Birthdays!!!!!!

Here we are on Friday night blowing out our candles, we got together with family to celebrate some of the November birthdays! My niece Cassie had turned 16 so her dad's parents got her a car. What a lucky girl. She also had a sweet 16 party with a few friends Saturday night. I hope this will be a time she will never forget. Sad to say, but I turned 16 one day before she was born, I can't believe I am that old that now she is turning 16. Everyone had a great time.

Here is a picture of Cassie with her car.

Here is a picture with some of her friends from her party.

I want to wish everyone a Happy Thanksgiving! I am so thankful that God has blessed me with so many wonderful family members and friends. I look forward to being with them this holiday.

Dad's birthday card.

Ok dad if you get on before tonight don't look! I just made this card for my dad. Tonight we are going out to eat to celebrate some of the November birthdays. We are celebrating my dad's, mine and my niece Cassie. Here is dads card. Will try to get Cassie's done after I get the kids from school.



I don't know what has happened to the last few cards I have made, but I don't seem to being getting them straight. Sorry! Might be the extra hands I have helping me!

One more thing for tonight!

I want to start off by wishing my niece Cassie a sweet 16th birthday. I can't believe it has already been 16 years. Now everyone clear the roads as she gets her drivers license and car tomorrow. Just kidding. She is a great driver.

I wanted to share one more card I had made. I made some of these to hand out to some people from Dylan's soccer team who came to his party. I know I am bad as I only made it for them, everyone else who came to the party were family and really close friends who I hope knows that we are thankful and I don't need to give them a card. In case you are one of those and didn't know, let me say thanks for making Dylan's birthday so special. I put those magic bubble wands on these cards, you know the kind you just have to put the stick in water then blow on it and it makes bubbles. I first learned to make these cards at stamp club from Ann. Thanks Ann for the great idea. I love giving these out to kids. Now for the card:

End of soccer!

Well the kids soccer is now over. They all played so well and had a lot of fun! We had Emily play up so that her and Dylan could be on the same team so that it might be easier for us not to try getting 3 different places. Here is a picture of JT in action. Don't you love those bright yellow shoes. He just had to have them.

Here is a picture of Dylan. I love how I got him in mid-air.

This is Emily kicking in bounds . She did so well for her first year ever playing.

This is a cute card, that of course I got the idea from splitcoaststampers. Here is the one I CASE'd: http://www.splitcoaststampers.com/gallery/photo/586665?si=soccer%20thank%20you Hers is better! As team mom of Dylan and Emily's team I made these for their coaches. If you notice this was mainly a girl team. We only had Dylan and one other little boy.

Happy Anniversary honey!

Well Monday was Todd and I's 13 year anniversary. I can't believe it has been that long. I don't feel old enough to have been married that long. But if I had it to do all over, I wouldn't change a thing. Have I told you how sweet he is. Well Sunday morning he got up and started cleaning out my rosebush flowerbed. A few had fallen victim to ants and had died and then he went on a mission to get me enough new ones that I would have 13 rose bushes in all. This time a year though he couldn't find any I didn't already have or that were pretty enough. It is the thought that counts though! Instead he did come home Monday morning after working all night Sunday with some beautiful pink roses that had some pretty purple flowers too. Those are my two favorite colors. See I told you he is the best.

I made him this card below. It didn't turn out that great. It sounded better in my head than it came out, but then again I did it about midnight so I could set it out before he came home in the morning. This will be a lesson not to make cards while I should be sleeping.

Kids are so funny!

You can tell it is almost Thanksgiving by what the kids are coming home from school talking about. So tonight before dinner I hear JT calling Emily and Dylan into the living room. The next thing I know he comes running to me with the camera and says here mom take a picture of us. I had no idea why, but after I took the picture JT says "See just like the Indians." So here is my darling children totem pole! It is never a dull minute around here.

Sick again

Just when you think things are looking up reality comes and slaps you in the face and your looking back down. Now Dylan is sick. He started with a fever late Tuesday. Took him to the doctor today and he has a viral throat infection and we are going to just have to let it run its course since it is viral. I think he if starting to feel better though as he actually ate something tonight.

