A quick note and more later...

Hi there friends!

I have missed hearing from you all so much the past couple days!! (Waaaah!) Sometimes its the kind words from you that help me get through my CRAZY days!

Someone told me that my posts weren't showing up on my followers blog-rolls so I am hoping thats why I haven't had many visitors?

I will leave my blog OPEN again and just hope that CREEPY people who only want to "SNOOP" or "LOOK for GOSSIP" will go away! I love my readers that leave me comments so I know who you are and can become a friend of yours too:) I just don't want to be leary about what I can/should write about and show...

My camera is DEAD, so I need to run and charge it but I'll be back by later today to do my Scrapbook Sunday post! Its a cute one... Think 4th of JULY fun!!! I honestly cannot wait till the 4th of July for all the red, white and blue FUN! I am involved in 2 red, white and blue swaps this summer... one is Vintage themed and the other is a "anything goes... red, white and blue swap!!

I hope you are all having a wonderful weekend??!!?? Mine has been rough with little sleep, a yucky cough/cold, this NEW WAY OF EATING- which SUUUUUUCKS so bad when you go to parties where there is SO MUCH yummmmmmy CARBS in the Food!!! UGH!!

Chat later,
Noelle ♥

Another Red, White and Blue Swap... FUN!!

Head on over to check out Mamarazzi's Red, White and Blue swap; sounds like its gonna be a FUN one:) I joined too!!

~Noelle~

Tasty Summer Treat!

Oh my!! These are soooo cute and YUMMY looking! Perfect for a summer cookout for the kiddo's; or an alternate for plain old ice cream at at birthday party:)

Confetti Ice Cream Pops

Beneath the confetti-candy covering of these ice cream pops lies a marvelous surprise: a soft-in-the-center miniature candy bar on a Popsicle stick. Let kids help prepare these fanciful confections: Have them push sticks into the candy bars and finish the pops by giving them a full coating of the candy sprinkles. Perch the pops on a chilled cake stand to give them a longer life during serving.

Recipe: Confetti Ice Cream Pops

A picture-riffic post!

Hi sweet girls! I feel like I have been SO out of the loop the past few days... sorry! My posts haven't been "fun" like I usually try to make them, I am trying to get adjusted to my new "lifestyle change" with eating (my dr. won't let me call it a DIET!), I came down with a cold and sore throat... just so much! UGH!

BUT... AMEN, I think I am feeling a bit better, got more sleep last night AND got to sleep in!!
I think my body is starting to adjust better to the new style of eating that I have! I lost another 2 lbs this week; that's 6 total now in the past month or so!

See the first pic above of the FAMILY blocks? I tucked these away at Christmas time and just recently found them, aren't they cute? I think I got them through LTD Commodities. I LOVE the stuff they have to order on that site!!
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My pretty Dahlia's are in FULL bloom now! The tiger lilies have shot up and will bloom soon too. Still haven't gotten over to the neighbors yard to dig up and transplant some of his lovely flowers into my yard! Hopefully next week:)

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The boys and I have been spending a lot of time outside, going to the park and for walks! I love the nice weather!!

Here is my oldest and I; the wind was blowing like crazy so my hair is a MESS! lol:)

Snack time at the park!

We even got some sprinkler time in! They had a blast!!

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I had some gals over to scrap on Monday night; and here is my CUTE creation! I made the train track out of cardstock and added the train sticker to it:)

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For a gift to the kids on the last day of school, I bought some Kool-Aid Kool Pops and wrapped them in bundles on 5 and added a little tag that said "Hope your summer is as COOL as you are!".

The popsicle clip art came from my Printmaster Platinum CD-Rom set that I have; it is WONDERFUL!

Then Gavin tells me when he got home yesterday, that his teacher forgot the pass the popsicles out at the end of the day; I was ANNOYED with that!

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For Gavin's teacher I just went to Dollar Tree and got her a bunch of cute classroom/teacher supplies for next year. Some name plates, magnets, reward stickers...

