quick update on my grandmother

Thank you for all your prayers. Yesterday the procedure showed she had 50-75% blockage on the front part of her heart. My dad and aunt out voted her and she had a stint put in this morning. She is doing great. Again thanks for your prayers.

12 on 12--March

This time change is awful. It has been hard to get up in the mornings and get moving. But I managed to get Addie and me ready and out the door. I made it to work at 7:47 am this morning. I need to clean my car out..the radio is dusty!

My friend Tina. She is the best. She called me to tell me she had found a deal on Biolage 1 liter shampoo and conditioner at Regis. She bought me a bottle of conditioner and then brought it to me at work. What service that is!

Joy, Barbara and I went to Quiznos for lunch. Here is a lovely picture of me.


Here is a pretty picture of my cup.

Don't hate me Joy but I posted your picture here. Smile for the camera. We joked at lunch that we needed to call in sick since it was a beautiful day--can you believe a week ago we had snow..now it is sunny and almost 80 degrees.

Self timers are great. Here is a picture of me at my desk. I really should have taken a picture of all the empty cubbies behind me, beside me..etc. There are only a few of us left on our side of the floor but we are moving to the other side of the floor on the 20th. I will have a new seat for a whole week before my last day. In the 5 years and 4 months I have been here, I have always sat on this side of the floor. I hope that I remember which door to go to..otherwise I will be walking some extra steps.

After work I stopped by the LSS. Guess what they were having a sale. I behaved myself for the most part but they had pretty patterned paper 5 for a dollar. I couldn't resist picking out a few sheets. I really stopped in to see if it would inspire my creative side.

After I left the LSS, I went to visit my grandmother at the hospital. I was planning to see her today since my sister gets Addie on Wednesday. Unfortunately I had to visit her in the hospital. Please say some prayers for her. The doctor thinks she had a mini stroke last Saturday followed by a heart attack on Monday night. Her heart rate is irregular. They are going to do an anagram or Arterialgram (I can't remember which one they told me) tomorrow at 10:00. Gramma is 80 years old. She has Parkinson's.

These are the flowers in front of the hospital.

And this is the fountain in front of the hospital. I would have taken a picture of Gramma but I don't think she would want everyone to see her at her worse so I took pictures of pretty things I know she likes.


Addie and Winston goofing around.

Addie and I were watching the results show for American Idol. Addie got out her keyboard and guitar. We had to sing.."Rock n Roll..yeah baby" over and over again.

My little rocker!!!


The bottom 3 for American Idol. I had picked that Kristy Lee Cook would go home. Christie at work thought David Hernandez would be in the bottom 3. I thought it would be all girls.

Well, I guess Christie was right. David went home..but it should have been Kristy Lee Cook. She ruined 8 Days a Week last night.

time for bed now..goodnight!

Favorite layout

This is one of my favorite layouts. I scraplifted from a Rebecca Sower book. I can't remember the title at the moment. I think it is Scrapbooking Life's Little Moments. I haven't scrapbooked much in the last month so I thought I would share some of my older layouts.

I haven't been very creative. I am still organizing my scrap supplies..really haven't done much of that either. I need to find some shelving unit to store my supplies. Also, I am working on Stacy Julian's Library of Memories class at Big Picture Scrapbooking..working on gathering and sorting my pictures. I have too many on disks to go through and print. There isn't enough time in the day for everything.

Only have 3 more weeks of work. Then I have lots and lots of projects to tackle in a month before I have to start looking for new employment. I don't think there will be enough time during that month either!

Snowy Friday

It didn't start snowing until this morning. Just about the time I had to leave for work. Bill stayed home with Addie. (All the local schools were closed so that meant her preschool/daycare was closed too.) While I was at lunch we got the word that we could leave for the day. I was glad to go home but it did take me a little longer. The roads were slushy. The snow is melting now. But Addie and I went outside to take a few pictures after her nap this afternoon. We didn't get the 5-10 inches predicted..maybe next year.

Our little snowman!


Winston checking out the snow.

I couldn't get her to button up her coat. We only stayed out a couple of minutes.

Voila! ME

wow!! a layout

This is Addie's first hair cut layout. It is for a challenge Lesli posted on March 4 on her blog: http://www.dragonflytime.typepad.com/

The challenge was to do a layout without adhesive. I used staples, brads and embroidery floss -hand stitching.

snow dance

I guess old man winter decided to wait until March to bless us with some snow this year. They are predicting 5-10 inches of snow by tomorrow afternoon. Hopefully I will have more snow pictures tomorrow and a 3 day weekend. Stay tuned..........................

sicko and snow

My backyard

First snow picture of the winter!

Yesterday was a crazy day! We woke up to snow..pretty snowflakes. Addie preschool closed for the day. (A premature idea since the snow was gone by noon) Bill stayed home with her and worked for home. I drove to work in snowy conditions. Luckily it was snow and not ice so I didn't have any problems.

