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Yeah for new stuff!!! Hope you guys like my products for the week! They're 20% off right now, or only $2.00 per pack. Enjoy!click HERE to go to my store at scrapbookgraphics.com!Wow, I'm ready for bed - hehehe. It's now 12:08 in the morning, and I'm sleepy :) As soon as I get done blogging, and link up this freebie, I'm off to dreamland. Well, no dreams. I sleep better when it's no dreams.Anyway, I was up a little early today. 6:40ish. I hopped in the shower, and was out before I had to get the kids ready for school. But just barely. After they got on the bus, I fixed my hair and makeup.Hilary was over around 8:15 or so. We decided to skip walking, since she and I both had appointments at 1pm. She finished getting ready at my house, and then we headed out. Laurie's b-day is on Saturday, so we wanted to get something for her.First, we went to Walmart. She had a few things on her list to get. And I found some tennis shoes that were Joe/Jim size for $3 a pair. So I got one red, one blue, and one green. Can't beat 3 pairs of tennis shoes for $9, right?After Walmart, we went to Fallas Paredes. I found a nice little "unmentionable" for Laurie :) Her man comes home in about 3 months :) Next, it was on to Cielo Vista mall. And Victoria Secret. They had their lotions/body sprays and such on sale. 6 for $30. Or $5 a piece. So I got 3 and Hilary bought 3, and we split the cost. Then, we each kept 2, and gave the others to Laurie for part of her b-day gift. AND we got cool Victoria Secret bags.I bought the Love Spell perfume. I have the lotion and LOVE it. Hilary got the lotion. Then, we got some Island something flavor. Smelled REALLY good. AND, I found out that Hilary calls it flavor too. OK, so technically, you're supposed to say scent. Whatever. I call it flavor. hehehe. I swear, we're the same person sometimes - hehehe.Oh yeah, did I ever ask you guys this? About the tooth fairy? When I was growing up, the tooth fairy would have us put our fallen out teeth in a cup of water by the sink. Then, in the AM, there would be quarters in the water. No one I've ever talked to had the tooth fairy do that, EXCEPT Hilary's family. SO, my question to you is, did anyone else out there have the cup of water tooth fairy, and how did that start? We decided that we both had Grandmothers from Idaho. Anyone??? Anyone???OK, back to my day. We got the lotions, and the cool bags, and headed out. We stopped by Sam's Club to get gas in her car, then met the men folk at El Taco Tote. I know, I know. 3 days in a row. hehehe. I'm gonna have to drain my Paypal account into my checking account - LOL.After lunch, Hilary picked up her kids and took them to an orthodontist screening thingy, and Brent and I hurried off to our appointment. Through the military, we can go to a counselor for free, and confidential, no records kept. Not that we're having major issues or anything. Just little spats now and then. But, a healthy marriage is one that is worked on. SO, we figured that it would be good to keep working on it, right?Mostly, the dude just affirmed things that we already knew. When you feel frustrated, think of the other person. Be deliberate in your actions towards the other person. Oh yeah, here's one. I'm not allowed to say "I Don't Know" anymore. I'm a very non-confrontational person, and don't like to make decisions. SO, this one was for me - hehehe.I can ask for clarification if I need it, but I need to make a decision. No I don't knows. I'll work on that. I will :)So after that, Brent dropped me off back at home, and I hung with the kids. I picked up Eme and Joe from the bus at 3:30pm, then Tom came home at 4pm. Eme and I had a Mother/Daughter dance this evening, so I spent quite a bit of time getting us both "dance" worthy. hehehe. It was a Semi-Formal event, so I wanted us both to look nice.Here's me in my outfit. The shirt has sparklies all over it. And the skirt is poofy. Yeah, it seemed Semi-Formal to me. ha!And here's Eme. Doesn't she look all grown up! Sometimes it's hard for me to remember that she's only 8. What a cutie :)We left the house at 5pm, and were among the first to arrive. Laurie and her girls came a few minutes later, and we hung with them for the evening. It was a fun dance. Eme kinda did her own thing on the dance floor. ha! Laurie and I and her girls, and Eme to some extent danced together.Here's Eme and I again.Eme and her classmate (2nd grade) MichelleLaurie and I (with her daughter Elise in the background being goofy - LOL)Mmmmm (hehehe, we didn't really eat it :)The dance lasted until 7pm. We got home about 7:20pm. Tom and Brent were at football, and Jake, Jim, and Joe were watching Pirates of the Caribbean. One of them. And the house was UTTERLY trashed. I don't know what they did, but it was MESSY. The kitchen looked like it hadn't been cleaned in FOREVER. Sigh.So I changed out of my dress clothes, put on some compfy clothes, and started to work. I cleared the counters, washed them, put the clean dishes from the dishwasher onto the counter, then loaded the dishwasher with dirty dishes, started it, cleared the table, swept the floors, picked up messes, and finally had all the kids come help at the end. They picked up and swept up piles, and Jake put the clean dishes away, and a few other kitchen tasks.Brent came home around that same time, and commented that the house looked nice. Yeah, that was ALL me. I was SO tired.But that wasn't the end of my day. At 8:30pm, Brent and I walked over to our friends' house, the Kirkmans (Kayley). We were having a game night. We played a few hands of Uno Attack. Then Paul and Hilary got there, and we switched games.Yeah, I'm not big on party games. Games where I have to look dumb, I usually avoid. BUT, I stuck it out, and it was fun-ish - hehehe. I don't think my friends knew how hard it was for me to do the crap that the game told me to do. Like mime 3 different things. Or laugh ever time someone else did (yeah, ALL night long). Or say "Ho Ho Ho Mummify" 10 times, trying to get people to guess that I was Santa. hehehe.OK, so it was kinda fun. And funny. And I did laugh a lot. And towards the end, I felt more comfortable. Still, it was out of my comfort zone :) Hilary, when we come over tomorrow, let's NOT play that game, ok?So at 10:45pm, we walked back home. And here it is, 12:32pm, and I'm just now getting done blogging. I'm tired. And ready for bed. And Hilary, this WordArt doesn't work for us. Because somedays, I think you're my twin, separated from birth. hehehe.Oh yeah, and this is my new hat, and bag. Randomly thrown in at the end of my blogging. Because I was too lazy to put it on the other day. hehehe. And I'd like to report that I'm STILL on the diet, no cheats in 30 days. And I'm down a total of 12 lbs. Not too bad, eh?Click on the link below to go to my account to dwonload the PNG file , and leave some love if you like my work. Thanks!4sharedbox.net

