Monkey Girl

A Blog Giveaway From A Friend

2010-12-06T16:14:00.003-05:00

A good friend of mine is having major blog giveaway for December. If you are a crafter you will love to try to enter. You can try to win the cricut package or the paper package. Good luck to all. http://mccplg.blogspot.com/

Have a great day!!!

Woah Time Flies!

2010-09-15T10:42:00.002-04:00

Hey everyone out there! So much has been happening. I probably have a ton of pictures to share, but that will have to come later. I know this is a public thing so don't want to say to much. Hubby lost his job back in April and is still trying to find a job. I'm currently helping a lady out from Church. We are probably getting ready to move in with my parents and give up our house. It makes me very sad, but with no money coming in we can't keep it. I know God has a reason for all this, but I just wish I knew what this reason was. Moving in with my parents will be an interesting thing that's for sure. Privacy and craft space will be limited. Unless they let me use their garage LOL We are currently using our garage for craft space and computer space, etc.

On the up side my hubby and I have taken to teaching the little kids at Church on Wednesday nights. It's been a lot of fun.

I've also been making a lot of cards. I'm hoping to sell some of my cards. We shall see.

On another down side about 2 weeks ago a very good friend of mine moved to North Carolina. It was a very sad day. I know that I will see her again soon because we have a lot of her things and her dog. So that makes 3 dogs in our house. Our own dog, her dog and my in-laws dog. They had to move out of their house too. Very interesting how things are going.

I'm keeping my faith and putting my trust in God that everything will work out for the best. Hubby is currently at a job interview. I pray everything goes well.

I guess that will be all from me for now. Just needed to get some things off my chest. Hopefully after hubby's interview we will go to the school to have lunch with our oldest daughter and go another day to have lunch with our youngest. My youngest just started Kindergarten :) Yes I'm getting off LOL I just love to ramble.

Have a great day to whoever is reading this!!

Blog Candy Giveaway

2010-04-07T08:26:00.003-04:00

My friend M-C is giving away free blog candy. To see what she is giving away and see how you are eligible please go here: http://mccplg.blogspot.com/ So please take a minute to hop on over to her blog. She's a very creative person!!!

Have a great day everyone!!!

Birthday Poem!

2010-01-08T08:25:00.002-05:00

So I forgot last night in my long post about my birthday. I celebrated my 32nd birthday on October 12. I got a lot of lovely gifts, but one my favorite and memorable gifts is the gift that my hubby gave to me. He wrote me a poem. The first poem he has written to me since we've been together. So without further ado here it is:

Happy Birthday, My Wife.

With you for another year
I've gotta tell you something, my dear,
I'm happy with this God given life. . .

Life, what a ride,
But with you by my side
Nothing can come between us, my wife.

We've had our ups and downs
But, we've both hung around
Because there's nothing as great as this love.

You're the one meant for me,
And the older I get, I see,
That this was designed from above.

So, happy birthday once again,
I'm the luckiest of men
Having your smile and your heart.

May the next year be great,
I know this must be fate,
And I know that we'll never part.

I love this man with all of my heart and soul. I just had to share what a special gift I received.

Woah Where does the time go?

2010-01-07T21:04:00.008-05:00

So I'm guessing that I should say Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!! We had a great Halloween, Thanksgiving and Christmas! I decided that I would dress up for Halloween this year. I decided to go as a Punk Rocker. Here's a picture of my transformation.

This was so far out of my comfort zone, but oh so much fun!! I'm even thinking of getting my hair done this way without the pink! My youngest went as Ariel and my oldest was a Toga girl. Had to come up with a last minute costume for her because she kept complaining about the one she had.

In November we went to hubby's Aunt & Uncles 50th Wedding Anniversary. We all got to dress up. It was a lot of fun! I have tons of pictures that I could show you from all of these events, but I won't bore you even though I would love to LOL

We did get Family Christmas Pictures done. I will show you my favorite from this. My friend Missy took our pictures! Thank you Missy!! LOVE THEM!!!

