Christmas Cards for the Troops!

Im so excited tonight is almost here! Tonight my mom, sisters, and friends are coming over for a night of card making. My goal is to make 500 Christmas cards. We are making the cards for the men and women in Iraq to send back to their families during the holidays. We will contiune to make cards for all occasions throughout the year. Im really excited to be apart of this project! For me this is so close to my heart I have two friends in Iraq right now fighting for our country! My cousins husband is going to be in Iraq next year. I love him so much and pray for his saftey every morining and every night! I have already started making him cards to send to his family when he is in Iraq. I think it is so special to give or recive a homemade card. If you would like to know more about this prodject please let me know. Thank you for all your love and support!!!

It's been a long time!

I hadn't realized how long it has been since I have written anything. I have been crazy busy with life. My husband and I after a lot of prayer have decided that at the end of May he will quit Von's. It seems easy enough but when you really look deep into the situation its not as easy as it sounds. The Lord is really working on both of us to trust him completely. Right now he is only working 24 hours just enough hours to keep our benefits. He is also going to school full time and working at a hospital 2 days a week. He has no days off and its starting to show. In May he will be interning full time at the hospital for a whole year. Since it is an intern program they do not get paid for there work the program does give them a $300.00 stipin a month. He considered working at Von's Sat. and Sun. but that was never anything I agreed with. I now understand where he was coming from. He has never not had a job where he was being paid and he has been at Von's now for almost 10 years. He knows his job pretty well. Now he is going into a much more intense field a lot more demanding but at the same time way more rewarding in my eyes. The Lord has blessed him with a huge heart. I really believe that he (after his nerves settle down) will be a great example for the Lord. He has a gift to make people feel comfortable in times of stress and pain. I have always known it but I think he is now seeing it a little. When I had my spinal tap if that x-ray tech wasn't there to hold my hand and talk me through the procedure I probably would have knocked out the doctor who was sticking a very large needle into my spin telling me "don't worry its almost over." The hard part for him is that he has a wife and puppy to take care of and without his regular income that just wasn't OK to him. At the beginning of this semester he put me in charge of our finances. I wanted to show him that we would be OK. So I put together a presentation (it was like being in high school again) of monthly bills and stuff we could cut back on and so on. It was about a month later he came to me and we talked and he got a big smile on his face and said if I quit Von's I could go to family functions and we could do things together. I think he finally realized my point I was trying to make all along. Sat. and Sun. off for a whole year. Some people think I have made up a imaginary husband because they never get to see him. Everyone says "wheres frank?" and I always say "hes at work." We are very excited to see what the Lord has in store for us in the next year. We both know it wont be easy but with the Lord on our side we know we can get through it!

Happy Birthday La La

Happy 22nd birthday La La!!!!!!!!!!!
La La turned the big 22 years! Man do
I feel like I'm getting old!!!! My baby sister
is 22 man oh man. We took Lal out to Ruby's
for her birthday lunch. We had so much fun!




Cousin's are so much fun!!!
Ash I loved hanging out with you all week!!
We are just a couple of goof balls!




Mmmmmm Aunt Mishel that looks so good!
I still can smell how good our food was.
I'm craving a shake wanna have one with me?




The two baby boy cousin's stuffing there faces! It really amazes me how much food
two teenage boys can eat!







I didn't know pirates liked princess's.

We are a family!

Since I was at my moms on Valentines day this year we decided to celebrate the day of LOVE on Friday. I was so excited as Dash and I were driving home. I hadn't seen Frank for a little over a week and I had butterfly's in my tummy. I felt like i did when we were dating. So we had kinda talked about what we were going to do that day. Go out to lunch see a movie hand out and talk. When Dash and I got home we were greeted by my love and he helped me unpack the car, we put everything in the room on the bed. I like to unpack and get everything all situated but Frank said we had no time for that. When I turned around to put something on my dresser there were a dozen pink roses a box of candy(i am not going to eat that!) and a basket of lots of wonderful things! So I got my things together and started to walk out the door. Frank said aren't you missing something, I thought to myself for a second "nope" I said. Frank said "what about Dash." Now this day I was ready to spend with Frank but he had other plans I got all happy and said "what are we doing?" Frank said "you will see get dash and lets go." So we got in the car all 3 of us and proceeded on. I figured out we were going to Irvine park (that's our favorite park) we hadn't taken dash there yet. When we got out I took Dash for a short walk and Frank had a picnic all ready to go for the 3 of us. It was the best Valentines Day yet! We ate and talked about our week. Then we took dash over to the little lake and walked around it. We had so much fun!!! I think Frank is starting to think like a Daddy more. I love it I love it I love it!!!

Change is good!

I haven't had bangs since I was about 10. I hadn't even really been thinking about cutting my hair. When I got to my moms house I just thought I would call the place where she gets her hair done to see if I could get a trim. When I got there I told the hair stylist I want it to be a little darker than my natural color and I think I want bangs. She told me she thought I would look so cute. So I went for it. She colored it cut 2 inches off the back and then went for the bangs I got sick to my stomach as she was cutting because to me this was a big step. Well she showed me how to style it and all the different ways I could wear my hair. When I got home my mom and sister loved it! When my husband saw it he had a lot of nice things to say!!!! So this change is good get ride of the old and start something new that's how I look at it.

Two Cutties!

I was getting ready to print out all the pictures I am going to use for Dashes scrapbook and came across these two pictures! This picture was taken at Thanksgiving. They both had so much fun playing together. It was funny because I was so worried about Dash hurting or playing too ruff with my little Troy man. Ash was worried that Troy would be too ruff with Dash. These two guys are soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo cute!!!!

Busy Busy Busy!

I haven't been on in soooooooo long! This are very busy!! Please pray for me I will find out what is going on next week with my Vertigo. Things were getting better and then I got a sinus infection. It almost took me back to the beginning. I now have a scar on my sinus cavity. I see my specialist on the 8Th and I will find out if I can be released back to work. Another thing I need prayer for. My boss has offered me a directorship and its really exciting cause that's what i went to school for. I just want to do what is best for my relationship with the Lord and whats best for my family. Thank you for all the support and prayers. I found out that my heart is great! My doctor said my echo gram and my ultra sound of my Cardin was beautiful. So he cant pin point why I passed out again. I am starting to feel a lot better!