It's Sunday!

Fall may be upon now. The days are gorgeous and the nights are cool. I am happy and hope it stays like this for a while!

I hope you're all having a good weekend. We're off to the zoo today. We wanted to go while we had an available day and before they started shipping the animals off for the winter.

Have a great day!

Good Saturday morning!

It's sinking in that the Cubs are going to the playoffs...



I had a crop last night and got to meet one of my on-line friends in persons - Monica. We started e-mailing about a year ago. She's so sweet, fun and easy to talk to! I had a great time and am so glad I got to meet her and hope we can get together again soon!



I actually got quite a few cards made and did a few layouts. Here's a collage that I did this morning:

I'll get some of my other creations posted soon.

I hope you all have a great weekend! HUGS!!!

YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

They did it! They did it!!!!!! Thank you, San Diego Padres!

My Cubbies are going to the playoffs!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

TGIF!!!!!

It's FRIDAY!!!!!!!!!!!!
I missed posting yesterday....so much for every day this week.
Not a whole lot is going on here.
Here are a couple of digital layout I've done this week.

It's Wednesday!

Yes, the week is almost half over.

The Cubs lost last night and Milwaukee won - NOT GOOD!!!!!! We now only have a 2 game lead... (sigh, bite nails) We MUST, MUST, MUST win!!!!!!!!!!

A bit of good news this morning...when I got to work, my name is #2 in the playoff ticket lottery. Now, if the Cubs go to the playoffs, I'm second in line for a ticket. Crossing fingers...

Hope you're all having a good week!
GO CUBS!!!!!!!!!!!

My week, so far....

As you know, we went to the Cubs game on Sunday. They beat the Pirates, 8 - 0. :) It was great! The energy in that park was amazing, we've been several times, but never had it been like it was on Sunday. There was a lot of scoreboard watching (Atlanta vs. Milwaukee) and lots of cheering as Atlanta won. When the game ended, no one left - it was crazy! The fans usually run for the exit but we stayed and clapped and cheered. Some of the players came back out and waved. It was just amazing!

If you want to see something funny, tell a 3 year old at a baseball game that the Pirates are on the field. She asked where the Pirates were and where their boat was. We were rolling!

Monday was a pretty ok day. You know, for a Monday... It was hot though. Who would have thought 90 degrees on September 24? Crazy...

We shall see what today brings.
Have a GREAT Tuesday!

What's your name?

1. your rock star name (first pet & first car).
Ribsy Chevrolet
2. your gansta name (fav ice cream flavor, favorite cookie).
Dulce de Luche Chocolate Chip
3. your “fly girl” name (first initial of first name, first three letters of your last name).
JMCG
4. your detective name (fav color, fav animal).
Blue Bear
5. your soap opera name (middle name, city where you were born)
Michelle DeKalb
6. your Star Wars name (first 3 letters of your last name, first 2 letters of your first).
JENMC
7. superhero name (”the” + 2nd fav color, fav drink).
The Red Water
8. nascar name (the first names of your grandfathers)
Milford William
9. stripper name ( the name of your fav perfume/cologne/scent, fav candy).
Cotton Snickers
10. witness protection name (mother’s & father’s middle names ).
Ann Leonard
11. tv weather anchor name (your 5th grade teacher’s last name, a major city that starts with the same letter).
Partridge Prescott
12. spy name (your fav season/holiday, flower).
Autumn Daisy
13. cartoon name (fav fruit, article of clothing you’re wearing right now + “ie” or “y”).
Peach Shirty
14. hippy name (what you ate for breakfast, your fav tree).
Cereal Oak
15. your rockstar tour name (”the” + your fav hobby/craft, fav weather element + “tour”).
The Scrapbook Sun Tour

How about you? I've seen a few people do this on their blogs already.

PS: The Cubs WON yesterday, but more on that in tomorrow's post - I'm still riding the happiness high.

Happy Monday!

The challenge has begun...

My friend, Andie (hi, sweetie!) has challenged us to blog EVERY DAY this week! Hopefully, I can do it!

