Happy Birthday to my sweet Hillary

I'll have to post pictures tomorrow, but I wanted to wish Hillary a happy birthday! 25 years ago today our sweet Hillary was born. Seriously, has it really been 25 years? I CAN'T be that old!

It was one of the happiest moments of my life! She completed our family! We were so excited to have her and love her. I took her everywhere with me! I didn't understand why my friends needed to "get away" from their kids. (I did learn later however! LOL) Hillary was such a sweet baby, easy going child, obedient young woman and now Beautiful woman!

I am so grateful for a daughter who has set a positive example for her sisters, who has been such a help and friend to me. I love her so much.

Hillary, I hope you have a beautiful day. You deserve it. You work so hard in your life. You serve the Lord, your employer and your family in such a generous way. I hope you enjoy your day and get some rest!

We are going to have a fun party tonight so rest up! I love you! Happy Birthday sweetie!

Computers = Stress

Update: Computer stress NO MORE! Thanks to my BIL Bob! Everything is running smooth and quick. We still don't know what's been recovered from the old computer and I still haven't redone everything, but it's SO nice to have a healthy computer again! Now it's onward and upward!


Computers should be STRESSED spelled backwards! Our computer has given me nothing but gray hair the past two weeks.

I woke up Sunday, Feb 28th to NO COMPUTER. Yep, it crashed. burned. gone.

It took with it the hard drive, the motherboard and pretty much every thing else. We are still waiting to see if we lost the last 5 years of pictures. (which I THOUGHT were being saved on our external hard drive, but apparently NOT!)

Computers make me feel so helpless. I know just enough to turn it on and use it a little. But maintaining it and keeping it healthy is not my expertise! I feel like a failure some how. OK, I know that's a little dramatic, but it is so frustrating to NOT be able to do what I need to do.

We got our computer back on Wednesday. It really hasn't done me any good to have it back. I am pictureless, programless and now with windows 7 installed I don't know WHAT I am doing. (It took Heidi 20 minutes to find the print button in word... HELLO - did you have to change EVERYTHING Mr. Microsoft???)

I have spent the last 5 hours trying to get outlook to work. (Thank you Bob!) Only to run into problem after problem. It still isn't working. I'm sure SOME DAY it will be up and running. Hopefully, I will still be here. If not, maybe someone will bring my computer to the funny farm to visit!

Thanks for the vent!

Time for a change

I'm ready for a HAIR change...

But what to do? Any suggestions? Good places to get ideas? It's been 9 weeks since my last hair cut and I'm looking pretty bad. I usually get it cut every 5 weeks. I'm HATING doing my hair, so I'm going to have to get something done soon!

I want to let it grow out. Not super long, I am old you know. I'm thinking chin length. Not too short, not too long.

So, I'd love to hear if you have ideas. Thanks friends!

Eighteen Years Old? SURPRIZE!

Our sweet Heidi turned 18 years old on Sunday, February 28th! But I woke up that morning ready to blog and our computer had crashed! Not a good thing. But I will blog about that later. I will also have to add pictures later. hopefully.

We LOVE our Heidi girl! Turning 18 is pretty special... so I planned a SURPRISE Party for her! We had it on Saturday. Thanks to her sweet friends it was a huge success! Hillary and I made cupcakes, we had nachos, chips and dip, veggies and dip, skittles, pretzels and hot dogs! Outside we made popcorn and cotton candy! We had a movie set up to watch outside, but the big hit was the Wii - Just Dance. What a fun game! The kids never stopped! It was pretty fun to watch them.

On Sunday we had our family celebration. Yummy pasta and salad. I was so exhausted from Saturday's party that I didn't make a cake. :( sorry Heidi!

It's hard to believe it's already been 18 years since you joined our family Heidi! You were the first baby I had at home. It was a beautiful sweet experience. You are a beautiful daughter. You brings lots of joy and laughter to our home! You are a beautiful woman and I love that our relationship has gotten so much better this past year. Thank you for being my friend and my daughter. You are an amazing example to me. I hope your 18th birthday was the best! LOVE YOU SO MUCH!

Who's Fifteen??

Fifteen years ago today a beautiful little girl was born! We named her Holli Joyce. Holli, because we liked the name and Joyce after her Grandmother who had passed away a year earlier.

Holli has been such a special gift in our home! I love her and I'm so grateful to have her as a part of our family. It certainly wouldn't be the same without her!

I can't believe she is 15. Time is flying past me faster than I can endure some days! Our family is on the verge of many changes! Hopefully, I will be able to endure them well!

I hope you have a Happy Birthday Holli. You are certainly a special daughter. You are growing up to be an amazing young woman. Thank you for all you do for me and our family. Thank you for your amazing example.

I love you, sweetie!

Be Mine. . .

Don't you love this banner? I do! My sweet daughter and friend Theresa made it for me. It is what inspired me to decorate for Valentines day this year. I love just looking at it in all it's creativity!

I miss being creative. There is a part of me that is starving to do something creative. I get these ideas but don't have time to act on them! I've been thinking a lot about needing some ME time. Now if I can just figure out how to work it in! I know I need to or the fun part of me will just shrivel up and die! It's the little things that make life fun!

I went with Heidi to the Walter's cabin for their Laurel/Mother weekend. I really didn't want to go. Same old excuse - to much to do, not enough time. But I'm glad I went. It was fun and relaxing. And yes, I even played a game. I know - those who know me well are shocked.

It was fun to just talk and watch movies! I enjoyed being with Heidi and the cute Laurels and the Mom's who went. I had fun talking with Caroline there and back! Thank you Caroline for talking me into it! And thank you Heidi for not caring if I tagged along! :)

Now I am ready to have a great week!

Today is James Birthday!

And a happy 26th birthday to him! We celebrated on Monday! It was lots of fun to fix dinner for someone who appreciates food!

If there is one thing I've learned about having a son in law it's that they can eat and they like it! Girls are so picky. And they don't eat half what you fix. So it is nice to have someone that actually eats!

Hillary made a yummy cake and James was nice enough to blow out all the candles!

A rousing game of Wii Mario Brothers ensued. All I know there was lots of laughing and yelling.

(I retreated to my bedroom where it was much more quiet - and worked on a project for Activity Day Girls!)

So, Happy Birthday James! Thanks for being a Great Son in Law! We love you!