Wanna Be a Catholic for 40 days??

Hey, wanna join in, in on a Catholic Challenge? My best friend started herself on a Catholic Challenge, the nutrition version. She's giving up all processed sugar. WOW!!! What a Gal! She called & was telling me all about it. I of course jumped on board with giving up chips & french fries. I've done very well so far. Go ME!!! I have now decided to include any fried foods. See, I don't have a sweet tooth, it's the fat & salt that I crave. Not only will I make myself healthier, but I will drop weight which is something that I've slacked HUGE on! Remember that is takes 21 days to make something a habit so this will be good, hard, but rewarding.

Anybody on board? I know I'm a week behind on this post, so anybody on board let's start today and not worry about the past.

What are you going to sacrifice/give up for 40 days? What is your "evil" weekness, food, drinks, any bad habit.

Pay it Forward

this is how it works..... the first 3 people to leave a comment on this post will receive a hand made gift from me during this year. when and what will be a surprise. BUT, in order for you to leave a comment on my blog, you have to post this on your blog first. (that means that sometime during this year you will send a gift to 3 people as well.) get it? so, the first 3 people to comment on this post will be the lucky ones!
good luck!

I so stole this from Katrina, thanks for the great idea. I was wanting to do another contest & here it is sorta. I love making things for people.

Happy Anniversary

Here's wishing my parents a happy anniversary. Today is/was their 31 yrs anniversary! CONGRATS!!! I have awesome parents and I'm so grateful for everything and I mean everything. I've been so blessed to have parents who have always loved me. They were always there for everything I've ever done good & bad. I'm so grateful for eternal families. Here's to wishing you many many more years together!

LOVE YOU MOM & DAD!!!!

Bragging Rights

I just wanted to share that Rusty's recent art, from his art class just got entered into the Deer Valley Rock Art Center Children's Art Exhibit 2009. It runs from 3/3-3/31/2009. There even is an awards ceremony on 3/28 where all kids will receive at least a participation ribbon. We are so excited and so proud of him. It is open to public viewing up at

The Deer Valley Rock Art Center
3711 W. Deer Valley Rd

Just an update, he is still running in the mile club & is still #1 in the school. He even begs me to drop him off in the neighborhood to let him run, again, we are so proud. He's getting all A's only 1 B in an accelerated school. He's excelling in Cub Scouts, he just earned his Wolf, & has been signed off on a TON of things in his Bear book.

We are so proud of you Rusty. We love you sooooo much!!!

Kids & Ice Cream trucks

I can't believe I forgot to post this. It was so funny.

The other day, I think Thursday, anyway. I promised the kids several weeks ago that the next time the ice cream truck came by I'd buy them something. Well, low & behold he

came by. Rather fast I might say, but the kids went screaming.

We ended up in the car with the windows down and the kids yelling for the ice cream man.

Now, if any of you have been in our neighborhood, there's only 1 main street. So the ice cream man couldn't be hiding. So down the street we go, we ended up in the neighborhood behind us. We go driving by and the kids scream "There he is, there he is." So I pulled the car

in reverse to go down that street. Mind you now we have on lookers laughing. We go

and buy the kids ice cream and they are extremely happy. The things us parents do to make our kids happy. It was so funny and in the end we all had fun, we even came back with a treat for Daddy.

Early years photos

Okay, so here is a Dr I used to work for up at Natural Life Centers. We actually worked very well together professionally.

Here is the one and only high school dance I went to, my senior year 1993 Homecoming.

Here is Kyndal Mass & I, we were such best friends, same clothes, brand and all, even the same shoes. This was taken our senior year 1993-1994.

Here is a super long time friend & I, Jaime Gouso. Geez, I think taken way back in 1993 or later 1992. I'm so bad at dates, & of course I didn't date it. My dad will be so disappointed. He dated EVERYTHING!

Here is Danee Lee, Jennifer Hopper & I. This was a spur of the moment photo shoot. Danee happen to work at Moto Photo and she needed to stop in to pick up her paycheck & the next thing I know, we are taking pictures. I believe this was 1996.

Part timers=Alzheimers??

So here I come across this picture on Facebook, it was posted on an old friend's site. I of course go check it out, I love old pictures. Mind you, I've known this girl since we were 3, she lived across the street. We grew up together. Anyway, low & behold, I'm in this picture. I even had to ask my mom to make sure that was me. The really sad thing is, I soooo don't remember anything about this picture except for the 1 girl that I grew up with. I don't remember the gal/leader that's in the picture, how old I was, what we were doing, nothing, zilch, nada. How sad is that?

Can any of you guess which one is me?

The winner (the 1st one that correctly guesses, will win a prize. a small set of personalized stationary). Let's have some fun. Remember, I had to ask my own mom because I didn't recognize myself. Have fun :)