Ok so I just have to bore you with one picture or maybe 4 from Aunt Pat & Uncle Don's Anniversary because 1. my girls got to dress up 2. I love the pictures and 3. Because its my blog and I can!!

In December my youngest daughter Ally had a Christmas play at her preschool. She got to be the main Angel Gabriel. It was exciting. When my oldest daughter Abby went to this preschool she was Mary. Here is Ally :)

Eric and I also did the Breast Cancer walk in October with his work. We both have family members that had it.

Pretty much sums up the last few months except for one last thing.

I'm starting up a little business making cards and here is a set of Baby Shower Cards that I made for a lady that hubby works with. They are for her Sister In Law. My friend Missy drew the Snoopy's for me and I scanned them and resized them and then cut the little buggers out LOL

So this pretty much sums up my last few months of not blogging :)

One last thing before I log off for the night. For those of you that read my blog can you say an extra little prayer for my friend Missy's Grandpa. She is currently visiting him and he's not doing good. Thanks! We are here for you Missy! *BIG HUGS* Love ya girl!

So in closing God Bless and have a great evening!!!

MIL's Thank You Cards

2009-10-04T22:27:00.003-04:00

Here is the picture I promised to share of the cards I made for my MIL for her to send out at work. I bought the swiss dot and argyle folders just for these cards :) My MIL loved them. I'll be making 20 of them.

Thanks for looking.

Time for a Catch Up!!

2009-09-30T18:44:00.004-04:00

So I think its time to catch up. The girls have started back to school. Abby is in the 2nd grade and my baby girl is in preschool! They are both doing great!

I have done some scrapbooking lately. Well, at least in the form of making cards. I made a 100 invitations for Eric's Aunt Jerri. Wow that was a task :)

The next cards that I'm working on is my cousins Change of Address cards and my MIL's Thank You cards for work. I have to make about 50 change of address and about 20 Thank You's. Here is a picture of the Change of Address card. I haven't taken a picture of the Thank You's. I promise to share that when I get it taken :)
(Keep an eye out Donna! )

I did start up a Book Club and we've only read 1 book and had 1 meeting so far. the 2nd book that we chose to read I did read, but circumstance came up that we couldn't all get together for our 2nd meeting. I'm sure that we will get together soon.

Well, this is a short update, but the girls want to go swimming and its an hour before bedtime :)

Hope everyone in the blogger world has a great evening!!!

Ok I'm not done, LOL

2009-05-13T19:27:00.002-04:00

I just had to share a picture of me with my Monkey from Build A Bear. I named her Scrappy. For those of you wondering if I got a sound, I did. I got the beating heart, the monkey sound and then I was able to do a build a sound. We had the girls one at a time say Happy Mother's Day and I Love You!! I will cherish this forver.

Oh My!

2009-05-13T19:05:00.004-04:00

So it looks like I went almost 2 months without posting. What was I thinking? We did celebrate Ally's 4th Birthday. I do know that I was very sick before her birthday and we couldn't celebrate it the way we wanted. Hubby and the girls and In-Laws met Aunt Jerri @ McDonalds and they had a Tinkerbell party there. Hubby took pictures for me. On Ally's official birthday we went out to dinner and then opened up presents from us. Then that weekend we went to Chuck E. Cheese with my parents and had a great time there.

Abby did lose another tooth about 2 weeks ago. So she's missing 3 teeth on top. On another good note she also learned to ride her bike without training wheels. We are so proud of her.

I had a very nice Mother's Day. Abby made me a keychain at school and also decorated a cake at school for me. Delicious! Then the girls went shopping with Mimi and got me some bath things. On the Saturday before Mother's Day hubby and the girls took me to the mall to Build A Bear where I could make a monkey.

The girls made scrapbook pages for the grandmas and they loved them.

I'm sure that there are many more things that has gone on, but I don't need to bore anyone.

