My last two scrapbook pages

I talked to SallyRose this evening and she wants to see my last two scrap book pages. So here they are.

This is Michayla at three moths old. I love this one!

This one is in Honor of Dan and Jacen working in Iraq. The inspiration came to me from the 4th of July play at church when they played the song "Soldier". Here are the lyrics:

Soldier

Some people say I'm a fighter

and some people hate what I do

But I stand for my country

I stand for you

I've got a family that loves me

And they respect what I do

And try telling your child You're leavin

Believe me its a hard thing to do

So if I die don't judge me

Cause I will not judge you

And if I die. Please accept it

Cause I would die for you

We have our reasons

Rules, Morals and beliefs

I won't slander your opinion

I'm just searching for peace.

So if I die don't judge me

Cause I will not judge you

And if I die, Please accept it

Cause I would die for you

I would die for you

Lyrics by Shawn Hlookoff

This is in the upper right of the page. In the middle at the bottom of the page I wrote:

Dan and Jacen served in the Army for 4 years. During that time Dan did a stint in Iraq while Jacen was in Baghdad. Even though they are not in the military now, they are both serving with the military. Dan left July 11th, 2007 to work in Iraq for 1 year. Jacen has been working in Iraq since February 2007.

This page made Larry cry when I showed it to him.

Not only have I been scrapbooking, I have also been making diaper cakes for baby showers. I made one for Nikki and one for a coworker. I wish I had taken pictures of them so I could show you what they looked like. They were a big hit at the showers. I was asked at my coworkers shower if I would take referals to make them. Of course I said yes. It would be kinda nice to make a little extra money on things like this. My next project is a towel cake for one of my coworkers Bridal Shower. I don't think I have ever been so crafty in my life as I am right now. I'm have'n fun! Larry got me a new craft table for the basement, which I really needed. I was working on two card tables and one of those was warped in the middle. When Erica was scrapping with me she had a hard time with it trying to cut her paper and all. I'm planning on having a Christmas card making group over on December 1st. I've already got pattern's for cards. I think that will be fun!

Well gotta go to bed. Its 10:22pm which is past my bedtime, but I was anxious to get this post done after talking to SallyRose. I especially wanted her to see the one of Dan and Jacen. I'll blog again soon as I have a lot to blog about!

Hello everyone....

long time no Blogger here! I looked back at my postings and I haven't blogged since sometime in April. Well, I've been busy working, scrapping, doing yard work, scrapping, painting the front door, scrapping and making greeting cards! At least I'm having fun in between all the working! I started painting the front of the house on Saturday and in between the rain I got the front door and the railing on the front stoop painted. I painted it a light gray. The front of the house will look a lot better after I get the garage door done. Larry put a new door knocker on the front door so people won't think the Harris's still live here. He even put a new door handle on the front storm door and the door actually latch's now. After all these years of not having to push the button to get the door open I went out and without thinking I pushed it with my shoulder and the door didn't budge.

Monday evening we went to a cookout at church for Memorial Day. We had a good time visiting with everyone.

My flowers are blooming! I have Iris's for the first time this year. They are so pretty! I'll have shasta daisies soon for the first time. My blackeyed susan's are coming back. My lawn service burnt them up a couple of years ago (needless to say I didn't have to pay them that time).

I recently went to a card making class at Archiver's. It was $15.00 but you got to make 9 cards, so I thought that was a pretty good deal considering the price of cards. I had a good time doing it too!

See all the pictures of my scrapbooking? Just think some day the albums will be the families of the pictures, so keep the pictures coming!

Coming up Larry and I are going to be doing some traveling. This Saturday Ralph and Lisa are getting married in Jasper, IN and we'll be there all day. We are going to try to come back that night so we won't have to pay for a motel. Then for our 15th wedding anniversary on June 15 we are going to the Shaker Tavern B & B. We'll be there on June 14,15,16 and come home on the 17th. It's in Kentucky. You can look it up on line if your interested. Sounds like we will have a good time. Then we have a big trip planned in October to go see Rebekah, Amir and Damien. Our flight leaves October 3rd and we come back on October 10th. I'm taking almost two weeks off work at this time. I've never taken two weeks off work before in my whole life. I don't know when we'll get to go and see the rest of the family yet this year. We'll just have to see how it goes. It all depends on my time off work and money.

