WE GOT SOUP!!!

My Best Friend and I purchased the "Alpha-Soup" Multi-Colored 184-piece Acrylic Letter Kit today on QVC - it was such a great deal that we couldn't pass it up (that's what we all say right?). What makes it even better, it was almost like we were shopping together. I miss shopping with my BBF Trina, even though we live far apart we always talk about scrapbooking. We both love the same stuff and always seem to buy what the other buys. It's bad - I always have to have what she has even though I know when we would scrapbook together we would share. I miss scrapbooking together. Miss you Trina my SCRAPBOOKING TWIN :-)

Check out the deal on QVC - normally the cans cost anywhere from $10.99 to 12.99, so I think this is a pretty darn good deal!

The set includes four cans of Alphabet Soup, each containing 46 solid color clear acrylic letters and numbers. The letters in each can vary in size, case, and style, creating a mix of upper- and lowercase letters in various fonts and scripts. Includes one can each of Blueberry Bisque (blue), Split Pea (green), Tomato (red), and Fiesta (bright pink). 184 total pieces.

Surf Side Room

So this past weekend we worked on Christian's room and I hope he loves it! The picture above is some of the fabrics we chose for it - just a sneak peak and I will unveil the final room when we are done. We are going with a surf side/Hawaii theme room - hope it's cool enough for an eleven year old. Steven built a bed and small entertainment/shelving unit. The kids come in July so we are quickly trying to get rooms ready. The girls room is basically staying the same but if we have time I would like to change out a few things in it and change the room color from purple to pink & orange - we will have to see if we have time since Steven will be going out of town for two weeks.
In other news Steven and I were talking this weekend and he mentioned that we have almost been here a year in Alabama that is! I was so shocked how quick time goes by! I miss Texas and my friends, but Alabama is growing on me. I know this summer won't be as hot/humid as Houston - that's one positive, also we don't have to drive 10-12 hours one way to get Katelyn for the summer.
Apprentice News - don't know if anyone is watching but last night I was so bummed I thought it was the final episode, nope have to wait till next week. Sean and Lee are in the final two and I hope SEAN WINS! Lee has just been darn lucky! My only fear is Sean picked Tammy to be on his final team and he has a crush on her and I hope that doesn't blind him to getting the job done. Fingers crossed for Sean - I hope he becomes the final Apprentice!

Quick Post

Hey everyone - thought I would leave a quick post. Anniversary was great - hubby said he was going to buy me jewelry for our anniversary but thought I would want to get my scrapbook area done. Of course he was right! We went to Home Depot and he was going to build me a storage system for all my stuff but we ended up finding a system that I really like which would not require him to build anything. It's the Mill's Pride Organizers I like the maple color. Would you know both locations here did not have the ones I want so we will have to check back each day this week to see if they get it in on their truck. I'm so anxious to get it, I can be so impatient at times. I'm going to surf the net to see if there is another store in the area that sells it. Well, gotta go and surf the net abit.

5 Year Anniversary

Today is my Five Year anniversary! Wow how time flies by. I remember this day as if it was yesterday! Our wedding was just perfect, everything I wanted it to be and more! Steven and I worked on every detail to make sure it was just what we wanted. I wish I could rewind and re-live this day. Our pictures were taken with a film camera vs digital, sure wished we had that then, so I am still trying to scan pictures in and have them forever. Five years later and I have still yet to scrapbook my pictures - I keep thinking there is always new product out and I want only the best for my album. I think that is an excuse!

Take time to Play!

I titled this post "TAKE TIME TO PLAY"! As a kid growing up I don't remember my Mum playing with me. I want to make sure I enjoy every moment with my daughter and have fun doing it. I don't want to waste my time worried about cleaning house, doing the laundry or watching tv - I want to take the time and play! I want to have fun! This was Mother's Day and we were playing with this ball trying to get it from each other. Steven would throw it towards us and we would try and be the first to get the ball. It was just FUN! I don't want to one day look back and say where did the time go.

I think I just came up with the title to my scrapbook page for these pictures!!!

The Martini Girls!

Anne came to visit for work and personal! We got to hang out after work and eat at Red Star Tavern - a first for both of us and unfortunately we weren't wowed by the food. We wished we stuck with Bone Fish and ate there. We did try a Martini each. I had the chocolate - since I'm a chocolate lover and Anne had the Summer Breeze. I wasn't too crazy about mine - I thought my experience would feel like I was just drinking pure chocolate. It basically tasted like a white russian to me.

