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This is a part of the group that Mark and I camp with.  There are ALOT of couples that camp with us and we have become good friends with.  This weekend, starting as soon as I leave work tomorrow, is GIRLS WEEKEND!  I can't wait.  I work to much and need a damn break.  All these girls will be there plus some more.  FUN FUN FUN!!

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Busy Week

This week was really busy for me.  It seemed like we had something to do every day this week. 
Sunday night Mark and I went to see Melissa Ethridge with some friends of ours.  She was awesome.  This was the 2nd time that I have seen her in concert.  The first time was right before she was diagnoised with breast cancer.  She came out with the awakening album after that.  That album is great.  I still love Lucky the most though.  Her concert was really cool.  She made the concert into a little story of her life and the songs she sang were about each stage in her life.  Funny I never realized that alot of her songs were so real to her life.
Wednesday night I went to see my favorite of all time perfomer.  I have seen Rod at least 10 times.  Rod Stewart and the Faces were my older sisters favorite and I grew up listening to him.  It carried over into my adult life also.  I just love seeing him in concert and I never tire of seeing him.  If any of you have ever been to a Rod Stewart concert you know that he kicks soccer balls out into the audience each concert he does.  They are autographed by him.  I caught one of those socceer balls on his 2004 tour and it is one of my "prized possesions"!  That was the highlight of my week for sure.

These are a few of the pics that I took at the concert.  I took my older sister with me since she is the one that introduced me to Rod to begin with!  That is her and I at the concert.  I took so many pictures! 
The other really exciting event this week was the new addition to our family.  Her name is Maggie May (yep after Rod Stewarts song, it has always been my favorite)  She is 8 weeks old (born June 9th) and she is a multipoo.  I am totally in love with her already.  So is everyone in the house, oh yea all my neighbors too!

I think she is just so cute!  Our other dogs and our cat have all adjusted to her being her already.  Diva (the cat) did not like her at all for the first day or two but now they chase each other around the house.  It is comical to watch.  House breaking is going alot better than I thought. 

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Wow I didn't realize that it had been that long since I had made an entry in my journal!  I guess that means that nothing exciting has happened around my house.  That probably isn't true but I have no other excuse.

John and Josh are getting ready to leave for college.  Josh leaves on the 14th and John leaves on the 20th.  It is coming up fast.  I am not sure I am ready but I know that I don't have a choice.  Getting everything they need and taking care of all the financial aid forms and all the stuff that goes with that sure does take alot of time!  I think we now have everything in place for both of them though.  I hope!

We have been staying at the camper alot.  We just brought it home this past week (Monday) and I am enjoying my time at home.  I love the camper but after two weeks I am ready to come home and stay there for awhile.  We won't be taking the camper back until the 14th.  It is "girls" weekend.  Only girls allowed at the camper that weekend.  We will bring it home that Sunday (the 17th) but will take it back up there on that Tuesday (the 19th) and it will stay there for at least two weeks after that.  I will be on vacation the last week of August so it will be fun. I can't wait.  Ineed one!

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25 things I love about my husband

For some reason I can't add pictures today.  Oh well I guess  I will have to do without

1.  He makes me feel loved.

2. He makes my children feel loved.

3. He was brave enough to date a woman with 5 children, who were all teen agers at the time.

4. He loves working at the church as security for the babies.

5 He loves working at with the high school youth group at church.

6. He loves his Mom and Dad.

7.  He loves his brothers and sisters.

8. He enjoys his job and likes to go to work each day.

9. He never calls in sick to work.

10. He loves to go camping with me.

11. He pays all the bills.

12. He cleans the house.

13. He likes to go see my boys at thier sporting events.

14.  He is a great dad to his daughter.

15. He likes to cook.

16. He sits in the hot tub with me and listens to me complian if I need to.

17. He doesn't feel the need to "fix" my problems he knows I just want to vent, and he lets me.

18. He gets me a glass of wine so I can unwind when I have had a bad day.

19.  When he knows my feelings are hurt by someone else, he always asks "what can I do to make you feel better?"

20. He always asks if I need money for lunch, even if he just gave me money for lunch the day before.

21. He is very good looking!

22. He loves our animals.

23.  He is letting me get my new dog Maggie.

24. He goes to all the football games his daugther cheers.

25. He volunteers to be the "team mom" for his daughters cheerleading team!!

 

I could go on, but it said 25 so I did 25!

Been along time since I have done one of these

1. WERE YOU NAMED AFTER ANYONE?  Yes

2. WHEN WAS THE LAST TIME YOU CRIED? Sunday

3. DO YOU LIKE YOUR HANDWRITING? No

4. WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE LUNCH MEAT? Not so much lunch meat but I love tuna fish

5. DO YOU HAVE KIDS? Yes, 1 daughter, one stepdaughter and four sons

6. IF YOU WERE ANOTHER PERSON WOULD YOU BE FRIENDS WITH YOU? Yes on most days
7. DO YOU USE SARCASM A LOT? sometimes but I try not to

8. DO YOU STILL HAVE YOUR TONSILS Yep

9. WOULD YOU BUNGEE JUMP? NO WAY

10. WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE CEREAL? oatmeal
11. DO YOU UNTIE YOUR SHOES WHEN YOU TAKE THEM OFF? Yes

