Opening Night...

was amazing... I forgot how much I missed that...

thanks sooooo much to those who went... I <3 you all !!!

Oh my Gosh - It's this Friday!!!

Butterflies are starting to flutter... opening night is this weekend!!!

In case you want tickets - here's the website to order:

Family Outing (http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/42508)

I know that Stacey and Denise are going - is anyone else???

And even as exciting news - my sister will be here on Saturday...

Wow - what a weekend to come!!!

Completely Random

I just realized I haven't blogged in a while... so what's been going on?

Well, I have started a new business - I am a Pampered Chef Consultant. I was very scared at first to start - but like a wise woman told me this weekend - that is what stops most people from doing anything - they don't start. So, I jumped in with both feet first and invited my entire block to a party at my house!! 2 neighbors showed up - but my awesome friends where there to support me. I needed $600 in sales to qualify and my total sales for that one show were $764.00. The month I signed up they were offering new consultants extra spending money if we qualified in our first 30 days. Since I qualified - I not only am getting a commission check - but I received $200 in shopping credit!!!! Talk about excited!!! Since then I have had 2 more shows and have 3 officially on the calendar. Several others are saying they will book - but I need to get the dates down. It has been a lot easier than I thought... I guess it really helps that I actually do believe in the product. Wanna check it out? Here's a link to my website!!

I have also been practicing for our upcoming play at The Bay. We are doing a 3 act play called "Family Outings." I play a 40(ish)wife and mother of 2 boys. I had to do a lot of research for this one - let me tell ya!!! I'm nothing like the character at all - really. One of my lines: "So what if I'm busy? I LIKE being busy!" Production will be the last weekend of September... and it will be dinner theatre! Plan those date nights now!!! (I don't recommend bringing the kiddos due to some of the real life subject matter.)

I have recently learned how to run the sound board for our church. This has opened up a new ministry to me - Funerals. I have done 2 now... the last one was soooo incredibly moving... It was the wife/mom who had died. Poetry that she and her husband had written to each other was read aloud... major tear jerker. I have decided that I don't want to be dead for my funeral. No - I want to be alive and present. It may be the last (and only) time I get to hear some people say nice things about me!!

Christopher is still in Texas ... he doesn't come home until the 21st of August. He got a tattoo the other day. I have had lots of people ask me what I think about it. My answer: I would rather he not - BUT, he's 18 & and he's in Texas - there's not much I can do about it. Yes, I can throw a fit and be mad about it - but I would rather him be home with a tattoo then in Texas with a tattoo. I don't think it's worth losing our relationship over. I had asked 2 things of him: don't get anything that can possibly be considered demonic or have any demonic ties to it - and get it where you can cover it up if you want/need to. He did both those things - so I'm happy. He respected my wishes - so I will respect his.

San Pedro is working on bettering their image - here's a little video of what is new down at the entrance to the Cruise Ship Terminal. (don't know why I decided to turn my camera on the side - sorry but I do think you will enjoy the 1 min clip)

My sister, mom and I are planning a trip to the East Coast in October. My mom's sister is getting pretty up there in age - and my mom is fearful that she might not ever get to see her again... and she wants to be able to take her girls around her old stomping grounds. Her biggest fear is "what about Jake???" Geez mom - I guess his dad will have to figure that out!!

I have recently come back into contact with an old friend. It was a bit awkward - the day and evening happened like it was just last week that we had talked instead of a year and a 1/2 ago. I'm not sure how far it will go or if it will ever be like it was. Actually I don't think that it will ever be EXACTLY the same since I don't think I'm exactly the same person I was then.... but I am happy that our boys have been able to reconnect (young and old) ... they were the best of friends. In fact, they are going fishing tomorrow.

We had an earthquake today. 5.4 or 5.8 on the scale. This was the first one that I actually felt. Kinda freaky. I was on the 2nd floor of our church.... you could totally see things rocking on the bookcase!! I was with our youth pastor - who had never felt one before either. We were like, "Wow-that was big." But of course all the natives were saying that it was nothing. Oh well.

I've probably missed something since it has been a while. But that's all that I can think of right now. Hope I haven't lost all my readers....

I told you I was busy...

I haven't blogged in days... mainly because I have been too busy to stop and write down all that I have been doing.

Let's see I last blogged on 2/8 ... that was Friday ... since then:

Saturday 2/9 - Jake turned 7!!! We had a great time with our friends at the bowling alley. He had 9 friends join him for his birthday.... somewhere is my camera with the pictures on it.

