It IS a stone!

Well Bill does have a stone! Uggh. He saw the urologist on Friday and they did the IV piggy back thing where they inject dye into his kidneys and then take x-rays. He has one in the upper left kidney, but it's not low enough for the Dr. to get via surgery just yet. He gave Bill two options. Have a stint put in on Friday or go home with pain meds and tough it out until it drops low enough to get it out. Bill has had three stints put in a few years ago and the pain of one of those is as bad as the stone itself. So, he came home yesterday with the meds. It's not working out too well though. We were up until 4 am last night because he was hurting so bad, yet he won't let me take him to the ER. I still have an entire list of things that I need to get for Christmas. Still not entirely sure what I am going to do. I've already tried the local stores, so I really need to go to Monroe (30 minutes from here) to finish up. One thing I know for sure. Christmas will come whether I have those things bought or not.

Uh-oh!

My day is all planned out. Hair highlights and a cut at 12:30 and then Christmas shopping around 3 when Donna is finished with my hair. She's the one in the front row of the photo below...the one with that gorgeous long blonde hair that is NATURALLY that curly! While I was gone to the movie last night with my scrappy friends, Bill started having pain from a kidney stone. He hasn't had one of these in several years...not since he missed an entire MONTH of work right before we went to Cancun a few years back. He was in extreme pain last night. Had it been me, we would have gone straight to the ER. The pain lasted several hours along with the nausea. He finally fell asleep around 3am. If the pain comes back and we end up in the hospital....there is going to be trouble! Eeek! We have very little presents bought and we are planning to do the bulk of it tonight. I pray that the stone doesn't give him anymore problems until after the new year.

Lagniappe Ladies

The group of girls that I scrapbook with (some for many years) had an evening out...we had dinner at Tia Maria's, exchanged scrappy gifts, coffee at the Frothy Monkey, and then we went to the movie The Holiday. It was a perfect chick flick!! Here's a pic of us at the Frothy Monkey.

Guess what?!!

I am now a part of the Savvy n Sassy Design Team! I can hardly believe it. I'm so excited to be working with Rhea and Share on such a fun DT. Can't wait to get my hands on that YUMMY ribbon! Savvy 'n Sassy! The first ribbon kit is already SOLD OUT! They will be having four different ribbon kits a month so be sure to check it out! Here's a photo of the sold out kit for January just to show you what awesome ribbon is included in these kits! Don't forget that there will be 3 more kits for January!

Yes...it was MY nephew

that was being RUDE to David Letterman tonight! David just gave Chase a present on the show tonight! David said he came out to say hello to the audience and that he ended up calling the kid a name because he felt the 'fellow'...my nephew...was being rude! Chase is there with Brittany in New York on their honeymoon. He and Brittany are sitting on the front row. He is suppose to be on there twice tonight. Oh my gosh..what else could he have done!

Update: Ok....here's what happened. David came out to the audience during the Q&A before the show. He wanted to know if there were any questions. Chase spoke up and said...Yeh, I got a question. He really didn't have a specific question thought out. He was just going to ask something like...What did you have for breakfast. But, David turned to him and said...We raise our hands here, *sshole. Now this is Chase's version of the story, and those that personally know Chase KNOW he is prone to exageration so there really is no telling what actually happened.

Design Team News

I have some fun news to share with all of my bloggin' friends. I was asked this past weekend to join the design team for the Just Let Me Scrapbook Store! I am so excited to be included in Mary Beth's Design Team. This will now make three DTs for me. About 5 weeks ago I joined the Scrap Galaxy Design Team. This one is not associated with any store or kit, so you are free to discuss other scrapbook sites there. What a cool concept! You get so use to not be able to discuss other places or deals that you find, that it's a nice change to be able to freely talk about it. And there is one more that I've been asked to join....but it's a secret for now! Will update here when it's officially announced! I can't believe I have been asked to join not one, but THREE DTs...all in a matter of a few weeks!!! I guess it pays to apply to DT calls! I just started applying and as of now, I've applied for 4 and made 3! Awesome odds if you ask me.

High School Musical and Wedding in ONE Weekend??

I had the most hectic weekends. I still have not recovered. My step-nephew has been planning on getting married since last July. Apparently he assumed that we knew he wanted Carley to sit at the guest book. Well, ummm...he told us last Friday! YES! Eight days before the wedding. Talk about being aggrevated. We had bought tickets to take Carley and a friend to see the High School Musical Concert in Bossier about 6 weeks ago AND we had great floor tickets. Well, Thursday night we decided we would try to rearrange our entire weekend to attend the wedding. Still not sure if it was worth it.


So, within 48 hours I had to:
sell our Bossier tickets
buy Dallas tickest for Sunday
buy Carley a dress and everything that goes along with that
buy me something to wear
rearrange everything with Carley's friend so she could go with us to Dallas



We managed to get it done. Nicole B. (Carley's friend) went to the wedding with us and then we traveled Saturday night to Terrill and then Sunday on to Dallas. We bought the Dallas High School Musical Concert tickets around midnight Saturday night once we got to the hotel. Apparently Ticketmaster released some tickets and we were able to get pretty good seats. I have to say, this concert really was VERY entertaining. This was the first concert that Bill got to attend with Carley. That was part of the : he had to go to the concert with us. No way was I going that far without him with two pre-teens into a city like Dallas where I am not familiar with the area. He think he really enjoyed watching her.