Pay it Forward

The Rules:*Be one of the first THREE bloggers to leave a comment on this post, which then entitles you to a handmade item from me - something crafty or yummy, who knows?!*Winners must post this challenge on their blog, meaning that they will Pay It Forward, creating a handmade gift -anything!- for the first THREE bloggers who leave a comment on their post about this giveaway!*The gift that you send to your friends can be from any price range and you have 365 days to make/ship your item. This means you should be willing to maintain your blog at least until you receive your gift and have shipped your gifts. And, remember: It’s the Spirit and the Thought That Counts!*When you receive your gift, please feel free to blog about it, sharing appropriate pictures and comments! If you are not one of the Top Three Commenter's on this post, you can still play along. Go ahead and start your own Pay It Forward chain, and encourage your blogging friends to do the same!!

Tweety Bird

Do you love the "Tweety Bird" cartoon?

I do!

I love it because that sweet little Tweety always gets the best of Sylvester.

Okay so I hate cats.

We have 50 billion cats in the neighborhood.

Half of which lives across the street.

When I see a cat crouched down to attack a bird, I scare the bird away so the cat can't get the bird, unless it is a pigeon. I figure that any cat that catches and eats a pigeon is going to die anyway because pigeons are almost as sick and wrong as a cock roach.

Anyway, back to the reason for the blog...

...On Saturday, Carson and I were out weeding my flower garden, for those of you that have seen my "flower garden", yes, I do call it a flower garden!

Anyway, we were weeding, Carson is a great weeder. One of the small cats from across the street comes up and sneaks up on Carson. I told him, "look who came to visit you". He turns and jumps because it kinda scared him. Being the sweet, kind hearted person that he is, he starts talking to the cat and petting it. The cat gets squirly and starts to roll around on the ground so Carson, not knowing why the cat is doing that, pulls his hands away. The cat jumps up and makes a flying attack for Carson's arm. I stomp my foot and scare it away. I tell him, "oh that silly cat wanted to play with you."

A few minutes later the cat walks over to me. I put my hand down to pet it, not because I like it, but to show Carson that it is okay, and as I was finishing my whole 2 strokes over the cat, it puts back its ears and tries to bite me. I pull my hand back and it literally makes another flying

leap for my hand which was about 3 ft up. So I stomp my foot and scare him away again and tell Carson not to let the cat near him again!! Psycho Cat!!

An hour later, Jessica and Kelsie show up and we are outside talking and the cat comes back. Jessie loves kitties and starts to talk to the cat. So I tell them the psycho cat story. Jessie says, it just wants to play. She picks it up and lays in her arms like a baby, purring the loudest purr I've ever heard! Then it starts to meow this horrible, Psycho Cat, yeeeowww, and the cats, 3 big cats come running, yes running, from across the street. The big ones are acting bugged but don't dare get too close. Jessie puts the cat down and bends down and starts petting it. One of the big cats make a run past her. I thought it was going to attack. But it doesn't. The kittie rolls around on the ground all squirly and puts it's ears back and HISSES then bites her!

I tell her to go wash it and clean it up.

On Sunday she can't bend the finger closest to the bite and it's red!! Psycho rabid Cat!!!

I had a dream last night that Jessie came over yesterday with Carson!

She came flying in the house with a cat outfit on, looking like this:

Needless to say, I woke up. Pretty scary!!

Carson, Happy 9th Birthday!!
You are such a good grandson!
Grammie loves you sooooo MUCH!!
I hope that you will always enjoy pulling weeds with Grammie!

Something to Crow about!

20 years ago I was trying to tell the nurses and doctors at St. Joesph hospital, in Phoenix, that "this baby is coming!" They were so calmly telling me that "it" probably wouldn't be here for another 12 hours!.....

...... Less than an hour later they were having me walk from a regular room to a new fandangle "labor, delivery, recovery room". Yes, 20 years ago, this was a NEW thing.


Feeling like "it" was going to drop out onto the floor at any time, I stopped when I got half way across the hall and said "How much further?". Nurse replies, "just across the hall". Trying to keep my legs together and squeezing to keep the baby in, I take tiny baby shuffles to the room "just across the hall". I sit on the edge of the bed to take a breather before trying to put my body in the bed, I say to "its" dad, "it's coming!" He looks down at this time to see the baby crowning! He then yells, "it's coming," to the nurse that was walking out the door. She comes back to see the baby crowning and starts to yell, "We need a doctor in here!"


