Friday, December 28, 2007

Catch Up!





We have all been sick again. My voice is playing tricks again, but not that bad. And hopefully it will not get any worse! Doreen is not feeling great but I think it is because she pushed herself too hard for the last couple of days. Mom is feeling better but she still has a really bad cough!

London feeding her new baby.







So we have not really done that much since we have been back. We did go to Shannon and Kevin's house Christmas Day for breakfast and watched the girls open presents! That was awesome experience. Never seen children open presents before! Then Christmas night we went to my Uncles girlfriends house for dinner. It was awesome but very long. I was tired and I wanted to go to bed so that I could get up and go shopping!


So that leads into the day after Christmas, me and Doreen got up at 6am and went shopping we finally got home and everything put away at around 6pm, we had a lot of fun and got alot of fun stuff.

The other exciting news that I can now tell is that I am going to see Bon Jovi in April. My boss bought me one ticket and I bought the other ticket so that my best friend in Arizona (Beth) could come with me. The only thing she has to do is get here. She has a place to stay and I will feed her and pick her up and take her to the airport! I am very excited. I called her on Christmas and told her, she sounded very excited so I hope that she is and it all works out! I am really looking forward to her coming and visiting.

Other than that nothing really is going on we are staying in for New Years. I managed to get a 4 day weekend so I am going to do some cleaning and packing and relaxing. Hope that everyone has a happy and healthy New Year:)

Kensy opening her Christmas present.

Friday, November 30, 2007

Christmas Tag

Christmas TagIf you have a blog, please do this as well! I would love to read your answers!!

1. Egg Nog or Hot Chocolate? I am a HUGE fan of Starbucks' Peppermint Hot Chocolate.

2. Do you wrap presents or not? I do....Santa doesn't.

3. Colored Lights or White? I love the multi colored lights.

4. Do you hang mistletoe? No not usually

5. When do you decorate? The day after Thanksgiving if I have my way!!

6. Favorite holiday dish? Doreen's Homemade cookies.

7. Favorite memory as a child? Always having pizza on Christmas Eve so there were no dishes for me to do so we could open our presents

8. When & how did you learn about Santa? I really do not remember, I think my mom told me when I was like 9 or 10, becuase it was getting to hard for her to hide things???

9. Do you open a gift on Christmas Eve? Yes we have always opened all our presents from each other on Christmas Eve then Santa came and gave us more unwrapped gifts

10. How do you decorate your tree? Well, with lights and ornaments, sometime tinsel

11. Snow...love it or dread it? I have not ever really been in snow but I have always thought that I would like to play in it but be able to get out of it. So not live in it!

12. Can you ice skate? No way

13. Do you remember your favorite gift? I have a few favorites but most of them are as an adult. One is getting Bon Jovi tickets, the other is the year we decided not to give presents to each other and go to Nashville as a family. (which killed me because I like getting and giving) and my sister bought me tickets to see the Judds at Oakland, and it was awesome:) Thank you Doreen!!

14. What is the most important part of the holidays? Family and taking time to enjoy what it is all about:)

15. Favorite holiday dessert? Peppermint ice cream


16. Favorite tradition? Going to Starbucks getting Peppermint Hot Chocolate and drive around looking at ligts, that is the newest tradition. The old one is eating Pizza on Christmas Eve!

Sunday, November 25, 2007

Christmas Decorations




Ok so I am not going to get to decorate inside again this year, for several reasons that most of you know. So I decided that I was going to put my stuff out in the front yard, except lights on the house because I got rid of them last year thinking we would be moved and have new ones on mom's house. So I thought I would share a couple pictures of my yard, nothing really special but I love to decorate for the holidays specially outside:)









ok so I will let everyone know how everyone is in sometime next week time for me to go eat dinner:)







Wednesday, November 21, 2007

Boots





Ok so I have posted that I started taking line dancing classes. To go along with that I had to go and buy a pair of boots, all I have is tennis shoes and birkinstocks. So I thought I would treat myself to a nice pair since I am enjoying the class so much that I think I am going to continue for awhile. These are pretty much the most expensive thing I have bought for myself in a LONG time 118.00. They are so comfy though.

I am at work and about to be late starting so I am going to make this short but I hope that everyone has a wonderful Thanksgiving and enjoys being with there family.


Happy Thanksgiving to everyone:)

Thursday, November 15, 2007

Busy Week

Ok so it has been awhile since I posted because I just have not had time to get in the computer room and do it:) My mom and sister are still really sick. I have not yet caught it Thank God. I have been working alot of extra hours for one because I really need the money and the other is because I am going to Disneyland in 24 days (providing everyone is healthy) and I have no money, as well as they still have not replaced the parts lady. So I have been working 8 hour days then coming home and making sure that everyone has eaten and is taking there meds the way they should be all day.