Around 9:00 am I had terrible stomach pains. I thought maybe it was just my nerves because of driving in the snow earlier, leaving Addie at home w/ Bill and worrying how they were managing and then my time at work was messed up from last week..somehow I had an extra 16 hours of PTO approved for Thursday, and then being told we needed a game plan to help the people taking over our jobs and helping them out. Which all we are at this point is a band aid..we can get their queues down but what happens April 1st when we are no longer there..ok, I am rambling..Anyway, the stomach pains did not get any better. They just got worse. At lunch time I couldn't take it any more so I came home. OMG..these have been the worse stomach craps. I finally did get sick last night. I will spare you the details.

This morning I was still running fever and my stomach still hurt so I stayed at home. I watched a couple of movies and slept some. I was just talking to a friend of mine that said her dad and niece had the same thing with the bad stomach craps. Hopefully, I will feel better soon. Here is the poor daffodil in the snow! Luckily or unluckily--Addie picked all the daffodils in the backyard on Sunday. She picked only the flower part off the stem. She brought me a handful into me. It was so sweet but I had to explain that she couldn't pick the flower off the stems. We put them in water but they only lasted a day or so.

It's a Monday

The great weather of the weekend has disappeared. It has turned cold. The low tonight is in the 20s and they are calling for snow. But since the ground is warm it probably won't stick.

Here is a funny from this morning:
After I got Addie dressed this morning, she got up saying she needed to get her gloves. I didn't pay any attention thinking she was going to get her socks. I went into her room. She had one glove on her hand and was searching for the other. I helped her find the other glove then she told me she needed a hat too. I put the matching hat onto her head. Then I put her socks on her feet and told her to get her shoes so we could go. (She didn't ask for her jacket..she was wearing a shirtshirt, knit pants, socks, crocs and her gloves and hat) We went outside to get loaded up in the car. She looked around then looked at me. She shook her head then said, "There's no snow!" I started laughing because I hadn't figured out what had prompted the gloves and hat until that moment. She had been listening to the TV. The weather is calling for snow in part of the state tomorrow morning. I asked her if she was listening to the TV. She said yes. I told her it is suppose to snow tomorrow but we would just have to wait and see what happens.

Sunday

Today was another gorgeous day. The high was 75. Tomorrow the weather turns cooler again. And they are talking about snow Tuesday....SNOW. We haven't had any snow here (except for a couple spits of snow) all winter. Seriously snow????

I took Addie to the park then we went to get SB and brought her back to the park. Here are a few pictures--

My Saturday

It was a gorgeous day here yesterday. The temps were in the 70s. We had a busy afternoon planned. Addie had a birthday party at 1:00 at McDonald's for a little boy in her preschool class. Then we went my niece's first soccer game at 3:00. Here are some pictures from the day.

Addie watching tv intently in the morning. After she saw I had the camera out she wanted her turn with the camera. Thank goodness for digital..if we had film we wouldn't be able to develop all of the shots. Sorry, I am not going to share the horrible shots she took of me. I don't think you want to be scared.


But she insisted we take a picture of the two of us. It is a thing we do now. She was holding out the camera and snapped this shot.


Here is her daddy! Can you tell he is saying "cheese" Before she snapped the picture, she would state "say cheese!"


A sign of spring--a lone daffodil blooming in the front.

I made Addie stand by the flower so I could get this picture.

Yippie! It is party time. Addie had a ball playing at McDonalds at the party. She and the birthday boy were together at all times. This is the little guy that turned her onto Spiderman at Halloween. Ever since then she is all about Spiderman. Funny thing, she has not watched any of the Spiderman movies!

Cake and ice cream time.

Addie taking a picture of herself at SB's soccer game. She was not happy when we go to the game. She wanted to play soccer with SB. Addie cried and cried. I had to explain to her that she was not old enough but when she turned 4 she would be able to play soccer. I let her have the camera and she started taking pictures. There were lots of shots of the ground but at least she was happy. She cheered SB's team.

Here is a lovely shot of me. Addie was on Pawpaw's shoulders.

I took the camera back so I could get a sweet picture of Pawpaw and Addie..but as you can see she wanted the camera back!

Here is SB going for the ball! (I took this shot!)

I left before the game ended. Addie stayed with Nanny and Pawpaw. They were taking both girls home with them. I stopped by both of the LSS to see if I could get inspiration and some of my mojo back. Hopefully today, I will be a little more creative but it is a sunny day and the temp is suppose to be in the 70s..so I think Addie and I will be going to the park. I did get my haircut. I had two inches taken off the length. Maybe it won't be so wild now!

When I got to my mom and dad's to pick up Addie, she wasn't ready to go. She told me she wanted to stay there. I hung out with Mom and Dad's for awhile and we ate dinner over there. Addie still doesn't have much of an appetite from being sick. Then about 8:00 we headed home. Addie feel asleep in the car. That is my Saturday in a nutshell!