The beginning of The Book Shack's website was turned on today! It has a ways to go but it is a start! Check it out and let me know what you think. (I didn't build it...Valley Journals did, it's part of the advertising package I have with them) Let me know any suggestions you have for what I could add to it. I will be putting on the Author of the Month information and adding pictures (and deleting some)...anyways take a look, K? http://bookshackmidvale.com/

My Weekend!

Allison, Kaitlyn, Teresa, Ellie & Reanna (left to right)
Saturday night we had a scrapbook sleepover with all 5 of my grandaughters! We had so much fun, scrapped, made cards, glued our hands up, had pizza...slept some then got up and started scrappin' all over again!

Happy Birthday Michael! I love you...

Today is my sweet hubby's birthday! He is 65 today and I am having a hard time realizing that we have reached this point together! In my minds eye we are both still in our 30's with our young family and all of life still ahead of us. The years have totally flown by.

So, I just want to say that the years we have had together have been, without a doubt, the absolute best in my life. I hope you have a great birthday Michael and many, many more to come.

Just as a side note you know how people always say that life can change in just a second...yesterday Michael's boss had an accident in the truck that Michael drives fairly often. It just makes you stop and think how quick something could happen...luckily Lane wasn't hurt badly, some burns and glass in his face. I am thankful that Michael did not have that truck yesterday, and I am thankful that Lane will be OK...he and his wife just had a brand new baby!

Here is the link to the news story.
http://www.ksl.com/index.php?nid=148&sid=7500124

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!

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!

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!

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!