Crayons, Playdoh & Wax

So we are coming out of work and F says to me, that’s not how to get to gandma’s house. I said, oh, do you want to go to gandma’s house… realizing she would be asleep in about 30 seconds anyway… and it was almost time for J to get home from work. So we head for Belinda’s house. (and of course I was right, she was asleep before I turned the corner).

I bring F in the house put her in bed and then hollar for Belinda’s son Don, who is home. A few minutes later he comes up the stairs to tell me he just got word that his grandpa died today. Of course my first thought is how Belinda is in England… and then where is Jeani and we are NOT going to tell her when she is driving. I hang out and wait for J to get home… and in the mean time, I go into my prayer request mode. I called the church to get them praying, and then I called Belinda’s little sister, because I knew she wouldn’t have her sister to talk to right then and I wanted to make sure she was ok. Jeani got home from work and her brother, D, breaks the news and as I knew she would, she melted down. She did get to talk to B, who still doesn’t know what she is going to do. It is 9:30 over there… so it is about bedtime, but I figure she won’t be sleeping real soon.

Please keep them in your prayers, the whole family. Especially Belinda as she tries to decide to come home early or stay or what she needs to do for her and her family. Thanks.

God does truly amaze me. If I hadn’t listened to F today, I wouldn’t have been here for Jeani or D or any of this. He just seems to put us where we need to be when we need to be… providing we listen!!!

So I spent the whole weekend doing nothing but Emmaus stuff… or so it felt. Saturday, which was absolutely beautiful… again, I was inside all day at a team meeting for the June Walk. We even got out early, and I swear within 10 minutes of getting home, the temp dropped by about 20 degrees and it started snowing before dark. It is just wrong!! Oh, but I am really excited… one of the ladies that was in my now defunct reunion group is working the June walk. I haven’t seen her or spent any time with her since… since My walk I think, which was 3 years ago this month. That is a long time. She had gone to school… and is now done and working and now working a walk. I am so excited… and the other God thing… she is one of my prayer partners… and the people who did the prayer partners had no clue we use to be in a RG together!!! God is so good!!

Sunday I got to go to bridal shower for my friend’s dd, who was in the youth group when I was a youth sponsor. Yes, I am past the feeling old part… that happened when Jeani had her baby almost 3 years ago (I was her confirmation mentor when she was in 8th grade :)) Then I left and went to the min x min for the walk next week. Yes, they have everything on a weekend broken down that close… making sure that stuff is where it needs to be when. it is an amazing thing.

And then last night I have my reunion group. I have missed these ladies… it has been too many weeks since we all actually made it!! We worked on stuff for the walk. I am so excited. Did I mention I am sponsoring someone??? My first time sponsoring someone I don’t really know. God is stretching me this time, that is for sure… It is going to be good!!

Today I went to a funeral for a wonderful woman who lead such a Christ centered life. It is so great to go to a memorial and have it be such a celebration. I hope my funeral is that nice when the time comes and that everyone says how I lived my life to Honor the Lord!!

I had applied to join a blog group over the weekend… and had to giggle when my reason for not being accepted was that I hadn’t had my blog going for over a month. I have had a blog so long… it just might have changed locations… but it has been a part of my life for so long!!! And if you google Crayons… I show up in the first 2 pages… or at least I use too… haven’t done it in a bit… but if you google Crayonsetc… it is all me… or links to me I emailed them back and said that must have been a problem from when I updated my wordpress and will fix it. I got it fixed now… so there are archives and a calendar and comments in the side bar… but when I tried to move them to different locations in the side bar, it just didn’t work…. so I put it back to where it started and will have to recruit some help from some friends I know html, but not too good with the php stuff!!!

Almost half way done until Belinda gets back from England. I am enjoying having F every day, but I have forgotten how tiring it can be having a 2 year old running around the house. I think having her here has cured the baby cravings… K is 10 years old now, do I really want to start over? Yes… and it is easier when you start from not crawling and work your way up!! Oh my goodness…. it is april. Oh, so not going there!!!

Oh, and I got a call about VBS tonight. I had told them that I would do whatever they need me to do… I had signed up to work with preschool. Today she asked if I would coordinate the preschool crafts. (figuring we need to do different stuff than the older kids). See, another God thing… cuz VBS is the same week as the June walk. Doing this… as long as i have it all coordinated, it won’t matter if I miss Friday! (and being conference room, I don’t have to be at the walk until 4 on Thursday, so I can still do Thursday morning stuff… this is June though, not next week!!) Life just seems to be getting crazy… or just busy. And this is without a job. I can’t imagine doing all this with a job… but I promised dh!!