I'm still here.

I haven't posted lately as this is a busy time of year for us on top of JT being sick at the end of last week. He is all better now. I wanted to take a minute to wish a few greetings to some people. Happy 17th Anniversary to my sister Susan and her husband Hank. It was on November 3rd. Happy Birthday Daddy! I love you very much (his was on November 8). Happy Birthday to my really good friend who has been with me for years Beckie (November 8th). Happy 13th Anniversary to my wonderful husband. I don't know where I would be with out you. (That was yesterday November 12). Again Happy Birthday to Sydney (November 1) and my darling little boy Dylan (November 5). Next is my birthday, and my niece Cassie who will be Sweet 16 (mine is the 14th and hers is the 15th). After Thanksgiving it will be my moms birthday on November 30.

We are also finishing up soccer season. The kids had a great time and were all three on awesome teams. I can't believe the season is now over. I will post some new pictures as soon as I download them to the computer.

Now you can see why I have been so busy lately.

Also I changed my comment thing so any one can leave a comment if they want (Ok mom!) Hope everyone has a wonderful day!

Skating

Sunday was a good friend of mines daughters 8th birthday party. Happy Birthday Sydney (on November 1). She had her party at the skating rink. The kids had so much fun skating. Even Beckie (my friend) and I skated. This was not the first time the kids had skated, but it was the first time I remembered to bring the camera so I thought I would share a picture of the kids.

JT is sick.

Well last night JT started running a small fever and saying his tummy hurt. I gave him some medicine early in the evening and it went away and he was better by bedtime. He woke up several times throughout the night having crazy dreams so I took his temperature and it was back up about 3:30 this morning. He is better today, but I didn't send him to school as he didn't get much sleep. I know they had their district reading test today, but I don't think he would have done well on it with not much sleep. Funny thing is he missed the test last year because he was sick. If it wasn't for the fact that he did have a fever, I would think he is faking it just to miss the test, but I sure hope the school doesn't think he is faking.

Todd has been away at fire school this week, but is on his way home now. Can't wait for him to get home. Hope everyone else is doing well.

Dylan's 6!

It's hard to believe that 6 years ago today, our second son was born. He has been a blessing to us all. I went to the school and brought him lunch. Of course he wanted McDonalds! We had a good time and went outside to recess with him afterwards. With daddy out of town at fire school I told him he could pick where he wanted to go eat dinner at (no sense in me cooking) as long as it was local, so he asked to go to Cici's pizza. Not my favorite place, but it was what he wanted and he was excited that his cousin Hank went with us too!

We had his birthday on Saturday at Chuck E. Cheeses. He had a great time and had lots of family and friends there to celebrate with him. I think he had a wonderful 6th birthday. At least I hope he did!

Invitation

Well about two weekends ago me, my two sisters Susan and Christy, two of my nieces Cassie and Tori and our mom had a girls sleepover. We had a lot of fun. We watched a movie and sat around eating and talking. Was so great to spend time with them. My mom and my sister Susan went home late that night though. The rest of us got up the next morning and made Cassie's Sweet 16 invitations. Susan came over and helped too. The invitations turned out cute, what do you think?




I have to admit, I CASE'd the idea of the card from splitcoasstampers. Here is a the one I used: http://www.splitcoaststampers.com//gallery/photo/486261?si=16th It is much better than mine, but I changed it a little as we made 40.

Halloween

Well yesterday was Halloween and we went up to the church for the Hallelujah Fest. The kids had a great time. We played some games and rode pony's and the train and ate too much junk.
Here is a picture of Princess Emily, Motorcross racer JT and Spiderman Dylan.

Here we go!

Well, I thought I would give this thing a try. I have considered blogging for a while as a way for family and friends to see what is going on in our lives. I named it family, life, love because it will be about my family, my life and the things and people I love. I don't know how often I will post, but would love to hear from anyone when they come by to visit. Plan to use this for family things, but will also post things that I create from time to time like cards and scrapbook pages.