Happy Halloween

HAPPY HALLOWEEN EVERYONE!!!!
Well I hope that everyone had a great Halloween!
We had the best day today! It started with a party at Andrew's school. All the kids got to dress up in their costume's and then have a parade around the school to show off how cute..or scary they looked! After the parade each classroom had their own class party. I volunteered Rob and I to help out in the classroom. I made cupcakes that each kid could decorate with sprinkles and put together some "goody bags" that included candy, a pencil, tattoos, and some playdough! Other parents brought some veggies (EWW) and juice. They seemed to have a great time!
This was Rob's first year off for Halloween since we met s the boys were pretty excited about TRICK or TREATING!! See, Rob loves to dress up for Halloween and scare the crap out of little kids. He usually is the only one at work who dresses up and then stands at the front of the store and scares people as they come up to the door. But this year Halloween fell on his day off!
After dinner we got our costumes on and headed to the best neighborhood on earth for trick or treating! They have a bunch of houses that participate and they give out a lot of candy per kid. Rob of course was in seventh heaven! He was scaring just about every kid out tonight. He made kids stop in their tracks and turn around and go the other direction!! It was GREAT!!! He even got a few adults to scream.
Once Andrew's bag was full we went to our old neighbors house to say hello (we had not seen them since we moved..bad us!) It was nice seeing them and catching up.
What a great day had by all. It sure was one to remember!

MY FIRST VOTE!!!!!

WOOHOOOO!!!!
I voted for the first time in my 38 years!
I am so excited about the whole election process this year . I have never been one to get into politics. I find the whole thing a bit dull. A bunch of people telling you the lies that you want to hear and never actually doing any of the stuff they promise you. I have always had the mentality of, my vote wont count anyway!
Well this year I totally got into it! I started really paying attention to what everyone was saying...or not saying!! I listened and read about all of the Amendments and watched all the debates.
I got a bit worried when my mail in ballot did not show up at the same time as my husbands. When it finally got here I looked it over very carefully and made my choices with a lot of thought behind it.
Today as we got ready to go drop our ballots off at the polling place (not taking any chances with mailing them in) I made sure to snap a picture of us with our envelopes. We drove 20 minutes out of our way and gently handed the guy working there our envelopes with our secret inside. He handed us our "I voted today" stickers and we drove off...feeling very proud!!!
So hopefully everyone will get out and vote if you haven't already!

HE DID IT!!

I am so freakin proud of my hubby!! He just found out that he passed his Algebra class. He has worked so hard on his school work and was a bit nervous about taking his final. It was almost 1am by the time he was done, but he passed the class and hopefully he will not have to take Algebra ever again..LOL
Way to go Baby..I am so PROUD of YOU!!!

My Birthday Gift from My Boys!

While my husband and I were at my sisters house last night doing his algebra final my sweet boys were home making me this beautiful card and cleaning up the living room for my birthday gift!! They know that I love to have my house cleaned for my birthday...better than anything you can buy! They are so sweet! My youngest wanted to take me to the store the next day to buy me some paper for my birthday...which of course is my second favorite gift!!

What a great birthday!!!

Card for Cindy!

My nieces birthday was on the 19th this month so my sister asked me to make her a card for her 28th birthday! I think it turned out pretty nice! I used my Pazzles Inspiration to make the card (just playing around with some welding tools). Then I had my machine cut two different patterned papers for the front. I also cut the words and the flowers with my PI! Added some cute ribbon and there ya go a cute card!

A Few Pages For My Birthday!!

Well I woke up this morning to Andrew singing me HAPPY BIRTHDAY right in my face!! I love that!! He loves to sing and is pretty good at it I must say!

So ...I made it to 38!! Good Lord that seemed so old a few years back. Now although I am feeling a bit old ( the way my body is falling apart) I realize that 38 is not so bad. For years I would tell people that I was 25, but now 13 years later I must admit defeat and tell them that yes, I really am 38!

Not much happening for my birthday. Andrew, Nathan and Rob made me a cake and everyone sang to me. Nothing exciting as far as gifts. I usually buy what I want anyway...LOL (why have to wait a whole year to get what you want)

So I was invited to go to Archivers to meet up with a few lady's from one of my Yahoo groups yesterday for a crop. As I was going through some pictures and deciding what I wanted to bring with me I got a bit carried away! I ended up staying home and just cropping by myself. I have not made a scrapbook layout for a while with ScrappersBuzz.com taking off so I totally got in the mood and could not stop myself! Above are the two layouts that I made. I used my Pazzles to make all the embellishments...LOVE THAT MACHINE!! It is so freeing to not have to buy all my embellishments anymore. I know I spent a lot on my machine, but in the long run it will save me tons of money on embellishments. I mean I can make anything I want with it, including my own rubber stamps! HOW COOL IS THAT!

A fast week!

Well this week has went by pretty fast considering I have not done much of anything!! I had such a hectic week last week that I guess my body decided that I needed to slow down a bit.
I have the go ahead from Andrew's teacher for the Halloween party at school! I have filled all 20 of the goody bags and have some kind of idea what snack we will be bringing. Rob and I will most likely be dressing up in costumes. Kinda fun scaring kids!!
The varsity team won their game on Friday and let me tell you it was TENSE!!! I was so tired when we got home from all the screaming and jumping up and down that I did..LOL! Unfortunately Jr. Varsity lost in a major way today!! Only one game left for each! Varsity has already gotten their spot in the playoff games..WOOHOO! GO FARMERS!!!

MY BOY LETTERED!!!!!!!

WOOO-HOOOO!!!
I am so excited! I received an invitation to my oldest son's school for the Academic Achievement Awards for this morning. So we got up early this morning and got ready for this event. I will be honest I thought it was going to be kinda dull.. lets face it most school events are! To my great surprise I was wrong..I don't admit that very often but this time I must.
We arrived at the school and walked in and they had a table set up with a bunch of large envelopes organized by names. My son got his envelope and we were told to go into the auditorium and find a seat. The students sat on one side and the parents sat on the other. He gave me the envelope and took off to sit with his friends...big surprise! I opened the envelope and to my GREAT SURPRISE was a Letterman's letter !! A huge W R plain as day. I called him over to show him and wanted to burst out of my seems with pride. He lettered for his GPA! I am so proud of him!! He also received a silver medal and a paper award! They were doing a drawing at the end of the service for gift cards and low and behold he also got a $10.00 gift card to Starbucks!!
Now I get the joy of going to the store to pick out his Letterman's jacket. The football coach told him that if they go to State that if he plays in just one play he will letter in football too!
I of course wanted to smooch him and hug him to show him how proud I am of his amazing accomplishments but I didn't want to embarrass him in front of his friends. SO I told him that after practice today he is fair game for all the hugs and love I want to bestow on him...LOL
WAY TO GO MY SWEET BOY!!!!

On my way!

Pretty boring day today. I feel like a taxi driver with all the back and forth driving that I do! Next year my oldest son will be getting his drivers permit and I will have to grit my teeth to teach him to drive...WOW!
I have been uploading cards like crazy to ScrappersBuzz.com. I do hope that it takes off pretty soon. I have been having trouble sitting for long periods of time so making cards has been an issue for me. I hope to be back up and running soon. I am tired of feeling like crap!

My first post!

Well..
This is my first post! I am really excited about having a blog where my friends and family can come see what I have been up to!
Not really sure what I will be doing with my blog, but you will have to keep checking back to see!