OK, so tomorrow, I'm cutting down on the caffeine consumption. I drank too much again today, and am feeling jittery right now. And I don't like that feeling. And I totally knew it was gonna happen, to, but couldn't stop myself - heheh.Anyway, I was up at 7am getting kids ready for school, and out the door, and to the bus. I went walking with Hilary and Laurie and my visiting teachers, Chelsey and Kayley. It was a pretty good group :) We were slower than if just Hilary and I walked, but hey, we walked :)After the walk, I came inside, changed my clothes, and hurried off to meet Brent at Saturn. But I stopped at Sonic first for a RT 44 Diet Dr Pepper. So about 6 months ago, Brent's stereo freaked out, and he needs to pay Saturn to fix the code so it'll work again. Lovely.Anyway, I picked him up from there, and took him to the East Side to go to Hobby Lobby. He bought a limited edition print from his Battery, and needed a frame for it. The artist was selling one for $150, but we ended up getting a custom frame from Hobby Lobby for only $40. Not too bad.We also go our Ball photo back, and needed a frame for that. Yeah, I was totally good with a $5.00 fram from Walmart, so we went next door, and went to Walmart. I also found a big floppy had to wear to the pool, and a zebra bag that would match my shoes and swim suit. hehehe. Now I'll be stylin' at the pool. ROFL!Next, we went to Verizon so they could tell Brent that the reason that his MP3 player on his phone doesn't work is because his phone is old. Yeah, I may be able to change the format of the songs. We'll see.Next, we went to lunch at El Taco Tote, then I dropped him off at Saturn. I went back home, and made sure that Jake finished off school. Laurie came over, and we worked on the "passports" for our Primary activity on Saturday, and some bookmarks. We left at 3:30 to pick up the kids, then came back to finish it off. Leigh stopped by to chat for a minute, and so did Hilary. Everyone had left by around 5pm, and I worked for about 30 minutes on a Young Womens invitation for my mom's ward. Yeah, I was WAY trying to hurry and get it out before I had to leave.Tom and Eme and I left the house at 5:50pm to go to the joint Scouts/Activity Day meeting. I brought all the things that I needed, and realized, sitting in the church parking lot, that the meeting was at 6:30pm. Sigh.I let us in the church with my key, and we got stuff set up. I had work for about 7 people to do. The Primary presidency came at 6:30pm, and we made sure that everything was ready. We didn't really have enough jobs for everyone to do. But we'd do our best.We started a few minutes after 7pm, and finished at 7:30pm. We tried to drag it out a bit longer, but by 8pm, we were done. Brent had come later with the rest of our kids, and Leslie's kids. Since not everyone fit in his little car, Leslie let him drive her big SUV. So I took the younger kids and Cub Scouts and drove home in that. Brent stayed behind with the Suburban and the Boy Scouts.I got home, got Joe started on his homework, and got the kids ready for bed. Dang, just looked at the clock, and it's 9:02pm. And NO ONE is in bed yet. I had to get my ANGRY voice out. Yeah, everyone scattered. hehehe. See, sometimes the angry voice is good :)Click on the link below to go to my account to download the PNG file, and leave some love if you like my work.4sharedbox.net

Another whirwind of a day :) Started out at 7am, when I got up, got the kids ready, made them French toast, a triple batch at that (froze 2 batches), and sent them off to the bus. I got mostly ready, and Hilary came over to walk with me.We walked from 8-9am, then she and I went back to her house where she got ready for the day, we stopped at Sonic for a RT 44 Diet Dr Pepper, then she dropped me off at home, and she went to work at 10:30am. It was a pretty fun morning. I showered, hung with Jimmy for a while, then cleaned for a little bit.Jake and Jimmy and I loaded up in the truck, and headed off to the PX for a stop at Game Stop, then a trip to the food court for lunch with Brent. I drove into the parking lot, and the place was PACKED! I instantly started to get grouchy. Yeah, we weren't going in between 11:30 and 1pm. NOT AT ALL. I turned around and made to leave, and had to wait 5 minutes before traffic left me out. Sigh.I dropped the kids off at home, promising them I'd pick them up at 1:20pm, and we'd go back, and headed off to El Taco Tote to meet Brent. Yeah, much more relaxing. He and I ate and chatted and enjoyed ourselves until about 1pm.He headed back to work, and I swung by the house and picked up the kids. We went to Taco Bell in the PX, and the kids each got a 5 Layer Burrito. We went to Game Stop, and Jake tried to find a game that he liked that was ALSO not rated M. Yeah, most of the ones he thought looked like fun were M. I don't mind an M game if there's an option to turn off the language/blood/gore/violence. BUT, if there's not that option, then we're not buying it. Yeah, none of them had it, or the people there didn't know if they did.He ended up getting 1 game for the PSP, and 2 computer games, for about $23. It was his babysitting money, so I didn't really care what he got. He seemed pleased, though :)We headed home, and were there for about an hour before the bus. I worked on my Cub Scout achievement plans for a while, and almost forgot to get the kids from the bus. hehehe. I brought them back home, and we got ready to go to the park.Hilary and Laurie and I hung there for about an hour with our kids, then Laurie took her kids to piano, I took my kids home, and Hilary took her girls to the pool. Eme went with them. I put dinner in the oven, then after Joe's homework was done, left the boys playing electronics, and I went to the pool to hang with the grown-ups. hehehe.I left at 6pm to take Tom to football, then came back, picked up Hilary, and we headed to Sam's. We got snacks for the Primary activity on Saturday, and I got gas. Then on to Walmart. I got the supplies for the "Jesus is Born" activity. We're gonna build a 2D Nativity craft. With frosting and pretzels and cookies and junk. I"ll take a pic when I'm done. hehehe.I didn't ever hear from Brent if he was at Football or not, so after Walmart, Hilary and I drove out to the field. Yeah, he was already home. Oops. He said he was real sorry he didn't let me know. I dropped Hilary back off at her car at the pool, then headed home.The kids were already asleep. I sat down and worked on my Cub Scout plans some more, then had Brent look over them for a bit.And here it is, 10:55pm, and I'm just finishing up blogging. Need to design a freebie, then go to bed. Cause I'm tired. Even though I went to bed before 9pm last night, and had 10 hours of sleep. Yeah, it felt SO good. hehehe.Click on the link below to go to my account to download the PNG file, and leave some love if you like my work. Thanks!4sharedbox.net

