routine of life that we forget to remember who we are as individuals. You're a wife, a mother, a sister, a friend. You have a million different identities, but you're no longer an individual. I'm not saying that it's bad to be all these other things, but you do have to maintain a little of yourself and remember who you are and what makes you who you are.

Christmas Program

My daughter Danielle goes to Fox school. Fox is a very small school. It's the same school I went to. As a matter of fact, we had several of the same teachers. Fox has about 500 students Kindergarden- 12th grade....or at least it did when I went there. Anyway, I digress. The band teacher that they've had for the past several years has been real bad about doing Christmas programs during the day, but not repeating the program in the evenings. For some reason this year, he pulled his head out of his ass...err butt and actually had one in the evenings. I mean really, they want to gripe because parents aren't involved in what their kids do at school, but then they want to do things during the day when parents can't be involved. The Christmas program was really cute. My two nieces Kimberly and Kristina were in it too. They're the ones on the right hand page. Kristina is in the top picture on the right hand page. Kristina was was very animated to say the least. LOL

Christmas 2005

Well, I guess you can guess that I don't scrapbook in order either. I have a ton of pics that I am behind on. I tend to end up doing stuff that is more current. I don't know why it's so hard to go back and do the older pics. I procrastinate on Christmas pics too for some reason. Christmas is absolutely my favorite holiday though. I think the reason I struggle with them is because my sister in law and I do a scrapbook for my mom for Christmas every year and I always end up doing Christmas pages for her book and then I'm too burnt out to do them for my book. If I was smart, I would just take them to Staples or something after I'm done with hers and make a copy for my own book so I'm not having to do them twice.

Birthday LO

I've been threatening to post some scrapbook LO's, so here we go!! They're going to be in three separate posts. These are LO's I did weekend before last when my friend Mandi and I went to TX to scrapbook at a lady's house. Her name is Susan and she's a great hostess! We had a great time and I got 3 LO's done and then I made some cards. This is of my birthday and my niece's birthday. Our birthday's are on the same day. I shared my birthday with my Grandma Ward. She was born August 25, 1900. I always remember growing up, we would have our family reunions in the summer time and at every family reunion, Grandma always had a cake and everyone would always talk about her birthday and I always thought, "yeah, but what about mine? I was born on the same day!" LOL She was just a little older than me and had a little more to celebrate I guess.