Things Jacob says...

First I have to tell a little back story. Jacob has a way of loosing things or misplacing them! A couple of years ago after spending much of his birthday money at Toys R Us he lost his wallet. We were leaving and he decided to use his change in one to those machines by the exit. He laid his wallet down. Well, we where half way to the car when I thought were did his wallet go. I was going to put it in my purse. Cause I kept his wallet so he didn't loose it at home! I sent Jerrad running back in. There was a mother and her daughter at the machines. They said they didn't see a wallet. No one else had left the store. Who knows what happened to it. Jerrad swears that lady and her daughter took it. There is no proof. From then on Steve said he could not have any of his money he got. I've always kept it and his wallet. You know you forget and he takes it somewhere to spend money and I just forget to get it back. Well I took it back a couple of months ago when I found out that he had $100 cash in it! First reaction was he should not be carrying that around! Second, where did he get that money? Seems that these Bakugan toys he has been collecting...he has also been selling them at school! I put a stop to that real fast! Steve was a amazed he made that much money! He wanted to start selling them on eBay! lol So, I have the wallet again. Jacob got a good report card this last six weeks. Its been quite a while, if ever, since we've seen a report card with no "c's". A long time ago I had told the boys I'd give them so much money for each "A" and a little less for each "B". Well, Jakes grades have not been great so he has not seen this money! Well, this report card he added up what he should get. The sweet thing is so innocent he asked if he could have that much money out of his wallet! He was ok with that. I tried to explain I'd give him the money or buy something but I wasn't giving him his own money for his grades! He so funny! So, then he made a Christmas list. #7 on his list is...my wallet back!

Christmas...

I love the holiday season! I love getting the decorations out and put them around the house. I love having the tree up! I like to listen to (some) Christmas music. Celine Dion's CD is my favorite! So, today I drug out all the decorations out of the attic. Got the tree up. I'm guessing that the last two years I have placed the tree in a corner. Therefore, only decorating three sides. Only buying and using enough garland for those three sides! Well, this year I decided to put it right in the middle of the window! See where this is going?!?! Not enough garland to go all the way around! Those pieces say 12 feet long but I just don't see it! One piece barely went all the way around the bottom. I wanted the tree in the middle so I headed to Hobby. On the way I got to thinking I'm not sure if I bought that garland at Hobby or Wally. Got to Hobby...nothing matches what I have! Great. I decided to go with white! After picking up several of those and some new ornaments I headed to the checkout. Standing in line and I think "oh, I should get cardstock to make my gift tags while I'm here." Head to scrapbooking. Pick up some cardstock. Head back to the front. "Oops...probably should get the stuff for Jacob's project as long as I'm here!" After I think I've gotten everything I finally checkout. Well, since I'm so close to a Wally I thought I'd just run in there and check to see if they had the same garland. Yes, I went to the United Nations on Cooper St. Luckily I parked close to the garden area and went in that side door. Quick in and out. Real quick cause they didn't have my garland either. So, back to redoing it in white! Got home. Took the old garland off and put the new on. Probably could've used one more strand but this will have to do this year (note...buy more before Christmas is over and save it for next year!). I start hanging the ornaments. Remember I said I bought some new ones. Well, I'm two short now! Yep, I dropped two of them while putting them on the tree! The wood floor was not forgiving. And they had glitter on them...now my wood floor is sparkly!!! I guess eventually it will come off!

I am way ahead of schedule this year. I've already wrapped all the gifts I bought this weekend. No, I'm not done shopping but I've wrapped what I've already gotten! Still shopping to do! My cards are done. Just need to get a picture of my family to put in them. The two we took this weekend did not turn out well. Hopefully I can get this done one night this week so I can get those in the mail.

I used my sewing machine! I made gift tags. Nothing fancy. Some look better than others. Mostly tags for kids so they won't be paying much attention to them anyway! Still learning the machine. Kind of scary! I think it will be fun once I get use to it. I might need some tips from Andrea and Kristy!!!! I can't wait to scrapbook and stitch a page!

Jerrad mowed and weed eated the yard this afternoon....so, that means tomorrow or Thursday I will get out there and put my lights in the yard. I love that too! All clear lights in the yard! I think its so pretty! One of these days maybe I'll get Steve convinced to put lights on the house! He use to at the other house. Of course that was easy. He used the staple gun to hang them up. He didn't even need the ladder. Just reached up and stuck those suckers up there. Well, now its a little harder! He has no interest in hanging them for a two story house! I was so determined to have lights the first year we lived here...I tried to hang them. I thought I could at least hang them on the areas that were only a story high! Wrong...oh so wrong! Its really way up there. And a 6 foot ladder really doesn't help me much! It was just a disaster! So, we have not had lights on our house here! Probably won't til Steve lets me pay someone to do that!

HAPPY ANNIVERSARY...17 YEARS!