Yesterday I had to take Doreen to the doctor to get a chest x-ray because the doctor wanted to make sure she was not getting pnamonia (spelled wrong maybe) because she just can not kick the cough and being tired. The good news is that the doctor called last night and the x-ray came out ok as of now she is in the clear, he gave her some antibiotics and told her to just try and rest.

As for me I am ok I went to Weight Watchers last night and I lost another 2.2 pounds which brings me to a total of 34.6 pounds lost. That really made me happy, it has been really hard lately, because I have not been on my normal schedule so I have not been able to go to the gym or take walks at work like I was, but on the same token I am moving more doing my job now that I am doing 2 peoples.Well I need to go finish getting ready for work so I will try and keep all updated on everyone in the next couple of days:)Love to all

Monday, November 12, 2007

Friends are God's way of taking care of us

A friend of mine sent this to me and I really liked it so I thought I would post it for everyone to read:)



This was written by a Hospice of Metro Denver physician. I just had one of the most amazing experiences of my life, and wanted to share it with my family and dearest friends: I was driving home from a meeting this evening about 5, stuck in traffic on Colorado Blvd., and the car started to choke and splutter and die - I barely managed to coast, cursing, into a gas station, glad only that I would not be blocking traffic and would have a somewhat warm spot to wait for the tow truck. It wouldn't even turn over. Before I could make the call, I saw a woman walking out of the "quickie mart" building, and it looked like she slipped on some ice and fell into a Gas pump, so I got out to see if she was okay. When I got there, it looked more like she had been overcome by sobs than that she had fallen; she was a young woman who looked really haggard with dark circles under her eyes. She dropped something as I helped her up, and I picked it up to give it to her. It was a nickel. At that moment, everything came into focus for me: the crying woman, the ancient Suburban crammed full of stuff with 3 kids in the back (1 in a car seat), and the gas pump reading $4.95. I asked her if she was okay and if she needed help, and she just kept saying "I don't want my kids to see me crying," so we stood on the other side of the pump from her car. She said she was driving to California and that things were very hard for her right now. So I asked, "And you were praying?" That made her back away from me a little, but I assured her I was not a crazy person and said, "He heard you, and He sent me." I took out my card and swiped it through the card reader on the pump so she could fill up her car completely, and while it was fueling, walked to the next door McDonald's and bought 2 big bags of food, some gift certificates for more, and a big cup of coffee. She gave the food to the kids in the car, who attacked it like wolves, and we stood by the pump eating fries and talking a little.
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She told me her name, and that she lived in Kansas City Her boyfriend left 2 months ago and she had not been able to make ends meet. She knew she wouldn't have money to pay rent Jan 1, and finally in desperation had finally called her parents, with whom she had not spoken in about 5 years. They lived in California and said she could come live with them and try to get on her feet there. So she packed up everything she owned in the car She told the kids they were going to California for Christmas, but not that they were going to live there. I gave her my gloves, a little hug and said a quick prayer with her for safety on the road. As I was walking over to my car, she said, "So, are you like an angel or something?" This definitely made me cry. I said, "Sweetie, at this time of year angels are really busy, so sometimes God uses regular people." It was so incredible to be a part of someone else's miracle. And of course, you guessed it, when I got in my car it started right away and got me home with no problem. I'll put it in the shop tomorrow to check, but I suspect the mechanic won't find anything wrong. Sometimes the angels fly close enough to you that you can hear the flutter of their wings... Psalms 55:22 "Cast thy burden upon the Lord, and He shall sustain thee. He shall never suffer the righteous to be moved."
My instructions were to pick four people that I wanted God to bless, especially for the months in 2007, and I picked you.

Please pass this to four people you want to be blessed and a copy back to me. This prayer is powerful and prayer is one of the best gifts we receive. There is no cost but a lot of rewards. Let's continue to pray for one another. Here is the prayer: "Father, I ask You to bless my children, grandchildren, friends, relatives and email buddies reading this right now. Show them a new revelation of your love and power Holy Spirit, I ask You to minister to their spirit at this very moment. Where there is pain, give them Your peace and mercy. Where there is self doubt, release a renewed confidence through Your grace. Amen." I know I picked more than four and you can, too.


