Welcome to the World, Hayden Michael Redding

I would like to welcome the newest addition into the family, my nephew, Hayden Michael Redding. Mom, Dad, Sister and Baby are all doing well and I can't wait to get to see him. Here is one of the pics I got in an email but will have to get the others together from mom.

I have been calling him Otis, after our Great Grandfather, this is going to be his new nickname from Aunt Missie. I hope my boys teach him all the in and outs of this world because it is only fair that my brother gets to experience all that I have the last 19 years. HEHEHE....Hayden, Aunt Missie has so many things to teach you and I can't wait till then.

Congrats to Mike and Michelle on this beautiful baby boy...

I am still around

I am almost done with packing this monster house and now to figure out what to do with everything. My new little house is already filling with boxes and I haven't even move the furniture in yet. I was taking a break and figured I would post an update on where we are on the move.
Clayton is now getting set up in his new home and it is really nice. He lives on a private lake and his house sits up on a hill that you walk down to get to the water. Very nice. Of course, it hurt to pay the first months rent, deposits and then add college tuition on top of that. We only have to get his books for school and then I am done.

As for me, I am still packing up the little things left around and we moved our first set of boxes Saturday to the new place. I am making another trip out there tonight to start ripping carpet out and move my bed into the house. Denver is still at his Dad's for the summer but he will be coming home in the next two weeks to get ready for school to start. Hopefully, I will be financially ready for this when it comes around. Clayton has just about drained me this week.

Devin packed his stuff up and moved it to his Dad's house and I am getting ready to transfer his records to his new school. I am going to miss him being around the house but I think it will be good for him to see what it is like to live with Dad. Hopefully he will appreciate all the little things that I have done all his life and he took for granted. But only time will tell and it is going to be hard on me, however, I expect him to want to come home by Christmas. Things are just way different at Dad's and he hasn't yet experienced that part yet.

All of my scrap stuff is packed in boxes and has been for the last month, I AM GOING NUTZ!!! I want to paper scrap and digi scrap so bad but can't right now. Maybe in a few weeks I will have things unpacked and I will be ready to hit the ground running with a new kit very soon.

Pray for all of us because it seems like we are all going in different directions now days and the full realization hasn't hit me that Devin and Clayton are no longer going to be around. I figure once everything slows down it will hit me then. My nest went from three to one...WOW. What is this crazy mom going to do? I haven't had one kid at home in quite sometime but Denver and I are looking forward to our new life that is developing before us.

I have been reading books lately. I just finished "90 minutes in Heaven" and this is a must read. The next book was "Get Out of That Pit" by Beth Moore, Wow is all I can say. I also just finished "Beyond Band of Brother, The War Memoirs of Major Dick Winters", if you enjoyed the Band of Brothers mini series this is a great follow up to the show. He covers alot that wasn't in the mini series. This was an amazing man. I am also reading "Have A New Kid By Friday" (look out Denver, Mom is getting ready) This is a really good book on those strong willed children and how to deal with them. Basically a happy child is an unhealthy child but a unhappy child is a healthy child. I can so relate to this because I am guilty of spoiling the boys and they don't appreciate anything so the tables have now turned and Mom is ready to change their lives once and for all. Wish me luck.

Well better get back to the moving game...
Take care, Missie

Lets see how this works out for me...Kim over at StarScraps had this cuss o'meter on her blog so I figure why not, lets just check and see how I am doing.


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YEAH ME...I am clean as a whistle. Well things have been busy, I am still getting ready for the big move and now we are having the big sale on Sat. I am pretty much selling everything and just starting over. This is going to be fun once I decide what theme I want for the house. I finally ended the thoughts of reconciliation and I feel alot better today because I have been dealing with the stress and worries of what was I going to do about my marriage. I have accepted that I can no longer keep trying to hold it together and I have learned so much about how my marriage was not what I always thought it was. Had I known all of this in the beginning, I know that I would not have gotten married but I thought life was wonderful in our world. Sad, that the man I married really isn't the same person. I am not sure what the next step is or what the future holds for me but I am excited to see where I am going.

Well I have to get back to work...chat with ya later.
Missie

Well here are some freebies that I will be taking down this next week so grab them before they are gone!!! Download here

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Enjoy the very first kit I made and I will have it posted for downloads for another week, so grab them while you can.

Missie

Ready to Leave Seattle, finally!!

