I SOOOOO Miss my Friends!

Dear Diary...Well Hello ! Long time no post! I am sure that everyone was loosing sleep @ night wondering what in the world ever became of me :) Well... I have been working (& LOVING it!) Volleyballing (it's just ended) & just staying really busy in general. Things I have not been doing: Staying in contact with my good friends, scrapbooking & cleaning house (you could probably hide a full grown elephant in my house right now...seriously...well maybe it's not quite that bad. I just hate housework!) I have not had the time to scrapbook 1 single time since I started my job 4 months ago!!! (pitiful I know!)I really do miss it so much & really miss getting together with my scrappin buddies! I do get to decorate a 6x4 bulletin board each month so I hope that it counts as scrappin...I do use my scrappin paper & supplies & cricut on it though. I have still been taking lots of pictures though. Well...School starts soon & Kadence will go to kindergarten (boo-Hoo) & Ashtyn will go to Jr.High (boo-hoo) KK is ready & Ashtyn is not. Ashtyn is in band camp this week & next week too I think. Hard to believe she will be 13 next month! I promise to get some pics added to the next post of the girls. No time tonight though. I am already up past my bedtime :) funny how things change when you get a job! Well we went to Columbia mid July for ball. We went up 2 days early to watch baseball (fri. & sat) & we played volleyball on Sunday. Ashtyn played up with an older group of girls & we got 3rd. Not 1st like last year but 3rd is not bad out of 11 teams! Alot harder this year....they had some awesome teams! We had a blast! Well had to charge my ipod & noticed that I had not been on the computer since June 20 :( had over 1,000 emails to go through! arrh! Well I had better go & get clothes layed out for tomorrow in case I oversleep again! I just wanted to let everyone know I was still kicking & I will now post more often I promise! I miss seeing you all sooooo much! Talk to you all real soon I hope! Goodnight!

BACK TO WORK FOR ME!

Dear Diary, Well I did it! I went back to work. Found out that I got the Activities Director job @ Advance Nursing Center while I was on my trip to CKC. (Right after I had purchased my Rusty Pickle "Work is for People who don't scrapbook " T-shirt :) LOL... I have been there for 2 weeks now & love it very much! I got to have my monthly resident B-day party the other day & the residents had a blast! KK went to Daycare for the first time ever on Tuesday. She cried Monday night & so did I. But when I picked her up on Tuesday afternoon she ran to me & said "I had so much fun today, I love it here!" so that made me feel alot better. She actually woke me up this morning & said "I'm gonna be late for school" when I told her that she was not going today because it was Saturday she cried & was mad for a little while :) Well Ashtyn's Volleyball team took 1st at the Little Stoddard County Tournament on April 5th in Bell City! YIPPEE! (this was the one I left CKC early for & glad I did) One more tournament to go @ Puxico this next Saturday. Then that will be it for Elementary volleyball .next year....J.R. High Ball. Hard to believe that I will have one going to Kindergarten & 1 going into J.R. High this fall. Pray for me! :) I had a blast @ CKC! Next year hoping that there will be no tournaments to interfere with it & I will get to stay the whole weekend! I worked the Dollar Scrapbooking Booth again this year & had a blast there as well. They really had some cool stuff this year! I saw Rona & Sid for just a sec. & really regret that I did not get to see them more. I did a Piggy Tales make & Take with Deb M. (Thanks Deb!)Phoebe & I roomed with Penne & Cynde & went to the Friday night crop together (thanks for saving that table for us girls :) Cynde & Phoebe won door prizes! Lucky Ducks! Penne & I were not so lucky though....Waaah!) Well better get goin, need to go to bed! Everybody have a GREAT week! & Keep on scrapin!

HAPPY EASTER

Dear Diary....Hello! I hope that everyone had a good Easter! Ours was good! Although Ashtyn does not still believe in the "Easter Bunny" , she does still believe in getting a basket every year ;) I loaded KK up with small toys & coloring books instead of alot of candy...because frankly she is hiper enough without all of the added sugar & she thinks that you should sit & eat ALL of the candy at 1 time & that leads to a 2-3 day sugar high :) not good! OK, my mom convinced me to do the traditional "Egg Dying" thing with the girls this year since she was with Grandpa @ the hospital (they usually do it @ her house with her the night before Easter). I usually opt for the plastic eggs since they are already colored & I can fill them with goodies. {Hey..let's just face it, maybe I am just too lazy :)...& I do not like the mess & this year I could buy 1 doz. plastic ones for .33 compared to almost $2.00 for a doz. real ones???!!!) anyway, I humored all of them & it was not so bad after all. Maybe that will be a new tradition for us on Easter. {I still used a few plastic ones though :) but only a few & I used my food coloring instead of those pesky little tablets that come in the kits. & surprisingly it was not messy at all.} we took grandma her basket & then took grandpa his at the hospital. I am happy to report that he is doing very well & will get to leave the hospital today . He will not be going directly home though. They will transport him to the nursing home here in town to help him recover & then he will get to come back home.He knows that it is not a permanent thing & is fine with that. So, it's a good thing since he will get better faster (think I have watched too much Martha S. :) that's KK's favorite saying now too...everything is "a good thing") Well I guess I had better get going. I just wanted to make a quick post to wish everyone a Happy Easter! Have a Great week & Keep Scrappin!

