January Recap

Well it's been a while since I blogged, so here's a little recap of January.

I completed 10 pages which included finishing 3 albums. I only had a few pages in each album to complete but it took me over 10 years to finally sit down and actually do them.

Dillon celebrated his 8th birthday with cupcakes at his Cub Scout meeting, cookies at school, a family party and finally a friend party only three weeks after his birthday.

We celebrated Keith's birthday by going to Filo Spinato's. This was our first time going to this restaurant and the food was fabulous. I can't wait to go again.

We took Dillon a few of his friends sledding. They had a blast. I went to take a bunch of pictures and watch them. Keith ended up being the sled pusher and went down the hill a couple of times with Dillon. I did go down the hill once with Keith (I didn't want to have to carry the sled back up the hill). We went down on a large inner tube and I laughed all the way down. It was sooooo funny!

Keith asked me to trim his hair for him one evening and he did something that distracted me, I was talking and not thinking. Well I forgot to put on one of the sheer guards and I just started shaving. After I started cutting, he asked "what number do you have on that?" All I could do is freeze, say "oops," and bust out laughing. I was laughing so hard that I was crying and begging my mother to fix it. She did go to beauty school, so she should be able to fix it, right? NOT! There was no way to fix it so I had to shave his whole head. After I was done and stopped crying from laughter, I decided that it looked better at this new SHORTER length. When he went to work the next day, everyone agreed with me. Although it did look good when I finished, it was a hilarious "oops" when it happened!

Around the middle of the month I thought I was knocking on deaths door. I was having a terrible time breathing and ended up in the ER. After an X-ray of my lungs, a CAT scan, a urinalysis, blood tests, an EKG, and a breathing treatment, they sent me home with an inhaler and ibuprofen. I was told I had a virus. It was one hell of a virus! While I was in the ER and had every tube hooked up to me that they could find: one on my finger, oxygen tubes in my nose, an IV and I was smoking a peace pipe (having a breathing treatment), this is when my husband asks if I have my camera. Well since I came straight from school and don't carry it there with me, no, I didn't have it with me. Mind you this is one of the very rare times he asks for a camera. He says to me "to bad, this would make a great scrapbook page." What is this man thinking? He hardly ever takes a picture of me when I'm dressed up or looking nice, he wants to take a picture of me with a bunch of tubes sticking out of me...MEN!!!

For the next week I spent a lot of time on the couch and tried to keep everything on a low key.

And then I had 7 boys at my house to celebrate Dillon's birthday. Someone shoot me if I ever think of having that many boys in my house again without their parents. Boys are ROUGH! Luckily it was a great evening for them all to play in the snow. Dillon had a great time. We suprised him with a visit from his best friend Hunter that moved to Cary and we haven't seen in a couple of monts. He was most excited when he learned that Hunter was staying the whole weekend with us! It was great for me too because Hunter and Dillon got along great and didn't bother me at all. They played and played and played...

Then this past Friday, I had a crop. We had Thora and Natalie join us for their first time and we look forward to scrapping with her again. Toni and Nadeen was with us, we hadn't seen either of them for a while. Now Toni is buying a house in Campaign and we hope she keeps in touch. Toni is excited because the house she's buying has a one bedroom apartment attached to it which she is converting into her stamping, scrapping and sewing studio. I told her that we need pictures, this is so exciting! Nancy gave me a belated Christmas present that I am very ecstatic about. She gave me two stamp sets; one is of a tigers head and the other is a really cute baseball set. I can't wait to use them, thank you very much Nancy! We also had 6 ladies that are our regulars that I always love seeing. I have so much fun with all the ladies, they are really a great group. I always look forward to scrapping with them.

Finally, yesterday we celebrated my Uncle's 70th birthday. My Aunt Pam had a huge open house b-day party for him and probably invited half of the O'Hare United Airlines ground crew. There were a lot of people there and my Uncle really appreciated it. The family stayed late and we pulled out the cards to play our family favorite...Pinochle! We had a great time! My Aunt Bev was my partner and we were the only all girl team. I hadn't played since my Grandmother died over three years ago. We played three rounds and went undefeited...yippee! GIRLS RULE!

So as you can see, I was either very busy or very sick this month. And now I'm looking forward to another very busy month.