This is the whole group ready to set sail for Alaska, well we are missing three people, a cousin (I think he was a cousin) and his wife and daughter.Here is our home for the next week...Saying good-bye to Seattle for awhile..Kim and Jerry,
Me saying good-bye with Space Needle in background.. Man my hair is really showing the natural red in these pics. I don't see it very often but it has a red tint to it.
I will post the Ketchican, Alaska pics tomorrow. Have a good night ya'll.

We arrive in Seattle to wait to embark on the ship

These are pics from our first day in Seattle waiting to get on the ship....

The Fish Market was so cool and it was funny to watch them throwing someone's dinner around before they boxed it up. Yup, we found the Starbucks around the corner from the hotel first thing that morning.

Here is Kim and Jerry with our little fisherman friend...

Me on the pig..not sure what the bronze pig was all about but turned out to be a funny pic.

Formal Pics from Cruise

Well since I can't access 4shared tonight, I can't post the freebies but I will keep trying. In the meantime, here are some pics from our formal night on the Star Princess Alaska Cruise....



Formal night was a lot of fun and it was nice to dress up since I don't really go anywhere to where this dress. The meal was incredible and we had so much fun throughout the cruise tasting new foods that we would normally not eat. I would suggest staying away from the Philadelphia Pot Soup though...it had tripe in it and I have never tasted butt hole but I would imagine that this is what it would taste like. The escargot appetizer was a hoot...get a bunch of Texans around a nice five course meal and serve snails...we laughed through the entire meal and even made the couple next to our table mad. The best time was the rack of lamb that Jerry ordered and had one left so he gave it to Kim's dad to taste, he picked it up like a pork chop at a down home cookout and ate it holding the "handle" as he called it. Then the next one was when Kim's mom was offered the snails, she actually hollered at the table, sending all of us into a hard laugh. It was like Rednecks meet the Trump family for dinner...we may have offended those at the other table but those of us from Texas would have understood all the humor in it...I mean we were eating stuff that is normally used for fish bait. That there is just funny, I don't care who ya are. The best part was the last day for us to sit down to our five course dinner, Jerry ordered one of everything on the menu and of course they brought it out to him. Had I know they would do that I would have been ordering two shrimp cocktails every night. He made it through the meal but did send some of it back, this was the day I tried to eat that tripe soup..Gross! and even Jerry's soup was nasty and looked like pea soup with poppy seed in it. We sent that back full needless to say, just could not imagine me eating that mess. Kim and I laughed so hard during dinner time and usually it took us awhile to figure out just how daring we were going to be in choosing our meals. The desserts were awesome and I was never disappointed and of course, Jerry, the table clown, always ordered the souffle. We all laughed at him and Kim now has to get a recipe to make it at home. If anyone has a good recipe for souffle then send it out...We all miss the food and Kim and I looked for the Breakfast Buffet this morning when we got to work but to our disappointment all that was offered was an over priced, stale vending machine. I was ready for a nap by lunch time but hopefully this feeling will go away. Well more pics to come so stay tuned for more laughs about our vacation.

Back from Alaska

Wow, what a great vacation. The cruise to Alaska was so great and I really enjoyed being back on water again. It was nice to be able to sit on the deck and read a book and be at peace. Even now, I am sitting in my room watching the boys wrestle with one another and it is quite loud in here...Welcome Home Mom. I saw some of the most beautiful landscapes and have tons of pics to download and start scrapping. I am grateful that Kim allowed me to join her family on this trip. I enjoyed talking to her Mom and Dad and it was nice to spend time with all of them. I am still looking for the breakfast buffet line and wonder why I am not being served a five course meal for dinner. However, the boys think I have lost my mind because I bought groceries and it was all fresh veggies and healthy food. Clayton is loving the new me that has come home. And he actually did some maturing while I was going too. He now has a job and works everyday and opened a bank account all on his own. And here I had been hounding him for the last month about all of this and one week of me being gone on vacation, he completes all of it. Could be because I took the bank card away from him when I left and he had to go out and grow up but either way, I am so proud of him. The night before I was to fly to Seattle, Devin broke his arm and he is in a cast right now, a bright lime green one. I won't lose him in a crowd because it is so bright. Denver, well, he is Denver...he was glad to have me home finally I am glad to be home with him. We are going to be getting geared up for the move the next couple of weeks. I hope to be done in the next two weeks but we will see how it goes. I have to go back to work tomorrow and I am just not sure I am ready but I am off Friday for the 4th of July and the boys and I are going to have one heck of a fireworks show at the house and just play all day. Well glad to be back and I am going to be posting some of the old stuff again so I can clear out some of my kits, so be ready tomorrow if you missed anything in the past. I will start new stuff once I get the move done.

Have a great night...
Missie