QUACK, QUACK, WADDLE, WADDLE!

Dear Diary, anyone else feeling like a duck right about now??? I sure am! This weather is absolutely CRAZY! The 3 ways to the highway from my house were all flooded on Tuesday morning. Yep, I was stranded (until Tom got home with the truck anyway) It's really funny how many things that you think you really have to have RIGHT NOW when you are stranded...for instance, I really needed a Mr. Pibb & a Reese's candy bar. I was just sure that I would die with out them so I phoned in my order to Tom before he got home. Actually I really did not HAVE to have them or even need them for that matter BUT...it was just the fact that I could not just hop in my car & go to town when ever I wanted..anyway that's just me & my silly way of thinking! Well only 15 more days till CKC St.Louis! Whoo Hoo!! My girls (as sweet as they are :0) & I do really LOVE them) are driving me absolutely BONKERS this week! I need a break & PRONTO!!! Plus I love getting together with my buddies to scrap! Well my grandpa fell & fractured his hip the other day & had surgery today. He is doing fine & Today was his Birthday! HAPPY BIRTHDAY GRANDPA!! Will be doing alot of trips to Cape to visit & check on him the next few days so I think I am meeting up with Cynde & Penne tomorrow for lunch @ Olive Garden (I love that place!) I am so excited to get to see them & maybe we can chat about CKC & what our plans are for that w-end. I wonder when Dutchtown will open the roads back up? Now I am having to go to Blomeyer to Chaffee to Scott City & interstate to Cape. But it's to see Grandpa , so he's worth it :) Well better get going so I can get to bed & get up early. Hope everyone stays dry!

Happy St. Patty's Day!

Dear Diary.....Shame on me! It has almost been 1 month since my last post. I have been very busy , but that's really no excuse! Today is St. Patty's Day...Hope everyone remembered to wear their Green today! Actually I did forget to tell Ashtyn to wear Green to school today :( so I hope that she does not get pinched too much today! Well I did it...I enrolled KK in Kindergarten last week. That was such a tough decision for me. I really wanted her home 1 more year with me, but she's ready & it's time to let her go. She did not want to go at all but after registration she is soooo excited to go now! My friend Phoebe get's to go to CKC with me so it looks like I will get to go YIPPEE!!! I only get to stay Friday because Ashtyn has a v-ball tourn. on Saturday but at least I still get to go! I am soooooo happy! So Cynde & Penne add 2 to the room :) Hobby Lobby has a 40% off 1 item coupon this week if anyone needs one. It is so wierd going to Jackson & not stoping by the store. I miss it so very much! I wish Rona well in her E-bay adventures! I love ebay ! I need to list myself but it is so time consuming but I will get around to it someday :) Well better get going just wanted to make a quick post to let everyone know that I am still around! Have a great week! Angelia

Welcome Baby Maggie!

Dear diary, First off I would like to Welcome baby Maggie to the world! Congratulations April & her family! She is adorable! Now on to something that is not that plesant....the weather! What the heck is going on????? Thunder, rain, sleet, snow. Just makes me want to curl up in bed! But instead of doing that ,I have been cleaning like a mad woman today! Doing dishes, laundry , vacuming & my computer duties. JUST IN CASE we loose power again! I sure do hope we do not though. Just got word that the b-ball game has been cancelled tonight so no cheerleading for Ashtyn . Looks like a free day! If I can just keep the power going until SURVIVOR goes off tonight then no one will get hurt! Also found out yesterday evening that Ashtyn has a V-Ball tourn. April 5th. The very same w-end as CKC. Looks like I am in exactly the same perdicament as last year. And I am sure I will do the same thing as last year & leave EARLY Sat. morning to come home to go to the game. After all....my kids are more importaint than anything to me ,so....... I guess I can cut my trip short again this year. {DANG IT!} I got a Beautiful card from Rona in the mail yesterday, thanking me for the pages in her surprise scrapbook. Thank you Rona for the card {I think I am actually going to copy it :) } Well I guess I need to get going & get back to the housework.....no matter how long you avoid it , it is still waiting on you when you get back!!!! Talk to everyone later. Be safe & Stay warm!

Congrats! Advance Aces 1st place in the Greenville Il. "Panther Classic"

Advance Aces USAV Volleyball team: Coach Alicia (lying down), {Front Row:} Jasmine, Allie {Back Row:} Rebecca, Grayson, Ashtyn, Madison & McKayla