Cute pic...

Here is the Birthday Girl!

Happy Birthday, Dev!

Well, a sad day. November 18th Devyn turned 8. We had an ice skating party with a snowflake theme-so as not to be "girly" for the boys we invited. Devyn was disappointed that her one "boyfriend" no-showed. I hate to tell her-this is the first of many to come.....we had a disappointing start. A handful of kids were sick and cancelled at the last minute-including my brother, sister-in-law and neice. Another friend had a grandma in the hospital...two friends ended up getting hurt. One knocked a tooth out on our trampoline when we got home to open presents. I pulled a muscle in my back. I am no spring chicken and some of the moms convinced me to go do some tricks. Guess I deserved it....Still, we had about 25 kids and parents skating. Go figure, we can't have one event that is drama-free in this household!

Tag, I'm it....

O.k. Illyse, I am going to kill you....I am NOT computer savvy. No idea how to "link" things. Since you tagged me, here are 7 random things about me:

1) I could live on Golden Spoon Frozen Yogurt. My husband says it isn't a meal...but I disagree. Get a big one with three flavors and some granola....yummy!

2) I tap dance every Wednesday night to keep up with my daughter-and for exercise (I think I am pretty good if I do say so myself).

3) I have had 13 surgeries, the last being 2 open-heart surgeries in the past 4 years-hey, what doesn't kill you, makes you stronger.....right?

4) I ice skated for 17 years. At age 6 or 7 I skated on plastic squares in the middle of a mall to get business....(the ice rink was in the mall). The plastic dulled our blades so much that we had to get our blades sharpened almost every time we did it!

5) I was a crayon on a float for the City of Santa Ana and my mom was a clown. Speaking of floats, Disney wanted me to try out for their Christmas parade as Minnie on Ice Skates because I could skate and I am under 5 feet.....just barely.....I didn't do it. I was still competing at the time.

6) I went through an "I LOVE black" phase and would wear very little else. I HATED pink and any other pastels. My mom taunted me and told me I would have a daughter and that she would LOVE pink. She was right. But I like pink now :)

7) I have no one to tag---all of my scrappy friends have been tagged. Most of my friends don't scrap. They claim they don't have the time. Who "has the time"??????

It has been fun Illyse.....if I can think of someone else to tag, I will. But most of my friends haven't even been on my blog, let alone started a blog......Heather