Howdy hey, party people :) How was your Monday? Mine was pretty good :)So I was up at 7am, getting kids ready. I actually did a load of dishes before the bus, too. That's SO not me to jump in and do someone elses chores for them - hehe. I gave Jake and Jim the chance to come to the commissary with me, but they declined. Yeah, grocery shopping isn't that fun, I guess - hehehe.I took my list, and headed out. I met Laurie there, and we shopped for food. I decided against the frozen chicken for $11.50 a bag. Yeah, that's too much. And I knew that I could get milk and crackers cheaper at Sam's, so I held off. But I got the rest of what I needed. CRAP! I forgot Plastic Wrap. Dude, I was totally at the commissary, AND Sam's Club, AND Walmart today, and I forgot it all 3 times. Sigh.Anyway, after shopping, I headed back home. Jake did school, Jimmy played in his room with his toys, and I got my last WordArt pack for the week designed. I should keep going, and be doubly ahead, right? That's what a smart person would do :)Brent came home for lunch, and I recognized that I was starting to feel PMS-y. It's about that time. And everything he was saying was hitting me the wrong way. Do you get that way too? I tried to warn him, but it didn't work. We ended up getting into a hormone induced fight - hehe. Hopefully it blows over fast.He went back to work at 1pm, and I headed over to Hilarys house. She's got the Sam's card - LOL. I stopped by Sonic, and got us each a RT 44 Diet Dr Pepper. Mmmmm, Sonic. When I got to Hilary's house, we built her table. It's the same patio table as I bought, and since I'd built one before, it was SUPER easy. Like 10 minutes. It took me an hour the first time :)After building the table, we loaded up in her car, and headed to the West-Sied (yes, we pronounce it that way:) We went to Hobby Lobby, and returned some crafting type stuff that Hilary had gotten too much of. Then, off to Sam's. I got some saltine crackers, and I can't remember the other thing.... It'll come to me eventually.We headed back to the North East Side, and stopped by Walmart. I wasn't gonna pay $12.98 for a 5 lb bag of chicken at Sam's. Walmarts 3 lb bag was $6.00. That was more my style. I also got some more turkey brawts. Hilary got something and some soda. Yeah, I'm not remembering a lot of stuff from today, huh? hehehe.Back to Hilarys house, and I took my truck home. Once there, I cooked the Calzone I'd made last week, then froze in the freezer. The kids had that for dinner, then at 5pm, we went to the pool. We took Leslie's kids too.Hilary and I and Laurie (for part of the time) sat outside at the picnic tables and chatted. It felt MUCH better than inside the pool where it was SO humid. And the doors were open, so the kids could come and go. Jimmy and Joe ended up playing outside most of the time anyway.We went home at 7pm, and now I'm getting the kids ready for bed. I'm feeling a bit sleepy, and my stomach doesn't feel terribly great. I don't think I'm gonna get sick (at least I hope I don't), but maybe going to bed early would help. Maybe?OK, you girls gotta know that I love you. I just LOVE this WordArt, and totally wanted to put it in a WordArt pack, but I don't wanna design anything else tonight. SO, you get it. But I don't really wanna give it away. hehehe. Click on the link below to go to my account to download the PNG file, and leave some love if you like my work. Thanks!4sharedbox.net

Where does the weekend go? Brent and I were talking, and we decided that we need another day. Don't you agree? Couldn't you use another day in the weekend? hehehe.I got up at 7:20am, and got ready. My "formal" hair was passable for one more day, so I just put on new make up. I looked pretty good for not having showered - LOL. Anyway, after I got ready, I went out and got the kids ready. Eme was coughing so bad, I let her stay home with Brent, who was sick too. Jim and Joe and Jake and Tom and I left for church at 8:40am.Sacrament was good. Primary went by fast. Hilary was sick and not there today, so I missed my buddy :( Singing time was pretty fun. We played "football". The kids answered questions about the song, and for each right answer, the football went closer to the goal line. Then they got to sing a fun, active song that was written on the back of the football. It was a good time :)After church, we watched the end of the movie that Eme and Brent were watching (Spirit), then had lunch. The kids had bagel sandwiches, and I had chicken and cucumbers. We watched a Doctor Who episode, and got on with the day. I went and took a nap (hehehe), and Brent did some projects around the house with the kids. I woke up at almost 4pm, after a cockroach climbed on my foot. Yeah, not the way one wants to be woken up. NASTY! I hopped up in a daze, and it took me a while to recover - hehehe. I'm laughing because it doesn't help to cry...I went outside, and helped Brent (by that, I mean supervised) move some boxes around to the shed, and we started the coals. I went inside, and made twice baked potatoes out of the left over baked potatoes from yesterday.For dinner, the kids had pork steaks, twice baked potatoes, and left over mac and cheese from yesterday. I had a turkey brawt and some salad. SO yummy. I just love BBQ-ing. I read a few chapters of a Goosebump book to Joe and Jim before bed, then tucked them in. I drove Brent up to the battery to get his truck, then came back home. I started working on some Cub Scout stuff after that. I'm trying to come up with a 12 month plan to earn their rank, including the Faith in God program. I finished up the Wolf tonight. I"ll work on the Bear and Webelos later :)Brent went outside to hang the screening on top of the patio. He climbed up there, used boards to move around on, and nailed it down. Yeah, you couldn't pay me enough money to do that - hehehe. He did a good job, though.I brought my laptop outside, and re-worked the kids' menu for food, and the shopping list. I'm all set for grocery shopping tomorrow ;)So here it is, 11;13pm, and I'm done blogging, and done designing. I'm watching part of Taken (don't mess with Liam Nielson. He's TOUGH in this movie - hehehe), then I'm going to bed. I'm sleepy, despite my nap :)This WordArt request comes from Julie. I got an email from her today, and didn't feel like digging through the 600 messages in my inbox. Sigh. Stupid inbox. hehe. SO, for all of you staying home for vacation this year, here's a WordArt for ya :) Click on the link below to go to my account to download the PNG file, and leave some love if you like my work. Thanks!4sharedbox.net