So, go hug your loved ones, tell them how much you love them… and enjoy your day.

I found out over the weekend that a family friend died. She was closer to my parents, mostly because she moved to Phoenix only a few years before I got married, and then I moved away. Her dd and I were friends, but mostly cuz she was friends with my best friend. I guess it is kind of weird though… Mom pointed out to me that all my old friends will be in town this week for her funeral. Both Wendy’s live in New Mexico… just at opposite ends of the state (actually, her dd Wendy might even be in Southern Colorado, I just can’t remember the exact town… Now that I think about it, I think she is in Durango).

Sandy has had epilepsy her whole life, and recently they found out she had leukemia and she got an infection and on Friday she went to be with the Lord. The good news is, she is up dancing in heaven with her new perfect body, no more pain, no more seizures… What a celebration is going on!!!

Ok, this is a test run since I upgraded word press tonight to see if they fixed the paragraph issue. 

Otherwords, the dh wants me to explain it to him…. so I am going to write a post here, with lots of paragraph breaks

Happy Anniversary, yesterday to Clare & Michael. I never got even an email off to them… They celebrated #4. (and I have known Clare for over 30 years, thus the no excuse thing)

And Happy Anniversary to Kim & Tim, who celebrated #9 on the 3rd. At least I was only 1 day late for Clare, I am 2 days late for Kim

Ok, going to hit save now and see what happens. I just switched the html view and that alone is showing promise. Did I mention that this looks a whole lot different since they upgraded???? Now to save!

I am glad it is Friday, but man, this not feeling good is getting old. I am not throwing up, but man, nausea sucks!! And I hurt my elbow at kickboxing on Monday, doing triceps lifts. Not sure if I popped something or just twisted it wrong. I finally decided to make a doctors appointment because it hurts to lift the kids, but can’t get in until Monday. I got a bruise on my finger from getting clocked with a short stick (I was worried about the bruise cutting off circulation to my finger, because the end is colder than the rest) at karate last night. And since my doctor appointment is on Monday, I figure I will know one way or the other about the finger by then! And of course, the bruised finger is one hand, the elbow is the other.  

Belinda is still sick. She has been sick since the beginning of the year. Last week it was strep, but I am not convinced that is still the case. She has missed all 4 days at this point. I am really worried about her. she has never been this sick. She is normally the one who can go the whole year and not miss a day!! At this point, I have only missed 1 day being sick.   

Mom and Dad got their tickets to come up next weekend for K’s birthday. We are having a Build-A-Bear party. Man, if we hadn’t already given out invitations and put down our deposit, I sure would be spending that kind of money… we are so broke right now. But then again, turning 10 is such a big deal in a girls life. This last week I gave K my spare blow dryer. I said to her, guess what I got for my 10th Birthday… my first blow dryer. (Hey, back then it was a BIG deal). I had been talking to her about a curling iron, but she didn’t think she could do that on her own yet! I still haven’t figured out what I want to get her for her birthday. I want to get her something special, just from me (and maybe her dad) but not a toy. (not that I won’t get her a toy… but I want something special also) I still can’t believe 10 years ago today I was very much Pregnant and waiting to see her face!! 9 more days.

and I have to figure out why I have to manually put in all the paragraph breaks on this layout!!!

As I heard the news about Omaha, the first call I made was to Lonnie, since I know she loves to shop, and it turned out that it was the mall she likes to go too…. and then to the family friends who live up there. No answer on their phone, and their dd’s phone was disconnected, so I put a call to Mom. All are well.

Then we are watching Monk marathon this morning and dh decideds to check football scores, since we still have time before the Broncos and we see the scroll that said there is a shooting at New Life. Granted, we don’t go there, but we drive past it on the way to church, and Ken’s work, plus since it is local, we have a LOT of friends that attend there. This is just amazing. I am praying for all of the people at New Life, and especially for the people who lost a family member. I can’t imagine. I don’t know what I would do or if I would be able to go back if I had been there.

I think I know at least 1 person who has a birthday just about every day this week… and I know about 4 that have their first birthdays tomorrow Last year it was a popular day to have a baby. It starts with the dd’s best friend on Sunday, One of the kids that was a youth when I was a sponsor… yah, Donna’s son, has a birthday on the 16th. About the only day I don’t know of a birthday is the 17th :). My SIL, her niece, my bio paternal grandmother all have birthdays on the 18th. (Happy Birthday Kerry!!)… tomorrow is a given And Friday is K’s Half birthday, she is convinced we need to celebrate that, along with my friend Clare’s Dad’s birthday… and if I am not mistaken, it is Rose’s Mom’s birthday too… or is her’s on the 21st. See, they all start running together

I went to the ortho doc on Monday, that was a complete and total waste of time. I will post more on that over at Better Me.

