Valetnines Day swap and a crazy life

. I know I am bad about posting lately. It has been crazy here. Last week I was in the hospital for surgery on my shoulder. They had to shave some bones down that were pressing on muscles and nerves. I was there for three days and during that time the family was sick. I have been home resting this past week and it has been quiet but painful. I don't like taking to many pain pills but I am coping.
 Next week we are heading out on a trip I won to go see the US Ski Team compete in the World Alpine Ski Championships and then to Berlin for a couple of days. I will try to take pictures and post them up!!

Also, I am involved in a Valentine's Day swap with my friend Tamara,  from http://memorybeandesigns.blogspot.com/. We don't know who has each other. We are supposed to get a little box and send it off by tomorrow. Of course I did!! I just love the person who I got and enjoyed shopping for her. I sent a heart of candy and a very nice German glass. Over here we don't have a lot of valentines stuff so I did the best I could. I hope she enjoys it. When I get mine I will post what I got and thank whoever it is. I love mail and even sent out some snail mail to a few people!! YAY me, well I am going to go lay on the couch and let the family take care of me.

Pencil Pals

Well the Holidays are over and I am still tired!! It was great and now we are working on getting Grandma home. She has been in the hospital here for a week with an infection in her leg. Its been getting better but still stressful that she is there. On another note, one of my blog friends had a great idea. I miss getting mail and she came up with pencil pals. So, I am going to do it to and if you want to get notes and cards from me and we can send things to each other, email me your address at tiggerfan79@gmail.com and lets get it started!!

Holiday Cards

The holiday season is fast approaching and I love to do Christmas Cards. Last year I went through Shutterfly and they looked fabulous!! I like things to be simple and easy, and shutterfly is very easy. I did mine in about 20 minutes, I had to find the right pictures and that what took the longest. As soon as I ordered them they were here in about a week, and for APO that was pretty quick!! They looked great and my family loved them. I choose something that is winterish so it can be displayed until the Spring and maybe this year I will do one for every season. You should go check them out. Its well worth it and if you don't believe me go here and check it out!
http://www.shutterfly.com/cards-stationery/5x7-folded-greeting-cards
P.S.  I have done the photo books through them as well for gifts and people love it. Its more personal than what you can give from a store!
http://www.shutterfly.com/photo-books/simple-path

Barbie Cake!!

  

 

My first attempt at doing a Barbie cake!! It is for my neighbors little girl who is turning 4. What do you think? Should I do more? It was so much fun!!

A moment of silence for Butch.

Lets take a moment of silence for Summer's Dad Butch. He lost his fight of cancer on October 24th. Please pray for her and her family at this hard time.

A promotion and a sickness

Well it finally happened, after months of waiting and years of hoping, I finally became the next rank!! WOO HOO!! It felt good and really deserved. Now I am looking already to go to the board again in a few months and keep moving forward in my career!!

Now I am sick, my head hurts and my throat kills. My voice sounds like a guy!! I am trying to keep motivated at work and do my job, buts its hard!! I am so tired by dinner I go to bed. However, there is a light oat the end of the tunnel. I can't stay sick forever.

I want to give a shout out to my friend Kristie. She has an awesome blog, and wrote about me!! Check out her blog and follow, She is a very funny person and makes me laugh even when I am sick!!

http://momwifewinowoman.blogspot.com/

A video

So the family and I went to a fest here in Graf. It was great, they had a mini obstacle course and let kids shoot a weapon ( shot blanks so no worries) The kids enjoyed it and I made a video of it, Enjoy!!