Not Good Mail...Grandma Mail ......

I received a phone call about 4:30 p.m. from an employee's wife. She asked that I wait for her she had something for me. When she arrived she pulled out two baby blankets her sister had made. She said that every Grandma needs extra blankets.. It was so sweet & so special.. The attached pictures doesn't do either of them justice...














Blue Fish Print



Pastel foot prints & hand prints Print


Janice, thank you so much !!! These are truely adoreable and they will get plenty of use :)

Working Backwards Once Again.......

Well, it's now been a month and a 1/2 for a post from me. I decdied to go unprivate. We will see if the Chinese Porn Stars will leave me alone now!! So much has been happening but once again, I will start with current & go backwards... Why do I do this???? I guess the good thing is I do get it posted for my journaling purpose but it would be so much easier to do it on a daily basis..

Well here goes!!!

Best Date Ever.....................

I paid for the tickets to get in ................... $15.00

I paid for dinner & dessert........ $20.00

But I had the best looking date ever...................PRICELESSS.................

Ephrata Speedway

Mini Sprint Cars

12th Man - Seahawk Car- His favorite

Weight Update..............

Well, I'm officially at my 1/2 way point... My weigh-in today, I almost let out a scream of joy!!

Down 31 1/2 pounds... Jan. 12, 2011

July 9,2011

July 4th................

I love that our country celebrates July 4th & I love what it stands for. BUT, I hate the fireworks!! Actually, I should say that I hate that people are so irresponsible, so selfish and ruin such a wonderful day!!

In the area I live it is considered "County" and Fireworks are allowed. Of course no one follows the guidelines but hey rules are made to be broken right.... NOT!!! Friday night the fireworks started before it was even dark and continued pass 1:30 a.m. Therefore, not a lot of sleep was gotten. Once again on Saturday night, they started up before dark and didn't stop till after 1:30 or so.. Well, on Sunday I was completely feeling the no sleep.. I have neighbors behind me that I really wish would move. When ever she has a get together something bad happens. You just count on it. Well once again, they started but they weren't the normal fireworks they were the really nice ones. At first they were pretty, then they got annoying. They were shooting them everywhere. I tried to lie down about 11:00 p.m. but no such luck, the kids were running between houses. I went out front and they were in my yard looking to see if the left overs that had fallen may have had any charge left. So I told them to get out.. They took off running.. Finally about 1:30 it ended... I went to bed and at 2:30 woke to several people running between the houses & 4 pop,pop,pop,pop.. It sounded like gunshots.. I shut my window and ran to the front of the house opened the door but saw nothing. I shut the door and started to head back and heard this really loud clatter.. I opened the door and looked and the neighbors bush and front of house was on fire. I had my cell, immediately called 911 and grabbed my hose. DeAndre's mom lives in the other side of the duplex and she was outside calling 911 and had her hose too... The man across the street came running over and started pounding on the back doors and windows to get the girl to wake up so we could get her out. Several Sherriff's car's arrived very quickly but I swear it took the fire dept. forever!!! Gina (D's mom) and I actually had the fire out by the time they fire dept. got there. I guess they need to practice mapping skills or need a GPS cuz as we were standing their with our hoses they drove right by the street.. AGHHH!!! The cops questioned the lady behind us but of course by that time her visitors had left (quickly I might ad) and she knew absolutely nothing about it... And of course they had my story but I didn't see anyone.. just heard them :( Well the fire dept. gets there and I guess you always have to have a "Commander" in charge. This guy seriously walked around like a puffed up pigeon.. strutting around.. He was asking each one of us what we knew. The sherriff's were all standing by their vehicles and or sitting in them.. The man asked me what had happened and serioulsly had the gall to ask me "Have you bothered to tell the police this?" No you idiot I figured I keep quiet.. .aghh!!! and then what really got me was he seriously asked me "Have they been standing over there the whole time or have they done anything?(refering to the Sherriff's).. I sooooo bad wanted to say " No you idiot as you dorks were driving past the street they pretty much had everything under control.. ".... He was an arrogant A### if you ask me..

Well the good thing was everyone got out safe, there was minimal damage but as for the sleep factor.. I finally laid down at 6:30 and slept till 8:00 a.m. Here is a thouht for us all..... As I was standing there spraying the house & bush and I saw the neighbor run by in his boxer shorts, I had to look down slowly and wander what in the world I was wearing *lol* I had on a shirt and shorts ...oh how I was relieved *lol* Well, the other thing Mr. Commando should have concentrated more on the fire because the next day it started back up... this time they found the street .... It was a very long 4th of July for me.. It did have it's good points. I had my family over for a bbq but I can honestly say by the end of the day I was totally wiped!!!