There are so many pictures that I could share of different pictures of the girls and things like that, but I think that I will share their layouts.

Also we have been in the process of planning Abby's 7th birthday party. It's going to be an all girl party. Can you guess what the theme is? Haven't guess yet?

HANNAH MONTANA

First I'll share the layouts and then I'll share the invitation that we made for her party.

Here is Ally's page for the grandmas. She put the stickers on and colored in Tinkerbell and the flower.

Here is Abby's page for the grandmas. She did everything herself. She even came up with the title.

We have yet to hear from anyone, but we just gave out the invites on Monday.
I do know that 1 person is coming though :)

I guess that's it for me for tonight. Time to get the girls into bed and then it's time for IDOL!! GO ADAM!!!!!

Redo of the Bra Card

2009-03-19T23:47:00.002-04:00

Had to redo the bra card because there was some people that said it looked like a butt so here is the new version.

Cards I've Made

2009-03-19T16:47:00.004-04:00

So yesterday and today I made 2 cards. The first one is a sympathy card for my husband to send to his mom's best friend whose husband just died. I found the quote online from a stamp site. I had hubby choose which one he liked.

Hubby's work is always having bake sales and things to raise money for Breast Cancer. I asked him if they had a poster or anything saying "Thanks for your support" and he said no. So I made this card should they want to use it on their tables. It was so much fun to make.

#129 Green

2009-03-15T20:48:00.002-04:00

When my FIL called and asked if the girls could make him green, I just knew that this picture would be perfect for this one.

He was playing in a St. Patty's golf tournament today and wanted to be all green!

Tiny Basket

2009-03-14T23:07:00.003-04:00

On one of my groups that I am on they had a video of this tiny basket. It was just too cute not to try! So I sat down with hubby and after 31 years finally learned how to read a ruler and made one on my own! So I sit down with my mom today to show her how to make it and made her one. This is the one that I made for my mom and we added Easter grass to it.

If you go to YouTube and type in tiny basket you will find it. It will be the one that says Tiny Basket With Dawn.

End of the year gift

2009-03-09T17:01:00.004-04:00

I'm working on a end of the year gift for my daughter Abby's teacher. I'm planning on making Thank you cards and notecards. We went to Michaels on Friday to pick up some supplies and then came home and I got one notecard done before I got sick. I told my husband that I'm not allowed to make anymore gifts because it seems that I get sick when I make gifts LOL Of course I love making gifts and seeing peoples reaction to them.

I was going to do the cards in her favorite colors, but didn't hear back from Abby's teacher until today. So I will probably make the thank you cards in her favorite colors. Since she is a teacher I chose primary colors for the note cards.

Here is the note card that I got done:

I chose white card stock and then like I said above primary colors. The colored card stock is already cut which is awesome! I printed out Abby's teachers name on my printer and then used a stamp that I got in the $1 section at Michaels and used my Making Memories pencils and colored in the flower. I plan on making 50 of them. OH MY!! What have I got myself into LOL

Baby Birth Announcements!

2009-03-04T08:41:00.002-05:00

A very good friend of mine just had a baby a week ago and I decided that I would make some birth announcements for her as a present. My whole family got sick so it got put to the wayside, but then we got better and away I went. I used the matchbook concept to make them. It was a lot of fun to make and something different in the process. I hope you enjoy looking at them as much as I enjoyed making them!

(I marked out their last name for privacy)

Tagged

2009-03-03T13:09:00.003-05:00

Mindi tagged me. Here are the rules:

•Go to your photo folder in your computer •Go to the 6th folder of photos •Go to the sixth picture •Put the picture on your blog and a description of it •Invite six friends to join the challenge •Link them in your blog.

It wasn't easy to find a picture. Not because I don't have pictures, but because my pictures are in folders, inside of folders, inside of folders LOL I did my best though.

It didn't come out that great, but it's a picture of a butterfly that was taken in my MIL's pool area.