Back in May, there was an accident at the Sky Sox game, and one of the VP’s was injured in a fireworks accident as they were getting things set up for the game (they shoot off fireworks every time the Sky Sox hit a home run). Anyway, it turns out that he is a neighbor of ours and his dd was one of the first friends K made when we moved in. Well, this past weekend, they did a Home Makeover on their house, and I was down there helping. His wife got to come home yesterday and see the house. The news was there and interviewed them, and do a human interest piece about everything that was done to the house.

Yesterday, one of the other neighbors and I spent the day making a scrapbook for them of the whole process… how it started, and what all was done. We have before and after pictures and pictures of everyone who was there to help. I was really impressed at how quickly we got pages whipped out yesterday… considering how many pictures. We kind of started an assembly line… I did the layouts and D glued them down. I am going to take pictures of the album and put it up on Crafty Crayons when I get it all done. I have the ‘friends’ section and then all the pictures of the home coming and BBQ to do… D was suppose to get those printed out today. And the coolest part is that Rai gets to come home tomorrow. What a cool birthday present!!

I got the last of my rose bushes in the ground tonight… finally. It actually had a rose ON IT, when I put it in the ground. I am only down to the veggies. I got the ground started tonight, but then it tried to rain. Maybe tomorrow.

Have a great night… I am off to work on the rest of my birthday post… I had it started since last week.

Oh man, today was an interesting day. I spent most of the day down the street. Back on Mother’s Day weekend, one of our neighbors was in a really bad accident (he works for our triple A baseball team and there was a fireworks accident). Anyway, he has been in the hospital and now rehab, so friends and neighbors decided to do an extreme make over type thing on their house. I ended working out in the front in the flower bed. When I got home I figured I might as well put a bunch of my flowers in the bed out front. As I sat down on my yard seat and proceeded to fall of and land flat on my face, after hitting my rt arm, which is the arm that Im seeing the ortho doc for on Mon. Time to go find an ice pack.

(BTW, there are 3 posts about this last week… so you might want to scroll down first)

So this past weekend, we went to Omaha. My mom’s best friend moved there about 3 years ago. This past Spring break, her oldest daughter and family moved there as well. It was really nice for them. They got a cute little house, for half the price of their apartment in California… in a not great neighborhood. Michele told me that I she was getting married, and I had told Ken, that we could just reverse the direction of our vacation (we were starting at Yellowstone and going to Mt. Rushmore… so this way we could start at Rushmore and go to Yellowstone)… That was before Ken got hurt. So, we were going to go to Texas… but Ken’s month of July went crazy, so he made me a deal, we would go up for the weekend for the wedding and go to Texas for Thanksgiving.
Well, apparently Saturday was a REALLY popular day for weddings. I didn’t hear the stats, but I am guessing they ran close to a Valentines Day number. It is a cool date… 07-07-07. My friend Clare did that back in 04… 04-04-04… it was a Sunday. I am thinking that last year, there weren’t many people getting married on June 6! I know I wouldn’t have wanted those numbers. Next up will be a crazy day in August

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The 4th was a fun day. We decided that we wanted to go to the parade up in Monument, since we were heading up to Denver for the afternoon anyway, and it was on the way. I was getting really frustrated with Ken, trying to get him up. He told me later that he really wasn’t trying to sabotage us. We didn’t even start heading to Monument until 10:30, and it started at 10. I was thinking it would go until noon, but then Ken pointed out that it is a small town. I told K that I didn’t think we would get to see much, so did we even need to stop. She insisted we try. As we got closer there were signs for additional parking. I looked at Ken and said, ‘is it going to be that big?’ He was like, obviously they think so since they have extra parking with shuttles.

We go up and I find a parking place near the post office, since Ken decided to stay in the car. And an hour and a half later, K and I finally came back to the car Yup, my first instinct was right and it lasted til noon… actually til 12:15. Thankfully we had brought drinks with us. While I was there, I saw a really cool shirt. This girl was wearing a shirt that said “Land of the free… BECAUSE of the brave” It had a flag and stuff on it. When I shared it with Ken, he said it was the theme for the marathon that morning. Our pastor even referenced it in his weekly email this past week. He saw it on a bumper sticker. I love it. I was thinking as we were driving this weekend, that I want to print up a really nice paper that says Thank You, to have k put it in the window when we see someone with Veteran license plates. (Hey, you notice those things when you are playing the license plate game).

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