By the way those pictures were taken of Alex's Winter Ball Dance. She looked so pretty!

A month...

Well it has been a month since I last blogged...Not that anyone reads it anyway but here goes.
Things are going well. We have been out of school for a week due to the ice. I have really enjoyed my time off. I love being home with Jimmy. I cant wait till I can work from home. I did do some scrapbooking today. I had no pictures so I only made pages. I know I'm pitiful! But I enjoyed it anyway.
My dad is doing well after the pacemaker. He will go next month for the biopsy. We are praying it isn't cancer.
Here are some random pictures....

My Dad...

I hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas. We did. I have not blogged in a few days because my dad got sick and was in the hospital. We initially thought it was from his medication that was making his heart rate very low but it ended up being that he needed a pacemaker. He is home from the hospital and he is doing very good. I got to sleep on a cot at the hospital which was horrible. I'm not a small woman so everytime I got up and down (which was about 30 times that night) I felt like the bed was going to collapse! Dad had so much fluid build up that he lost almost 5 pounds during the night which is why I was up 30 times! Oh well...he is better and that is all that matters!

Christmas morning...

I'm going to go ahead and post picture because I have a lot of cooking to do today. Tonight we are going to my parents house. I think Alex liked all her gifts. She made a list so that what we got. I believe her favorite thing was a Light Saber! Yes my almost 16 year old daughter wanted a Light Saber. Oh well! You have to watch the video of our cat Zoi...she is so funny. Merry Christmas!

A full day...

Alex and I have been baking all afternoon. Chocolate chip cookies, fudge, and Paula Deen's Mystery pecan pie. I highly reccomend the Ghirardelli chocolate chips. Probably the best recipe I have ever used.
Alex's fish Roger Prodactor jumped out of his bowl and down the sink. Jimmy being the wonderful dad he is went to the Family Dollar store here in Kansas and bought a pipe wrench just to get the fish out. Well with much struggle we were not able to get the 40 year old pipe loosened. So there we were staying our last "goodby" to Roger Prodactor. He will be the most handsom Beta in the sewer.
So tonight we will watch the Grinch...last night was Christmas Vacation and today we watched Elf and of course we will open 1 gift tonight. I wish everyone a Merry Christmas!

Love the small town life...

I have to admit after being in Tulsa and going to Owasso yesterday that I love small town life. Its quiet, simple, and easy. There is no traffic.There isn't a million people everywhere. I was glad to be home!

Our Day in Branson

We went to Branson Saturday just for the day. We wanted to use those season passes one more time! It was so cold. When we got there the temp had dropped 20 degrees. I didn't take a coat but I had my snowman blanket that I kept tightly wrapped around my head. The rides had just been closed as we got there so Alex and Ben were forced to shop. I ended up getting sick so we went home 15 minutes before the parade started. The lights were beautiful.

Christmas with family

On Friday night we went to my Uncle Jim and Aunt Janet's house. This was the first time in probably 14 years we have celebrated the holidays together. We had so much fun. We did a white elephant gift exchange. Jimmy ended up with a plastic poncho, I had 2 Snoopy activity books and Alex ended up with the grand gift of a HUGE picture of my Grandmother and Old Dad. My sister got my a Tulsa area fireman calender which we got a great laugh out of. All in all it was a great time and I can't wait till next year!

My Own Personal Santa!

Jimmy played Santa at our elementary school the other day. He was a little smaller than your average Santa but he was very cute!

Family Outing

We are going to Branson for the day. We have never been to Silver Dollar City at christmas time. I hear the lights are beautiful. I will post pictures tomorrow.

Thanksgiving 2008

I know I didn't do this in order but I forgot all about my Thanksgiving pictures. I know no one reads this but it gives me something to do. First of all Alex helped my prepare the turkey. We took a recipe from Food Network. It was a delish turkey.

I love days off...

Well we have had two snow days this week and I have enjoyed every minute of it. I slept in till 8:00 this morning. And I had a nice cozy nap both days. I'm sure I can't be so lucky to have a third day off. I am pretty much finished with my Christmas shopping. I did most of it online. I have been so bored lately that I'm rereading the Twilight series. Hope everyone is doing well!

Hello again

This is my first post in a month. Life has been busy and I have been introduced to Facebook. But I am going to try and keep up with my blog. Probably not daily. An email I got from a friend reminded me I need to get on here. I have a big day ahead. We have the whole week off. When you live in a extremely small community full of hunters you get the whole Thanksgiving week off. One of the many perks of being in a small town. o we are headed to Tulsa today for a doctors appointment. And I'm sure we will hit a few thrift stores. Of course I have to find the perfect turkey for our thanksgiving dinner.
So much to do this morning so I better go.

I have been busy

I have not blogged in several days. We have been so busy around here. We had another member of our congregation pass away this week. It has been very sad and gloomy.
Today is a day off for me. Parent Teacher conferences...I love those. Today we are taking some kids to my parents house to rake leaves. They are earning money to go to the Burnt Cabin youth retreat in November. Alex is babysitting at the Siloam church tonight, they are going to a movie.
I can't think of anything else to say...except Have a wonderful weekend!

More Pictures

Our Vacation

When you live on a budget and want to get away you go to Branson. Ours was this weekend. It was the Church of Christ weekend at Silver Dollar City. We stayed in a condo which was wonderful and relaxing. My parents had an adjoining room next to ours. There were about 35-40 from our congreation. We had a great time. I mostly enjoyed taking pictures at all the pretty flowers. We did a little shopping not too much though. We are going to try and go back in December to see the christmas lights. Here are a few of my pictures:

What a week...

I have had a very busy but wonderful week. I spent today with my mom and her sisters and my cousin. We ate a great little sandwich shop in Grove. I found Alex some great clothes at a yard sale. I'm glad she doesn't care. She is a good girl!
Well I have to get busy on my Sunday morning class. I hope you all have a good weekend. Have a Blessed Day!

A day off...

The thing I like best about being in Kansas and working for the school here is that we are out of school all the time. Actually its not that great because we do have to make it up. But today is one of those days that we have off. The Tulsa State Fair is going on and we have a day set aside to go. Nice huh? Althought we are not going this year.

We lost a very dear friend of our a few days ago. He lost his battle with cancer. Even though Mack was 82 he acted like a kid. Always laughing and making jokes. He was very special to me. He was also one of Jimmy's best friends. They always had a lot to talk about. Mack would talk to anyone! He was amazing. His service will be tomorrow. He will be greatly missed, but never forgotten.

Oh So Busy...

It has been 10 days since my last post. I have been very busy. Thanks a lot Amber for introducing me to Amazon. That has kept me so busy. I average about 2 books a day. It is fun and easy.

I hope everyone is doing well...who am I kidding, no one reads this!!!

My first sale....

I had my first sale on Amazon.com. Actually I sold 2 books. I was the easiest thing ever. I can't wait to list more. I made a whopping $8. The way I see it, thats $8 more dollars than I had! Im excited!