TGIF...or maybe not.

I would be happy it's Friday if it wasn't followed by Saturday. Tomorrow is going to be crazy for me. I made it better by skipping the hockey game in Midland tonight. Bus should get back about 3am. Ouch! I work Saturday morning at 9:45. I needed more sleep to make it through and 8 1/2 hr day and then hit Kaiti's play. She's in WestSide Story. She's a Jet's girl. I can't wait.




But today I'm chillin till I have to go work the Basketball game. I did finish up a card for the AMR card challenge. I sent it to my Niece Lauren. She's been very sick this week. Bronchitis and Strep throat with a high fever. Poor kid. I'm hoping the card cheers her up.

I also worked on my 52 Weeks layouts. I've got to finish week 2 and then do week 4. As it's here right now. Maybe later tonight.




I also managed to finish and fold 2 loads of laundry. So not a total waste of a day, just a relaxing one.

JV Basketball game 1

Opening tip off. Brendan's buddy Conner was the center and Brendan played guard. They play 2 minute shifts and then it's massive subbing. The game was very entertaining. Some of the kids could play and some could NOT. Some I wondered if they had ever watched a game. Lathers played Farmington, and lost 14-20. B's buddy Drake plays for Farmington and they had to guard each other. They were funny. Over all it was a good game to watch and I'm sure as the season goes on all the teams will get better.


Here's my favorite player. Check out that defensive stance. Good job B.

MORE White Stuff.....awe man!

Well guess what? It's winter in Michigan and there is MORE white Crap falling from the sky. We've had so much snow already this year and it continues to fall and accumulate on the ground. So here's a couple pics out my windows today.





So today I think I'll stay in the house and enjoy the ability to hang on my computer. The wireless internet has been out at our house for over a week now and last night my wonderful nephew R.J. came over and fixed it. I was so excited!! I love that kid (who's almost 30). I do have to venture out to a hockey game. Driving should be fun later.

Wonderful cause.

I follow Taylored Expressions Blog and today she was all excited about a new blog design and a new banner. She contacted a friend of a friend who did it for her. The ladies name is Karen, she's a graphic designer and the blog banners and blinkies are a pet project. Her work is fabulous.

Nancy has decided that she'd like to continue creating blog banners, sidebar labels, and watermarks, but with a little twist! Instead of the standard payment for services rendered, she will design your blog banner and a watermark in exchange for a minimum $50 donation to Sick Kids, Canadian Immunodeficiency Society, Starlight Foundation, or a children's hospital in your area. Nancy's son, Henri, made an amazing recovery from a bone marrow transplant and an underlying immune disease with much thanks to Sick Kids. Now that Henri is better, Nancy is hoping to be able to raise some money for Sick Kids and other organizations who help children with similar diseases. If you'd like to contact Nancy about helping you with a new blog design, leave a comment on her blog or email her at nancy.mckinney3@gmail.com.

Check out more of Nancy's banner designs on these blogs:

Card Worthy (Nancy's blog)
The Paper Playhouse
Dana's House of Cards
Willow and Paisley

I think this is very note worthy endeavor and wanted you all to know. If your interested give her a shout. It would be money well spent.

More Scrap Camp Layouts.

Here's the one page layouts I did over the weekend. This first one might be my favorite. I don't usually scrap myself, for some reason I'm never in the pictures. Humm wonder how that happens. We made one of the kids take our pic on the Beach in Gulf Shores.


This next one really needs no explanation.


These two are really Best Buds. They are cousins and only 6 months apart in age. Our backyard can really flood if we plug up the drain. In the winter of 08 we had the biggest sheet of Ice I've ever seen. The boys lived out there and it happened while they were off school on mid winter break.


Even the bigger kids got in on the act. We had a couple guys over from the Ice Dogs Jr. team and they spent the day skating and goofing around. We built a fire later in the day, we needed a place to warm up.



So much to scrap and so little time. I really could use another weekend soon. But all I'm going to get is a day. This Saturday we are "Croppin for Cougars" at Garden City HS, raising $$ for the girls cross country team.

A Historic Day!

Well this was a Historic Day for the United Stated of America. Now lets get past all the hype and get down to business. We have so many things that need fixing I'm sure the man is over whelmed. But I believe he was the right person for the job and I voted for him not because of the color of his skin but because I truly believe he can get the job done.



I am very proud of my country right now. We seem to have put race aside and voted for the person with the best qualifications. He has a tough up hill battle ahead of him. I hope Congress can gets there heads out of their butts and puts all their "pet" projects in the trash and work with the man. We need to show the rest of the world that we truly are a Great Nation. We need to solve some of our own problems before we take on "Anyone" elses, lord knows we have enough of them.

OK I'm going to get off the political soapbox and call it a night. I'm going to use an image from today as "Week 3" photo for my Gratitude Project. As soon as the LO's done I'll post it.

A Chair with a View!

This chair was my inspiration all weekend. I just couldn't get over how comfortable it looked, with a soft blanket of snow cushioning it. The chairs we sat on all weekend, Thursday to Sunday, were just hard metal folding chairs. Ouch! It may take days for my butt to recover. Had I known I would have taken a cushion. I want to go back and crop there again when the sun is shinning and I can relax in this Adirondack chair and gaze at the lake below.

We cropped at Somerset Beach Campground near Jackson Michigan. It was wonderful. Had we not had sub-zero temps it would have made walking down for meals no big deal. But with windchill's around -20 we bundled up and walked, or warmed up the car as some of the girls did and drove. I rode twice. Once because I had my laptop (carried it on the walk back) and once because I froze my forehead on the walk back after lunch and had a headache the rest of the day.







We really had a great time. And truthfully the snow didn't dampen our spirits until we had to drive home. It took me about 2 hrs to make a 1 hr 15 min trip. I saw at least 35 cars off in the ditch or turned around facing the wrong direction. Driving was made even more hazardous by people that insisted on driving above the speed limit. But alas there is justice in this world. One guy from out of state who flew by ended up in the ditch about 5 miles up the road. And yes I did point my finger at him and LAUGH loudly.

I made it home safely and this is what greeted me:



Be sure to go check out AMR's new Royal Challenge Blog. It's going to be so much fun. Who will be the first Princesses and who will be Queen? We also have new daily challenges over on the message board. So much fun so little time.