Hello out there!!!!!!!

August 6th, really now. I can't believe it has been this long since I posted on the blog, shame on me. Well here is the latest and greatest Top 10 (in no specific order).....
1. Still getting a divorce....it is hard at times but I am adjusting well and so is Denver. We are spending alot of time together and relearning a new town.
2. Denver is in his new school and loving it. We even have A/B report cards coming home and no phone calls from the school everyday...YEA ME!!!!!!!!
3. I have discovered that I have the landlord from hellllloooooooo...I have to laugh at their own insanity but this involves a whole new blog to fill you in. Just trust me when I say I am laughing at their stupidity, I am sorry...I meant to say insanity.
4. Work is still Work and busy as ever.
5. StarScraps (Kim) is blowing the doors off the digiscrap world, I am so proud of her and all her kits. Way to Go Kim!
6. Clay is still away in college, and we won't discuss his first semester there either. Okay all I have to say is, "Really, how exactly do you fail Freshman Orientation?" Enough said, I am proud of him either way he goes.
7. Designing...nope, making cards, YOU BET...My new found love but I do miss the digi world.
8. Devin is doing well and we are battling his desire to dye his brownish-blonde hair to black. I think he is really wanting to see where the stress test is failed by his father. Good Luck Shane! Devin is definitely doing it out of defiance. I sometimes wonder if he is pushing things to see where the burst point is on that vein in his fathers neck or he is trying to make me completely grey by my next birthday.
9. Our God is an amazing God, I have been blessed from the top of my head to the soles of my feet. I have so many stories to share with everyone and will start posting them soon.
10. I will also be posting a few pics I have taken of the cards I have been making. I am playing with stamps, embossing powder, my cricut, stain glass paints, watercolors (still working the bugs out on my pens though), you name it and I am probably looking into it. I am all over the place when it comes to making cards. I even made stationary for the family for Christmas.

If anyone out there is using metal to emboss with a stylus...let me know where I can go get some heavier metal. I remember seeing it in Hobby Lobby and Michael's but they are no longer carrying it. I even went out to the big world of the Internet but have not found anything that is just under the thickness of a soda can. Foils are not thick enough and in my desperation, I tried a heavy duty aluminum foil but that didn't work out so well....I am up for some tips.

Well it is sooo late and I have caught up on all my blogs that I have not been able to sit down and see what they have been up to lately. I am pooped now....but I will be back. I have so much to share with everyone.

Field Trip from Hades....

Denver finally had the field trip today that he had been waiting for the last two months. Only problem is...there was his bully nightmare on his team during the field trip. So Mr. Bully decided to punch Denver in the face and I got a phone call at work to come pick him up. I get there and he is crying because he has to leave, so I had worked down in the Stockyards in the Drug Store long ago so I took him on his own personal field trip. I mean think about it, he gets hit in the face and has to leave the class field trip yet Mr. Bully finished the trip with the class. His class was not allowed to go through the museum but he got to since it was just the two of us. They also told the kids to bring money to spend in the shops along the strip but didn't allow any of them in the stores. So he got to go through all of them and spend his money. I took a couple of pics while we were there so I will be scrappin those later. Kim gonna need that cowboy kit for it...no pressure. LOL. I also found out that they were taking all of next weeks end of school events from him. So when we got home, I called the school. I made my comments, ok, my complaints and needless to say they would rather him finish out next week at school because I figured if he can't be involved then I would just check him out since we are moving school districts anyway. So looks like all will work out for Denver but I did lose a day at work because I had to drive back into Ft. Worth to pick him up. We did need to spend some time together and we had a great time just the two of us.

I am putting together the first set of elements for the Bundle of Joy-All about Girls together now and will be posting them shortly.

Take care,
Missie

Texas Egg Hunt Paper #2

Happy Monday Everyone,

Here is the second set of papers for the Texas Egg Hunt.

Download here

Have fun and if you don't mind email a layout that you complete so that I can show someone else besides my crew.

I went back to work today and not much was different but did enjoy the time that Kim and I were able to spend catching up on Scrap stuff and our families. I figured I would come home to a destroyed home because all the boys (all six) are out for Spring Break but surprisingly all was well even the animals seemed calm. Lets hope they can make it through tomorrow like they made it through today. The only way to explain the total chaos in my home is to imagine standing in the middle of a large chicken coup with a bucket full of feed. These guys are like vultures after fresh road kill or a group of ants stumbling upon a family picnic. I swear they can smell when I have money on me and they drain all of it out of my pocket then ask whats for dinner while eating some kind of sweet treat in their mouth. It is like 8 soap operas playing at the same time on the same channel. Get the picture yet??? The picture below sums it all up...

Have a great night and keep all of them in your prayers because oh forget it...just pray for me and Jason at this point. What were we thinking????

Love..it is blind to the real situation sometimes.

I wouldn't change it because think of all the spoiling I will get to do when they have kids..hehehe..Grandma's got lots of candy and sugar before you have to go home and here is an airsoft gun with 5000 pellets to go with it, be sure to shoot them in Mommy and Daddy's house they will love it when you do this. Oh the plans I have for my Grandkids...

The Ex Got One on Me....

You know how you buy gifts for kids that will annoy the parents. Well the ex got me this time, and its Friday and don't think he won't hear about it. Who in their right mind would give my boys airsoft guns?? Well the Ex did and sent them home 2 weeks back with a mason jar full of these little annoying balls. Not only have they shot each other with them but where shooting themselves inside the house. My floors have this neon orange glow to them because there are so many of them. I found them in the top of the stove, the sink, in the dog bowl (sure the dog will appreciate that later) The only entertainment that these things have brought me is when you throw one across the tiled floor the cats go nuts..hours of cheap entertainment for me. I guess I should be thankful that he didn't send them home with paintball guns...hey wait a minute, now there's an idea...next visit with Dad, I am sending them fully loaded with paintballs and guns. Good luck to them with that mess. I finally pulled out the shop vac to suck all these little annoying balls up with and when I say hundreds of them, I am serious, there are hundreds of them around the house. See what I get when I am sick. The boys may come home to find Mom in camo in the house, playing sniper with the airsoft gun because this is just insane at how many there are and where I am finding them. Wish them luck on dodging Mom's accurate aim. Thank God for Weapon training in the Navy, I can handle this assignment. Bet they won't find it fun anymore...NO MOM, I am not really going to shoot the boys with the airsoft gun, but man this is out of control.