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Labor Day

Today is Labor Day. Day off from work with pay, thank you very much. I've become (like many others) addicted to being on Facebook. Make a couple of comments on friends or family walls and then play games for flipping hours. What a great waste of time! Yee Haw! It's a wonderful escape from my stressful existance. Hopefully, I can actually get something acomplished today. Gave all 5 dogs baths in the pouring rain yesterday. They had been out in the pen and were totally muddy. It wasn't how I wanted to spend 2 hours of my Sunday but I didn't want them in the house the way they were. I've been working on some projects for my re-done scrap crap room. All in pink, white, and black. French sortof theme. I've done a wooden 4 tiered file folder, a clock, a shelf, and now I am working on a French memo board with ribbons, and a set of 4 hat boxes that stack. I still need to buy the supplies to build, and paint 3 shelves that with everything else I am doing should pretty much get all my stuff put away or on display. Yay!

Added a Facebook badge

This is a picture that Rick took of he and his Dad on their trip to Idaho for Uncle Jimmie Reed's funeral.

Picture of Cindy and I in our dining room. She had come over to open up her birthday presents from Rick and I. She and I have so much fun together.
Our incredible Blaze Monster. Will he ever stop growing? Survey says.....NO!!!

I signed in tonight (or rather this morning) to add a Facebook badge and figured since I was here I would do a posting. It seems like time just totally gets away from me and I don't seem to get around to posting here as much as I would like to. Most of the time I am just too exhausted or to bummed out to want to write. I spend so much time with my dogs, reading, scrapbooking, or with Rick that I don't take the time to sit down and do this. I just had a bunch more (nice grammer) pictures printed at Costco. I love their prices and especially when they run the coupon special. Now..the trick is to actually scrap them! I have started doing some digital things but I don't like any of them well enough to actually print them or publish them on here for anyone to see. I still need lots of practice. I have spent a lot of time on Facebook lately. I have been so excited to find old friends and family members that I have lost touch with. I'll add a couple of pictures out of the batch I just had printed and then I've got to get to bed.

Long Time No Write

It's been 2 1/2 months since I've taken the time to sit down and enter a post. We have been incredibly busy. Mostly with our new puppy Blaze. His is so freaking huge! It's almost incomprehensible to me how fast he has grown and how big he has gotten. I've been trying to get some scrapbooking done and fortunately (or unfortunately according to my husband) I've been investing in lots of new papers, embellishments, and I've had almost 700 prints made at the Costo 1 hour photo. Rick has been working his tail off around the Sharpio Plantation to get the outside back where it needs to be for the spring/summer season. The place looks great! We've had some days off together and have done some road trips which were lots of fun. Yesterday we went to Bonney Lake and Bellevue to go shopping for our combined birthdays. Rick's was the 4th of May and mine is the 11th. We went to a Ben Franklin craft store, out to lunch at Mad Dog's, then to the LDS distribution center for a set of scriptures for Rick. He got a quad set in burgandy. We hit the LDS bookstore for an action figure of Captain Moroni with the title of liberty and a John Bytheway cd set for Rick. Checked out a gun shop and then on to The Container Store for organization stuff for me. We finished off the day with a snack and dessert at the Cheesecake Factory. Then home by midnight. We were pooped! Today we are going to go see Wolverine with Rick's brother Tim who gave Rick theater tickets for his birthday. It's been raining dogs and dogs here. Not cats and dogs. That would be less rain and not raining so hard. This has been dogs and DOGS worth of rain. The ground is absolutely saturated and I'm getting tired of puddles and mud. So, ok, it's time to look for a picture to go with this, go wake my husband up, play with my dogs, and maybe get some scrapbooking done. Ciao!

Something old

I have been busy re-loading all of our digital photos onto our computer. The "dogs" got me Adobe Photoshop 7 for Christmas and I am wanting to start doing some digital things with photos. Here is a couple of old photos that are kindof fun.

The picture of Cindy and I is during a scrapbooking afternoon, laughing our heads off like we usually do. The photo of David (my brother), Mom and I is taken on a hike to Cape Flattery. It's my favorite picture of the three of us. The photo of Rick and I was taken at his brother Tim's place. We had been invited out there for Rick's birthday. These are all several years old, but I thought they were kind of fun pics.

Been a While

It's been some time since I've posted. I've been pretty much preoccupied with the puppies. They are so stinking cute! I gave them their first bath today. We tried to introduce puppy food into their diet and it didn't come out well. Well...it came out a lot! So, I figured that I had better post some current pictures.