Yeah, it's Saturday :) I woke up at 6am, but didn't know it was 6am. I didn't have on my watch, and my phone's clock turned off somehow. I finally figured out what time it was, and went back to sleep until 7:20am. Then I got up and kinda go ready for the day - hehehe.Brent and Eme and Joe got ready to go over to Old Ft Bliss for Armed Forces day for a Living History, and Hilary parked at my house at 7:45am. I helped her carry a cooler over to their FRG booth at Armed Forces day. I walked back home, and got more ready for the day.Tom had to be at Football at 9am, and I was supposed to take Jim and Jake with me. But they convinced me to let them stay at home, so Tom and I headed out. I took my laptop, and designed for an hour on the field. I really wish they'd have had bleachers. Nope. I sat under a tree, on the ground, in white shorts. Yeah, lovely :)I did get 4 WordArt Packs designed before my laptop died, though. Toms team lost, but I did see them run a touchdown. Good job!We headed home at around 11:40. Brent and Jimmy were home getting lunch for the rest of the family. I helped them make sandwiches, and carrots and pretzels and such. He also mentioned he'd invited Larry (his buddy who owns the horses) to dinner tonight. Whaaaaaat? My house was trashed. Very. I didn't want anyone to see my house like that.So instead of going to Old Ft Bliss with the family, I sent the kids with Brent, and I stayed home to clean. And I didn't mind too much. I needed to clean the house anyway.Eventually, Jake and Jimmy came back, and helped me clean some more. We moved around a few things in the dining room, cleaned the kitchen, cleaned the living room, and started on dinner.I defrosted chicken, and let in marinade in Chipotle sauce. Mmmmm. And I baked potatoes in the oven. And green beans. And Macaroni and Cheese. And brownies. And then Hilary came over to borrow a movie. And she brought me Sonic. Because she's awesome :)We ended up going to the Commissary, so that I could get Hot Dogs and Buns for the little kids. Then when we got back, she tried on my smallest formal. She had a Ball in July to go to. It fit, so she's gonna borrow it :) Yeah for formals :) hehehe. We'll just have to make sure that we get her to the beauty school earlier than I got there.She went home, and I finished cooking. Brent and Larry and the kids got here around 6pm, and we ate. It was SO yummy. I had a piece of chicken, and 1/2 a cucumber, some crackers, and an apple. I really liked the chicken.We ate, and chatted, and the kids played. When Larry left, we noticed a bunch of kids playing outside in the front yard, and let our kids play too. I ended up chatting with my neighbor lady for quite some time.When I came back inside, the rest of the family was watching Iron Man. We eventually put the little kids to bed, and here it is, 8:38pm. Iron Man is almost over, and I'm almost done blogging. I may have Brent watch another movie with me before bedtime. Not sure :) (ok, I just designed my freebie, and hooked it up here, and apparently we're going to see Iron Man 2. Because it's the perfect time to see it, since he just watched #1. Or so he says - LOL! Movie starts at 9:50pm. See, it's a good thing I blogged and designed early. Otherwise I'd have been tired at church tomorrow)This WordArt comes from the Visiting Teaching message from June. A little early, but then, it's never bad to be prepared, right? hehehe. Click on the link below to go to my account to download the PNG file, and leave some love if you like my work. Thanks!4sharedbox.net

Another long day :) Woke up at 7am, and was just tired for some reason. I'd gone to bed at midnight, so I know I got 7 hours. That's more than usual. I got the kids off to school, and went eventually went back to sleep. hehehe. I slept from 8am to 9:30am. Didn't mean to sleep for so long, but it was good!At 9:45am, I drove up to Brents work with him. He was dropping off his truck at the battery. I drove his Saturn. I was supposed to pick him up, and he'd drop me back off at the house. That way he could have his car. BUT, it was too late, so I ended up dropping him off at the ADA museum for his meeting, then going back home. He'd just call me when he was done.I went back home, and made sure the kids were ok, then did a bit of computer work, and straightened up a bit. Brent called around 11am, saying he was ready for me to come and get him. I drove on up, and he came back for lunch.I hopped in the shower, and got ready. I tried on my new dress, with my wrap, and you know what? It was too big. Pretty baggy. Woohoo! So, just on the off chance that it'd fit, I tried on my old formal. And guess what? IT FIT! Well, it was a bit tight, but it mostly fit!So I took these 2 pics, and posted it to facebook, asking which one to wear. Dress one was the size 10 that was super tight. But made my waist look nice. Dress 2 was a size 14, and clearly too big and baggy. But it was comfy. And since I'm all about trying to look smaller than I am, I was leaning pretty heavily towards #1.Anyway, I put on a button up shirt, and some pants, and flip flops, and Hilary came to pick me up at around 12:30. We headed off to Sunland Park mall to the Beauty School. I had a 1pm appointment.We got there, waited for a few minutes, then I was taken back. Hilary was getting her eyebrows waxed, so she waited a bit longer. First, the chickie washed my hair, then put on the deep conditioning. With a little cap. And sat me under the dryer.And as my hair did it's thing, she gave me a manicure. It was pretty nice. I've never had a real manicure before. I even got red-ish color nails. Yeah me :) Hilary came over about that time, with Diet Dr Pepper from Chick-Fil-A for us. She's amazing!So after the nails, she rinsed the deep conditioning out of my hair,And took me back to work on my hair. There wasn't time for a facial. We were running out of time. Note to self. 3 1/2 hours is NOT enough time at the beauty school. They're very slow :)So she sectioned out parts of my hair, and curled the rest. Then pinned back the sectioned parts.Then she started on the make-up. Well, actually another chickie helped with the make-up. She wanted to pull some of the color from my dress into my make-up.So what do you think?Here's me with my girls :) The one of the left was the hair dresser, and the one of the right helped with the make up :)So, because it too SOOO long at the beauty school, we were running behind. Hilary and I drove home, over Transmountain, and went to her kids' new school. The paper work was due by 5:30. It was 5pm by the time we got there. She ran in to drop it off. And after about 5 minutes, came back out to say, take her car and drive home. I was gonna be late, and Paul would come and pick her up.So I drove her car home, but traffic was HORRIBLE, so it was taking forever. I got home at 5:35. Yeah, not good. We were supposed to be driving away at 5:30. Anyway, I ran inside, went to the bathroom (no sneezing!), and threw on my dress, my bracelet, and some earrings. I grabbed my make-up for a quick touch up, and out we went.We drove to Down Town El Paso, and parked in a free lot, and walked to the hotel. It