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Scrapbook Kits Update

Danielle sent me an email letting me know she had a new website, which is tons of fun!  I looked at it for a long time - she's got a lot of fun pics to look at.  Anyway, at the bottom of her site, there was a link to create a free website, so I followed it and decided I might as well make a website for my scrapbook kits since I have 3 other websites for other things! lol  So if you want to check it out, go to http://scrapbookkitstore.weebly.com/.  I only have two different kits available, but I can only do so much at once.  Anyway, I need to sell them somehow and this seemed like a fun idea.  Now I just have to wait for Google to crawl it!  Web-spiders.  Crazy!  The only kind that are my friends. ;)

What else?  Mikala is happily vacationing with her dad and step-mom and their kids.  She's the sweetest girl ever.  I am always so proud of her, but it's hard to watch her grow so much because I know that my time is slipping away.  She's as tall (maybe just a tiny bit taller...) as I am and smarter and sweeter and all things good.  I got SOO lucky/blessed/whatever-you-want-to-call-it with her.  She's an adorable 13 year-old angel!  I miss her and she hasn't even been gone a whole week!

What else?  The boys are bigger and noisier.  Somehow the warmer it gets, the louder they get.  Like they have to be outside so they just always use outside voices or something.  Silly, but they are my buddies.  We went for a walk tonight with Jeremy around the neighborhood.  Just a stroll, but it was good for all of us to relax, I think.  He was the home-plate umpire for a Saint Paul Saints game today and I didn't think he would be up for much because that takes a lot of energy, but he was on a roll! :)

So far on our hormone therapy, I've lost 12 pounds and he has lost 13.  Amazing!  Especially when you think that those numbers are from only 9 days.  Yay!!!  We are both loving it, but it's hard to not want to cheat a little and take bites of things you love and can't have.  Neither one of us likes to be told we CAN'T do something, so we have to keep reminding ourselves of that.  What a challenge!  We're not really hungry, just psychologically we WANT things, you know?

Anyway, that's us this week in review.  More fun coming up!!!

It's June???

Not sure how it happened, or when really, but all the sudden it's Father's Day and the last 4 weeks are just a blur...  I know I was here and not doing THAT much, but where did it go?  Yikes!  Mikala and Matthew are coming home tomorrow.  They left last Tuesday to go to the resort with Mikala's Nan and Gramps.  Almost a whole week without my two oldest!  Brett was so confused, the poor little guy.  The day after they left, he went around the house opening up doors and looking for them.  Cute.  He didn't sleep so well the first few nights.  I think he's used to the sound of Matthew tossing and turning.  But the kids had a great time - Mikala even managed to fall off a horse, I hear.  She's a tough girl, though, and didn't let it get the best of her.  Matthew and Gramps took a little swim in the lake after Gramps decided it would be fun to take Matthew out in a canoe.  Guess they both learned a little lesson...  Matthew not to look and lean over the side of a wobbly boat, and Gramps not to take a 4 year-old out in a canoe!  Funny.  They loved fishing together, I hear.  Wish I pics of that.  Next time!

Boots and Bernice (Matthew's and Mikala's little kitties) are getting bigger.  They are so adorable!  I'm pretty sure I uploaded pics of them to my photo album.  Boots will purr, but I think Bernice's purr box hasn't developed yet or something.  It's hilarious to watch them wrestle with each other!

Something new I discovered a little while ago...  If you spill bird seed in rocks, it will actually grow!  I think a squirrel got into the bag of birdseed a few weeks ago.  I picked up as much as I could and figured the rest would just bio-degrade.  Nope!  It decided to GROW!  So now there is this big square patch of sunflower plants starting to grow where we hadn't planted anything before.  We're waiting to see if they actually develop into anything.  Interesting to watch, and a little frustrating that it's so easy to grow seeds you didn't intend to plant and so hard to nurture the plants you did! :)

Jeremy's b-day is Wednesday, and I still haven't decided exactly what we should do.  Maybe take the boys to the zoo or something if it's nice out.  We're doing the HCG Hormone Therapy and can't eat anything fun to celebrate, so dinner is out.  No cake.  Bummer!  But we are losing weight, so that makes it a little better...lol  I'm SOO not creative this year when it comes to his birthday.  Ugh!  I'll think of something.  Hmm...