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Friday, December 5, 2008

I've Been Tagged!!!

My super sweet friend Julie tagged me, so here it goes!!

So Here are the rules...Welcome to the 2008 edition of getting to know your friends! Try not to be lame and spoil the fun! If you get tagged, copy this entire survey and paste into your own blog, change all of the answers so that they apply to you. Then visit the profiles of some of your friends and "Tag" them by simply leaving a comment, asking them to visit your blog, and state that they have been Tagged! The theory is that you will learn a lot of little things about your friends that you might not have known! Some of you may get tagged several times, so they can always refer back to your blog for your answers.

1. What time did you get up this morning? 7:28 am, I was running late!
2. Diamonds or pearls? Diamonds
3. What was the last film you saw at the cinema? It's been so long, I can't remember!
4.What is your favorite TV show? Grey's Anatomy and I'm a reality show junkie!!
5. What do you usually have for breakfast? Diet Coke, I know, how sad is that!
6. What is your middle name? Renee
7. What food do you dislike? SEAFOOD......yuck!! (me too!!)
8. What is your favorite CD at the moment? Umm, I would say the new Pink
9.What kind of car do you drive? A VERY old Eddie Bauer Explorer named Eddie. I just can't part with him!! I'll drive him till he rusts out around me!!
10. Favorite sandwich? Turkey
11. What characteristic do you despise? People who are nice to your face and the minute you walk away their mouths just start running!!!
12. Favorite item of clothing? Jeans
13. If you could go anywhere in the world on vacation, where would you go? Australia
14. Favorite brand of clothing? I love Tommy H!
15. Where would you retire to? Right where I'm at!!
16. What was your most recent memorable birthday? My surprise 35th birthday party!!
17. Favorite sport to watch? NFL Football baby!!
18. Furthest place you are "tagging" this? Not sure yet
19. Person you expect to send it back first? Who knows!
20. When is your birthday? August 4th
21. Are you a morning person or a night person? Night, I hate mornings!!
22. What is your shoe size? 7 1/2
23. Pets? 3, an 11 1/2 year old Australian Shepard, a 5 year old black lab, and a 12 year old cat
24. Any new and exciting news you'd like to share with us? I wish I could tell you that hubby found a job, but nope, nothing exciting!!
25. What did you want to be when you were little? A Mommy
26. How are you today? Better, coming out of a couple day pity party!
27. What is your favorite candy? Almond Joy
28. What is your favorite flower? Star Gazer Lily
29. What is a day on the calendar you are looking forward to? Any day that hubby gets a job.
30. What's your full name? Lori Renee Suchecki Borntreger
31.What are you listening to right now? Rob and Ryan playing Play Station, and Lily and Dylan playing.
32. What was the last thing you ate? A cracker
33. Do you wish on stars? Absolutely!!
34. If you were a crayon, what color would you be? Hot Pink
35. How is the weather right now? Cold and Snowy
36. The first person you spoke to on the phone today? Tracy
37. Favorite soft drink? Diet Coke
38. Favorite restaurant? Olive Garden
39. Real hair color? Brown
40. What was your favorite toy as a child? Pooh
41. Hugs or kisses? BOTH :)
42. Chocolate or Vanilla? Chocolate
43. Coffee or tea? Neither
44. Do you want your friends to email you back? Yes!
45. When was the last time you cried? Yesterday, more of that pity party thing!
46. What is under your bed? Dust Bunnies
47. What did you do last night? Watched Grey's and addressed Christmas Cards
48. What are you afraid of? Losing my parents, my hubby, and my princess, and my sister
49. Salty or sweet? Salty than sweet, that would explain why my ass is sooo big!!
50. How many keys on your key ring? 8
51. Favorite day of the week? Friday
52. If you can choose your talent, what would it be? Artist
53. Do you make friends easily? Yes
54. How many people will you tag this to? 4
55. How many will respond? Hopefully all of them

Ok, I tag
Luz
Heather W.
Shanna
Tracy D.

Have a great weekend and pictures to come soon!!!


Wednesday, November 26, 2008

Happy Thanksgiving!!!

Just a quick post to wish you all a VERY HAPPY THANKSGIVING!!! Don't forget to count your blessings!!!


Monday, November 17, 2008

It's Snowing!!!!!!

