Diana, my Mother

Happy Birthday mom!!!!!! I love my mom soooooooooooooooooooooooo much!!!!!!!!!!!!!! My mom is our family bra. Yes, I did just compare my mom to a bra, she is strong, holds us together, I can't live with out her, she helps me to be a better woman, she is very honest (maybe the most honest person I know), loves without reservations, I am very blessed to have been born with such an amazing mother!!!! She has not only shaped our family but continues everyday shaping our kids future!!!! There is no other person I would ever trust to tell me the honest truth besides my mother, my mom and I are very alike in some ways and in other we are exact opposites. I love that she will be honest enough to tell me that she loves my brother's boughten cards more than she loves my home made heartfelt cards....because that is who she is!!!! I love that when we (Adam, Mace and I) got a B on a test in school we got the disappointing look and if Noah got a B he got praises!!! ( Now I realize that Noah totally knew what he was doing, lowering mom's expectations of him, that darn sneaky kid!!!!!) I love that after a ball game, that my mom never missed unless she was with another kid at another game and would be there as soon as she could, my mom would be sure to point out our mistakes if we started in on how well we did. My mom is so amazing that she would pack us cooked hot dogs in a thermos so that she could save enough money to help us through college w/o taking out any loans (Mace is the only one left in college)....out of 4. My mom had us write book reports all summer long, but more importantly she took us to the library!!!! My mom helped us with all of our 4-H projects from age 6-till 17. She made us breakfast every morning, packed us lunches everyday, had homemade diner for us after practice (I mean everything from scratch) bread from flour, chili from canned tomato sauce, and fresh baked Cinnamon rolls!!!!! My mom was there after school everyday, she knew where we were, who we were with and what time we would be home, even when we were in high school, mom would wait up with dad until we got home and then we would talk for hours about the evening!!!! My mom never would make us do homework until we played for awhile, then we had to practice the piano for 20 min. everyday, do the dishes, and then homework. I love that AC didn't make it into our house until I was in High school, cable came my Jr. year. My mom totally focuses on what is important, so we did without in some areas so that we could make it in others. If that meant shopping at Goodwill or going to where ever the deals were best for groceries. My mom has ran the concession stand for I don't know 20 years. She made enough money to make the Field have lights, pay for umpires, build a concession stand with bathrooms.....all by sacking up seeds, making her relish, buying the drinks, cooking the food, and well stocking everything!!!!!! Besides working behind in there all spring and summer!!!!!! My mom is the BEST!!!!!!! We (our family) would not be where we are today without my MOM!!!!!!! There is nothing I could ever do that could measure up to be better than her, I can only strive to be like her!!! Thank you mom and Happy B-day, I hope you like this card!!!!!

Bull riding..........

Yes it is true, that is me riding the mechanical bull!!! Hello every one, it's my day off and it has already started out wonderful and it's only 7am!!! I fed the bunny, made coffee, took the dog out, switched the laundry, made 2 cards, made 5 pages in my thank you scrapbook, spent sometime with my husband before he left for work, laid with Easton when he woke up at 6 for a few minuets, (I told him he could go back to bed b/c it was my day off and he said, "I love your days off, tell me what fun things we're going to do today", as his eye lids slid shut....) I love those moments!!!! I am trying to get the next few posts made b/c 1. it's my parents b-day's this week, 2. I've already made the cards, 3. the week never gets slower after Wednesday, 4. we are going to the boat club Fri.-Sun. so that only gives me Thursday to post.....anyways, I made these scrapbook pages for Kev's parents that live in Arizona, whom we stayed with, as my way of saying thank you. I am going to try and get this all done in the next couple of weeks...hopefully!!!! I don't know what we have planned for the day, maybe the library, the zoo, and a picnic in the park, followed by a nap, putting in the garden and ending with a church carnival!!!! I think that sounds jam packed so I better get the laundry ut away before Kanon gets here and Easton wakes up!!!! LATER!!!!!

Life....

