Momma's Wired.....

YES that is correct. My Mom is now offically a member of the Internet and email wired club. OK so there is NO offical club, but will pretend there is!

I think she is holding out on me. I think she is much more computer savy than she is leading on. This will be such a great thing for her. She can email the Grandkids, the kids, her friends and extended family. One of my friends was teasing me and asked me if I was going to get her on Facebook...I don't think she is ready for face book just yet....maybe in a week or two.

Speaking of in a week or two......DIAMOND RIO will be here in five days. Five days and counting. MAN where did time go??????????



I swear it was just yesterday that I found out they were coming to ALBION! The closets to me ever!! Maybe I could hijack there bus on the way out of town :) hehehe. I still LOVE my Diamond Rio. I mean come on...who can not love a group who loves NASCAR and Larry the Cable Guy!

OK.......well.....that is it for today. This morning before I left for Mom's......I played catch up. I scrapped two layouts and did four when I got home.....can it be.....my MOJO is back! We shall see.

Time for me to sign off.....I am going to be combing some of my blog here in the next week and getting rid of Stock Scraps.....so watch out........changes are a coming.

Rainy days and Mondays.....

Always bring me down. To quote the lyrics from a song.......and they do!

Today I woke up again to RAIN!! Rain rain rain...will it EVER GO AWAY! I could NOT believe it when I woke up again to the sounds of rain on my roof. Don't get me wrong I LOVE that sound....but I think in the month of May....it rained almost everyday! ENOUGH! OK done with that vent :) Well sort of......



This is what happens when you get tooo much rain.....my solar lights at the lake.....disappear. Yes, disappear. That water is NOT suppose to be there. It is usually way UNDER that cement you see...and obviously my lights are not suppose to be drowning.......so needless to say............STOP ALREADY!!

WOW....JUNE.....

June 1st...WHAT! June 1st. HOLY........but the topic today.........WHERE OH WHERE did our dock go??????



Under about two feet of flood water that is where. That thing leading our boat....that is our dock...and it is WHITE....there is water over the top, which just doesn't happen, until 2008.

..and Today was absolutely beautiful and lovely and would have been a gorgeous day to go out in the boat...but we can't. Duncan Lakes is flooding so no boating till the water goes down so we don't have wrecked retaining walls and ruined docks. Which is good but I sure wanted a boat ride........OH well....there is always next week!!

We sure do love our lake.

We aren't going to talk about my poor poor poor Clint today! Poor Clint...........all that way up to the front to CUT a tire...OK I talked about Clint.......well it was actually a suspension piece..... but he still has that look in his eyes. GO GET EM CLINT BOWYER!!!!!!!!!

Just two photos......

Ron fishing...me reading my scrapbook magazine...two of our favorite things......a perfect day the end the Month of May........





Today was GORGEOUS....That is all I have today.

GREAT STUFF!!!!

YEAH JAKE!!!!!

Great finish Driver Jr! I ammmmmmm sooooooooo proud of you! Keep it up! You impressed us!

OK....

THAT SUCKED! Pardon my french, but that was one hell of storm that came through here tonight.

I got my power back on about a half hour ago.....After hiding in the crapper closet I am just happy to be alive. It was pretty darn dark and hot in there....me, my computer bag, my planner bag, two cats, three stuffed animals, five blankets, two pillows, my purse, a cell phone, a flash light, a RADIO (that didn't work), five cans of diet coke, eight bud lights, a box of granola bars, and lots of prayers...I was scared crapless.....BUT all is well!

LOTS of rain...LOTS of flooding, but I am in one piece, the next time Ron leaves...I might skin him....NO I was fine..till my computer battery went dead.....that was NOT fun!

I gotta nothing else to post....

so it is time for another one of my favorite layouts. This is my brother and my wonderful sister-in-law. I love them both sooooo much. They are just such a perfect pair.............

Since my last post.....

Was so bitter...I decided to pick a layout out.......



and here it is. My Driver Change layout. This layout was created using all supplies from one of my favorite Texans.....Gretchen Tripp!!

This is kind of a sappy and mushy layout about my drivers.......

Journaling:I am a Stock car racing fan, there is NO doubt about that. I had the honor of sponsoring dirt driver Dave Anson for almost 20 years. The first time I realized that Dave wouldn’t be wheeling that #18 was so bittersweet for me. I was excited to have his son Jake taking over the wheel, but the realization that I would never see my driver behind the wheel of the #18 that he had driven for soooo long....through Bombers, Street Stocks to Modifieds......so here we are left to right - Driver Jr. - Jake, Kristin and Driver, Dave Anson.

There NOW I feel better.....

Robin ROCKS!!!

I must say that I am totally smitten with Robin Blakenship, as a person, a friend and a designer :) Her designs (aka as Mad Scrapper designs) are amazing. Here are two layouts that I created using her Wendi's World Kit and Adventures in Fun. Robin is the Featured Designer at Treasures to Scrap in June. I would certainly get over to TTS in June and take advantage of her being out Featured Designer! Her stuff is fun and totally matches her personality.



This layout I did for a lyrics Challenge at Tally Scrapper. The assignment was to hit shuffle on your MP3 player and scrap the first song that came up. Mine was Wrinkles by Diamond Rio....I have ALWAYS wanted to scrap that song and you can imagine how surprised I was when that was the song that came up!

ASK me one thing.....