I LOVE SNOW!!!!
In my book, if it's cold, it might just as well snow!!!
Look how beautiful it is!!!


Ok, now that I look at these, it really doesn't look that pretty, but it will!!! As soon as the snow covers all of the ugly brown from fall!!! And actually it looks so much better in person!

Have a great week!!!
xoxo




Tuesday, November 11, 2008

Honoring Our Veterans!


We say “thank you” when a store clerk hands us
change. We wave “thank you” when a motorist yields
us the right of way. We thank our friends when they
pay us compliments. If you think about it, we probably
use the words “thank you” or some variation of it at
least a dozen times a day. But how do you thank
someone for saving the world?
When you ask young men and women to endure
great hardships, drastically change their lifestyles and
possibly give their lives for you – the words “thank
you,” seem woefully insufficient.
Simply put, we owe them a debt that can never
be re-paid!
taken from: American Legion Veterans Day Speech 2008

Sunday, November 9, 2008

Happy Marine Corps Birthday Daddy!!

Happy 233rd Birthday Marines!!!!

I love you Daddy and so PROUD to be your daughter!!!! You will always be my HERO!!!

Semper Fi

ETA: To Luz, Dave and Bucky-Happy Birthday!!!

Saturday, November 1, 2008

Halloween Fun!!

Good Lord, it took me forever to load all of these photos!!

Lily waiting to carve pumpkins!

Lily picked out our designs for the pumpkins, she picked out an owl for Mommy, and she wanted to help poke holes!

She was not impressed with digging the guts out of the pumpkin, so she used a pumpkin scoop and did ok

Ahhhh, a photo for a daycare craft!

Here is the peanut ready to head out to the pumpkin patch

Riding a pony at the pumpkin patch, she thinks she's such a big girl!
Here's the princess going on her first ride all alone! They drove the kids around in this piggy train, and as Lily rode away, I had a tear in my eye! She is growing so fast and had no problem doing this all on her own! She even had to ride twice!!

She never stopped steering!!

Bye Bye

Here's our little punk princess ready to go trick or treating! Notice the owie next to her eye?? She fell the night we carved pumpkins and has a big scab and a black and blue eye!

With our pumpkins

She had an obsession with trying to get her nail polish off! She loves to have her nails painted, but loves even more to take it off!!

Checking some things out along our way!

Trick or Treating with Papa and Grammy! Lily had her own posse last night, we called ourselves the LOP (Lily's own Posse). Six adults and one kid trick or treating, she couldn't possibly be any more loved!!

Daddy and Lily

Lil needed a break along the way!

At home with all her loot!!

This is how the princess looked this morning. Daddy laughed and said she looked like she had a rough night at the bar! LOL!!
Lily had a ball last night, after every house she asked if we could trick or treat some more! She had great manners, always saying thank you after candy was put into her bucket!

This morning we busted her after she had taken her candy bucket off the counter and eating it!! Little stinker!!!

I know I haven't blogged much, but I'll try to get better!!

I hope you all had a wonderful Halloween!!

Friday, October 31, 2008

Happy Halloween!!!

Happy Halloween Everybody!!!!

Be safe and have fun!!!

I'll have lots of photos to share over the weekend, I'm sure!!


Monday, October 13, 2008

I'm on a Roll Now!!!!

I'm on a roll, another video!!! Woo Hoo!!! I promise when I do this again, I will not talk so close to the camera!!! LOL!!!

But at least you get to see the princess!!

(don't forget to hit pause on the playlist)

Our First Video


(for those that don't know, be sure to hit pause on my play list)

Ok, here it is, our first video!! I know it's a little annoying, I have a big mouth and Lily is pretty quiet, so bear with us!! Not to mention, I had no idea how Rob's camera worked, but I think I've got it now!

If this video works, I have a couple more from the same day to share. This video was taken a couple of weeks ago, and for real, the princess just makes me smile!!! As you can see, Lily was not that interested in being taped, and you have to laugh when she sees a mosquito in the middle of singing her song and she says I smash him!!

More to come tomorrow with an update!!

Ok, no one told me how long a 1 and 1/2 min video takes to upload!! Good Lord!!

Sunday, September 28, 2008

Blog Overload!!!!

Damn, I've been gone awhile!!! So grab a drink, cause this post is going to be a long one!