Sunday 2/10 - I taught in Beginners Church ... I had one helper... and she rarely comes to church... her kids were not there... I think it was good for her to have a day without them... and to have an identity of a woman - not just the boys mom... I feel really bad for her. I learn more and more about her relationship with her husband... he is borderline abusive. Well, I say that he IS abusive.. not physically but mentally - and in my book that is soooo much worse. She said she talked to someone... asking if she could divorce her husband... and she said he told her to stick it out.... I sure hope that this is one of those times that the one who was counseling her just didn't hear the whole story.... I can't imagine anyone giving someone advise to stay with an abuser.
After church we had a Department Head meeting.... in my opinion the meeting went rather quickly (which is good)... but I was agitated for most of the meeting. Way too much eye rolling... and that's all I'm gonna say here.

Monday 2/11 - Nicky and I had made a plan that we were going to meet in Beginners every Monday and do general cleaning and straightening... well, there was Christmas holidays, and other stuff that has gotten us out of the routine. So we decided yesterday to meet. Alexis joined us. We walked in and I thought it was going to be a day of leggos go here, cars go here ... wiping stuff down, etc. I looked over to the wall paper that has been getting worse by the day and I couldn't take it any more. So we decided to take it down .... I had been searching for a replacement wall paper .. but nothing really hit me and wallpaper is expensive !!!! So, we decided to get material instead. So, off to Joanne's .... me, Alexis, Nicky and 5 kids... The wall already has a huge rainbow mural on it - so we needed to find something that could go at the bottom of the wall that would not distract but would somehow tie into the rainbow... we found a green material that has leaves on it ... so stretched across the wall it looks like a giant bush. Then we stumbled on these awesome tin critters .... they are multicolored 3D animals that would be found in a garden. (Butterfly, dragonfly, frog, lizard of some sort, and a lady bug) The plan was to put the along the bottom like they were on the bush.... So on Monday we got the material up ... and that was about it....
That night was the monthly knitting circle... women of all ages gathering with yarn and tools attempting to make something. Well - that's what I am doing. I am on scarf #2 ... and looks like it is turning out much like the first one.. more of a pennant than a scarf.... oh well ... I enjoy the fellowship.

Tuesday 2/12: At Joannes on Monday we had also talked about the bulletin boards in the room.... how there is only one and there is a debate as to who it belongs to.... so we decided to find a creative way to create another bulletin board in the room.... We found cork squares. We decided that the one pack of 4 was not enough so I had to return to Joanne's to get more. While I was there .. I went against the feng shui girls and decided to buy more things for the wall... they had these really pretty flowers... and I got a sun.... I had really wanted the butterfly and the dragonfly to be able to be flying in the rainbow ... so I got the flowers to replace them... So, I met John there on his break ... Nicky came with her 3 and John taught the boys how to use the hammer... after laying out where everything was to go and seeing that the sun was really too small to fit in the picture we decided that there was another sign at Joanne's that would fit perfect and would tie whole wall in together... it is a sign that has 4 different signs - one hanging from the other... and it reads, "Life began in the garden" .... PERFECT!
So, back to the church ... John got all the critters predrilled and cut holes in the fabric so he could use screws to put them up - ... John, Joey and Matt got all the critters/flowers up and then John had to go to work and Joey had karate... I painted the rest of the wall where we had taken down the previous border and decided not to continue there again... finished the trim, and folded/stapeled the fabric over the trim so it blended well .... hung the new bulletin board... mom redid the Sunday School bulletin board, and we had just enough material left to redo the top of the piano seat... there 2 tiny things that still need to be finished ..... and yes of course after it is up and done - I feel the need to move things... but that is impossible and I must now live with the fact the lizard is over too far to the left... and the Life began in the Garden sign maybe should have been taken apart and the signs spread out... overall - it's beautiful ... and I love it. Thanks to my wonderful husband, mom and friends who always back me up on my projects...
After that I sorted my Pampered Chef stuff (woohoo!) .. and made deliveries to all that had ordered... dinner was eaten in the car and homework was done this morning.

Today is Wednesday the 13th... I am playing Granny Esther tonight at Fellowship.... talking to a group of young girls at a Mother/Daughter banquet about how although outward beauty is very important to the world and media... it is of no importance to God .... I wrote out my "script" and it's getting critiqued or I would post it here ... plus that would be a realllllllly long post... so I will let you know tomorrow how it went.... I need to go to goodwill today and get something to wear..

I still need to get some actual work done this week!!!