Cheers to my Chocolate Martini

Anne enjoying her Summer Breeze - it was good ( I got to try it!!)

Now we saved the best for last which was probably my favorite out of the whole meal! Chocolate Chip Sundae! Can you say DELICIOUS!

We split this.. it was so yummmy.

In other news... I don't know if you noticed or not but I got my hair cut! About 5 inches and I just love the cut. When the girl styled it - it was so ugly! She used a freaking small curling iron on it and it looked like I had a curl patch around my head! I think next time I get a horrible hair style I will have to take a picture of it just so I can look back and laugh about it. I was considering looking for a new person but I actually love the way she cut it so I will give her another chance. I might even have enough guts to tell her I didn't like the way she styled it!

Soul Patrol!

Well, American Idol is over and now America knows Taylor Hicks is the idol. I was really cheering for Katharine. I totally missed the show last night because my best bud, Anne from Atlanta was here and we went out to dinner. I did get home in time to watch the last five minutes of the show and see Taylor announced as the winner. I wished I got to see all the performances - I read about them and I was like darn - should of recorded it! Oh well - I enjoyed hanging out with Anne more anyways - it was good seeing her!

Katelyn's School Program

Katelyn's last day of school was last Friday. The school had a ceremony on Friday and handed out awards and did their kindergarden graduation. Katelyn is on the school dance team and they did a performance. She also received an awarded for "A,B" honor roll. While I was there I got a picture of her with her teacher who is super sweet! I can't believe my daughter is going to be a fifth grader next year! I'll try not to think about it just yet! ahhh.....

Surgery Update

Mom's surgery last week went well - they removed the lump. The cancer was considered evasive, so they decided to schedule a biopsy for the lymph nodes - that happened this past Tuesday. I t was determined that there were no cancer cells in the lymph nodes, if there had been Mum would of had surgery again to remove them. Today they go for a final check up and decide on radiation treatment - hopefully that won't happen. All the waiting was the worse - you just want to know immediately what's going on and what to expect. Thanks for all your prayers and phone calls! You guys are the best!

AMERICAN IDOL!

There's four more shows and only three finalists remain! Tonight, they'll sing a song of their choice, a song chosen by the judges and a song chosen by legendary music producer, Clive Davis. Don't miss a note, starting tonight at 8/7c!

Surgery Day...

Mom just went into the operating room to get her fibroid with the cancer removed. They will hopefully have the results within the week to discuss what type of cancer it was. I'm not too terrible worried about it because cancer doesn't run in our family but I know there is a slight chance. Right now I'm just trusting in God and putting my faith there as I say a prayer for my Mum's surgery.
We went out to dinner last night with my parents to this Thai restaurant. Mum loved it, we all raved about the spring rolls. So tonight Dad promised her spring rolls and chicken & rice soup. We picked on Mum because her doctor asked her if she likes instructions, verbal - visual or written and she said verbal. We all laughed about that because sometimes you will be talking to her and she's not paying attention and she will just agree with you. Then later on you will refer back to that conversation and she doesn't remember it. I tested her this morning and she wasn't paying attention LOL.

The Shock

Found this picture online - you can see how they both are shocked at the outcome and how abrupt Ryan announced it.

Boy did I have it wrong...

The world has come to an end... Chris was voted off last night. I think everyone was shocked! What's with Ryan Seacrest? - the way he announced it was so sudden I even think Katharine was surprised. I don't know whether to scream, cry, kick or boycott the rest of American Idol. So all my votes will go to Katharine for the rest of the competition.

Goodbye Chris - we will not forget you!

Someone is making some money....

Gas prices are insane!!! I don't care what anyone says.... someone out there is making lots of mula$$$$$$ I went yesterday to get some gas and paid $2.99/gallon! My total bill

$53.85!!!!!!!!!!! That's alot of money!!! I could come up with alot of things I could get for that much money! It's funny now I'm more conscience of how much driving around I will do. I occassionally like to go home at lunch but I'm thinking maybe I should hang around work and eat my lunch. I can go two weeks on one tank of gas if I don't do too much driving around. When is this going to stop! I thought $2.50/gallon was expensive!

