You are the absolute ray of sunshine in my life! I can not even begin to tell you how much I love you. Sometimes words arent enough, but I hope that when you look into my eyes you can see. How lucky the kids and I are to have you in our life! Happy Birthday, darling!
831-Beau
Since it is Sunday now, I feel as though I can cacth my breath. I have been going steady since last Sunday. Shew! Now you have to remember I babysit for my other neice & nephew, so I have 6 kids all together (not counting the teenager {16} who refuses to be seen with all those kids LOL) , every day (10,9,7,4,5 &2)!
Monday night I picked up my oldest niece Kimberley and she was spending the week with me. We both were so excited! We have not been able to see each other like I would of liked for almost 2 years. What a beautiful girl she is. Tall, long hair all sun tanned. And you know of course I had plans for every single day she was at my house!
Monday before Kim got there I took the kids to the playground to meet some of my DE mom friends. It was a wonderful day, not to hot like it had been the weekend. That night Kim and the kids hung out and watched movies and we had a fun catching up session.
Tuesday was our Moms group playdate day. We had a great time. The kids swam and ran around. I needed a nap when I got home, of course that didnt happen =)
Wednesday we headed to the playground and stayed there for 4 hours! While at the playground I saw a friend I had not seen in 8 years! Talk about right place right time!
Thursday Susan was picked up by my Mom to head to the State fair! Who by the way won a ribbon for Best in Show for one of her jarred goodies. I love the fair! She had a great time and could not stop talking about it when I got home. You made her day Mom-love ya!
Thursday we headed out to Dad & Audreys pool. We stopped off at McDonalds first and let me tell you that was an experience. It was me and 5 kids eating inside =) I picked a table all the way in the back, so as not to bother any of the other people in the resturant. 5 Happy Meals, 5 Sodas and 5 toys all going every where at once. Oh and lets not forget, because they were so good Aunt Tricia got them all (5) Hot Fudge Sundaes! Oh the sugar! The pool was great and the kids loved it. It was cut short because of a 10 min downpour we had. So we just dried off and came home. I did come home with the yummiest home grown tomatoes. They were awesome, especially the stripies. Thanks Dad & Audrey for letting us invade the pool and for the yummy matoes-love ya!
Friday the kids and I had plans to go to the park, but at 7 am I stuck my head outside and it was blazing hot. With no AC in our van I just could not take them out. So we stayed inside, I did lots of laundry and the kids stayed in their PJ’s all day and played video games, watched movies, we did venture out for about an hour in the yard to plant a tree. Before I took Kim home, I french braided her hair. It was so pretty, I loved playing with her hair all week, because now that Susan is older she doesnt let me. I think that french braids are out in a 16 yr olds social circle. I took Kim home about 7:30 and we had fun on the way home, singing and having dinner in the van.
I was really nice, seeing my sister and her husband, talking to them like old times. Kim and I have already made plans for her to come back for another week in about 2 or 3 weeks. You never know how much you miss someone until they are gone. I am glad I had this time with her, this is the begining of more time spent with them. I love you guys!
Last week I was notified that I had made Sue Cummings Creative Team at Oscraps! I am super thrilled. I love her From My Chalkboard Designs. Now I get to play with them as much as I want!
This is because I took my camera from him. So then when I said he could not have it, he got a little upset.
OHHHHHHH the unfairness! I could not resist taking his picture while he was….uhmmmm…throwing a fit. Is it wrong that I find humor in this? 
Susan’s party was awesome! We all had such a great time, to bad for those who missed it, because it was off the hook as Susan would say. The food, the company, the swimming and just the family being together to be there for Susan on this once in a lifetime thing. She made out like a bandit, over $150 in birthday money. Which she spent yesterday & today on a shopping trip with her Mom-Mom. I am very proud of her, she spent her money very wisely. Tomorrow as part of her birthday she is going to a huge waterpark with friends of ours. I have pictures to upload, but I will do that tomorrow or later in the week.
A special thanks to my good friend Maria who came back from Baltimore with the most fantastic cake ever for her party!
The crop over at The Shakerbox was a huge success. It was a blast, all the challenges and prizes. I can’t wait to do it again. I was able to creat some awesome LO’s, check out my gallery over there. I was really pleased in how some of my layouts came out.
Another great thing that is getting ready to start in 5 days is The Amazing Digiscrapping Race Season 2. I have teamed up with another great digiscrapper, Kelly . We are the Pixel Chicks! Kelly and I have created another blog just for the race. We will be keeping our work up there and just posting random things. Check it out!
I think that is it for now 
Well, I have some really cute pictures of Adam throwing one of his wing dings when he didnt get his way, but I will post them tomorrow. Night!
At exactly 12:46am my daughter will be 16. I can remember that day just like it was yesterday. How I was only in labor for 46 mins from start to finish, how they called my mother back from admitting because you were coming, I did it all with no drugs or IV’s, the color of you was the deepest purple I had ever seen, your first cry, counting all your fingers and toes and for the first time really loving something unconditional. I was also thinking I never want this feeling to end. And in the 16 years God has blessed me with you, I feel this way every day.
I can not express how proud I am of you and all your accomplishments. You are so very smart, you have been on Honor Roll since Middle School, you play 3 instruments, 2 of which were self taught. I love to here you laugh, I like how you sound like me on the phone and we fool a lot of people. You are a great daughter, friend and sister.
You are going to leave me in 2 years and I am sad today just thinking about it. Mom, I want to fly Airplanes, you said to me. As hard as it will be for me to let you go, I know you will be great at it and make the family very proud.
Susan, Mommy loves you so very much and never forget for one sec I would not take down a bear for you or how much I sincerely, deeply, profoundly love you!
**MU-AH**
I hope your day was filled with fun and wonderful memories. Like this one
I love you!
We are having a summer crop on July 5th-9th. Paper and digital scrappers welcome (we have challenges for both), great fun, great challenges and wonderful prizes. I am hosting 3 digital challenges with great prizes fromRonee Parsons and Kim & Maria
There will also be a grand prize given away too. If you are a beginner scrapper or a seasoned scrapper come on over to The Shakerbox and shake it up with us during this crop. Hope to see you there!
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