Shutterfly 50 free cards

Ok ladies! It really works. I did what I was asked to do and I got my promo code this morning for the 50 free Christmas cards with Shutterfly!! I saved $111.00!! So if you have a blog page----TAKE ADVANTAGE NOW! I ended up buying a few extra cards just bc I got 50 for free! Wonderful deal!

Leven made his yearly visit to San Marcos for the state volleyball tournament last Thursday and Friday. He's been going every year since coaching volleyball and loves it. Hours after hours sitting in the gym watching game after game. He usually stops by the outlet mall there in San Marcos and buys a few things for us. This year Taydem racked up. I can't believe all the stuff he bought her! AND, a school here in Longview won state for 2A---White Oak!

Friday night and Saturday was spent at my parents house. Saturday night I dropped Taydem off at my cousin's house and the rest of the night was spent eating and watching the broad way musical- Oklahoma. Mom, Danin, Chrissy and I enjoyed spending time together without the kiddos and visiting with each other. I have always enjoyed musicals and I wish I could see them more often. Leven would NEVER watch a musical with me. He doesn't even like watching movies that are somewhat of a musical! My all time fav is The Wizard of Oz. Mom said I would sit and watch it over and over...along with Alice in Wonderland. I have a wonderful and talented friend who is a broad way lady! I am so interested in her life and love reading her blog. Check her out: http://www.amandalavergne.com/  We met at Sam Houston while working together at Texas Roadhouse! Instant connection and I miss her dearly. We didn't get to spend enough time together before leaving college.

My cousin Chelsea and her main squeeze Carl had their first baby a week ago--Carolina Grayce. I'm super excited for them and I know they are just smitten! I can't wait to see her. Congrats to you both!

Our Christmas CD that my church choir recorded is in! This is getting me closer and closer into Christmas mode. My sister has already put up here Christmas tree and decorations. I will do the same this weekend!

I miss teaching today. A whole week with no work bc of Thanksgiving break. Dang it!

50 Free Christmas Cards

I love Shutterfly.com! Last year I bought my Christmas cards from shutterfly and this year my cousin Peyton shared a link to receive 50 FREE cards if you have a blog page. I jumped right on this! Check it out: http://bit.ly/sfly2010 . For this years Christmas cards I found some pictures of all of us from my sister's wedding that I'm going to use. My company also creates our Christmas cards using Shutterfly. It's super easy and all you do is follow the steps. I create photo books like crazy. Usually after every vacation I create a photo book just because it's NICE! You don't have to worry about your pictures being smudged or bent! Every Christmas I compile ALL the pictures I have taken that year and create a book for my mom and dad. They love it! I also made one of our wedding.

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87

Today is my Meme's 87th birthday!! Wow...that's a really long time. My Papaw turned 88 a couple of weeks ago. These are my dad's parents and I grew up right down the road from them. My meme doesn't take ANY meds. Can you believe this?? 87 and going on strong!

  Happy Birthday Lady Elizabeth!

It's up to her

This season Leven had about 5-6 girls on his volleyball team that are also huge soccer players. They even play club soccer. He loves to pick on all of them and give them hell about playing soccer. He always tells them, "it's the most boring sport", "who wants to watch you run up and down a field", "kicking a ball is so stupid!" So.....to get back at him-one of his seniors bought him a couple of presents and have it to him at the Volleyball banquet Monday night. It was a little girls soccer ball and a pair of soccer shoes (black and pink)!! Adorable. I thought it was hilarious. All the soccer girls were lovin' it up! They were all teaching her how to kick the ball. And believe me she loves that ball. At first she called it a volleyball, ha! And she wears her shoes around the house (they are actually way to big for her right now, but one day she will get into them). He's going to really miss these seniors next year! They are the sweetest girls EVER! Here are a few pictures from the volleyball banquet:

Bootcamp and "Fresh Meat"

I started back with another long 6 weeks of bootcamp. After I get going and get ALL the sore out I actually enjoy it. Right now, as I'm typing, my arms are killing me! From July to November I got extremely out of shape.

So this morning (5:30 AM) I here, "Isn't that right Fresh Meat?" At first I thought, why is he saying that and WHO is he saying that too? Let me stop right there and let's back up....

When my youngest brother was in school he ended up with the nickname "Meat." And really it was only a short time in high school when he was even "chunky" I guess you can say. But the name stuck and that's what ALL of his friends called him. When Darin was being called Meat, my sister was like in 5th or 6th grade and she was some what chunky during this age. And so all his friends started calling her "Lil Meat." Oh boy did she hate that! I felt so sorry for her bc they all thought it was funny (in a cute way), but she hated it. It hurt her little feelings and embarressed her. Once she got older (in high school) every now and then she would run into his old friends from high school and they would still call her that. She finally fired down on one of them! She's no "Lil Meat" anymore. Now I was a freshman when Darin was a senior and I quickly got the name "Fresh Meat." Hmmmmm....yes I was a "fresh"man, but I'm guessing I was young and new and CUTE to all the senior boys and they all thought they were going to hit on Darin's little sister. That NEVER happened! (But I did like all the flirting. Heck, they were seniors for crying out loud)!!

Back to this morning: Jamie Crawford graduated with Darin and was one of his good buddies in school. Jamie is doing the bootcamp as well and he's the one that yelled that out to me! I have seriously not heard that name since I was in 9th grade! How funny....and yes, it made me smile!

Priceless