I got to talk to Jordyn on the phone recently! He is such a sweet boy! I'm so glad Sally Rose has him because I can claim him as a GrandSon! I just adore him.

Well so much for long time no blogger. It's bedtime and tomorrow is another day. Sorry about all the pictures, but I wanted to send them all!

Oh, one more thing. The physician assistant, Beth Harding, who started working in Roberta Craft's place because Roberta was diagnosed with cancer last November, was just diagnosed with some form of lukemia. Lukemia is a form of Cancer but it's one of the more treatable ones. But, how bizzare is that! So continue keeping Roberta in your prayers and now please pray for Beth.

You all take care now, ya hear!

I'm so sad.....

because that patient pass away. The same day I found this out we discovered another favorite patient had passed away. I guess when you work in this type of environment you become attached to the patients who come in alot and then, bamm!!! there gone.

I've got another Grand Baby! Congratulations to Rebekah and Amir on Damian Riley! 9lbs 6oz's and 20 inches long. Becky had to have him c-section because he was so big. Now I've got 5 grandchildren. Wow!

The last couple of weeks at work has been quiet because people are on spring break. Its been nice and quite. We'll get hit hard on Monday with people wanting to come to appointments. I wonder why people don't come to the doctor during spring break, but right after that's over they do? Don't they get sick during spring break time? It's really wierd when you stop and think about it.

Brittany has got holes chewed up all over her blanket. She doesn't chew up anything else, just her blanket. She chewed a hole out so big she got stuck in it trying to get out of her blanket. Her whole body wouldn't fit through the hole. It was so funny because Lucy came to go outside and Brittany just stayed in the hole and barked because she couldn't get out of her blanket. Pretty soon that blanket is going to be one big hole. It's time to try and find her another one at Goodwill. I was hoping the picture would come out here, but it came out at the top instead. Oh well!

It's cold outside. Burrrr! Just when I got into a good exercise routine it turned cold. With the Biggest Loser contest going on at work I lost a pound last week. Yeah! I finally lost instead of gaining. It's been fun doing this at work. People are so pumped up about this. A couple of people have lost three pounds each. Everyone has either been staying the same or have lost. There are two teams. The Buff Bods and the Skinny Mini's. I'm on the Buff Bods team and so far we are ahead. There are eight people on each team. Even Dr Day is doing it. He is such a good sport! Every day I try to catch him so I can get his points added to our team. Like that's all he has to think about! We get a point for drinking water, a point for not eating the forbidden food (ice cream for this past week and chips are next weeks), a point for every 20 minutes of exercising, a point for taking the stairs and 1 point for every pound you lose. You get one point if you maintain and you lose three points if you gain. We haven't figured out what the prize will be at the end. Do you have any suggestions?

Gotta go. I've been letting my hair grow out on top and I've got a hair appointment this morning to get it shaped up. Brittany just came to say hello to me. I patted her on the head and than she left. Dogs are funny! Later!

This is the day...

that the Lord has made. Let us rejoice and be glad in it! Amen! I say this every time I get out of bed. I've got so much to be thankful for. I've got a roof over my head a husband who works hard and much, much more! I'm thankful just to be able to get out of bed every morning because there are many people who can't. I'm really thankful for the warm weather we are starting to get. I'm glad winter is behind us. Aren't you?

I've had a pretty good week this past week. I got another scrapbook page done in Michayla's scrapbook. I'm so slow at scrapbooking because I have to really work at being creative,plus I'm working 40+ hours a week. But I must say the pages are pretty good! I think I'm hooked on scrapbooking. Every time I see a coupon for Joann Fabric's or Michael's craft stores, I cringe, because I know I will just have to use it on one more scrapbook item. I get them in the mail, there in the Sunday newspaper. They seem to be everywhere. I should start getting coupons for Archiver's soon. (Ugh, another coupon). I went through all of my scrapbook tools, stickers,embellishments etc. yesterday and got them all organized. I labeled all the drawers. I bought an over the door student dorm organizer on clearance at Kohl's awhile back just for the purpose of organizing my scrapbook tools in it. It work's pretty good. I put a punch or two in each pocket and labeled each pocket as to which punch is in what pocket to make them easy to find. We'll see how long I keep it organized.