was pretty nice and fancy. We had a few hor'dorves, then went in through the receiving line to find our place. So as we're going through the receiving line, Brent is supposed to tell the first guy my name then his name.Then the first dude tells the other guys what our names are. Apparent, it's Captain Harty and his wife Heidi. We just went with it. So I wonder if we'll start getting Captain pay now - hehehe. And Heidi? Whatever. I just wanted to go and find my seat - ROFL!We were told that we were at table 9, and that it was yellow. We looked at EVERY freakin' yellow table in the room, and no table 9. What the crap? hehe. I was getting tired, and was hungry, and wanted to sit down. Finally, someone else noticed our name cards. At table 5, red. Yeah, cause that's SO close to yellow 9. hehehe.Anyway, we sat down, and waited. And waited. And finally it started. They did the flags, and a prayer, and a brief talking, then we ate. We had a nice salad. No dressing for me. And 3 other people didn't show up to our table, so I ate one of their salads too - hehehe.Here's a pic of Brent and I at our table.Oh yeah, I forgot to say that before we went into the dining hall, we got our pics taken. They were giving away a free 8x10 to each couple. Awe, I hope it turns out well :)Anyway, I ate my 2 salads (hehehe), then the main dish came. Fresh green beans, some white sauce near them, some chicken, some pot roast, and a bunch of mashed potatoes. I ate all the meat, and the beans. I left the potatoes.And Brent only ate his chicken, and few bits of his pot roast, and a few green beans. And was done. His stomach was hurting. So I finished off his meat and his green beans. Mmmmm, it was good.Cheesecake and mousse was for dessert. But I passed. Since I ate Brents food, I gave him my dessert. I really felt like I ate well. No bread. No dressing. No dessert. No potatoes. I think I stayed pretty true to the diet :)And then the L O N G part started. Yeah, it took forever. Some dude introduced another dude, and he spoke FOREVER. He was a 3 star general, and the highest dude in Air Defense. But yeah, it took forever. I was so bored. His speech wasn't even motivational. It was just all factual and junk. I'm all for motivational, feel good speeches :)They thanked a buttload of people, and had a drawing for a raffle, and made some Grog (all sorts of alcohol mixed together in a motivational way with speeches and such) then drank the grog then closing flags and prayer and more talking, and FINALLY we were able to leave.You know, I think the reason that they have SO much alcohol at these functions is to make people forget how boring they are. The people drinking seemed to be having LOTS more fun that us non drinkers - hehehe.We didn't stay for dancing, but took our commemorative glasses, and went to our car, and went home. Everyone was asleep except for Eme and Jake. They were watching Bedtime Stories. So I sat down to blog, and watched the end of it with them.It's now 11:10pm, and I'm SO ready for some sleep. I just need to design a quick freebie, then I'm off to bed :)Click on the link below to go to my account to download the PNG file, and leave some love if you like my work. 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Here's all my new stuff for the week!! I hope you guys like it :) Click HERE to go to my store to purchase any of these :) 20% off ($2.00) for the first week :)Well, I never did figure out what I THOUGHT I had going on today - hehehehe. That's ok. I filled my day with other things :)I woke up at 7am, got kids dressed, ready, and out the door by 7:30am. Jimmy and I laid on the couch until at least 8am, snuggling and sleeping. Jake did his chores, and started school, and I eventually grabbed my computer. I was slow in starting, but I started designing.Facebook and Gmail kept sucking me in. Drat! I was gonna get all my weekly designing fast. Well, I did get it done, just not as fast as I'd hoped.I was texting Hilary for quite a while, and finally had to put the phone away. I can't get work done and text at the same time. hehehe. At 11am, I was almost done. I was just finishing up the 5th WordArt pack for the week. And Hilary knocks at the door. See what happens when I put my phone away? hehehe.She'd texted saying she was coming over on her lunch hour. I was SO excited because i thought she was done for the day, but alas, she had to go back to work. I hurried and finished off my last pack, sent them all to my packager, Joy, and changed out of my pajamas and put in my contacts - LOL! Hilary and I hung for a bit longer, and then Brent came home, and Hilary got a call from her daughter, saying she was sick.I totally teased Hilary, and was like "Did you just text someone to call and "save" you from me"? hehehe. Have you ever done that? Tell you friend, "Just call me in 15 minutes, and disreguard EVERYTHING I say". hehehe. She assured me she didn't, that Jannie was really sick.She left to get her, then go home for the day, and Brent and I went to El Taco Tote for lunch. We got the Bruscheta plate. OMHeavens, it was good. WAY bigger serving size than I needed, but I ate the whole thing. I won't next time. Steak and onions and green peppers. Eaten with salad. MMmmmmm, tasty!We stopped by "The Jewelry Box" on the way home, and I got some fake crystal earrings for the Ball. It's tomorrow, you know. Friday night Ball, I'm kinda excited about it :)Brent dropped me off back at the house, and I checked on the boys. Jake had finished up classes, and was playing with Jimmy. I headed over to Hilarys house, and we set off on errands. First stop, Walmart on Transmountain.I bought a SD micro for my phone. Or something like that. It was an 8 GB card. I figured I could put all my music on there, and I didn't need an MP3 player. I just need a good pair of headphones. Actually, the phone has some pretty decent speakers. hehehehe.I also got a BBQ. It was a $20 one, but it would get us by. I like BBQing, we just don't do it very often. I got a bag of chicken, had hot dogs at home, and a package of Turkey Bratwurst. Mmmmm, yummy!We needed charcoal, and some lighter fluid. I also got some tomato plants for my hanging tomato plant thingy. AND, Walmart had theirs on sale for $4, so I got another one. A little different, but similar idea. Now I have 2!Hilary got the things that she needed, and we headed to the register in lawn and garden. On the way, we passed this dude, who stopped us to ask us a question."Pardon me ladies", he said. "Can you tell me if I should keep my hair the color it is now, or if I should go black? Cause I hear if you go black, then you look older, that all of your wrinkles show more. Or should I just keep it the way it is now". Yeah, he just went on and on about what hair color he should have........ Eventually, Hilary is like "Yeah, it's good the way it is", and he left.We giggled so hard that I almost wet my pants on the way to lawn and garden. So funny.Next stop was Hilarys kids school to pick up Megan. Normally she walks with Jannie, but because she got brought home sick, we picked up Meghan so she didn't have to walk alone :)We dropped her off, then headed to Sonic. Rt 44 Diet Dr Peppers were calling our names, and we had our free survey coupons. Score it! We ordered, and I had to pee SO bad, I went inside. And it didn't have an inside dining area. It was just the place where they cooked. But they lead me around the maze that was their kitchen, and I found the bathroom. Thank goodness for Bathrooms.!Hilary dropped me off back at my truck, at her house, and I headed home. Jake got the kids from the bus, and they all helped me unload the truck. We all went in the backyard, and they helped me plant the tomato plants. It was messy, but we got it done.Tom and Joe helped me build the BBQ-er, and we got some coals going. Yeah, I need another lesson in "How to BBQ", because I kinda sucked at it :) hehehe.I had the kids do their chores, and then the hot dogs were done. Tom got ready for football, and Brent came home briefly, picked Tom up, and headed off to practice.Hilary came over around 6:30pm, and we headed out to do the last of the errands. She needed to get some diet gum at Sams. She also found butter on sale, and some cheese snack crackers.See, here's me with all the stuff we bought. SO, it's on the checkout conveyor, and the register guy looks at our stuff, and says "Looks like y'all are going on a field trip". Really? With butter? Because I don't know about you, but I take pounds of butter on field trips! hehehe. We teased him, and laughed and laughed some more. He was so embarrassed. He was, like, "You're making fun of me now". Uh, yeah. BUTTER?? hehhe.We got gas, and headed home. I was home before 7:30ish. I helped put the little kids to bed, and Brent came home at around that time. We were supposed to go to the Kirkmans house (Kayley) at 8:30, after football, and play games (just the grown ups), but Brent found out that his Batallion was having a run in the morning. At 4:10am. Yeah, he wasn't so happy about that. So we rescheduled for next week.I sat down and put some music on my phone, and helped Brent put some music on his phone. It was kinda fun going through music that I hadn't heard in a while. I kinda liked it :)Brent gave Tom a hair cut, and he was the last kids to go to bed. It's now 11:45pm, and I'm falling asleep at my laptop. All the lights are off, and Muse is keeping me company. But I'm fading fast....Click on the link below to go to my account to download the pNG file, and leave some love if you like my work. Thansk!4sharedbox.net

So I sat home today and did nothing.....just kidding - hehehe. Another busy day, as usual. I got up at 7am, got the kids ready and out the door, then folded 3 loads of laundry, and put most of them away. I did leave a basket for Jake/Tom and a basket for Eme on the couch so they could put it away after school. I started a new load, and organized the dirty dishes a bit.I hopped in the shower, got ready, and was all ready to go by 8:30am. See, I clean up nicely - hehehe. I was all excited to wear these jeans, since they hadn't fit in a while. The fit me at 160. Not at 170. And I hit 160 today. Woohoo! I'm down 10 lbs from 21 days ago. Not too bad :) Only 20 more lbs to go to my weight last summer. Slow and steady wins the race, right?And yes, I may look decent in that picture, but without the full body girdle under it, things wouldn't be quite so pretty.... So yes, I do need to lose another 20 lbs... So I can be "full body girdle"-less.Laurie came to my house close to 8:45am, and picked up Jimmy and I. We were going to Demming with her to drop off her new puppy at her brothers house. And, she'd picked up another of her brothers (she's kid #9 out of 11) at the airport last night, and was driving him to Demming too. I'm such a turd, I insisted that I ride in the front seat. I get car seat on long trips if I'm not careful. hehe.Here's Rowan, holding the puppy. I don't know why he's holding his nose. Looks like it's because the puppy is smelly, but it really wasn't. ha!After we dropped off the puppy and the brother (and his 4 year old son) at Laurie's dad's place, she and I and our boys headed into town to eat lunch. We went to a little Mexican place, and had YUMMY food :) Here's Jimmy with chips from lunch.And Jimmy and IHere's what I got for lunch. Fajata salad. It was pretty tasty. Steak and green peppers and onions over lettuce and tomatoes and some spicy something or another. It was very yummy! I, of course, shared the guacamole with Laurie. Can't stand the stuff.So I do have a funny story to share from lunch. The waitress came by to take our orders, and she got my salad order from me, Lauries fajata order from her, and asked Rowan what he wanted.Diarrhea, he said. ROFL! Laurie was like, um, he means Quesidilla. TOO funny. Jimmy pipped in, and said that he wanted Diarrhea too! Boys are so much fun :)We headed back to El Paso, and the little boys fell asleep in the car. But when Jimmy woke up on the outskirts of El Paso, he assured me that he wasn't sleeping. "Sometimes I sleep in the car, just not this time, Mom". Whatever. I heard the snoring, loud and clear :)We got back to El Paso, and Laurie dropped me off at my house. I went to the bathroom, then loaded up Jake and Jim in the truck, and we went to Fallas. Laurie had gotten a purse there the other day, and Hilary got a new purse today, and I was feeling left out. I wanted a new purse too.So I went to Fallas, and got the same one as Laurie. I texted her first, just to make sure it was ok. We do have the same shoes, so I guess the same purse is ok. Either that, or she was just way too nice to say "Dude, don't copy me". I'd like to think that she'd tell me "Dude, don't copy me" if that's how she felt :) Anyway, it was only $6, and was brown soft leather feeling. SUPER cute :)I also found a new swimsuit. It's gonna match my zebra print flip flops. hehe. Black and white swim suit. For $6. And in my size. When I tried it on, it was a bit lower than I'm used to. I'll have to take it on a test run at the pool to see if I can do it. I'm not used to "the girls" being exposed at all. Hmmmm. But other than that, it was modest. The bottom half was perfect.I also got 2 pairs of exercise shorts. Long ones, that come well to my knees. Gotta like that. They were $3 each. So I spent under $18 (military discount) for everything. Gotta love bargin shopping.Hilary met me at Big Lots at 3pm, and I got a few things that I needed. I use "needed" loosely. I got a hanging tomato plant thingy, and some dirt, and more twinkle lights for Brent to hang up. And the boys a candy. hehehe. "needed". LOL!We hurried home, and picked up the kids from the bus, and brought them back home. Kids did their chores, and I went to my nice backyard patio