I could care less about SOMEONE hitting the wall....NO WAY...THANK YOU LORD!!!!!. AND IT IS NOT Jimmie Johnson, Jeff Gordon or Kyle Busch........................OMG Clint this whole night has SUCKED.......................BUT GO JEFF BURTON!

Another Lyrics moment.....

THIS IS TOTALLY MY KANSAS SPEEDWAY SONG....I SO remember that NASCAR Sunday four years ago sitting on the roof of Ron's pickup listening to this song and for some reason it became my Kansas Race Anthem..THAT was before Clint Bowyer.....

Keith Urban.......Who Wouldn't Wanna be me.....

I got no money in my pockets
I got a hole in my jeans
I had a job and I lost it
But it won't get to me

'Cause I'm ridin' with my baby
and it's a brand new day
We're on the wheels of an angel
Flyin' away

And the sun is shinin'
This road keeps windin'
Through the prettiest country
From Georgia to Tennessee
And I got the one I love beside me
My troubles behind me
I'm alive and I'm free
Who wouldn't wanna be me

Now she's strummin' on my six-string
Across her pretty knees
She's stompin' out a rhythm
And singin' to me the sweetest song

The sun is shinin'
And this road keeps windin'
Through the prettiest country
From Georgia to Tennessee
And I got the one I love beside me
My troubles behind me
I'm alive and I'm free
Who wouldn't wanna be me

The sun is shinin'
And this road's still windin'
Through the prettiest country
From Georgia to Tennessee
And I got the one I love beside me
My troubles behind me
I'm alive and I'm free
Who wouldn't wanna be me

I got no money in my pockets
I got a hole in my jeans
We're on the wheels of an angel
And I'm free
She's strummin' on my six-string
It's across her pretty knees
She's stompin' out a rhythm
And she's singin' to me


That was how I felt............I was alive, free and I had the one I love beside me!!!!! It was and has been perfect!!!

THANK GOD

My family in Windsor Colorado is OK!!!!!! After a Tornado ripped through Windsor Colorado today...in the path we had Cindi, Michael, Lexi, Curtis and Linda (Michaels Mom)....and THANK THE LORD FROM HEAVEN ABOVE that it spared each one of you. It seems that Linda got the worst of it...BUT thank god you are OK.

Thank the lord Linda that you have Michael and Cindi to help you clean up. I am so glad everything is ok.

LOVE YOU ALLLLLL very very much....and I can't wait to see you all again...even though my sweet Curtis wanted to take Aunt Kristin's Husker Flag down......you are one of the only Buffs that I love :)

Song Lyrics....

I just LOVE song lyrics....and I love this one........Life's a Dance my John Michael Montgomery...........always have....always will. Not an earth shaking lyrics, but the main lyrics are just perfect.....



When I was fourteen I was falling fast
For a blue eyed girl in my homeroom class
Trying to find the courage to ask her out
Was like trying to get oil from a waterspout
What she would have said I can't say
I never did ask and she moved away
But I learned something from my blue eyed girl
Sink or swim you gotta give it a whirl

Life's a dance you learn as you go
Sometimes you lead, sometimes you follow
Don't worry about what you don't know
Life's a dance you learn as you go

The longer I live the more I believe
You do have to give if you wanna recieve
There's a time to listen, a time to talk
And you might have to crawl even after you walk
Had sure things blow up in my face
Seen the longshot, win the race
Been knocked down by the slamming door
Picked myself up and came back for more

Life's a dance you learn as you go
Sometimes you lead, sometimes you follow
Don't worry about what you don't know
Life's a dance you learn as you go

Life's a dance you learn as you go
Sometimes you lead, sometimes you follow
Don't worry about what you don't know
Life's a dance you learn as you go
Life's a dance you learn as you go
Sometimes you lead, sometimes you follow
Don't worry about what you don't know
Life's a dance you learn as you go

Life's a dance
Life's a dance
Life's a dance
Take a chance on love
Life's a dance
You learn as you go

OK OK....time to...

Satisfy my friends.......HERE are some photos of our cabin and the lake. Keep in mind, these were taken BEFORE the leaves were out and before the grass was green.....here is our little tiny piece of heaven on earth in the middle of Nebraska.

Too bad.....

that I just plain got too sick to enjoy the rest of this awesome evening!! Being sick sucks and I missed out on some good stuff, but at least I got to enjoy and wonderful evening with my bestest friend Rhonda and my favorite driver Dave. There is a short list of people I love to spend time with and these two are near the top!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!

To my sweet sweet niece Alicia! I can NOT believe you are so grown up. A boyfriend, going to college, working......I Love you to pieces and I always will. You were always my cuddler, my hugger......and you still are. I LOVE YOU Alicia!! I always have and I always will.

THANK God

For Friday...........this was just what I needed. Perfect weather. Perfect temperature. Perfect night. I am soooooooooooooooo glad we ended up at the lake. Gotta love water. Gotta love sand........gotta love the cabin!

May's Featured Designer....

at Treasures to Scrap...is the amazing and talented: Joanne Bain (aka Doin it Digital Designs) and TRUST ME when I tell you her kits will rock your world. They are absolutely beautiful!!!!!!!!

A layout that I love....

It is pretty different for me, but I LOVE this layout. I used Robin Blakenships Adventures in Fun Kit....and MAN DO I LOVE THIS KIT!!!!!!!

A very very fun layout I did.........it is Diamond Rio lyrics and my some of my favorite colors......