First off, I know this is a bad photo of the peanut, but I bought this shirt a long time ago on a trip to VA, and it finally fits her!!!! So this ones for my girl Luz, I know she'll love it!!

Can you even believe that my child walks around the house like this and thinks it's hilarious?? She has always walked on her tippy toes, but this is the new thing. Seriusly, have you tried this??? Yes, I have, but there is no way in hell I can do it!! She tells me she is a ballarenia. I've even had the Dr. check her out, and he says there is nothing wrong. I do have to tell her to walk on the bottom of her feet, then she'll do it for a little while, then right back to her toes!!
Now down to the nitty gritty, no Rob has not found a job yet. So needless to say our house is a little STRESSED at the moment!!!! He had an interview on Monday, and we haven't heard anything from that. They said it would take about a week for them to make a decision. Unfortunately the economy in MI is so bad right now, I'm starting to freak out that he won't find a job!!!! Please keep your fingers crossed and prayers going up for some good news REALLY soon!! Rob is doing some side work for a local business man just to help out with some cash (cause we really need it)!! We are thankful that he has a little work for him, even though it's just misc. odd jobs for him, it's better than nothing!!

Anyone out there sell Silpada jewelry or just love it?? I love their jewelry and I am going to start selling it. Something for a little extra cash. Jodie and are going to look at everything on Tuesday and go from there.

To all of you out there with debt, pay it off NOW!!! Don't wait till later!! If we had already paid off all of our debt before Rob was laid off, it wouldn't be a big deal, but since we still have 3 1/2 years to go, this really sucks!!!! You just never know when something like this will happen, so pay it off now!!!!!

I tried a couple of weeks ago to quit smoking, I was taking Chantix. Well, lets just say that I haven't quit smoking YET! I took the Chantix for those two weeks and as soon as I had to move to the higher dose, it made me sick. After three days of being sick, I finally said no more! So now, I'm trying to quit on my own! It's going to be a slower process, but I'm going to work at it! I'm down to like 5 smokes a day, I just am going to keep going down from that number and hope it works!! Wish me luck!!!

On another health note, will somebody PLEASE kick me in the ass to get me to stop being so lazy and exercise all this extra weight I am carrying away!!!! Damn, pretty soon I'm not going to fit into my damn clothes!!!!! And we all know that I can't afford to buy more!! I am in this rut and I can't get out!! I have no motivation!!! You would think since we are doing pretty much nothing while we have no money, that I could exercise!! I mean, it's free, I have a treadmill and an weight bench/2 station machine downstairs, so I have no excuse at all!!!! My daughter would love to go for walks or bike rides too, pretty soon the snow will be falling and we won't be able to do those things, so you'd think I'd be doing it now!!!! Hello Lori????!!

I did get to go have some fun last weekend!! Every September (and May) we go up north to Karen's place to celebrate her Birthday with a girls weekend away. I said I couldn't go this year for obvious reasons, the closer it got, I wanted to go, I don't miss girl's weekends away!!! So I got to go, thanks to Jodie!!! So I decided to surprise the girls!!! I knew they would be sitting at the Oak Grove Tavern by the time we got there, so I walked in and surprised them!! As always we had a wonderful time!!! These are the girls that I would call my closest friends!!! I can't imagine my life without these girls in it!!!! Now, I wish I had a photo of the one armed man that came walking out of the woods at 2:30 in the morning, but I don't!!! We had just got back to the cabin and we were standing outside and low and behold from out of the wood walks a one armed man who was talking to himself, he couldn't find his car!!! Hello, you've just walked 15 mins from the bar, your car is not here!!!!! Anyhow, we always have some crazy funny stories from our girls weekends, but this one takes the cake!!!! I hardly took any photos and the group photo we always take for some reason won't download. So here are just two photos!!!

Karen and LoLo

Jodie and Wendy

I haven't scrapped much lately, but I do have some lo's to show you that I just downloaded from the camera.







Here are two ATC swaps that I have done in the last month or so:





Well, I guess it's time to check out, football is coming on!!!

I did do a video of Lily and as soon as I can figure out how to post it I will!!

Have a great week!!!

xoxo

Wednesday, September 17, 2008

What Color Are You??