Needless to say my little Kelsie Lou was not waiting for any doctor. She was born with a little owie across the middle of her nose where I sat on her face!!!
Pretty cute for having her face sat on!!

Happy Birthday my sweet Kelsie Lou!

I love you more than I can ever express!
You have been such a great blessing to me. I feel so fortunate to have called you mine!
You have always brought joy to our family. Thank you for being you!
Here's to another 20 years!


Kelsie wanted Pazookies for her birthday cake. Needless to say I could not find 6" round pans anywhere. We had square Pazookies. Each candle is a decade!

The Bird Flu

AHHHHH......

CHOO0000oooo!!!

All kinds of flu's fluttering, fleeing, flying, by.

One just happened to stop by my work and hit 4 of us.

Snuffling, Sneezing, Coughing, Aching, oh wait...

...That's a commercial.

But that's pretty much how I feel!!

Tissues all over the house.

Cough drop wrappers thrown everywhere.

Dishes stacked to the ceiling, yep, Mom is sick.

Eating Like a Bird!!

Kelsie makes this oreo cookie look sooo good--as if you have to make an oreo look good!

Especially a chocolate one!

Our family is doing our own version of "The Biggest Loser". There are 10 of us involved with $250 at stake and our contest is going on for 12 weeks.


We are on our 2nd week! Right now there is alot of fun and excitement. With a bit of sabotage mixed in! (Alex)!


I'm hoping this will give me the incentive I need to diet and excercise. 10 days into it and so far so good! One day at a time right?!


Alex won the first week but only half of us weighed in--I believe the other half were scared!!!


Curse you Alex! I will get you next week !!!

Cardinals!!! WOO HOO

How bout them Cards?!

Benson is showing you that the Cardinals are #1.

We were all hopping up and down in our seats.

Well, not ALL of us. Bryce, Bobe and I were putting together a puzzle.

In this pic is Jack, in the black recycle shirt, standing over Jamie and Alex, Jack is Bobe's Australian exchange student. He is not a big sports fan and he kinda kept popping in and out of the room with the look of "What the..." on his face.

Frank was very happy--yes, this IS Frank's happy face!

Settle down Frank, try not to get so excited!!!

And there again in the background is Jack, with another "What the..." look on his face!

Jessica and Benson are sporting their Cardinal attire.

They are huge Cardinal fans.... Well, I know that one of them loves the Cards!

The other one had no say what-s0-ever in what he wanted to wear Sunday.

We are looking forward to Sunday February 1st!!!

Bobe's birthday!!! Forty-Something Woo Hoo!!

Benson gets blessed!!! Double Woo Hoo!!

Family in town from Utah!!! Major Woo Hoo!!

This Should be better than the Super Bowl!

ive been tagged. Thanx Kelsie Lou!!! You know I can't ....

.....answer with one word. ready.... set.... go!

1. Where is your phone? Desk

2. Where is your significant other? Playing?

3 .Your hair color? Beautiful

4. Your Mother? Awesome

5. Your Father? Witty

6. Your favorite thing? MiKids

7. Your dream last night? Nothing

8. Your dream/goal? Eternity

9. The room you're in? Office

10. Your hobby? Crafting

11. Your fear? Loss

12. Where do you want to be in 6 years? Healthy

13. Where were you last night? Home

14. What you're not? Skinny

15. One of your wish-list items? Time

16. Where you grew up? Liberty

17. The last thing you ate? Chicken

18. What are you wearing? Shabby

19. Your TV? Off

20. Your pet? Birddie

21. Your computer? Sucks

22. Your mood? Ecstatic

23. Missing someone? Yep

24. Your car?GrandmaVan

25. Something you're not wearing? Jeans

26. Favorite store? Joanne's

27. Your Summer?Exciting

28. Love someone? Always

29. Your favorite color? Green

30. When was the last time you laughed? Now

31. Last time you cried? Today

32.Something you crave? Benson

33. Why you blog? Fun