Thursday, July 31, 2008

I'm still alive!

I know its been awhile since I blogged, I will have to post an update post soon, with bathroom pictures too :) but for now... I've been reading this new, FANTASTIC blog, well new to me anyways...Britt sent me the link to Melissa's blog, and now, I'm addicted...she is not only inspiring, but very funny and I look forward to reading her blog every morning! :) anyways...oh and it's titled Stretch Marks...lol but if you check it out, make sure to go to the bottom of the page to read WHY its titled that, very cool...anyways, this video was posted on her blog today, and its amazing, so I wanted to pass it along...make sure to watch the whole thing...comment and let me know what you think...





Thursday, July 17, 2008

YAY!! EXCITED BEYOND WORDS!!!!

BECAUSE WE ARE PREGNANT!!! ok, i don't know much, other than according to my blood test, I am only like 3 1/2 weeks pregnant....but of course I will keep you all updated when i know something more lol, but just please keep us in your prayers, that this will be a healthy, happy pregnancy, and that we will be parents next year, late march/early april sometime :)

Tuesday, July 15, 2008

more paper projects :)

Well last night, I got some more projects done, had a lot of fun with that, and will post the pics in a few min. Tom also got the last wall for the bathroom put up, and is hanging the drywall inside the bathroom as I am writing this lol :)

Today, I reorganized all our storage tubs in the basement, got a bunch of stuff ready for a garage sale, and all the tubs labeled, and they better stay that way! lol...anyways...here are the pictures of the things I made...


just a box that I covered...


Its a boy congrats card...

inside of the card, sorry its kinda fuzzy but actually is really cute...
Wedding congrats card...

Thinking of you card...

Wednesday, July 09, 2008

Girl Fights...long post

Ok, so I was going to wait till tonight to blog about this, but I am too upset to wait...I was out and about, and Tom called and said that I should come home because there were 3-4 cops in front of our house and a bunch of people that we don't know, and the neighbor's daughter, who I guss is 17 or 18 years old, and they were all yelling and screaming at each other!

I was headed home anyways, so I finished up what I was doing, and was on my way home. I was getting close and Tom called again to tell me what he knew because the neighbor(who's daughter was involved) he came over to talk to Tom...which I will get to in a bit...but I pulled up and there was a tall black man, and 2 black women and a little girl...come to find out, the 2 women, one was the mother of the little girl, and the other is the grandmother, although DOES NOT look old enough to be a grandmother, but whatever...as I am pulling up in front of the other neighbors house because I couldn't even get close to where I normally park. I guess the mother had went back down the street, come to find out, they live down the street from us, but so it was just the grandmother, the little girl and the tall guy...as I started walking towards my house, the cop said he wanted to ask the little girl some questions, so he got like maybe 10 seconds talking to her and the mother came back down the street as fast as she could, because the grandmother had hollered down the street to her...the mother gets down here, and grabs the little girl, and starts yelling at the cop about how, thats her daughter, and she doesn't want the cops talking to her, etc. etc...the mother was EXTREMELY loud! Meantime, the neighbor's daughter is sitting on the porch w/her dad talking to some other cops.

So come to find out what happened, roughly is that the black ladies and the little girl were walking down the sidewalk I guess, and started beating up the neighbor girl...why, you ask? I wondered the same thing...but then I heard the loud woman saying something about a dog, which the neighbor girl has 2 dogs. Then said something about how the neighbor girl hit the grandmother with a cell phone, etc. So much drama, but thats not even the BEST part yet!!! believe it or not....

So between all the cops, and getting stories, they decided to arrest the grandmother...the daughter LOST HER MIND!! I mean screaming, how are you going to take my momma to jail when she(pointing to the neighbor) hit my momma w/a cell phone, her dog bit my 6 yr old!! How you gonna lock my momma up, shes got a heart condition..(she obviously didn't have a heart condition enough to not beat someone up, kickin them on the ground,etc)!! I dont know, but thats just what I heard at first, but she went on and on and on, and on some more LOL...all while the grandmother is on the way to the police car, yelling for the mother to shut up and go home before she got "locked up" as well...ugh...stupid girls!! ok...sooo, the REAL KICKER?!?!?!.....

THE NEIGHBOR GIRL IS PREGNANT!!!! AND THE MOTHER SAID SHE WAS PREGNANT AS WELL!!! I couldn't tell if she was, she was wearing a baggy shirt, and she was mean mugging Tom and I the way it was, so I didn't want to stare lol...she was already cussing and yelling to the cops because we were outside...lol...hey I was just watering my flowers, and when there is 4 cops in our yard w/all those people, I think we have the right to be on our porch, unless the cops asked us to go inside or something...but anyways, so thats the drama for the afternoon...now...my opinion on all this!...

Ok, so this hits me to the core, because both of these women are pregnant, and they can't even keep themselves out of trouble, and OBVIOUSLY have NO brains in their head w/a 6 yr old girl, and beating someone up in front of her, LET ALONE the babies in their bellies!!! Then yesterday we saw a girl taking a smoking break from her job outside, and VERY pregnant, last week I saw pictures of a group of girls online, and they are drinking alcohol, and one of the girls was pregnant as well! I DON'T GET IT!! I am so sick and tired of seeing irresponsible pregnant women! I'm really sorry to turn this into a rant, but I have had more than enough of watching women with their pregnant bellies, having the blessing of expecting a child, and all that, that happiness brings, and watching them treat those 9 months as if it was nothing, and no different than any other, as if there wasn't a little person growing inside them! UGH I swear, they just don't get it, they just don't know what they have...

WHEW! ok i'm done...lol this is SUPER long and Congrats if you made it this far! LOL thanks for reading though, it makes it a little better to get it out! :)

Tuesday, July 08, 2008

changes

I'm working on something new here, so excuse the construction lol :) thanks!!

Patio set

Yay!! I'm so excited...we got a patio set last night, and got it all put together tonight...I can't wait to get to use it! :) anyways here are some pictures...







July 4th pictures

Here are some pictures from the July 4th party...



the side picture of Tom's uncle and aunt's house, it is huge and SO beautiful!! I wish I would have remembered to take a picture earlier in the day when it was still daylight

Boogie :)

Ground fireworks that Tom's brother brought for his kids, they had fun :)

Some fireworks pictures...not the best, but still

Betty Crocker wanna be...ok, maybe not

I have a lot of catching up to do w/my blogs...I know, I know lol :)

So w/the 4th, and the long weekend, I feel like all I did was bake, layer and frost something...lol...we went to Tom's aunt and uncle's house in Wisconsin for their annual July 4th party. We had a great time, so much that I think we were like the 3rd or 4th to get there, and pretty much the last to leave. :) We played several games of volleyball with some of Tom's family, enjoyed some great food, and fantastic fireworks. I have some pictures I will post in a bit of some fireworks and stuff, but the BEST fireworks picture is on Luke's camera that I took while he was catching himself on fire...I mean lighting the fireworks lol :) So hopefully I will be able to share that picture with you soon! Anyways, soo for the party we made this red, white and blue triffle(the thing in the bowl) which was in a paula deen magazine from Tom's mom. Everyone loved it, I didn't have any lol but I believe them...then I made a jello flag w/whip cream stripes and stars for that party as well...then on Sunday I made a chocolate cake w/buttercream frosting w/a flag design. anyways, so thats the explaination of these pictures...next blog! lol :)