This is Steve's idea of a good gift wrapping job! Obviously he does not have OCD or have a care about how his gift looks! :) But this is what make his so much fun! You never know what he'll do! After I was opening it he began having better ideas of how he could have made this better and harder to open! Believe me...black duct tape is sticky! Yes, this is a pillowcase! Luckily not one we use! Of course the gift wasn't much of a surprise. I'd told him where to go and what to get and exactly where to find it! He does not have a clue what he should get unless he is told directly what I want! Although my family did get a kick out of this. See...I do not sew! I do not do buttons or hems or anything! Not my thing at all. Never even cared to learn! Well, I still don't! The sewing machine is to sew scrapbook paper! I am so excited. I can't wait! I hope to make all my Christmas tags this year and stitch them! I might be calling on Andrea and Kristy for some help! I just think its so neat and what better way to practice than to have a sewing machine! Of course, Steve had to get over the shock of me asking for one and then I had to tell him (we were on the phone) to tell my dad to stop laughing! All I could hear was him laughing in the background! Dad knows me...me sew...yea right!

I can not believe it has been 17 years! Steve was 20 and I was 18 when we got married (although I'm still only 29...so don't try to do the math...it doesn't work...). We were married in Oklahoma City and believe it or not...we had an ice storm that night! Talk about stinkin' cold! You know I don't do cold! Of all nights for it to be down right freezing! Being young...broke...Steve still in school...there was no fancy honeymoon. Sunday afternoon we drove back to Fort Worth. Monday morning he went to school and I went to work! Woo Hoo! I know...fancy stuff! :) We've taken many vacations since then! Some with kids and some without. So, I think its worked out pretty good! I'm not a mushy person so I don't have any of that romantic mushy stuff to write! Sorry! Who are we kidding...I'm not good at writing either! I did to hire some one to write me blog for me! That would be great...I always think what I write sounds corny and goofy!

Grandma...

Friday my parents came down and my grandmother came with them. This is my dad's mom. She'd been visiting them all week. She lives outside Denver, Colorado. I haven't seen her in over 5 years. It was nice that she came with them and spent the weekend. We had a good time. Of couse mom and I did our Christmas shopping as we always do after Thanksgiving. Grandma went with us. We had lunch at La Madeline's Saturday morning! I had not ever been there. Kristy and Kam met us there too. Of course, Kristy had to tell me what to eat. Not the type food I eat. I got the Chicken Salad. It was very yummy (not as yummy as Kristy's) but I ate it! Jacob was with us so of course we had to hit the McDonald's drive thru for him afterwards! There wasn't anything on the kids menu he'd eat! It was a nice weekend!

Thanksgiving and the Cowboys...

Those two just go hand in hand! This year Steve got invited to the Cowboys game on Thanksgiving Day! Bonus...I got to go too! I have never been to a Cowboys game. This was my very first. We ate early Thursday with Steve's family so that we could get to the game. Steve's sister, Staci, was great and took our boys for the day (didn't really want to leave them alone on Thanksgiving Day! What kind of mother would I be?!?!?). The game was good. Even better since they did win! Ya know there is always that possibility that they could lose! I didn't want to see one of those games! It was lots of fun. Too bad we might never see another one! Its just crazy the cost of the tickets for the new stadium! Maybe one of these years we'll get another chance to go to a game...in the new stadium!

Notice...I did not make you suffer by posting my pictures of the Jonas Brothers! Really...was that a show? Two songs...nope I don't think so! It didn't sound all that great...they did sound better than they did on the AMA's but still rough! The worst was Demi Lovato that butchered the National Anthem! OH MY! I didn't think it sounded that great...then this morning on Kidd Kradick they were talking about how bad it was. He replayed it on the air! You poor people that suffered through hearing/seeing her on TV! It was BAD! Guess it doesn't matter what you sound like when your mom use to be a Dallas Cowboys cheerleader! lol

Scrapbooking...

After being up really late for the Twilight movie...Kristy, Andrea, Jennifer and myself were headed off to Weatherford to the The Covered Bridge Inn for a scrapbooking retreat! Lets just say we ran all weekend on very little sleep! I did get about 58 pages of scrapbooking done! I finished my 2007 album and was able to start on 2008! YEAH! I was so excited. Although I do still have to go back and do my journaling for 2007. That shouldn't take me too long...I hope! The retreat was a great time and a much needed break from all the busy stuff at home! I did get my very first massage! LOVED IT! I will be doing that again! Probably not til the next retreat but I will do it again! That was well worth missing an hour of scrapbooking! It was a great time and I can hardly wait for April for our next one!

twilight...

I know this was over a week ago now...but I'm just now sitting down to do ALL my blog updates! A group of us braved the crowds to see the movie at midnight! It did receive mixed reviews. I look at it this way...because I read the book and know there is a little different version I can live with it. Parts of it were not the same and some of it was very cheesey! Since I loved the book so much I can tolerate the movie. Yes, I would see it again...when it comes out on DVD! Some people absolutely didn't like it but I can take it or leave it...that easy going personality coming out again!

This is the gang that went to the movie!