Busy Saturday

I realize that I want to include photos with my posts but will always be a day behind.  So it may be Sunday when I am writing about Saturday's activities.

After spending all hours of the night watching movies, scrapbooking and looking at old photos, no one was ready to rise early the next morning.  Kirk was the only one awake and enjoying a beautiful morning, with the birds singing, on the deck doing work.  Actually, I believe I really woke up when the new neighbors moving trucks arrived around 8 a.m. but didn't get out of bed until 10:30. Still dragging around today.  Jordan was such a good hostess and made all of her friends waffles for breakfast.  After everyone left, we dressed and headed out to the Greenville Downtown Airport to find out about the Young Eagles program.  Well, they do not offer the Young Eagles program here but did tell us all about flying and becoming a pilot.  I took a couple of photos of the plane we checked out.  Too bad all the private jets that flew in for the BMW Classic were all gone already.  Maybe we could have spotted a celebrity!!!!

The rest of the afternoon, I worked on the following table decorations for the confirmation dinner at Advent.  Finished painting the sticks just in time to get to the dinner and help out.  We had a team of 12-15 youth helpers that did an awesome job of serving the confirmands, parents and mentors dinner.  I included a picture of how it turned out. I used the Cricut Inspired Heart cartridge using my gypsy.

We also celebrated the end of the year for youth group at Advent UMC with messy night.  Here is a picture of Jordan all decorated up sweet.

Birthday night

Wow, it's Friday and we are bone tired.  The girls and I worked the used home school book sale all day yesterday. Sold a lot but also brought home a lot of books.  Looks like I will be ebaying in the upcoming future. The flexibility of homeschooling has come in handy today.  We slept late and have been getting the house cleaned up for a little birthday celebration tonight.  My baby turned 14 last week and we are celebrating tonight with a home cooked meal of grilled hamburgers, potato pops and salad.  We will add some sparkling juice from IKEA to make it special. Yummy!  Here is some of the yummy food and cake we enjoyed.

End of a season

This morning finds me in a very creative mood and seeing the end of swim season in sight. The girls both swim today and then we will be finished. Kirk and I are both proud of them for making top 40 in the county. I will not miss being consumed running the team behind the scenes...in fact I'm not sure what I will do with all of my free time! :))) Maybe a little scrapping and cardmaking? Off to get to work and hopefully post some creations.

Welcome to the Birthday Blog Skip, Hop & Dance sponsored by Stamping Bella! If you've just happened upon my blog, you can CLICK HERE to start from the beginning at Bloggabella.

I had so much fun creating this birthday card for the hop. I used daydreambella and copic markers. The clothes use RV11 and RV 34 , the rug is BG 10 and BG 23, the chair is E33 and E35, the cloud uses B00 and the cat is done in the warms W1, W3, and W5.

Happy Birthday!

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Blog Birthday Hop

Just saw the list for the birthday blog hop beginning tomorrow. Getting excited and cannot wait to see everyone's creations!

Father's Day

Wow, what a day! Woke up to rain and steam. Very muggy outside so it was a good day to be inside. Listened to a great sermon on Jacob, a character from our family album. Hard to find a family today that is not dsyfuncial...but we still love and support each other.

Ate lunch at Compadres near the Drive Stadium. Best taco salad I've had in awhile. Kirk didn't care for his burrito. After lunch it was off to the Greenville Little Theater for "Carousal". Enjoyed the show. Couldn't believe I have never seen it performed before.

Shared dinner with our German neighbors and boy was it good! Even had pudding from Germany....yummy.

Spoke with my father and got in trouble for not sending a card which I knew was coming. I handled that well until he asked me about my run-in with the police. The little girl came out in me and I didn't want to tell him what happened...thanks Jane for telling on me :) I've shared the funny story with many others but was afraid of my own father! Once I told him I was not arrested he laughed with me about the whole situation. Letterboxing is starting to get me into too much trouble.

Happy Father's Day to all.

Here is one of my creations for my fabulous father who is also a great fisherman. I used the Greeting Farm stamp with Copic markers.

Afternoon musings

Well, the swim meet this morning went well. The little guppies are so cute and want to try so hard. I remember when my girls were like that. Kelsey did get up and go with me. Glad to be in the water as it was already quite warm out at 9 in the morning.

Walked home and was accosted by Jordan. She gave me an earful about waking her up in the mornings. Always on the phone or yelling into the computer screen when talking via skype. I guess she is turning into a teenager. I did offer Kelsey a Coke for her getting up and told Jordan too bad...this was her reply, "I don't want one because it makes your insides rot!"

Thanks goes out to Kelsey for finding this cute page. She is my computer guru.

Now off to shower and get ready to host a dinner party.

First Day

Welcome to my blog! This is something I have been meaning to do and never got around to. I want to post daily, my thoughts, trials, inspirations and projects. I seem to be losing too much of my everyday happenings as time continues to fly by me. I welcome you to join me on my journey to learning more about ourselves and what makes us tick.

Now, I have to go and put on my bathing suit to help out our littlest swimmers at their guppy meet this morning at the Riverwalk pool. Also trying to get my two teens out of bed to help out. So far not very successful.