Wednesday, May 14, 2008

20th Card of 52

This will be made at our next stamp camp.

Tuesday, May 13, 2008

Spring Art Show

Today was the opening of the High School Spring Art show. Both Ethan and Jordan have art work featured in the show. Jordan has 3 ceramic pieces and Ethan has most of his art work that he did through out his 4 years of high school on display. It was really neat, they had the Seniors in a separate room with all their work on display.
Here are only 2 pictures of the many that I took.

Jordan with one of his ceramic pieces:


Ethan with his display:

Sunday, May 11, 2008

Mothers Day 2008

Though the day was quite rainy it was a very nice day.
Ethan gave me a chef statue that is also a tart burner, Jordan's gift to me hasn't arrived yet via mail/ups...He didn't tell me what it is so it can be a surprise.
I was treated to dinner by Todd and the boys; we went to bd's Mongolian barbeque. It was a great experience, fun and delicious. This is where I got my Tiara.
Me and My Boys


Todd and I


Where we ate:

Friday, May 9, 2008

Another Arlo and Janis

Sometimes I feel like this when it comes to my kids.
If it's too small to read, click on the comic to enlarge.

Tuesday, May 6, 2008

19th card of 52

I really like the colors in this card

19th Layout of 52

These were taken when the kids were in grade school. 1st Day of School

Monday, May 5, 2008

New neat scrapbooking toy

I went scrapbooking this weekend and it just happened to be national scrapbooking day; so Archivers had some make and takes demonstration's going on when we 1st got there. One of the neat new tools is the QuicKuts Quick Stik; The Quicker-Poker-Picker-Upper! (It's on the tag I didn't make that up) Anyway this is my new toy, on one end it has a small flat end that you can use to pick up small gems or any small items that has adhesive on the back and needs to be placed on a page or card. This end then pulls out and you can flip it over. It has a point that you can use to poke or pierce wholes on your scrapbook pages or cards.
On the other end is a rubbery substance that you can use to pick up small pieces of paper to be positioned on your page. I have used my new toy everyday since I purchased it on Saturday. I think I already got my money's worth.



And might I add this is the same company that makes another favorite tool of mine which is the Quickutz Silhouette.

Sunday, May 4, 2008

18th Layout of 52

I realized last night that I forget to post my weekly layout so here it is a day late. This was a margarita I got at Cheeseburgers in Paradise.

18th Card of 52

I realized last night that I forget to post my weekly card so here it is a day late.

Thursday, May 1, 2008

I Am Living a Nightmare!!!

Right now I am in the middle of a nightmare that started back in July of 2007
In July the cap that was put in my mouth over 20 years ago by one of the BEST DENTISTS that ever lived cracked and I had to get it replaced. Since that time I have had 3 molds done on my mouth & 4 different caps. Almost none of which have fit correctly or stayed attached for more then 3 days at a time. The 1st cap that was placed in my mouth fit perfectly, the next day I started experiencing pain, the dentist removed the cap and filed it; still pain, went back in and he remove the cap and filed again. Still pain. The next time I went in he said, well here is your problem, the tooth in front of the cap is chipped, let me fill it and we should be fine. (It probably chipped from you working on the tooth next to it) Well it wasn't fine, he must have filed it too much because from that point on I have lived with multiple caps that weren't fitting correctly and continually falling out, remolding of my teeth, NUMEROUS cancellations by the dentist (more then I can count) and pain. I called my insurance company for advice, they said to try and get a refund for the cap and try a different dentist. They can not pay another dentist for work that was already done, so until I get the refund nothing can be done to this tooth. I know the Dentist had a new modeled cap in his possession so I wanted to give it one more try. Last Wednesday April 23rd was my last attempt to get this cap put in; it fit pretty well, but was grinding my upper teeth when I ate. I was told by the Dentist that he wouldn't be in until Monday April 28th. I called on Thursday knowing that they wouldn't be in the office, but thinking that maybe the receptionist would be. There was no answer so I left a message about the grinding teeth and asked them to call me on Monday. Well Saturday the cap fell off; Monday came I tried calling the dentist in the morning, it went right to voice mail. I did not leave a message and I also did not receive a phone call. Monday afternoon the filling that was supposed to fix the chipped tooth fell out. Tuesday the pain started. I called the dentist, right to voicemail. Wednesday stayed home from work because I had a headache (probably caused by the pain) Tried calling the dentist, this time it went to a voice mail but not the normal voicemail, it sounded like a cell phone voicemail. I did leave a message stating that the cap fell out on Saturday, the filling fell out on Monday and that I was in pain. Thursday I woke up at 3:00am in pain. I decided to call another dentist, I was fortunate enough to get into a local dentist; I was told that I was literally screwed over by my dentist. I had 2 caps in my possession, the dentist did not have a post connected to either cap so how was it supposed to stay in the spot.(I knew this) That the tooth in front of the one that needs capped is chipped, infected and needs a root canal and cap.(I knew part of this) They will repost, and recap the tooth the 1st dentist messed up on and then do a root canal and cap the 2nd tooth. But 1st I have to get in touch with the 1st dentist to get a refund. I know that this is going to be so frustrating for me. In the meantime the new dentist is going to get in touch with my insurance company and see what can be done. I am right now on an antibiotic and pain killer/anti-inflammatory. This is going to cost me a small fortune even if I get the refund and with insurance!!!