I've dropped out of TOPS and I am going to focus more on exercise. I went back to aerobics on Friday and I took two walks yesterday. I've noticed I sleep better when I exercise. TOPS hasn't been working for me for a couple of years. At work, Cheryl has organized The Biggest Loser GMG Boot Camp. It starts on April 1st and runs for 6 weeks. Several people have signed up to do it. She weighs everyone in once a week and she leads a walk one of the days of the week during our lunch hours and I will lead a walk on another lunch hour. They will be only 20 minute walks, but its a way to help people get motivated.

Yesterday was a really good day! I talked to Erica for quite awhile on the phone and I talked to SallyRose in the afternoon on the phone until she had to go get Allyson from climbing. I'm glad I'm still getting phone calls from all of you and these blogs are not our main source of communication. See, I just said something else I'm thankful for!

The one sad thing that happened this past week was one of my favorite patients went into cardiac arrest and last I heard he was on life support. He was coming in everyday for B12 injections because he has anemia. The last thing he told me was he was going to a specialist to have his throat looked at for Cancer. I told him I would pray for him.The next day his brother called me and told me the sad news. It brought tears to my eyes.

Well, I gotta go. I'm going to start my exercise blog to see if that will help me stay on track. Love you all!

What a Week.....

I've had at work! I could tell my stress level was way up there, because on Friday I was just wiped out! Not only am I the manager over the front office, I am also the manager over Medical Records. What a challange Medical Records is! I'm about to step down from being manager, period! The Med Info Tech the person in Medical Records,is fairly new, she has been with us for less then six months and she is already going to give here two week notice. I had the hardest time getting her to take a lunch hour. Finally, I had to put my foot down and tell her if she didn't start taking her lunch hours that I would get in trouble for approving her time cards without them. I told her since I have never really worked in medical records I needed her to write down what she is doing and how long it is taking her so I can try to get her some help. She doesn't want to do that, she doesn't want to be micromanaged! That wasn't what I was trying to do, I was trying to get the office to understand that she needs some help, so now she is going to give her two week notice. Then on Thursday morning I want in and the whole front office had been rearranged without my knowledge! That just pushed me over the edge and Lisa the back office manager got to hear my ranting, but I'm over that now and I left it like they had arranged it, but they better never complain to me again about things being down on our work counters! By the end of the week I was ready to step down from my position. Poor Larry like to have never heard the end of it. Now tomorrow, the front office is going to be short staffed and the medical reacords person is going to be off. So I don't have an extra person to put back in medical records so I called Lisa the manager over the nurses and she is going to be short a nurse on Monday, so I won't get anyone from her either. I'ts going to be an interesting Monday. This position definatly has its challanges!

Yesterday I went to Brown County to Lisa's,Ralph's fiance, bridal shower. There were alot of people there. She received a lot of nice gifts but no lingere. Which I think is good. Its better to get things you need when your starting a new home. Then I went to Marylin's and she got to hear about my week at work and other things. When I got home Larry had dinner fixed and Joelle White and her family came over for dinner. We ate dinner and then we played Uno Attack. We had a good time! Uno Attack is a good family game because their two kids got to play with us too.

I'm going to church today. I haven't been to church for three weeks so I'm looking forward to it! Gotta go!

My Scrap Booking..

These are the pages I have scraped so far for Michayala's scrapbook. I'm having so much fun with this. These are out of order so, the fourth pictures is the first one and thefirst picture is the second one, the second one is the third one and the third one is the fourth one. I'm finding after you start doing this your hooked! I love it! SallyRose told me about a store called Archives and I went over there and bought flowers and other things. I signed up to go to a basic scrapbooking class also there. I'm excited about this! I didn't know I could be so creative! Whenever you all come at the end of April, bring some pictures, maybe we can find some time to srapbook. Gotta go. Its bedtime. Love ya all!!

Aunt Jessie's 100th Birthday Party

Yes! I finally had success in posting pictures after several tries!

We had such a good time at Aunt Jessie's 100th Birthday Party. I met cousins I didn't know I had. One from Nevada, one from Montana and one from Idaho. We exchanged addresses etc..We had an exciting time and I think A.J. had a good time also.

The ride there and back went well with Marylin and Mike. I hope Larry and I didn't get on their nerves to bad.

Well enjoy the pictures.