Goodbye Daddy

My dad passed away on October 19th, 2007 in the AM from heart failure.

Dad, this one goes out to you!

My dad is the one of the greatest people I know. He cares about others more than himself, gives his ALL in service, and works endlessly. He is an artist, a musician, a father, a leader, a worker, talented, thoughtful, prayerful, loving, and so many other things. He has his rough points like all of us, but he and my mother, and HIS mother, give more than any other people I know. They don't just give ALL they have, they give ALL with a FULL heart. I am so blessed to have them as parents, and my grandma as my grandma of course. My parents are on a Mission in Peru right now, and my dad has had some health problems show up in the past few days. I am told he collapsed today and his heart stopped, and that he has to have a pacemaker put in. Well Dad. That news surely hurt my heart. I pray for your pain to ease, and for you to be at peace. My heart is with you and my arms are giving you a hug, even if you can't feel it. We love you very much, miss you, and pray that all will go well. All our love! Wish we could be near you to show you how much we care.

When youre weary, feeling small,
When tears are in your eyes,

I will dry them all;

Im on your side.

when times get rough, And friends just cant be found,

Like a bridge over troubled water I will lay me down.

Like a bridge over troubled water I will lay me down.

When youre down and out,When you're on the street,

When evening falls so hard I will comfort you.

Ill take your part. When darkness comes

And pain is all around,

Like a bridge over troubled water

I will lay me down.

Like a bridge over troubled water, I will lay me down.

Sail on silvergirl, Sail on by.

Your time has come to shine.

All your dreams are on their way.

See how they shine.

If you need a friend, Im sailing right behind.

Like a bridge over troubled water

I will ease your mind.

Like a bridge over troubled water, I will ease your mind.

-Simon and Garfunkel

Wrong pic below...

I posted the pic of the baby below with the "face" drawn on it's tummy, before I really looked at it...it looks a little like it might be a boy...uh hum....yeah, so I decided to post a little girl picture instead that's a little more appropriate and at least has some panties on...and kissing the frog is about as great an explanation for my daughter as any!

A CRAPPY day!

I'm a REAL MOM now. I have decided I wasn't a real mom before, and one cannot really qualify, until they have woke in the morning to a high pitched scream, to find a baby covered head to toe in the yuckiest, most disgusting stuff ever...yes, I am talking about POOP! When I say head to toe, I really mean HEAD to TOE. In the mouth, in the hair, on the bedding, on the FLOOR, ALL over. And a baby hating the taste of it, so she is screaming her little head off. After dutifully cleaning the baby, the floor, the bed, the clothes, I finally feel like a REAL mom. I didn't even throw up once...only gagged once...That was my day. Tomorrow I hope to find a CLEAN baby...I even tried to bribe her tonight by saying I'll give her a treat in the morning if she DOES NOT poop all over. I'm just exhausted after this busy week of not getting to bed until 2 in the morning 4 nights in a row, and I'm just not in the mood to clean up more of these wonderful messes. What ever happened to the "cute baby" days?

A GOOD DAY! Thanks Charlotte!!

4 years ago when I started my little Virtual Assisting business, I never imagined that one of the TOP DIRECTORS in mary kay would contact MY COMPANY for a job to be done! I always dreamed of doing work for this director, but always figured she had so many people who already worked for her since she is a million dollar director, and would never need me, or even see my name because I'm just a small town girl, with not many that I work for. But she saw a flier that my AWESOME INCREDIBLE designer Charlotte Gardunia did for another Director, and she CALLED ME TODAY!!!!!!! She wanted a flier done ASAP, so being the amazing person Charlotte is, she put together a flier for her so fast and it looked INCREDIBLE! Now I know that this means that really Charlotte is who she wanted, but STILL, just to have her know the name of my company and want a job to be done enough to call me up, that was pretty cool to me! I've never talked to the lady, and she's a HUGE Mary Kay Icon! It was an exciting day for me! Thanks Char for being incredibly talented. If it hadn't been for you, I would have never got to talk to the Million Dollar Director in Mary Kay!!! WooHoo!!

Blogging kick

I get on blogging kicks for a while, then I go days where I feel like there is nothing to talk about, but I'm sure if I stopped working for a minute in the day, I may have something to write about. It's my busy work week, when I work non stop and my baby gets ignored, my house is a mess (Er my mom and dad's house anyway) Ashton never gets fed any meals, I stare at a computer till one in the morning, and then I'm exhausted and can't stand changing a diaper even. But I have to admit that Aspen is trying REALLY hard to still think the best of me even though I'm making the T.V. babysit her. I have to remind myself that I'm only a bad mom 1 week out of the month. And to be able to work from home like I do, I guess we can all sacrafice one week of misery and mess so I can stay home and help out with the finances. Ashton only has time to work 1 1/2 days a week now that he is in school, and even that is seeming like too much for him, and he gets behind in school, so maybe soon I'll get more people to work for, and he'll be able to just do school and I can support us for a little bit. Right now he feels like the extra couple of dollars he gets from work are needed...

Well, that's about it on my boring blog today...maybe next week will get more exciting around here.