New Launch

Please go check out my new and improved Cake blog. Please notice the new name as well as the additions to my cake business. I am really excited about this next step and have been really looking at a way to incorporate all my 'craftiness' into a business and blessing others with my skills. Thanks.

I so LOVE my new toy......

I also got to get a die cut machine last week. I am slowly using my coupons to Hobby Lobby, Michaels, and Joann Fabrics to build up my embossing and die cut inventory. Here is the card I made to go with the baby book I made a few weeks ago. Gabe and I are seriously talking about being able to extend my cake business to include handmade crafts such as cards as well. Please keep checking the cake blog to see what and when we get everything decided. I can't wait!!!

A day to be unplugged

So, as I was checking the blogs this morning, my friend Shannon had posted a challenge to be 'unplugged' today and be creative. To turn off the tv, phones, computers and be creative. At first, I wasn't sure when we could do this challenge, but as I was commenting on her blog, I realized we could do it today. To help us out with staying home, Perryn didn't get dressed. She has just been in her panties only all day....we stayed home for sure.

Anyways, first off this morning, the children did some painting, I still had to get the laundry done and lunch cooked before I could really get into my creative day. Once I got going, I took off. I got 20 thank you cards done as a baby gift. I still need to go get the envelopes and take care of them, but the thank yous are done. Here are some pictures of our fun creative day....

Perryn and I both working on our new die cut machines!!

A weekend of friends and family

So on Saturday evening we went to South Austin to see my great-aunt and uncle and their two children and one granddaughter. They had come in from Huntington Beach California for a few days to visit with my great-uncle's mother. Rebekah and Mark had Addison in May, they are expecting a new baby in June of this year. This was the first time any of us got to meet Addison and see everyone since Rebekah and Mark's wedding 5 years ago.

Perryn and Addison.

Sam, Stephen, and Jake having a jam session.

Do we have a drummer in our future?

Perryn with one of her favorite cousins, Parker.

Then on Sunday afternoon after church we were invited to lunch and fun at some very dear friends of ours in Leander. Donnie and his son Matt, sang in our wedding. Donnie was also our College and Career Sunday School teacher right after we graduated high school and before we got married. I keep joking with Gabe that Donnie and his family are treating us like the 'prodigal' children who have returned home. They have been so gracious and loving to us for the past 13 years and we are so grateful to get to see them more often now.

Perryn and the girls on the tire swing. Perryn wasn't too sure about this.

Donnie and Gabe playing a 'horseshoe' type game.

Matt and Tim

Perryn and her new friends on the swing.

I've been tagged....

So, my friend Shannon has tagged me to let you know a little bit more about myself. So here it goes....

10 years ago:
We had just moved to Dallas on Valentine's Day. So, I was busy unpacking and working at Foley's (aka:Macy's now). Our first apartment was off of Royal Ln on Manderville Ln. We did NOT live there longer than 6 months....we were what one would call living in the ghetto!!

Things on my to-do list today:
Wash, fold, and put away ALL the laundry, grocery store, a run to Joann Fabrics to use my President's day coupon on some clearance Cuddlebug die cuts and embossing templates, run to Walmart to get meds, gym for spinning class, bathe my children, cook dinner.

What would I do if I were suddenly made a billionaire:
We would tithe the first 10%, pay off the debt, fund the college funds, buy a house, put some in savings, and help the 'building' fund at The Village Church, and then give some away to be determined at a later date.

Three of my bad habits:
I am a bit of procrastinator...I think I am getting a bit better though. I have a hard time with follow through when it comes to reading some books, sticking with a specific 'discipline game plan' for the children. And not fretting or 'worrying' about things that are not in my control.

Five jobs I have had:
1. Waitress at the Olive Garden.
2. Assistant Bridal Consultant at Foley's.
3. Special Ed Teacher in LISD...ick
4. Childcare worker at Lifetime Fitness
5. Bagger and Checker at HEB grocery store

Five things people don't know about me:
1. I got a 64o TOTAL on my SATs...I know what you are thinking, "Surely that is just the math section or the verbal section", but no it is the TOTAL SCORE.
2. My elementary PE teacher is now my mother-in-law.
3. I have received the Gold Award in Girl Scouts, which is equivalent to the Eagle Scout award in Boy Scouts. I removed 6 ft of concrete at my high school and put in a wheel chair ramp. The ramp is still there, but they moved a bit when they remodeled the high school gym.
4. I gained 60 pounds each time I was pregnant! I am still working on losing the last 15 pounds I gained with Perryn.
5. I helped my dad one fall umpire a high school baseball game. I think I was a senior in high school and he passed me off as a college freshman because the other umpire didn't show up. My dad had to put his hand on his head and point to the actual position I needed to stand in before the game could go on.

Ok, so now I tag Kristen T., Caroline, Lauren, Rebekah, Natalie, Kristyn H, and Keri