SITS!!!

Ok, so if you haven't found SITS (Secrets in the Sauce), then you're missing out. I don't make it over there everyday, but when I do, I find the greatest giveaways as well as some of the funniest people on the planet.

Well guess what? They are having TWO really cool giveaways, the first is a CRICUT Expressions. These are valued at about $399!! There are some rules and some hoops to jump through to get in on the contest, but the cool thing, it's ALL month. The winner will be announced Oct 1st...There is STILL time to enter!!! Woohoo...I'm entering!!

Second, is I am the contest giveaway for THIS Saturday, as in tomorrow, Sept 13. Go check out SITS and follow their directions and then visit me on my cards blogs!! It's really VERY simple if you think about it!!! I would love to create something for everyone, but there really can only be one winner...will it be you???

Something fun with only ONE word:

I was sent this an email from my client Michelle, I thought it would be fun to post instead of sending out again as an email.

You can only type ONE word!!

Not as easy as you might think. Now copy or forward, change the answers to suit you and pass it on. It's really hard to only use one word answers.

1. Where is your cell phone? bed

2. Where is your significant other? work

3. Your hair? blonde

4. Your mother?Julia

5. Your father? Gene

6. Your favorite thing? creativity

7. Your dream last night? pregnancies

8. Your dream/goal? happiness

9. The room you're in? 'studio'

10. Your hobby? scrapbooking

11. Your fear? missions

12. Where do you want to be in 6 years? happy

13. Where were you last night? bed

14. What you're not? motivated

15. One of your wish list items? house

16. Where you grew up? Liberty Hill

17. The last thing you did? worked

18. What are you wearing? shorts

19. your TV on? yes

20. Your pet? dead

21. Your computer? HP

22. Your mood? tired

23. Missing someone? Yes

24. Your car? silver

25. Something you're not wearing? socks

26. Favorite store? Joanns

27. Your summer? hot

28. Love someone? yes

29. Your favorite color? orange

30. When is the last time you laughed? today

31. Last time you cried? unsure

32. Who will resend this? unknown

33. How many sisters? one

34. How many brothers? one

Good Friends

So, a few months ago I made a new friend in Rachel. She used to teach with my mom in Taylor and she and I hit off right away. We have been hanging out and texting often (except this week since school started...she's ignoring me :P). Anyways she was kind enough to give me this:

Well today, I got a wonderful surprise package in the mail from my friend Wendi. When we were younger (11 years ago) her and her husband, and me and Gabe would hang out and do some fun stuff together. We lost touch when we moved to Dallas and they moved to Seattle. Then about 6 years ago we found them in a Home Depot in Lewisville....go figure that one out all GOD. We got to hang out again, but then lost touch a little bit again when they moved to Sugarland. But now that we are in Round Rock, and we have gotten to see them 3 times in about 4 months...I know we are very special!!! In fact, this last time Wendi and the kids got to spend about 8 hours with us. So we had 6 children UNDER the age of 5 in my tiny little apartment. All the kids did great and we even took them swimming. It took me until Thursday to get the apt back together, but that's only because I just ignored the mess...heehee.

Well, Wendi surprised me today with a package in the mail. In fact, I was so surprised that we even had a package I opened it in the apartment office. Look what I found inside:

I know...what your thinking...why am I so excited to get this stuff!?! Well, first of all...it's fun new stuff to play with and to help make my card business better!!! Second, because it is such a sweet thank you from an old friend that I wish I was able to be closer with!! I think my favorite part of the whole box is in the lower left portion of the picture...it's a fun little digital picture sphere....I am just sad that I don't think I have any triple a batteries...oh well...i will get it to work soon....maybe even before taco night tomorrow!!!

Please pray for Abby!

Does everyone follow the Riggs family blog? If you are not familiar with this amazing family.... check out their blog. They are a diverse family and full of love. They have 4 biological children, 2 children from Guatemala, and a beautiful daughter from Ethiopia. One of their Guatemalan children, Abby, was recently diagnosed with Leukemia. Bless her little heart. She is precious!

Abby has some pretty intensive chemo treatments 1-4 times per week for the next 5 MONTHS.... This means lots of time at the hospital, lots of time needing to be spent helping Abby.... a lot less time for making meals and cleaning houses, etc...

You can read more about what is going on at the Rigg's blog.

So many of us who do not live in the area have wanted to help but haven't known what we could do. WELL HERE WE GO! Some sweet friends of mine who live in the area ( Amy B and Carol B- Lauren's mom) are putting together plans for how to serve this family during this difficult time. Part of this will be providing lots of meals for them to relieve some of the stress. We want these precious parents to be able to focus on their children as much as possible. Let's help them do that!

If you are interested in sending or giving money for meals, that is welcomed. Either contact Amy to send the payment, or pay via paypal. (Directions on how to do this below) A few of these friends in OKC area are going to be making frozen meals at Supper Thyme to give to the family. (One meal to serve 7 is approximately $25) If you live local and are interested in delivering a frozen or refrigerated meal to them at the hospital, either message Amy at amyde63@hotmail.com or leave a comment at her blog.

Directions to give via paypal: Once you are logged into your account, click Send Money. In the "To" box, type in my email address - amyde63@hotmail.com Type in the amount, and then click services/other, and then click continue. Wah lah.

Would you also consider posting this on your blog to help us spread the word??? THANK YOU SO MUCH! This is what we are supposed to be for one another.... let's stop long enough to care.

Our weekend at the Ranch

So, I've been extremely busy with my little card business over the last few week. Please go check it out and see what all I've been up to, hence why I've not blogged much. But here it goes for our fun weekend.

Gabe was on call on Saturday and worked on Sunday, so he couldn't go with us. The children and I loaded up and road to Burnet with my parents. It's about a 30-45 min trip from our apartment in Round Rock. We got there just in time to change clothes and head over to the wedding. The wedding was supposed to start at 7pm, but we had a small 10-15 min rain delay!!

Once the shower passed, we were able to dry our seats and the wedding got under way. There was only one other small delay in that we were waiting on Jessica, but the rain was still over the barn where she and the wagon were. The rain sure did make for a memorable wedding!!!

After the wedding we headed to the Fair Barn for the reception. Perryn and Teagan were up 4 hours PASSED their bedtime, which made for a hard Sunday. (On a side note: most children who go to bed TOO late, sleep late right? Not mine...they were up at 7 AM and had both been up once during the night too!!!!) We went had brunch with the family at Highlanders, then back up to the ranch to help feed the horses and get a chance to ride one. Perryn got to go first which made for a nice fit from Teagan. But he was excited to be distracted with picking up rocks!!??!!

We got to each lunch with Uncle Mo, Annie Bell, and Glenna Bell. Jessica and Kyle came for a short visit and then we left at about 3. Teagan was asleep before we had the truck packed to come back and Perryn was asleep before we were out of town!! We were ALL asleep by 9pm that night!!!

Here are my favorite pictures from the weekend and then there are more in the slideshow to the right. I also put in some of our other summer fun in the slide show too. Enjoy!!

Teagan soaking wet after the rain delay!!!
Perryn worried about more rain!!

Big Daddy and Teagan talking to Cody.

Perryn and Cody

Teagan and Cody

Cody and Jessica

Crashed on the way back to Round Rock.

Can't get the video to upload...maybe another day!!!