Stampin' Up! Open House

Well it's official, I am now a Stampin' Up! deomonstrator I am very excited to get started. they have a lot of great products and I'm not just saying that. I have been using their stamps for about 4 years now and I'm spoiled, I don't even like to by store bought ones.

To get started I am having an Open House on Saturday, October 6th from 10am-2pm. You can stop by any time and make a card, scrapbook page or just look through the catalog. I will have doorprizes and some of Liz's yummy cookies that I will be making. So be sure to give me a call if you think you will be able to stop by.

Our little trouble maker

Jenna is almost 8 months old already, I can't believe how the time is flying. She has just recently started to pull herself up on everything that she can get a hold of. The poor little thing has a few battle wounds already, two bruises on her face from the table in the pictures. Once she gets up she hasn't figured out how to get down but she sure is practicing, no sooner do I help her down to her bottom then she is back up again at the table.

Jenna is getting about 3 more teeth also. She was running a little fever and we thought it was from her teeth but I decided to take her to the doctor and good thing I did. Turns out she has a double ear infection and a very red throat. They gave her some antibiotics but they are not doing so well with her. The antibiotics have given her the worst diaper rash I have ever seen so I am waiting now for the doctors office to call back as I told them I am not giving her the meds any more and they needed to find a new one for her. I'll keep you posted on how she is doing.

A piece of history

As one of my birthday gift's David arranged with a friend to use two of their Chicago White Sox Tickets so I could see the Anaheim Angles play. A friend was to take me but he got a softball injury so he couldn't go. I'm thinking who in the world would I take, David wasn't able to go as he was taking care of the kids so I could go, after thinking it over for several hours I thought of taking Eric our next door neighbor's son. We headed off to the game after being really tired from our party the night before and Jenna up all night teething and wondering how I would make it through the game but I was excited to see my home town hero's the Angels to I managed to stay awake.

Well not really being much of a Sox fan didn't really know what was going on with the Sox and I asked Eric after the Angels were up by 7 runs what the big deal was with all the signs people had showing "Thome 500", Eric explained that Jim's next home run would be his 500th home run. Over on the jumbo sign they were posting messages for people and I happened to snap a picture of the sign that said "Happy Birthday Michelle" hey, I'm sure it wasn't me but it was the same name and I was there for a birthday gift so as far as I was concerned it was for me, haha. Wow that made the game even more exciting for me. Around the 8 inning my precious Angels started to loose their lead and then by the bottom of the 9th inning the score was tied 7 to 7. Still no home run from Thome, he came up to bad again the bottom of the 9th, I believe it was 1 strike and 1 ball and then BLAM Thome hit is 500th home run(be sure to click on the link and watch the video, it was so awesome).

It was so COOL, fireworks went off all the Sox players left the bullpen and ran to the field, people where going nuts. I guess if my Angels had to loose I was ok for the loss like that. It was fun to be a part of history and see Jim Thome of the Chicago White Sox hit is 500th home run.

So thank you David for arranging the tickets and taking care of the girls so I could go, Eric for going and Billy man you missed it!

Turning 40, OUCH!

So Sunday, September 2, I turned 40. Can you believe it, I can't, lol. If you saw my hair now you would say wow, you ARE 40, time to cover the gray I guess. I had a very nice birthday. I was asked the day before what I would like for breakfast, I requested Starbucks, Bagels and bacon, I know it sounds silly but that was the first thing that came to mind.

My morning started out by David and the kids letting me sleep, David got up and took the baby monitor downstairs with him. I slept until 9, got up and was greeted by Becca giving me a hug and birthday wish and Kayla was still asleep. David and Becca went off to get my Starbucks, White chocolate mocha of course, and fresh bagels.

They came back and David cooked the bacon and fixed my bagel for me while I was in heaven with my coffee. Breakfast was yummy. My other request was to go to Archivers for a couple of supplies but before we left I was given two of my birthday gifts. A bag of Bath and Body Sweet Pea items, my fav and a list of Archivers classes with two of them circled. David had given me a gift of two classes at Archivers, One called Organize in Style to make an Orginizer and another for Glistening Greetings. David gave it to me just in case I wanted to pick a different class to take while I was shopping.

I got to choose a place for dinner so I picked my favorite Mexican restaurant El Puerto which is right on the lake, where we remembered that we had a free dinner on them from an unpleasant experience we had a few months ago so we had a great FREE dinner. We came back and had yummy ice cream cake with the Stauner family joining us.

I'll have a few pictures to add later on.