Last Day of VayCay

Yes, it is my last day of vacation, I am so bummed. Well..the house mortgage mess is a big part of that. Just when I thought we had it all figured out, Countrywide throws another monkey wrench into it.

On a good note, I spent most of the time off playing with our new PUPPIES! Yes, Daisy had them the 1st day of vacation. She had 7. There are 4 girls and 3 boys. Very tramatic for the both of us. Daisy and I that is!

I also messed around with my IPod, put together a hard puzzle and on Monday the 26th we piled all 11 dogs (4 adults and 7 puppies) into the Tahoe and made a road trip to Forks,WA to go see the Twilight stuff".

We have been to Forks many times before all the hoopla about Twilight started but we haven't been back since the books have come out. Everywhere we went there was "Twilight" stuff to see.

Tommorow I return to work, I am so sad. It would be great if I was able to stay home all the time. Sigh

Whoo Hoo!

Well, I am officially on vacation! Whoo Hoo! Mom used to call my Saturday (which is Tuesday in my work week) Whoo Hoo Day! This is because as soon as I got home from work on Tuesday afternoon I would walk into the house and holler Whoo Hoo! She used to look forward to Whoo Hoo day because it meant that she and I would get to run around for two days doing fun stuff. Man, I miss her so much. Two days ago I was coming home from work and came down the road that goes around Island Lake and Mt. Rainer was out. We say "the mountain is out" when it is clear enough to see it. One of the messages she had saved on her cell phone was a short one from me saying "Hey Mom! Just called to tell you the mountain is out!" So, as I'm driving around the corner and up pops the mountain viewing area, I said out loud almost without thinking, "hey mom, the mountain's out" Love you Mom!

Daisy's Expecting

Well, it has been comfirmed. Daisy and Magnum are expecting. We will be grandparents sometime in the next 2 or 3 weeks. Oh boy! No, this was not planned and yes I am going to want to keep every one of the little squiggling darlings! But...I can't. We really can't afford 4 dogs as it is, not to mention 6 or 8 or 10 more!

I've been spending lots of time on the computer working on loading the IPod Nano that Rick got me for Christmas. Also, working on some of the 23 puzzles that I got. Ok, Mrs. Claus brought me 2 packs of 10 each.

Today Rick and I have an appointment with a HUD advisor to sign papers permitting her to negotiate with Countrywide for a new mortgage payment. Yes, we are in one of those terrible A.R.M. loans that re-adjusted. It's been incredibly stressful to say the least. It will be a relief to have it be done. One way or the other.

I am looking forward to vacation next week. I am way behind on my house cleaning and my scrapbooking. We might take a little trip to Forks, WA and do the Twilight Tour. We just finished the book series and since we have spent some time in Forks prior to that it should be fun to go up there again. We even took our Christmas picture a few years ago on the LaPush Reservation! This was before we had even heard of Twilight! Go Edward and Bella!

Can't Wait

Rick's other really nice gift from me was XBox 360 Call of Duty-World at War game. Unfortunately the week before Christmas his XBox got the dreaded ...."RED RING OF DEATH"!!!! So, he'll have to wait a while before he gets obsessed with playing his new game. Ummm, good time to get the "honey do " list out of the way! Tee Hee!

Christmas Day

My honey worked hard to get my computer back up and running. (So he can have his back all to himself!) He got me a wireless keyboard and mouse so of course I had to practice "playing" with my new stuff. Looks like I am trying to play air guitar. The dogs were very good to their mama and I received the Adobe Elements 7 set. I was very surprised and got a little emotional about it. Their papa went and picked up the purchase for them and even wrapped it. Nice Papa!

Catching Up

Haven't taken the time to post lately. Trying to get through the holidays and there doesn't seem to be much energy or time left over to work on this. We had a great Christmas considering what a crappy year it has been. We didn't put a Christmas tree up or do a whole lot of decorating. I bought Rick's big gift early. We have had lots of cold nights so he has been trying to keep a fire going most of the time. (At least until the glass broke in one of the fireplace doors.) Considering how many trips it takes to bring in wood and how hard it is for him with his back and neck problems I felt like this was a great "little" item he should have. I got this cool wagon at Lowe's the week before Christmas. We even used it to put our gifts in since we didn't have a tree to put them under.

I really did want the frying pan! I was just messing around and pretending I was going to swat Rick with it!