My Hobby

I think everyone knows that I enjoy doing digital scrapbooking...maybe a little to much. I have found a few web sites that host different challenges. One might be a font challenge where the host will tell you what font to use in your layout or another might be a scraplift where you look at another scrapper's gallery and try to make your own version of their lay out.

Here are my two latest layouts and I won $5.00 gift certificates to Funky Playground Designs for each one. I won last week for a scraplift.... I just found out that I won this week with this entry.... I do enjoy going shopping with gift certificates.

What a year!

Baseball season is officially over. I have no idea on what direction the team will go in the future. If Mitchell wants to play, I hope that they would consider us. He is a great ball player and I think really showed his "stuff" this weekend. We were so proud of each of those boys out there this weekend. We were short staffed and everyone pulled more then their weight and did the job that they were asked to do. Win the STATE Championship.


Thank you coaches for a great year.

Way to go 2009 10U AA State Champions...Arizona Vandals.

I hate

saying goodbye. Wow, the hits just keep on coming don't they.

Ok, I'm showing off now

Here are some scrapbook pages I have completed in the last few months.

Summer Nights

Tonight is a great example of why I love summer nights. The boys started an impromptu poker game.

Even Oscar joined in the fun.

Just in case any of you play poker with Toby....this is his poker face.


By the way, Toby won.

Travel

We are leaving soon to head to Riverside Ca. We will have a small service tomorrow morning and then head to the cemetary. Granny will be laid to rest in the same area as Grandpa in the National Cemetary. We will have a luncheon at the Mission Inn and then head home.

September 28, 1918 - May 3, 2009

It is what she did in that - that counts. Granny was a wonderful daughter, sister, wife, mother, grandmother and great-grandmother.

We miss her funny little "Grannyisms" and her stories. She was a wonderful story teller.

Granny

Wow, it has been over a week since I visited here. So much has gone on that I can't remember all the details.

Granny is in her final days/hours of her life now. We have been giving her 24 hour care since last Friday. I am here at Mom's most of the day and then will do part of an overnight stay.

Grace is with Patty and Jake and is having a blast. I brought her over to see Granny before she went to Kearney. We took this picture of the three of us. Grace may be home tomorrow or by Sunday. I sure do miss her.

My cousin was here for a few days to help us and spend some time with Granny. I am so glad she came because it made it easier to divide the shifts into three. Miss you already Erica. She left yesterday afternoon and my aunt flew in last night. There is a chance some other family may come by the weekend.

Will try to update again soon.

We are the Champions X 2

Congratulations to the Fee's Middle School 2009 8th Grade Baseball Team.

Christopher and his team won the championship for their school second year in a row. It was an exciting game as we were down 0 to 5 in the 5th inning. Chris started the two out rally that had Fee's back in the game. After 6 innings we were still tied so they did some sort of play were a runner starts out on second base. We were able to score one run in the top of the 7th which won us the game.

Easter Weekend

We started the Easter weekend with an egg hunt inside. We had rain on Saturday. Didn't stop us. We went to Granny's and Mom's for cinnamon rolls and egg hunting!

The candy eating starts!!

Saturday night we were invited to a Flash Light Easter Egg Hunt! We had a potluck dinner and then hunting we went! Grace really enjoyed holding the flashlight. I wish I would have brought my camera.

Sunday we headed up to Kearney to spend the day with the Jacobson Family. We enjoyed a very yummy dinner and the company of all. Mitch wasn't feeling well and slept the day away, but Grace kept us entertained.




Grandma Jake had called us early Sunday and asked if Grace would stay with her until Thursday. I had to think about that for about....yeah, it was a no brainer. I miss her.

Jim Gaffigan

We watched this guy on Comedy Central the other night. We were all laughing. It is refreshing to watch a comedian that can tell a story with out a beep button.

I hurt

I hurt everywhere and there isn't enough Tylenol to help dull the pain.

I feel as if my chest is burning and my head is spinning all day and night. My heart hurts for my sister. I wish I had a magic wand I could wave and make the hurt and pain go away for her. She is such a beautiful person inside and out. She deserves peace and happiness, not what she is going through.

Watching Granny decline is very difficult too. It is difficult to watch my mom when Granny gets so sick. To hear her say "Mama" is gut wrenching, but I wouldn't want to miss it for the world. I can't imagine what life is going to be like for us when Granny does go. I only hope my precious baby girl will take care of me as well as my mom has done for Granny.

To think of the medical future for my niece just breaks my heart. Our sweet 10 year old Becca, was recently diagnosed with Fabry's Disease . This is not a life threatening disease, but it is life altering. After tests are completed and she has a baseline for all her major organs she will start on Enzyme Replacement Therapy. ERT is an infusion will happen every two weeks for the REST OF HER LIFE. Again, I wish I had that magic wand.

I also hurt physically. I have never been in an accident that required air bags to go off...until Monday afternoon. I was heading home from school and I rear ended another car. Thankfully, the kids and I were strapped in so no one was hurt. I bruised my chest area from the seat belt and the air bags jammed my thumb. Things that will heal in time. We have the car at Toby's shop being repaired. I was one dent away from having the van totaled. $8900 worth of damage...Thank God for insurance.

Just writing this little post out, is making me feel better. Thanks for listening.

Baseball Update # 3

We had a disappointing day on Sunday. We lost both games to two teams that we have beat in the past. Anyways, we ended up 4th in this tournament.

Mitch played some in the outfield and had a real good at bat in the final inning of the 2nd game. He was proud of himself for that and so were we.

We will start playing in a league next weekend so we will be done with tournaments for a short while.

Now, off to a very disheveled house and a ton of laundry.

Baseball Update # 2

Vandals won both games today. We play tomorrow at noon. Not sure who we are playing. Mitch is discouraged since he isn't getting much playing time. I hope they are just saving him for tomorrow. We will see.

Baseball Update

Vandals played two games yesterday. We lost our first game 9-6 to the Chandler Renagades. Renagades is the team we beat to win the Championship in our last tournament. I have feeling we will be playing them again sometime in this tournament. We won 12-2 against the West Side Diablo's. There are teams from Minnesota and Seattle, but we get to play the Az. teams? I don't get it. It would be fun to play an out of state team.

Ok, it is now 5:34am and I need to go blow dry my hair to be ready to go in about 45 min. It is a good thing I love baseball because I am giving up some good sleep for this.

Have a great day! I will update today's out come later. We play at 8 am and then again later, but we don't know until we are seeded.