Update coming soon

I promise.... I have been so busy doing nothing....Does that ever happen to anyone else? I had good intentions on puttin up my tree but that was about as far as it got....just an intention...a thought...i should be ashamed...

I have received some mail love from Josie. She sent me one of her fabulous holiday planners. I would love to take a pic of it but it is at work...I was so stinkin excited I brought it to work to show the girls and on Friday I was rushing to get out of there I went off and left it sitting right on my desk along with my donuts....grrrrr!!! I will post a pic of that tomorrow along with my scrap pages I have managed to complete.. YAY me!!

I took a new photo avatar because I am sure sick of seeing that one I have now...I have to get those unloaded and cropped and all that noise and tonight is just not the night to do it.... I am tired and it is late...so on that note...

peace out!!

Help me please....

So does anyone know how to go back to the old blogger before the beta....
I hate beta....HATE IT!!!! It's a pain in my ass and very annoying...I knew i should have not given in to temptation....grrrrrrr!!!!

Ever since I have switched if you have word verification on you can forget it...i can't see it know matter what i do...so therefore i cannot comment...(deep sigh)
that's just part of it...trust me there is more....

So if anyone knows how I can go back please let me know....

Thoughts I must express...

eta: is anyone having trouble commenting...i have heard from a few people that the comment page will not load for them to comment...if you are having trouble please email me and let me know so i can go back to the regular version of blogger...i knew i should have not went to the beta...damn you blogger for putting a crimp in my bloggin'

Normally I don't watch the local news here. I think it is a 3 ring circus. Typically the "top story" is the neighbors dog got loose and dumped over the trash can. However, last night was different. There was a house fire that claim the lives of 2 toddler boys (ages 2 and 3) The mother could only escape with the infant baby. There was nothing she could do. I am not by any means one to get emotional. I am not a cry baby but last night I cried not only because I am a mother but because I have children close to her children's age. To see this mother in that much pain & blaming herself for not being able to get her 2 boys out of that fire was devestating for me.
Having been in law enforcement for many years and growing up with law enforcement I have seen and heard ALOT! At the age of 18 I began dispatching police and fire. It takes a special person to be able to do that job and I did it and I did it well. I was able to seperate myself and not let it bother me. The things I have expierenced from 18-25 have been pretty intense and it is things most people will never expierence in a lifetime.

• A suicide scene that was as gory as they come (age 19)
• 2 autopsy's (a smell you will never forget or mistake for anything else) (age 20)
• On the phone with a teenage kid who was being chased by a person in another vehicle which made him crash, the car catch on fire and him trapped in it unable to get out while on 911 with me and burning up in the vehicle with me on the phone. (age 21)
• A woman who's ex-boyfriend, whom she put in jail for repeated domestic assault, slice her up while she was on the phone with me. (age 21)
• A mother driving down the street less than a mile (she was going from mom's house to her's) on the fourth of July with her child (age 3) not in a carseat because I guess she figured the road traveled was a residential one hardly traveled by anyone since there was only a few houses on it. Someone shot off one of those big huge loud fireworks, scared her and the child, the child jumps, mom crashed the vehicle and kills her only child. (age 22)
• My husband of only 2 days, while on duty responding to back up another officer hit a horse he did not see on a dark county road and wrecked 500 feet off in the woods almost killing himself. They said if he would have been just a wee bit taller he would have been killed because the roof caved in on top of him. (age 23)
• O'Neil having to shoot and kill a child's father in front of the child while daddy was holding the child hostage. Daddy gave O'Neil no other choice because he would have killed his own son rather than just let him go. (age 25) (Mason was 7 months)

I could go on and on but the point of this post is, I guess, is all I have gone through you never truly understand or "relate" to anything in it's entirety until you have children. Sure I was sad for the child who lost his life on the fourth of July and the teenager who lost his and most importantly to the child who's daddy lost his life because he would rather shoot at O'Neil and hold a gun to his own son's head because of selfishness. BUT until you have children of your own you really CANNOT understand.