I went yesterday to Hobby Lobby to check out their sale (I know BF - we weren't going to do that), but I was on Adriennes site and saw all the goodies she got at Hobby Lobby and couldn't resist. I was however disappointed, my Hobby Lobby didn't have as many goodies for rub-on letters. So I left hobby lobby with a $14 bill and five dollars of it was my adhesive refill. Nothing great to even take a picture of and share *pout*. Check out Adrienne's site she has a super cute page on today's post!!!

Now I need to get some work done - the weather here is horrible. Looks like it's time to go home outside, it's so dark. Hope it clears up by lunch - I hate looking out my window at such a dark & rainy day!

American Idol talk...

I wasn't too crazy about last nights performances... I'm too much of an Elvis fan so I was critical of everyone's singing - like I'm some pro right?? You don't want to hear this chick singing in the shower!! They were just okay.. I am curious to see who is going to get voted off??? I'm thinking Taylor?? Elliott sure got some good kudos from the judges last night. Can't believe my girl Katharine skipped her lines, notice I didn't say forget! She started off with "Hound Dog" and "All Shook Up", her second song was "Can't Help Falling in Love". It will be interesting to see who becomes America's next Idol! Chris & Katharine are still my top picks!

Lazy Weekend....

Our weekend consisted of my butt on my couch! Friday DH got home from a week long trip out of town. We decided when he got in to go to the movies and see Mission Impossible III opening night. We got to the theater at 9:45 and there was a 10pm and 10:30 show - I was worried that the 10pm show would be full and we would have to hunt for a seat. We decided to chance it and went straight to our seats and decided hubby would go and get popcorn once we were seated. When we walked into the theater to our surprise there were only like 20 people in there and the radio station was giving away free t-shirts and movie poster! So we lucked up and got two free t-shirts and a poster. The movie was really good - I enjoyed the first two and didn't doubt this one, even though I have been unsure of Tom's actions lately especially with this Katie thing going on. I seriously thought is was a show and he was just doing that to get some attention. I mean I didn't actually think they would have a child together, I'm still puzzled by the whole thing.

Saturday I got up and watched Pirates of the Carribean - Johnny Depp & Orlando Bloom are both hot in this movie and then I watched Troy after that. I LOVE ME SOME BRAD PITT!! wooo....... Still mad he is having a child with Angelina Jolie and that they are together! *pout* Brad & Jennifer were super cute together!

Sunday finally left the house to do something with ourselves and went and played tennis and hit the grocery store. We're trying to be more conscience of what we eat. We got home and grilled some salmon and veggies. We're both on a lose weight - get fit plan. Just hope I can stay away from the sweets! I wish I could be that age again where you can eat whatever you want and not gain an ounce! It sucks getting old and passing your thirties and having to work hard on your figure and weight - What's with that???

AMERICAN IDOL TONIGHT!!!! WHO DO YOU WANT TO WIN??? I'm digging Chris & I do like Katharine as well. They are singing Elvis songs this evening - The King is in the house!!!
Let's have Idol talk tomorrow!!!! I can't wait to see what Elvis song each is going to sing.

Celebrity Siting

My DH is at the airport in North Carolina and he met Edward Walker from Trading Spaces. He asked him for his autograph and also got a picture with him. What a husband - he said he was thinking of me and thinking I could scrapbook it!

Page Completed this week.

I have a confession...

I have a confession that I will only share with my blogger friends and you will understand why only you. Steven went out of town this week, he flew out Sunday morning and will return today. Well, when he left I decided I would buy myself a
Pepperidge Farm Cake - COCONUT CAKE! YUM YUM YUM........sinful..sinful..sinful... and I wonder where those extra love handles come from? I must admit I indulged in this cake every night! But you want to know the funny story! On Tuesday night I go to my Mum's house for dinner and she surprises me with a Pepperidege Farm Coconut Cake - I couldn't bare tell her that I already bought one so I had cake at her house two nights this week and cake at my house! that was alot of cake! Mum cooked dinner every night this week so I didn't have to worry about dinner each evening - that was nice. Well, next week I will go through cake withdrawls and will try and discipline myself to workout! Hopefully I don't go crazy during my withdrawls...