I tag:

M-C
Esther
Kenda
Deb
Lynne
Jessica

Gourmet Meal

2009-03-02T09:49:00.003-05:00

My friends son always says that Eric and I have gourmet meals. This was a couple of Fridays ago and we stuff some Cornish Game Hens with a cheesy rice mixture. We also had some brie and raspberries. Eric added some raspberries to my hen I just had to share with everyone our meal.

#106 Food Glorious Food!

2009-02-17T13:49:00.002-05:00

We went to the British Open Pub on Valentine's Day with our daughters and my mom & dad. I had the Chicken Wellington! It was soooo yummy! My hubby and mom had the same thing. We agreed that it was delicious!! My hubby makes an AWESOME Mini Beef Wellington!

#96 Feather

2009-02-13T09:57:00.002-05:00

Here is a picture of a feather that my friends son Andrew found yesterday at the bus stop and gave to me.

Great Concert!

2009-02-13T09:41:00.003-05:00

The concert of Kenny Rogers was great!! He's a great performer and a funny comedian as well! We were not allowed to take pictures, but I snuck in a couple :) I really enjoyed myself. I feel very privileged to have gotten to see a great! He brought out on stage his wife and 4 year old twin boys. Too cute!!

More Pictures

2009-02-11T10:21:00.005-05:00

This may be it for today, but don't hold your breath!

#43 Celestial Bodies

These are some pictures on our wall that I thought would work great for this theme

#107 Footwear

Here is a picture of my favorite footwear. The bottom 2 are all right, but I do love the top ones. They are very comfortable! Of course after looking at this picture makes me think I should throw them into the washer!

#38 Button

2009-02-11T09:56:00.003-05:00

Here is a picture of my buttons. There are some other things other than buttons in the jars too, but mainly buttons. There's even buttons in the white gum holders.

365 Picture Challenge

2009-02-11T09:20:00.005-05:00

A lot of my friends are doing a photo challenge so I decided why not! Don't know how far I will get, but it will be fun trying. You can find the themes to the pictures here. I've taken 2 pictures so far with my new camera that works for the themes :) I'll share 2 pictures that works for 1.

#46 Chalk

#67 Costume

New Outfit!

2009-02-07T22:01:00.003-05:00

So we went to Wal-Mart tonight and we were without the kids which is the perfect time to go clothes shopping. I decided that I wanted a pair of jeans because I don't have any. So I found a pair that fit just right which is not easy to do. I'm still working on the losing weight thing and these jeans didn't showcase my tummy. Then I went to look at shirts. I saw this shirt and it was on clearance and I thought hey why not try it on. I tried it on and was impressed. I came out of the dressing room to show hubby and he fell in love instantly! I knew it was a winner then!! It fit so well I bought another one in a different color. I decided that this is the outfit that I will wear to go and see Kenny Rogers.

OH YEAH!!!

2009-02-02T21:36:00.003-05:00

I have some great news, but you are going to have to keep reading to see what it is. I just can't come right out and tell ya now can I? I love surprises! Hubby has these chances to win things at work and they can only win once a year. You are probably trying to guess what it is that he can win huh? Ok I'll give you this much. He can win tickets for concerts at the Van Wezel which is a very expensive performing arts place. In the past we have seen the Bacon Brothers, Trisha Yearwood (we even got to meet her in person) & some other things as well.

So he has tried to win some tickets this year, but hasn't won. He asked me about a week ago if he should put his name in for this particular person. I said "You bet your sweet BIPPY you better!" I of course wasn't going to get my hopes up either.

He was supposed to find out today if he won. I waited all day for the email. The email never came so I thought alright we didn't win. No big deal.

Well, what do you know he comes home a little early and he has tickets in his hand. You guessed it he won! Now comes the exciting part. Who we are going to see.

We are going to see:

KENNY ROGERS

I am so excited! Kenny Rogers in my humble opinion is the cutest old guy there is. Not to mention he can sing!!!