This was written by a Hospice of Metro Denver physician. I just had one of the most amazing experiences of my life, and wanted to share it with my family and dearest friends: I was driving home from a meeting this evening about 5, stuck in traffic on Colorado Blvd., and the car started to choke and splutter and die - I barely managed to coast, cursing, into a gas station, glad only that I would not be blocking traffic and would have a somewhat warm spot to wait for the tow truck. It wouldn't even turn over. Before I could make the call, I saw a woman walking out of the "quickie mart" building, and it looked like she slipped on some ice and fell into a Gas pump, so I got out to see if she was okay. When I got there, it looked more like she had been overcome by sobs than that she had fallen; she was a young woman who looked really haggard with dark circles under her eyes. She dropped something as I helped her up, and I picked it up to give it to her. It was a nickel. At that moment, everything came into focus for me: the crying woman, the ancient Suburban crammed full of stuff with 3 kids in the back (1 in a car seat), and the gas pump reading $4.95. I asked her if she was okay and if she needed help, and she just kept saying "I don't want my kids to see me crying," so we stood on the other side of the pump from her car. She said she was driving to California and that things were very hard for her right now. So I asked, "And you were praying?" That made her back away from me a little, but I assured her I was not a crazy person and said, "He heard you, and He sent me." I took out my card and swiped it through the card reader on the pump so she could fill up her car completely, and while it was fueling, walked to the next door McDonald's and bought 2 big bags of food, some gift certificates for more, and a big cup of coffee. She gave the food to the kids in the car, who attacked it like wolves, and we stood by the pump eating fries and talking a little.

She told me her name, and that she lived in Kansas City Her boyfriend left 2 months ago and she had not been able to make ends meet. She knew she wouldn't have money to pay rent Jan 1, and finally in desperation had finally called her parents, with whom she had not spoken in about 5 years. They lived in California and said she could come live with them and try to get on her feet there. So she packed up everything she owned in the car She told the kids they were going to California for Christmas, but not that they were going to live there. I gave her my gloves, a little hug and said a quick prayer with her for safety on the road. As I was walking over to my car, she said, "So, are you like an angel or something?" This definitely made me cry. I said, "Sweetie, at this time of year angels are really busy, so sometimes God uses regular people." It was so incredible to be a part of someone else's miracle. And of course, you guessed it, when I got in my car it started right away and got me home with no problem. I'll put it in the shop tomorrow to check, but I suspect the mechanic won't find anything wrong. Sometimes the angels fly close enough to you that you can hear the flutter of their wings... Psalms 55:22 "Cast thy burden upon the Lord, and He shall sustain thee. He shall never suffer the righteous to be moved."
My instructions were to pick four people that I wanted God to bless, especially for the months in 2007, and I picked you.

Please pass this to four people you want to be blessed and a copy back to me. This prayer is powerful and prayer is one of the best gifts we receive. There is no cost but a lot of rewards. Let's continue to pray for one another. Here is the prayer: "Father, I ask You to bless my children, grandchildren, friends, relatives and email buddies reading this right now. Show them a new revelation of your love and power Holy Spirit, I ask You to minister to their spirit at this very moment. Where there is pain, give them Your peace and mercy. Where there is self doubt, release a renewed confidence through Your grace. Amen." I know I picked more than four and you can, too.

Saturday, November 10, 2007

Home all Day Wow

Ok so my mom and sister are still sick, but my sister is feeling better, but my mom is still not really feeling good. So today I got up and went to the store and got some fruits and lunch stuff for the week and came home and cooked breakfast. Then me and Doreen decided to go through and clean up a little in our living room. Since London is coming over more and more, we wanted to put up some of the things in there that we did not want her to play with. So we did that then I made lunch which was clean out the refridg. Then I started wrapping Christmas presents that have to be shipped in a couple of weeks, and making sure that I have something for everyone. I think I have everone covered but my 2 newest additions Kyle and Jackson, which are my bet friend Beths twins. I am not really sure what I will get them for Christmas, (any suggestions Beth?) Also cxhanged my sisters bed for her because she is feeling better and I did not want her to be sleeping with all her sick germs:)

So them I decide that I want something good for dessert tonight so I get up and go and make a cinnamin loaf cake. It smells good I will let you know if it tastes good tomorrow. Then I finish making dinner which was just warming up some leftovers. I know that it does not sound like a lot but I am tired and feel like I got so much stuff done today. So I am now going to go and relax for the rest of the evening.

Hope everyone is good and had a nice Saturday.