BLUE

You give your love and friendship unconditionally. You enjoy long, thoughtful conversations rich in philosophy and spirituality. You are very loyal and intuitive.

Find out your color at QuizMeme.com!

Monday, September 15, 2008

The Social Butterfly Collection

OMG, I LOVE this new collection that just came out today over at SIS!!!

Be sure to stop HERE and check out all the details!!!

I love the collections offered by SIS, they push me to use products that I might never choose, and I always like how my lo's turn out!

If you need a little push or just some cool new stuff, check out their collections!!

Happy Monday everybody!!

Thursday, September 11, 2008

Sunday, September 7, 2008

Hard Times Ahead!

No cute photos of the baby today, but I will post some this week!

We got some BAD news on Friday that we weren't expecting, sent us into shock and panic!! After 11 years on the job, Rob was laid off indefinitely. It's a pretty scary situation!!! You just don't think it will happen to you!! So now Rob has to find a new job FAST!! It will probably take two jobs for him to make what he made, it will also mean I will get a second job too. We are on a budget plan now and we CAN'T go off of it, we've come to far!!!

Not much sleep to be had here, too much worrying going on!!! I'm so afraid that we will lose everything unless he can find something fast!! Please pray that this is a blessing in disguise, that Rob will find something QUICK!!!

xoxo

Thursday, August 28, 2008

My Girl Is Getting So Big!!!

Look at my little stinker!!! She didn't believe me when I told her that we had just used the rest of the peanut butter, so I gave her the jar. Yes, she did manage to get a little more out!!
Clean up after this was really fun!!! NOT
My baby girl never wears her hair down, and look at this!! She usually wears it up cause I can't stand her hair hanging in her face yet I'm still not ready to get her very first hair cut!! Maybe when she's three in a few months I'll get the courage to cut it!! I can't believe how long it has gotten and how much of a big girl she is becoming!!! Kinda makes me sad!!
Look at that mop!!

I'm tired today!!! I'm so glad the week is almost over and it's a three day weekend!! We've decided to stay home for the long weekend!! We've got plenty to do here at home, and it will save us some money. I've got three sets of ATC's to get done and there's no time like the present right?? What do you all have planned for the long weekend??

I drafted last night for fantasy football!!! Had a blast!! Not so sure about my team, but hey, it can't be worse than my last years team!!! I'm looking forward to football season!!! You all know what I'll be doing on Monday nights!!! Woo Hoo!!! Even Lily gets into "touchdown" as she calls football, she tend to copy what I do when I'm yelling and screaming at the tv. I really have to watch what I say!!! Are you ready for some football???

Not much else going on! I'm thinking about getting a second job in the evenings. Not looking forward to it but I don't want to go off my budget, so I have to do what I have to do!! We are doing great on the budget, and I won't give up, we WILL have everything payed off in 4 years or less!!!!

Happy Thursday!!
xoxo

Wednesday, August 27, 2008

Check This Out!

Check out my new widget to the right!!! Scrap In Style TV affiliate, how cool is that?? You too can be an affiliate!! It's as easy as posting the banner on your blog. If you want to become an affiliate, just click on the link and sign up. You can earn some great benefits that come along with being an affiliate!!! Anybody who signs up through my link, send me an email and let me know you did and I will put your name into a drawing for a RAK!!!

So Cool!!

Some cool news to share, I was given this blog award from my girl Sasha!!

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Thanks so much to Sassy Sasha for my Gold Card blog award.

The Rules of this award are:

1. Only 5 people allowed.

2. 4 have to be dedicated followers of your blog

3. one has to be someone new or recently new to your blog and live in another part of the world.

4. you must link back to whoever gave you the award.


So I would like to send this award to...

Since, I know by my Neo counter that I have readers from other parts of the world, but I have no idea who they are, I sent my last award to my sweet cousin instead!! It took me awhile to get this done, but YAY, I did it!!!!

I would love for those of you who stop by to say hello!!! I love making new online friends!!

Stay tuned for a RAK next week!

Fantasy football draft tonight, Woo Hoo!!!!


xoxo


Tuesday, August 26, 2008

Tuesday Ramblings


It's Tuesday and I'm tired already! I stayed up too late scrapbooking last night, but I had to get this challenge done for Sassy Sasha's Wacky Wednesday challenge, since a new one comes out tomorrow! Sasha comes out with some great ideas, and her journaling is amazing!

