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We are busy getting ready to have dinner early and go out trick or treating! Thankfully it is going to be a very mild night unlike last year. I am grateful to have my fingers. 
I thought they were going to fall off due to frostbite! Be sure to watch out for those ghouls and goblins so that they don’t steal all your candy when you aren’t looking!
Have a safe and fun filled night!
I am not one to rant on about politics and like a few other subjects, I usually keep my views to myself and will most likely never blog about them. I have about had it with the polling calls every hour and am REALLY tired of all the ads on tv. This is a very important election I know, but enough is enough. I know who I am voting for in the big government, just not our local yet and I think that is why it bugs me so much. I couldn’t help but blog about this. I about fell off of my chair laughing when I saw these….
The company that makes the Cabbage Patch dolls are auctioning off these with the proceeds going to Toys For Tots. I thought it was kind of funny with all the flack that Sarah Palin has been getting since being nominated for VP that her doll is double the others so far..go figure..
If you have a spare couple hundred or thousand, go throw your hat in the ring. http://stores.ebay.com/Auction-Cause_W0QQfsubZ481950014 I am sure these are going to be worth a lot of money further down the line.
Back to work for me, have a great day!
I had the privilege of shooting some seniors from Coon Rapids High School.
This group of boys have been playing together since elementary school. When you have teams that are made up of boys like this, it is a recipe for success. It reminded me so much of my brother and his group of friends in football. They too along with their coach played together from 2nd grade through 9th grade. They lived and breathed football. When they played, they ran like a very well oiled machine. The rarely lost a game until they hit high school and didn’t get to bring their coach along with them. Seeing the Coon Rapids football field also brought back memories of sitting in the stands freezing my butt off even though we rarely sat for long because their team had us up on our feet cheering them on. Ahhhh, the nostalgia of school sports that I got to live vicariously through my brother and his friends (because I suck at sports!).
Back to these boys!! They are on a roll and have won the AA Conference and Sections and are on their way to state. Josh and AJ also just got All State.
Congrats guys and I wish you all the luck!! Thanks for the awesome session, I had a lot of fun.
Off to work on a few albums. Have a great day!
I finally finished up the mini sessions. This is the first time that I have done something like this and I have to say, I had a lot of fun doing these. Here is a little preview….
I know I am posting twice in one day, but both posts mean a lot to me.
Today is a milestone of sorts for me. It was the easiest and the hardest thing I have ever done.
Yeah me!
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When faced with to many options, I freeze..lol Bad trait, I know but it is true. After almost a year in the planning, we finally have my sign up! We just need to do a few minor things like move the top bricks back to where they were so I can glue them down. We ended up knocking them all over the place when we were putting the main poles in the ground. Then I can fill up the planter with dirt and it will be ready for the flowers in the spring. It feels good to be able to check another thing off my To Do List!
I am really liking my new phone! I bought the LG Dare mainly for its camera. My purse is not that big and I would always forget to put my camera in there and I really don’t like it that much anyways. This phone was rated (when it came out, but I am sure there is already a better one now) as having the best camera. My phone’s LCD screen broke and I needed a new phone so I figured why not try it. I am so glad that I did! The pictures look pretty good, but the ultimate test will be to see how they print. I have some on order now so we will see if it passes that test!
Have a great weekend!
I remember the first time I met him. We had just moved in and Duncan (4-1/2 lb. Chihuahua) were out in the garage. I was trying to figure out what box to bring in and unpack next when Duncan went charging down the driveway….did I mention that he thinks he is a Rottweiler in disguise? I looked up and saw this HUGE (100+lb) dog being walked down the road and my little Duncan going full tilt towards him. I must have looked like one of those fish wives screaming my head off for him to come back to me. I think this is the way of most little dogs, they get tunnel vision when faced with a huge dog and can think of nothing else but attacking. My only thought was that I had lost my baby because one chomp from that huge dog and he would be done. When he finally got to the other dog, he was jumping up trying to bite his face and the big dog just sat down and looked at Duncan like he couldn’t figure out what he was. He never once was intimidated with this bouncing snarling thing trying to bite him, he just looked from Duncan to Troy (his owner) and then to me as if to ask “what in the heck was this thing and how do I make it go away?” Never a mean bone in his body.
My husband’s first encounter of this huge dog was in the middle of the night. We had ordered fence panels to be delivered the next day. We forgot to put a stake out in the yard where we wanted them dropped off, so Chad and Dan were out at maybe 3am? putting the stake in the yard when out of the darkness, they hear this snarling dog and see a light colored blur racing towards them. (Don’t tell him I said this, but Chad is afraid of big dogs.. ) He was getting ready to run towards the garage when he heard someone laughing hysterically when Troy comes walking over. Of course the dog stopped about a foot away from him and sat waiting to be pet.
Well, that HUGE dog was how we met our new neighbors and his name was Cody. He was one of those dogs that listened to his owner no matter what. I can honestly say I tried luring him out of his yard and over to ours through out the years to no avail, he would never come because he wasn’t supposed to leave the yard. Cody was one of those dogs that wouldn’t hurt a fly. No matter what. He always had kids climbing all over him. when he got sick of it, he would just go lay somewhere else. Katie always loved to lay part way on him or against him. He would run full tilt at you so that you would think he was just going to run you over, but at the last second stop a foot from you.
Every morning about the same time, I would hear one bark to let Sheri know that it was time to come in. I heard a dog bark this morning and thought that it didn’t sound like Cody and then I remembered, Cody is gone. He had a large tumor on the side of his face that was cancerous and he was steadily getting worse until they had to make the painful decision to have him put down. I knew it was coming because they had told me after his surgery that he only had a couple months left, but it still was very hard to hear that the time had come and they had to make that decision.
Cody has been gone for a couple weeks, but I still find myself listening for that one bark in the morning. Our pets when we get them are so lovable and cute and grow into important member of our families. I think sometimes we don’t realize just how much a part of us they become. It has never been easy for me to say goodbye to any of the animals that I have had growing up and I think it is even harder for me to do so now. I know he wasn’t mine, but he sure felt like it sometimes.
It is with a very heavy heart that I say good bye old friend, you will be missed.
