Tuesday, July 21, 2009

Not Hot Pink, but pink just the same...

Here is the finished paint job...still don't know what my landlord was thinking but it has grown on me! It is unique like soooooo many other things about this building! And, the paint job does look better than how it was before! So pink paint (landlord calls it Blush), dark red trim and then my dark green shutters! Almost cartoonish! Ha ha!

Wednesday, June 24, 2009

It's Official!





Well, it is official...after years of schooling, many trials and tears, our daughter Karen is a RN! She passed her state boards on Monday! We are so proud of her! Her desire now would be to get hired at Primary Children NICU....she loves working in that area, but right now they have a hiring freeze. But we are sure that no matter where she goes to work her employer will be very lucky to have her for an employee!

Wednesday, June 17, 2009

UPDATE on my car getting broke into!

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!

Monday, June 8, 2009

The world is full of JERKS!!!

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!

Thursday, May 21, 2009

Lifes little Smiles!

Just because I have been in a small funk lately I thought I would post a couple of pics of things that make my heart smile....
My beautiful wisteria flowers! They smell so good,
I could sit outdoors and look at them for hours!

My oldest grandaughter, Teresa, turned 20 in December! I don't understand where the heck the time went! She was just a little baby not so long ago singing "my omana sunshine" to me.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.

Wednesday, May 20, 2009

I lost myself...

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....

Wednesday, April 15, 2009

I didn't fall off the face of the earth!

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.


Scrappin' with my Grandaughters