Donations Anyone?

So, this wonderful lady at work's daughter found out she had a brain tumor. She has surgery this morning to remove the tumor. All went well, unfortunately she is one of the many Americans who are uninsured. I am posting the link to her blog here where there is another link to donate money. If anyone can donate anything I know they would appreciate it greatly. Vicky is such a fun lady to work with and it is terrible to see her and her family going through such a tough time.

Here is the link

http://hollysbrainblog.blogspot.com/

No more waiting because....

SHE IS HERE!!!!

Mandy and Cory had their beautiful baby girl Wednesday, August 12, 2009. She was born at 1:34 weighing 7 lbs 13 oz and 20 1/2 inches long. She has blonde hair and is absolutely beautiful. She looks so much like her daddy but she has a lot of Mandy in her as well. She is a perfect combination. Cory doesn't want her to look like him. He wants her to look like her mommy. They have decided to name her Taylor Elizabeth Whetton. I will post more pictures besides the one on the sidebar when I get home.

That's all for now.

Well, there are a few posts for now. I haven't had much motivation or time to post lately. School is getting to me. I don't know if it is stress or what but I have been so tired lately and getting headaches. I must be making myself sick or something. Earlier this month I had a migraine and was throwing up. So hard in fact that I burst a few capillaries in my face and a couple BIG ones in my eyes. Just this last week I got sick again. Sarah burnt some popcorn Monday night and the whole house stunk. I was already having a bad day and stressed to my max with school. Well I had to get out of the house because I was starting to get really sick from the smell. Well, needless to say thirty minutes later I was home and throwing up again. So much harder this time that I broke many more capillaries in my face. This time all on my forehead, around my eyes, on my nose, my chin, and down my neck a little bit. I looked diseased. It really scared me because I couldn't stop. I had to quickly drink water out of the faucet just to have something to come back out. It got so bad that at one point I thought I might have been throwing up a little blood. Well, about thirty minutes later I finally stopped. I just haven't been the same all week. Even more tired than before. I can barely keep my eyes open and I haven't been able to get any school work done. Every time I open my book I want to fall asleep. I am just really ready to be done with school. Everytime I think about it I get anxiety. I just have no more motivation. Well, I guess I better try and get on my school work now. It is 10:30 and everything for the week is due at 11:59 and I have done nothing. Oh well, I don't even care anymore.

Pretty Rainbows

These pictures were taken July 12th. It had rained a bit that day and Jayden looked outside and pointed out the rainbow. Of course I had to grab my camera. There was actually two rainbows and they stretched forever. The sunset that night was beautiful as well.

Baby quilt

So this is the baby quilt we made Mandy. I didn't get a picture of the finished product so this is a picture of it right before we tied it.We found this kit at Sew N Save right after we found out her and Cory were having a girl. We didn't have time to get it quilted so we tied it instead. It turned out really cute. The back was green with white poka dots.

4th of July

So I let myself get behind on posting.

For the 4th of July I decided to take a little road trip alone. I drove up to Boise to visit a friend who I have not seen in a long time. It was a nice relaxing weekend just hanging out. I don't think I could ever live in Boise. I would miss our mountains too much. Downtown Boise is nice right around the campus. I love that the river goes right through town and there are some fabulous parks.

These first set of pictures are from the park. We stopped and got burgers at Five Guys. Wow what a burger. I got the regular cheeseburger which is TWO patties. The think that is cool about Five Guys is you tell them what you want on your burger and not what you don’t want. They have a nice list of things you can put on it and none of it is extra. The dog is Nicole’s pet poodle Oliver. What a funny dog very nice but very skittish. He hid behind Nicole half the time. He would let me pet him but only if Nicole was holding him. There were a couple of squirrels running around on the picnic benches and since I took a picture of a squirrel in Charleston I had to take one of the Boise squirrels.

Oh and I won $8 playing the lottery cards. Woohoo!! The grocery store down the street from Nicole's house actually has a vending machine that sells them. I thought that was hillarious!!!

If anyone watched or watches The Girls Next Door on E! then you know about Sprinkles cupcakes. Bridgette talked about them all the time. Well thanks to my cousin Andrea I found out they sell the mixes at Williams Sonoma. So we were at the mall in Boise and they had a Williams Sonoma store so we stopped in to see if they had them. Ta DAH!!! They did so we bought some. Can you say EXPENSIVE?!?!?! Oh well. They were yummy. Note: when making cream cheese frosting it is imperative that the cream cheese is still cold. If not the frosting is runny and doesn’t set up.

(My wannabe photography skills, ha ha if that is what you can call it.)

Wow!! I need to post something.

Ok I haven't posted in a while. I have stuff to post. Here is just a quick one. These pictures are from the Pleasant View Founder's Day fireworks. It is my cute cousins Emily and Megan playing with Jayden, Riley, and Jaycee. I just loved the sunset in the background. I took these with my cell so they are not the greatest.

Thanks to Andrea who helped me figure out how to get the pictures to upload in order to use bighugelabs.com to create this mosaic picture tile. I love that site.