12. DO YOU THINK YOU ARE STRONG?  YES

13. WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE ICE CREAM? Lots of them are my favorites!

14. WHAT IS THE FIRST THING YOU NOTICE ABOUT PEOPLE? Depends on the person, I don't notice the same thing about everyone

15. RED OR PINK? Red

16. WHAT IS THE LEAST FAVORITE THING ABOUT YOURSELF? Weight

17. WHO DO YOU MISS THE MOST My mom

18. DO YOU WANT EVERYONE TO SEND THIS BACK TO YOU? not worried about that so much

19. WHAT COLOR  SHOES ARE YOU WEARING? purple and white asics running shoes

20. WHAT WAS THE LAST THING YOU ATE? omlet

21. WHAT ARE YOU LISTENING TO RIGHT NOW? nothing on in here

22. IF YOU WHERE A CRAYON, WHAT COLOR WOULD YOU BE?  Blue

23. FAVORITE SMELL?  freshly cut grass

24. WHO WAS THE LAST PERSON YOU TALKED TO ON THE PHONE? debbie

25. FAMOUS PERSON YOU WOULD LIKE TO MEET?  can't think of one
25. DO YOU LIKE THE PERSON WHO SENT THIS TO YOU?  yes
26. FAVORITE SPORTS TO WATCH? Nascar
27. HAIR COLOR? blonde
28. EYE COLOR? blue

29. DO YOU WEAR CONTACTS? I have but I don't anymore
30. FAVORITE FOOD? mexican

31. SCARY MOVIES OR HAPPYENDINGS? Happy
32. LAST MOVIE YOU WATCHED? blades of glory

33. WHAT COLOR SHIRT ARE YOU WEARING? I am wearing scrubs

34. SUMMER OR WINTER? summer

35. HUGS OR KISSES? both

36. FAVORITE DESSERT? hot fudge ice cream cake

37. MOST LIKELY TO RESPOND? not sure

38. LEAST LIKELY TO RESPOND?  not sure
39. WHAT BOOK ARE YOU READING NOW? I can't remember the name I will look when I get home and post it

40. WHAT IS ON YOUR MOUSE PAD? Leukemia and lymphoma society team in training

41. WHAT DID YOU WATCH ON TV LAST NIGHT? Twilight zone

42. FAVORITE SOUND? Aiden's voice

43. ROLLING STONES OR BEATLES? Stones

44. WHAT IS THE FARTHEST YOU HAVE BEEN FROM HOME?  Mexico

45. DO YOU HAVE A SPECIAL TALENT? hummmm

46. WHERE WERE YOU BORN? MI

47. WHOSE ANSWERS ARE YOU LOOKING FORWARD TO GETTING BACK?  All of them

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I don't know how many of you read my old journal before I deleted it, but in that journal I wrote about the day that I was baptized.  It was a wonderful day for me.  Before we were dipped in the water we were allowed to say something first if we wanted to.  All of my children were there with me that day. Only one of my children, on that day, had the same beliefs in Jesus Christ, that I did.  They did go to church with me and I prayed that they would understand the way that I had come to understand.  That was the only thing that I said that day.........that I hoped that my children would understand someday what it was that I believed.   I didn't want to be pushy and slam the things that I had come to believe down thier throats.  I had not gone to church when they were little so thier Mom going to church was a new thing to them.  I wanted the to explore and make thier own decisions.  Oddly enough, the only son who was interested in even exploring was my son, Robbie.  Robbie is gay and he had had experiences with "religion" that had left him feeling........not so warm, shall we say.  Robbie had many talks with our teaching minister.  He really was an awesome man.  The pastor of the church at the time refused to baptize Robbie because of Robbie "lifestyle" as he called it.  The teaching minister came to our house and baptized Robbie in our lake.  The teaching minister, and us, are no longer at that church. 
Well anyways back to the picture.  My youngest son, yes the youngest of the twins came home with this tatto.  I was surprised that he got one.  He had never shown much interest in one.  He has been involved with the  youth group of our church for awhile bit I wasn't sure where his beliefs were headed.  He went to a camp for a week in January and when he came home he told me it was "awesome".  OK, that sounds good, I was thinking.  The tatto is a cross (duh) with his favorite bible verse ( I didn't even know he had one) and the date 1-19-2008 is the date he accepted Christ into his life.  That would be while he was at that camp.  That would be why it was so awesome.  Ok Lord, two down, three to go....................Thank you Lord.  

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Thank you

I want to thank you all for your thoughts and prayers.  Let me tell you first off that no one in my family is hurt.  One of my kids did get into trouble though and it is going to be a long road of repair.   Although I was very disappointed and scared and angry, I do know that what happened happens to alot of people.  I don't want to go into detail, it wouldn't be fair but I wanted you all to know that everything is ok.  I had just hoped that they would of listened to me better!  Don't all Mom's say that?
On to better things.  The picture I posted today was taken at the twins graduation party.  It turned out wonderful.  I will post more pictures soon.  We are camping this weekend so I probably won't be able to post more pictures till I get home to that computer (the one with the pictures on it!)  till Sunday.  I hope you all have a wonderful 4th and that you take all the rest and relaxation that you need.  I know that i am going to!

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