We had a super busy weekend!!! Friday night Rob and I went to an all class reunion and stayed out too late, but had a great time!! (maybe a little too much fun for me!)

Saturday we had our annual corn roast! It was hotter than hell all morning while we finished setting up, with rain in the forecast for later. Yep, it rained for awhile, but the party went on! The adults huddled under tents and the kids played in the rain. Lily loved it!! She wouldn't come in out of the rain no matter how hard we tried. By about 6 pm, I would guess, I stopped raining and the rest of the night was great!

Sunday I headed to Michigan Adventure with Robynn, and our friends who came down for the corn roast from Flint. Had a blast!!! We never even made it to the water park, but we road all the roller coasters, got soaked before we went home on a couple of water rides, laughed a lot and enjoyed spending time with them!! Mom and Dad bought me the ticket to get in for my Birthday, so I was able to go! I got to ride my first suspended roller coaster, and I loved it!!

Needless to say, by the time we all got home on Sunday night, we were EXHAUSTED!!!! In bed by 10:30 AND sleeping!!!

School will be starting soon and I'll be losing a few kids to school, so I'm really going to be broke!! The budget is going to kill me!! I had two kids that were going to start when school started, I've known about them since May. Well, guess what???? They aren't coming now!!! I think I better go out looking for a job at night!! UGHH!!!!

Tomorrow night is draft for Fantasy Football!!! I'm so excited!!! I'm ready for some Football!!!!

The kids are all starting to come now, so I must check out for now!!

xoxo

Wednesday, August 20, 2008

Check This Out!

I'm sure that most of you know that my favorite place to hang out on the web is over at SIStv.
Great ladies, tons of inspiration, great challenges and awesome collections. Be sure to stop over and check us out!


Check out this super cool, funky, fabulous, Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious collection about to be released over at SIStv boutique. This collection is available For PreOrder Until 8.24, Spend $50 and Get A $10 Gift Card! While you are there check out the rest of the boutique, there is some great stuff!!!

Happy Wednesday!!

Tuesday, August 19, 2008

A Girls Weekend Away!!

Lily, Grammy and I had a great weekend away!! Rob took us out to the campground and dropped us off on Wednesday night! Just the girls, Woo Hoo!! Auntie Robynn came out on Friday night and stayed with us too. Lily just loves camping, she loves being outside, she loves to play in the dirt, she loves to shovel, she loves to watch the fire!! We spent most of the time relaxing, playing cards, heading to the beach and even a Saturday morning trip to Build a Bear! Rob and Papa came out Saturday night with Pizza and stayed the night too!

Here is my crazy child! We are so lucky the fire pit was not still hot from the night before, cause this is where I found her! She told me that her and her puppy were taking a bath!!

I have NEVER seen my child as dirty in her 2 1/2 years (and this photo just doesn't even show how dirty she really was). She loved every minute of it!!!
Grammy and Lily on the walk to the beach
Of course I had to put her in a tree for a photo
Here we are back at camp with her new Tommy the turtle! She picked out the turtle and wanted him to be a boy! She loves all of her animals from Build a Bear, but Sophie the monkey is her favorite!!
Awww....I just love this photo of Grammy and Lily!!! Lily loves her Grammy!!
Ok, I don't like this photo!! Then again, I don't like ANY photos of myself!!
Nothing better than a sunset over Lake Michigan!!
I've got more photos tomorrow of Lily playing on the beach!! She loved the beach!!!

Lots going on this week!! Meeting some new daycare parents tonight, tomorrow setting up for our annual family corn roast, Thursday night a beauty party, Friday night, an all class reunion, Saturday the corn roast, and Sunday, clean up!!! I need a nap, just thinking about it!!!

Peace Out!!

Tuesday, August 12, 2008

On A Happier Note.....

Lots to say, but just too tired to say!!! So for today I'm just sharing photos of the princess!! She has been hamming it up lately!!! I included a couple of photos of the quilt that Grammy made for Lily's big girl bed. It is so adorable!!! Grammy embroidered on it with her name and such and it all turned out soooo cute!!! Thanks Grammy, we love it and you too!!

Thanks for all of your kind words yesterday, really means a lot!! Much love to ya!!