Softball Update

Sammy's team played their arch rival on 3/27/08. They won by 1. Bottom of the 7th Sammy hit a single, stole a few times, made it to 3rd. Sara at bat, hits a good one and Sammy gets the game winning score!
Of course, I missed it. The weather here has been frightful and I knew I couldn't sit in the wind and cold for 2 hours. So Chandler was in charge of photos. Enjoy.
hugs and Giggles!

Surprise!

Chandler received Student of the Month!!
Dallas and I went to see her recieve her award and pen, we also had some donuts and coffee! Congrats Chandler!
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Games 2 , 3 and 4

We are in full on Softball season. Sammy and her team have played 4 games as of 3/21/08. And have won them all. They are doing a super job.
Today is Sammy's first weekend off of any kind of softball (school and select) since 2/24. She gets 20 more minutes of sleeping in! lol
Chandler is on a day trip with Grandpa, to Portland. Bill is working and I have a to do list a mile long. So I better get to it!
Game 2
Threw the runner out at first! Way to go!


Stealing to second base, she made it safe!



Sammy dove for the ball.


After game pep talk! Don't the new uniforms look nice! So glad they went with black pants this year. Last year we had white, hard to keep clean.


Game 3. I didn't go. I wasn't feeling well enough to sit in the wind and cold. So Chandler provided us with the photos, she is a good photographer, if we depended on Bill for the photos.....we might get 1! lol Sammy did get a triple in this game.


She looks like a contortionist! My arm would hurt.


These are the types of photos of photos Chandler takes when she has my camera! She is such a goofball! A cute one too!


No photos from game 4. Chandler wasn't feeling well, so I stayed home with her. And we all know Bill wouldn't get any photos! So we are photoless for game 4. The team is now 4 and 0. Go Redwolves!
Have a great Easter.
Hugs and Giggles!!

Local Paper

Sammy made the local paper from the first Varsity softball game. Cool photo of her too!
Here is the addy for it. www.rivercurrentnews.com It is the March 20th Volume 2 issue. You will need adobe to download it. She is on page 4.
I will post more game highlights and photos this weekend.
Happy Easter!
Hugs and Giggles!!

A couple of.....

Cards I recently made. I needed all three for a b-day get together a few weeks ago. Ages were 1 year old female, 50 year old female and a 69 year old male. It was kind of hard to do seen as how my whole new craft room was in a total disarray. I also need to put in a disclaimer on my recent post on my new craft room. I did not paint the whole room myself. Bill did paint most of it, he is the expert you know. He also did the trim work, I do not paint well with oil based paints. lol
Enjoy the cards. Hugs and Giggles!

High School Softball 1st game

of the season. It was a long one! The weather was okay, no rain but the wind was a whipping pretty good. Below is what was reported to the Seattle Times, she made the game winning sacrifice, almost makes up for her strike outs.I included a few photos too. Enjoy
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Tuesday, March 11, 2008 - 6:25 p.m. Pacific

Softball: Schedules/results
Cedarcrest 1 vs. Burlington-Edison 0
at Cedarcrest High School
Mar 11, 2008
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 – R H E
Burlington-Edison 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 – 0 3 0
Cedarcrest 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 – 1 1 1

Highlights

Lindsey Dowson and Jasmine Ribelman; Hillary Barker and Marissa Botts. WP — Barker (1-0). LP — Dowson (0-1). Cedarcrest highlights — Sarah Dowd, 1-4; Boelter, winning sacrifice. Records — Burlington-Edison 0-1, Cedarcrest 1-0.

Im a slacker with a good excuse!

