Autumn

I love that Adam is old enough to enjoy the seasons now.

Dinosaur Cowboy

The Great Pumpkin

It took me 2 hours on the evening of my anniversary to make this creation. I made it for Caren's wedding shower the following day. I enjoyed making it and forced Caren to vote for my pumpkin to win a prize! (they're HUGE Hawaii fans and are getting married there in February, hence the Hawaiian themed pumpkin).

I need to get more pumpkins, this was really fun!

6 Years and Still in Love

Happy Anniversary sweetie! I love you!

Hard to believe it's already been 6 years.

Overwhelmed with the Spirit

The Holy Spirit is just flooding in on my life today and it feels fabulous.

I feel kinda stupid and haven't admitted to many that I took the test for the Google job and actually failed. I'm really bad at test taking and had this feeling while I was taking it a few weeks ago that I was going to fail. I'd done the work before via Sarah and that just made me feel even more stupid. How did I fail at a test for something I've already been doing!?!?

Anyways, I was upset for about 10 minutes and then the Holy Spirit gave me peace with the situation and I was OK. I was assured that the Lord was taking me somewhere so I just decided to go along for the ride.

A few months back I had talked to someone about a job at the Glass Academy near me. Anyone who knows me knows that this place is right up my alley. And the owners are this really cool husband-wife team who understand who I am and that at first I am a mother! I'd talked to the wife (Michelle) many times about a job with them but it just never worked out, mostly because they didn't have the budget to hire someone.

Guess who I got a call from today! Michelle at the Glass Academy!! They now have a budget to hire me part-time and I can work my schedule into their schedule. I'm not doing anything fancy like blowing hot glass but it will bring my family some income! I start working the weekend after Thanksgiving at their holiday show (I'll be selling tickets all weekend so if you want to see some really awesome artwork come visit me at work!). Then, starting in November I'll work a couple days a week helping Michelle with some tasks.

And then tonight I received interest from a 7th student about my November class!!

Thank you LORD! I'm really looking forward to November! It's so awesome when your faith is majorly tested yet you stay strong and are greatly rewarded for it. Don't tell me there's not a God out there.

Idiocracy

Since Sarah (aka Ruth to the Rescue) is out of town I thought I'd take over for her tonight.

New recall: The Bumbo Seat.

Apparently it should be called the "Bimbo Seat" because parents were using the product on tabletops and *duh* the kids fell out and fractured their skulls.

With this recall if you're that unintelligent you will get a warning sticker to put on the seat telling you not to use it on tables. We just watched the movie Idiocracy and it's really hitting home with this recall!

Memories

I spent this past weekend in Harrison with my 82 year old grandmother and my 2-1/2 year old son. It was quite tiring because I was the translator between the two of them for three whole days!

My gram has had this little place up north forever and it's always so weird to go back there as an adult. The memories just come flooding back and they make me kinda sad. Sad that I don't really spend time with my cousins anymore. Sad that I don't do some of the things that I used to. And sad that my grandma is getting very old. She's still kickin it like she's 65 but I think she's pretty lonely. Everyday she would reminisce about memories she has and it made me wonder... is she making any new memories? Because the only thing that makes me not feel too depressed about the memories from long ago is that I'm making new ones all the time. I guess that by spending time with her I'm helping her make new memories and that's pretty great.

Yes, I live in Dearborn

And NO I haven't been raped.

I never watch the news and so a few people have decided to tell me about this serial rapist in the Dearborn and Dearborn Heights area. It is very close to my house and that is scary.

However, yesterday I had my storm door open because it was so nice out and Brian was gone most of the afternoon so I didn't lock the screen (he gets kinda irritate when I lock him out). At about 2 o'clock I had this weird feeling (I now know it was God) telling me to lock my screen door. I didn't but I should've! I just happened to be watching Rachael Ray when the 4 o'clock news came on and I heard the report about the rapist. I now know I should listen when God tells me something!

Currently Blessed - Update

This weekend I got a call from couple #6 to join my class!!!!!!!!!!!!! Yipee!

What toy recalls?

Who needs toys when you have cardboard boxes?

At least I know these don't contain lead. (I hope)

Currently Blessed

Wow, in the last week I've had 4 couples sign up for my next Bradley class starting in early November. I'm going to have to move my class into my living room because the family room where I usually have class isn't big enough! The most I've had in one class has been 2 couples.

I'm convinced this is happening because I've been passing referrals onto teachers that I can't accomodate. Instead of being selfish and trying to make it work out so that I can teach them I just pass them on to a teacher that I know needs students. Kind of like giving an offering in real life. I know that God tells me what to do so that I can further His kingdom not my own!

Awesome

MEME from Meagan V

Four jobs I have had in my life:
1. sales girl at Dunham's
2. waitress
3. architectural designer (not quite an architect yet)
4. mommy

Four Movies I have watched over and over:
1. austin powers (watchin it right now. "baby, the other other white meat")
2. 50 first dates
3. mean girls
4. (I'm looking for a new one to put here)

Four places I have lived:
1. redford twp., mi
2. detroit, mi
3. florence, italy
4. dearborn, mi

Four Shows I love to watch:
1. the office
2. grey's anatomy
3. dancing with the stars
4. rachael ray

Four Places I have been on vacation:
1. all the way across the US to California and back
2. nyc
3. italy
4. maui

Four of my favorite foods:
1. cold stone founder's favorite
2. pierogies
3. unsulfered dried apricots (look em up at Trader Joe's, they're delish)
4. chicken tawook sandwich

Four favorite drinks:
1. water
2. mojito
3. chai tea latte
4. water

Four places I would rather be right now:
1. camping
2. on a beach anywhere
3. on a scenic drive in michigan
4. driving highway 1 in california

Four people I will tag:
you read this and you're tagged sucker.

My new favorite photographer

Tophe Dannug is so talented and I'm so grateful for him! These are just a few of the great pictures he took of our family. I highly recommend him for your photo needs and I will be using him much more in the future. I uploaded the rest of the photos here. (a couple of them still need to be cropped)

Adam Eating

A giant sweet treat in downtown Detroit

(I don't recommend these, there was sticky orange everywhere)

A nice healthy treat at the apple orchard

Currently Reading

I'm too cheap to buy a book so instead I got this one out of the library and it's so popular that I could only get it out for a week. I just read half of it last night and this afternoon. I have to go return it right now and I was done so I had to photocopy the last 30 pages. What a loser. Just buy the stupid book! Anyways, I highly recommend it, so far.