Is it because when you have your own you tend to think "what if" that happened to me or my children? Who knows! What I do know is now I have a deeper and better understanding of what "true love" really is. For those of you fellow bloggers who have children you know exactly where I am coming from. For those of you who don't will soon someday know all these feelings I am describing. You will never in your life expierence love until you have children. You think you know what love is...hell i thought i did... but I didn't. Not until I had Mason.

Hug your family and tell them you love them as often as possible. No one knows what GOD has in store for them tomorrow.

Sorry for such a depressing post but I had to get that out.

Much love to you all!!

xoxox

G

Total Bummer!!

okay so the bachelor chose yet again the person i WAS NOT rooting for.....don't these men know they need to listen to me screaming at the tv....Greta knows what is best for them. That's why the relationships never work...because they just don't listen when I speak....how dare them.... hmph!!

Gobble Gobble!!

Today we had a great time...I ate lots of turkey...cajun turkey...my favorite..and a whole lot of the trimmings. The kids were really good and they all played well together. Melana even gave her Aunt Kelly some love...although she didn't want take a picture.



This one was just a random shot O'Neil happen to catch of Melana smiling....those are rare...



I think I am going to have to scrap this picture of O'Neil...i Just love it....we were outback on the deck and I was just taking random shots and this is my most favorite...


After we all stuffed our face until we could explode we took a stroll around the subdivision to walk some of it off and let the kids run some more so they would take a good nap. It worked..woo hooo!! This one is of the kids running back to the house...

It was all i could do to keep up with them...It's sooo miserable when you eat that much...

Hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving!!

Calling all OPINIONS

I need an opinion because I am not sure which one I like the best...What better place than to ask a blogworld full of scrappers...

Now keep in mind I am stamping Merry Christmas or Happy Holidays on the one that is blank at the bottom...What I am wondering is...Which one do you like better?

1st or 2nd or hell even neither...you will not hurt my feelings...it takes alot to do that just ask Elizabeth.

Oh yeah and the inside of the one with HO HO is another HO!!

Thanks for all opinions

Craft fair is over...

well i had this really long post full of alot of things to say but blogger ate it just as I was 2 pictures shy of finishing....I would like to tell you that I am pissed about it but I am to tired to be mad...Can you believe that?

anyway I am going to sum it up in a nutshell:

Craft fair started sloooooowwwww but ended ok.....the onsie's were a hit..I even had orders placed for certain one's I ran out of in the size they were looking for..woot..woot!!

here are a few not so great pictures:

the super cute onsies

this is the onsie that was the best seller...this is the loads of love stamp set from Stampin' UP!. I just adore this set...there is sooo much that can be done with it.


burp cloths


I have 3 small ribbon boxes (I think 3 maybe 4)left..and 1 big one left..if any of you scrapbookers are interested..let me know...
The small ones hold 65-70 regular spools of ribbon and the big one holds about 130 of ribbon.


I have a shit pot full of burp cloths and hooded towels left...i made enough to wrap up 321567888546 babies. I think I am going to list the rest of them on my etsy shop.

This weekend I finally got Laura's CJ done. It was 5 random facts about yourself:
This was hard for me because I don't analyze myself...I think everything I do is normal...lol ....I did however manage to come up with 5 and it is complete and off to Elizabeth for her entry and then back to Laura....YAY I AM FINISHED!!
Here are my entries:
Fact #1:

I love peanut butter cups but i HATE peanut butter

Fact # 2

This one is a no brainer.....I am obsessed with M-A-C makeup!! Eough said

Fact # 3
I am a label whore...sad but true...

Left side

right side

Fact # 4

This is the 2nd time I have had braces...rest assured I will have a permenant retainer put in this time when I get them off.


Fact # 5

I am a board game junkie...I love games..all games...any game..cards..board....nintendo..yes i still like the regular nintendo..super mario brothers to be exact....

Successful Workshop!

