Check it Out!

Go check out http://feelingscrappyclasses.blogspot.com/ at Feeling Scrappy and see a couple of my pages on today's blog post! Wow! I took a class called "Get INked" recenty and learned lots of fun ways to use inks on my pages. The class was awesome and next week they will have a new class to get you "shimmering" on your pages!

No Obie!

We are house sitting my sister's puppy, Obie, at her house in Georgia while she and her family are in the Phillipines for a few weeks and let me tell you, it's no walk in the park! Obie is so sweet when you look at him, but let me tell you, his teeth are sharp and he will bite the hand that wants to pet him! He loves to chew on anything, including my legs when I walk by! He loves chewing up any paper products and plastic bottles he can find. He has even discovered a corner of the couch he likes to knaw on! No telling how many times I have cleaned up after him. Oh, and getting him to go to the bathroom outside is impossible! We will walk him and he does just that. Walk. And at his own speed and his own time! He hasn't hit the potty pad once! And as you can see in the pictures, he snuck up behind me and took my camera bag when I wasn't looking! I couldn't tell you how many times we have said "No Obie!" in the last week and a half. But I can tell you it's almost as much as we have said, "I love you" and "You're too cute" to Obie when we weren't having to pick up after him!

One Down, Three to Go

These pictures were taken to celebrate the ending of Forrest and Gentry's first year of early morning seminary. Every day for the entire school year, these boys got up and attended an early morning bible study of the New Testament for 50 minutes. Gentry was lucky enough that seminary was held at his home, but unfortunatley, Forrest wasn't tht lucky. He had to get up at 4:45am to get ready and we drove the 20 minutes one way to be at class by 6:15am. This program is designed for the youth to help strengthen them against the challenges they face everyday. Forrest didn't want to miss a day of seminary. even when he was home sick! Not once did Forrest ever complain he didn't want to go. He knew what was expected of him and come to find out, he really did enjoy it! Plus, it was really fun to stop at our country gas station for a sausage bisquit and a Sundrop! I am really proud of Forrest and Gentry to enduring to the end. What a great feeling of accomplishment they felt when it was over! Great job boys! One year down, three to go!

Scrappin' Homework

My online scrapbooking class at Feeling Scrappy just ended and I thought I would share with you my homework assisgnments. The class was called "Get Inked" because the main topic was INK! We learned how to use a variety of inks (pens, ink pads, alcohol inks, etc) It was very informative and as always, I really enjoyed myself!

"Sweet 16"

Yesterday, George and I celebrated our 16th wedding anniversary. It seems like yesterday that George and I eloped to Tennessee and were married. We were married by a lady judge wearing a hot pink windsuit. I know it sounds a little red-neckish, but I didn't care. I only wanted to be George's wife!

After dating for a year and a half and being engaged for a year and George calling off the wedding once, it was time for him to make up his mind. It was time for action! I went to his work on a Tuesday and demanded a date. George wanted to wait until the fall when he had a break from touring with Diamond Rio, but I couldn't wait that long. I looked at his calendar and saw he had the coming weekend open and said to him, "Marry me this weekend or we're done!" Needless to say, he took me up on my offer. On May 21, 1993, we were married. It was the happiest day of my life!

A year later, on our first anniversary, we were sealed in the LDS Atlanta Temple. George has asked me a couple of times over the years if I would do it all over again with him and my answer is "YES!" everytime. Unfortunately for George, he's stuck with me forever! lol

Mustang!

Several months ago, Sadie fell in love with Mustangs and points out every Mustang car she sees. At first, it was very annoying as I wasn't use to the clapping and excitement of joy every 15 seconds in a closed environment of our car. SInce then, we have made a game of counting every Mustang we see. I didn't realize these are extremely popular cars and we see tons everyday! So, it wasn't a surprise when Sadie got all giggly on me when she saw this brand new Mustang out in front of Sams. THe other pictures of the cars are from car show at the mall a couple of weeks ago. She was so excited to see all the Mustangs that she started crying! When she gained her composure, she said, "They're so beautiful!" and started snapping pictures from insde of the car of the Mustangs. She's too funny!

PS-I want to congratulate Sadie on making the top band for next year's school year! She made the Wind Ansemble 1 band, the highest in middle school. Go Sadie!

I'm still Cool!

Sadie has just completed her first year of playing the flute in the middle school band. She really has a talent in the music department and has been first chair for the majority of the school year. She plans on being in the band for the rest of her schooling and hopefully earn a scholarship to college. So to support Sadie in her carreer in band, I was voted in to be the secretary/treasurer for the band next year. Am I a sucker or what? I am just thrilled to be able to spend the time with Sadie and am very thankful she still thinks I'm cool and wants me to be around! I wonder how long that will last? How long will I still be "cool"? Forrest doesn't think I'm cool anymore so I'm going to milk this with Sadie for as long as I can!