So, I kept thinking that there had to be something in my car that they wanted...I couldn't imagine them bashing the window just for fun....well, it finally came to me! I had received my latest shipment from Tassimo (my coffee/hot chocolate machine)...and that was sitting on my back seat! So with a $2,000 computer in the trunk and a pile of money for the bank they got away with a box of chocolate syrup! I hope they enjoyed it!
So I wake up Sunday morning ready to enjoy a day with my scrapbook buddies...I look out my bedroom window to get a look at the early summer morning, birds are singing, flowers are blooming and this is what I see!
Someone has bashed in my car window! Nothing was taken, the doors weren't even unlocked! The police wondered if something scared them off....
It could have been so much worse and I have learned a valuable lesson! In my trunk was my $2,000 laptop that has my complete book store inventory, and business on it...plus my weeks deposit was in the trunk! I was absolutely sick to my stomach until I found everything still there!
We installed sensor lights on the garage last night and I will never...repeat NEVER leave things in my car again!
Reanna.....what can I say? Such a pretty, sweet, wonderful 17 year old with such an attitude!
Jake is now 15 and loves to race motorcycles off road. 
Allison is now 9 years old. She is my little crafty girl...loves to scrapbook and make cards. She even taught me how to make a pop-up card!
Wyatt & Ellie....they both love each other so much! When Ellie walks in to the room Wyatt's face just lights up and Ellie always hurries over to him to give him a hug! How stinkin' precious is that?
Ellie is so in love with Butch...she follows him all over the yard and whenever possible leans in to give him hugs & kisses!
So, with all the things around me that make me smile it's pretty silly to let myself get down at all, right? I gotta keep that in mind and remember how wonderful a simple life can be with such wonderful people in it.Sorry I lost myself for a little while....my blog is back on and I will try to think of something in my life worth posting....I got real tired of posting about the book store. I would post tonight but i am too angry at Kris winning IDOL....
It has been pointed out to me that I have not updated my blog in quite some time....my life has been pretty much consumed with a book store! I have some really cute Easter pics to post but no time to do it tonight but I did want to share a very cute little girl who seems to be growing up way too fast! It seems like just yesterday Ellie was a little baby, mobile only in someones arms...now she is quite the little girl and quite the mover, it is sometimes pretty hard to keep up with her. Yesterday I had a customer at my desk and she put her bag of books on the floor while she was talking to me. When she went to leave her bag was gone, Ellie had it over her shoulder and was trucking down the aisle! It was so funny! The lady felt bad taking it away from her! Anyway, before I go to bed I wanted to share these cute pics of little Ellie.
Well it is finally beginning to look like a book store! The hard work hopefully will start to pay off soon. We have only taken 2 days off since January 27 but we have promised ourselves we will take off this coming Sunday. I am truly looking forward to that! We have gone through probably close to 300 boxes by now and have about 500 more to go. We are not going to fit all our books in here so we have boxed up a lot of duplicates for later. We have a bet going...I think we will fit about 400 boxes in the store and Michael thinks we will fit about 500! All I know is I am getting very tired of going through the boxes.
The one thing I am absolutely certain of is that without this little helper we wouldn't be having any fun at all! Ellie thinks all the aisles were made for a constant chase and hide & go-seek day!
Our opening is March 14! Hope you come see what we have been working on.