set. Hilary and her daughter Megan came over around 4:30pm to hang for a bit, and Hilary and I played on Facebook on our laptops in the backyard.At 5pm, I asked who wanted to go to the pool, and only Eme wanted to go. Jake and Tom had been fighting ever since Tom had gotten home from school, so they didn't get to come. Joe and Jim wanted to stay home, so it was just Eme and I. Sounded good to me.Hilary and I hung out while the girls swam, then we came home at 6:20pm. She went home, and I started on dinner. Taco salad for me, and Calzones for them. I got one of the pizza crusts, rolled it out long and skinny, like for cinnamon rolls, and filled it with ground turkey, spaghetti sauce, Parmesan cheese, and mozzarella cheese. Then folded it over, pinched it off, and cooked it. Smelled DIVINE :) It just barely got done before Scouts.At 6:40pm, Brent came home from work, and we all got ready to go to Scouts. Brent and Jacob and Hunter (Leslies kid) rode with Brent, and me and Tom and Braxton and Emeline and Joe and Jim were in my truck.The big kids went to their Activities, and the little kids just played. Hilary and I did some Primary work in the primary room, then chatted for a while. Then it was time to go home.Here's a pic of Tom with his clay sculpture. He was so proud. hehehe. I can't remember what he told me it was. Brent and his car of kids left before me, by about 4 minutes. But I beat them home, somehow. I was so confused. The got there about 1 minute after me. Hmmmm, strange. But when they walked in the house with Sonic drinks, and a GIANT one, just for me :) What a SWEET man! I'll keep him :)We put kids to bed, and I started working on my designing and blogging. It's not only 10:22, and I'm all done. Woohoo!! I need to spend some time tomorrow designing and getting my store stocked for the week.You know, I thought ALL day long that I had plans for Thursday, and I can't for the life of me remember what my plans were, or who they were with. No one that I do things with regularly can think of anything. Weird... So, if I made plans with any of y'all, and I don't show up tomorrow, my apologies - hehehe.Click on the links below to go to my accounts to download the PNG file, and leave some love if you like my work. Thanks!4sharedbox.net

Morning, girls :) How's the week going? Good here. So today was supposed to be my lazy day. Ha! Whatever!I woke up at 7am, got the kids as ready as needed, and went to bed. Tom walked the kids to the bus stop, and I slept till 8am. Andrea texted and said that they were walking, so I left the house at 8:15am to walk. It was Andrea and I and Becky and Veronica and Kayley. And Laurie joined us late. We have quite the group - hehehe.I was home at 10am, and Laurie came with me, to see my new patio furniture. She stayed for about 30 minutes, then headed home. I brought my laptop to the backyard, and designed for about 20-30 minutes, and got a WordArt Pack done.I came back inside, and Hilary and Brent both came for lunch. hehehe. We ate in the backyard on the patio set, then Brent headed back to work, and Hilary and I headed to the mall. I had a dressy jacket type thing for my formal that needed to go back. Because it should have been a cream color, not a white. And the cell phone case was the wrong one, so that needed changed too.First we took back the jacket thing. Then the cell phone thing. Then we looked around, for a wrap thingy. Yeah, they didn't have one. We left, and went across the interstate, to a bridal shop. For $15, they had a wrap that was similar fabric as my dress, that matched. I'm gonna have to play with it and get it to work.We stopped by Sams on the way home, and Hilary bought some more Gala apples. Cause they're the best, you know. And we stopped at Sonic on the way home to get a RT 44 Diet Dr Pepper. And we even got the free soda survey.So here's the deal. Last Saturday, when we called in the free sodas, the survey consisted of 3 questions. Then we got the code. Well, this week, when we called in, there were a MILLION questions. Appearance of the car hop? Time of day? Did the car hops wear skates? Seriously? It was ridiculous! hehehe. BUT, we got our free sodas for next time.So we met the kids at the bus stop, and dropped them off at home, and got them started with chores. Then we swung by the PX real fast to look for Paul some shorts, then headed back home.Hilary went and did her thing, and I made homemade pizza with the kids. I made 6 batches. Split in 3. So 2 pizzas for today, and 2 bags of 2 batches put in the fridge for later. Because making the dough is always the hold up for me. We'll see how it works :)I cleaned the kitchen, washed the dishes, made 4 loaves of banana bread, picked up the living room, and swept a little bit. Jake was still working on his school, and the other kids were playing and skating a bit.Brent got home a little before 6pm, and changed and took Tom to football. We ate dinner in the backyard, and it was SO nice. I got a few minutes of designing in, then cleaned up from dinner.At 7:30pm, I put Jimmy to bed, sent Eme to her room to ready, got Jake back on track for school, and left Joe at the table with his school. I took a loaf of banana bread to Leslie, just as Brent was getting home from practice.Hilary and I had some herbal tea with Leslie, and chatted for a while, then headed out to our Primary Presidency meeting at Karins house.We talked about people for callings, and tried to iron out more details for our quarterly activity coming up, and get things ready for Sunday.And I got home at 11 something. Yeah, it was a fun, but late meeting. hehe. Tomorrow, Jimmy and I are riding with Laurie to Demming, New Mexico, to take the puppy back. Because she doesn't need a puppy - hehehe.So, there was my relaxing, non busy day. What do ya think? hehehe.Click on the link below to go to my account to download the PNG file, and leave some love if you like my work. Thanks!4sharedbox.net

