Scrapbooking...

SO I am leaving tomorrow for a weekend scrapbooking retreat. I swear, I am SO excited! I try to scrapbook once a week and still get NOTHING done! I am SO excited to have almost 3 WHOLE days to work on things and "hopefully" get caught up on Kiley & Brendan's scrapbooks. We shall see. I am sure all of you who don't do this kind of thing are like..."what the crap are you going to do ALL weekend long"...and the answer to that is EVERYTHING I can!!! LOL! The only down side to this is I am going to miss Kiley and Brendan SO much! This is the first time I have spent the night away from them since Kiley was born, other than 2 nights when Brendan was born...but I am nervous, but Extremely confident in Korry, so I think this has a bright side too, I think he will see a "TINY" bit of what I do all day long. SO we shall see what my house looks like when I return. I told him he had to take pictures of Kiley on Sunday morning...I am excited to see what in the world he will do with her hair, lol! I think he will do great though! He is excited. He wants to take them to the movies and to fly his airplane, we shall see how overwhelming the movie is...lol...stay tuned for updates next week. Anyway, I hope you all have a Great weekend and I hope to hear from you all soon! :o)

~All My Girls~

GIRLS IN MY CIRCLE

When I was little, I used to believe in the concept of one best friend.

And then I started to become a woman. And then I found out that if you allow your heart to open up, you will be shown the best in many friends.

One friend is needed when you're going through things with your partner.

Another friend is needed when you're going through things with your parents.

Another will sit beside you in the bleachers as you delight in your children and their activities. Another when you want to shop, share, heal, hurt, joke, or just be.

One friend will say, 'Let's cry together,' another, 'Let's fight together,' another, 'Let's walk away together.'

One friend will meet your spiritual need, another your shoe fetish, another your love for movies, another will be with you in your season of confusion, another will be your clarifier, another the wind beneath your wings.

But what ever their assignment in your life, on whatever the occasion, on whatever the day, or wher ever you need them to meet you with their gym shoes on and hair pulled back, or to hold you back from making a complete fool of yourself........

Those are the Best of friends It may all be wrapped up in one woman, but for many, it's wrapped up in several.....

one from 6th grade, one from high school, some from the college years, a couple from old jobs. On some days your mother.

On some days your neighbor.

On others, your sisters, cousins.

And on some days, your daughters.

So whether they've been your friend for 20 minutes or 20 years,

AND ONLY IF YOU'D LIKE TO,

pass this on to the women who have been placed in your life to make a difference,

And don't forget to send it back to the one who gave it to you,

if they have made a difference in your life

So Busy...

I don't even know where the last months have gone. All the sudden I haven't posted a blog since April and the summer is pretty much over! How did this happen?! Well I will give a brief re-cap on the last few months! We went to New Mexico to visit my Family there at the end of June first of July. It was a lot of fun! We had a Family Friend take our pictures with my sisters family, my mom and my Grandparents. They turned out great! We also got to take the kids to the zoo, Aquarium and Amusement Park (Cliffs) in Albuquerque. They had a blast! You take advantage of those things and think they're not that great until you live somewhere where there is NOTHING, lol! So we enjoyed that So much!
We had Brendan's Birthday party when we got back, the 19th of July. He had So much fun! We had it at Jumpers Gymnastics. He had about 12 kids there and they just got to run and play and wear themselves out for 2 hours, so it was a good nights sleep for all the kids AND the parents!
Then today we celebrated Kiley's 5th Birthday! CAN you believe it!? I can not believe she is 5 already! It seems like I blinked and Brendan turned 2 and she turned 5! But we had hers at S&L Bounce. It's a fun place with all these bouncers and she had about 14 kids and they all wore EVERYONE out! There was a boxing ring and even the parents got to get in on that action, lol! It was a lot of fun! She had a Disney Princess party and I am pretty sure EVERY present she got was Disney Princess of some sort, lol! But she loves it all and can't wait to wake up and play with it all again tomorrow!
We decided to keep Kiley home from Kindergarten for one more year. She is 4 days before the cut-off so she could go now, but Korry and I talked about it and she would graduate when she was 17 and she is already pretty small for her age and if I can keep her with me and extra year, I am ALL for that! :o)
So anyway, I am pretty sure that's all our news for now! I hope everyone is doing well and we hear from you all soon! Love and Miss those of you who aren't here! Come see us before we move! :o) TTYL! :o)