The Results

Yesterday after work I went home and my parents picked me up to go out to dinner. I called Mum earlier before I got off work to find out how her doctors appointment went and she said she would tell me when she saw me. Pure terror entered my mind and my heart was racing, I was almost afraid to even think what happened? I went home and tried to remain calm, spoke with my best friend and told her my Mum seem to be acting strange - maybe it was my imagination? They picked me up and the first thing I asked was how the appointment went? She said that she could tell when the doctor entered the room it wasn't good news, my Dad went with my Mum as well. The doctor is sending my Mum to another doctor. The knot/lump was fibroid but there was a cancer spot on it. So this next doctor will either take another biopsy or just remove the lump all together and test it for what kind of cancer. Luckly this was detected this early because the cancer doesn't even show up on the mammogram. I will not let this make me think anything bad - I am going to remain positive and pray for a good outcome. My parents both seem very positive about it so that did give me some comfort.

We went out to dinner last night at Carrabbas - they have the BEST house salad and crab cakes. Dinner was yumm... after I told my parents about Cold Stone Creamery - Mum and I shared a scoup of ice cream, their portions are big. They both loved the ice cream and all the varieties they had to offer. It was a delish evening of food! When we first got out of the truck I noticed that my wallet wasn't in my purse - I about freaked out and my parents were trying to be calm and help me out. All I could say was "I don't want to talk about it" , I just wanted to enjoy the rest of the evening with my parents and then worry about my wallet when I got home. I had a feeling it was in my car from lunch time but the thought of losing it was still in the back of my mind. They took me home and waited in the drive way to make sure I found it, I went straight to my car and there it was sitting on my passenger seat THANK GOODNESS!!!

Kiss The Nurse

So like I wanted so badly to kiss the nurse! I went with my Mum to a doctors appointment. She was getting a mammogram because she felt a lump in her breast. They ended up taking a biopsy while we were there. My mum was talking to the nurse in the back and my age came up - she could not believe I was 32. Okay first I need to talk to my Mum because I'm not technically 32 until September, but the nurse was floored. She thought that I just graduated from high school and starting college - should I believe her or was she just trying to make my Mum feel good and take her mind off of the procedure they were doing? For what it's worth! I don't care because she thought I was YOUNGER!!! WOO HOOO... don't get those compliments anymore. I remember being 25 and people thought I was like 19 or 20 and I so hated it and wished that I looked my age - well of course now that I have hit the 30's I wish for someone to question my age, funny how that works out! So when the nurse was telling me this I just wanted to grab her and kiss her - I'm sure she would of been floored if I did that so I reframed and just walked away feeling ten feet tall.
We will find out tomorrow about the biopsy - the doctor felt confident that it wasn't anything because when they were taking some to examine, the knot was getting smaller.
Please keep my Mum in your prayers!

Page Posted on Yahoo Group

My page was chosen to be posted on the Alabama Scrapbooking Yahoo Group homepage! How cool is that!!! The other pages that were submitted were awesome! I am totally honored to have my page picked! Thanks ladies - also if you are in Alabama or surrounding states you should totally join the yahoo group. The group is abunch of fun women with alot of info to share! THANKS!!!! CathyVal

Happy Monday

I had a nice weekend even though it rained off and on. Katelyn & I did abit of shopping on Saturday - I just love getting a good deal. JC Penny's had some awesome sales, I got Katelyn a few shirts for the summer. I'm having the hardest time finding nice dresses for a ten year old! I went to every store and maybe I'm abit old fashion - I don't know but they were either too frilly for a ten year old or too mature looking for a ten year old. Don't know what I'm going to do about this dilema, I need to continue looking around or else I will have to go with a skirt and shirt. Saturday evening we went to the tennis courts and Steven and I tried to give Katelyn some direction on how to hit the tennis ball and she wanted to do it her way. So on Sunday her arm was sore from trying to swing the heck out of the tennis racket - you would of thought she was trying to hit a base ball. We did make a rule, if you hit it over the fence you had to get it yourself. She did make a few trips LOL

Sunday Katelyn and I went to the movies to watch the movie "RV" with Robin Williams. It was a pretty funny movie I have to admit. I got several good laughs. The movie topped number 1 over the weekend!

We had another weekend full of English Pancakes LOL Katelyn is addicted!

Steven is out of town all week, so I hope to get some good scrapbooking in. Dinner at Mum's house all week - no dirty dishes for me -yeah!! Gotta love this week! House is clean -almost! No cleaning up after anyone!