I am LUCKY!

I totally stole this from Stacy Julian's blog, but why mess with genius. And that woman is, a genius.

My lucky number is 7, so here are 7 things that I am lucky to have in my life:

1) I am lucky to have a husband that works hard so we can run our own business, which enables me to stay home and play most days. I am incredibly lucky to not have to get up each morning and go work a job I don't particularly like.

2) I am lucky to have a wonderful family. And even though we live far apart and spread out, there is great support and love every day to help me get through this journey of life.

3) I am lucky to have so many scrapbooking friends far & wide that share this crazy hobby with me. I love reconnecting with them every so often and following their every day antics via Facebook, Blogs and e-mail. I love you guys and miss you every day...

4) I am lucky to have a precociousus 4 year old who woke up this morning saying "Mommy, I have to show you something" and came to my bed with a handful of sparkly shamrocks that had been scattered all over the house and her bedroom last night. She didn't even notice the green milk. LOL

5) I am lucky to have hobbies that I love, including scrapbooking, cooking, watching movies & playing volleyball. It is wonderful to have outlets for my energy every day and to learn new things all the time. Recently we've been experimenting with vegetarian cooking and I am amazed at how much info is out there that I did not know about.

6) I am lucky to have awesome friends who throw amazing parties that we are invited to, so I don't have to...

7) I am lucky to have the cutest little almost 5 year-old for a daughter. She brings me joy every day and I am so grateful to have her in my life.

We Survived...

the by now "infamous" wedding reception. Our friends Stephanie & Jim got married on April 13th in Costa Rica. We offered them our house to host their Washington reception, (they also had one in Texas). So we've been prepping, cleaning, waxing and moving stuff around in preparation for yesterday's big event. My husband was happy to finally have the motivation he (we) needed to get our garage cleaned out, some stuff moved around and everything clean and sparkling.

We had tiki torches set up, tables with beautiful seashell centerpieces and much more...

About 80 people showed up, give or take, of which quite a few were kids. Stephanie has connections through the Indian tribes and had a guy named Alex cater the event. The food he whipped up was phenomenal. Didn't know they ate that good in Costa Rica. We had some wonderful chicken on a vegetable mix rice, a black bean fried rice (I can't recall the Costa Rican name), coleslaw, green salad ,watermelon and pineapple, and of course the mandatory wedding cake (thank you Costco!). The piece de resistance was his phenomenal pork, which was slow baked in a banana glaze and finished off with a sweet and sour mango salsa. Yummy! We had leftovers today and they are almost better the second time around.

So today, after feeding the people that stayed over breakfast, and cleaning up the party remnants, was a lazy day. We spent some time watching beach volleyball and I am happy to say that Misty May and Kerry Walsh are on their way to kick some butt at the summer Olympics in Beijing. Imagine playing in 101 consecutive matches and winning them all. What a legacy... Do you think I could quit my job and move to San Diego to pursue a Beach Volleyball career? A girl can dream, can't she?

Day OFF

Here I am with a day off and still no motivations to get anything done. Well, not absolutely nothing. I do have the second load of laundry in the machine and my volleyball clothes are packed for my 2 PM Game and tonight's match. I plan on staying in town between the two to get some chores done like grocery shopping, collecting last little presents or things I need to finish them, etc.




We received another card, this one totally unexpected. It's from the Iron shop where we purchased the parts for the railing for our house. It's kind of nice to get cards from unexpected sources, don't you think?