Catch up with pictures!

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Life has a funny way of moving at the speed of light.

Autumn has gotten taller and is a handful.

Autumn is now in preschool and I can see why the mommy wars start. It is your child's project, not your own......those of us that let our children do it, feel as if our child's projects look sorry next to the ones mom's helped make!

I am teaching preschool, working at our church, and taking care of a super cute little boy named Garner.

Dave is working for a new company.

We no longer have any car payments! (now I crave a new one....which means another payment!)

I have joined the Y, in the hopes of getting back into the shape I was when I met Dave.

Fall is finally arriving and I love it!

Almost a month....

If ya know me, you know that life has been super crazy and busy right now. Lots of patience testing, and trials, but with God, we are chugging along! That said, I have avoided my blog for awhile...About a month to be exact. Not a good thing....

You see awhile back I got to look at some super cool cards on a neat Blog Hop and I commented on a couple that really stood out to me. I am all about simple and also complex designs when it comes to stamping and scrapping. Right now I am in my simple but classic phase. Clean lines, no crazy embellishments etc. So I loved the Thank you card over at 2H Design. Well low and behold I WON her giveaway during the hop! Only slacker in the blogging world that I have been, I didn't see her post a comment to my blog and just now noticed almost a month after the fact!

While I whined on Facebook to my friends and was super bummed, I thought I would email just in case she may have not picked another winner.........She hadn't!!! YEAH ME!!

So those of ya'll that know me, know that this couldn't come at a better time, and I am super duper happy! :)

Here kitty kitty....

I have been a bad blogger! I admit it. Life has been busy, but I have remembered to take some pictures!

Autumn has been upgraded to a "big girl" bed. It is actually the bed I had when I was about her age. It has some wear and tear, but at a later point, we will strip it and refinish it, since it is almost 30 years old!!!! We took Autumn to Wally World and let her pick out her own sheets, and the result was not Tinkerbelle, but Littlest Pet Shop! Here she is in her "new" bed.

Side note about the bed....can you believe that when Dave and I were first together, we slept on this TWIN bed together! Wow!

Next on the agenda after having a new bed, was the fun of taking the cat for a walk!

How to torture the cat 101!

Haha he can't get away!

This isn't really torture since he will actually jump up in the stroller when she tells him to! :) It's the cats only saving grace that he is so great with Autumn.

The new me, and some Autumn to boot

Here is munchkin finding the one lone strawberry in our patch! Alas now that Peter rabbit is gone, something else is attacking them! Blah!

Okay I HATE taking pictures of myself, but I decided to post my new do! SO here it is in all the glory, with me doing my best to do a good FGA. :)

The front...excuse the lack of lipstick on my casper white face!

And here is the back! It's all gone!

Oh my

I can't seem to wake up today! Autumn has been bored, so I decided to let her paint. She loves painting and will do it every day if I let her. (I usually give in because I love painting and crafts and I am happy she is the same.) But....



never leave a 3 year old alone with her water paints....

And yes, even her teeth are a lovely blue green......

Bad games to play....

I know some people are super concerned about the Flu. I feel horrible for the families in Mexico that have lost loved ones. But in times of stress I joke, it's a horrible fault I have, and it was something that my Dr. was concerned about when I lost yet another baby in September and almost died in the process. (I did tell her I already took crazy pills, she was out of luck, this was my normal!)

That said, some jokes aren't funny. I went out to do my Sunday ritual last night. I buy the paper, a Dr. Pepper that I so don't need and then I go home and cut coupons and watch the Amazing Race...yes I am getting old. As I was leaving the local Pack and Sack place, the girl that was working decided to Lysol the area I was just in, and then use some hand sanitizer.

Overkill. I mentioned it to her, and she said that she wasn't getting the swine flu! Caution is great, but damn I could smell the Lysol way over by the counter. She asked me if I knew what the swine flu stood for, and I told her that I didn't, other than it was a flu that came from pigs. Her response: Stupid W... Infected Nearly Everyone. Now the W is a slag term for a certain nationality. I was floored, and told her it wasn't funny. I think she was surprised at my response, but my husband always says that if someone tells you something that offends you, it usually means they think you are okay with it. I was NOT. You can still be funny without being Ugly...

Wanna leisurely trip to the store? Cough as ya go down the aisles! That is funny!

Want that last piece of pizza at the serve yourself pizza places? Cough and sneeze, and watch people move.

Yes I have a bad sense of humor, but I also know that life goes on, and God has a plan for me, no matter what happens. Live life, enjoy today!

PS if ya saw me last week looking flushed, it wasn't the flu....it was because I reached my Margarita limit!