Happy Birthday

Happy Birthday Sister Baby! Today is my little sister's birthday. We celebrated yesterday after church at my parent's house. My parents cooked a fabulous lunch and a delicious carrot cake with cream cheese frosting for dessert. My dad is a diabetic and you would never know that the cake was low fat/reduced calorie/low sugar. It tasted just a yummy as the regular high fat/calorie cake. For each of our birthdays, my dad bakes a cake of your choice. My sister said surprise me so he fixed what he has been wanted to try, his low sugar carrot cake. For some reason, I didn't take one picture yesterday.

Hope your week is off to a great start!

Friday Fill In

1. The escape of daily chores and responsibilities is the best thing about traveling.
2. I love a good cup of hot chocolate when I'm cold.
3. I often use my camera.
4. I'm reading The Amen Sisters by Angela Benson right now; I really am enjoying it.
5. Money is something I dislike talking about.
6. When I visited Disney World I most looked forward to seeing Epcot.
7. And as for the weekend, tonight I'm looking forward to watching my DVR shows tomorrow my plans include a stamp camp, dog birthday party and Bunco and Sunday, I want to celebrate my sisters birthday.

My Sweet Boy

Holiday Boards

I attended a home party for Uppercase Living and fell in love with their products. They offer decorative lettering for your home. They have quotes and sayings and a few graphics to adorn your walls or anything else you can imagine with their product. Think a giant rub-on that won't damage your surface. The demonstrator was holding a workshop to make holidy boards. She had the rub ons and the painted boards, all you needed to do was pay your money and show up to assemble. Since I love to decorate for the holidays I jumped at the opportunity to make them. Here are a few that we made. Valentine's Day
July Fourth

Thanksgiving
Christmas It says Peace on Earth
Anytime

Easter

Halloween

They do have a website. Click here. You can also custom order your own saying or greeting. Also, the website can help you find a demonstrator in your area.

February Book Winner

Congratulations to Kristie! She is the winner of this months Book Exchange.

Thank you for playing this month and be sure to stop by the first Monday of March to see what book is up for grabs next month.

Hope your week is off to a great start!

Friday Meme's

Friday Feast
Appetizer:
Name on thing that is unique about you.**I have a high level of patience

Soup:
Fill in the blank: My favorite ___hobby__ is __scrapbooking__ but I like __stamping__ too.

Salad:
What type of wood do you have for your home's furnishing?** I like lighter woods and painted wood and husband likes darker woods.

Main Course:
Who do you talk to most often on the phone? **It's a toss between my sister and LC.

Dessert:
What level of responsibility do you have in your job? **I'm a seond grade teacher and have to make sure my students meet the grade level expectations.

Four Foods on Friday #17
1. What's your favorite potato chip? Baked Lays
2. Do you use butter, margaine, both or neither? Both
3. What is your favorite mixed alcohlic (or virgin) drink? sweet tea
4. What's you favorite vegetable and how do you prepare it? Sweet potatoes-either in a casserole or just bake it with butter and cinamon.

Friday Fun
1. What was your favorite outside childhood game? My sister, neighborhood friend and I played Charlie Angels on our bikes.
2. How about board games? Do you have a favorite? Clue, Sorry and Monopoly
3. Do you play any PC games? Online or offline? If so what is your favorite? If not, is there one out there you want to try? Cubis and Cubis 2
4. Gaming Stations-there are so many out there and I don't know jack about them! Do you have one or more and which ones? XBox, XBox 360, Playstation,etc. My son has a gameboy, PSP and game cube. I don't play any of them. We are thinking about a Wii for his upcoming birthday.

Friday Fiver: When the sun beats down
1. Favorite shoes~flip flops
2. What time does the sun set near you?~right now about 6
3. Do you like spending time in the sun? Yes, I was a sun worshipper in my teen years.
4. Do you burn or tan? I usually burn the first time in the sun each season and then start to tan.
5. Monopoly: yay! or no way!~ yay!

Friday Fill In

1. Snowdrops are a sure sign of Spring.
2. I'm going to look for new jeans this weekend.
3. Amazing Grace is a song whose lyrics have meaning to me.
4. Just one sip and I was hooked.
5. Home with my family is where I'm happiest.
6. I believe that love is a necessary part of life.
7. And as for the weekend, tonight I'm looking forward to going to Target tomorrow my plans include a basketball championship game and then shopping and Sunday, I want to go to church and then play in my scrap room.

It's been a fun and busy week for me. We had a field trip, party and many guest speakers this week at school. We celebrated Education Go Get It week. We had guest speakers from the Spanish news station, police department and fire department. Today the students got to dress up as a career that they would like to be when they grow up. We had many give aways of pencils, bookmarks and t-shirts from local colleges. So looking forward to my weekend.

Have a fabulous weekend!