Saturday, September 20, 2008

I WON!!!

I won a prize off of Lisa Bearnson's blog!! I won the TSV that she will have on QVC on Tuesday. I chose a different color than in the picture. I can't believe I won. I had to leave a comment on the blog on a dream that had come true.

Here is what I said, "My DS (8) has been playing hockey for awhile and always has a hard time when it comes to doing something that is difficult for him. He throws fits if he can't do it perfectly. On the way to hockey one night I told him it was okay that he couldn't do everything perfectly. He told me that he knew that because he had prayed and God told him that he was going to do well. That evening at hockey he did amazingly well and didn't have a fit once. I was so proud to see that he would pray on his own and that he wasn't embarrassed to tell me this."

Not too much has been happening since I blogged last, but I thought I would share my winnings with my readers so they can be excited for me too. I am happy because I am getting back into scrapbooking so this might come in handy!

Friday, September 12, 2008

Update

Not really too much to update. Michael and I tackled a mini home makeover project last weekend. We painted our front door and put up a storm door. I really like the color that we chose. It is called Merlot and actually looks a bit darker in person than in my photos. We really needed to paint the trim around the door before winter so that is what we had set out to do. I figured we might as well paint the door while we were at it too. We went to Lowes and ended up buying a new lock and handle set for the door too. While we were there we stopped at the storm doors, we had no intention of getting one, and I saw a cranberry color and thought that is what I wanted the front door to look like. Later in the evening we went back to Lowes and bought the storm door. I am pleased with how everything turned out.Our poor poor peach tree! We didn't trim it back when winter was over this year and the poor tree is suffering from it. We had to cut off a few branches and the tree still has many limbs that are just bending. We really need to go out and get the peaches off of it. I don't feel like canning this year so we will be giving most of them away. We didn't do any fertilizing this year so my nectarine tree didn't do well. I also think the winter had a LOT to do with our tree issues. My apple trees are also suffering. We will treat them better this coming year!

I am so excited to be heading home in November for a scrappin' weekend with friends. I haven't done any scrapping in so long. I have been out buying new papers and albums lately to get me in the mood. I am thinking I need to do a little scrappin' before I go so I get the hang of it again. Who wants to come scrap at my house? I also need to get pictures developed so I have current stuff to work on. I have about 7.5 years of stuff to catch up on, but I want to start with newer stuff. I can't believe how fast time has gone by. YIKES!

Well, off to finish cleaning house and getting my scrapbook room in order. Have a wonderful weekend!

Wednesday, September 03, 2008

Well HELLO there

Where has the time gone. I have been living in the beautiful state of Utah for 5 years today. I can't believe it has been 5 years already. We were told it would be a minimum of 3 years here and look, we are still here. We're here for at least 3 more years so I can finish school here. In the 5 years we have been here there is still a lot of the state we have yet to see. I haven't been to the National Parks down South yet and I want to see them before we venture out of this state.

Cameron has lived over half of his life here now too. Look at how much he has changed...
Well, I need to go start dinner or we will never eat tonight. I'll try to update this more often.