I had such great plans to blog during mid-winter break. But we ended up remodeling another room in the house. The smaller room upstairs which was going to be the girls study room. Well that wasn't working out. So we made it into my new craft room. Or crap room as Bill calls it! Ü So there desk was moved downstairs to the computer/former craft room. So far so good on the studying!
So instead of scrapbooking and being crafty during mid-winter break. I was priming and painting walls. I even got to choose an actual color for the walls. I chose to have my celery cardstock matched for the paint color. It is a little brighter than I thought it would be, but it looks good. Some of the photos look off, I was trying different settings on my camera. lol
In one of the photos is one with a pinkish curtain. That leads to an even smaller room. Right now it stores all of our seasonal stuff and cast offs and junk. We are in the process of cleaning and reorganizing, de-junking it. I am sure we will be remodeling that room soon. It has layers and layers of paint/paper on the walls. It will also serve as an overflow room for my craft stuff too. You know us craft people, we hoard stuff! lol Since the photos were taken, I have blinds put up and wood around the window. The floors are going to be done at a later date, as there was some sort of repair done at some time and Bill needs to assess what he needs to do, plus I was in a hurry to get set up.
Anyways, I will post more info this weekend and take current photos of most of my stuff in the room, it is going to take a bit to get it functioning the way I want it.
Hugs and Giggles!!

Sammy's Birthday photos

Sammy chose to go to Ixtapa mexican restaurant (local) for her Birthday dinner. G-pa did up a gift certificate for her to have her family and bff's come for dinner. Her one bff couldn't make it since she had a cheer competition. So Carlee's mom drove her over from Wilbur, Wa ( Thanks so much Sandy) and Alicia, another one of Sammy's bff's came. We were lucky and got two booths. the girls at one and the adults at the other. lol




Since Alex couldn't make it the night before, Carlee and Sammy hung out with her for a bit in Duvall on Sunday.



Well, she got to get her b-day spanking at 4:30 AM.....We had a snow day for Sammy's birthday, I think we have had almost all weather type conditions on her day, earthquakes, power outages and snow!





You think pink is her favorite color?



It's not called an Ugly cake for no reason!! Sammy got to pick what cake she wanted me to make for her day!


Hugs and Giggles!!

16 years ago today...

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Oops!

I guess I did not share the "JOY" coaster project I made for Xmas. Sorry about that. Here it is. I used Stampin' Up! retired Dashing paper and simon lower chipboard alpha and ribbon. For some reason the photo looks really washed out. It is much more brighter and cheerful in real life! Enjoy.
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Stuff

Update on Sammy's select softball. She is no longer a Flame/Inferno player. She is now a Spice girl....Seattle Spice that is. You know the old saying....Too good to be true! Well that was the case with the Flame. It was a tough decision, because we have always told the girls once you commit you stay and stick it out. We just couldn't do it this time around considering the money involved and a not so happy kid. So we think we found a good fit and Sammy will now be playing shortstop full time, which will help when high school ball starts. It was a little rough last year playing ss for school and 3rd for select. Too bad we have to travel to Seattle 2x's a week for practices. But we have one happy kid again....Can you believe she will be 16 in 2 weeks! yikes

Chandler will play little league this year...if they get enough girls for Juniors. A lot of girls drop off at this age so we have our fingers crossed.We also had some drama with her first boyfriend... ugh

Well since Christmas, I have been getting busy with some swap cards, class cards and some Valentines goodies. Have you ever been to the Target dollar spot. Well I call it the twenty dollar spot! lol
The last 2 years they have had these cute tin mail boxes, last year they had red or white. This year they added pink and the doors come off. They also had some 12x12 scrapbook papers. I used these to cover the mailboxes and I also did a LOVE hanging, similar to the JOY one I did for Xmas. Well I need to upload the photos and get some more scrapbooking done.
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Welcome

Family and Friends
I am getting this post out later than planned.
Welcome to my blog. I post a little of this and a little of that. Most of you found about the blog from the Christmas card I sent out. I didn't write a letter last year and I heard from a few of you that missed receiving it. This year I just was not into it when it hit me that what better way to keep you all informed, was to give you my blog address. If you notice over there>>>>>>>>>>>> on the right. You can sign up for email updates. You will get an email when I update my blog. You can click on all the photos and they will be made bigger. You can also leave comments, questions etc in the comments section to any of the posts I have done. Would love to hear from you!
Have a safe and Happy New Year...Sounds like Bill and I might have the night to ourselves! lol
Hugs and Giggles!!