... sentence strips, bulletin board border, teacher notepad, some newsletter paper, and pencils...

Sorry I added this pic below twice- OOPS!

... here is the borders and a packet of awards too.

I also found a super cute teacher bag at the Dollar Store too!

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Today, I think the boys and I may seek out a couple yard sales to find some "treasures"! We'll see how that goes- lol!

We have 2 graduation parties to go to this weekend and I hope to get some more flowers to plant in the yard too.

I know I get teased all the time for changing my blog layouts but I'm gonna do it once again! LOL
I am feeling the LOVE for summer and want to show it here on my blog! And YES, I am a BIT Obsessive Compulsive with doing this!! hehehehe:)

Hope you all have a wonderful weekend; what are your plans???

Hugs,
Noelle ♥

Privacy

Hi,

I just decided to make my blog private from now on; if you'd like to continue to read my posts... please email me and I will add you! I have some concerns on who may be reading my blog and looking at my photos... its a scary world out there, you never know!

Noelle ♥

Mostly Wordless Wednesday #3!

This kid takes the CAKE... need I say more??

Gage on his 1st birthday April 16, 2007!!

~Noelle~

UPS or is it U "PEE" S ??

Most of the time we get excited when we see the brown UPS truck rolling down our streets right? It usually means he is bringing us a package! Who doesn't love to receive packages?

Well, I didn't care for the FIRST package that was left in my STREET today but a
"substitute" UPS driver. Our awesome driver is on vacation this week!

So, I hear the truck pull up in front of the house as I am starting my Power Sculpt workout DVD. I glance out the door and see no UPS man, just the truck sitting there. I look at the neighbors houses... nope, he's not there either! So I continue to SPY out the glass of our wooden door and notice that the door inside the UPS van is closed. I still stand there and SPY for another couple minutes and finally the "sub" UPS man emerges.

He isn't holding a brown box to bring to my door. BUT... he is holding a clear plastic bag with YELLOW LIQUID INSIDE!!!! What the HE**?? There wasn't much in there; then he dumps the contents of the bag IN the STREET, IN FRONT OF MY HOUSE!!!

My FIRST thought was "Did he just PEE in the back part of the truck, in the bag... then dump it in the street, in FRONT OF MY HOUSE??"

After dumping the "pee" he goes back in the truck, crumbles that bag up into a ball and gets another clear bag out and puts the "PEE" bag inside of it. Rolls that bag into a ball and puts on the floor under the shelf in the truck. He THEN gets MY PACKAGE of lovely pretty smelling Bath and Body Works items that I ordered online with my Mother's Day gift card (cause I hate going to our mall) and brings it up to my door.

At that point, I just sat down on the couch completely DUMBFOUNDED as to what I witnessed outside!! I had to leave right away to pick Gavin up from school so I called Brian to tell him. Brian's response was "You need to call and report that!"

I was a little timid to call on the guy but I did. I got an apology from the man that was with customer service; he then said that a message would be sent to the supervisor of the driver in my area. About an hour later, the supervisor called me and I told him the story. He said "I am so sorry ma'am! It makes me think the same thing as you, when you tell me the story. And I hope for his (the driver) sake, thats not what he did. Is there anything more I can do at this time? Do I need to come out there to clean it up?" I told him no, that the "PEE" was near a puddle of rain; but that was beside the point. We live only a couple blocks from some restaurants/gas stations that if the driver needed to do #1; he could have went somewhere to do it!!! And I have kids that I don't want or need them to be playing near a puddle of an ADULTS URINE!!

I hope that Mr. "PEE" body DRIVER gets in a whole lot of trouble!! UGH!
Sooooo disgusting!!

Get this, I am expecting another delivery in 2 days so you'd better believe that I will be watching to see WHO drops it off!! What if the supervisor makes that driver come to my door and apologize?? That would be funny and super embarassing for him!! If so, maybe he should ask himself next time" To PEE or not to PEE?"

Noelle ♥