Happy First Day of Fall!!!!! It's pretty warm here for almost the end of September but I think the cooler weather is coming... We walked around campus yesterday and a lot of the trees are getting their yellow and orange colors - I LOVE it!!!!

We're off to the Cubs game today and as we leave - here are the current NL Central standings:

Team W L PCT GB
Chi Cubs 82 73 .529 -
Milwaukee 79 75 .513 2.5
St. Louis 72 82 .468 9.5
Cincinnati 71 84 .458 11.0
Houston 68 87 .439 14.0
Pittsburgh 66 89 .426 16.0

Maybe this is the year! We're SO close!!!!!!!!!!!!!! If we can win again today and Atlanta can beat Milwaukee, it would be another game apart....

I hope you have all had a good weekend and enjoy your Sunday!

Stop the world, 8 PM

My wonderful son called me at work to tell me that his homecoming date backed out on him. Ugh...as much as I hated to see him date, I hate even more that he is nursing a wound in his pride. I feel terrible! He said another guy that she wanted to go with asked her so she told Ryan that she couldn't go with him. Man...

Stayed tuned, I'm sure there's more to come...

Stop the world, I want to get off!

WAIT! I don't think I want to be the mom of a high schooler anymore! I have used my paper bag to breathe into so many times this week.

It's official, he has a date for homecoming. A DATE!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Wait, when did he get old enough to date? So, because neither of them or the other couple they're going with have their licenses, guess who offered to drive. YEP!!! Don't think I wasn't going to let that opportunity slip by...

Ryan truly is enjoying high school and I'm grateful for that! He likes his classes, teachers and talks about all his friends all the time. I just still can't believe he's in high school. I remember crying on his first day of kindergarten!

Okay, sorry!

A little update on Sara. The whole fixing the glasses things has become a huge ordeal! Of course... Pearle is stating that her protection plan expired in April. Hmmm...no one notified us it was expiring and when we bought it in August of 05, it was for 3 YEARS!!! Do the math. So, because the refuse to reinstate said plan, we are trying to decide whether to pay for the lens to be replaced (daycare is paying part) or just to do her eye exam and be done with all of it. Good grief!!!!!!

We are off the Cubs game on Sunday. GO CUBS!!!!!!!!!! It would be just fantastic if the Brewers would just lose all their games. Too much to ask????

Hope you all have a great weekend!
HUGS!

Movie reviews

So I've actually watched a few movies the past couple of weeks...
I was ok with this. Funny, touching, you know...until the last 5 minutes. Huh? Did you not know how to end this????

Yeah...the only 2 good things about this movie - Sandra Bullock's hair and when it ended. An hour & a half of my life I will never get back...

I have seen this one a few times and LOVE it! I could watch this movie over and over and still cry.

What movies have you seen lately?

So much for the quiet evening...

Sara took a face dive onto the blacktop at school yesterday. The quiet evening I had planned at home for tonight, will now be spent at Pearle Vision replacing the scratched lens on her glasses. Can you tell I'm excited???? She got a few little scratches on her nose and forehead and her glasses bruised the bridge of her nose but she's ok.

It was fall here but it has suddenly warmed up. Mid 80s yesterday and more of the same today. Ummm, hello? I'm ready for fall. I said FALL NOT winter!!!!!!!!!!

My Cubbies are going to give me a heart attack. I wish they would just win and win big, none of this heart attack 9th inning stuff...ugh! Milwaukee needs to lose all their games this week and the Cubs need to win all theirs. We are off to the game on Sunday and hoping for a win!

Hope you all are having a great week!
HUGS!

Hi!

WOW! What a week...
My brother was here for a visit so we spent some time with him. I had a work trip for a couple of days this week. I don't know where last week went to...
The weather is turning cool. Fall is coming! : ) Some of the trees are starting to turn.
I have been on a scrapping roll and gotten some more done.
I will try to give a bigger, rambling update soon!

Paper Scrapping

Yes, I've gotten some scrapping done lately... I went to a crop last night and got almost 10 pages done! I am at 95 paper pages for the year and I haven't kept track of my digital pages.

Digital Scrappings