Tennis anyone?

We finally had a chance to go to the tennis courts - Nikki, Luke, and I. I started teaching Nikki how to play and she is doing great!! We still haven't covered backhand but we went from just learning to hit the ball (not too hard) over the net to serving and then some of the rules of the game. We played a little bit and had some great volleys.... it's nice to have someone to play with right here at home!! Now, if we can just find time when we both are available to go play again!! It had been over 25 years since I had played before starting to play in August.... where does the time go?

Luke was our ball fetcher (he doesn't know that though). He would take the handball raquet and hit the balls back to us from all over the court(s). He did a great job!! Didn't complain at all. The kid has a pretty good throwing arm too - he can throw a tennis ball further than I can!

On the Foreign Exchange Student front....

I was talking to the coordinator for New Mexico and Colorado today to get more information on the program for a friend and we were talking about the Community Reps and what their function was.... she told me she is hiring a few and would I like to be one. Found out what it entails and I think it would be fun!! Drew thinks I should do it too! So, I will talk to her again tomorrow and sign up!! I can't be Nikki's CR but that's okay.... it will be fun to get to know a little about some of the other students too!! And, next year I will be able to help place some of the new students.... they can be placed anywhere in the United States!! So, be thinking about it.... I might just be asking you to host one!!

god natt (good night)

1 of the Christmas Card Stamp Camp cards

Here is one of the cards that we will make if I come up north for a stamp camp.... I will post a couple more when I get them done..... still haven't given up on coming up!!

OMG - I was only gone 2 1/2 hours......

And that was plenty of time for miss Brookie Lou to get into 5 jars of glitter, 2-1 oz jars of Sterling Silver (can't get now) embossing powder (EP), 1-1 oz jar of Winter White EP (can't get now), 1-1 oz jar Gold Glory EP (can't get now), 1-1 oz jar Dazzling Diamonds glitter, and 1-1/2 oz jar Heat & Stick powder..... total damage: $60.90 :(

Where did all the glitter/EP go? Apparently it is now in the vacuum cleaner bag.... ever try to separate 6 different kinds of powders!?!

Don't know if you can tell that these are empty, but, they are - except for one EP that now has glitter in it!! Guess I will be 1/5 of the way to keeping my Demonstratorship!! Just glad I didn't have to clean it up!! We will be seeing glitter for weeks to come!!

We have a 3 year old!!

Brooke is now 3 :( My baby is growing up.... so, we made a special day of it. She went with me to play tennis (I know - this was not for her), we went to McD's for her "birthday club" free happy meal, came back to Jeane's Beads and she picked out her purple beads and sat down and strung those little beads with that fine wire while I picked out beads for my Grandmother's necklace (her 89th birthday is this coming Friday the 26th) and started working on mine. We left Jeane's for a little while and went and looked a house down the street from us. Very large house with tons of storage - needs tons of updating though! We went to Jeane's to finish our necklaces and then off to the "Sugar Shack" for the ice cream I had promised. We then went to Safeway to get dinner supplies and then home to cook and eat dinner so she could open those presents and then we finished up with ice cream cake!! I think Brooke had a good day! Without the kids there she wouldn't play in the play area - just ate out there.

I was truly amazed at how well she strung those little beads on that fine wire..... I think she did better than I did!! She really had fun doing this.

So, here is her necklace. It has 2 shades/sizes of purple crystals and a really cool butterfly hanging down. It has the magnetic clasp - very easy for little fingers to do and undo by herself!!

And, here is the ice cream cake - yummy!!

Homecoming

We made it through Homecoming week. Nikki did not get Homecoming Queen but was relieved! Tues night was Coronation. As I posted previously - I deleted all the pics on my camera from this :( Wed night was the powder puff football game - Fresh/Jr won that game over the Soph/Sr. Thurs night was Brooke's birthday!! She is a 3 year old now - I will post her pics in a separate post. Friday night was the parade - Nikki was on the dance team float and Jason was on the Freshman float. Brandy and Brooke got to see the parade - Brandy from school and Brooke with her daycare. I saw the band and some of the floats from across the parking lot from my window at work. Friday night the FB team played Pagosa Springs and lost - not by too much though. Today the girls volleyball team had games and tonite is the dance. So, we have Nikki pinning the boutenere on Christian, Christian, the Sophomore class King....
The two of them together and each messing around before leaving for dinner and then the dance.

Can't Believe I did This :(

So, I never delete the pictures off my ScanDisk until last Tues night..... I thought I had copied them to my computer so I deleted them (which included the pics I had just taken at Coronation).... I am just sick over this - 4 days later - still just sick.

We may have royalty among us!

Nikoline got nominated for Homecoming Queen!! They don't have Homecoming in Norway so this is a new thing for her... we are really excited! I will post pictures after homecoming next week! Brooke's birthday is next Thursday the 18th - right in the middle of Homecoming festivities! I will be working her birthday party around parade, football game and the dance! In 10 days I will have a 3 year old and maybe a queen under our roof!! Whoohoo

Oh My - Look at all the STamps!!

So, I had only 18 of the sets on this table and there were way over 200!!! I got to participate in a Retired Stamp and Accessory sale last night! I sold a few things but still need to sell some more so I can get NEW stuff!!!!!!! There were at least 4-6 more tables with punches, ink pads, papers, ribbons, etc on them also.... fun stuff!!

I will try and post the sets that are still available for sale and pricing in the next week in case anyone is interested.