The Beach in December

Yes-you got it! I went to the beach yesterday. I got some sun and had some drinks too. It was sooo nice to relax in the sun...in December too! I don't think I have ever been to the beach in December and I've lived here all my life. I was going to go again today but instead went to an outdoor bar and had some drinks with some girlfriends. We let out our frustrations and soaked up the sun. Now I've napped and am headed out to get some sushi. I'm looking forward to it since I haven't had it in a while.

Gotta go finish getting ready! Have a great night!
Tomorrow, I'll be making a side dish to take with us to a friends' house for New Year's Eve. And on Monday I'll be at the Outback Bowl. I hope it doesn't rain too much!
Happy New Year!

Snowmen everywhere...

Well, the story begins a few months back when we went to Mount Dora. I found a cute snowman stained glass snowman and thought-great gift for mom. Then when it was mentioned to her by Robin about how cute it was, she said -I don't do snowmen-I don't have them in the house-I was floored, since she does have snowmen all over-especially in the bathroom. Robin can vouch for me. So I got her a different stained glass-an angel.

So Christmas Eve, our family goes to Bennegin's (sp?) for lunch. And my mom says-Yeah, I got all the snowmen stuff out. I immediately said-I thought you don't do snowmen mom, and then my brothers chimed in with me-not even knowing the Mount Dora story-Yeah-she has them all over the house.

So Christmas Day, sure enough, they aren't just in the bathroom, they are all over, my brothers kept pointing them out-here's a snowman, there's one, etc...

See I do know what I'm talking about-I do pay attention to things!

I think you had to be there to really appreciate this story. As Phil always says-"Great story."

Photos from the Holidays

Here's my family from the our Family Gathering for Christmas. This is the photo I put in the book for my mom on the page that is missing a picture.

Here's another with Phil, Katie-Pat's girlfriend and Lou-Bill's dad.

And then here's Peanut-enjoying the sun that is shining into the living room. Peanut loves being in the sun!

I'm off to go pay my tuition for the class I'm taking in the Spring. Good thing I have a voucher to pay for a huge bulk of it!!! Yippee! Having an intern is paying off!

Merry Belated Christmas!

I hope you all had a wonderful Christmas! I did-except for all the rain. Oh well. It was nice when nap time came.
Phil got me a beautiful diamond necklace and matching earrings. Really pretty! And he liked his tickets to the Outback Bowl.

We went to my mom's later and that's when he got the gift he was most excited about-a tacklebox that he wanted-but I couldn't find in the stores, so I had to order it online, but let mom give it to him.

So here's the pictures from the album I made for my mom. She loved it and has taken it to work to show off. She has it proudly displayed in her house too.

I'm off to the after Christmas sales and to return a few things. I hope you have a great day-Stay warm!

Remember me?!

I know-I haven't been on here in a while. So what have I been up to?

Nothing really! But I did finish my mom's album of her favorite song-What a Wonderful World. I will post pictures later. I am soo happy to be finished with that album but will be sad to see it go as I want to show it off more. Maybe mom will let me borrow it...hehe...

So I have a total of one gift purchased for Christmas and many more to go! I better get busy!

I have been officially accepted into USF's Masters in Early Childhood program. I got an email last week from the program, but had to wait until the University notified me of their decision-and I just got it last night, so now I need to call next week and see what classes I can take starting in January.

I only have 4 days of school next week and I can not wait!!!!! I need to take a break from some of my darling 5/6 year olds AND their parents! Anyway...look for pictures of the album maybe tomorrow. I showed it off at school yesterday and had some people in tears. I wonder how my mom will react.

Today is a busy day-Family Christmas party-which I have no gift for yet, Patrick's 19th birthday-again no gift yet, a Graduation party for my intern from last year-once again, no gift, and ohh take pictures of the album. Better go get busy!

It was my BIG BISQUIT day!!

Tonight I went to Whim so Doodle for their holiday event-some make and takes, 20% off, prizes, food, etc...

I put my name in for the drawing-was able to be in 2-one for Quickutz and the other for the store. My number was pulled for the QK and I won some QK paper that has adhesive on the back, and the girl near me said-do you want to trade. She won an alphabet and already had it so so was going to give it to me...OMG!!!! OK-I said-Are you sure??!!! OMG!!! SURE-I offered her something from my purse-I didn't have much but she said no-I already have it and it's ok-you can have it. OMG!!!! So we traded! Then a little while later-they pulled my name from the store drawing and I won 4-count 'em-4 classes from WSD!!! 1, 2, 3, 4!!!! for free!!! So the girl who traded me was right next to me when they called my name and told me what I'd won and I told them that I wanted her to have 2 of my classes. (It was the least I could do-she gave me an alphabet-Frankie for you SBers) So it was definately a BBD for me.

Ohh and the die for this month-it was ok-a moon-better than getting a dinosaur or fossils since I really won't have any layouts with a dinosaur theme. So a moon will do.

Ebay and updates

I bought my first thing on ebay last night. I had been bidding since Saturday and kept getting outbid. Finally I figured it all out and made sure my bid was high enough. Well, some a**hole wanted to have a bidding war with me and kept increasing the bid with only minutes left which made my heart race, my fingers work a little faster and my stress level increase. I was ready to win and I finally did.

2 tickets to the Outback Bowl -pretty good seats-and only one ticket is for me. The other is for Phil for Christmas. SHHHH!!! Don't tell him. He likes Penn State and they are in the game and since it's close-and not too pricey, I figured I could handle it.

UPDATES: My grandma is having an MRI tomorrow night to see how bad the break is. If it's her rotator cuff-then she is looking at surgery. If not, she is looking at just resting her arm. She is trying to move it a little, which the Dr. said she could unless the pain is too much. She just doesn't want it to get too stiff.

My uncle was supposed to go home yesterday and is doing well.

So all is pretty good.

Except for one thing. My sorority. Delta Gamma at UCF will be no longer as of Sunday, Dec. 10. We are having a closing ritual on Sunday and I'm sure there will lots of tears shed. I know I probably will be doing some. DG was a huge part of my college experience and I'll be sad to know that it will no longer be at UCF. Very sad. I got word of the final decision to close the chapter in an email last night and it hit me today at work as many of my sisters were emailing each other letting them know of the details. I made soo many great friends through Delta Gamma...and UCF-just won't seem the same to have UCF without Delta Gamma. What will I do about my email address? I'll keep it-since I will always be a UCFDG!!

Thanks!

Thank you for your thoughts! The latest that I have heard is that my uncle is doing ok. He is in the hospital. The surgery went well-expect that instead of a triple bypass, he had to have a quadrouple (sp?). But he is resting, and recovering.
Today I get a call from my mom that my grandma was down there-Port Charlotte with my uncle, and fell and broke her shoulder. She had a compound fracture. She is back now as my mom and aunt went down to get her and bring her back. So now she is in pain and living with one working arm-not the one she uses most...So I'll be helping her out this week, shopping, making dinner, cleaning up, maybe even take her Christmas shopping. She lives close so it won't be a problem.

I have been just hanging in there. Phil has been sick, so I've been nursing him back to health-men sure are no fun when they are sick. Such babies...

This week I am going to work on my Christmas cards and other holiday items I'm making. Also still working on my mom's album-should be done this week. I'll take pics!

I need to get a tree too. And a new tree stand since I think I threw mine out last year. I think I just didn't want to find a place to store it...why did I do that...wasn't thinking that it'd cost me money to buy a new one...use the noggin Amy!

Thanks again for thinking of me!