Saturday was a success at my very 1st Stampin'Up! workshop. I held it at my house. The workshop was based around the tag punch. Everyone stamped numerous diffrent tags for gifts with all sorts of my different stamp sets and they even made a pouch to hold them all in. Really cute stuff. I ended up with 8 people. We had a blast. I would love to show you all pics that I did took at the workshop, HOWEVER, I was snapping away with NO CF CARD in my camera. That is my only complaint with my Rebel...you can take pics with no card...I personally think it should not snap but who am I? Don't tell me it's never happened to you...ha ha!

Sunday's we normally get up and go to Denny's for breakfast but this morning I was so exausted from running around so much I decided to sleep in an hour or so. We ended up getting up and going to the beach to take pictures. It was fun but of course Melana doesn't cooperate very well.




Remember I said I had white trash roots? Well no longer my friends I am no longer blonde..I went back to my natural hair color. It is quite a shock and will take some getting use to. I haven't been my natural color in so long I forgot what my natural color was.





I am assuming Mason is getting tot hat age where he thinks he needs to cheese really crazy looking with his teeth together....good lord!



Of course I knew somewhere in this "adventure" Melana would show her true colors and of course she did. She decided things weren't going her way so she would pout.


After we decided to for go Denny's and go eat at One Eyed Willy's. It was ok...not my favorite place.
We took the kids to the park to wear them out for a nap after we ate.

We tried to get the kids to swing in this cool looking swing but they would have no part of it so I got in to show them it was fun...they looked at me like I was crazy. bwhahaha!!

They did like trying to swing me though....they thought that was funny.
The slide was a big hit with both of them because it was "fast"!!



Well that's about all for me. Yay! for being off Monday for the holiday.

xoxox

i'm here

busy as a bee but I am still alive....nothing new going on in Greta land...

Kids are still bad
O'Neil is fine
I am a fruit cake with white trash black roots
(appointment coming soon to go back super dark for the winter)
Craft fair projects almost complete
Stampin Up! workshop stuff almost complete

I feel a sense of normal starting to come back to me.... (sigh!)

I miss everyone


Random Thoughts:

Why is it that you do your best thinking while you are getting ready for bed or in the car?

Everytime I have a good thought I want to jot it down I am driving like a mad woman rushing and can't find a pen or paper in my car?

Does this happen to anyone else?

What a weekend

geezzz..... where do I start...i got a few things checked off my list but not a whole lot...will have to work on them some more...i did get the 10 loads of laundry folded. O'Neil was great..while I was at mom's nursing a hangover he kept the laundry going to catch it all up. AND he was nursing a hangover....

i did however squeeze my ass in my costume ...barely... but i did....I also received the most sexiest costume award...lol my mother and father are so proud of me...bwhahaha!!

Here is the only decent pic of me that night...I was to busy getting my drink on and would forget to get out the camera...Elizabeth got some really good shots of her and I and O'neil and I on her camera...I will upload those when I get a copy


good lord look at those teef and that mullet...would ya?

the "cemetary" we hung out in most of the nightwith the fog machine going...

We went over to Elizabeth's and took all the kid's around Elizabeth's mom's subdivision. Trick or treating was fun with the kids...Mason was Peter Pan and Melana was Tinkelbell as she like to be called...I tried to correct her and tell her it was Tinkerbell but she wouldn't have that. I don't know what the hell is my problem but I didn't get really good shot of them either...I was sooo tired and so i waited until we got home to get pics...somehow my settings on my rebel is off and my pics aren't coming out worth a shit...I guess it's time to break out the old book and see what it is suppose to be...

she was ready to get out of her stockings..this is my no shoes or socks baby...she HATES shoes and socks....

You know while I was watching the kids run up to the houses and say trick or treat I was reflecting back on how much fun it was as a kid to be free. No worries..depend on someone else. I appreciate my mom much more now that I have kids of my own. You sacrifice so much to make sure they have fun and build memories. I wouldn't trade them for the world...sometimes I do want to put them on ebay with free shipping though....JUST KIDDING!! Hope everyone had a great Halloween! I am off to check a few things off my list.

* By the way Raina my house is clean now as well* So does that mean You can call me a bitch now...lol