Spring is coming! I feel it!

Well, yesterday was an absolutely BEAUTIFUL day! I don't know what the high temp ended up being, but I know they were calling for 73*! Nevan was excited because I FINALLY called his little girlfriend's mom to set up a playdate. We decided to meet after school at the playground, just because that is easy! Breleigh is a beautiful little girl and she is just CRAZY about Nevan! LOL! They are something else! You should've heard the two of them when it was time to leave, coming up with all kinds of reasons why one or the other of them needed to come to the others house NOW. LOL! We live so close too...so it's not like it'll be hard to get them together! While we were there, P's little girlfriend from MMO showed up! They were a funny little pair too!

I should be cleaning right now, but I'm always such a procrastinator! I've got two girls coming over tomorrow evening for a "Cricut" party! We're just gonna have a good time, scrapping or whatever and we'll get the chance to use a cart we might not have. I did get the basement vacuumed, but I'm seriously considering getting after it with a mop too...We're not even gonna talk about what upstairs looks like!

And my P is less than one month away from being 3 years old!!! OMG! And let me tell ya...he's already working on that 3 year old attitude! UGH! I always said 3 was worse than 2!!! I have no idea what to do for his party...especially since that will be Easter weekend too! I may just invite family and leave it at that.

I started Weight Watchers last Thursday. Tomorrow will be my first official weigh-in. I hope I've lost something! I've been really good and the only "sugar" I've had was in the Baked Oatmeal I made over the weekend. I've been eating fruits instead of the sugary stuff. One good thing that has already happened with ME being on WW is, the boys are eating more fruit! I bought some big bags of frozen mixed fruit at Sam's and we've almost eaten the whole bag! If I leave it frozen, they think they've got popsicles! Speaking of...I think I'm gonna go get some blueberries!

Did I tell you Izzy broke her leg??? On Valentine's Day?? Yep! Sure did!!! We're still not real sure how she did it other than she fell wierd off the bed when Mark was playing with her. She's already out of the splint and acts like nothing happened! She'll go back to the vet in a week and a half and will probably be given the okay to go full steam ahead! Thank goodness she is young and still growing, or that break would've meant surgery!!!

Well, better go reload the dishwasher before time to pick H up from school!

MORE SNOW!!!!

Can you believe it?!?!?! We are getting our 3rd snow for this winter season!!! This has to be the most wintery winter we've had in YEARS!!! It started about 4:15 and hasn't let up. We've got a couple of inches now... At least it'll get the boys out of the house tomorrow! :)

I'm hoping to get down to my scrap room after the boys go to bed. I want to participate in the weekend crop at www.scrapbookdeals4U.com!! I signed up for a scraplift challenge where we get paired up with another person...but they won't know who is lifting them until the end...kind of like a "secret admirer". I wanted to add some newer stuff to my SLIDE thingy so my "admirer" would have something to choose from...but I'm really on the wrong computer for that. Maybe she'll be able to find something! LOL! Normally, we'd have just picked from our gallery at SD4U, but the gallery isn't playing nice and won't let some of us upload...gotta love technology sometimes! :)

Somebody remind me to NOT buy cookies!!! That's all my boys wanna eat...along with the Valentine's candy they brought home from school today. UGH! Speaking of Valentine's...I'll have to upload the pic of the Valentines the boys took to school. They turned out really cute!!! I can't take credit for the idea of them...gotta thank the Family Fun website for that, but they were fun to make!

Well, let's go tackle bedtime! Wish me luck!

Roses are Red Crop...

Head on over to www.scrapbookdeals4U.com this weekend and join in the "Roses are Red" Crop!!! Looks like there are gonna be lots of fun challenges...and they are already posting pre-crop challenges to get you a head start on tickets for the drawing at the end! I'm gonna be there...so join me!!!

I posted my first challenge as a DT member over at www.scrap-friendzy.com on Monday. Go check it out and be inspired! Would love to see you create a page for this! It was a lot of fun!