Isn't life funny...I am ready for another VACATION!!!! We do have a Monday of, so that will have to do. There are 2 girls that are having a baby soon, so time off is going to be very hard to come by. Soni and I hung out with Kev's cousin's kids...We did some stamping, movies, popcorn...a regular AWESOME Friday night, minus the hail, mushroom clouds, and possible tornado weather!!! Saturday we went shopping for my remodel kitchen. I decided not to move and to take out a loan and add the things to my house that I really, "really" want. So I'm adding a double door from the dinning room, gutting out the kitchen, new wood floors, new windows, a covered patio, a garage, and possible a hot tub!!!!! Just a few things. Why you ask don't I just move, well I like where we are located, I love my hardwood floors...privacy fence, developed yard and flower gardens (which we have worked and worked to make them beautiful), my laundry shoot, and my unique loft bedroom just to name a few things I love, oh yes and my 80 year old and 91 year old neighbors who totally ROCK....so we're staying put!!! Here are some pics of Friday Mushroom clouds, bubbles with Bobbie (Soni's son), pics of the girlly party, and a card for my Sister in law... Happy B-day girl!!!!!

Thank you cards and AZ pics

Me ridding the mechanical horse, yes, I rocked it and didn't fall off!!!

A pic of the Rockies (FROM THE AIRPLANE!!!!!)

Kev, Easton, and Kev's dad Robert enjoying an outdoor western show

I am trying to get some order in my life but Life just happens!!!! Yesterday was another packed day off. Kanon, Easton, and I hung out till 9am and the headed with the 2 girls (dogs) to mom's to watch her day care kids. We ( all nine of us) played outside most of the day. I took Easton, Teegan, and Kanon to the park after we got to town, planted some flower my mom gave me starts to, packed to go to my sister-in-laws, went to a going away party for a friend, played tee-ball and jumped on the trampoline, set in the hot tub, and finally took showers and headed home, I forgot to start with making a few thank you, putting away laundry, doing the dishes, and picking up the house before we left at nine.....This morning I already fed the bunny, exercised, and posted.....now if I can do this every morning before work....we'll see!!!! Hope you have a great weekend!!!!!

I am a Alive

Yes Girls, I'm still alive, but my weeks have been jam packed with to dos!!!!! We got back from AZ. on the May 1st, at about 11:45. We had a great trip, pic need to get on my computer....still pending!!! Sat. we had 4 ball games starting at 9am and ending around 7pm and then we went to my brother's for a BBQ till 12 am Sunday....at 8:30 am the Sunday I helped with a surprise 80th b-day for my dear neighbor till 1pm and then the party lasted until 6pm, (May 3rd is Easton's b-day) so we celebrated with cake that night and hung out with him and unpacked our baggage. I had off till Thursday, though I don't remember what was all jammed in that week...and then the next weekend we went to boat club and had Easton's b-day on Sat. My mom's house flooded on Friday night so we helped her until 12 am Sat, the party lasted until well I went in the camper around 2 am and then we were up before 8am for mother's day.... we stayed out there until 6pm on Sunday and then came home only to unpack again... Now it's Wed. and I have to work for a friend that has a Dr. appointment and then tomorrow I have a day off!!!! I have made some thank yous for my neighbor and use some old thank yous for Easton's party, just to get that off my list!!! Now you know where I've been........I have also been trying to work out at night or in the morning which cuts into my stamping time, but I need, I really need to feel better about wearing a swimsuit...so priorities!!!! Catch you later, maybe!!!! :P It's easy not to post when you get out of routine....and I need find out how to squeeze it all in!!!!

A quick post....

While I'm out I have pre-made this card and will post it on Wed....so I'm already half way done with my vacation, darn!!!!!! I made this using some stamped images that my friend Heather let me stamp. I used my new stamp from stampin up, it's a background stamp called gratitude. Have a great week!!!!

MIA......

Teegan, Kanon, and Easton

Hello Peeps.....I am getting ready to head downstairs and thought I'd do a quick post telling you I'll be MIA for at least a week, maybe two or more....We went to the circus on Saturday and had blast!!!! It was going to hail so we took my brothers old min-van, which sometimes will open on the side door. We loaded through the drivers side and we all cheered when we arrived and the side door opened, then when we left it was pooring as we made a mad dash to the car and got to celebrate again as the "white lighting" opened!!!! I just had to tell that story, so I'll never forget!!! Anyways, we didn't get home till 12 am, so Sunday we hung out home and did some house work...blah, blah, blah. I colored the circus anya, but she lays on my table w/o a card to back her :(!!!!! I wanted to try the sketch, but I haven't won yet, so, no skin off my back. Today I watched 6 kids and 3 dogs at my mom's house, b/c my grandpa's cancer is back and he had to have a small tumor removed. It was a LONG day, and I don't have anything to show for it, well I did get Easton's b-day card done and addressed. They are simple, b/c I had to make them in one day and get them mailed.....but their done!!!!! Now for the VACATION, we are headed to AZ on Friday morning so I'll be gone for a week. The day we get back it will be 11pm and on Sat. we've been invited to go to the KSU game and carnival, which I don't want to pass up, then my neighbor who turns 80 on Easton's b-day, Sunday May 5th, we are having a surprise party!!! Then back to work, I think....I've planned earlier to have the 6 and 7th of, so I may keep them to get things done around the house!!!! And finally Easton's b-day party is Saturday May 9th.....and that's it for the beginning of May......Well, I have to finish packing and put stuff away, have great one!!!!!!

