a couple of things..

I got my last stamp from Simon Says!! ordered 1-15-09, last stamp rec'd 3-09-09!
I was very happy to close my claim with Paypal. It took a while, but I don't feel like I was robbed. Will not order from them again, but so glad to get my items.

now a fun story...
ds has a new nickname on the force... Gazelle.

on Thursday, during a foot pursuit, his fellow officers had captured the fellow behind some warehouses...ds saw that they were struggling with him, and scaled and jumped a fence to get to the scene...and help them apprehend him. A Sargeant was behind ds, and told him..."That was a great wall scale, and you leapt over the fence like a gazelle, but did you realize that the gate was open?"..teehee. Rookie!!

Well, he certainly does not get it from his mother. After posting this, while getting some water from the garage fridge, I caught my toe on the patio steps and went SPLAT!! Water and woman all over the patio...to make it worse, dh was there!
landed hard on my hands, knee and my poor toe! oh well, had to skip the treadmill!

ha!!

last friday...

last friday, I asked ya'll for prayers for my dd, for something she was doing on Saturday.

Well, I guess I can reveal it now.

She was going to a photo shoot for the Lonestar Dream Girls' calendar. My daughter is accomplished and beautiful and smart, but she isn't really a 'pin up' girl, so I was a li'l worried. Not sure of what would be required of her...but she said though it was definately what Tyra (on ANTM) would call a men's magazine shoot, most of the girls were pretty 'conservative'..only a couple were ...pushing it.

So, here she is, my baby, Lonestar Dreamgirl...Cierra. (look at her eyes in the picture, she would make Tyra proud with her 'fierce' eyes) teehee.

yesterday was exciting!

Mom and I went to Livermore to join Nyki and Jason for lunch. We did not get to go to Outback, since they don't open till 3pm...we went to Black Angus instead...but the cool thing is after lunch...I saw the baby move.

Soooooooo cool! of course, when I put my hand on Nyki's belly, the baby stopped. and as soon as I took it off, she started again. So, Adriana's gonna be stubborn and onery like her parents! And whenever she would kick to the side, it made Nyki jump and say 'ouch'...so whatever Adriana was doing...teehee.


Then we worked on the baby shower invitations. We used Nyki's colors of purple and green, and then some in Betsy's pink and white. The preggo stamp is in a window.



and we dry embossed using my old red sizzex and a cuttlebug folder.




its getting closer, and more real..I'm gonna be a grandma!!! yay, yay, yay, happy dance!

well, slept through it...

Looks like there was excitement at the home front. @3 am, the police were going up and down the street in front of us, the dogs going bonkers...and I slept thru it!

First words from dh's mouth, "I wish I had that gift"...teehee.

Yesterday, after getting my stuff done was a LAZY day. Did prep the baby shower invitations for today..going to dil's to make them. And printed some pics for Betsy's scrapbook, but after that...movies and the couch. I remember watching most of "Hairspray", that is a fun movie, made me smile. And "Under Suspicion" with Gene Hackman and Morgan Freeman..well acted, but, the movie was less than good, to me.

Did watch Connor Chronicles...soooooo good! I really wanted Riley to win that fight. Oh Well.

And then the last half of America's Next Top Model. Okay, that Sandra...me no like, she is one selfish little _________, and she said she had no friends because she is 'different'...sorry hon, you have no friends cuz you're a li'l b_______... I think I like London or Fo (it is Fo, right?)


So, today its a trip to Livermore, work on those invitations and lunch at Outback, cuz my mommy is in 'the mood' for it. I'm such a good daughter, to 'suffer' so for my mommy...ha!!

this pic is from Weds...had some intense rains then this...

soooooo glad I'm not working today...

Today is a 'save money, have only a few hourly people come in to work day'. It is the company's attempt to not have to do a lay-off. Anyways, I am one of 2 accounting people who got the day off. Now, I love having a day off. But I am not the primary wage-earner of the family. So, I was looking forward to this day in my pj's, maybe even scrapping.

THEN, this morning dh got a call...most of the front office is under 1" of water. The sales end, not in accounting, yet. It's up to the cube next to mine.

Sooooooo, at least in the offices, looks like its a no computer, clean up day.
(guess it would make an interesting P365 picture)

Betsy gave me 2 cd's full of pictures that I am going thru for her wedding scrapbook.
cd #1, had 1505 pictures!!!!! I am in the process of ruthlessly weeding them out.

Well, off to finish the around the house stuff that needs to be done, litter boxes.
Gotta go into town at some point, bank and grocery store...so its not a total pajama day. But if I get the 'stuff' done, I can work on the scrappin' or movie watchin' or something else that is fun! rrrrrrrrright???

If you think about it, pray for dd, Cierra, tomorrow she will be doing something 'unusual' for her....we are not sure of...but its kinda cool...but its...
just praying that whatever the results are its in God's hands.

My friend, Michele, emailed me that America's Next Top Model is accepting girls who are under 5'7". Now, ever since the series started a lot of us have been saying that Cierra should do this. (but at 5'3"...) So, I emailed her the info, and she said 'no thanks, lol'...she is just not interested. And you have to have the 'eye of the tiger' for that life...it was the same with acting in college. If she got a role, great...but she did not go out to every audition and casting call, like some of her fellow acting friends. So, tomorrow has nothing to do with ANTM...I kinda wish it did...she would be amazing...oh well, a girl has to follow her heart, right?

almost got in trouble...

for my P365, I pulled out my camera while dh was getting a lottery ticket.

Across the convenience store's parking lot, a bunch of kids were 'hanging out'...so I was going to snap a pic..

dh, "were you going to take a picture of that gang"
me, "sure, for my picture of the day"
dh, "don't take a picture of a gang!"
me, "why not, its a 'slice of life' in this town"
dh, "I don't want them to target my car"

so, I took a pic of the hardware store's interesting entry...what is that column made of anyways?

busy weekend...

Saturday was the spaghetti) 'feed' at church. It was dh's 'gig', so I did not have to do a lot of work, but helped him with the pre-cooking prep (cleaning 12 heads of garlic) and opening cans of tomato sauce. While prepping that garlic, I watched a movie called 'In the Name of the King' with Jason Strathom, that I surprisingly liked. I don't usually watch stuff with him in it...
Esp the end, when his wife, I think its Claire Forlaine, does something unexpected.

Nyki came over during the afternoon and we worked on the design for the baby shower invitations.

The dinner was actually very good, there was a raffle and silent raffle. My P365 pic is of Reagan ( a 3 year old from the church), enjoying her spaghetti. she is soo funny, she was sitting at another table, and she 'caught' me taking the pic!


Sunday, I was hoping for a nap, by mom wanted to do a li'l shopping. It was fun!
We went to Michaels (she needed more yarn) and Walmart and then ate Japanese food.
Then dh and I went to a friend's house to watch Fireproof...a very good movie.

So, though I have not been posting my P365 pictures, I have been taking them.
and I did not do last week's layout over the weekend, I have been keeping up.

Got some good news on Sunday. DD called and asked 'what adhesive do I use to put a rhinestone on a flower" "use a glue dot, ummmm, baby, does that mean you are scrapbooking?" "Yeah" ...!!!! insert 'happy dance' smilie