Thank you cards

Morning all!
Had a very busy weekend, so tired yesterday I barely made it through the day. Rich invited some friends over to celebrate my birthday on saturday, wasn't that sweet? I only had to clean house, shop for food, and prepare the food. Oh and get ready so I didn't look like I cleaned and shopped, and cooked. Guys, I know you mean well, but really...think about it. I love my sweet husband and all turned out fine. We had a nice dinner with friends and Sunday I got to relax at the pool with Chase and read my book. I got some really lovely gifts, Chase actually cross stitched a bookmark for me with my name and cherries on it-love that! Rich got me a gift certificate to my scrapbook store as well as one to the Pink Boa, going to have to spend some time deciding what is worthy of buying if you know what I mean, LOL!!
So Chase is going to spend the rest of the week with my family up in KC, he does this every summer for quite a while now. They all have a really great time and he looks forward to it every year. I miss the boy but I have very fond memories of doing the exact same thing with my grandparents...so cool.
Well, just wanted to touch base since I was at work early today and had a few minutes, hope everyone is having a good week and staying in out of the heat.
More soon, oh I will post birthday pictures when Chase gets back into town-he took his camera with memory card with him.

You know, I really LOVE the idea of having a blog, but I have such a hard time finding the time and energy to post. Especially since my goal is to post about positive happy things, LOL! Not that I don't have a ton of positive happy things to post about, they just tend to overshadow the constant negativity of my workday. Not asking for sympathy here folks, just wanting you to know where I am at. So I had a really great ME weekend, I got a haircut and I got my first pedicure in like 12 mos, seriously.

I really love that instead of just one little flower, she actually put two on my toe!! ( Hope that doesn't gross anyone out, sorry)

After that I made a stop at the Best of Times, an adorable little gift shop over at Central & Woodlawn, where I picked up a a pair of "Switchflops" (I should have taken a picture) they are really cool flip flops that have a grosgrain ribbon with velcro on the back that goes across the top of the flip flop so you can switch it out with different colors and patterns-LOVE THEM!

THEN, I stopped at the Pink Boa in Andover, an even CUTER gift store (if that is possible) they were having a sidewalk sale this weekend. They had a few of the store fixtures, as well as a whole bunch of other stuff on clearance. So I scored this beauty for my scrapbook room:

I haven't decided on a name for her yet, I am open to any ideas. Her tutu, that you can see in the back came with a denim waistband which does not thrill me-not sure if it will get covered up, or just go away. She did come with arms made of white painted wood like her base, soon to be painted black. Thinking I might hang my excessive collection of ribbon from them when it is all said and done.

So I have been working on this entry off and on for about 1 1/2 hours now, so I guess I should get back to work.

On a parting note today, just want to thank all of you for your thoughts and prayers for my Aunt Martha, she came through surgery and will be starting chemo treatments in the near future.
Hope everyone has a great night!

Hope everyone has a great holiday, Be careful and enjoy yourselves!!!!!