Friday, November 9, 2007

Sick

So my sister has not been feeling well the last couple of days and yesterday it finally hit and she has a full blown cold. My mom also was not feeling well yesterday, so we will see what she feels like today. I am on the other hand ok so far. I just keeping taking airborne and lots of coffee:)

I have been working alot more than I was because one of th girls I worked with got let go when I got back from Arizona in Oct. She is a really good friend of mine, who I met through work, her name is Marney. So I have been not only doing my own job but what she use to do as well. I do not really think the manager knew what Marney really did because it is a lot of work. Thank you Marney for helping me when I call you, because I know you really do not have to help! So this week by the end of today I will have worked my first 40 hour week in a very long time and I am really tired. THANK GOD it is Friday and I have NO plans for this weekend. I plan on resting and wrapping some Christmas presents, and make sure that I have something for everyone, so that I can ship them before we leave for Disneyland.

Oh yea me mom and Doreen are going to Disneyland in Dec, that is how we are going to celebrate our Christmas. We will be gone from Dec 9th to Dec 14th or 15th, I think. All I know is that all my hard work right now came at a good time.

Well I need to get going to work so talk to ya all later,
Deb

Tuesday, November 6, 2007

Billy Ray Concert



Ok so as many of you know we went to Santa Rosa Friday to see Billy Ray Cyrus. He put on an awesome show. The meet and greet was a little disappointing because it was really rushed and he did not really pay attention to us, but that is ok. As we all know everyone has bad days, and that is what I am going to stick with he was having a bad day. Because that makes me feel better. I know that he is not normally like that as I have met him before! Over all we had a good time.
We stopped at a couple of stores on our way up there and on our way home, and did some shopping for Halloween for the kids next year. We also bought London (our contractor daughter) a few costumes to leave at our house to play dress up in, when we are watching her. She is 2 and loves to play dress up. I also bought some candy for my candy jar at work. Who could pass up a bag of candy for .50.


Ok well I am suppose to be working right now so that is it for this one, but I will be back later to let you kow about the rest of our weekend.

Monday, October 29, 2007

Halloween Work Party Prep



So yesterday Sunday we went out to brunch with a friend then came home and started getting the things I could get ready for my Halloween Pot Luck at work. So these were suppose to be witches, the key word here is suppose to:) They are marshmellows and pretzels sticks and in the book I thought they were so cute. Not so easy to make!





Rice Krispy Pumpkins. Much easier and fun to make. Me mom and Doreen had fun doing all of it!
So anyways we had a great day and hope all of you did also. Tuesday we have to finish the stuff that could not be done early so I will take pictures of that and post them then.
Have a wonderful day! Off to work I go!

Saturday, October 27, 2007

Busy Saturday

Well today I got to stay home:) Did I get to rest you ask? Well sort of. We all got woken up at 7:30 AM because the power went off, and for those of you that do not know my sister wears oxygen 24/7 and she can not lay or sleep without it for sure. Also my mom has sleep apnea and wears a machine when she sleeps and can not sleep without it. So that should explain why we all got up. It was only out for about 35 min. Then we got up cooked breakfast and my day started.First I cleaned the corner of the front room that is mine that had a pile that was huge, and it still had the bag of stuff that I bought when I was in AZ 2 weeks ago sitting there waiting to be put away. That took me at least an hour.Then to the real fun stuff, bathing my 2 cats.

Then vaccuming the whole house, doing dishes and helping my sister make lunch. Then sitting back done for awhile and cutting out some plastic canvas train holders, that I sold at the craft fair me and Doreen did last weekend. Then I took the stuff out of my spare rooms closet so that my mom could use the whole closet. So I tried on a bunch of stuff to my amazement some of it was very old and fit again and some was just too old and need to be gotten rid of, so I did.After all that I went to my moms house and took 2 boxes that we had packed over there to store and then got her mail and paper, came back home and ate dinner and did dishes again.

Now I am off to bed because I am really sore and tired 9:34PM.Ok so I do not like complaining or want sympathy for doing so much on my day off as much as I am going to praise myself because I got alot done that needed to be done.Tomorrow we are going to start preping the stuff I am making for our Halloween party at work:) That should be a lot of fun. So good night and I will try and post some pictures of stuff we make tomorrow:)

Friday, October 26, 2007

Sore

Ok so I did it and It's 5:30 AM and I am not too bad yet. We even sort of kept up, with the class. It was alot of fun and Shannon and I are looking forward to next week. This class is 5 weeks long and I think I am really going to like it, I am just going to have to go get some other shoes. I was thinking that my tennis shoes would be ok, but when you slide and or spin tennis shoes do not move! The instructor is very nice and slow. I will keep you all informed as to how it works out.

Off to get coffee and face the day!Have a Nice Day and wonderful weekend and I will try and do some fun things with this either this weekend or next week!