My New 'Do

Check it out! I cut bangs!!! Weird, I know. I told myself after the last fiasco in high school that I would never cut bangs again. Well, I have been in serious need of a change lately (like the last year or more), so I put on my big girl panties and just did it! I really have been thinking about cutting bangs for over a year and just have been too chicken to do it, but I thought, "Well, it's just hair and it will grow back.". So, here I am.


I should have thought to put lip gloss on before I took this one.

Oh, good. Lip gloss. Whew! I know, you were all very concerned.

Here I am again with my new bangs. Are you getting sick of these pix yet?

Pucker up, baby! I want a smooch!

I know, I'm only mildly retarded. But I thought I would mix it up a little. Okay, that's all! I'm done.

In Memory of Oreo

Oreo was my neice, Mikkele's cat. Oreo got very sick a couple days ago and had to be put to sleep. Mikkele is very sad and sent me an email that said that she had been crying all day. How sad for a little girl to lose the first pet that she really remembers and took care of. Poor little girl. They were good friends and she is the only one that Oreo really liked. So, on behalf of Mikkele, Oreo will be missed, but we know that he will be taken good care of in kitty heaven. Goodbye, Oreo.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO MY WONDERFUL, SWEET, BEAUTIFUL, TALENTED, AMAZING, FABULOUS, RADIANT, BRILLIANT, AWESOME, FANTASTIC, MARVELOUS, SPECIAL SISTER!!!

April, here is your huge, awesome shout out that I promised you the other day when you were complaining that I didn't give you a birthday shout out with everyone else! I just wanted to make sure you felt special when you got YOUR VERY OWN shout out for your birhtday!!!

Anyway, I really hope you have an great birthday and I hope you're not too bummed that you're almost 30. Just one more year. :( Then you'll really be old! Just kidding! You are going to have a great 29th year! It can only get better from here on out!

HAPPY BIRHTDAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

SO EXCITED!!!!!

I don't know if you can tell, but I'm getting pretty excited for the expo this weekend!!! I'll be leaving tomorrow after work and then I'll go and hook up with April and my Mom. Can't wait! This is just one of those things that only happens so often, but it is so much fun and I always look forward to it.

So, here's to all the scrappers that will be there this weekend! It's going to be a blast!

Here are some pix from previous expos that I got off the web site so you can all see kind of what it's like.

Rock Crawling in Moab

Albert's Rock Crawler

Albert has an obsession with cars, trucks, and basically anything motorized. Well, a few years ago, when we had our old Mitsubishi Raider, he got into rock crawling. He had a lot of fun with the Raider, but it eventually wore out its usefulness and we bought this 1985 Toyota 4-Runner for him to play with. Last year, he modified it a little with bigger tire and whatnot, but alas, that was still not big enough or bad enough. So, this has been his ongoing project all winter long. Our garage is no longer a garage, but a work shop for the crawler.

Here is what the 4-Runner looked like last year.


This pic is of Albert and his friend Will in our "garage" when they were in the middle of the demolition process.

Here is Albert sitting in his "Redneck Mobile".

He actually drove this thing down the road like this to our friend's house to use their shop-vac to clean out all the shards of metal and glass. By the way, they did most of this with a Saws-All.

This is the finished product. Looks slightly Hummer-ish, but I think that was intended. We took this down to Moab with us 2 weekends ago to try it out. Thanks again to Jeremy for the sweet tires! This thing is practicaly unstoppable!

I'll try to post a video of Albert going up some rocks in Moab. If it doesn't work, I'm really sorry. Maybe I'll have to call my sister for help again!

I'm a jerk.

I "forgot" to shout out to my wonderful sister, April, for helping me with my freaking long post yesterday. My computer is stupid and was not letting me arrange all of those pictures the way I wanted them to be. So, April, kindly and generously and lovingly saw that her sister was in a pickle and offered to help me out. What a gem! So...

THANK YOU, APRIL, FOR HELPING ME WITH MY POSTING LAST NIGHT! THANK YOU FOR HELPING ME WORK THROUGH MY IDIOCY AND FRUSTRATION! THANK YOU FOR ALWAYS BEING THERE FOR ME WHEN I NEED YOU! THANK YOU FOR BEING THE BESTEST SISTER IN THE WHOLE WIDE WORLD! AND MOSTLY, THANK YOU FOR JUST BEING YOU!!!

Oh, and she wanted a shout out for her birthday, but she's not going to get that one until it's a little closer. Mikkele, Papa John, Sid and Audrey's birthdays were all either last week or coming up on the 17th this week. So when it gets to be your birthday week, I will give you a shout out. Don't you worry! ;)