Slumber party and Get well card for Barb

What's up world, or area wide girls..... :) It's S-A-T-U-R-D-A-Y!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Last night Carson, Kev's sister's son came over and we went swimming, watched movies, and had a "camp out" in the house. They had a blast and I got worn out....but I love having kids over, it entertains Easton, though the don't know how to play without screaming!!!!! Overall, besides all the ways they got in trouble for jumping in the pool, that were not just jumping in and fighting over toys that one wants over the other, just like brothers!! I made this card for one of our nurses that got flown to Denver b/c her Dr. couldn't figure out what was going on with her and she collapsed.....I see what my friend Heather was saying about me being affected by working in oncology, and I guess around oncology someone is always sick or dying, I guess I can't help but talk about it or think about it, and it seems all the time, sorry!!!! Anyways, this is my way of making the world a better place, for people going through a rough time..... Barb is a very short blond nurse, who is very soft spoken and kind. She would always stay late and let the young mothers go home to be with our children, and that speaks volumes about her. I used one of Dr. Estephan's scripts and stamped get well on it and had him sign it and then I shrunk it 50%, I love shrinking things!!! I always wanted to have a tiny doll house when I was growing up and I'm half temped to buy polly pockets, but I've restrained myself thus far....but you never know!!!!!!!

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Diannibal

I made this for one of my favorite patients Diane, she has metastatic lung cancer and recently has been hospitalized b/c she has lesions in her brain that are bleeding out. She has a major headache and now is undergoing radiation treatment to her brain. She is the funniest, most out-spoken patient, I love talking to her and her family. I went and visited her in the hospital and she told the story of her having to get fitted for a mask prior to radiation. I could never, NEVER tell a story like Diane, anyways you have to know first that she is deathly claustrophobic, she requires 4 mg of ativan to even get in an enclosed machine, anyways to shorten the story she had to be strapped down and had a thin plastic material that formed to her face to make the form for the mask. She said they strapped her down and she felt like Hannibal and after they finished making the mask she looked like Hannibal. She has a knack of making the worst situation sooooo funny. While looking at the lesions in her brain she saw one spot in her brain, that looked like an alien, who she named Bob, and now is constantly talking about Killing Bob, one appendage at a time and that he is the one causing all of her headache trying to get out of her brain as they fry him!!! I have tried to "win" several of the Anya competitions and I was soooo excited to post them to see if I could win, but this card I made for Diane and no matter if I win or lose, I know she loves the card.
I used the Chef and made him, a her with on the farm girl, from who I cut off her pig tails, (b/c Diane doesn't have much hair and wears a do-rag), and I used Dorothy's head and cut off one of her pig tails (b/c I rock the side pony with a flower in my hair) and use the nurse Anya's body and included a syringe of Ativan with 4 mg's of Ativan for Diane. I drew the mask and attached some straps that you can't see, and on the inside I drew an alien and a machine that zaps Bob. I went with some black stars b/c of the constant headache and the checkered paper, b/c we all know what Hannibal is known for and Diane also loves to eat, and I don't mean that it a bad way!!! She'll tell you she's a big girl and that's why she requires that much ativan!!!! I have smiled at least 8 times just writ ting this. The Dr. I work for told me I need to not think of my patients when I leave work, and it mad me upset, b/c I feel that's what makes me who I am and I know that we are all dying and that no one knows when thier time is, but it's never to late to show people that you care and this is my way of coping. It also relieves my stress and makes people happy, so I am going to keep doing it!!!! Just b/c his a Dr. doesn't mean I have to listen to him!!! :P I hope you all give your loved ones a hug tonight and be thankful everyday for what you have!!!!!!