OK, just to preface this, it's 1:06am. I'm tired. I need sleep :) I'm gonna try and give you the Readers Digest version, but I'm not very good at condensing - hehehe. I"m sure you've noticed that over the years....So I got the kids off to school at regular time, then sat down to do the bills. My Microsoft Office was freaking out, so I had to fix it. Which took some time. Then I opened up my Excel spreadsheets, and figured out what I had left from last month, and what went were for this month. After being creative with a few numbers, I was able to get it all on track.After the bills were done, Laurie and I went to the commissary to grocery shop. I was supposed to go on Thursday, and here is was, Monday. Yeah, it was an expensive trip - hehehe. BUT, with the extra $10 from last week, it worked out just fine.I dropped Laurie back off at her house, looked at her new puppy (which she informed me tonight it going back to where it came from - her brother gave it to her kids without asking permission from her first - it was a trial run, and apparently it didn't go too well), and headed home. I paid Jake to carry in my groceries, and I put them all away.Hilary stopped by at 11am for lunch. Well, it was a bit early for her to eat lunch, so I packed her one to take back to work to eat when she felt hungry. We chatted and put groceries away from 11-12pm.Brent came home at 12:15pm, and stayed till about 1:30pm. It was a nice lunch with him too - :) I got lunch with 2 of my favoritest people today!At lunch, he was talking about his buddy, Webb, getting a new Patio set for $250. That's a great price. Guess where? Big Lots. I've been wanting a Patio set FOREVER. We used to have one in Joliet, but it didn't make the move. And I've been without ever since.As soon as Brent went back to work, Jimmy and I loaded up in the truck and headed to Big Lots. We were there for over an hour, looking at Patio stuff. I found one that I liked! Here's the pic that I took of it:And here's the picture from Online:Yeah, the pretty brick work and lake don't come with it. Drat! It seriously took FOREVER to get the set. First off, they didn't think they had any. Then it took FOREVER to get the girl in the front and the girl in the back to get on the same page. After about 10 minutes, they found one for me. Sigh. Get with it, people. My set was $175 for the 4 padded chairs and rectangular table, then another $50 for two more padded, but folding, chairs. So only $225 for the whole set. Not bad for a patio set.I also got some lights to hang up. A nice string of bulbs. I like it. Tomorrow, I'll take some more pics. It got too late to do it tonight :)Anyway, we came home, and were home by 2:30 pm. Jake and I built the table, which was SO frustrating. Those people who made the directions ought to be shot. They didn't make any sense. After trial and error, we eventually figured it out.I sent Jake to get the kids from the bus, and I sat down to assemble to the 4 chairs. I got those wrong the first time, too, but figured out the right was quicker than the table.Hilary came over at 4pm, and helped me build the last 2 chairs. We got it all set up and looking pretty!At 5pm, we all loaded up and headed to the pool. Leslie's kids came with us too. So I had 6 little boys and a girl in my truck. Yeah, it smelled like BO. Nasty :)Hilary and I sat at the pool and watched the kids play, and hung. At 6:45pm, we headed home. I gave the kids left over soup with crackers, and we all sat out on the new patio furniture to eat. It was warm and pleasant. I really liked it.I helped Joe with his homework, then Brent came home. I started to hang up the Lights, too. After he put the little kids to bed, he came out, and we hung up the lights together. It was nice to work on a project together.Leslie and Laurie were doing hair at Leslies house, and I dropped by from 9:00-9:30pm to see. Back home, hung with Brent until he went to bed at 10:30pm, then I headed back to Leslies house. Laurie already had tin foil on her hair. hehehe. It looked pretty cool. We chatted and hung for quite a while. Here's me, with my favorite snuggle blankie I brought from home :)Leslie put in Low Lights of a brownish/blond color, and here she is, washing it out.And Laurie getting her hair blow dried.It looks super dark, but it's not really that dark. It's a pretty color, though.So I finally came home at 1pm. And now I'm tired. OK, so that wasn't very condensed. Oh well. I did try.Click on the link below to go to my account to download the PNG file, and leave some love if you like my work. Thanks!4sharedbox.net

So, how was everyones Mothers Day? My kids tried real hard to make it special for me. They had homemade cards, and projects from school, and they kept asking what they could do to help. Of course, they were still fighting with each other, and making messes, and being kids. Too bad we can't get what we really want for Mother's Day. Perfect kids for one day. Or at least ones who don't fight with each other. hehehe. But I know they were trying :)Church was crazy. We had a family move out of the ward last week, so we took over their row. We can see Brent better from there, and I just like the spot better. Only Hilary and I were there for Primary. Andrea's son, Luke, was having a hard time breathing (asthma-like symptoms), and took him to the ER after sacrament. Karin was out of town in Arizona. Laurie went to Demming, NM where her family lives for Mother's Day. So that just left Hilary and I.She'd planned on having another member of the Presidency help her with the Mother's Day craft while she taught sharing time for the Junior Primary. Well, since it was just her and I, she did an abreviated Sharing Time, and then I had 45 minutes for singing time. Let me tell you, I may not have known the song by heart when we started Singing time, but by the time we got done, BAM! I knew all the words. hehehe.We played a game where 2 kids would come up at a time, and roll dice. One rolls red and one rolls back. Red tells us what we are doing during the song.1-clapping the rhythm2 - marching the rhythm3 - hopping the rhythm4 - standing5- sitting6 - spinningThe white would say WHO does the action.1 - Black/Brown Hair2 - Wearing red/pink3 - wearing white4 - wearing pants5 - wearing skirt/dress6 - blue/green eyesEveryone had to sing, but only the people mentioned with the white dice would get to do the action. They seemed to like it. I was doing a solo most of the time, but they were learning it. We must have sang it 25 times. My voice was SO tired, not to mention my body, after hopping and spinning and junk. Dang, who thought up that game, anyway? hehehe.Senior primary was much easier, since they could do the craft on their own. We only had 15 minutes worth of singing time. Much easier - hehehe.I came home, got the kids lunch, and slept for 2 hours. Yeah, that nap felt good. The rest of the day was pretty lazy. We watched some Doctor Who (this season is super good!), cooked some soup for the kids for dinner, and just hung out for the rest of the day. Here it is, 10:32pm, and I'm gonna watch an episode of Fringe, and go to bed. If I got to bed by midnight, I'll get 7 hours. That's an improvement from the 5 I've been getting the past few nights. hehehe.OK, so dandelions aren't really pretty. Well, they are to a 2-8 year old. Especially boys. hehehe. They LOVE to pick them for us. I don't know how many little ugly flowers I've gotten for cute little boys over the years I've been a mother. And I love each and every one, for a second. Hehe. Until I can ditch the horrid little flower :) LOL! Anyway, always wanted a cute WordArt to use on picks of little boys (or girls, I guess too), with Dandelions. So here's what I came up with - hehehe.Click on the link below to go to my account to download the PNG file, and leave some love if you like my work. Thanks!4sharedbox.net