So of course I have made my FIL and my parents very jealous! My FIL said he would make me an offer that I couldn't refuse. He said that he would make me liver (Yes, I like liver and onions), but that wasn't going to work!

So I would have to say that this is an AWESOME Valentine's Gift!! What do you think?

One Night Getaway!

2009-01-24T19:02:00.007-05:00

So having 2 girls and a dog it's hard to be spontanus. Well, Friday nights are our date nights to be able to do what we want as the girls go to the grandparents. So hubby calls me up as the girls and I are walking home from the bus stop and tells me to pack our bags we are going away for the night. I had no idea where we were going or anything until hubby got home. It's not easy packing when you don't know where you are going. By the time hubby gets home the girls have gone to the grandparents along with the dog. Hubby tells me when he gets home that we are going to the hotel that we stayed in for our Honeymoon 7 years ago!! That was so exciting to me!! We've been wanting to go back there, but it's expensive and we couldn't afford it. Not to mention when we went there the first time it was a gift from his aunts to us. Hubby was in the right place at the right time and got a great deal. So we load up the car and off we go on a romantic getaway for a night. We had dinner at Cracker Barrel and stopped at Wal-mart for shoes because I forgot his and we were going to be walking on the beach. OOPS!! We get there around 8pm or so and check in. We stayed at Sandpiper at Tradewinds. We were going to go to the bar on the beach that we had went to on our Honeymoon, but it was closed for renovations. We walked the beach and then walked up and down the road and ended up at 7-11 for snacks. Can't believe I ate the whole bag LOL I ate a whole bag of gummy bears as we were playing a new monopoly card game that I only won once!!

Here are some pictures of our room.

Here is a picture of some swans that were sleeping as we were taking our walk.

Here is the sign of the hotel at night

Today we went to breakfast and a couple shops and then it was off to lunch before we headed home. Lunch was AWESOME! We went to this restaurant that is called Spinners. It's at the very top of this hotel and it's a revolving restaurant. It was a very neat experience and one that we will like to experience again.

Here are some pictures from this awesome experience!

Here is the front of the building

Right at the very top is where we ate

This was one of the views

Here was a view of the beach. At one point all you could see was the water

They had signs at different parts as you are rotating. I saw this one and thought of my friend Mindi who lives in NM.

Then I saw this one and thought of my friend Tracy who lives in New Zealand.

So after a nice relaxing and reconnect time with hubby we get home to a nice quiet house as the kids and dog are not home yet. Then the girls come home and they are in the living room playing the racing game on the Wii and you can hear them start to fight and I tell hubby "We're home"

My Inked Girl & Her Masterpiece!

2009-01-21T18:14:00.008-05:00

So today was a trying day for me as my little girl was being a big stinker! So this afternoon while I was trying to cook dinner she was playing with one of her stamp pads and she comes into the kitchen to show me what she had made. I was on the phone with hubby at the time too :) All I could do was laugh!! I really and truly needed this laugh that's for sure!

Good Morning Everyone

2009-01-21T09:27:00.002-05:00

So we woke up to a very cold day here in Florida. We wore layers upon layers to the bus stop LOL Lets just say that I know that my best friend in Ohio is laughing at me :)

Now for some GREAT news!! I lost 6 pounds so far!! WOOHOO!! That's a reason to celebrate don't ya think? Oh yeah I guess I forgot to mention that I'm on a diet, but I'm sure that you figured that one out on your own. I'm not sure what my goal weight is, but I'll know what it is when I think I look good :)

So I'm still adding things to my blog as you can tell :) I just found the cutest monkey clock today.

You know that you have entered the world of blogging when you have a hard time getting to sleep at night because you are thinking of your blog and even when you dream about blogging. Ok how sad is that I ask you?

First Time Blogging

2009-01-20T20:43:00.006-05:00

Ok so I finally got the middle to show up somehow!!! My background my change yet LOL Welcome world of bloggers!!! So it's 9:36pm and so far I'm happy with my blog :)