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New blog

www.shesewsandscraps.com

Well I started a new blog, this one will stay so I can refer back to it but the new one is active!

Hugs!

End of School year wrap up

I was reading my friend Karen's blog  and she had a end of school year post and it made me think to do that for Zachs school year, thanks Karen!

Zach loved school! he attended a huge public high school this year, which was a huge difference for us since going to a small Charter school for the last 3 years. Zach dove right in, the first week of school he heard about cross country, he decided to go out for that and had a lot of fun and learned a lot about running

He also decided to play a guitar and take woodworking and made me some really cool items for the house

 

 

He then decided to go out for track and learned and improved tons in the running department, he was so commited and just had a blast with all of it and made some great friends

He also received the TRUE GRIT award in Track which is not easy to get

 

Then to top off the school year after maining all A's for the whole year, he received a Golden Scholar Award for having at least a 3.75 GPA or higher all year, GO ZACH!!!

 

I swear, I have it so easy being a mom to a great kid who is easy going, happy, smart and fun to be around, love ya buddy!

40 :)

I had a birthday yesterday (June 9) and I turned 40! It sounds weird saying "I am 40" and there were a lot of 40 year old joke/comments yesterday to me! :) love all of you that were so sweet and remembered my birthday, hugs to you all! I had a great day! I spent the morning walking/running, well mostly walking with my friend Shannon from 5:30am-7:30am while Zach and her son Brian  did their running camp, I then went and helped my friend Wendy work at her foster care storage facility. I had some errands to run and then bought Zach and I Chick fil a for lunch, YUM!  Jim then came home and took me to Bass Pro Shops and bought me this, a Trail Cam  

yes, most of my friends think I am weird for wanting this but I think it's going to be a blast to set up and see what wildlife comes in! We then went to Chili's for dinner, came home, ate chocolate and took this picture

 

It was a great day!

One random fact (hopefully not a fact after today)

When reading others blogs I see they post random facts about themselves, well this time I am going to post one random fact about myself that I created a couple of years ago and I do not like this truth about me and hopefully it will not be a truth about myself anymore, I am sure I might have a small setback or two sometime along the way while learning but... my random ract about myself is that, when life isn't going how I planned or I am more sad, frustrated and dissapointed,  I tend to withdrawl from people I love, my family and friends is who I cherish most, I stop doing what I love, which basically is creating something, usually scrapbooking, sewing

As you can tell from the last post of my blog, Jan 15 and now it is May 29, I have neglected this blog, which isn't reall*that* important but what is important is that I neglected myself, pretty dumb  huh?  Well no more, if you don't hear from me, if you notice I am not around  pestering you, you have the right to call me on it :)

Anyways, I am hoping to get this blog updated, I love the new pink banner (free on internet, thanks to who designed it because it is cute) but I am hoping to learn to make one that is really ME! I am thinking reds and a touch of turquoise with a white background or something and cute little birds and flowers, something happy.

Oh and for accountability purposes, my friend April is supposed to keep her blog updated too. I have another friend Barbara, who NEEDS a blog, she is super talented and creative and she has a family that is beautiful that she could show off :) I saved a spot on my sidebar for ya Barbara! Heck, I wish my mom and sisters would do a blog too :) no pressure though! ;)

Also I am sorry if I haven't been a great friend, know that I love you and I am trying.

Hugs! :)

Some Updates

Since I was supposed to share all this Jan 1 and didn't, here you go...

My new 2009 Word is     GROW

 

Grow in my relationship with God

  read my Bible more, start a new Bible study and stop worrying so much and rely on God

Grow with my family

Do more fun activities together, always protect and build each other up, what can make us even closer and better?

Grow in my abilities

always learning something new (more crafts, signing)

 do more sewing

get back to my gardening

scrapbook more/create

taking more chances

exercising more

remember that life is to short to get so upset about people who don't care

 

Another project I would love to share is a Gratitude project, that Brenda Arnall started, basically documenting something that you are grateful or thankful for or maybe a blessing. I am using the word Blessings for mine, here is my album

I will continue to share my weekly pictures that I am grateful for or a blessing.

Here are some other pictures I have to share, I love this one of us three (and Cleo), we had rented a Pontoon Boat out on Apache Lake on New Years Day, had the best time!

and Here is Jim and Zach last weekend went they went out Coyote Calling

Until next time :)

middle of Jan already!

It's already Jan 14 and I meant to start new and post on Jan 1!

Oh well....

I am finally out my rut, so much for good intentions on starting *new* on Jan 1, but Jan 1 is just a date right?  :) life just got in the way, but things are getting back to normal again.

I have so much to share but going to do it in another post later today or tomorrow morning, I had planned on doing a new banner for my blog, didn't get around it to (didn't figure out how to actually!), so just going to use this one I borrowed from Typepad for now, its cute! ( I know my friend April will love the color of my blog! lol she actually does not like pink)

Had a good day today, did my workout :) had a surprise phone call from my sweet friend Barbara! (thanks Barbara, I needed that), talked to my mom lots today :) and started back up with my yahoo girls after disappearing for a while (stupid me!) and just stayed home tidying up the house, it's beautiful out today, like 73 degrees! I need to get out there and trim my grape vines and start spraying some weeds, they are going to take over here real quick.

see ya!

Joy to the World and Merry Christmas!

  Matthew 1:21

She will give birth to a son, and you are to give him the name Jesus, because he will save his people from their sins."

 

We had a nice day, mom came over :) we all ate Mexican food and cookies! it was nice and relaxing.

  our family picture

Zach played some Christmas songs for us

we all were spoiled..... definetly a good day, but we mostly thank God  for the birth of Jesus

Hugs!

 

 

Sharing some photos for family members :)

I need to get these on here before Christmas comes! yikes, it's really close!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Blessed and very grateful

Posting on my blog late but wanted to share a sweet picture that I love, this is a picture on Thanksgiving day of all of us, can you believe Jim and I, our three kids, Zach, Eric, Steph and their familes were with us?!! what a blessing that we are all together, I thank God for this.

HOME frame

 

actually doing some more creating! boy it feels good to be back to scrapping and creating!