What you have been seeing in the news

No it wasn't us. We are safe and sound.
the older woman that was killed...Judy. She was our mail carrier. She will be missed by us as she was an awesome mail carrier. I certainly hope her daughter and bf that did it get what they deserve and then some!
Hugs and Giggles!

Merry Christmas

Better late than never right!
We had a wonderful Christmas and hope you all did too.
Here are a few shots of our holiday starting off with the tree lighting ceremony in town at the commons. Bill and the girls goofing off while we were freezing. The girls building a gingerbread house. Will have to do this every year, kept them busy for a couple of hours! Loca the cat, just resting after a hard day of chasing Fifi.
A fun thing that Bill's Dad did at Chrsitmas, he wrapped up a gift for me...with a clue on it. We had no idea what it could be. Fast forward a few days, he gave us a couple of more clues, that had us all stumped. When the time came to open it we still had no clue, well it was a number 2. Now you are all wondering why would someone give a number. Well it was a number 2 for the house, those largish numbers. Yup. Iam the proud owner of one! lol The story behind this is right after we bought the house, we started painting. Bill took my numbers down and misplaced one of the 2's. Don't ask me how but he did. I have been razzing him for a few months now about my 2. lol I hadn't gotten around to getting to the local hardware store to replace the 2. We had a lot of fun trying to figure out what was in that box!
The next photos show the girls with their most favorite envelope in the world! You see this envelope holds a large bill, for them to use to go shopping the day after Christmas and get what they want. Come to think of it they received a lot of envelopes this year.....and were able to purchase what they wanted. Next up is Bill opening up the first season of Mork and Mindy!( he actually got season 2 too!) We have been trying to find it for a couple of years now and I finally found it on Amazon. Me....I got a bind it all, it punches holes into chipboard covers, paper etc and o-rings to make your own books etc. Once I learn how to do one I will post a photo of it.
We hope you all had a great Holiday Season.
Hugs and Giggles!!

RIP

Mike Richdale!
I shared this photo back in July or August. Mike was Sammy's coach when she was on the NW Lady Sharks 3 years ago. He was diagnosed with a progressive form of brain cancer. We were all shocked he lived this long. But we also knew that the girls and softball kept him going. Sammy learned a lot from him. He is/was a great coach. We are all going to his service on Tuesday. They are requesting that the girls wear there team jerseys. So I need to find the one she wore when she was on the team and get it washed, since it has been boxed up for 3 years. He will be greatly missed.
Hugs and Giggles!

More on Sammy's room

Okay, this is what was behind the cut out boards on the wall. They must have used all that hay as insulation....yuck! The evidently birds found it and left tons of droppings. So we are in the process of cleaning that all out. We will also be adding proper insulation and making those areas ( one on each side of the room) into storage areas, by adding hinges to the cut outs etc. We also found "The "Happy Little Train game" Not in the best of condition but a cool find none the less. We also found an old math workbook. No dates or covers on it but in the money section, they show wheat pennies. So cool. See the backwards wallpaper? UGLY huh! lol
We also decided theat the girls will be sharing the room. They will both have equal space. The small room Chandler has/had will now be a study room with their desks, and hopefully their own computer soon. We have had some decisions to make regarding the walls etc up there. We have decided that it would take way to much time and a little money to get the wood to look really good, and still make the room to dark. So we are painting it a nice navajo white, Bill started that last night to see how it would look. It looks very nice.( will post pictures in a few days after I take photos etc) We have had to work in sections and still have a ton of stuff to do. As we would like the girls to be in there by Christmas. Wish us luck!
Also, sorry for the lack of postes lately. With working up in the room we are still doing other things around the house. Bill and his Dad got 2 of the 3 new gutters back up and painted. Looks nice and no more overflows etc. Until next time. Hugs and Giggles!