And, man! Am I late on this one! The February challenge should be up at www.momentsrecorded.blogspot.com. Go check it out too!!!!!

There's a lot going on to keep me and YOU busy and inspired!!!!!

Taxes...yuck. A pretty kit...YUM!

The past 2 years, I've prepared our taxes using TurboTax. Everything was relatively simple, so I felt confident I wouldn't mess them up. But this year, with all the unemployment, job changes, and Mark working in another state, I thought I needed a professional. The lady who used to do ours sold out to Jackson Hewitt and the rates were outrageous! So a friend had suggested someone to me. So, I went this morning. I was gonna drop them off, but then we'd be at the mercy of "we'll get to them as we can"...meaning it could be months before we see our prepared return! So, I look around the waiting room at about 4 other patrons...waiting.... I signed my name to the bottom of the list and decided to wait along with them. Well, the waiting room was FREEZING cold! I read an entire Redbook magazine while my teeth were chattering. 2.5 hours later, I was still in the waiting room!!! These people don't realize I only have 3 hours, 2 mornings a week that I don't have kids!!! Wasting those hours REALLY makes me mad! So I left because I had to pick up kids. Then I decided I'd just do them myself again. So, I spent the time between when we got home and time to pick up H from school, filing our taxes. But they are DONE! AND we're getting a refund! I was worried with us having to withdraw some of Mark's 401k. So glad that's over with for another year!

Go check out this month's kit from Scrap-Friendzy at www.shop-friendzy.blogspot.com!!! Isn't it beee-u-ti-ful?!?!?! You want one...you know you do! That's why you should run over and place your order before they get gone! Supplies are limited...HURRY!!!! :) You'll thank me for it!

Ooh!!! I hope this is a sign of how this year's gonna go!

Yesterday, Mark got a phone call. It was Tier One Solutions...the staffing agency for the BMW plant. They asked him to come back to work! And it's a permanent job!!!! It's still a lot less money than we are used to having, but Mark can still look for something else that's more money and closer to home. He goes in TONIGHT!!!!

AND!!!!! Just the icing on the cake!! I got accepted as a Design Team member at www.scrap-friendzy.com!!! I'm SUPER excited!!!

The boys are on Day 2 of snow days...we got about 7 inches of snow last Friday night and some side roads still aren't that clear. I PRAY they go to school tomorrow or I might have to start drinking!

Time to update...

The BLOG that is! I was just looking at my Slide and man! Does it need an update or what??? I'll try to work on that later! And I need to change my background...something wintry....

Today has been a lazy, scrappy kind of day! I'm participating in the Sketch-a-thon over at www.scrap-friendzy.com and have completed 2 pages and 4 cards!!! I've got a 3rd page about half done...I should finish it tonight! I'm soooo glad the holidays are over and that challenges and online crops are starting up again!!!

I've also been stalking the website over at www.dixiepieces.com . I applied for their DT call and they are supposed to announce it today. You think they'll send an email first???

Well, let me go finish up dinner...I'm starving!!!!

Wow! Did I fall behind or what???

I didn't complete my Thankfulness journal...I didn't complete my December Daily...I didn't do the Holiday's in Hand class! I guess there's always next year! :)

We had a great Christmas. The boys got a Boxer puppy named Izzy on Christmas Eve...Mark and I met one of Santa's elves to get her since Santa couldn't bring her on his sleigh. ;) And then, on Christmas morning, the boys both got Nintendo DS's!! It was the ONE gift each said they'd want if they could only have one...and Santa HAD to come thru!!!

I can't believe tomorrow is New Year's Eve! But I am sooooo glad to be putting 2009 behind us. I hope and pray that 2010 is better to us! DH's temporary job at the BMW plant is over...but he's expecting to get called back...we're just waiting. In the meantime, he'll be signing back up for unemployment. I applied for a job with Gaston Co. in the tax department...so far, no word. Something, somewhere has GOT to give!!!

I hope everyone has a great New Year!!!