Monthly Archives: July 2008

Sweet, Devil Child

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It’s been a few weeks since I participated in Sincerely Fro Me to You over at Kristen’s fabulous blog. I decided to finally post a picture of this sweet, precious little girl. Can’t you just tell by looking at her that she was just filled with sugar & spice? YEAH RIGHT! You’re looking at the one and only devil child as my husband describes me in this picture. He thinks this one’s bad ~ wait til I find the one of me only 2 on a rocking horse ~ CREEPY! So, there’s looking into my past.

Mean Baby!

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Baby girls are SO HARD! It might have something to do with her being a Leo, but wow ~ she thinks she runs this house. Maybe I should rephrase and say SHE RUNS THIS HOUSE! If her brother has something that she wants she will fight for it. She pulls hair, hits and has even attempted to bite. I promise, she really is sweet on top of all of this, but they sure learn young don’t they?

Busy Weekend Coming Up

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We’re getting more visitors!! I’m happy to say though that at least these visitors won’t keep me out of church. My cousin Jenna, Ryli, Irie are coming on Friday and my aunt Ksee w/her little girl Berklee will be coming on Sunday. I’m excited for my cousin Jenna to come and see what a wonderful ward I go too.

I have a huge list of things to accomplish before everyone get here so tomorrow I will be soooooo busy!

Since I worked all day today I’m rewarding myself with some fun playing time tonight. I’m working on my neighbor’s birth announcements. I LOVE designing these types of things.

I realized earlier that it’s Wednesday, and I totally skipped out on Works for me Wednesday ~ maybe I’ll have better luck remembering next week.

Raising Awareness

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Alzheimer’s Disease is such a heartbreaking disease that seems to take over many people every day. I have not had to deal with this in my family yet, and I hope that I never have to. I’ve had friends with grandparents that have been diagnosed with this horrible disease and it breaks my heart.

Awareness needs to be made about this and what better way than the Alzheimer’s Memory Walk. There are walks in over 600 communities in our nation and finding out if there is one in your area to raise awareness so that we can find a cure for this awful disease.

I personally could not imagine one day having my mom not remember who I am. Can you? Could you imagine looking into your husband or wife’s eyes and having them ask you who you are? Like the movie The Notebook ~ how heart breaking.

There is a way to raise awareness, and I hope that you check out the Alzheimer’s Memory Walk so that we might prevent ever having to go through this with our loved ones.


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It’s Fixed!

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After 10 hours of being on the phone with Dell, my company files for Quickbooks being lost then found and many tears shed, I am happy to say that my computer is fixed. I’ve been using my Grandma’s in the meantime, so technically it wasn’t like my life crashed along with the computer. I was still able to waste all my time online and pretend like I’m working hard.

Highlights of today: I will get to take pictures of a brand new, precious baby girl.

I will post pictures up when I’m done along with her birth announcement that I’m designing.

Getting Out of Debt is IMPORTANT!

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It seems that nowadays in this world of ours we are solely leaning on credit. Credit has taken over so many people’s lives, and destroyed families. We learned young, and I’m so thankful that we did.

When I turned 18 my mailbox was flooded with approved credit card applications. I applied for probably every single one of them, and got approved and then went shopping. Unfortunately, Gino also lost his job, so then we lived off of our credit cards. We were a mess! Luckily, we were able to do a Debt consolidation and get our lives back on track.

Since our Debt relief we have found a new way to live, which requires much planning together and sacrifices. Our new motto is if we don’t have the cash to buy it, then we can’t have it. We actually have made a dream list and work towards the things that we want. We make sure that we budget our bills, our eating out, our groceries, our fun, basically anything we make sure that it’s budgeted before we do it, or buy it.

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Family Home Evening – Extended Families

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It’s a beautiful Monday. Church yesterday was very inspiring and the lessons that were taught had me really thinking. We’re going to try to get back into the swing of things and start back up Family Home Evening. For this week I was thinking about reaching out to our families that live so far away. The families that don’t have internet access. The families that have no idea about our family.

We’re going to work on a family letter and Jayden will draw pictures and we’ll print out pictures and get ready to send them off. It’ll be a fun little family project.

For our lesson we’re going to talk about the importance of family and our extended families. Jayden is starting to understand these things, so I think it’s important to discuss it. I’m going to work on a family tree with pictures. Something that would be fun ~ we can build it up to who’s still alive. On my side we still have 5 generations. It’ll be a fun lesson & project.

For our treat we’re going to do ice cream.

For more information on Family Home Evening CLICK HERE. It is such a wonderful way to build a strong, loving home.

Happy Birthday, Mitch

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20 years ago today my baby brother was born. I miss him so much and wish that I could spend this day with him. I hope that his day was filled with happiness as that’s how our birthdays are supposed to be. Through it all, Mitch, I’ve always loved you more than you know. Happy Birthday, baby brother.

The breakdown of My Day

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My birthday was wonderful. It started out with a party with my friends from church. It was much fun and I had probably the best cake I’d ever eaten before. It’s called ‘Better than sex cake’ yeah… pretty darn good.

Then my friend Emily and I took our babies to Lithia Park to play with my camera. We got AMAZING shots and it got me beyond excited. I can’t wait to learn about the true potential this thing has inside of it. Here’s a couple of pictures I took. I think Emily is going to let me do their family pictures. I can’t wait!


After I parted my ways with Emily I headed over to pick up Jayden from his camp and then went out to pizza with my dad, Lili (his wife), Alyssa, Tiona & Rocky (Lili’s brother). Amazingly, I had a lot of fun! Afterwards, Gino finally got off of work and came over to my dad for cake. Then I took the girls home with me for a sleepover.

Great day huh? There’s more!

First off Gino surprised me with Diamond earrings. They’re beautiful and I can’t believe what a wonderful husband I have.

The topper on the whole day ~

my wonderful friend Jen got me a gift certificate to a day spa in Ashland. I have NEVER been to a day spa and have always wanted to go to one. Jen ~ thank you from the bottom of my heart. You are an amazing friend and you made my day! And the flowers are beautiful no matter what you say 🙂

So, here’s to another great year!